ENGL 117

Spring 2021 All Classes

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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 spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70311	Online Online	F F	2:00PM -3:50PM 2:00PM -4:50PM	W M	n.a. n.a.	Stevens, A Stevens, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: ENGL 117 Shakespeare on Film (Spring 2021 Online) - This version of ENGL 117 Shakespeare on Film focuses on what we might call ‘queer’ film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays (and, in one case, Christopher Marlowe’s): Private Romeo (Romeo and Juliet); Were the World Mine (Midsummer Night’s Dream); Ten Things I Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew); She’s the Man (Twelfth Night); My Own Private Idaho (Henry IV Part 1); and Edward II (Edward II). These films include same-sex love stories and landmark films of the ‘New Queer Cinema’ as well as adaptations of Shakespeare for a ‘teen’ market. All of these films subvert or ask us to question heteronormativity (even if, in some cases, quite accidentally); as we discuss how the films adapt their sources, we’ll consider the forms of queer life, desire, and attachment that they imagine. How do these films ‘read’ the Shakespearean original – that is, do the films illuminate possibilities already present in the original text, or do they suggest radical new directions for the Shakespearean dramatic narrative (and, to be sure, when is the early modern play itself more ‘radical’ than the adaptation)? What sort of life scripts do the films and the plays offer us today? Equal class time will be devoted to the plays as to the films. Additional short critical and theoretical readings will circulate as well, but the scope of the assignments and pace of the readings will be appropriate to the 100-level seminar format. The course will, moreover, be designed bearing in mind challenges specific to the online learning format: students will screen the films on their own by a specific date (the course structure allots time for this) but the lecture/discussion will meet synchronously.