This course focuses on how to read Shakespeare and how to analyze film. As we study three plays alongside their diverse cinematic adaptations, we will discuss Shakespeare’s great subjects, such as love, tyranny, revenge, and redemption, and consider how the page, the stage, and the screen mediate our experience of his drama. To develop skills in thinking critically and creatively about the relationship between text and performance, we will learn about the theatrical conventions of Shakespeare’s time, examine interpretive choices in our selected films, and make analyses and proposals of our own. Plays may be Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.