Description
An interdisciplinary study of Shakespeare’s plays as both literary texts and works written for performance. Students will examine selected plays in their historical, literary, and theatrical contexts while exploring how actors, directors, and other theatre artists transform Shakespeare’s language into performance. Through close reading, discussion, writing, performance exercises, scene work, and collaborative research, students will investigate how choices involving language, voice, movement, character, staging, and interpretation shape the meaning of Shakespeare’s works. No previous acting experience is required. Meets General Education category Interdisciplinary Learning, Artistic Thinking, and Literary Thinking; Culture, Rhetoric, and Media and Gender, Race, and Class Studies Focus Areas.