A scene analysis ESSAY [1,500 words, 20%] on one scene from one play [Learning outcomes: 2 and 3].

An ESSAY [2,500 words, 80%] on one play which must be different to the first play written about, [Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3 and 4].

DVD and Box of Broadcasts in workshop rooms
Library
Internet
Blackboard

Bartels, Emily C. (2008) Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello
Pennsylvania U. P.
Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard (eds.), (2005) A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: The Tragedies, Blackwell: London.

Eagleton, Terry (2002) Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic. Blackwell: London.
Kahan, Jeffrey (ed.) (2008), King Lear: New Critical Essays Routledge: London.
Leggatt, Alexander, (2004) King Lear: Shakespeare in Performance Manchester U.P.: Manchester.

Potter, Lois (2002) Othello: Shakespeare in Performance Manchester U.P.: Manchester.

Wallace, Jennifer (ed.) (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy Cambridge U.P.: Cambridge.

This module will develop students' ability to respond imaginatively and intellectually to Shakespeare's tragedies, through the close reading of two 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 two 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.

1. A KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF DRAMATIC AND THEMATIC STRUCTURE IN SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
Knowledge & Understanding

2. AN ABILITY TO ANALYSE TEXT THROUGH CLOSE READING INFORMED BY A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PERFORMANCE AND CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Analysis

3. AN ABILITY TO ARTICULATE A COHERENT ANALYTICAL DISCUSSION IN WRITTEN FORM WHICH COMPRISES CRITICAL/THEORETICAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
Application

4. AN ABILITY TO SITUATE SHAKESPEARIAN TRAGIC PRACTICE IN RELATION TO KEY THEMES AND ISSUES IN THE THEORY OF TRAGEDY
Reflection