EN5307 Renaissance Popular Culture

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

To be arranged

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module aims to build upon the themes explored in EN5304, 'Learned Culture'. Here, the emphasis is less upon rhetoric and classroom practice in the sixteenth century, and more upon Renaissance literature's engagement with a wider field of influences and practice, explored as aspects of 'the popular' in its widest sense. Themes for discussion may include: the place of the stage; popular festivity and literary form; ballads and print; jests and alehouses; drama and the city; the impact of the Reformation; and news pamphlets.

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment