Undergraduate Course: Shakespeare's Middle Period (LLLG07047)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | THIS 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)
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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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.
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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.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
* Collaborative working.
* Group discussion.
* Composition of discursive essays.
* Understanding of interpersonal relationships. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Rachael King
Tel:
Email: Rachael.King@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk |
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