Shakespeare and the age of discovery
BT BW BB BS DT GA PA BC BP BDT BJ BY
Bryan Coleborne
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * First semester * 3 hours per week (2-hour lecture, 1-hour seminar) * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GSC1401 and GSC1402 or equivalents
The works prescribed for study range from two plays by Shakespeare to a selection of Blake's poetry. There are four plays, three works of prose fiction and one collection of poetry. A selection of verse from the early seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries will be provided for study. The texts will encourage analysis of the theme of urban experience, the nature of country life and the extent of movement to the city and the world of new discoveries, mainly in the northern hemisphere, all in the period from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries.
Assessment
Minor essay A (1500 words): 30% * Minor essay B (1500 words): 30% * Major essay (2000 words): 40%
Prescribed texts
Blake W Selected poetry ed. W H Stevenson, Penguin, 1988
Defoe D Moll Flanders ed. D Blewett, Penguin, 1989
Gay J The beggar's opera ed. B Loughrey and T O Treadwell, Penguin, 1986
Johnson S Rasselas ed. J P Hardy, OUP, 1990
Marston J The Dutch Courtesan in Four Jacobean city comedies ed. G Salgado, Penguin, 1985
Shakespeare W Measure for Measure ed. N W Bawcutt, OUP, 1991
Shakespeare W The Tempest ed. S Orgel, OUP, 1991
Smollett T The expedition of Humphrey Clinker ed. A Ross, Penguin, 1985