Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-390.01
- Title
- Elective Specialisation: Shakespeare Reloaded: Adaptation and Rewriting
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The course intends to focus on “Shakespeare-remakes” or drama adaptations, which, by destroying or altering the original focal points of the origin-text, provide new and thought-provoking interpretations to the Shakespeare text, and will help students to form their own questions and reload their interpretations not only of the adaptations but the Shakespeare-corpus as well.
- Course content
- The classes will be traditional text-reading seminars on the one hand, but the texts will be supported with additional intermedial content, such as fine arts, film, music and other artforms, which will possibly make the classes more intriguing and colourful. From the Shakespeare-corpus it is mainly Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and The Tempest that will be discussed, accompanied by dramas, short stories and a novel which find their origins in the Shakespearean text as well as giving a new interpretation to them.
- Assessment method
- weekly presence and activity in class; Canvas tasks; one in-class essay; no more than 3 missed classes.
- Bibliography
- Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier: Adaptations of Shakespeare Thomas Leitch: The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies Howard Barker: Gertrude, the Cry; 7 Lears; Lee Blessing: Fortinbras Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Kiss Csaba: Hazatérés Dániába Nahum Tate: King Lear; Enyedi Éva: Lear halála Gordon Bottomley: King Lear’s Wife, Gruach Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group: Lear’s Daughters Kállay Géza: A Lear király és holdudvara Háy János: Ophelie; David Greig: Dunsinane; John Fowles: The Collector