William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy and Community

This course introduces and explores William Shakespeare’s classic comedy, Twelfth Night. Interviews with actors who appeared in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 production of Twelfth Night, as well as lectures by scholars and theater professionals who work and teach at the University of Colorado Boulder, offer students insight into Shakespeare’s artistic vision and its applications. Exploring Shakespeare’s language, his characters, his humor and his world view, the lectures, interviews,

• Engage with Shakespeare’s language, characters, and narrative complexity
• Understand key interpretive questions for readers, actors, and scholars
• Enhance appreciation of Shakespeare’s humor and human insight
• Interpret and create inspired by Shakespeare’s works