Shakespeare
(Offered in Spring Semester)

This course will involve reading, writing, memorization of lines, and researching literary criticism for The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Students will also learn poetry explication via reading approximately ten of Shakespeare’s sonnets. If a local theatre performs a Shakespearian production in the fall or spring, we will go as a class to view the performance. We will view Hamlet at the tutor’s home.

Students should purchase the Folger’s Library edition for each of the three plays (in paperback so the text can be marked as we read) and should come to class having completed the reading of The Merchant of Venice. If this is a student’s first encounter with reading Shakespeare, it may be helpful to get library tapes of the play and listen while following the text.

Tutor: Flo Wolfe

Writing Assignment for All Students Seeking Entrance to Mrs. Wolfe’s Writing Courses

If you have NOT previously taken a writing course from Mrs. Wolfe (speech is not a writing course), you must send a one-paragraph written response to the following question BEFORE registration day. You need Mrs. Wolfe’s OK to take the Shakespeare class PRIOR to registering for the 2007-8 academic year.

What motivates you to study Shakespeare in a tutorial setting?

Email your paragraphs to Mrs. Flo Wolfe at