The woman's part
D Cuthbert
8 points
* 2 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have a sound knowledge of Shakespearean and Jacobean drama and an understanding of the ways inwhich gender difference is produced by discourse; they will also have a working familiarity with some of the methods of feminist, historicist and materialist criticism.
Synopsis This subject explores the representation of women in a range of English dramatic texts from the first half of the seventeenth century, in light of the position of women in that society and the approaches offered by feminist literary criticism. The subject will raise a number of topics for discussion including (i) the range and significance of female character types (the shrew, the widow, the whore etc.); (ii) female sexuality; (iii) love, marriage, property; (iv) male attitudes to women, especially stage misogyny; (v) relations between the sexes (husbands and wives, fathers and daughters); (vi) intersections of gender, class and racial difference.
Assessment second year Exercise (1500 words): 20%
* Short essay
(1500 words): 30%
* Long essay (3000 words): 50%
* Seminar
participation.
Assessment third year Exercise (1500 words): 20%
* Short essay (1500
words): 30%
* Long essay (3000 words): 50%
* Seminar participation
* Third-year students will be required to answer different essay topics and
demonstrate wider reading, a deeper understanding of theoretical approaches and
greater skills of analysis.
Prescribed texts
Middleton T Five plays Penguin
Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Signet
Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Signet
Shakespeare Othello Signet
Shakespeare As You Like It Signet
Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Signet
Webster J Three plays Penguin
Recommended texts
McLuskie K Renaissance dramatists Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989
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