ENGL 486
Topics in Literatures Modern to Contemporary
Fall 2021
Topics
- Reworkings of Hamlet
- Reworkings of King Lear
- Reworkings of Othello
- Reworkings of The Tempest
Readings
- Hag-Seed
- A Tempest
- Harlem Duet
- A Thousand Acres
- Sulayman Al-Bassam — The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
- Laura Bohannon — Shakespeare in the Bush
- Edward Brathwaite — Caliban
- George Lamming — A Monster, A Child, A Slave
- Welcome Msomi — uMabatha
- Femi Osofisan — Wẹsóo, Hamlet!
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2021
- Reading list is selective; the outline provides further criticism and adaptations.