Course Contents
King Lear
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Merchant of Venice
Othello
Measure for Measure
All's Well that Ends Well
Love's Labour Lost
Merry Wives of Windsor
Taming of the Shrew
Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night
Much Ado about Nothing
Comedy of Errors
Safed Khoon by Agha Hashar Kashmiri (adaptation of King Lear)
Maqbool (adaptation of Macbeth)
Omkara (adaptation of Othello)
Course Synopsis
The course will give students a critical overview, through primary and secondary texts, of the different ways in which Shakespeare continues to be popular and relevant to readers, critics, audience, and performers across cultures. The students will be primarily introduced to tragedies, comedies, tragi-comedies and problem plays of Shakespeare. The course will also provide students interested in critical studies, translations and adaptations of Shakespeare around the globe, the necessary foundation for further research.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the coursework the students will have:
1. gained an understanding of the different ways in which Shakespearean plays are categorised
2. Acquired familiarity with the current debates on Shakespeare (feminist, post-colonial, psychoanalytic, and post-modern readings)
3. Gained a critical understanding of Shakespeare's works and his global legacy across various cultures
4. Acquired the background knowledge and critical skills necessary to analyse Shakespearean plays in the respective political, social, literary, and cultural context of their production
Ado-ing with Shakespearean metaphor
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The Smell of Macbeth
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Biblical Allusion and Allegory in "The Merchant of Venice"
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OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
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Making more of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race
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Othello and the "plain face" Of Racism
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Iago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello
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"Obscured by dreams": Race, Empire, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Exchanging Visions: Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Meaning of Court Marriage
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The Shakespeare Salesman
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Bollywood Adaptations of Shakespeare An Analysis of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Trilogy
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Book Title : The Genius of Shakespeare
Author : Jonathan Bate
Edition : 1998
Publisher : Picador
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Book Title : Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
Author : Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield
Edition : 2nd edition- 1994
Publisher : Manchester University Press
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Book Title : Bloom’s Modern Critical Views William Shakespeare: Co
Author : Harold Bloom
Edition : New Edition
Publisher : Bloom's Literary Criticism
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Book Title : Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic
Author : Anustup Basu
Edition : 2010
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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Title : Hamlet and his Problems
Type : Assignment
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Title : The tragedy of Hamlet
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in "Twelfth Night" and "The Merchant of Venice"
Type : Other
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Title : THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : Othello Circumcised: Shakespeare and the Pauline Discourse of Nations
Type : Other
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Title : The Grammardog Guide to The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare
Type : Other
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Title : William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure.
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : View of Justice in Shakespeare 's the Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure
Type : Other
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Title : William Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : William Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : Pageantry, Queens, and Housewives in the Two Texts of The Merry Wives of Windsor
Type : Other
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Title : William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew
Type : Curriculum Book
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Title : A cognitive approach to characterisation: Katherina in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
Type : Other
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Title : Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Title : Neil Gaiman’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Shakespeare Integrated into Popular Culture
Type : Other
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Title : SHAKESPEARE AND IMPURE AESTHETICS
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Title : Indigenizing Macbeth: Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool
Type : Other
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Title : The Advent of Sound in Indian Cinema : Theatre, Orientalism, Action, Magic
Type : Other
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