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Lehrende/r: Michael A.C. Claridge
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
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05.874.313
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: ELC 313
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Who were the Londoners who so inspired William Shakespeare in the latter part of his life, and also his fellow-dramatists? What do we know of Londoners’ lives, loves – and deaths (‘jig’ can refer both to normal dancing and also to ‘dancing’ at the end of the hangman’s noose, after all…)? How did they eat, work and dress (in 1599, while writing Hamlet and Henry V, Shakespeare was lodging with a French wigmaker in Silver Street)? How did the City of London function? How did the various social ranks interact? What entertainment was there? How were women treated? What could ‘aliens’ and ‘foreigners’ expect from Londoners? And how did all of this find its way into the theatre of the time?
Using a combination of mini-presentations (written and spoken), close readings and an in-depth examination of Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613?), we will tease out this information and, at the same time, start posing some challenging questions that will form the basis of potential term-paper theses.
At the time of writing, I am assuming we will be meeting on campus for our full-group weekly sessions. In addition to your individual research and preparation, small teams will also engage in weekly discussion outside the formal class-hour of questions relating to A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to throw up ideas and alternatives regarding the play itself and how theatre functioned at the time – including the use of drama to propagate ideas and criticize contemporary society. Where possible, teams will meet physically. I hope to know by the 2nd registration phase whether we can meet on campus.
Regarding presentations, knowledge of PowerPoint is NOT necessary, although you may use it if you wish. Handouts will be required. If we have to shift the seminar online, you will need a functioning webcam for your own presentations; functioning microphones will also be necessary for online class sessions (ideally together with a functioning webcam).
If you have already taken my Seminar 123 on Shakespeare’s London and/or the Elizabethan Worldview, you will notice a little overlap; however, our focus will be on the transition from Elizabeth I to James I, a later period than those other seminars.
I will provide participants with an extensive bibliography to help them in preparation. The edition of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside we will be using is that edited by William C. Carroll, containing this and three other Middleton plays, published in the New Mermaids series by Bloomsbury Academic, 2012; ISBN-13: 9781408156582, ISBN-10: 140815658X. It is available from the two usual online sources here in Germany, price €13.99; currently, they are indicating it takes ca. 4 weeks to arrive, so order it sooner, rather than later!
(In case you were wondering about the first word in our seminar’s title… figs were very popular at the time, more so than in 21st-century England. There was – and still is – an idiom in English, ‘not care/give a fig about/for something/someone’, meaning not to care about s.t./s.o. at all, to consider them unimportant.)
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