EL35CT PAGE & STAGE: RENAISSANCE WRITINGS 1500-1640
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30 credit points: 12 weeks
Course co-ordinator: Dr A Gordon
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in programme year 3 or above who have passed 60 credit points in level 2 English courses, or by permission of the Programme Co-ordinator.
The Renaissance has been widely considered the golden age of English literature, producing such towering literary figures as Shakespeare, Jonson and Marlowe, and presenting mingled views of the erotic, the political, the religious and the lyrical while even laying claim to England's first 'novels'. Taking in poetry, drama and prose, this course presents a wide and contrasting range of writings which illustrate its authors' diverse interests: the court, the country, the city and - above all - love; or should that be 'sex'?
1 two-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week: Mon/Thu at 11
1 two-hour examination (40%) and In-course assessment: 2 essays (25% each),
and seminar work (10%)
Re-sit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%)