EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

2.00 pm Mon and 11.00 am Wed

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr A L Davis

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Module Staff

Dr Alex Davis (ALD3)

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Module description

Students will be expected to acquire and to demonstrate, in coursework and in the examination, familiarity with a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. They should have considered the relationship between these texts and a variety of different social and cultural contexts, and have developed an awareness of debates surrounding the genres of 'comedy' and 'romance'. Students will acquire knowledge both of literary texts from a certain period and of the genres of these texts. They will also develop skills in close reading and reasoned literary-critical argument. (Group B)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS EN2003 AND PASS EN2004

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

exam = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture and 1 seminar/tutorial and 2 optional consultative hours.

Intended learning outcomes

  • display a broadly-based knowledge of the literature of the texts in question, gained by reading unabridged primary texts and by following up primary reading with critical reading on each text studied.
  • Display the capacity to present an informed discussion of this literature in the light of the theatrical, cultural and generic contexts in which it was produced.
  • Display skills in critical reading and evaluation of primary texts and relevant secondary material.
  • Display the ability to present their arguments and evidence in correct and fluent English, in written essays and in class discussion.