Solid Performances: Theatricality on the Early Modern Stage (VS1) (U02384)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-3-U01491

This course offers the opportunity for students to engage with a number of early modern plays, masques and entertainments while exploring the significance of theatricality in both early modern and contemporary critical discourse. The course will introduce students to a range of dramatic writing from the early modern period, including work in a variety of forms and genres by Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Milton, Daniel and Shakespeare. These works will be examined primarily as performance texts, and attention will be paid to modes of staging in early modern England. It will seek to extend students' knowledge and understanding of the concept of theatrical performance, as that concept is developed both in the self-reflexive theatre of early modernity and in critical writing on that theatre from early modern and contemporary standpoints.

Entry Requirements

? This course is only available to part year visiting students.

? This course is a variant of the following course : U01491

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Students require the approval of EITHER the Visiting Undergraduate Admissions Office OR the head of English Literature before enrolling.

? Costs : Essential course texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	10:00	12:00	Room 2.05, 18 Buccleuch Place	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be expected to:
Have a working knowledge and understanding of early modern practices of theatrical performance;
Demonstrate a basic familiarity with early modern and contemporary theories of performance and performativity;
Be able to identify and analyse a variety of kinds of performance text;
Be able to critically assess a range of writing on early modern theatricality by modern and contemporary critics.