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Module Title LM Shakespeare: Page and Stage
SchoolEng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department Shakespeare Institute
Module Code 09 39758
Module Lead Tiffany Stern
Level Masters Level
Credits 20
Semester Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions None
Contact Hours Lecture-10 hours
Seminar-15 hours
Guided independent study-175 hours
Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description Plays are written for the way they will be disseminated and performed. In ''Shakespeare: Page and Stage\" we will study documents by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and the plays to which they gave rise. We will consider the papers from which a play was constructed (including source texts and plot-scenarios); the papers from which a play was performed (including actors' parts, stage scrolls, prologues and epilogues, and backstage plots); and the papers into which a play sometimes resolved: printed texts. The result will be an understanding of early modern plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually, that will inform and complicate ideas about play-construction, performance, revision, and reception.
Learning Outcomes By the end of the module students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the theatrical, print and manuscript context of Shakespeare and his contemporaries;
  • Demonstrate advanced research skills in utilising primary documentary evidence to assess and evaluate plays;
  • Analyse plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries informed by an understanding of early modern playwriting and performance culture;
  • Analyse plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries informed by their understanding of current critical approaches to theatre history, book history, textual studies, material studies and literary criticism.
Assessment 39758-01 : Assignment 2 - 3000 word essay : Coursework (75%)
39758-02 : Assignment 1 - 1000 word essay : Coursework (25%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions Assessment:

Assessment:
1000 word document analysis (25%)
3000 word essay (75%).

Reassessment:

Failed component only
1000 word document analysis (25%)
3000 word essay (75%).
Other
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