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 VI/I's mode of kingship affected Shakespeare's understanding of political life. |
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One course essay of 2,500 words (25%)
One examination essay of 3,000 words (75%)
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, students will have an overview of how Shakespeare's political thought developed across his career as a dramatist.
- In their work for this course, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and critical engagement with the core political ideas and preoccupations of Shakespeare's plays in a variety of genres.
- IIn their work for this course, students will have learned how Shakespeare's plays intervened in the key political debates of their time.
- In their work for this course, students will be able to demonstrate an awareness of the key critical debates elicited by Shakespeare's political drama.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to reflect constructively on the development of their own learning and research practice.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
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