Module Descriptors
POWER AND DESIRE IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE CULTURE
ENGL60362
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
30 credits
Contact
Leader: Barry Taylor
Email: B.P.Taylor@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 22
Independent Study Hours: 278
Total Learning Hours: 300
Assessment
  • COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 83%
  • COURSEWORK - REVIEW weighted at 17%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Coursework Essay : 5000 words, relating to three or more texts. [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Critical/Theoretical Review: 1000 words [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]
Module Texts
Selected lyric poetry
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (extracts)
Christopher Marlowe EdwardII
John Webster The White Devil
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Module Resources
OHP
Library
VCR
Internet
Module Learning Strategies
Contact hours will be taken up with Lectures, seminars, small-group tutorials, and individual supervisory tutorials to support coursework development.
Module Indicative Content
This module explores representations of sexual and other forms of 'worldly' desire in English Renaissance culture, with a focus on literary texts from a variety of genres, in relation to a range of non-literary texts and discourses (eg philosophical, devotional, legal). Students will be invited to explore thematic connections between these different kinds of material, and the interaction between literature and a range of cultural and social contexts: themes will include sexual desire and the godly subject, desire as an instrument of rule, desire and social disorder, sexual desire and the demonisation of women.