EKIS4004 Shakespeare Now! (5 cr)
Description
Content
This course focuses on the ways in which Shakespeare features in contemporary culture. Besides reading and discussing Shakespeare’s original work, we acquaint ourselves with contemporary representations of Shakespeare’s production against the backdrop of Renaissance society, culture, values and theatrical traditions. Besides an original text by Shakespeare, we study for example film, music, graphic novels, fan fiction, digital appropriations, the new Finnish Shakespeare translations and pay attention to Shakespeare’s language.
Completion methods
Contact teaching: participating to lectures, completing tasks and writing a final essay.Assessment details
Lecture participation, completion of assigned tasks, final essay
Learning outcomes
On completing the course the students:
- Have knowledge about Shakespeare’s time, life, works and theatrical traditions
- See Shakespeare’s present role in a global transnational perspective
- Understand the role of power, global commercial media and transmediality in the dissemination of Shakespeare
- Are familiar with the conceptual pair high and low in the Shakespearian context
- Can relate critically to the processes of canonisation
Additional information
Attendance policy 80 %
Online assignments
Study materials
To be specified later
Literature
- List of literature provided at the beginning of the course
Completion methods
Method 1
Participation in teaching (5 cr)
Contact teaching: participating to lectures, completing tasks and writing a final essay.
To be specified later
- List of literature provided at the beginning of the course