LIT-339 Global Shakespeare

How did Shakespeare respond to national & ethnic difference at "The Globe"; how have later writers from around the globe responded to Shakespeare’s work? We will grapple with some of the darkest material in the Shakespeare corpus—rape, racism, misogyny, colonialism—and the real world violence it represents, then interrogate these plays'' appeal to creators from Japan to the Caribbean, from India to New Zealand. If, as some have argued, Shakespeare and the Western canon have been tools of cultural oppression, then how might these global adaptations be read as acts of rebellion or liberation?

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

2 courses in literature

Notes

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