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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Shakespeare in America - Vertiefungsmodul
Veranstaltungsnummer siehe "Details"
Semester SS 2019
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 7
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 20
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Dienstag, 02.04.2019 10:00 - 12:00, Ort: Seminarraum 17 (Raum E.12) [LuWu 2]
Studiengänge (für) ANG.04629.02 für LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP / MA Angloam. Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP
SWS 2

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

Even though Shakespeare only had a fleeting acquaintance with America, generation after generation of Americans have fallen under his spell. In this course, we will explore the impact of Shakespeare’s work on American literature and culture and examine how his plays help us to understand key moments and developments in the US from the past to the present. Two guest lectures on Shakespeare’s Renaissance world and his English at the beginning of our course will catapult us back in time and prepare us for our transatlantic journey back and forth between Shakespeare’s plays and America. Our course will focus on five plays and draw at times surprising connections to contemporary USA: The Tempest and the (linguistic) oppression of indigenous people (postcolonialism); Othello and race (minstrelsy/blackface shows, identity constructions, and racism); Richard III and current US politics; Rome and Juliet and gang violence (film adaptations: e.g., Romeo & Juliet, dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1996); and Macbeth and popular culture (e.g., teaching Macbeth: The Graphic Novel in a classroom setting). In addition to the plays themselves, we will look at a broad spectrum of materials including movies, websites, advertisements, mash ups, graphic novels, and podcasts. However, our course will center on the writings of Stephen Greenblatt, the world-renowned Shakespeare scholar and Pulitzer prize-winner from Harvard University (https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/stephen-greenblatt), whom you will have a chance to meet and talk with in our workshop on “Shakespeare in America” (Wednesday, June 19, 2-4 pm). We will get to know the approach to literature called “New Historicism,” which Greenblatt developed together with his colleagues at Berkeley, and examine a few of his groundbreaking articles on Shakespeare’s plays as well as his most recent book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (2018), upon which the workshop and his Muhlenberg lecture will be based.

Required texts:
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Othello, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet.
Any edition is welcome, but, if you should decide to buy the plays, I recommend the “Penguin Shakespeare” or the outstanding “Arden Shakespeare” series (both are annotated editions and include extra material).

William Shakespeare, Macbeth: The Graphic Novel (Classical Comics, 2008). Please purchase the “Original Text” version.

Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (Norton, 2018). Please purchase this edition – a slightly cheaper paperback edition will be available on May 14.

Since we are covering a lot of ground in this course, I ask you to read the four Shakespeare plays and, if possible, the graphic novel before the course begins in April. Additional material will be made available on Stud.IP.

Studienleistung: Impulsreferat, workshop with Stephen Greenblatt.
Prüfungsleistung: short term paper (e.g., film adaptation).

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