ENGL 22001. SHAKESPEARE (Before 1800) This class considers the following questions: How did Shakespeares plays come out of the literary, cultural, and political ideas and controversies of his time? How did his plays change and develop over his twenty-year period of writing? How did the major genres he wrote in-Comedy, History, Tragedy, and Romance-reflect his explorations of issues in gender, race and aesthetics? [AH]