Lehrende/r: Mirjam Haas
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 210
Inhalt: POLONIUS: […] What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. (Shakespeare, Hamlet 2.2.188-89) In this seminar, we will think about what it is that constitutes communication in early modern drama. Is it only “[w]ords, words, words,” or are there other modes of communication we can “read”? We will loosely follow Farah Karim Cooper and Tiffany Stern’s Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance (2013), discussing communication in the wider context of the theatre as language, sound, body language, smell, theatrical as well as genre-specific expectation and convention, etc. In the final sessions, we will also have a look at how early modern theatre itself can act as communication in more recent drama (e.g. in Tom Stoppard’s or Mike Bartlett's work). The basic text for this seminar will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1599), but each presentation group will have to read and present on one additional early modern play from authors such as Marlowe, Lyly, Middleton, etc. The additional texts will be announced in the first session and all students will read excerpts from said plays on a weekly basis.
Empfohlene Literatur: Please buy and read this edition: Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, revised edition, Bloomsbury, 2016. ISBN 9781472518385 Some of the (additional) texts may also be available via https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com.
Zusätzliche Informationen: Please be aware that this is a reading-intensive course; there will be weekly assignments and all students will hand in a short written work over the semester as well as take minutes. Additional texts will be provided on https://moodle.uni-mainz.de. Attendance in the first session is mandatory.
