通俗文化中的莎士比亞

臺北科技大學 115-1 學期課程，課號 365402。

課程大綱

在世界頂尖藝術家和作家的匯聚——高雅文化領域——沒有哪位英國作家比莎士比亞更重要。受過教育的人——不僅在西方，而且在世界各地——都會閱讀和研究莎士比亞的作品。莎士比亞至今仍享有盛名且廣受歡迎的原因之一，在於他的故事和人物影響了其他與高雅文化和通俗文化相關的藝術家——包括被視為偉大藝術家的畫家、作家、詩人、古典音樂作曲家；以及因流行文化而聲名鵲起的電影製作人、電視劇編劇、漫畫家和流行歌曲作詞人。本課程將向學生介紹莎士比亞原作中一些最重要的故事、人物和引語，並著重探討這些作品如何被其他藝術家和流行文化（包括西方和亞洲）改編和重新詮釋，例如現代舞台劇以及不同類型的新作品（電影、音樂劇、流行歌曲、動漫）。 In high culture – the collection of the world’s greatest artists and writers – there is no more important English writer than Shakespeare. Educated people – not just in the West, but all over the world – read and study Shakespeare. But one reason that Shakespeare remains today not only famous but popular is that his stories and characters have influenced other artists associated with both high and low culture – painters, writers, poets, and classical composers regarded as great artists themselves; and film makers, tv show writers, comic book artists, and pop song lyricists whose fame comes from the world of popular culture. This class will introduce students to some of the most important stories, characters, quotations in Shakespeare’s original plays – but with an eye toward how those works have been adapted and re-imagined by other artists and in popular culture (in the West and in Asia), as modern staged plays but also as new works in different genres (movies, musicals, pop songs, anime).

課程進度

Week 1 Intro Week 2 Background on Shakespeare and his time (the Elizabethan period) Weeks 3-7 Romeo and Juliet on stage in movies in Japanese anime in song lyrics Week 8 Midterm exam week Weeks 9-11 Hamlet in popular culture Week 12-15 Student presentations on favorite Shakespearean pop culture Week 16 Review and Reflections (Final exam week) Weeks 17-18 Self-Study weeks Make a video reflecting on the semester’s readings and on the benefits / difficulties of studying Shakespeare and pop culture as an ESL student.

評量方式

Grades: Midterm 50% Final 50% ***Any missing assignments during Weeks 17 and 18 will result in a failing grade. Attendance: a combination of 3 absences or late days or classwork zeroes = -10 points from course grade a combination of 4 absences or late days or classwork zeroes = failing course grade Response pages / videos: each missing/late paper = -10 points from course grade NO LATE PAPERS/VIDEOS WILL BE ACCEPTED Plagiarized papers/videos, papers/videos previously submitted to other classes, and/or AI-generated papers/videos will receive a failing grade.

教材

【遵守智慧財產權觀念，請使用正版教科書，不得使用非法影印教科書】 使用外文原文書：否 Texts: course book