12.5 1st year Marion Campbell. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week.

• Objectives: Students who complete this subject successfully:
• will be familiar with the theatrical and generic traditions that produced Shakespeare as an Elizabethan dramatist;
• will understand some of the literary and cultural traditions that Shakespeare's work inaugurated;
• will have a close understanding of selected plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and of some literary rewritings of them;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject aims to provide two main contexts for a study of Shakespeare: first, the dramatic traditions and theatrical practices that produced Shakespeare as an Elizabethan dramatist; and second, the literary and cultural traditions that his work inaugurated in subsequent centuries and in different national and political formations. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Carter A Wise Children Faber. Grenville K Lilian's Story Allen & Unwin. Marlowe C Dr Faustus World's Classics. Shakespeare W Hamlet World's Classics. Shakespeare W King Lear Penguin. Shakespeare W A Midsummer Night's Dream World's Classics. Shakespeare W Much Ado About Nothing World's Classics. Shakespeare W The Tempest World's Classics. Smiley J A Thousand Acres Flamingo. Tourneur C The Revenger's Tragedy Penguin. Course reader available from the department film screenings of Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Prospero's Books. 12.5 Marion Campbell. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will be familiar with the theatrical and generic traditions that produced Shakespeare as an Elizabethan dramatist;
• will understand some of the literary and cultural traditions that Shakespeare's work inaugurated;
• will have a close understanding of selected plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and of some literary rewritings of them;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject aims to provide two main contexts for a study of Shakespeare: first, the dramatic traditions and theatrical practices that produced Shakespeare as an Elizabethan dramatist; and second, the literary and cultural traditions that his work inaugurated in subsequent centuries and in different national and political formations. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Carter A Wise Children Faber. Grenville K Lilian's Story Allen & Unwin. Marlowe C Dr Faustus World's Classics. Shakespeare WHamlet World's Classics. Shakespeare WKing Lear Penguin. Shakespeare W A Midsummer Night's Dream World's Classics. Shakespeare WMuch Ado About Nothing World's Classics. Shakespeare WThe Tempest World's Classics. Smiley J A Thousand Acres Flamingo. Tourneur C The Revenger's Tragedy Penguin. Course reader available from the department film screenings of Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Prospero's Books.