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Shakespeare and the Renaissance
UndergraduateMAQ-ENGX3092018
Course information for 2018 intake
Put Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the spotlight.
Draw connections between Shakespeare's plays and work by other Renaissance writers. Address issues of genre, sexuality and self. Relate your observations to English life in the 16th century.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- -
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Shakespeare and the Renaissance
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will:
- gain an understanding of key Shakespearean texts by close analysis and research
- gain an understanding, in the same ways, of major non-Shakespearean texts of the English Renaissance
- understand relations between texts by Shakespeare and those by his contemporaries
- understand how texts by his contemporaries relate to each other
- gain knowledge of how the set texts represent issues and problems.
- 'Shakespeare' and 'the Renaissance'
- Competing representations of sexuality in the 1590s
- Sexuality and selfhood
- Selfhood and tragedy
- Imagining east and west
- Alternative Englands
This subject was previously known as ENG360 Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
The subject considers a broad range of Shakespeare's writings in relation to writings by his contemporaries and by his successors - dramatists as well as non-dramatists. In doing so it examines how those texts at once represent and engage with issues and problems in the culture of early modern, or Renaissance, England. Those issues and problems include, for example, issues of genre and of sexuality in verse of the 1590s, problems evoked in representations of tragic selfhood, problems associated with religious and political conflict and problems arising from English portrayals both of England and of life outside it.
- Assignment 1 (30%)
- Assignment 2 (40%)
- Online Discussion (10%)
- Test (20%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- MAQ-ENGX120-Approaches to English Literature
MAQ-ENG110 (Not currently available)
and one of
MAQ-ENGX201 (Not currently available)
MAQ-ENG211 (Not currently available)
- MAQ-ENGX206-Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic
- MAQ-ENGX209-Children's Literature
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-ENG360 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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