Shakesp: Text Performance

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The course examines the relationship between Shakespeare’s scripts and the performances actors and directors develop from them. It gives students the opportunity to attend six productions of Shakespeare’s plays, three in London and three in Stratford-upon-Avon. The course begins in London, where students will spend a week focused on Shakespeare’s theatre, past and present. The second part of the course takes place in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. In Stratford students attend classes taught by scholars of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In both London and Stratford-upon-Avon students visit historic sites associated with Shakespeare’s life and work.