Intro to Shakespearean Drama
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Note: This course was planned but never taught.
Requirements
Students can expect to participate in discussions online and in class, complete class presentations, take approximately five substantial quizzes, and write three critical papers.
Plays we'll read
- Richard III
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Henry IV (part 1)
- Henry V
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Hamlet
- Othello
- The Tempest
Films we'll discuss (this list might change slightly)
Titles in [brackets] are of secondary importance to the course.
Richard III
- [Looking for Richard (1996), directed by Al Pacino]
- Richard III (1995), directed by Richard Loncraine
- Richard III (1955), directed by Laurence Olivier
The Taming of the Shrew
- [10 Things I Hate About You (1999), directed by Gil Junger]
- The Taming of the Shrew (1967), directed by Franco Zeffirelli
- [Kiss Me Kate (1953), directed by George Sidney]
Romeo and Juliet
- [Shakespeare in Love (1998), directed by John Madden]
- Romeo+Juliet (1996), by Baz Luhrmann
- Romeo and Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli
- [West Side Story (1961), directed by Robert Wise]
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), directed by Michael Hoffman
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996), directed by Adrian Noble
- [Dead Poets' Society (1989), directed by Peter Weir.]
Henry IV (part 1), Henry V
- [My Own Private Idaho (1991), directed by Gus Van Sant]
- Henry V (1989), directed by Kenneth Branagh
- [Chimes at Midnight (1966), directed by Orson Welles]
- Henry V (1944), directed by Laurence Olivier
Much Ado About Nothing
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993), directed by Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet
- Hamlet (2000), directed by Michael Almereyda
- [Hamlet (1996), directed by Kenneth Branagh]
- [Hamlet (1990), directed by Franco Zeffirelli]
- [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), directed by Tom Stoppard]
- Hamlet (1948), directed by Laurence Olivier
- [To Be or Not to Be (1942), directed by Ernst Lubitsch]
Othello
- [O (2001), directed by Tim Blake Nelson]
- Othello (1995), directed by Oliver Parker
- [Othello (1965), directed by Stuart Burge]
- Othello (1952), directed by Orson Welles
The Tempest
- Prospero's Books (1991), directed by Peter Greenaway
- The Tempest (1982), directed by Paul Mazursky
- The Tempest (1979), directed by Derek Jarman
- [Forbidden Planet (1956), directed by Fred M. Wilcox]
