Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-219E/e
- Cím
- Reading Shakespeare
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- The course is designed to introduce students to the poetry of William Shakespeare. By reading, analyzing, and discussing the sonnets and the narrative poems, students can explore the diversity and subtlety of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The emergence of the sonnet in England (Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, Sidney; Petrarch Una candida cerva) Shakespeare’s Sonnets of 1609 (sequence, publication; the first 17 sonnets; From Sonnet 18 onwards; The Dark Lady Sonnets) Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare and Ovid) The Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare’s re-writing of the classical accounts; ideas and attitudes to rape)
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Grades are based on class work (attendance, reading, and participation in discussions), two in-class tests and a home-essay. The essay should discuss one particular poem (or, maybe, compare two related poems), should use at least five critical sources, and be cca. 7 pages long.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Recommended reading: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book X, 618-857 St Augustine, City of God. Book II, Chapters 16-20 Duncan-Jones, Katherine. ”Was the 1609 Shake-Speares Sonnets Really Unauthorized?” The Review of English Studies vol.34, No. 134, (May, 1983) pp. 151-171 Kolin, Philip C. ed. Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 1997 Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Cambridge: Harvard University, 1997 Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Yale Nota Bene, 2000 Dutton, E., Howard, J.E. eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008