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Shakespeare
The course will enable the students to:
- Understand and interpret Shakespearean plays by introducing the students to the dramatic conventions of the Elizabethan Age
- Comprehend the key terms, concepts and dramatic genres in Shakespeare's plays
- Undertake a close textual analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets
- Interpret and critique the sonnets within an academic argument
Hamlet
As You Like it
The Tempest
Sonnets (To a Friend)
29 – When in disgrace…
30 – When to the sessions…
73 – That time of year…
94 – They that have power…
106 – When in the chronicle of…
123 – No, Time, thou shalt not…
Sonnets (To the Dark Lady)
127 – In the old age black…
129 – Th’ expanse of spirit…
130 – My mistress’ eyes are…
132 – Thine eyes I love…
137 – Thou blind fool, Love…
141 – In faith, I do not love
Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. OUP, 2008.
Bradley, A.C. The Shakespearean Tragedy. Macmillan, 1904.
Grazia, Margreta De and Stanley Wells, Eds. The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Cambridge Companions to Literature).Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hudson, Henry. Introduction to Shakespearean Tragedy. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors,1987.
Maguire, Laurie, ed. Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays. Blackwell Publications, 2003.
Paterson, Don. Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary. Faber & Faber, 2012.