FIVE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS
ENG3FSP
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
This subject will examine in depth the following plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Othello and The Tempest. It will consider the plays in relation to a number of issues and approaches, starting with questions of close analysis and interpretation, moving out to historicism versus anti-historicism, new approaches to early modern literature (and literature in general), especially new historicist, feminist, and materialist, and some issues of editing, transmission, transformation, and performance.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Paul Salzman
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: 45 credit points of 2nd year English subjects, or coordinators approval.
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Prescribed | William Shakespeare | ANY EDITION |
| Readings | King Lear | Prescribed | William Shakespeare | ANY EDITION |
| Readings | Othello | Prescribed | William Shakespeare | ANY EDITION |
| Readings | The Tempest | Prescribed | William Shakespeare | ANY EDITION |
| Readings | Twelfth Night | Prescribed | William Shakespeare | ANY EDITION |