Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-218E/B2
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts 1.: Magic and Witchcraft in the Renaissance
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course is designed to familiarise students with some of the basic texts of the early modern period about magic and witchcraft. In the seminars both primary and secondary sources will be discussed and some real life magicians (e.g. John Dee, Simon Forman, etc.) will be put on trial as well.
- Course content
- Close reading of the three plays (scene by scene) complemented with literary criticism and visual representations in the fine arts, and whenever possible film and TV adaptations and stage productions.
- Assessment method
- Regular attendance; set texts (as listed in weekly syllabus) read in full and in English for the appropriate seminars; copies of set texts in English brought in for the appropriate seminars; two presentations; end-term test (for the test read at least 2 articles on each play as listed in weekly syllabus); active in-class participation in discussions as well as lively, interactive presentation of topics using visuals are encouraged.
- Bibliography
- Critical editions of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s Macbeth and The Tempest; articles (as listed in weekly syllabus)