SE2583: Love, Death and Marriage in Renaissance Literature
School | English Literature |
Department Code | ENCAP |
Module Code | SE2583 |
External Subject Code | 100319 |
Number of Credits | 20 |
Level | L6 |
Language of Delivery | English |
Module Leader | Professor Martin Coyle |
Semester | Double Semester |
Academic Year | 2013/4 |
Outline Description of Module
On completion of the module a student should be able to
How the module will be delivered
Skills that will be practised and developed
How the module will be assessed
The module is assessed by two pieces of written work. The first essay allows students to explore the different forms of Renaissance drama. The second essay allows students to focus on Renaissance plays about marriage.
Type of assessment |
% |
Title |
Duration (exam) / Word length (essay) |
Approx. date of assessment |
Essay |
50 |
|
1600 words |
January |
Essay |
50 |
|
1600 words |
May |
The module is assessed according to the Marking Criteria set out in the English Literature Course Guide.There are otherwise no academic or competence standards which limit the availability of adjustments or alternative assessments for students with disabilities.
Assessment Breakdown
Type | % | Title | Duration(hrs) |
---|---|---|---|
Written Assessment | 50 | Essay 1 | N/A |
Written Assessment | 50 | Essay 2 | N/A |
Syllabus content
The main readings for this module are texts and journal articles.Students should contact the module leader as early as possible if they will require readings in an alternative format
Syllabus Content (Autumn semester)
Primary texts (any modern edition)
1. Marvell: 'To His Coy Mistress'
2. Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis
3. Donne: Holy Sonnets or/and Songs and Sonnets
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets
5. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
6. John Ford: 'Tis Pity She’s A Whore
Essential Reading and Resource List
INDICATIVE READING AND RESOURCE LIST:
Secondary reading (indicative): Autumn
Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death and Sensuality (San Francisco: City Light Books, 1986)
Catherine Belsey, Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994)
Stevie Davis, John Donne (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994)
Margreta de Grazia et al, Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Michael Neill, Issues of Death (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Sasha Roberts, Romeo and Juliet (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998)
Julie Sanders, Caroline Drama (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1999)
Jonathan Sawday, The Body Emblazoned (London and New York: Routledge, 1995)
William Zunder and Suzanne Trill (eds),Writing and the English Renaissance (London: Longman, 1996)
Journals:
Renaissance Drama
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Quarterly
Syllabus content Spring
Primary texts (any modern edition)
1. Henry Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece
2. John Webster,The Duchess of Malfi
3. Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
4. Anon,Arden of Faversham -
and, if there is time, one or both of :
Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women
Many of the above can be found inArthur F. Kinney (ed.), Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments (Oxford: Blackwell,1999).
INDICATIVE READING AND RESOURCE LIST:
Secondary reading (indicative)Spring
Catherine Belsey, The Subject of Tragedy (London: Methuen, 1985)
A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (eds), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Frances E Dolan (ed.), The Taming of the Shrew (Texts and Contexts series) (New York: Bedford Books, 1994) contains useful contextual material, criticism and reading list
Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1984)
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearian Stage 1574-1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970)
Helen Hackett, A Short History of English Renaissance Drama (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013) has a useful bibliography
D. Kastan and P. Stallybrass (eds), Staging the Renaissance (London: Routledge, 1992)
Kate McLuskie, Renaissance Dramatists (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1989)
Journals:
Renaissance Drama
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Quarterly