Course Description
Considers Shakespeare’s plays and poems and appropriations of them through the ways in which different media such as film, television, the printed book, and digital media shape their production and reception.
Athena Title
Shakespeare and Media
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4332E, ENGL4332W
Prerequisite
(ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103)
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
- Students will understand relations among the concepts of text, performance, medium, remediation, and appropriation; - Students will understand Shakespeare's changing literary, cultural, and educational role through media analysis; - Students will analyze selected Shakespearean plays and poems in terms of the effect played by changes in media on viewers’, auditors’, and audiences’ experiences and understanding of them; - Students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding through oral, written, visual, and electronic responses.
Topical Outline
Media and the Difference They Make (to Shakespeare) Remediation and Appropriation Shakespeare in New Media and Shakespeare 2.0 Case studies of 3-8 plays or poems that consider a mix of live and mediated performances and appropriations. The versions considered can come from different historical periods (e.g., Shakespearean paintings from the eighteenth century forward) and, of course, be communicated via different media (e.g., codex book, television, twitter, YouTube video).