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Instructors: Dr. Patrick Gill
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.512
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELC 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
While most classes on Shakespeare will either give an overview of his work in a particular genre or focus on a single one of his plays, this class proposes a narrow focus on the Bard's plays - histories, comedies and tragedies - written and performed in a closely defined period of time. For such an undertaking, 1599 would appear an eminently fruitful subject of enquiry as it sees several pivotal events in Shakespeare's career, from the death of the nation's greatest poet, Edmund Spenser, to the opening of the Globe.
While the present selection of plays may thus lend itself particularly well to historicist/biographical readings, our focus will be on aspects of form and genre, on the strategies texts employ to pose questions and communicate ideas. Both presentations and seminar papers will need to reflect this.
-Circumstances permitting, this class will be taught as a face-to-face seminar-
Recommended reading list:
TEXTS (please make sure to read these in critical editions: Norton or Arden or New Cambridge):
-As You Like It*
-Henry V
-Julius Caesar
-Much Ado About Nothing*
*Do NOT purchase these particular titles just yet!
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