EL4050 - Renaissance Literature

Credit points:	06
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to students in the level 4 English Honours program.

Students read selected drama produced in England between 1586 and 1630, together with shorter poems from the same period. Recent theoretical approaches to the literature are investigated and applied as appropriate. Attention is paid to the cultural context of the poetry, the social context of the plays and to relevant modes of theatrical production. Representative Elizabethan and Jacobean plays include Marlowes Dr Faustus, Heywoods A Woman Killed with Kindness, Beaumonts The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Websters The Duchess of Malfi and Middletons The Changeling. The poets selected for study are Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Donne.

Learning Outcomes

• acquire a detailed knowledge of the set texts and an understanding of their critical reception;
• acquire an understanding of the English Renaissance as an historical and cultural period;
• appreciate the dramatic and poetic qualities of the set texts;
• read selected drama by Shakespeares contemporaries, so as to provide a context for understanding Shakespeares plays;
• trace the evolution of lyrical and other poetry in Shakespeares time and historical factors impacting on this evolution;
• understand and apply critical theories relevant to English Renaissance drama and poetry.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

EL4001 and EL4002 and EL4004 and EL4005 and EL4007 and EL4008

Availabilities
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Census Date 06-May-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Cheryl Taylor.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 0
Census Date 06-May-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Cheryl Taylor.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.