Shakespeare

Paper Code: 
24ENG222
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to interpret Shakespearean plays by introducing the dramatic conventions of the Elizabethan Age to students, explain the key terms, concepts and dramatic genres in Shakespeare's plays to the students and to enlighten the students to critique the sonnets within an academic argument

 

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…

 

14.00
Unit III: 

Hamlet

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

As You Like it

 

12.00
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 & Distributors Pvt 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

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO43. Appraise Shakespeare’s use of literary and linguistic conventions in his plays and sonnets

CO44. Critique the characters, structure, themes in Shakespeare’s texts, using secondary sources

CO45. Attempt a close textual analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays

CO46. Investigate the literary elements of the Renaissance observed in Shakespeare’s prescribed texts with a parallel analysis of the contemporary value of the same.

CO47.  Develop an understanding of  Shakespeare’s classic works to achieve a broad and wholesome vision of life

CO48.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.