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A scene analysis ESSAY [1,000 words, 20%] on one scene from one play [Learning outcomes: 2 and 3].

An ESSAY [2,000 words, 80%] on one play which must be different to the first play written about, [Learning Outcomes: 1, 2 and 3].

This module will develop students' ability to respond imaginatively and intellectually to Shakespeare's comedies and Romances, through the close reading of three plays. The emphasis throughout is on developing an awareness of the plays as texts for performance, and the skills of dramatic and performance analysis, of historical and critical contextualisation, which are needed to convey the multi-dimensionality of the play as theatrical event. Teaching and learning activities will be organised around workshops on key individual scenes from the three texts, in order to found the student's learning in the core skill of close dramatic analysis. Assessment for the module will give students the opportunity to continue this emphasis on close reading informed by a critical awareness of performance and critical/theoretical contexts.

Contact hours will consist of weekly 3-hour workshops, to include screenings as appropriate.

Alexander Leggatt (ed.) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy. Cambridge University Press.

Barber, C. L. (1972) Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A Study of Dramatic Form and its Relation to Social Custom. Princeton University Press.

Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard (eds.) (2006) A Companion to Shakespeare's Works Vol 03, The Comedies Blackwell.

Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard (eds.) (2006) A Companion to Shakespeare's Works Vol 04, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Blackwell.

Jackson, Russell (2000) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Emma (ed.) (2004) Shakespeare's Comedies. Blackwell.
Frye, Northrop (1983) The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies. Harvester.

Thorne, Alison (ed.) (2002) Shakespeare's Romances (New Casebooks) Palgrave Macmillan.

1. SHOW A KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF DRAMATIC AND THEMATIC STRUCTURE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES AND LATE PLAYS
Knowledge & Understanding

2. ANALYSE TEXT THROUGH CLOSE READING INFORMED BY KNOWLEDGE OF PERFORMANCE AND CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Analysis
Reflection

3. ARTICULATE A COHERENT ANALYTICAL DISCUSSION IN WRITTEN FORM
Application