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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 22345
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
Requirements Met:
Global Literature
Though Shakespeare himself probably never left the shores of England, his imagination roamed widely, exploring fears and fantasies of Africa, the Mediterranean, and the New World, and his plays ventured from the Globe to circumnavigate the globe in dramatic, literary, and cinematic adaptations from India, Nigeria, the Caribbean, the Balkans, Japan, Iran, and present-day refugee camps (to name just a very few). We will examine Shakespeare as an author with global reach, both in the seventeenth century and today, reading plays such as HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO, and THE TEMPEST and modern rewritings of them, engaging with theories of adaptation, translation, and “writing back,” of globalization and decolonization, local and universal culture. Writing projects will include dramaturgical analysis, a theoretical essay, and an adaptation. This course satisfies the distribution requirement for Literature in a Global, Transnational, or Transatlantic Perspective, and the Early Literature requirement.
3 Credits