{"id":409,"date":"2019-05-23T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/?p=409"},"modified":"2019-05-23T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:12:47","slug":"i-like-this-place-and-could-willingly-waste-my-time-in-it-as-you-like-it-shakespeares-london-in-london-zoe-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/2019\/05\/23\/i-like-this-place-and-could-willingly-waste-my-time-in-it-as-you-like-it-shakespeares-london-in-london-zoe-kaplan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI like this place and could willingly waste my time in it\u201d (As You Like It): Shakespeare\u2019s London in London – Zoe Kaplan"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I chose King\u2019s College was for its Shakespeare\u2019s London course. I have loved Shakespeare since I first performed in A Midsummer Night\u2019s<\/em> Dream<\/em> as a fourth grader. I went to summer Shakespeare camp to act in his plays, read the core texts in high school and college courses, and directed a production of his work this past summer. Yet Shakespeare\u2019s London offered the opportunity to delve into Shakespeare\u2019s work and world in a way I\u2019d never seen before. The module utilizes the space and place it\u2019s taught in, focusing on how the city of London informed and reflected Shakespeare\u2019s work. I stopped the conventional academic strategy of simply looking for meaning in his texts; instead, I worked with peers and lecturers to understanding how <\/em>these texts would have been performed during Shakespeare\u2019s time. Every play, no matter how familiar I was with it, transformed as we looked at its societal context.<\/p>\n

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This module went above and beyond in exploring how place is pervasive in Shakespeare\u2019s work. Three times during the semester, the class traveled to the current Globe theatre. In the mornings, we heard from lecturers with experience working at the Globe, listening to stories about traditional costuming on the modern stage or reviving instruments of Shakespeare\u2019s time. These lecturers brought in physical objects for us to examine, use, and even wear\u2014with the help of the lecturer, my classmates and I dressed two male students in costumes used in past Globe productions. In the afternoons of these times, we moved away from academic lectures to the physical and vocal, practicing acting exercises and even reading monologues on the Globe stage.<\/p>\n

I can confidently say that performing Hamlet\u2019s lines on the Globe stage was my favorite, most exciting moment of my time abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the end of this module, I was able to engage with Shakespeare\u2019s work using a plethora of incredible academic resources that grounded the plays in the early modern context. Finishing this essay felt like a product of years of love for Shakespeare molded and shaped through a new, engaging academic lens. I\u2019m so fond of the essay I wrote for my final that I am now expanding on this topic for a thesis at my home university. Next year, I will spend both semesters researching and writing about women\u2019s agency in Shakespeare\u2019s work and early modern London; I would never have the ability to undertake such a project without the King\u2019s module.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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