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Lehrende/r: Michael A.C. Claridge
Veranstaltungsart:
Lehrveranstaltung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.874.900
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
4,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
NOTE: REGISTRATION for this course will take place NOT via Jogustine but direct via Michael Claridge, on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. The final date for registration will be either 22nd April, 2022 or when all 20 places have been filled, whichever happens first!
This annual excursion seminar usually takes place physically in London, with walks to important places from Shakespeare’s time, workshops and performances at Shakespeare’s Globe, and absorbing London culture the English language. We stay in a student hostel close to St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London…
However, any decisions about possible accommodation in London as well as on-site or virtual workshops with Shakespeare’s Globe must be taken by March, but Covid-19 (and especially the Delta and Omicron variants) has rendered it impossible to make any relatively reliable predictions about conditions in London in August 2022. As a result, an actual, physical excursion to London is sadly not feasible this year. Instead, we will go on a ‘virtual excursion’, scheduled to take place with physical presence in face-to-face (or ‘mask-to-mask’?!) form on the JGU campus over eight days: 10 a.m. to ca. 5 p.m. on Saturday, 13th August plus Monday 15th to Saturday 20th August (following the pattern of the highly successful ‘virtual excursion’ in August 2021, when we worked in the courtyard outside the Philosophicum). We will be assisted by professionals from Shakespeare’s Globe, London in interactive, hands-on web seminars and web workshops.
In the course of the eight days, we will
· locate and get to know important parts of and places in London for Shakespeare and his fellow-Londoners, using participants’ mini-briefing papers to enable us to ‘see’ how much of this is in fact still there today, and learning about the effect and influence of Elizabethan London’s history on the works of Shakespeare and his fellow-writers;
· acquire a working acquaintance with how sixteenth-century Elizabethan theatre functioned, through familiarization with the open-to-the-elements Globe space and the indoor Blackfriars-type theatre used by Shakespeare, together with the advantages and disadvantages of acting in these forms of buildings, and the consequences all this had for playwrights, actors and audiences alike;
· gain hands-on experience of performing Shakespeare-period plays using extracts from Shakespeare’s plays (especially with intensive hands-on small-group work on one particular play – details to follow), watching two performances at Shakespeare’s Globe, and enjoying hands-on, very practical web workshops with practitioners from the Globe to experience how actors in Shakespeare’s day will have tackled a play;
· experience total immersion in English, which will boost self-confidence in using the language.
Since this is a Summer School, there is a wide range of options regarding the type of seminar you can take this class as:
BA students can take the course as ELCs 123, 131, 211 or 313
BEd students can take it as ELC 131 or 313
MA students can take it as ELC 512 or 521, or alternatively as an elective
MEd students can take it as ELC 211, ELC 512 (with the essay as module-exam form), or 521.
Interested? Please contact Michael Claridge at mclaridg@uni-mainz.de as soon as possible for more information!
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