Shakespeare: Adaptations, and Appropriations
Instructor: Jo Carney
This seminar will explore the “afterlives” of Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of adaptation and appropriation theory. In particular, we will focus on three tragedies—Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth—and then explore fiction, film, and art inspired by these plays. We will explore the cultural and aesthetic politics that inform adaptations and consider how “art is made from other art.”