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Instructors: Michael A.C. Claridge
Event type:
Course
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.900
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
4,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 40
Requirements / organisational issues:
Summer School: Excursion to “Shakespeare’s London & Shakespeare’s Globe”, 7th-14th August, 2021
NOTE: REGISTRATION for this course will take place NOT via Jogustine but direct via Michael, on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. The final date for registration will be either 16th April, 2021 or when all 40 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…
Sadly, Covid-19 has rendered an actual, physical excursion to London impossible for August 2021. Instead, we will go on a ‘virtual excursion’, taking place physically on the JGU campus over eight days: 10 a.m. to ca. 5 p.m. on Saturday, 7th August plus Monday 9th to Saturday 14th August. 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, ‘seeing’ 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 theatre functions (acting and directing), especially in the case of sixteenth-century Elizabethan theatre, 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;
· gain hands-on experience of performing Shakespeare-period plays using extracts from Shakespeare’s plays (including intensive work on The Tempest), 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 for more!
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