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Prerequisites: FYS-101

A study of Shakespeare nobody told you about. Students will approach some of the underexposed plays and poems on their own terms, rather than ignoring them, dismissing them as failures, or treating them as background for better known plays. Texts may range from the early Ovidian narratives Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece to the troubling plays of the middle period (like Troilus and Cressida, listed in different early versions as a comedy, a history, and a tragedy, or All's Well That Ends Well, one of the world's unhappiest comedies) to late experiments like the austere tragedy Coriolanus or the over-the-top Cymbeline.