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| DATOS IDENTIFICATIVOS | 2011_12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Asignatura | WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Y RENACIMIENTO INGLE | Código | 00408144 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 6 | Optativa | Quinto | Primero |
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| Departamento | FILOLOGIA MODERNA |
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Correo-e | jjlanf@unileon.es jlchag@unileon.es |
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| Descripción general |
"To offer a general overview of English Renaissance literature and society as background for a detailed study of a representative sample of Shakespeare´s works. " " |
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"To offer a general overview of English Renaissance literature and society as background for a detailed study of a representative sample of Shakespeare´s works. " " |
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Students are expected to participate actively throughout the course. Materials include the list of set readings and textbooks. The course format includes lectures and workshops (75%). The remaining workload (25 %) will be out-of-class: students are required to write a paper ( 1500 to 2000 words), which will count as 25 % of the final mark. " |
| Contenidos |
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| 1.- Shakespeare's life and career Shakespeare's home and family 2.- Shakespeare's fellow dramatists The uses of theatrical tradition Young Shakespeare and his fellows 3.- The language of Shakespeare Grammar: thou vs. you Vocabulary Pronounciation: the importance of rhythm 4.- Shakespeare's verse The pattern of blank verse Variations of the pattern Sentence and line Music and meaning 5.- The society of Shakespeare's England The court Those on the margins: witches, Jews, and Africans 6.- Changing attitudes towards religion Late medieval Catholicism Protestantism Politics, dynastic and religious 7.- Romantic comedies Theories of comedy Contexts of comedy Origins Humour Desire Twelfth Night, or What You Will 8.- English history plays The uses of history Nostalgia for a lost past Shakespeare's early history plays Shakespeare's later history plays Henry V 9.- Tragedies Causes of disaster Tragic scapegoats Tragedy and other genres The tragic hero Radical tragedies Macbeth 10.- Roman Plays The story of Rome Shakespeare and Rome Roman Values Political Institutions Men and gods Bodies on display Roman women Beyond Rome Julius Caesar 11.- Romances Romance and tragicomedy Tragicomedy, theatricality, and the court masque The Tempest 12.- Comical and tragical Troilus and Cressida 13.- Non-dramatic poetry Poetry and prestige Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece Shorter narrative poems Shakespeare's sonnets Structures and their complication Figures Speech Acts 14.- Shakespeare published Publishing a quarto Publishing the first Folio Facts and figures Editing What we call Shakespeare 15.- The Question of Authorship How we know that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare Alternative "Shakespeares" How we know what Shakespeare wrote |
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workshops and oral presentations. |
| Evaluación |
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- Paper: 60% - Exam: 30% - Attendance and participation: 10% For other ´convocatorias´ than February assessment will be based exclusively on the final exam (100%). |
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| Fuentes de información |
| Acceso a la Lista de lecturas de la asignatura |
| Básica | |
FOX, Alistair (1997) The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England. Oxford: Blackwell. GREENBLATT, Stephen (1988) Shakespearean Negotiations. HADFIELD, Andrew (2001) The English Renaissance, 1500-1620. Oxford: Blackwell. HUSSEY, S. (1982) The Literary Language of Shakespeare. London: Longman MUIR, Kenneth and S. Schoenbaum, eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge University Press. NORLAND, Howard B. (1995) Drama in Early Tudor Britain, 1485-1558. Lincoln: The University of Nrebraska Press. ROSTON, Murray (1982) Sixteenth-Century English Literature. London: Macmillan. SMIDT, K. (1982) Shakespeare´s Historical Plays. London: Macmillan. |
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"Set Readings: Venus and Adonis, Sonnets (a selection) Richard III King Lear Hamlet Much Ado About Nothing A Winter´s Tale " " |