GREEK AND SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY 16.7 2nd and 3rd year Tim Kelly. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:
  • will have a close familiarity with a representative range of Greek and Shakespearean tragedies;
  • will have an informed understanding of the variety within the genre 'tragedy', as developed through its two most important historical manifestations;
  • will be able to bring theoretically informed ways of reading to the enterprise of interpretation.
This subject is a study of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, taking into account some of the ways in which traditional interpretations may be modified by recent historical and theoretical considerations. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Aeschylus The Oresteia trans. R Fagles Penguin Euripides Medea and Other Plays Penguin Euripides The Bacchae and Other Plays Penguin Homer The Iliad OUP Sophocles Electra and Other Plays Penguin Sophocles The Three Theban Plays trans. R Fagles Penguin Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Signet Shakespeare Coriolanus Signet Shakespeare Hamlet Everyman Shakespeare King Lear Signet Shakespeare Macbeth Signet Shakespeare Othello CUP Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Signet GREEK AND SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY 16.7 Tim Kelly. First semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:
  • will have a close familiarity with a representative range of Greek and Shakespearean tragedies;
  • will have an informed understanding of the variety within the genre "tragedy", as developed through its two most important historical manifestations; and
  • will be able to bring theoretically informed ways of reading to the enterprise of interpretation.
This subject is a study of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, taking into account some of the ways in which traditional interpretations may be modified by recent historical and theoretical considerations. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Aeschylus The Oresteia trans. R Fagles Penguin Euripides Medea and Other Plays Penguin Euripides The Bacchae and Other Plays Penguin Homer The Iliad OUP Sophocles Electra and Other Plays Penguin Sophocles The Three Theban Plays trans. R Fagles Penguin Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Signet Shakespeare Coriolanus Signet Shakespeare Hamlet Everyman Shakespeare King Lear Signet Shakespeare Macbeth Signet Shakespeare Othello CUP Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Signet