Durée
30h Th
Nombre de crédits
Enseignant
Langue(s) de l'unité d'enseignement
Langue anglaise
Organisation et évaluation
Enseignement au premier quadrimestre, examen en janvier
Horaire
Unités d'enseignement prérequises et corequises
Les unités prérequises ou corequises sont présentées au sein de chaque programme
Contenus de l'unité d'enseignement
The course, subtitled this year "Shakespeare and the Middle Ages", will urge a reconsideration of well-established critical clichés about this author, as well as a rethinking of the generative relationship between two important phases of the literary past, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Shakespeare has been traditionally regarded as an author of the Renaissance, and until recently it would have been unthinkable to associate him with the culture of the Middle Ages - the only segment of his production identified as somehow medieval in theme being the history plays. Any other medieval elements in his work were widely considered as random unimportant survivals in a writer felt to be marking the emergence of the modern world, and to be illustrating all those ways of being that characterize our modern selves. As against this line of thinking, we shall examine the possibility that he may be a writer who was deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, and who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions - about everything from language through culture and religion to stagecraft - from the medieval past. This will be attempted in the light of a selection of representative comedies and tragedies.
Acquis d'apprentissage (objectifs d'apprentissage) de l'unité d'enseignement
The students are expected to develop such life-essential competences as familiarity with medieval literary culture, with Renaissance literary culture, with Shakespeare's work and sources, and with the particular idiom known as Elizabethan English.
Savoirs et compétences prérequis
A dim remembrance of the first-year course on the history of English literature may come in handy but is not indispensable.
Activités d'apprentissage prévues et méthodes d'enseignement
Heuristic seminars in class or online.
Mode d'enseignement (présentiel, à distance, hybride)
It is hoped that the seminars can be held face-to-face, though obviously this is bound to depend on other-than-pedagogic factors.
Adaptations organisationnelles liées au contexte sanitaire
Lectures recommandées ou obligatoires et notes de cours
We shall discuss three plays by Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Troilus and Cressida
Pericles.
Modalités d'évaluation et critères
Vous trouverez ci-dessous les modalités d'évaluation envisagées pour les examens en présentiel et à distance ainsi que celle souhaitée en cas de session hybride. En fonction de l'évolution sanitaire, la modalité choisie vous sera communiquée au plus tard un mois avant le début de la session d'examen.
In all likelihood assessment will take the form of an oral examination in which the students will be asked to confirm their receptivity to the themes addressed in class and to test this against a body of critical (secondary) literature devoted to the selected plays.
Stage(s)
Remarques organisationnelles
The course will be organized in the first term. The exact schedule will be determined in consultation with the students wishing to enlist.
Contacts
Please contact Marc Delrez for any query concerning the course: marc.delrez@uliege.be
As indicated above, the schedule will be determined in consultation with the students wishing to enlist. It is hoped that a first get-together can be organized in the first week of term (around 21 September 2020).