FF:AJ14001 Renaissance English Literature - Course Information

AJ14001 English Literature of the Renaissance

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek

Timetable of Seminar Groups

AJ14001/A: Wed 10:00–11:35 G22, P. Drábek
AJ14001/B: Wed 13:20–14:55 G22, P. Drábek

Prerequisites (in Czech)

AJ09999 Qualifying Examination

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course is conceived as an introduction to the literature and culture of the Elizabethan Age. Special attention is given to the development of specific genres (the sonnet, prose fiction, vernacular literary criticism, and popular drama: tragedy, comedy, history play and tragicomedy). The authors studied include, among others: Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Edmund Spenser, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, and John Donne.

Syllabus

• The course is conceived as an introduction to the literature and culture of the Elizabethan Age. Special attention is given to the development of specific genres (the sonnet, prose fiction, vernacular literary criticism, and popular drama: tragedy, comedy, history play and tragicomedy). The authors studied include, among others: Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Edmund Spenser, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, and John Donne.

Literature

• The Norton anthology of English literature. Vol. 1 [Abrams, 1986]. Edited by M. H. (Meyer Howard) Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Comp., 1986, xxxvii, 26. ISBN 0-393-95469-2. info
• SHAKESPEARE, William. Sonnets [Shakespeare, 1918]. Edited by C. Knox Pooler. London: Methuen, 1918, xl, 161 s. info
• MARLOWE, Christopher. Doctor Faustus (Obsaž.) : The complete plays [Marlowe, 1969]. info
• SHAKESPEARE, William. The complete works. Edited by Gary Taylor - Stanley Wells. Compact ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, xlix, 1274. ISBN 0198182848. info
• A new history of early English drama. Edited by John D. Cox - David Scott Kastan, Edited by Stephen Jay Greenblatt. New York: Columbia University Press, xiv, 565 s. ISBN 0-231-10242-9. info
• HOLINSHED, Raphael. Holinshed's chronicle : as used in Shakespeare's plays. Edited by Josephine Nicoll - Allardyce Nicoll. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1927, xii, 233. info
• Elizabethan-Jacobean drama : the theatre in its time. Edited by G. Blakemore (Gwynne Blakemore) Evans. New York: New Amsterdam, 1988, x, 388 p.,. ISBN 0-941533-13-1. info
• PARFITT, George A. E. English poetry of the seventeenth century. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1992, xiii, 288. ISBN 0-582-08437-710. info
• LEWIS, C. S. English literature in the sixteenth century : excluding drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954, vi, 696. info
• WALLER, Gary F. English poetry of the sixteenth century. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman Group, 1993, 317 s. ISBN 0582090962. info

Teaching methods

Weekly 1 1/2 hour seminar

Assessment methods

Seminars based on readings and discussion of English Renaissance literature.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=232

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