LT4232 Drama, ancient and early modern

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr E L Buckley

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Module Staff

Dr Emma Buckley

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Module description

Early modern England is the age of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Spenser – ‘giants’ who established English as the national language of epic and the public stage. But this great vernacular literature was constructed in dialogue with the classical past, and composed by artists educated through extensive immersion in Latin. This module traces the role of translation in forming a vernacular literature for Elizabethan England; explores three major ancient dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy and the history-play); and investigates how and why Latin literature shaped and interacted with English theatrical culture in the 1580s and 1590s, discovering fascinating conversations between the Latin, neo-Latin and English plays of late Elizabethan England.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS 40 CREDITS FROM {LT2001, LT2002} OR PASS 40 CREDITS FROM {LT2003, LT2004} OR PASS 40 CREDITS FROM {LT3017, LT3018}

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 100%

Re-assessment

Written exam - 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 hour seminar (x11 weeks)

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify, describe and understand the major formal linguistic, generic, and socio-cultural features of Roman and early modern comedy, tragedy and historiography, and situate them within broader historical, cultural and intellectual contexts.
  • Demonstrate advanced proficiency in translation of original Latin; and an appreciation of the differences between classical and neo-Latin, both linguistic and stylistic.
  • Understand and apply a range of theoretical approaches to these texts.
  • Present well-reasoned and researched arguments in both verbal and written form, constructed through close reading of primary texts and secondary literature.
  • Demonstrate initiative and independence in devising and managing an individual research project.