The module will include partial focus on Dr Hatfull's own experience as the artistic director of Partners Rapt, allowing you to interface directly with a Shakespearean creative. (clockwise): Devon Glover Reduced Shakespeare Company Spymonkey Tim Crouch Impromptu Shakespeare Paul Prescott. The workshop will include relaxation and warm-up exercises, games and writing activities intended to stimulate your creativity and complement the module's focus on interdisciplinary. This will be followed by a practical workshop, in which you will have the opportunity to explore extracts from Shakespearean texts and adaptations and devise your own creative responses to the playwright's work.

Each seminar will open with a roundtable discussion of the week's thematic focus and set reading/viewing. Local / Global Shakespearience consists of nine two-hour seminars and one performance field trip to a UK Shakespeare production. The dissemination of performance across cultures and technologies will be a key consideration of the module and, as a result, you will work in real time on a group project, create your own podcast episode and share the development of creative and academic materials. You will also be invited to explore notions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and the impact of technological innovation on the development of interdisciplinary performance forms. You will interrogate how Shakespeare, as a global playwright, can be indigenised and used as a platform for community identity and as a tool to explore contemporary issues of politics, race, class, gender and culture. This impact is felt on both global and local levels and, on this module, you will have the opportunity to engage with key artists who adapt Shakespeare within such local and global contexts, including climate activists, film-makers, graphic novelists and podcasters. The playwright's characters, language and plot are woven into the fabric of modern popular culture and, since he set quill to parchment in sixteenth-century England, his stories have travelled across the world, impacting on the lives of countless communities and individuals.

If you've ever watched The Lion King or Black Panther, or listened to Taylor Swift or Hamilton, then you've experienced Shakespeare.

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