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Course Proposal Details for - Shakespeare's Comedies (Course code not assigned)
School
Summary
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
An introduction to some of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies with
extensive video and DVD material of different interpretations from early
Hollywood to the present date. Plays will include The Comedy of Errors,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night
Normal Year Taken
Year 1 Undergraduate
Course Level (PG/UG)
UG
Visiting Student
Availability
Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits
10
Credit Level (SCQF)
SCQF Level 7
Home Subject Area
Lifelong Learning (LLC)
Other Subject Area
Lifelong Learning (LLC)
Course Organiser
Rachael King
Course Secretary
Sabine Murdoch
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Collaboration
Information (School /
Institution)
Total contact
teaching hours
20
Any costs to be met
by students
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Prohibited
Combinations
Visting Student Prerequisites
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Fee Code (if invoiced
at course level)
Proposer
Rachael King
Default Mode of
Study
Classes & Assessment excl. centrally arranged exam
Default delivery
period
Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Marking Scheme to
be employed
Common Marking Scheme - UG Non-Honours Mark/Grade
Taught in Gaidhlig?
No
Course Type
Standard
Special Arrangements
Components of
Assessment
One 2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth 100% of
the mark.
Exam Information
Syllabus
The following texts and themes will be explored (alight changes may be
made each year): Week 1 Introduction: origins of Shakespeare's comic
form in the works of Plautus and the medieval mystery plays
Week 2 Shakespeare adapts Plautus: The Comedy of Errors (1593)
Week 3 Cross-dressing the heroine: Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594)
Weeks 4 and 5 Comic metamorphoses out of Ovid: A Midsummer
Night¿s Dream (1596)
Week 6 Darker banter: Much Ado about Nothing (1598)
Weeks 7 and 8 Comical-pastoral-satirical, and some more cross-dressing:
As You Like It (1600)
Weeks 9 and 10 Back to Plautus, for identical twins: Twelfth Night (1601)
Feedback
Students are given the opportunity to submit a formative essay of 1000
words in Week 6, feedback for which is returned in Week 7. Detailed
feedback is provided on the summative assessment (2000 word essay)
Graduate Attributes
and Skills
Study Abroad
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Reading Lists
Course description
Reading List
Essential
Greenblatt Stephen. 1997. The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W. W.
Norton. (or any edition(s) with notes, i.e. RSC, Arden, Oxford, or New
Cambridge).
Recommended
Salingar, Leo 1976. Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Emma (ed.). 2004. Shakespeare¿s Comedies. Oxford: Blackwell.
Learning outcomes
1. evaluate the evolving treatment of women in the comedies
2. examine the comic use of disguise and role play in these plays
3. analyse Shakespeare's complex imagery and comic language
Latest Approval Status
Submitted for Level 1
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Yes
Level 1 Approval
Status
Awaiting Decision
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