- Class Number 6769
- Term Code 3160
- Class Info
- Unit Value 6 units
- Mode of Delivery In Person
- Dr Kate Flaherty
- Dr Kate Flaherty
- Class Dates
- Class Start Date 26/07/2021
- Class End Date 29/10/2021
- Census Date 14/09/2021
- Last Date to Enrol 02/08/2021
The reign of Elizabeth I fostered a new social technology – the public theatre – and with it an explosion of playwriting that has influenced how we think about power and public identity to this day. But how did having a woman in charge influence this evolving artform? The Queen staged her authority in elaborate rituals, called herself a ‘prince’, and declined to marry. Unsurprisingly, tragedies and histories of the era dramatise crises of royal succession and related political instability through complex explorations of tyranny and treachery that disturb binary definitions of gender. Comedies often resolve these crises through marriage but are likewise populated by articulate female characters and driven by gender disguise. All of this cultural work took place in a new and radically public space and was governed by an aesthetics of self-reflexivity. What can we learn from these plays and this epoch about the relationship between gender, sex, performance, and political power? In this course you will learn to read early modern plays informed by an understanding of their theatrical and socio-political origins and to reflect on their legacies in modern entertainment and public life. Playwrights to be studied include Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Cary.
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Read closely and understand a range of early modern plays.
- Identify themes and formal characteristics of early modern drama.
- Analyse a play-text in the light of its socio-political context.
- Direct a scene from an early-modern play-text with reference to original staging conditions.
- Reflect on practice-based research findings in the light of published scholarship on a gender-related topic in early modern drama.
Staff FeedbackStudents will be given feedback in the following forms in this course:
- Written comments
- Verbal comments
- Feedback to the whole class, to groups, to individuals, focus groups
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|Week/Session||Summary of Activities||Assessment|
|1||Lecture: The Place of the Stage|
|5||Lecture: Middleton and Rowley|
|6||Lecture: Fletcher and Shakespeare||Scene analysis|
|12||Workshop journal and consultations||Workshop journal|
|Assessment task||Value||Learning Outcomes|
|Scene Analysis||30 %||1,2|
|Workshop Journal||50 %||2,3,5|
* If the Due Date and Return of Assessment date are blank, see the Assessment Tab for specific Assessment Task details
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Moderation of AssessmentMarks that are allocated during Semester are to be considered provisional until formalised by the College examiners meeting at the end of each Semester. If appropriate, some moderation of marks might be applied prior to final results being released.
Assessment Task 1
Learning Outcomes: 1,2
Assessment Task 2
Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4
10 minutes/1000 words
Assessment Task 3
Learning Outcomes: 2,3,5
Assessment Task 4
Learning Outcomes: 1,2,4
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Drama, Shakespeare, the actress, touring theatre, poetry
Dr Kate Flaherty