ENGL 931 - Shakespeare in England, Then and Now

FC ARHU

4 credits
Get the backstage tour of the Globe theater. Immerse yourself in the spaces and places of Elizabethan England. Check out the First Folio. Spend a day in Stratford-on-Avon. Watch cutting-edge productions that re-imagine Shakespeare for modern, multicultural London audiences. And, of course, read and discuss a broad selection of Shakespeare’s plays with your Oberlin peers. London offers unparalleled resources for studying Shakespeare in both historical and contemporary contexts; it is an ideal place to explore what the plays might have meant then, and what they can mean to us now. In addition to our core activities of studying the plays and seeing as many of them as possible in performance, we will often be out and about in London, exploring sites that provide various kinds of cultural context and insight.