THET 250 Shakespeare from Page to Stage

This course focuses on reading, analyzing, and interpreting Shakespeare's plays as literary texts; understanding them as products of specific historical, cultural, and artistic currents, and as performance text meant for production. Emphasis is given to the process that transforms literary text through production, informed by literary and theatrical elements. This course is writing intensive.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary issues
   of aesthetics and creativity by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and
   stylistic characters.
2. 2. Articulate and evaluate the dramatic script and its structure, form, and style as it relates to
   issues of aesthetics, humanism, and meaning.
3. 3. Explain and demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring
   a Shakespearean play to production from acting, directing, and design perspectives.
4. 4. Develop techniques to pose and address questions for analyzing and evaluating scripts from
   diverse, modern, social, intellectual, and historical contexts in which Shakespeare’s plays
   were produced.
5. 5. Evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s plays to illuminate the human condition and
   the search for meaning.
   
6. 6. Perform basic research and use MLA-style documentation demonstrating the standard
   conventions for writing about theatre.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary issues
   of aesthetics and creativity by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and
   stylistic characters.
2. 2. Articulate and evaluate the dramatic script and its structure, form, and style as it relates to
   issues of aesthetics, humanism, and meaning.
3. 3. Explain and demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring
   a Shakespearean play to production from acting, directing, and design perspectives.
4. 4. Develop techniques to pose and address questions for analyzing and evaluating scripts from
   diverse, modern, social, intellectual, and historical contexts in which Shakespeare’s plays
   were produced.
5. 5. Evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s plays to illuminate the human condition and
   the search for meaning.
   
6. 6. Perform basic research and use MLA-style documentation demonstrating the standard
   conventions for writing about theatre.