General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | Shakespeare |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Jacek Fabiszak |
Lecturer's email | fabiszak@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Professor |
Faculty | Faculty of English |
Semester | 2024/2025 (winter) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 4 |
USOS code | 15-SH-AMU-PIE-11 |
Timetable
The course is scheduled for Fridays, 9.45-11.15, room 211 in Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, ul. Grunwaldzka 6.
Module aim (aims)
To discuss the significance of Shakespeare in Western culture
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
a good command of English (at least B2), a general knowledge of drama, theatre and literature
Syllabus
Week 1: Shakespeare: Introduction (life, works, theatre; artistic afterlife: adaptations
Week 2: Adapting Shakespeare
Week 3: Shakespeare on stage 1.
Week 4: Shakespeare on stage 2.
Week 5: Shakespeare on screen 1.
Week 6: Shakespeare on screen 2.
Week 7: Early Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
Week 8: Shakespeare’s histories: 1Henry IV
Week 9: Shakespeare’s mature Romantic comedy: As You Like It
Week 10: Problem plays: Measure for Measure
Week 11: Tragedies: Macbeth
Week 12: Tragicomedies: The Tempest
Week 13: Roman plays: Julius Caesar
Week 14: Stage adaptation: Grzegorz Jarzyna’s 2007: Macbeth
Week 15: Film adaptation: Joseph Mankiewicz’s Julius Caesar
Week 15: Film adaptation: Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books
Reading list
Bloom, Harold. 1999. Shakespeare. The Invention of the Human. London: Fourth Estate.
De Grazia, Margreta and Stanley Wells (eds). 2009. Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hutcheon, Linda. 2006. A Theory of Adaptation. London – New York: Routledge.
Jackson, Russell (ed.) 2007. Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shaugnessy, Robert (ed.) 2007. Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, Stanley (ed.)1994. Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, Stanley and Sarah Stanton (eds.) Shakespeare on Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.