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| LGER0068-9 | English literature e (Rewriting Shakespeare)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Christine Pagnoulle |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course focuses on two major plays by Shakespeare - Hamlet and The Tempest and on a number of rewritings. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Students will have developed their ability to detect how literary works function and to compare semiotic systems.
They will also have identified elements that account for Shakespeare's lasting fascination and acquired notions of what is involved in various forms of rewriting. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Good knowledge of English |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course will function as a workshop with each student contributing. The considered rewritings belong to various genres - poetry, drama, fiction, film, graphic novels - which will mean examining generic dictinctions. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face to face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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Hamlet (Case Studies in contemporary criticism) Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
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The Tempest Arden Shakespeare, 2011
Contemporary rewritings:
- Michael Almeyreda, Hamlet 2000 (film) (script published by Faber and Faber),
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Faber & Faber, 1973 (first performed in 1966)
- Margaret Atwood, "Gertrude Talks Back" (a very short short story in Good Bones and Simple Murders, 1994),
- Kamau Brathwaite, a couple of poems related to Caliban and Sycorax (from The Arrivants, A New World Trilogy, OUP, 1973; Barabajan Poems, Savacou North, 1994; Ancestors, New Directions, 2001)
- Marina Warner Indigo, Or Mapping the Waters, Vintage, 1992 (novel)
- Elizabeth Nuñez, Prospero's Daughter, Ballantine books, 2006 (novel)
- Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books (film)
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Students are expected to hand in an essay of 2 to 3,000 words on a 20th C rewriting of another play by Shakespeare. An oral examination will take this assignment as its starting point but also include matter covered in class.Student's participation is also taken into account. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is taught in the 1st term in room A2/4/9, on Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. It will start on the 24th of September.
We will receive at least one guest speaker. |
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Contacts :
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| Christine Pagnoulle
Building A2, rooml 6/12
04 3665438
cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be |
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