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106-433 Shakespearean Transformations

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Peter Steele.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:

• read with precision Shakespeare's text;
• understand the major ways in which his imagination is gripped by change;
• see the bearing on this of several critical approaches;
• generate original ways of addressing change in Shakespeare.

Content:

This subject explores the centrality of change in Shakespeare's work, and the kinds of change that work represents. Social milieu, imagination, genre, and the life of the language will be addressed.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Ovid Metamorphoses trans. M M Innes Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Sonnets and Narrative Poems Penguin
• Shakespeare W Antony and Cleopatra Penguin
• Shakespeare W As You Like It Penguin
• Shakespeare W A Midsummer Night's Dream Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Tempest Penguin
• Shakespeare W Julius Caesar Penguin
• Shakespeare W King Lear Penguin
• Shakespeare W Troilus and Cressida Penguin
• Shakespeare W The Winter's Tale Penguin
• Shakespeare W Henry IV Pts I & II Penguin
• Shakespeare W Hamlet Norton Critical Edition

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 59)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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