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Many of the greatest plays in the English language were written during the Jacobean period. Setting two of Shakespeare’s finest works alongside major works by Jonson, Middleton, and Webster, this course will examine and try to explain the extraordinary flourishing of talent which took place between 1603 and 1625.
1. Shakespeare and the Gunpowder Plot: Macbeth (1606)
2. Nostalgia for Elizabeth I: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
3. Empire or Republic? Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1607-8)
4. Celebrating the mystical Jacobean state: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (1608-9)
5. The move to rehabilitate Mary Queen of Scots: Webster’s The White Devil (1612)
6. Disastrous aristocratic rivalries: Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Two Noble Kinsmen (1613-14)
7. The ill-treatment of Arbella Stuart: Webster’s Duchess of Malfi (1613-14)
8. Anti-Spanish drama: Middleton’s The Changeling (1622)
By the end of this course students should be able to:
Appreciate the special characteristics of Jacobean drama
Understand the ways in which drama developed from 1603 to 1625
Analyse the works covered on the course in their cultural and historical contexts
Essential:
Stephen Greenblatt et al. The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2015)
John Webster and Thomas Middleton. Three Revenge Tragedies. (London: Penguin, 2004)
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi. (London: New Mermaids, 2014)
Recommended:
David Bevington et al. (eds.). English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. New York: WW Norton (2002)
JW Lever and Jonathan Dollimore. The Tragedy of State. London: Routledge (1987)
LC Knights. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson. London: Penguin (1962)
Brian Gibbons. Jacobean City Comedy. London: Methuen (1980)
If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk or by phone 0131 650 4400.
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