Lehrende/r: Sandra Dinter
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar/Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 123
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Inhalt: Shakespeare wrote at a time in history when English colonialism was still in its infancy. Nevertheless, several of his plays revolve around the themes of cultural difference, race and power. Over the past thirty years, the field of postcolonial studies has brought forth a range of insightful approaches to these issues, which allow us to perceive Shakespeare’s oeuvre from a new perspective. This is precisely what this seminar intends to do: after an introduction to the basic tenets and concepts of postcolonial theory, we will investigate national, colonial and racial discourses in early modern England. This will serve as the backdrop for our subsequent discussions of Shakespeare’s Othello and The Tempest. We will not only read the original texts, but we will also consider more recent performances and adaptations, which all pick up the themes of colonialism and race and often explore them in entirely new contexts. The adaptations will include Murray Carlin’s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona (1969) and David Malouf’s Blood Relations (1988).
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