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 106-023 Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy

Note

Formerly available as 106-222/322. Students who have completed 106-222/322 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Ken Ruthven

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject will explore the variety within the genre 'tragedy' in two of its most significant manifestations, Greek and Shakespearean. The detailed study of particular plays, mainly in tutorials, will be combined with an attempt, mainly in lectures, to indicate the relevance of historical and theoretical considerations to the interpretation of these plays. Students who complete this subject successfully will have a close familiarity with a representative range of Greek and Shakespearean tragedies and be able to bring historically and theoretically informed ways of reading to the enterprise of interpretation.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Aeschylus, R Fagles (trans), The Oresteia. Penguin.
  • Euripides, Medea and Other Plays. Penguin.
  • Euripides, The Bacchae and Other Plays. Penguin.
  • Sophocles, Electra and Other Plays. Penguin.
  • Sophocles, R Fagles (trans), The Three Theban Plays. Penguin.
  • Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. OUP.
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet. OUP.
  • Shakespeare, King Lear. Penguin.
  • Shakespeare, Macbeth. OUP.
  • Shakespeare, Othello. OUP.
  • Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. Penguin.
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