ENGL 4973 - Shakespeare and Sustainability

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course considers Shakespeare through the lenses of ecocriticism and ecofeminist theory. In doing so, not only does it enliven the natural world vocabulary more familiar to an audience more intimate with that world, it also considers the roles of economic inequality, gender norms, and racial categories in determining one’s relationship to that world. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Summit; Sustainability; Writing Intensive. Prer., ENGL 2010, ENGL 3000. Meets with ENGL 5973.