Guía docente de Acercamientos a la Poesía y al Teatro del Renacimiento Inglés (M19/56/2/8)

This course explores, through a selection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English works of poetry and drama, with special emphasis on the poetic and dramatic production of William Shakespeare, how the Renaissance reads, reinterprets and refashions a selection of stories, myths, themes, and characters of the classical tradition, at times via previous continental sources such as Petrarch. Questions of style and poetic form are considered alongside the political, religious, and social concerns brought up in the primary sources, which are consequently studied in connection with texts revealing of the then prevailing political, religious, and scientific discourses.

• C1 level of English
• Previous knowledge of literary conventions 

• To identify and analyse the classical roots of English Renaissance poetry and drama 
• To understand the connections between poetics and religious and political discourses in English Renaissance poetry and drama  
• To understand the political implications of discourses on love, sex and desire in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature
• To understand views on sex and sexuality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 
• To understand aesthetic and philosophical concerns around discourses of love (or lack thereof) in William Shakespeare's poetry and drama 
• To identify and analyse the diversity of approaches to the topic of (non)romantic love in the works by William Shakespeare 
• To analyse common tropes and concepts shared by different art forms and artistic disciplines, including music and the visual arts, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Unit outline:

• Unit 1 - Love and sexuality in Shakespeare's poems: Venus and Adonis 
• Unit 2 - The complaint tradition: A Lover's Complaint, Mary Wroth's A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love, and John Dryden's Dido and Aeneas 
• Unit 3 - Love and desire in Shakespeare's comedies: As You Like It
• Unit 4 - Family relationships and love in Shakespeare's tragedies: King Lear
• Unit 5 - Love and politics in Shakespeare's tragedies: Coriolanus 
• Unit 6 - Love and 21st-century rewritings of Shakespeare's sonnets

• Unit 1 - Love and sexuality in Shakespeare's poems: Venus and Adonis 

1. Reading assignments: William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. 

• Unit 2 - The complaint tradition: A Lover's Complaint, Mary Wroth's A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love, and John Dryden's Dido and Aeneas

1. Reading assignments: William Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, Mary Wroth's A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love; John Dryden's translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book IV (Dido’s farewell).

• Unit 3 - Love and Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies: As You Like It  

1. Reading assignments: William Shakespeare's As You Like It.

• Unit 4 - Family relationships and love in Shakespeare's Tragedies: King Lear (Visiting Professor Brian Cummings, University of York)

1. Reading assignments: William Shakespeare's King Lear.

• Unit 5 - Love and politics in Shakespeare's tragedies: Coriolanus (Visiting Professor Julián Jiménez Heffernan, Universidad de Córdoba)

1. Reading assignments: William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

• Unit 6 - Love and 21st-century rewritings of Shakespeare's sonnets

1. Reading assignments: selection of poems from On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration, edited by Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

• Shakespeare, William. The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint. Edited by John Roe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Online ed. (UGR -VPN).

• Shakespeare, William. King Lear. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Online ed. (UGR -VPN).

• Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Online ed. (UGR -VPN).

• Wroth, Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. by Josephine A. Roberts. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Online ed. (UGR - VPN).

• On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration, edited by Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Extracts from other primary sources will be provided via Prado.

• Adamson, Sylvia, ed. Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001.
• Bates, Catherine Teresa, ed. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
• Brock, D. Heyward and Maria Palacas, eds. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Cheney, Patrick, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, eds. Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Cook, James Wyatt, ed. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
• De Grazia, Margreta and Stanley Wells, eds. The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Demers, Patricia. Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England. Toronto, Ontario; Buffalo, New York; London, England: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
• Dobson, Michael. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Garrett, Martin, ed. Sidney: The Critical Heritage. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Hattaway, Michael, ed. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford etc : Blackwell, 2000.
• Hattaway, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Hopkins, Lisa and Matthew Steggle. Renaissance Literature and Culture. London; New York: Continuum, 2006.
• Jacobson, Miriam. Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
• Kinney, Arthur F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Kinney, Arthur F., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• MacDonald, Joyce Green. Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Martindale, Charles and A.B. Taylor, eds. Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Miller, Naomi J. Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
• Milling, Jane and Peter Thomson, ed. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Volume 1, Origins to 1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Mortimer, Anthony, ed. Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005.
• Neill, Michael and David Schalkwyk, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Norton, Glyn P., ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume 3, The Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Schoenfeldt, Michael, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
• Spies, Marijke, Henk Duits and Ton van Strien, eds. Rhetoric, Rhetoricians, and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.
• Stanivukovic. Goran V., ed. Ovid and the Renaissance Body. Toronto, Ontario; Buffalo, New York; London, England: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
• Traub, Valerie, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Wiseman, Susan, ed. Early Modern Women and the Poem. Manchester, England; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

1. The BBC Television Shakespeare, As you Like it - directed by Basil Coleman, 1978.
2. King Lear - director, Gregory Doran. Stratford-on-Avon, England: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2016.
3. Coriolanus - director, Robin Lough. Stratford-on-Avon, England: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2017.

• MD01 Lección magistral/expositiva 
• MD02 Sesiones de presentaciones, discusión y debate 
• MD03 Trabajo autónomo. 
• MD05 Realización de trabajos individuales 

Grading policy: 

• Attendance and participation (30%)
• In-class presentation (10%)
• One 4,000-5,000 word essay (60%)

Grading policy: 

• Attendance and participation (30%)
• In-class presentation (10%)
• One 4,000-5,000 word-essay (60%)

Grading policy: 

One 6,500-7,000 word essay 

Según establece el Artículo 15 de la Normativa de Evaluación y Calificación de la Universidad de Granada:

"El plagio, entendido como la presentación de un trabajo u obra hecho por otra persona como propio o la copia de textos sin citar su procedencia y dándolos como de elaboración propia, conllevará automáticamente la calificación numérica de cero en la asignatura en la que se hubiera detectado, independientemente del resto de las calificaciones que el estudiante hubiera obtenido. Esta consecuencia debe entenderse sin perjuicio de las responsabilidades disciplinarias en las que pudieran incurrir los estudiantes que plagien." 

En línea con la normativa de la UGR expuesta en el párrafo anterior, es necesario aclarar que, al igual que con cualquier otro tipo de plagio, el incumplimiento del compromiso de autoría por parte del/de la estudiante debido a la utilización de recursos no humanos (por ejemplo, aplicaciones informáticas de Inteligencia Artificial) conllevará igualmente la calificación automática de SUSPENSO (0) en la asignatura, así como las responsabilidades disciplinarias que esta acción pueda acarrear.

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