AKN-322.03
AN-322.03, ANN-378.21, AKN-378.21, ZC-C07.06, ZAN-BS02.22, ANN-322.03
Recycling Plays: Inspiration, Adaptation and Appropriation (Ujraírt drámák: inspiráció, adaptáció és kisajátítás) in spring 2004
Zombory Erzsébet, Tue 12:00–13:30, ADS 234, host: DES (R338)
description & set texts
The seminar class will be devoted to the discussion of what can happen to a playtext when it is reinterpreted, rewritten, or adapted to another medium like film. The two pillars of the course will be Shakespeare, whose plays have long and varied afterlives, and Stoppard, famous for his adaptations of Shakespeare's, Wilde's, Molnár's etc. works.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and their later versions by Tate, Dryden, Barrie, Priestley, Marowitz, Berkoff etc.; - Stoppard, Rosencrantz ..., Travesties, Rough Crossing

requirements & assessment
active participation in discussions; 2 shorter papers during the term; one end-term paper of ca. 3OOO words.

on the basis of class work (2O%), shorter papers (total 4O%) and end-term paper (4O%).