- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have mastered the main lines of development of English Literature and drama, in relation to European culture
Course contents
Green and blue Shakespeare: Ecological approaches to early modern literature and drama
Readings/Bibliography
Primary texts
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Other texts will be available online in the University web page concerning this course.
Secondary texts
Gabriel Egan, Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Dan Brayton, Shakespeare’s Ocean : An Ecocritical Exploration. University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Other critical and historical material will be available online in the University web page concerning this course.
Teaching methods
Lectures (initially online); the reading of primary and secondary texts; class discussions; the viewing of performative material.
Assessment methods
Essay and oral exam
Teaching tools
Video and digital material.
Office hours
See the website of Keir Douglas Elam