Shakespeare and the Arts

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Shakespeare integrated many genres, subgenres, and forms of art into his plays: songs, poems, dances, and, in The Tempest at the very end of his career, instrumental music and a simple masque. Ever since the Renaissance, Shakespeare has continued to inspire artists of all kinds: painters, sculptors, choreographers, composers, poets, novelists, and filmmakers as well as his fellow playwrights. Shakespeare therefore offers today?s students an excellent opportunity to learn about a broad range of the creative arts during the English Renaissance and beyond. Drawing to a greater or lesser degree on close reading, textual studies, genre studies, genre theory, media studies, film studies, art criticism, art history, literary studies, Shakespeare studies, influence studies, historical studies, and cultural studies, we will focus on how each form of art, each medium, each genre, and each artwork creates meanings.