- Docente: Gino Scatasta
- Credits: 9
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will be acquainted with the lineaments of English literary history, will be able to read, understand and translate texts from English into Italian, and will be also acquainted with some basic critical methods and tools, with the aim to enable them to interpret the works of major Renaissance authors, contextualising them against the background of early-modern culture and society.
Course contents
Hamlet(s)
The first group of lessons (until the end of March) will deal
with some aspects of English literarature from the beginning to the
end of XVII century. Some lessons will focus in particular on
Chaucer, Marlowe, Donne and Milton.
A selection of some passages of Hamlet will be introduced in
the seconbd part of the course, after a general introduction to the
Elizabethan theatre. It will be underlined the various and
interesting interpretatons of and perspectives on some episodes and
the general aspects of the play.
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons.
Reading and analysis of literary texts.
Assessment methods
Office hours
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