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 106-037 Shakespearean Worlds

Note

Formerly available as 106-254/354. Students who have completed 106-254/354 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Robin Grove

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

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

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. Students should complete the subject with a knowledge of a range of Shakespearean texts and context; having developed some understanding of changing cultural forces active within the plays; and having gained some understanding of shifting critical appraisals of Shakespeare.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

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