Shakespeare on Screen: Part II

Continuing the journey into the Bard's indelible impact on cinema, you will look at adaptations and representations of Shakespeare on screen.

In the second part of our Shakespeare on Screen series, we examine the indelible impact on cinema of some of the Bard's most famous 17th Century plays, including Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. We will look at the ways the plays have been both recorded and reimagined for modern audiences, how the most epic tales have served as the inspiration for blockbusters and prestige television and how Shakespeare himself - about whom we know so little - has developed into a character in his own right. While we will be focusing on the second half of Shakespeare's career, you do not need to have attended Part One to enjoy this course.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Price: £80 / £70 conc / £65 Members

Tutor: Kenton Hall

Booking Information:

This 6 week course will run at Phoenix on Thursdays, 7pm – 8.30pm, from 15 October – 19 November 2026.

You must be 18 or over to attend.

Cancellation Policy:

We do not offer refunds for cancellations of bookings, except in exceptional circumstances. In the event that an advertised course is withdrawn, we will endeavour to give 7 days’ notice and a full refund will be made.

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ABOUT THE TUTOR

Kenton Hall is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, musician and teacher, with numerous short and feature film credits to his name – both behind and in front of the camera. Alongside his work as a novelist, screenwriter, musician and actor, he has taught The Art of Screenwriting here at Phoenix for more than a decade.



He wrote, directed and co-starred in the feature film A Dozen Summers, now available on Netflix; published the comic memoir Bisection, about living and parenting with bipolar disorder; co-wrote the Audible Drama Getting Better, starring Rhod Gilbert, Kathryn Drysdale and Mark Gatiss; co-adapted, for audio, the lost silent horror film London After Midnight starring Art Malik; and wrote the Doctor Who musical spin-off Children of the Circus and its novelisation. Somewhere in between he released the triple album Idiopath as Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures. He both looks and is tired.