Oh, William . . .

To understand the content in my Shakespeare class, reviewing the material is a must. We read a play a week, so you have to keep up. Studying and reviewing the plays is a necessary part of Shakespeare, because his works are hard to understand most of the time. His plays were meant to be acted out, too, so it helps to watch movie version of the plays, too. To understand the content, it's vital to participate in class and make any questions you have come to be answered. If you don't, it's easy to get very confused and behind. It helps to sometimes read a translation or a summary, just to back up and make sense of what was read. Shakespeare is a class that requires a lot of outside of class involvement and participation so you can learn the content and understand what's being said and what's going on. If you don't do the required reading, you don't know what's being discussed in class, and it's very easy to fall behind and not be able to catch up.