Teaching Fellow (for Paul Cantor)

Course description: A study of the relationship between the political regime and human character in Shakespeare’s plays, beginning with the Roman Republic and contrasting it with later regimes, including Christian monarchy and the Venetian Republic. Readings include Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth (with background reading in political theorists such as Machiavelli).

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