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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Andrew Milne-Skinner Andrew Milne-Skinner

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Critical Interfaces: British/Anglophone Cultures: Macbeth - an Interdisciplinay Cultural Studies Approach to 'the Scottish play'

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

to apply principles of Cultural Studies and New Historicism to Shakespeare's play within the Jacobean context and Zeitgeist

close study of the play, its genesis, reception, performing history, musical and operatic versions, art pictures, film versions, parodies, etc.

regular reading assignments, presentation on a negotiated topic, informed discussion, follow-up paper

active participation, presentation, follow-up paper, dossier

'Macbeth' (Reclam ed., zweisprachig) Bibliography based on exhibition of some 70 books on the play, its background, etc. (made available in opening sessions)

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: positive Beurteilung des Pflichtmoduls 19 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS 2: English Culture
Beginn: 11. März 2011