Home Page for English 432

Welcome to E432, Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Romance Plays
Spring 2009 at Chapman University in Orange, California

This blog will offer posts on all of the plays on our syllabus. The notes are optional reading, but I encourage you to read the entries as your time permits. While not exact copies of my lecture notes, they should prove helpful in your engagement with the plays and in arriving at paper topics.

The editions used are Bevington, David, ed. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Longman, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-36628-3 and Bevington, David, ed. Shakespeare’s Romances and Poems. Longman, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-36625-2. If you use a different edition, please use one that offers good notes on the language and context of the plays. (The Riverside Shakespeare is excellent, and the Arden and Folger paperback series are very good as well.)

A dedicated menu called E432 Spring at WWW.AJDRAKE.COM/WIKI contains the necessary information for students enrolled in this course. When the semester has ended, this blog will remain online, and a copy of the syllabus will remain in the Archive menu.

Here are offsite links to my notes on other Shakespeare plays: Richard III | Sonnets | The Taming of the Shrew | Richard II | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | The Merchant of Venice | I Henry IV | Much Ado about Nothing | Henry V | As You Like It | Twelfth Night | Measure for Measure | Cymbeline