Lectures will draw on the research of individual lecturers, offering readings of the primary and secondary materials which you will then consider in seminars the seminars will deepen your understanding and enable you to begin to develop your own responses through group discussion. This module will introduce you to Shakespeare’s work, Hamlet, and a variety of rewritings and adaptations of the play. It examines the early modern theatrical, political, and religious historical contexts that inform Shakespeare’s drama, before embarking on an investigation of Hamlet’s afterlives in Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts and cultures (specifically Asian), from the twentieth century to the present day, in a variety of genres and adaptations featuring examples from film, novel, and manga literature. Through a focus on the contexts for and reception of the works of Shakespeare, the module aims to explore how Hamlet has achieved this unique status in English literature and beyond. This module considers Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, in its time and in our time, in Shakespeare’s world and in a variety of different cultural worlds. TRU1908 - Shakespeare Revisited 2020/1 Module description Staff
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