MENMD2WRS: Ways of Reading Shakespeare
Credits: 20 credits
Course Director: Dr Astrid Stilma
This module encourages students to engage critically with a range of different approaches to Shakespearean texts by way of concepts from modern critical theory. We will approach the plays in the context of, among other things, gender, race and class, and investigate what our reading(s) of Shakespeare might reveal about the preoccupations of his society as well as our own. Texts typically on the module include As You Like It, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, King Henry IV Part 1 and Antony and Cleopatra.
Assessment is by two pieces of coursework (10% + 40%) and a closed-book exam (50%).