<p>i looked her up on rate my professor, but it seems that everyone has the general consensus of her being a hard teacher. If you had her, how does she grade. </p>
<p>We only have 21 kids in ENGL s-134, so i don't want to take the class if she be wack.</p>
<p>This probably will not help you decide, but i took a Shakespeare class with Prof. Garber in 1983! My greatest memories of those lectures was her ability to find sexual allusions in so much of the text. She had just written a book, I believe, on the same subject so it must have been front-of-mind at the time. She was tremendously dynamic and clearly in love with her subject; not a quality I found in a few Professors at that time. Thanks for asking as it brought up memories that I had not thought of for many years.</p>
<p>PS. If you are wondering why I am on CC, I find it very helpful as I do alumni interviews of high school seniors and like to have some insight into the issues on their minds.</p>
<p>Yes. It’s possible that she turned into a bad teacher over the past decades, but 30 years ago she was fabulous. I never took a course with her, although I heard her lecture a few times and knew people in her courses, all of whom thought she walked on water. I have no idea how she graded. I don’t think anybody cared.</p>
<p>Though she started her career at Yale, she was eventually poached by Harvard. She was a visiting professor at Yale in the late 90s when I had the opportunity to take a Shakespeare course with her. All I can say is … she is an INCREDIBLY good lecturer and extremely in love with her topic. I would definitely say put her on your academic agenda, you’ll remember her long after you’ve forgotten your grade.</p>
<p>I was an Econ major, and think I got a B or B+ in the course with a medium amount of effort. She’s not an easy grader, but I don’t think she had the rap of being a scrooge either.</p>
<p>I took “Shakespeare: the Later Plays” in the fall of 1997. This was a Core class. It was fantastic. The lectures were entertaining and fascinating. She went in so many different directions with the plays, but illustrated and explained the ideas so well, she made us all see them too.</p>
<p>She was also a pioneering user of technology. For most of the plays, she had actors from the American Repertory Theater record readings of some scenes specifically for the course, highlighting themes she wanted to address. Then she posted the recordings online for us to listen to and incorporate into our response papers. I still remember a gender-reversed recording of Macbeth/Lady Macbeth’s scene in Act I.</p>
<p>It was a multi-hundred-student lecture, so the grading was done by the TFs who led our discussion sections. My TF was great, and now has tenure at Bowdoin. <a href=“https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/a/abriefel/index.shtml[/url]”>https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/a/abriefel/index.shtml</a> I thought the grading in the section was pretty tough. I worked my butt off, read every single play assigned (I think it was 14 tragedies and problem plays), and could not get above an A-minus. Overall, a great experience.</p>