I am taking a Shakespeare course at my university. It meets twice a week for two hours at each meeting. We are assigned a play to read and we take a quiz every week on Tuesday. But here’s the deal: we take our quizzes (which are 10 minute, in class essays) before we discuss the play. So in other words, the professor expects us to read “As You Like It” and take the quiz this Tuesday, and then we’ll discuss it (actually, he talks — we all listen). Is that fair? We were not taught how to read Shakespeare, and I think that requires some teaching because you can’t just delve into one of Shakespeare’s plays if you don’t know how to “read” his plays. For many of us, this is our first real exposure to Shakespeare. I’m curious to hear from other college student’s who have taken Shakespeare before. What plays were you assigned to read? How were you graded — essays, papers, quizzes, etc.?