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Module Title
LM Plays and Poems of Shakespeare A
School
Eng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department
Shakespeare Institute
Module Code
09 18455
Module Lead
Tiffany Stern
Level
Masters Level
Credits
20
Semester
Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
Compulsory for the MA Shakespeare Studies; optional for Ma Humanities Integrated Studies, MA English Literature and the new-route PhD in Shakespeare
Exclusions
Description
This module, looking at Shakespeare’s work in detail up to 1600, is designed to help you critically interrogate the early plays of Shakespeare, and to give you essential skills for discussing any play in depth. It will explore ‘page’ issues (how to read an edition; what quartos and folios are; book paratext; scansion; close-reading); stage issues (Shakespeare’s theatre and its history; Shakespeare’s actors and acting; performance paratext; music); and writing issues (Shakespeare’s chronology and sequencing; Shakespeare's development of themes).
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Demonstrate a sophisticated knowledge of selected early plays and poems by Shakespeare;
Demonstrate an understanding of chronology and its associated problems in the sixteenth-century;
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theatre and print context in which Shakespeare worked in the sixteenth-century;
Demonstrate an advanced ability to close-read selected early Shakespeare texts in stage-focused and page-focused ways.
Assessment
18455-01 : Assignment 1 1,000 word assignment : Coursework (50%)
18455-02 : Assignment 2 3,000 word essay : Coursework (50%)
