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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-254/354 Shakespearean Worlds

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Robin Grove

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

This subject explores the phenomenon called 'Shakespeare', situating individual texts in their cultural contexts, both Renaissance and contemporary. Amongst topics to be considered are playhouses and playwriting, Elizabethan cosmologies, politics and sexuality, audiences and actors.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

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