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 106-254 Shakespearean Worlds

Note

Available as 106-354 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Robin Grove

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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