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Semester 2
Shakespeare: Modes and Genres (ENLI10119)
Course Website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours
Subject
English Literature
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
3
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
Visiting students must have completed 4 English Literature courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses, and we do not consider civilisation & other interdisciplinary courses, freshman seminars, writing/composition courses or film/cinema/media courses; visiting students who have taken multiple courses in literature in other languages, should have passed at least two courses in English Literature as well. **Please note that this course may incur additional costs to purchase core texts** **Please see Additional Restrictions below**
Course Summary
Since the appearance of the First Folio in 1623 - with its divisions of the plays into comedies, tragedies, and histories - a discussion of genre has been central to critical debates about Shakespeare, and it remains an influential approach to an understanding of his work. The course will question the usefulness of these generic classifications, and ask to what extent an awareness of the specific conventions of genre can help to explain the structure of a play and the actions of its protagonists. At the same time, the course will examine the fluidity of generic boundaries, and the originality of Shakespeare's exploitation of them.
Course Description
**Introduction: Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream; **Comedy I: The Merchant of Venice; **Comedy II: Twelfth Night; **Comedy III: Measure for Measure; **Tragedy I: Hamlet; **Tragedy II: King Lear; **Tragedy III: Antony and Cleopatra; **History I: Richard II; **History II: Henry IV Part One & Two; **Romance: The Tempest.
Assessment Information
Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%
Additional Restrictions
Unless you are nominated on an English Literature exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year English Literature course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the January Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed, and students will not be permitted to enrol in three 3rd year English Literature courses in the same semester at any time. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.
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