Most people who've studied a play by Shakespeare know a few basic facts about his female characters: They were played by boys; they often disguise themselves as men and thus become unrecognisable even to their families; at the end of the play they die (in tragedies) or get married (in comedies).
In this seminar we will read three plays in detail and several secondary texts. We will look at the historical conditions of play-acting, play-going (women in the audience) and plays at court (in front of Elizabethan England's star actress, the queen); and we will discuss modern adaptations of the plays to analyse the complex and challenging tensions between these Renaissance representations of women and 21st-century gender politics.
W.S., The Taming of the Shrew, ed. Ann Thompson (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), updated edition 2003
W.S., As You Like It, ed. Juliet Dusinberre (The Third Arden), 2006
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, ed. Brian Gibbons (The New Mermaids), revised edition 2014
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Fr | 12-14 | X-E1-201 | 01.04.-12.07.2019
not on: 4/5/19 / 4/19/19 |
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one-time | Fr | 12-14 | U2-200 | 05.04.2019 | einmaliger Raumtausch! |
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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profilmodul 2: British Studies | 2.3 British Literature and Media | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM2_a Profilmodul 2: British Studies | 2.3 Literature and Culture | Study requirement
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30-MGS-4 Hauptmodul 3: Arbeit und gesellschaftliche Transformationen | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Geschlechterforschung in der Lehre |