Shakespeare Studies

Director: Professor Neil Rhodes (nppr@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Other teachers: Dr Alex Davis, Professor Lorna Hutson, Dr Susan Manly, Professor Andrew Murphy, Dr Barbara Murray, Dr Philip Parry

Entrance Requirements: a good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent

Programme Duration: one year

Aim of Programme: to explore the range of Shakespeare's achievement by studying his work both in the context of his own time and through its reception in later periods of history. As well as reading the major part of Shakespeare's poetry and drama, students will read relevant texts by other Renaissance writers; they will study the critical reception of Shakespeare from the Restoration to the present day and consider the place of Shakespeare in contemporary literary theory; they will study adaptations and reworkings of Shakespeare from the Restoration to the present day and also examine the translation of Shakespeare's work into different media.

Programme: 120 credits made up of EN5031 Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, EN5032 The Reception of Shakespeare, 1660-1900, EN5033 Modern Shakespeares and EN5100 Literary Research: Skills and Resources. The MLitt concludes with students writing a dissertation of 15,000 words on an agreed topic.