HON 224 - Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Several of Shakespeare’s plays focus on characters who are marked as racially or ethnically different. In this class, students will use these plays as both a lens and a mirror to contemplate the origin, impact, and operation of racial/ethnic othering, with an eye to both minority and majority parties. Reading of the plays will be supplemented by film and stage productions, literary criticism, early modern cultural history, contemporary social science research, and first-person accounts. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits