106-037 Shakespearean Worlds

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106-037 Shakespearean Worlds
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
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 held during 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 contexts; having developed some understanding of changing cultural forces active within the plays; and having gained some understanding of shifting critical appraisals of Shakespeare.
Assessment	An essay of 1500 words 40% (due mid-semester) and an essay of 2500 words 60% (due at the end of semester).
Prescribed Texts	A subject reader will be available. Shakespeare, Macbeth. World's Classics. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. World's Classics. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. World's Classics. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. World's Classics. Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra. World's Classics. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. World's Classics. Shakespeare, King Lear. World's Classics.

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