DTH 4003 Playing Shakespeare
This advanced level course will provide tools and techniques to approach Shakespeare's plays and poems, to explore historical and cultural contexts and to appreciate thematic, dramatic and critical concerns. The course will be built around a "laboratory" in which the ideas discussed in the classroom will guide physical and vocal explorations of Shakespeare texts. Students will practice analysis of text, grammar and meaning, sound and breath, verse and rhythm; exploration of character and relationship. Students will prepare and present a series of sonnets, monologues and scenes for exploration and development. Permission by audition, faculty consent.