Undergraduate Course: Political Shakespeare (ENLI10347)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course examines the political questions that matter most within a range of primarily historical and tragic dramas written across Shakespeare¿s career. Its first part will focus on a sequence of early plays and it will consider how these works address the political divisions and dilemmas that dominated late Elizabethan culture. Its second part will examine the shared concerns of three plays, all written in close proximity at the end of the sixteenth century, with questions of succession, resistance, and the rise of a new form of political sovereignty. To conclude, the course will consider the impact of the Jacobean succession on Shakespeare¿s political thought and dramatic composition. It will consider how James¿s mode of kingship affected Shakespeare¿s understanding of political life. |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| By the end of the course, students will have an overview of how Shakespeare¿s political thought developed across his career as a dramatist and some of the core preoccupations of the plays. They will have learned how these plays absorb and intervene in the key political debates of their period of composition. Students will also have considered how different genres and different theatrical contexts affect the way in which the plays explore political ideas and arguments.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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