Shakespeare's Monologues - AAA300246

• Title: Shakespearovy monology
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAA500246
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Martin Hilský, CSc.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
To read and interpret Shakespeare´s monologues in relevant Shakespearean and cultural contexts. The seminar
will be mainly (although not exclusively) focused on monologues in Shakespeare´s tragedies (Richard III. , Richard
II., Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra,
Coriolanus). Members of the seminar will read and interpret selected monologues, specify their meanings within
the context of each play and within the wider contexts of the English and European renaissance. Comparative
discussions of Shakespearean monologues (Hamlet/Macbeth, Hamlet/Brutus, Lear/Timon, etc.) will be
encouraged. The seminar is an exercise in creative reading and interpretation whose aim is to understand more
fully Shakespeare´s tragic imagination.

MATERIAL
Shakespeare´s monologues (and soliloquies). The selection of the monologues and theoretical studies relevant to
the topic will be specified at the first session of the seminar.

ASSESSMENT
Active participation in the seminar discussions, one oral presentation, one essay. Further details including seminar
topics for presentations and essays will be discussed at the first seminar.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (24.01.2011)