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106-109 Traditions of Shakespeare

Year 1 English.

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Marion Campbell.

Contact: 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.

Timetable: Second semester

Content:

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.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

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.

1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p53) : Next:106-110 | Prev:106-108

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p99) : Next:106-110 | Prev:106-108

106-109 Traditions of Shakespeare

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Marion Campbell.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: Second semester.

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; 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.