(3,0)3 CreditsPrerequisite(s):ENGL 111 - English Composition I. This course is a study of the works of Shakespeare through reading in a selection of history, comedy, tragedy and problem plays as well as selected minor works. In addition to the literary aspects of the plays, students study the staging conventions of Elizabethan England and explore the social and historical context in which the plays were written and first performed.