EN 333: Shakespeare - From Stage to Page
Fulfillments: Upper level English Major requirements
Four hundred and eight years after his death, William Shakespeare remains by far the world’s most produced playwright, and it is estimated that the play Hamlet alone is being staged somewhere in the world every moment of every day. Similarly, no word on IMDB.com returns as many hits as “Shakespeare,” as there are dozens of films based on his work. Therefore, this summer we will study Shakespeare and performance by learning about the process that takes the written word to the stage and then back again to the page. In other words, students in this course will read Shakespeare and study productions of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Globe Theatre in London, and perhaps others within the context of archaeology, theatre history, performance, and literature. Further, students will have the opportunity of visiting the Shakespeare Birthplace, where he was born, as well as the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford, where he is buried, during our visit to the RSC in Stratford.
Assistant Prof: Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama)
Assistant Professor Tyler Sasser has taught Shakespeare abroad on UA's Italy program for years. His first book, Teaching Shakespeare beyond the Major (under contract with Palgrave and forthcoming in 2023) is a collection of essays co-edited with Emma Atwood that focuses on how professors teach Shakespeare to undergraduate students who are not majoring in English or Theatre. He is currently completing his first monograph, Shakespearean Boyhood: The Subversive Masculinity of Shakespeare’s Boy Characters.