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	Introduction to the Course Textbook Guidelines Guides for Interpreting Shakespeare Understanding and Appreciating Shakespeare: A Guide An overview of the soliloquy's history with relevant criticism and examples Shakespeare's Text Using the Concordance Editing a scene from Macbeth
		THE SONNETS: An Exercise in the Sonnets and the Sonnet Sequence: Convention or Autobiography? SHAKESPEARE AND FEMINISM (with Donna Freitas, Ph.D.) "Is this the promised end?" A Feminist Critique Taming of The Shrew and a Feminist Approach [Updated January, 2009] A Study Guide with Questions and Bibliography A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream Midsummer's Night Dream: Facts of Composition Romeo and Juliet An Introduction to the World Shakespeare Understood An Approach to Romeo and Juliet A Comparison of R & J to A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet and the "human condition" History Plays The War of the Roses: Myth, Propaganda, History, and NEW HISTORICISM [NEW: Feb. 2008] A Guide to the monarchs in Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard and Henry A Structural Analysis of Henry IV, Part I with DISCUSSION QUESTIONS. Assignment: The Two parts of HENRY IV Richard III and the Gothic Antihero Measure for Measure Measure for Measure and critical perspectives Measure for Measure: A Platonic Reading Hamlet HAMLET AND THE DAEMONS BY RAYMOND NIGHAN; AN ON-LINE BOOK An Assignment on "Problems" in Hamlet. Shakespeare's use of Motifs and conducting a "motif" search Hamlet's Soliloquies and an assignment-[REVISED: MAY, 2004] An Overview of Hamlet Criticism Othello Othello and the Question of Race An Investigation of Iago's motivation An Examination of Othello to Assist with the 'Motivation' of Iago Question [UPDATED: April, 2008] Macbeth Macbeth: Analysis of themes, motifs, soliloquies, figures of speech-[REVISED: MAY, 2004] An investigation of the daemonology in Macbeth from Burton to Freud-[REVISED: MAY, 2004] King Lear A Look at the Lear Universe: Themes and Motifs--Perspectives for Discussion Assignment for the ending of Lear, a bibliography and a position paper by R. Nighan on "The Ending of Lear" Editing the Text of Lear. An Investigation of the Daemonological imagery / illusions in LEAR. The Tempest The Tempest and the Close of a Career. GUIDE QUESTIONS FOR THE MAJOR TRAGEDIES Questions to facilitate analysis