ENGL 21 - Shakespeare’s Plays - Comedies and Histories

3 units
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: eligibility for ENGL 1A
Credit, degree applicable
Transfer CSU, UC

This course introduces students to representative comedies and histories of William Shakespeare. The major goals of the course are to help students understand the plays, analyze the language, read and evaluate critical material written on plays, become familiar with the Elizabethan era, and value the universal themes and entertaining qualities of Shakespeare’s plays.