Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Love (LLLG07084)

Course Outline
School	Centre for Open Learning	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Some of the greatest Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies revolve around conflicts between love and duty, accepted forms of sexuality versus transgressive ones, and between jealousy and trust. This course will examine some of the superb tragedies written during this period, focusing on the unruly passion of love.
Course description	This course will examine key dramas such as Marlowe's Edward II (c.1592); Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c.1596), Othello (1602-4), and Anthony and Cleopatra (1606-7). The course will conclude with one of the finest Jacobean tragedies on this theme, Middleton's The Changeling (1622).

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Appreciate the special characteristics of the love tragendy sub-genre Understand the developments of the genre from 1590 to 1625 Analyse the works covered in their cultural and historical contexts