#  English 121cg. Shakespeare After Hamlet 

 



 Instructor: [Gordon Teskey](/people/gordon-teskey)  
Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45 pm | Location: Boylston 110  
[Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/61423)

 Written at the midpoint of Shakespeare's career (1600-01), *Hamlet* marks the culmination of an experiment in representing the inner life with remarkable human sympathy. *Hamlet* also marks the beginning, in the comedies as much as in the famous tragedies, *Othello*, *King Lear*, and *Macbeth*, of a new and disturbing interest in the human mysteries of sadism, power, eroticism and loss.