eng2rev renaissance voices

RENAISSANCE VOICES AND COUNTER VOICES

ENG2REV

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Credit points: 15

Subject outline

Recent theoretical approaches to the Renaissance have emphasised the tension between the discourse of authority and its potential subversion, especially through the 'counter-voices' of supposedly marginalised groups, such as women. This subject will examine a selection of poems, plays and prose works, paying particular attention to the struggles of counter voices to be heard.This subject will provide you with the training necessary to understand difficult forms of writing, principally plays and poems, from a period that often seems quite alien. The writing will always be set in context: usually either within a historical or a generic context. Accordingly, lectures will cover topics such as: the early modern theatre, its structure and its social function; early modern attitudes towards women; early modern representations of sexuality; early modern social structuring; especially in relation to issues of 'class' or social position. As well as film screenings, the second hour of m

FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorPaul Salzman

Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes

Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG

Exchange StudentsYes

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Subject rules

Prerequisites 30 credit points of first year English

Co-requisitesN/A

Incompatible subjects ENG3REV

Equivalent subjectsN/A

Special conditionsN/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsA chaste maid in Cheapside in Five Plays,PrescribedMiddleton, T.PENGUIN
ReadingsBartholomew Fair in Three Comedies,PrescribedJonson, B.PENGUIN
ReadingsCoriolanus,PrescribedShakespeare, W.OXFORD
ReadingsEarly modern women's writing,PrescribedSalzman, P. (ed.)OXFORD
ReadingsHenry V,PrescribedShakespeare W.PENGUIN
ReadingsMidsummer night's dream,PrescribedShakespeare, W.OXFORD
ReadingsMuch ado about nothing,PrescribedShakespeare, W.OXFORD
ReadingsThe taming of the shrew,PrescribedShakespeare, W.OXFORD
ReadingsWomen beware women in Five Plays,PrescribedMiddleton, TPENGUIN

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