MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
ENH2630
Shakespeare: text and performance
S Tweg
8 points + 2 hours (plus 2 hours optional) per week + First semester +
Clayton
Synopsis This subject will explore dramatic techniques and meanings lost
and found, in selected texts of Shakespeare's plays, as they have been
performed in the past and in our time. There will be one compulsory
lecture-seminar (2 hours per week) and one optional lecture/performance
seminar (2 hours per week). The play chosen for the performance option in 1996
is The Winter's Tale.
Assessment Essay (1500 words): 30% + Oral paper (1500 words): 30% +
Examination (3 hours) or participation in the performance seminar which will
include either written work and performance or a long essay (3000 words): 40%
Prescribed texts
- Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream New Cambridge
- Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice New Cambridge
- Shakespeare Titus Andronicus OUP
- Shakespeare Richard III Penguin
- Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Penguin
- Shakespeare King Lear Penguin
- Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Penguin
- Shakespeare Macbeth Penguin
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