Shakespeare: The Poetry — LIT2218.01
"What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?"
Sonnet 53
In this course we will immerse ourselves in the major works of Shakespeare's poetry: the Sonnets; his Neoclassical poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; A Lover's Complaint; and several poems from the plays. While we expand our understanding of Shakespeare's