Student Authored Projects Option 3

To embolden future students to engage critically and creatively with Shakespeare, this section of the book brings together two outstanding “Option 3” Shakespeare and/as Adaptation final projects.

Students who selected this project option compared Shakespeare to one of his source texts, in order to explore how Shakespeare himself used old texts and stories to say new things to his early modern audience.

In this section, essays by J. Copple and E.N. Mobley explore Shakespeare’s early modern engagements with gender and sexuality by considering Hamlet as an adaptation of the Historica Danica, a 12th century chronicle history by Saxo Grammaticus.