FF:AJ14001 Renaissance English Literature - Course Information
AJ14001 English Literature of the Renaissance
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2002
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ14001/A: No timetable has been entered into IS. M. Franková
AJ14001/B: No timetable has been entered into IS. M. Franková - 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 36 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/36, only registered: 0/36, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/36 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-SS)
- Course objectives
- The course will consist of a series of short lectures and seminar work with texts and some criticism. It will concentrate on the sonnet, particularly in the work of Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare, and on Renaissance drama, which will include Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeare's Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. The plays will be analysed in the light of both traditional and recent critical approaches. The poetry of the 17th century will be represented by John Donne and extracts from John Milton's Paradise Lost.
- Syllabus
- The course will consist of a series of short lectures and seminar work with texts and some criticism. It will concentrate on the sonnet, particularly in the work of Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare, and on Renaissance drama, which will include Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeare's Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. The plays will be analysed in the light of both traditional and recent critical approaches. The poetry of the 17th century will be represented by John Donne and extracts from John Milton's Paradise Lost.
- 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. King Richard II [Shakespeare, 1984]. Edited by Andrew Gurr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, xiv, 226 s. ISBN 0-521-23010-1. info
- SHAKESPEARE, William. A midsummer night's dream. Edited by Stanley W. Wells. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, 170 s. ISBN 0-14-070702-6. info
- SHAKESPEARE, William. Othello. Cambridge: University Press, 1973, 246 s. ISBN 0521094925. info
- MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. Edited by C. A. Patrides - Philip Brockbank. London: Macmillan Education, 1986, 230 s. ISBN 0-333-00788-3. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Hodnocení: ústní zkouška a aktivní účast. / Assessment: oral exam and participation.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2002, recent)
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