| Module Identifier | SP20620 | ||
| Module Title | THE GOLDEN AGE | ||
| Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Professor Gwynne Edwards | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||
| Pre-Requisite | (Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 2 Spanish. | ||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 22 Hours | |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 4 Hours | ||
| Assessment | Exam | 2 Hours Written exam. | 60% |
| Continuous assessment | Two essays of 1500 - 2,000 words each | 40% | |
Brief description
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed Spain's political and artistic greatness, not least in relation to the development of the novel and the theatre. This module examines the emergence of the picaresque novel and the short story; it also focuses on two major plays in order to show how Spanish drama broke the classical mould, paralleling in many respects its Elizabethan counterpart.
Syllabus
Week 1 Introduction to Golden Age Theatre
2-3 Lope de Vega, Peribanez
4-6 Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla
7 Introduction to Golden Age Novel
8 Cervantes, El celoso extremeno
9 Cervantes, El licenciado vidriera
10-12 Anon, Lazarillo de Tormes
Reading Lists
Books
Lope de Vega.
Peribanez. Any.
Tirso de Molina.
El burlador de Sevilla. Clasicos castellanos
Miguel de Cervantes.
El celoso extremeno/El licenciado vidriera. Any.
Anon.
Lazarillo de Tormes. Manchester University Press