'Shakespeare Studies' is a course offered in Seventh Semester of B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
To create an awareness of social, political and cultural aspects of the Elizabethan age; to expose the learners to the distinctive features of the theatre and the audience of Shakespeare’s time; to introduce the students to Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and historical plays; to familiarize them to modern readings of Shakespeare.
Unit 1
Shakespeare studies from Dr. Johnson to the contemporary-Shakespeare in performance (Theatre and Film)-Social, political and cultural aspects of the Elizabethan age-Shakespearean theatre and its characteristics-Shakespeare as a landmark in the history of World Drama.
Unit 2
Shakespeare Adaptations
Howard Jacobson: Shylock is My Name.
Akira Kurosawa: Ran.
Vishal Bhardwaj: Maqbool.
Unit 3
Cultural Reading of Shakespeare
Longhurst, Derek. “Not for All Time, But for an Age: An Approach to Shakespeare Studies”.
Brown, Paul. “This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine:’ The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism.”
Dollimore, Jonathan. “Introduction: Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism”.
Loomba, Ania. “Shakespeare and Cultural Difference”.
Baker, Francis, Peter Hulme. “Nymphs and Reapers heavily vanish: The Discursive Contexts of The Tempest”.
Thompson, Ann. “King Lear and the Politics of Teaching Shakespeare”.
Unit 4
[Detailed]
King Lear.
The Tempest.
Unit 5
[Non-Detailed]
Julius Ceaser.
The Merchant of Venice.