SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT in Fall 2024 (CL3038)

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Considers a selection of Shakespeare's plays in the context of the dramatist's explorations of the possibilities of theatricality. Examines how theater is represented in his work and how his work lends itself to production in theater and film today. Students view video versions, visit Paris theaters, and travel to London and Stratford-on-Avon to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in performance.

Course Master: 
SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT (CL3038)
Term: 
Fall 2024
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Cross Listed: 
SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT in Fall 2024 (CL3038)
Exam Date: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 09:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. A global comprehension of European Renaissance history (and literature) from the autumn of the Middle Ages (1348) to the advent of the Baroque period (Shakespeare’s own day), including the Great Discoveries, the printing press, the crisis of faith, heretics and martyrs, witchcraft, monsters, prophecies, magic, Early Modern philosophy and the Protestant Reformation.
  2. A global comprehension of Shakespeare’s works and world.
  3. An understanding of how to view a text: the study of ekphrasis or descriptive sketches, as a counterpart to the Renaissance graphic world, from De Vinci to Bosch, from Brueghel to Michelangelo.
  4. Elements of the language of late 16th- and early 17th-century England such as linguistic shifts, contractions and grammar; as well as the language of thought, including received ideas or popular errors.
  5. Reading mythology to understand art (Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Renaissance art, and Shakespeare).
  6. The ability to read Shakespeare’s plays.

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 2, 2024
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
G-L22
Thursday
10:35
11:55
G-L22