Shakespeare on stage and screen 3700-AL-STF-OG

The subject’s purpose is to introduce the students to the issues of interpretation of Shakespearean texts through their selected film and stage adaptations. The teachers will focus on a selected group of plays, all of which will receive a close reading of selected scenes with the students. Then, a selected group of clips from the work adapting given scenes will become the subject of interpretation. The students will be encouraged to develop their own adaptation ideas, in order to understand the adaptation process in all its complexity and richness. This ability will also be tested in the final assignment.
The list of the plays will be consulted with the students. The preliminary list of topics reads as follows:
— The Problems of Film and Stage Adaptation
— The Tradition of Shakespearean Theatre and Shakespearean Film
— Key interpretations of Shakespeare in 20th century film and theatre
— Variety of adapting strategies in comedy, tragedy and historical plays
— „Hamlet”: Staging Doubt
— „Romeo and Juliet”: Staging Love
— „Othello”: Staging Jealousy
— Falstaff as Shakespearean hero in adapted plays
— „Macbeth”
— „Richard III” and „Henry V” in political context
The class is a lecture with elements of in-class discussion. The lecture will be richly illustrated with film clips, which will serve as discussion-starters for the lecturer and students. The key ingredient of the class will involve close reading of the plays.

Type of course

general courses

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) Do realizacji opisywanego przedmiotu nie jest konieczne wcześniejsze zaliczenie innych przedmiotów. Jedynym założeniem wstępnym jest znajomość przez studenta języka angielskiego, jako że wiele fragmentów filmowych prezentowanych w ramach zajęć nie będzie posiadać polskiego tłumaczenia.

Course coordinators

Michał Mizera
Michał Oleszczyk

Assessment criteria

The class will end with a final paper of a special kind. The students will be asked to prepare a set of „director’s notes” for an imagined staging of one of the plays we
discussed throughout the semester. The set of director’s notes ha sto testify to the student’s deep understanding of the text and of the adaptation process itself.

Bibliography

Literatura zalecana:

Peter Brook, Wywołując (i zapominając) Szekspira, Wrocław 2006

Alicja Helman, Twórcza zdrada: Filmowe adaptacje literatury, Poznań 1998.
Olga Katafiasz, Próby wrażliwości. Szekspirowskie ekranizacje Laurence'a Oliviera i Kennetha Branagha, Kraków 2005

Olga Katafiasz, Shakespeare I kino. Strategie adaptacyjne I ich konteksty społeczno-kulturowe, Kraków 2012.

Russell Jackson (red.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on film, Cambridge 2010.

Daniel Rosenthal, 100 Shakespeare Films, London 2007.

James Shapiro (red.), Shakespeare in America. An Anthology from the Revolution To Now, New York 2014.

Małgorzata Sugiera, Wariacje Szekspirowskie w powojennym dramacie europejskim, Kraków 1997

Shakespeare po polsku, red: M.Zelent, Ł.Jaroń, M.Pilas, Gdańsk 2016

Piotr Gruszczyński, Szekspir i uzurpator. Z Krzysztofem Warlikowskim rozmawia Piotr Gruszczyński, Warszawa 2007
Ślady Szekspira. Jego dzieło w literaturze i teatrze, Kraków 2018

Additional information

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