LS 759 - That Shakespearean Cinema

(3.00 cr.)

A study of selected Shakespeare plays in their Renaissance theatre context and in their evolution as texts for film. Special attention is given to the conditions of theatre production in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and intense focus is placed on the cultural, economic, and creative reasons for the renaissance of Shakespeare as a film source during the 1980s and 1990s. Analytical and performance projects. No previous acting or directing skill required.