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Mercy College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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ENGL 243 - Shakespeare in Music & Drama


Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 112  or ENGL 192  / HONR 192 .
This is an interdisciplinary course that explores how selected plays of Shakespeare have inspired a stylistically rich variety of musical treatments. Beginning with an overview of how musical interpolations figured in Elizabethan productions, the course proceeds to an in-depth study of musical works immortalizing Shakespeare, from the earl nineteenth century to the present. No technical knowledge of music is required.



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