Theater Arts - Acting Shakespeare

Acting Shakespeare (THTR 1167)

Total Credits: 2
Lecture Credits: 2.00

Description: This course provides you with a sound foundation for acting Shakespeare's plays and learning about Shakespeare's time: 15th-16th-century London, the language he spoke, and the stage he helped create on which his plays were originally performed. The course includes video instruction from the Royal Shakespeare Company; reading and discussion of Bard's scripts; writing your interpretations and personal responses in short essays; journaling; performing acting exercises using Shakespeare's sonnets, monologues, and scenes; and viewing/responding in writing to a local Shakespeare production.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Interpret and speak aloud Shakespearean verse and prose
2. 2. Create truthful Shakespearean characters onstage
3. 3. Perform with truth and conviction a character in a scene from a Shakespearean comedy
4. 4. Perform with truth and conviction a character in a scene from a Shakespearean tragedy
5. 5. Articulate a personal response in a written play review to a live Shakespeare play performance currently playing locally

Prerequisites: 

Placement score into READ 0200 or placement score into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.

MnTC: Goal 6