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ENGL210 Shakespeare and the Renaissance

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in Literature
Teaching Organisation A range of teaching procedures including lectures, tutorials and screenings will be used.

This unit introduces students to some of the literature, art and thought of Renaissance England, and provides opportunity for close interpretative reading of dramatic and poetic texts, and for consideration of production and performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. The main focus of the unit is the work of William Shakespeare, from his poetry and early plays to the plays of his maturity, with reference also to other dramatists and to poetry and prose of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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