Required Text
Greenblatt,
Stephen, ed. The Norton Shakespeare. NY:
Norton, 1997.
Goals and Objectives
You will
·
increase your understanding of the
style, language, and careful construction of
Shakespeare’s
comedies and histories
·
read
and analyze early modern drama and culture within a
historical and critical context
·
understand the historical context for the topics,
themes, and performance of
Shakespeare’s plays
·
improve your ability to write, read, and speak
thoughtfully about Shakespeare
·
begin
to develop an understanding of Shakespeare as both
literary text and theatrical/ filmic performance
Policies
Attendance
The course is
fueled by active and engaged inquiry by the entire class
who you should view as an educated and prepared audience
for your ideas and questions about the plays.
Attendance is essential to this course and as such, is
required. You may miss three class periods for
illnesses or emergencies; any absences after three will
negatively affect your final course grade. Please
contact me regarding extended medical absences requiring
hospitalization. If you are unable to attend a
film or a performance, please inform me during the first
week of class (excluding emergencies, obviously).
Conferences
Individual
conferences may be scheduled as a part of the regular
work of the term. Please come prepared to discuss the work
of the course.
For English
majors:
Writing is central to the English major; therefore, the Department of English has implemented a policy to
encourage excellence in writing:
The faculty
in the Department of English will return papers written
by English majors, if they
•
do not follow
correct MLA documentation (including failure to
integrate quotations correctly, misplaced punctuation,
incorrect work cited entries, etc.);
•
include more than one major grammatical error (run-on
sentences [including fused sentences and comma splices],
subject-verb agreement errors, and fragments);
•
contain excessive minor errors (i.e., misuses of commas,
semicolons, misspellings, etc. which display a failure
to proofread).
Instructors
will return papers, final papers will be reduced by one
letter, and students will have forty-eight hours to
revise and re-submit papers. In many cases, instructors
will not have read the entire paper once they have
determined that an essay fails to meet the minimum
requirements; consequently, students will need to review
and revise essays from beginning to end to make
corrections. If essays fail to meet these minimum
standards after re-submission, students will earn Fs for
those assignments.
Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism
The
Monmouth
College policy on academic
policy is as follows:
Academic
dishonesty may result not only in failure in the course,
but in dismissal or expulsion from the College
Within the
College and within the Department of English, academic
dishonesty is taken very seriously. Academic dishonesty
includes but is not limited to the use of published or
unpublished work of another person by paraphrase or
direct quotation without full and clear acknowledgment,
unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another
person or agency engaged in selling or otherwise
providing term papers or other academic materials, or
unacknowledged collaboration with others. If you are
unclear about whether you are plagiarizing or not,
ask. If a final paper submitted for a grade
includes uncited words or ideas from a source, you will
fail the course.
