2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL3245 Jacobean Drama

20 creditsClass Size: 18

School of English

Module manager: Professor Martin Butler
Email: M.H.Butler@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Module replaces

ENGL32220 Jacobean Drama

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

To introduce students to a representative selection of major plays from the period 1600-1630 and to evaluate the relationship between their representations of power and the ideological crisis of their times.

Learning outcomes
Students will have developed:
- the ability to use written and oral communication effectively;
- the capacity to analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse;
- the ability to manage quantities of complex information in a structured and systematic way;
- the capacity for independent thought and judgement;
- critical reasoning;
- research skills, including the retrieval of information, the organisation of material and the evaluation of its importance;
- IT skills;
- efficient time management and organisation skills;
- the ability to learn independently.

Skills outcomes
- Skills for effective communication, oral and written.
- Capacity to analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse.
- Ability to acquire quantities of complex information of diverse kinds in a structured and systematic way.
- Capacity for independent thought and judgement.
- Critical reasoning.
- Research skills, including information retrieval skills, the organisation of material, and the evaluation of its importance.
- IT skills.
- Time management and organisational skills.
- Independent learning.

Syllabus

The decades 1600-1630 belong to a century that was to be overshadowed by a momentous breakdown in the social fabric. Not surprisingly, the theatre of these years is pregnant with its age’s sense of incipient transformation. Jacobean playwrights repeatedly dramatised the environments in which change seemed (to them) to be most conspicuous: princely courts and the world of Machiavellian power, and the contemporary metropolis, with its commodified fashions, manners and sexuality. This module will study eight plays (three comedies and five tragedies) that are preoccupied with the ideological conflicts and anxieties that change stimulated. It will investigate their engagement with the forms of power of Jacobean society, and people’s changing assumptions about selfhood, the family and the state.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	4	1.00	4.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			186.00
Total Contact hours			14.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Seminar preparation, reading, essay writing.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Contribution to seminars.

- Feedback on first assessed essay.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,750 words including quotations and footnotes	66.70
Essay	1,700 words including quotations and footnotes	33.30
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 26/04/2017

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