What Impact Does a Musical Adaptation or Interpretation Have On the Original Text?

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A stimulating and academic exercise for students, this masterclass will require you to think about literature across various platforms - literary adaptation, close reading of Shakespeare's plays, consideration of spoken poetry vs. written text - through various sensory learning methods including music. Shakespeare is a compulsory module in the third year of the Oxford undergraduate English course, so would be of particular merit to students' applications for Oxbridge.

  • Host: Nicola is an English Language and Literature Graduate from the University of Oxford, where she studied a wide range of literature from Old English (c. 650-1350), through major authors including Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Whitman, Joyce, and many more, up to present-day writers such as Coetzee.Nicola has a special interest in Victorian and Modern literature, her research centred on Henry James and Virginia Woolf.

  • Suitability: Minds Underground™’s online World Literature & History masterclasses are aimed at, but not restricted to, students looking to study degrees in: English, History, English and History or Social Science courses.

  • Duration: Suggested 1-2 hour sessions dependent on the level of detail desired.

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