Shakespeare in Love

Love¿requited and unrequited, faithful and false, heterosexual and same-sex¿was a topic that obsessed Shakespeare throughout his career. Fluid, ever changing, fresh and quick, love has always been the stuff of imagination: who can define it? We¿ll see Shakespeare tackling the subject in various ways in his sonnets and a selection of his plays. Our focus will be on the poetry, both dramatic and lyric (sonnets), with the goal of becoming not only more sophisticated literary interpreters, but confident readers of poetry, familiar with its various techniques for conveying and pursuing the complex nuances of emotion, sexuality, and identity.