Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Much Ado about Nothing: in Performance
University of Birmingham and Royal Shakespeare Company
This online course explored how William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing is performed and interpreted, from its original staging to the modern day.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jacqui O’Hanlon
Director of Education
Royal Shakespeare Company
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss different interpretative choices in relation to Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing and the ways it has been performed from its original staging through to the present day.
- Compare different directorial approaches and concepts throughout the C20th using academic references and images.
- Explore the ways in which responses to text have altered over time and how directors and acting companies are performing Shakespeare's work for modern audiences.
- Interpret text in your own way after exploring the Director and Actors' approaches looking at key moments in the play.
Syllabus
- Shakespeare’s influences as a playwriting Actor
- The original performance of ‘Much Ado about Nothing’
- The darker side of ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ in the C20th and C21st
- The resolution of the play in modern performance
- Contemporary approaches to Beatrice and Benedick
- The influence of filming a production
- Exploring the Actors’ approaches to Beatrice and Benedick
- Interpreting key moments in the play and performance choices
Issued on 13th October 2016
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