After reading Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet students explore and analyze the key thematic ideas, character types, predominant imagistic patterns, and dramatic conventions founds in these Elizabethan plays. Students also explore several film adaptations that are both heavily indebted to the original play, yet exist as independent art forms. By responding to questions and critics' observations, students begin to acquire the language of Shakespeare film studies, as well as identifying, and interpreting the impact of, a film's specific transformation, in both content and character, of its dramatic source. Exclusion: ENGL 3650
After reading Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet students explore and analyze the key thematic ideas, character types, predominant imagistic patterns, and dramatic conventions founds in these Elizabethan plays. Students also explore several film adaptations that are both heavily indebted to the original play, yet exist as independent art forms. By responding to questions and critics' observations, students begin to acquire the language of Shakespeare film studies, as well as identifying, and interpreting the impact of, a film's specific transformation, in both content and character, of its dramatic source. Exclusion: ENGL 3650
