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The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the ins and outs of the sometimes daunting Shakespeare Industry, and to create a solid sense of confidence in reading, researching, as well as speaking and writing about Shakespeare, his work, and the responses of others over the past 400 years.
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What has been keeping those Shakespeareans occupied for over 400 years? Hasn’t everything that needs saying already been said about the Man from Stratford? This course offers the student an opportunity to study the immense industry that has developed around Shakespeare, and become acquainted with a number of intriguing traditions involving Shakespeare’s life, his work, and his afterlives. Attention will be devoted to the biography and to the plays and poems in their historical context. Themes for discussion will include: Who was Shakespeare? (Baconians, Stratfordians, Oxfordians); How can we make sense of Shakespeare as a fictional character (Oscar Wilde, Anthony Burgess, Shakespeare in Love); Which edition should I use and why? (Q, F, Penguin Shakespeare, New Arden, New Cambridge); How do I find the right materials to study and write about Shakespeare (UB, WSB, Internet, Shaksper). The course further acquaints you with Shakespeare journals you might consult (ShS, ShJ, SQ), and theoretical perspectives (E.M.W. Tillyard, New Historicism). You want to familiarize yourself with theatre architecture in a historical perspective (Globe, Blackfriars, Stratford, New Globe). Inevitably, you will seek to define the differences between local, global and glocal Shakespeare. Shakespeare will be discussed as he appears in music (opera, song, rap), film en video (Orson Welles, Kenneth Branagh, BBC, Bollywood), translations and adaptation (Ten Oorlog). For each lecture, the student will read a Shakespeare text, and study a number of questions. Gradually, in coordination with the instructor(s), the student will develop a topic for a final essay.
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This course begins the Intertextuality specialisation.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/
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