printer friendly pageENGLISH 112: Making Shakespeare
This seminar investigates how Shakespeare become "Shakespeare," how the actor, poet, playwright, and person living and working at the turn of the seventeenth century in England came to be thought of as representing universally across time and space. We will consider the collecting, editing, printing, and marketing of Shakespeare's plays and poems - especially Hamlet, King Lear, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, and Julius Caesar - alongside changing philosophical, political, and cultural forces that have made and un-made our senses of the most famous writer in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Madani, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 112C: Humanities Core: Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World (HUMCORE 122)
What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insights led Machiavelli to write "The Prince"? An historical moment and a cultural era, the Italian Renaissance famously saw monumental achievements in literature, art, and architecture, influential developments in science and technology, and the flourishing of multi-talented individuals who contributed profoundly, expertly, and simultaneously to very different fields. In this course on the great thinkers, writers, and achievers of the Italian Renaissance, we will study these "universal geniuses" and their world. Investigating the writings, thought, and lives of such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Niccol¿ Machiavelli, and Galileo Galilei, we will interrogate historical and contemporary ideas concerning genius, creativity, and the phenomenon of "Renaissance man" known as polymathy. Taught in English. On Tuesdays you meet in your own course, and on Thursday all the HumCore seminars in session that quarter meet together:
https://humanitiescore.stanford.edu/.
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
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