Shakespeare in Performance

Catalog description

An introduction to Shakespeare in performance. This course will focus on key scenes and soliloquies so students can take time with the language and theatrical tools of Shakespeare’s work. We will watch these scenes performed in many different ways to think about how the language is brought to life in different times and contexts by and for different people. Students will create a performance as a way to think about the plays. We will discuss the plays as engaged works of art, not historical artifacts, and tools with which we learn to see more, see differently, see better.