V-Culture - Gender - Media: Shakespeare in Contemporary Culture
Sabine Schülting
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This lecture series will introduce students to the broad scope of contemporary engagements with Shakespeare’s plays and poetry: in literary texts, on stage, in film, and in other media. We will consider various strategies of dealing with Shakespeare, such as adaptation, translation, quotation, rewriting, appropriation, etc. Lectures will consider the potential tension between popular culture and Shakespeare’s high canonicity, and explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays and poems have been used to address contemporary debates about gender and sexuality, race, and political power. Students will also be introduced to relevant approaches in Shakespeare Studies.
The course will be organized as a lecture series with discussion. In most weeks, the focus will be on one Shakespeare play and its adaptations and/or rewritings. Students will be encouraged to prepare for the discussion by reading the respective play. More details about the syllabus will be provided in the first week of class.
Exchange students are of course welcome. You can get 2 ECTS for participation. There is no exam in this course.
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