Coursera
Coursera Logo

University of Colorado Boulder - William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community 

  • Offered byCoursera

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
 at 
Coursera 
Overview

Duration

25 hours

Start from

Start Now

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Official Website

Explore Free Course External Link Icon

Credential

Certificate

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
 at 
Coursera 
Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level
  • Approx. 25 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Read more
Details Icon

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
 at 
Coursera 
Course details

More about this course
  • This course introduces and explores William Shakespeare?s classic comedy, Twelfth Night. Interviews with actors who appeared in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival?s 2019 production of Twelfth Night, as well as lectures by scholars and theater professionals who work and teach at the University of Colorado Boulder, offer students insight into Shakespeare?s artistic vision and its applications. Exploring Shakespeare?s language, his characters, his humor and his world view, the lectures, interviews, and interactive learning experiences that make up this class will help students comprehend the power of Shakespearean comedy and the abiding appeal of Twelfth Night for its original audience and our contemporary moment. You'll explore the relationship between comedy and tragedy, the conflict inherent in desire, and the ways Shakespeare's words and works engaged his community, and yours.
  • This course strives to be of interest to multiple audiences, but we think it may particularly appeal to...
  • * Shakespeare enthusiasts and the Shakespeare curious in all walks of life
  • * Actors, theater practitioners, and teachers of Shakespeare everywhere
  • * Secondary school and college students interested in expanding their studies of Shakespeare
  • * Interested readers with little or no familiarity with Shakespeare
Read more

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
 at 
Coursera 
Curriculum

Twelfth Night and the World of the Play

1.1 Welcome and Course Overview

1.2 Twelfth Night: A First Introduction and Overview

1.3 Introduction of Tim Orr and Amanda Giguere

1.4 Design and Directorial Choices as a Way of Understanding the "World of the Play"

1.5 Performance History of Twelfth Night

1.6 Feste and the World of the Play

1.7 Feste and the Comic World of Twelfth Night

1.8 Roundtable: Act 3 Scene 1 - Feste and Cesario

Reading and Engaging with Twelfth Night

Annotation Project Overview and Full Description

Using Hypothes.is for web-based social annotation of texts

Annotation Project: Step 1

Twelfth Night and the World of the Play Module Quiz

Desire, Identity, and Chaos in Twelfth Night

2.1 Overview of Themes of Desire and Identity

2.2 Faculty Roundtable: Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1 - Orsino's Desire, Melancholy and Desire

2.3 Disguises, Identity, and the Play of Desire

2.4 Viola - Survival, Disguise, and Love

2.5 Olivia: Identity and Desire

2.6 Faculty Roundtable: Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 5 - Olivia, Viola, and the Power of Desire

2.7 Sebastian and Antonio

Review Twelfth Night Acts 1 and 2

Annotation Project Step 2

Desire, Identity, and Chaos Module Quiz

Class, Comedy, and Conflict in Twelfth Night

3.1 Addressing Minor Characters; How Desire Leads to Class Conflict

3.2 Malvolio: Order and Aspiration

3.3 Sir Toby Belch's Worldview

3.4 Maria on Class

3.5 Roundtable Seminar Introduction

3.6 Roundtable Act 2, Scenes 3 & 5 - Confrontation of Malvolio and Sir Toby

3.7 Religion and the Punishment of Malvolio

Review Twelfth Night Acts 3, 4, and 5

Introduction to Lecture 3.7

Annotation Project Step 3

Class, Comedy, and Conflict Module Quiz

Twelfth Night and the Limits of Comedy

4.1 Module Introduction

4.2 On Resolution and Reunion - Discussing the Play's Conclusion

4.3 Roundtable Act 5, Scene 1 - Play's Conclusion

4.4 Twelfth Night and Comedy's Tragic Potentials

4.5 Malvolio and Revenge

4.6 Feste - Perspectives on Malvolio

4.7 Concluding Twelfth Night: "We'll Strive to Please You Every Day"

Review Twelfth Night Act 5

Creative Application Project

Limits of Comedy Module Quiz

Applied Shakespeare in the Community: A Case Study

5.1 Module Introduction

5.2 Shakespeare in the Schools: Anti-Bullying Campaign

5.5 Course Conclusion

5.3 Written Resources for Shakespeare in the Schools Anti-Bullying Effort

5.4 Scholarship and Practice of Applied Shakespeare

5.4.1 Bibliography of Resources for Applied Shakespeare

5.4.2 CU Boulder?s Applied Shakespeare Graduate Certificate

Amanda Giguere -Dramaturge

Rinde Eckert - Feste

Garreth Saxe - Malvolio

Jessica Robblee - Lady Olivia

Robert Sicular - Sir Toby Belch

Amber Scales - Viola/Cesario

Tim Orr - Director

Emma Messenger - Maria

Optional Additional Video Content

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
 at 
Coursera 
Admission Process

    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

    Other courses offered by Coursera

    – / –
    3 months
    Beginner
    – / –
    20 hours
    Beginner
    – / –
    2 months
    Beginner
    – / –
    3 months
    Beginner
    View Other 6715 CoursesRight Arrow Icon
    qna

    William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
     at 
    Coursera 

    Student Forum

    chatAnything you would want to ask experts?
    Write here...