English · Boston College
Fulfills the pre-1700 requirement for undergrads. Also fulfills the Seminar requirement. Undergrad/Grad Level: Restricted to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students. Shakespeare lived and wrote at a time when the ideas about what was true, and how to determine what was true, were changing. The Protestant reformation, invention of the printing press, humanist education, exploration and colonialism, and the beginnings of the scientific revolution all motivated people to focus on questions of truth, falsehood, and epistemology. Although newspapers were just beginning to be invented near the end o
