Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BMI-ANGD17-CI3aE.300
- Cím
- Reneszánsz dráma - alapvetések és perspektívák Szöveg kontextusban: Shakespeare-i drámák és a korai modern populáris kultúra
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2024/25/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The course offers analyses of Shakespearean plays and other early modern primary sources (ballads, popular quartos, emblem books, etc.) with a strong focus on questions of cultural history and literature, supported by the discussion of relevant academic articles and book chapters. The aim of the course is to provide students with a general overview of issues related to popular culture in early modern England, through the close reading of literary and non-literary texts, thus enhancing their understanding of the Shakespearean text and age as well.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The course offers detailed analyses of Shakespearean plays, combined with mapping out contemporary cultural phenomena and discourses appearing in them, with a special emphasis on how Shakespeare uses and “translates” these popular discourses into his plays, suiting them to his dramaturgical purposes. The full list of the topics and plays potentially covered by this course is as follows, however, at the beginning of each term the exact content of the course is defined according to the students’ interest. Topics may include: carnival (Hamlet, Henry IV, King Lear), shrew-taming discourses (The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale), fairies and sprites, popular rituals (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), witchcraft (Macbeth), usury (The Merchant of Venice), ballads (The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, Othello), skimmington and rough riding, the “Moor” (Titus Andronicus, Othello), fools and clowns (King Lear, Twelfth Night). The list of quartos, pamphlets and ballads is adjusted to the specific content in the given term, since the relevant corpus is huge.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Reading of set texts is essential, as well as contribution to class discussion. Short presentations on specific texts or as summaries of an academic article. Final essay (cca. 3,500-4,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) based on original research conducted during the semester.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Anon. Hic-Mulier; Haec-Vir. London, 1620 Anon. Here Begynneth a Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curste Wyfe, Lapped in Morelles Skin, for Her Good Behavyor, 1555 Anon. Newes from Scotland: declaring the damnable Life and Death of Doctor Fian, a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough Januarie the last, London, 1591. Ballads from the web database: English Broadside Ballad Archive (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu) Nicholas Breton: Pasquil’s Mistress (verse pamphlet) John Green: Pandosto, or the Triumph of Time (romance, 1588, 1607) Henry Goodcol: The wonderful discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch, late of Edmonton, her conviction and condemnation and death. London, 1621 Henry Peacham: Minerva Britanna (emblem book, 1608) William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night Reginald Scot: The Discovery of Witchcraft, London, 1584 Philip Stubbes: The Anatomie of Abuses, London, 1583 John Taylor: Divers crabtree lectures, London, 1638 Thomas Welkes: Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites (songbook, 1608) Geroge Whitney: A Choice of Emblems (emblem book, 1586) George Wither: Abuses Stript and Whipped (verse satire, 1614) George Wither: A Collection of Emblems (emblem book,1635) AJÁNLOTT OLVASMÁNYOK / SECONDARY READINGS Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais and His World. Transl. Iswolsky, Helen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984 (1968) Peter Burke: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2009. David Cressy: ”Levels of Illiteracy in England, 1530-1730” In Society and Culture in Early Modern England. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003 David Cressy: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England. Tales of Discord and Dissension. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000 Helen Cooper: The English Romance in Time. Oxford, OUP, 2004 Adam Fox: Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700. Oxford, Clarendon, 2000 Stuart Gillespie–Neil Rhodes: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture: Arden Critical Companion. London: Cengage Learning, 2006. Hugh Grady: „Falstaff: Subjectivity between the Carnival and the Aesthetic” The Modern Language Review, Vol. 96, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 609-623 Ronald Hutton: The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400-1700. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Martin Ingram: ”Ridings, rough music, and the reform of ’popular culture’ in early modern England. Past & Present, No. 105 (Nov., 1984), pp. 79-113 Francois Laroque: Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993 Mary Ellen Lamb: The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson. London-New York, Routledge, 2006. Anu Korhonen, “The Witch in the Alehouse Imaginary Encounters in Cultural History” in J. Kusber, M. Dreyer, J. Rogge, A. Hütig, eds. Historische Kulturwissenschaften. Poistionen, Praktiken und Perspektive. (Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2010) pp. 181-205 Bruce R. Smith: „Shakespeare’s Residuals: The Circulation of Ballads in Cultural Memory” in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture. Eds. S. Gillespie and Vincent Rhodes. (London, Cengage Learning, 2006) pp. 193-218.