Shakespeare

Paper Code: 
ENG 222
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO36. Appraise  Shakespeare’s use of literary and linguistic conventions in his plays and sonnets

CO37. Critique the characters, structure, themes in Shakespeare’s texts, using  secondary sources

CO38 Implement the knowledge of close textual analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays

CO39. Investigate the literary elements of the Renaissance observed in Shakespeare’s prescribed texts with a parallel analysis of the contemporary value of the same.

CO40.  Develop an understanding of great  Shakespeare’s classic works with a view to achieve a broad and wholesome vision of life

11.00
Unit I: 

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…

 
11.00
Unit II: 

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…

 
13.00
Unit III: 

Hamlet

12.00
Unit IV: 

As You Like it

 

13.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

Journals: 

Shakespeare by British Shakespeare Association.

 

E-resources:

The Renaissance and Shakespeare, IIT Madras by Prof. Shormishtha Panja. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106120

 

 

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