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Shakespeare
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- To interpret Shakespearean plays by introducing the dramatic conventions of the Elizabethan Age to students
- To explain the key terms, concepts and dramatic genres in Shakespeare's plays to the students
- To enlighten the students to critique the sonnets within an academic argument
Course Outcomes-
The students will:
- Appraise Shakespeare’s use of literary and linguistic conventions in his plays and sonnets
- Critique the characters, structure, themes in Shakespeare’s texts, using secondary sources
- Implement the knowledge of close textual analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays
- Investigate the literary elements of the Renaissance observed in Shakespeare’s prescribed texts with a parallel analysis of the contemporary value of the same.
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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…
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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…
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Hamlet
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As You Like it
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The Tempest |
Suggested Readings:
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. CUP, 2010.
Hudson, Henry. Introduction to Shakespearean Tragedy. Atlantic Publishers & DistributorsPvt Ltd, 1987.
Maguire, Laurie, ed. Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays. Blackwell Pubications, 2003.
Peterson, Don.Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Commentary. Faber & Faber, 2012.
Schiffer, James, ed. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Critical Essays. Routledge, 2000.