Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare the Fabulous Politican (ENLI10118)
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 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course sets out to examine some of Shakespeare's plays from three directions: their portrayal of political agency, historical necessity, and social conflict; their complicity in the power structures of the society in which they were produced, i.e. Elizabethan and Jacobean England; the ways in which they have been subsequently used in different historical contexts for different ideological purposes. The course will explore characterisation, plotting and dramatic technique, and their possible meanings in the context of, for example, an absolutist monarchy, a declining feudal system, and increasing popular unrest in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Other issues will be addressed through viewings of film adaptations of the plays and a discussion of the ideological function of such adaptation. |
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | A MINIMUM of three college/university level literature courses at grade B or above (should include no more than one introductory level literature course). Related courses such as civilisation or creative writing are not considered for admissions to this course.
Applicants should also note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission. In making admissions decisions preference will be given to students who achieve above the minimum requirement with the typical visiting student admitted to this course having three to four literature classes at grade A.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Section directly for admission to this course **
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| Students who successfully complete the course will raise their awareness of how politics work within the fictional world of Shakespeare's plays, but also of the ways in which the plays can themselves have political effects. They will recognise how the plays can function as means of justifying or subverting certain conceptions of social order. They will be equipped to recognise how Shakespeare has been used, and is still used, to support certain conceptions of English and British identity; and how a study of Shakespeare's politics can contribute to understanding, not only Shakespeare's society, but also our own.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/Honours/ThirdYear/3rdYearHome.htm |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Williamson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
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