Unit Code:	EST2RJS
Alternative Unit Code:	EST3RJS
Unit Short Title:	ROMEO AND JULIET: FACT, FICTION, FILM
Credit Points:	20.0
Unit Description:	In this unit students will become acquainted with significant historical aspects of sixteenth-century Italian society and Elizabethan England that are fundamental to the legend of Romeo and Juliet. Four narrative versions of this legend will be studied and three film versions of it will be viewed in order to arrive at an understanding of the processes involved in adapting the legend from its original narrative form to drama and also to the medium of film.
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture/seminar and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this unit students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
two 1,000-word written exercises,	40
one 3,000-word essay,	60	Third-year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline-specific skills in their written work than second-year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Preliminary	The narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare,	Bullough, G. (ed)	Routledge and Paul, 1957-1975
Preliminary	The legend of Romeo and Juliet,	Moore, O. H.	Ohio State UP 1950
Prescribed	Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare,	Prunster, N.	Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2000

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
1   02-MAR-09   05-JUN-09	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Nicole	Prunster	BUNDOORA	Y