EN5306 Shakespeare and Textual Culture

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

To be arranged

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Prof M Connolly

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module offers students a thorough grounding in the palaeographical and bibliographical skills required to study Renaissance literature (with an introduction to electronic resources), in tandem with an investigation of contemporary readings of the textual culture of the period. Themes for discussion may include: the relationship between manuscript, orality and print in the early modern period; theories of authorship; the relationship between performance and playtext in the Renaissance theatre; editorial theory.

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment

100% coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 hour seminar (x 9 weeks)

Intended learning outcomes

  • Have confidence when handling original materials
  • Make an accurate transcription of a handwritten document
  • Read English handwriting of the early modern period
  • Understand the challenges of using manuscripts in literary research
  • Interpret the textual and paratextual evidence of early printed books
  • Understand the issues involved in editing early modern texts