- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Course contents
Shakespeare, Venice and the Orient
1. The myth of Shakespeare: questions of authorship
2. The myth of Venice: sources and representations
3. The Merchant of Venice
4. The East India Company and the Middle East
5. Othello
6. The Orient in early modern English culture and drama
7. Antony and Cleopatra
Timetable
Tuesday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA TIBILETTI (Via Zamboni, 34)
Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA II (Via Zamboni, 34)
Thursday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA II (Via Zamboni, 34)
The course will start on Tuesday 2 October 2017
Readings/Bibliography
Programme for 12 credits:
Primary texts:
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, ed. Alessandro Serpieri. Milano: Garzanti
Othello, ed. Agostino Lombardo. Milano: Feltrinelli
Antony and Cleopatra, ed. Agostino Lombardo. Milano: Feltrinelli
Secondary texts
Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi, eds. Visions of Venice in Shakespeare. Aldershot: Ashgate
Sara Munson Deats, ed. Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays. London: Routledge.
Other material will be available online
The course will start on Tuesday 3 October 2017
Programme for 9 credits
Primary texts:
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, ed. Alessandro Serpieri. Milano: Garzanti
Othello, ed. Agostino Lombardo. Milano: Feltrinelli
Secondary texts
Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi, eds. Visions of Venice in Shakespeare. Aldershot: Ashgate
Programme for 6 credits
Primary texts:
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, ed. Alessandro Serpieri. Milano: Garzanti
Secondary texts
Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi, eds. Visions of Venice in Shakespeare. Aldershot: Ashgate
Programme for non-attending students
Together with the texts indicated in the programme, there is an additional reading:
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: Norton.
Teaching methods
The course will comprise the reading and discussion of the plays and of critical, biographical and cultural texts, as well as the showing of videos and other audiovisual material.
Assessment methods
Students will be asked to write an essay to be discussed in the final oral exam.
Office hours
See the website of Keir Douglas Elam