Shakespeare & Film

MA - Honours Blended Seminar

This intensive seminar invites students to read six plays by Shakespeare, one from each of the major literary subgenres into which his dramatic canon is most often divided:  A Roman play, a history play, a tragedy, a comedy, a romance, and a problem play.  With the help of scholarship on such topics as early modern performance, historicity, gender & sexualities, and popular culture, we'll then explore what happens to the language, characters, stories, thematic preoccupations, and generic categorization of these texts as they are adapted, and sometimes re-adapted, for the big screen by the late-20th and early 21st century filmmakers.