English 353 - SEM:ADV STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE

Topics course. This seminar explores the significance of women's voices in Othello, King Lear and The Tempest, viewed in conjunction with reimaginings of these plays and their female protagonists by women playwrights, producers, and directors, as well as women poets and novelists. The course considers how women artists have engaged with, reinterpreted and transformed Shakespeare's women at different cultural moments, exploring questions of adaptive appropriation across global and temporal boundaries as well as race and gender. The course contextualizes Shakespeare's women characters in relation to the voices of women of the early modern period, as well as modern women authors including Toni Morrison, Suniti Namjoshi, Elizabeth Nunez and Jane Smiley. Graduating senior English majors are given priority in enrollment.

Topic: Shakespeare's Women, Women's Shakespeares. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores