LIT 311 - Shakespeare's Italians: Soldiers, Wives, Servants, Merchants, and Lovers

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Antioch University-Los Angeles

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Description:

This class focuses on seven Shakespeare plays set in Italy or in which Italy figures in some prominent way: Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Students read, view film clips or an entire play, and discuss the plays from a variety of critical perspectives. These include the political uses to which Shakespeare's "Italians" have been put in the past and the present. For each play, students examine aspects of craft, representations of power and control, as well as cautionary, subversive or liberating subtexts. Students are expected to read closely and to argue their ideas in writing, using judicious quotations in support of their claims. An acquaintance with Shakepeare's sources (such as Plutarch's Lives) and modern works that radically rewrite Shakespeare (such as Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête /A Tempest, and Arnold Wesker's Shylock and LadyOthello) expand the cultural horizon offered in this course. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antiochla.edu

Phone Number:

(310) 578-1080

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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