Shakespeare

Timetable

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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.