Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Module Identifier
DR30620
Module Title
SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE
Academic Year
2010/2011
Co-ordinator
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Pre-Requisite
Successful completion of Part 1 Drama.
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2,500 word Essay | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | Class contribution | 10% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 60% |
Learning Outcomes
Typically, upon completion of this module students should be able:
- To demonstrate a critical and analytical awareness of the theatricality of specific Shakespeare plays.
- To reflect analytically and critically on the assumptions which documented production choices embody.
- To show an understanding of the implications various critical approaches may generate for production choices.
Brief description
This module will focus on a selection of Shakespeare plays with a particular emphasis upon the staging of those plays throughout history. The production history of the selected plays will provide insights into how performance, context and staging techniques can alter or discover new meanings from the play-texts
Aims
This module examines a number of Shakespearean play texts to explore ways in which:
- their creation and mediation was determined by original staging circumstances
- later generations restaged them in ways to create new meanings
- they might be staged creatively today
- their creation and mediation was determined by original staging circumstances
- later generations restaged them in ways to create new meanings
- they might be staged creatively today
Content
During the study for this module students will encounter differing approaches to the interpretation and performances of selected texts.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | Communication skills will be developed in seminar sessions |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will receive feedback on written assignments |
| Information Technology | IT and information handling skills will be demonstrated through students individual research (library and web) and through written work (word processing). |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will have the opportunity to explore specific areas which reflect and strengthen their individual career needs |
| Research skills | Students will demonstrate the results of individual research in the form of essays, examinations and oral contribution. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students are encouraged to develop the use of critical and analytical vocabulary in their written and oral response to issues concerning Shakespeare's plays as text and in performance. Production history of selected Shakespeare plays will also be considered in some depth so that students will acquire an understanding of how context, directorial choices, acting styles, casting and other aspects of production alter or bring out new meanings in the plays. Upon completion students should be able : to respond analytically to a range of theatrical texts and modes of live performance, to articulate an awareness of relationships between texts, performances and cultural contexts, to demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and methodologies within Shakespeare studies. |
Reading List
Recommended TextAlexander and Wells Shakespeare and Race (Routledge) Primo search Bate, and Jackson, (2001) The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage (OUP) Primo search Bogdanov, (2003) Shakespeare: The Director's Cut (Capercaillie) Primo search Bristol, Big Time Shakespeare (Routledge) Primo search Dessen, (1989) Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in Performance: MUP) Primo search Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage: 1574 - 1642 (CUP) Primo search Holderness, (1989) The Taming of The Shrew (Shakespeare in Performance: MUP) Primo search Holmes, (2004) Merely Players? (Routledge) Primo search Leggatt, (1991) King Lear (There is a very good series of these Shakespeare in Performance books from MUP and they are frequently updated. Most plays are covered) (Shakespeare in Performance: MUP)) Primo search Mangan, (1996) A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies (Longman) Primo search Mangan, (1996) A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies (Longman) Primo search Parsons & Mason, (1995) Shakespeare in Performance Primo search Scott, Shakespeare and the Modern Dramatist (Macmillan) Primo search Shakespeare, William Hamlet Skakespeare in performance edition n.e. Arden Shakespeare Primo search Shakespeare, William King Lear Skakespeare in performance edition n.e. Arden Shakespeare Primo search Shakespeare, William Merchant of Venice Skakespeare in performance edition n.e. Arden Shakespeare Primo search Shakespeare, William Titus Andronicus Skakespeare in performance edition n.e. Arden Shakespeare Primo search Shakespeare, William, The tempest / Skakespeare in performance Cambridge University Press, Primo search Thomson, (1992) Shakespeare`s Theatre (Routledge) Primo search Wells, Shakepeare in the Theatre (Oxford) Primo search Wells, & Stanton, (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (Cambridge) Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6