INTRODUCTION
When I came to the University of Trondheim (now, NTNU), Shakespeare had been dormant for some years. I was lucky, in the Fall of 1995, to have three Shakespeare students in my E203:Early British Literature course. By the Fall of 1996, however, there are 10! The students for that course were interested and committed to studying Shakespeare. As a result, this page was born.
I have since left Norway, but am still in touch with several of the students in that Shakespeare course. Thanks to at least one of them, this page remains as a monument to their devotion and fascination with a dead white guy from the late 16th/early 17th century in England. The Shakespeare course that I taught in 1996 is no longer offered, although the syllabus and reading lists are still available on this page if you want to read about the Bard on your own. The Department of English (or Engelsk Institutt) still teaches Shakespeare at the grunnfag (first-year) level. There are also an array of interesting courses in British and American literature offered by the department.
The students of English are also very active. They have their own organization called Wuthering Knights, and a student publication called JESTIN' (Journal for English Studies in Norway).
For those of you who want Shakespeare in Norwegian, the collection, edited by Olav Lausund at the University of Oslo, Institutt for British and American Studies), should be nearly complete by now.
This page is devoted to the students who took the Shakespeare offering during 1995-1996 academic years. I would like to thank them for constantly reminding me how much I loved Shakespeare.
Kenneth Sagli and I have tried to make this page useful for both the NTNU community and net-users at large. It seems a shame that I could not somehow translate the joy and intelligence of the class onto this web page, but I hope that you will enjoy the pages that follow.
Because of the number of pages involved, I have decided to move the detailed contents descriptions to another page. From here on out, Shakespeare's face will move you back to the contents page. If you want to see this introduction page again, you will have to go by way of that contents description page.
Now, if you are ready, just click HERE!