ENGL 117

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Shakespeare on Film

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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores the ongoing reinterpretation and appropriation of Shakespeare plays in twentieth- and twenty-first century film. Expect to read around five plays and analyze two productions of each play, and to consider how Shakespeare can be transformed to meet different cultural and contextual demands of the screen. Lecture and discussion.

Same as MACS 117.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 117 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	33867	Lecture-Discussion	AE1	2:00PM -3:50PM	MW	119 English Building	Stevens, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This introductory-level survey covers at least seven or eight of Shakespeare’s plays alongside notable film versions or, indeed, wholesale reinventions of those plays. We’ll likely cover Titus Andronicus; The Taming of the Shrew; Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing; Macbeth; Othello; and The Tempest. Films will include Julie Taymor’s Titus Andronicus; Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew (1976); Alan Brown’s Private Romeo (2011); Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice (2005); Joss Whedon’s Much Ado (2012); Roman Polanski’s Macbeth (1971); Oliver Parker’s Othello (1995); and Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979). Expect also to see a range of short clips from a variety of filmed live performances. Our schedule includes one in-class film viewing session and one weekly lecture-discussion section. In our weekly lectures, I will provide an overview of the play under consideration, concentrating especially on key moments that suggest multiple possibilities for performance. I assume neither expertise in Shakespeare nor in the vocabulary of film criticism; consider the course an entryway to both disciplines. Writing assignments will include the opportunity to consider Global Shakespeare on film and ideas of cross-cultural adaptation; a final group project asks you to create your own Shakespeare-inspired “short”. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: UIUC: Literature and the Arts