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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : Lifelong Learning (LLC)

Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare's Middle Period (LLLG07047)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLifelong Learning (LLC) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTHIS 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 Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 3, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 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 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
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.
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)
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.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Caroline Bamford
Tel: (0131 6)50 4322
Email: Caroline.Bamford@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk
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