English 353 - Seminar: Advanced Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Women, Women's 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 by women playwrights, producers, and directors, as well as women poets and novelists. The course explores how women artists have engaged with 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 will consider the voices of women of the early modern period, as well as modern women authors including Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Suniti Namjoshi, Elizabeth Nunez and Jane Smiley.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores