Mar 28, 2024  
2021 - 2022 University Catalog 
    
2021 - 2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

ENG 351 - Shakespeare on Film


Prerequisites: ENG 100  (or CW 210  and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course. This course may not substitute for ENG 350 
This course focuses on film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays that “translate” the dramas into cinematic language. Because this is a Shakespeare course, students read a selection of plays, study their language and structures, and discuss them as dramatic literature. Because this is a film course, students study Shakespeare filmic adaptations from different historical periods and cultures in terms of camera technique, directorial choices, film history, and the times and places in which they were produced. Students read a history play, a comedy, one or two tragedies, and a romance and then study the filmic interpretations of those works by some of the most famous (and not so famous) directors (e.g., Zeffirelli, Wells, Kurosawa, Luhrmann, Branagh). This intertextual study helps students to appreciate the richness of Shakespeare’s texts and how they present multiple possibilities to those who interpret them.

3 credits
Spring



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)