| CODE | ENG1372 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit seeks to introduce students to the themes and art of Shakespeare’s history plays. This study-unit explores the interaction of tragic, comic, and political concerns in Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry V with a view to seeing whether a consistent political philosophy of history can be traced. The rights and duties of sovereign and subject, and current doctrines on authority and obedience, humour and venality are fully discussed. Reading List: Coursen, H. R., The Leasing Out of England: Shakespeare’s Second Henriad (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982) Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield, eds, Political Shakespeare (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994) Kantorowicz, Ernst H., The King’s Two Bodies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957) Leggatt, Alexander, Shakespeare’s Political Drama (London: Routledge, 1988) Palmer, John, Political and Comic Characters of Shakespeare (London: Macmillan, 1962) Rowse, A. L., The England of Elizabeth (London: Macmillan, 1981) Tillyard, E. M. W., The Elizabethan World Picture (Harmondworth: Penguin, 1972) Waith, Eugene M., ed., Shakespeare: The Histories (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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