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.