The Escape to the Green World: The Conflict Between Court and Country in Shakespeare's As You Like It
6-weeks | Registration closed 9/10/2025
This course will examine Shakespeare’s use of, and departure from, the pastoral tradition in As You Like It. Through close reading, discussion, and scenes from film adaptations, we will explore how the escape from the intrigues of court to the "green world” of the Forest of Arden creates a space for love, satire, disguise, self-awareness, and transformation.
Silvana Tropea
Silvana Tropea has taught Shakespeare, literature, and writing at various institutions, including Yale, The Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Queens, Hunter and Baruch Colleges, CUNY, The Juilliard School, and the Summer Shakespeare Course at the NY Public Theater. She has worked as a freelance writer and dramaturg and is currently an executive assistant and production researcher at a small, NY-based film company.