Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare's Middle Period (LLLG07047)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (LLC) |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course will explore a sequence of great plays from Shakespeare's Middle Period. Many of the plays we will study used to be grouped together as 'Problem Plays', but a greater recent awareness of their cultural context shows that these plays capture the mood of the times wonderfully, and continue to provide glorious entertainment and stimulus in the modern era. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 3, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 12 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
21/04/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* analyse the language and genres Shakespeare uses;
* explain the changing critical responses to this group of his plays;
* situate the plays in their social and cultural context.
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Assessment Information
2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth 100% of the total course mark. |
Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
Not entered |
Syllabus |
Weeks 1 and 2: Introduction to Middle Period Shakespeare and the dark humour of Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Weeks 3 and 4: The politics of pastoral: As You Like It (1600)
Weeks 5 and 6: Trojans, Greeks and Elizabethans: Troilus and Cressida (1601)
Weeks 7 and 8: A play for a new king: Measure for Measure (1604)
Weeks 9 and 10: Healing the Jacobean age: All's Well that Ends Well (1605-7)
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Transferable skills |
* Collaborative working.
* Group discussion.
* Composition of discursive essays.
* Understanding of interpersonal relationships. |
Reading list |
Essential
Greenblatt, Stephen ed., 1997. The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W. W. Norton.
Recommended
Duncan-Jones, Katherine 2010. Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. London: Arden.
Rossiter, A.P., 1989. Angel with Horns. London: Longman, 1989.
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Study Abroad |
Not entered |
Study Pattern |
Not entered |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Caroline Bamford
Tel: (0131 6)50 4322
Email: Caroline.Bamford@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk |
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