MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

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Shakespeare and the age of discovery

Bryan Coleborne

Synopsis 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 (1750 words): 30% + Minor essay B (1750 words): 30% + Major essay (2500 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 Humphry Clinker ed. A Ross, Penguin, 1985