Verdi and Shakespeare

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This course will examine three works: Macbeth, Othello, and Shakespeare's Falstaff plays, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and the Merry Wives of Windsor. These plays are the basis for Giuseppe Verdi's extraordinary operas, Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff, which the course will examine for their contributions to opera and the ways in which they intersect with, and meditate upon, Shakespeare and his legacy.