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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
English Literature 1: 16th and 17th Cent. - II - AAA220111
Title: Anglická literatura 1: 16.a 17.stol. - II
Guaranteed by: Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky (21-UAA)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2007
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Martin Hilský, CSc.
Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil.
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Annotation -
LECTURE:
Renaissance literature. The emphasis is put on the growth of the English drama and on the theatre of Shakespeare. Drama before and after Shakespeare is discussed, including Restoration drama and English theatre in the 18th century.

SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
The course will provide an introduction to Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. It will examine various aspects and complexities of Renaissance writings, especially poetry and drama. The focus will be on practising close reading and on discussing selected texts, but we shall also consider wider cultural, historical and social issues.


MATERIAL
Authors and topics to be discussed will include: selected prose by Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney; sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, poems by John Donne (early poems by John Milton); Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

ASSESSMENT
Students are required to read the appropriate texts before they attend the class.
- 2 short essays (about 1,000 words)
- 1 test
satisfactory attendance and active participation in seminar discussions

Last update: UAAZNOJE (16.07.2007)
 
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