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ENGL 100: Shakespeare on Film and ENGL 310: Shakespeare II

Instructor: Pierre Hecker
English
Spring and Fall 2011

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ENGL 100 Course Description
This seminar explores the many ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for film. From Hollywood to Bollywood to Japan, and from Westerns to Sci-fi to cartoons, Shakespeare has been reworked and re-conceived in every filmmaking culture and in every genre. A number of major plays are considered through both "straightforward" adaptations and unconventional appropriations. Using the tools of both literary criticism and film analysis, the course seeks to assess the interpretive value of these films for Shakespeare, their place in performance history and film history, as well as their status as individual works of art.




ENGL 310 Course Description
Continuing the work begun in Shakespeare I, this course delves deeper into the Shakespeare canon. More difficult and obscure plays are studied alongside some of the more famous ones. While focusing principally on the plays themselves as works of art, the course also explores their social, intellectual, and theatrical contexts, as well as the variety of critical response they have engendered.

Introduction

Students in this course analyzed film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. The films were screened in the Weitz Center's cinema and were open to the public. The class also coincided with guest director Ed Berkeley's theater production of The Tempest. An exhibition, Brave New Worlds: William Shakespeare's The Tempest of related objects selected by students of Pierre's Shakespeare II seminar was also mounted in the White Spaces.

Exhibition Project

Assignment for Exhibition (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 24kB Jul2 12)

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