This course explores 21st century literary, dramatic and cinematic responses to William Shakespeare’s works (and his biography).
We will read two of Shakespeare’s plays (The Tempest will be one of them) and combine them with our analysis of contemporary narrative and dramatic adaptations and appropriations, i.e inventive and transgressive retellings of these early modern plays.
In the process we will learn about early modern theatrical conventions and culture, discuss issues of gender and race, and investigate the scholarly discourse on adaptation, appropriation, and intertextuality.
Please get your own copies of and read before the beginning of the semester:
William Shakespeare, The Tempest in one of the following editions:
William Shakespeare, The Tempest,
The Arden Shakespeare. Ed. Virginia M. Vaughan /Alden T. Vaughan (1999/2011)
Or: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, The Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Orgel. (2008).
Or: The Oxford Shakespeare/Oxford World’s Classics. Ed. Peter Holland. (2008).
Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed, The Hogarth Shakespeare (2017).
Nunez, Prospero’s Daughter. A Novel (2006).
The novel by Nunez is difficult to get, i.e. you need to order it now. |
