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106-254/354 Shakespearean Worlds

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator: Robin Grove.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

• Objectives: Students who complete this subject successfully will:
• have explored a range of Shakespearean texts and contexts, so as to develop some understanding of changing cultural forces active within the plays;
• have gained some understanding of shifting critical appraisals of Shakespeare, especially in Australian academies over the past 130 years;
• have developed some practical skills in pursuing collaborative research and in writing both discursive and imaginative pieces relevant to the subject.

Timetable: First semester

Content:

This subject explores the phenomenon called 'Shakespeare', situating individual texts in their cultural contexts, both Renaissance and contemporary.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Shakespeare W A Midsummer Night's Dream Penguin
• Shakespeare W Twelfth Night Penguin
• Shakespeare W Hamlet Penguin
• Shakespeare W Measure for Measure Penguin
• Shakespeare W Macbeth Penguin
• Shakespeare W King Lear Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Winter's Tale Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Tempest Penguin
• Shakespeare W Antony and Cleopatra Penguin

1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p55) : Next:106-263 | Prev:106-250

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-263 | Prev:106-250

106-254/354 Shakespearean Worlds

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Robin Grove.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have explored a range of Shakespearean texts and contexts, so as to develop some understanding of changing cultural forces active within the plays;
• have gained some understanding of shifting critical appraisals of Shakespeare, especially in Australian academies over the past 130 years; and
• have developed some practical skills in pursuing collaborative research and in writing both discursive and imaginative pieces relevant to the subject.

Content:

This subject explores the phenomenon called "Shakespeare", situating individual texts in their cultural contexts, both Renaissance and contemporary.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Shakespeare W A Midsummer Night's Dream Penguin
• Shakespeare W Twelfth Night Penguin
• Shakespeare W Hamlet Penguin
• Shakespeare W Measure for Measure Penguin
• Shakespeare W Macbeth Penguin
• Shakespeare W King Lear Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Winter's Tale Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Tempest Penguin
• Shakespeare W Antony and Cleopatra Penguin

* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-263 | Prev:106-250

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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