Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2021-2022
FWIS 163 - INVENTING THE BARD
Long Title: INVENTING THE BARD: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: This course confronts the political and cultural legacies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems through the history of his evolution from a working actor and playwright in the London theater to the “Bard of Avon,” a mythologized author at the center of the English literary canon.