LIT-156 Shakespeare and Film

Since the earliest days of silent film, William Shakespeare’s works have been adapted on screen: hundreds of times in diverse settings from the Wild West to medieval Japan. After analyzing four Shakespeare plays, we will turn to film adaptations and their use of the formal elements of film, like editing and mise-en-scene. How have directors around the world re-imagined Shakespeare on screen? What is the effect of combining modern film language with Shakespeare’s language? Texts and film adaptations of Titus Andronicus, Othello, Macbeth, and Much Ado About Nothing.

Maximum Enrollment

16

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Offered

Fall

Notes

Intermedia or Genre.