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Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare's Middle Period (LLLG07047)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTHIS 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.
Course description 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)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
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.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills * Collaborative working.
* Group discussion.
* Composition of discursive essays.
* Understanding of interpersonal relationships.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Rachael King
Tel:
Email: Rachael.King@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Marie Craft
Tel: (0131 6)50 3943
Email: marie.craft@ed.ac.uk
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