ENGLISH 353
Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy
Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for ENGLISH 353.
Description
An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts.
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Availability 2024
Not offered in 2024; planned for 2025
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Dr Sophie Tomlinson
Reading/Texts
Christopher Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus, ed. Roma Gill rev. Ros King (New Mermaids, 2009)
William Shakespeare:
Hamlet, ed. G.R. Hibbard (Oxford)
Othello, ed. Michael Neill (Oxford)
King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden)
Anthony and Cleopatra, ed. Michael Neill (Oxford)
Thomas Middleton:
The Revenger’s Tragedy, ed. Brian Gibbons (New Mermaids)
Middleton & Rowley:
The Changeling, ed. Michael Neill (New Mermaids)
John Webster:
The Duchess of Malfi, ed. Brian Gibbons (New Mermaids)
Recommended Reading
Andrew McRae, Renaissance Drama (Arnold)
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 4th ed. (Cambridge)
Russ McDonald, ed., The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents (Bedford/St Martins)
Adrian Poole, Tragedy: A very short Introduction (Oxford)
Peter Holbrook, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedon (Bloomsbury)
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
ENGLISH 353: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in English or Drama
Restrictions
ENGLISH 213
