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3.00 Credits
Taught as ENGL 20310 "Shakespeare in Context" at host institution. Situating Shakespeare's plays in context and assessing how they both interrogate and reflect their particular historical moment, this course will privilege issues of political vicissitude, class conflict, gender transgression and racial anxiety as topics for discussion. Plays will include Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, "King Lear," "Othello" "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet." Focal points of study included suffering and redemption, the psychology of villainy and the vein of comedy within tragedy.
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6.00 Credits
Taught at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland
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3.00 Credits
This module will introduce you to a selection of outstanding works of the later Middle Ages, and in three principal genres, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry will be represented by a selection of tales from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, and by Piers Plowman, the work of Wiliam Langland. Drama will be represented by a selection of medieval mystery plays from the great civic cycle dramas. And prose will be represented by the Morte Darthur of Sir Thomas Malory and by the Book of Margery Kempe.
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10.00 Credits
EN 3475 Shakespeare and Sexuality at TCD; This is a two-semester module concerned with Shakespeare's representation of sexuality in a range of ten plays and the Sonnets. The issues to be discussed will include: proprietary patriarchy, love poetry and the construction of gender, death and desire, the comedy of courtship, oedipal desire, love and play, sexuality and sinfulness, love and war, male jealousy, sex and politics. While the course will largely involve close reading of the prescribed texts, there will be the opportunity to explore how feminism, psychoanalysis and gender studies have influenced our understanding of sexuality in Shakespeare in the modern period.
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3.00 Credits
One of London's (and New York's) main tourist attractions today is its theaters. In any one season, the choice of productions to see is well over 50 and varies from ancient Greek tragedies to the latest blockbuster musical. EN 248 : "Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama" examines the origin of this tradition in the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603), King James I (1603 - 1635) and Charles I (1635-1648). While Shakespeare was the dominant figure and became a very rich businessman by writing, playing and investing in 'entertainment', he was not alone. Up to fifteen other major writers competed for audiences. About 400 plays were produced over this period. In EN 248, we will examine a selection of the more successful plays (excluding Shakespeare), discussing the traditions, their political and social role in London at the time, the problem of 'subversive' sex and violence and authorities attempts to censor and shut down the theatres, and many other aspects of the 'Hollywood'/'Bollywood' on the banks of the Thames River.
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4.00 Credits
This course involved an in-depth study of the life and works of John Donne, ranging from early works like The Satyres and The Songs and Sonnets through The Holy Sonnets to his later prose works including sermons from his time as the Dean of St. Paul's. Methods of study included examination of sources and comparisons with the works of George Herbert and Richard Crashaw, as well as analysis of the development of the author's style over the course of his career. The course work consisted of reading the primary texts, extensive researching of the topics, and writing weekly 2,000 word essays to be discussed in tutorial.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the world of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer. It will focus on the reading and analysis of a selection of works by author. Key themes will be examined, as well as relevant aspects of the cultural context of his time and the links between Chaucer's work and the work of other influential authors of that period.
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3.00 Credits
The course will introduce the students to the close study of a range of Shakespeare's plays. It aims at achieving a deeper understanding of the nature of the Elizabethan stage, the significance of Shakespeare's use of the genres of history and comedy, the moral, social and political issues within the plays, and the use of language. Whilst the course seeks to place the Shakespearean text in its historical context, it will also explore the question why and how Shakespeare is relevant to us today through the analysis of contemporary performance. Thus, the course's second aim is to enable students to experience plays in the theatre and to encourage students to take an active position vis-a-vis performance by analysing it and writing reviews. The plays studied are chosen to parallel current productions of Shakespeare's plays in London and at Stratford-on-Avon. Film versions will also be used in a limited number of cases.
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1.50 Credits
Ways in which modern and post modern era continues to invest in the late Middle Ages, especially as these are represented in film. Study of texts from late medieval prose, poetry and drama and modern and postmodern film, this course sill clarify our present stance in relation to the medieval past.
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