Shakespeare: a dip into some key tragedies, comedies and histories

City Lit

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Celebrate the genius of Shakespeare: his timeless themes, complex characterisation, beautiful language and their power in performance.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

-Understand the use of verse and the flexibility of the iambic pentameter.
-Appreciate the dramatic power of a range of Shakespeare's plays including tragedies, histories and comedies
-Put some of the plays into their historical and social context
-Discuss recurring themes and motifs of the plays studied
-Experience speaking the verse in performance/or directing a short scene.

It would help if you could bring copies of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin edition) and Othello (Penguin edition).

You will be given photocopied extracts of the other plays..

-Tutor input, text analysis, large and small group discussion
-Viewing and discussing a range of performances on screen.

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  • Shakespeare

Course programme

We will explore extracts from several plays including Hamlet, Othello, Richard the Third, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We will read, view and discuss these extracts in terms of language, characterisation, structure, imagery and their power in performance. By looking at a variety of performances of one play, we will explore the possibilities of a range of interpretations. If there is time and students would like to do it, we will do some performing ourselves.

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General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Shakespeare: a dip into some key tragedies, comedies and histories

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