Lehrende/r: Mirjam Haas
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 122
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: Some shall be pardoned and some punished : For nere was heard a Storie of more woe, Than this of Iuliet and her Romeo. (Q1 K4r; 5.3) In this introductory seminar to early modern drama, we’ll make use of a structural speciality of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595): the play is a tragedy, a “Storie of … woe,” but it also has comical elements – “Some shall be pardoned” in what is clearly a (comical) love story. In this seminar, then, we’ll use RJ as a guide to think about what early modern drama is and how we can read it. Act by act, we’ll pick the play apart and read it against its historical, textual and performative contexts – but also in comparison to acts from other plays by contemporary playwrights such as John Lyly or Christopher Marlowe. What is it that can happen in act four? Do different characters appear in tragedy and comedy? Can they do different things? What is the role of the audience? How does the text “become” performance? And why does early modern drama revel so much in thinking about itself? “For nere was heard a Storie…”
Empfohlene Literatur: Please buy and read: Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Edited by René Weis, Bloomsbury, 2012. (ISBN-13: 978-1903436912) Please get a hold of this specific edition! Other texts will be provided via moodle (https://lms.uni-mainz.de/).
Zusätzliche Informationen: This is a ‘Blockseminar’ (if we can do it on campus, it’ll be on campus): Day 1 (May 6): Introduction Day 2 (May 20): Act 1 and Act 2 Days 3 & 4 (June 10 & June 11): Act 3 and Act 4 & Act 5 and Research Skills Days 5 & 6 (June 24 & June 25): Essay Plan Presentations (students will only have to attend one session out of four)
