Syllabus SHAKESPEARES_THEATRE_ENGLISH

Study program Course Status of the course Year ECTS credits Teacher DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE ELECTIVE 2016./2017 Semester DOC.DR.SC VESNA UKIĆ KOŠTA VI e-mail consultation hours Associate / assistant e-mail Consultation hours Place of teaching Teaching methods Teaching workload Lectures + Seminars + Exercises MONIKA BREGOVIĆ mbregov@unizd.hr LECTURES/ SEMINARS 2+1+0 WRITTEN EXAMS (MIDTERM, ENTERM), FINAL WRITTEN EXAM Examination methods Start date Colloquia Examination period Learning outcomes Enrolment prerequisites Course subject Required reading term End date term term term term term term term • • • • • • The ability to analyse and interpret theatre and performance The ability to think critically The ability to research independantly The ability to share ideas with peers The ability to present ideas clearly in speaking and writing The ability to use the web as a source of research and information Students should be enrolled in the 6th semester The course provides an introduction into the work of one of the most important playwrights of the period of Renaissance – William Shakespeare During the course, the students will study a selection of Shakespeare's plays, and acquire a set of methods and skills necessary for the analysis of theatre and performance The students will also become acquainted with contemporary approaches to the study of Renaissance theatre, such as new historicism, postcolonial criticism, and psychoanalysis Plays and poetry: “The Complete Pelican Shakespeare” Eds Orgel, Stephen and Braunmuller A R New York: Penguin Classics 2002 Critical reading: Abraham, Nicolas, and Maria Torok: “The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994 Carlson, Marvin: “Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present” New York: Cornell University Press Dollimore, Jonathan: “Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism” New York: Cornell University Press 1994 Freud, Sigmund: “The Interpretation of Dreams” New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 Kott, Jan: “Shakespeare our Contemporary” New York: W W Norton & Company 1974 Loomba, Ania: “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism” Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 Matijašević, Željka: “Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde” Zagreb: Leykam 2011 Montrose, Louis: “The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996 Orgel, Stephen: “Imagining Shakespeare” New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 “Shakespeare: King Lear A Casebook”, Ed Frank Kermode New York: Palgrave Macmillan 1992 “Sidney's The Defense of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism” Penguin: London 2004 “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare”, Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 Additional reading Drakakis, John: “Alternative Shakespeares”, Taylor & Francis eLibrary, 2006 Dolimore, Jonathan: “Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries” New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010 Greenblatt, Stephen: “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” New York: W.W Norton Internet resources Quality assurance Conditions for obtaining signatures Student surveys A minimum of 80 % class attendance; oral presentations ECTS – attendance ECTS – class participation and oral presentations ECTS – preparation for written exams Assignments of the credits for colloquia, seminars, exercises, exams Assignments of the final grade Remarks GRADING SCALE: < 60 % >= 60 % > 71 % > 81 % > 91 % Fail D C B A The final grade will be based on class participation (20%), and two written exams (40% each) If they fail the midterm or the endterm exam, the students can take the final written exam - Teaching topics - lectures No Date Title Introductory lecture / Course overview Elizabethant theatre in context The theatre of William Shakespeare Literature “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 ; “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.; “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta Shakespeare's sonnets “Hamlet” “Hamlet” Abraham, Nicolas, and Maria Torok: “The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994 “King Lear” Kott, Jan: “Shakespeare our Contemporary” New York: W W Norton & Company 1974 “King Lear” “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 Kermode, Frank (ed), “Shakespeare: King Lear”, 1969 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 “The New Cambridge Companion to “Richard III” 10 and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Ur Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 Matijašević, Željka: “Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde” Zagreb: Leykam 2011 Freud, Sigmund: “The Interpretation of Dreams” New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 “Richard III” Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 “A Midsummer Night's Dream” Dollimore, Jonathan: “Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism” New York: Cornell University Press 1994 11 “A Midsummer Night's Dream” “Antony and Cleopatra” Loomba, Ania: “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism” Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 “Antony and Cleopatra” Loomba, Ania: “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism” Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 13 14 Seminars Kott, Jan: “Shakespeare our Contemporary” New York: W W Norton & Company 1974 Montrose, Louis: “The Purpose of Playing Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996 12 15 Orgel, Stephen: “Imagining Shakespeare” New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003 Closing lecture No Date Title Elizabethant theatre in context “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Ur Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 ; “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 The theatre of William Shakespeare “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Ur Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.; “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Ur Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 Matijašević, Željka: “Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde” Zagreb: Leykam 2011 Freud, Sigmund: “The Interpretation of Dreams” New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 Shakespeare's sonnets “Hamlet” Literature Introductory lecture / Course overview “Hamlet” Abraham, Nicolas, and Maria Torok: “The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994 “King Lear” Kott, Jan: “Shakespeare our Contemporary” New York: W W Norton & Company 1974 “King Lear” “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 Kermode, Frank (ed), “Shakespeare: King Lear“, 1969 “Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide” Eds Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 “Richard III” “Richard III” “The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare” Eds de Grazia, Margareta and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 “A Midsummer Night's Dream” Orgel, Stephen: “Imagining Shakespeare” New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003 10 11 12 “A Midsummer Night's Dream” Dollimore, Jonathan: “Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism” New York: Cornell University Press 1994 Kott, Jan: “Shakespeare our Contemporary” New York: W W Norton & Company 1974 Montrose, Louis: “The Purpose of Playing Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre” Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996 “Antony and Cleopatra” 13 “Antony and Cleopatra” 14 Loomba, Ania: “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism” Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 Loomba, Ania: “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism” Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 Closing lecture 15 Exercises No 10 11 12 13 14 15 Date Title Literature Teacher: Monika Bregović