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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Shakespeare's World
Module Code EL201 (ITS) / LIT1023 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School English
Module Co-ordinatorKit Fryatt
Module TeachersGearoid O'Flaherty, Paula Murphy
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Repeat examination
Description

This module will introduce students to one of the great periods in the history of English literature (c. 1580s-1600s) through a selection of works by William Shakespeare. The course will explore some of the comedies, tragedies, and history plays of Shakespeare. Contemporary stage and filmic adaptations of some of the plays will also be studied, and issues in relation to genre, language and critical approaches will be explored and problematised.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe how Shakespeare innovated conventions of language and genre.
2. Articulate an awareness of selected critical approaches to Shakespeare’s writing.
3. Recognise links between text and performance.
4. Communicate a critical response to stage and/or film production of some of the prescribed plays.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions and preoccupations of Shakespearean drama.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture21Lectures (and seminars)
Independent Study104Independent Learning
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Shakespeare Henry IV Part One

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, King Lear

Critical Approaches to Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Language and Genre

Shakespeare in Performance on Stage/Screen

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment40% Examination Weight60%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
EssayEssay25%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List

  • Pascale Aebischer: 2010, Jacobean Drama: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism, Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York,
  • Harold Bloom: 1998, The Invention Of The Human, Riverhead Books, New York,
  • A.C. Bradley: 1991, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Penguin Classics edition, Penguin, London,
  • A.R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (eds.): 2003, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
  • Lisa Hopkins and Matthew Steggle: 2006, Renaissance Literature and Culture, Introductions to British Literature and Culture series, Continuum, London,
  • Russell Jackson (ed.): 2007, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
Other Resources

None

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