Shakespeare: Print and Performance
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Shakespeare: Print and Performance at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
Shakespeare: Print and Performance at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 4 weeks
- Weekly study 2 hours
- 100% online Learn at your own pace
Shakespeare: Print and Performance at FutureLearn Course details
- Why do we continue to read and perform Shakespeare's works around the world today? How were his plays performed and printed 400 years ago, and how has our conception of Shakespeare changed over the centuries?
- King's College London has partnered with Shakespeare's Globe and the British Library to explore how Shakespeare's works continue to delight audiences around the world.
- Join academics, curators, publishers, actors, musicians and theatre directors, as we find out more about Shakespeare's early modern world and consider his construction as a global icon today.
- We will take you on to the stage of the Globe Theatre, to find out about performance practices both in the present day capital and in Early Modern London.
- We'll meet practitioners at the Globe and we'll step into the world of the early modern actor to examine the processes and conditions that were at the heart of the Shakespearean playhouse.
- The British Library has given us exclusive access to some some priceless manuscripts and early printed texts in their archives. We'll also discover how the early modern book trade shaped the journey of Shakespeare's text from stage to page.
- Global Shakespeares' is one of the key themes which we will explore on the course. When you join Shakespeare: Print and Performance, you will become part of a diverse international learning community, and we will draw on everyone's experiences of Shakespeare to enrich our discussion.
Shakespeare: Print and Performance at FutureLearn Curriculum
Performing Shakespeares
Welcome to Week 1
Shakespeare as a global icon
Shakespeare in performance in the 21st century
Early modern London and the place of the stage
The early modern playhouse
Week 1 wrap-up
Early modern print
Welcome to week 2
Discover how the printing industry evolved
The journey of the text from stage to page
The sonnets and reading practices in the early modern period
Week 2 wrap-up
Shakespeare in print today
Welcome to week 3
A four hundred year journey: editing Shakespeare
Publishing Shakespeare in the 21st Century
How does editing shape performance?
Week 3 wrap-up
Global/local Shakespeares
Welcome to Week 4
The early modern actor
Early modern performance practices
Different approaches to performance today
Shakespeare on screen
Global Shakespeare
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