Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF COMEDY
We will study four classic Shakespeare plays individually and comparatively, examining how each of them relates to its historical context and the contemporary audience.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Close textual study of the plays will be a springboard for considerations of issues connected with performance and adaptation, social, psychological and sexual orientations, problems of power and authority, the physical and metaphysical dimensions of man and woman, definitions of the comic and tragic, and how all of this relates to the various uses of comic principles and techniques (transformation, the grotesque, social manipulation, the carnivalesque, rhetorical exaggeration and nonsense, satire, verbal wit and parody, the sexual burlesque, comic relief, misunderstandings, ...). Our discussions will be leavened by video recordings and other supporting materials.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night.
Michel Delville and Pierre Michel, Hamlet & Co
Assessment methods and criteria
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
written essay