DTS3830

Drama into film

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

S Tweg

8 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Synopsis This subject explores eight of Shakespeare's plays, both as texts on the page for reading, study and analysis and as blueprints for performance work. We are interested in discovering how the plays have been understood at different historic times, with changing social and political frames, and in different cultures, East and West. The texts chosen reflect a mix of popular theatre favourites as well as a few less well-known plays. There will be a weekly twohour lecture/seminar for all students, plus an additional (optional) twohour performance seminar/workshop on Wednesday afternoons. The aim is to encourage all students (whether performers or not) to experience the plays as both imaginative poetry and living theatre.