Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Acting Shakespeare
Term
2025A
Subject area
THAR
Section number only
401
Section ID
THAR2236401
Course number integer
2236
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Sarah J Doherty
Description
All the world’s a stage and Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed on it. In this open-level acting course we’ll explore the performance of three of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic works (Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet). We’ll dive deep into the language, verse, rhetoric, and dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s texts to create performances that are passionate, spontaneous, and real. Through acting exercises, text analysis, scene study, and vocal training, we will develop the skills needed to bring Shakespeare’s dramatic works to their most impactful life. Students will leave the course not only with techniques to perform and appreciate Shakespeare’s work, but with expressive tools that will serve them in all kinds of performance or public speaking.
Course number only
2236
Cross listings
ENGL2879401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No