Postgraduate Course: Shakespeare Adapted (ENLI11154)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course will consider how Shakespeare's plays have been adapted and appropriated by a range of modern and postmodern writers and filmmakers. The cultural prestige enjoyed by Shakespeare's works has long inspired other artists to appropriate and re-interpret their narrative and thematic concerns. This course will examine some of the principal ways in which this has occurred. It will analyse the motives involved in reshaping and rewriting Shakespeare's works in a variety of contexts. The course will consider the ways in which texts "talk back" to Shakespeare's plays by addressing perceived gaps or silences, by adopting the viewpoint of marginal characters, or by extending their implications in alternative temporal or cultural circumstances. Particular attention will be paid to theoretical understanding of adaptation and appropriation as well as to critical and creative approaches deriving from Marxism, postcolonialism, feminism and queer theory. The course will concentrate on the legacy of four plays: Richard III, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. *This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 3
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	4000 Word Essay (100%)
Feedback	Not entered
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to - critically assess the range of ways in which Shakespeare=s plays have been appropriated in the twentieth and twenty-first century - understand and use appropriately the critical vocabulary for analysing practices of adaptation and appropriation - show an awareness of relevant intellectual and historical contexts