Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare Adapted (ENLI10304)
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 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will consider how Shakespeare's plays have been adapted and appropriated by a range of modern and postmodern writers and filmmakers. The cultural prestige enjoyed by Shakespeare's works has long inspired other artists to appropriate and re-interpret their narrative and thematic concerns. This course will examine some of the principal ways in which this has occurred. It will analyse the motives involved in reshaping and rewriting Shakespeare's works in a variety of contexts. The course will consider the ways in which texts "talk back" to Shakespeare's plays by addressing perceived gaps or silences, by adopting the viewpoint of marginal characters, or by extending their implications in alternative temporal or cultural circumstances. Particular attention will be paid to theoretical understanding of adaptation and appropriation as well as to critical and creative approaches deriving from Marxism, postcolonialism, feminism and queer theory. The course will concentrate on the legacy of four plays: Richard III, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 15 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s): attendance for one hour a week at Autonomous Learning Group - at times to be arranged. |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
75 %,
Coursework
25 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to
- critically assess the range of ways in which Shakespeare=s plays have been appropriated in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- understand and use appropriately the critical vocabulary for analysing practices of adaptation and appropriation
- show an awareness of relevant intellectual and historical contexts
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Assessment Information
One term essay (c. 2500 words) (25%);
and one take-away exam essay (c. 3000 words) (75%). |
Special Arrangements
| Numbers are limited, with priority given to students taking degrees involving English or Scottish Literature and Visiting Students placed by the Admissions Office. Students not in these categories need the written approval of the Head of English Literature before enrolling. In the case of excess applications places will be decided by ballot. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Shakespeare, adaptation, appropriation |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
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