230184 AILT/GAP: Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, mainly (S) (SoSe 2026)

The aim of this course is to give you the opportunity to apply the analytical tools to which you were introduced in Basis2.1 "Introduction to Literary Analysis" and to analyse and interpret literary texts in the genres of drama (I have chosen Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing) and verse (= narrative poetry; I have chosen Beowulf).
As you see, our primary material will be mainly early modern (= Elizabethan/Jacobean literature). If you have an aversion to Shakespeare and/or poetry, please choose another AILT course.

Literaturangaben

The extract from Beowulf and the sonnets will be provided.
Please buy a paperback edition of Much Ado About Nothing, either from the New Cambridge series (editor: F. H. Mares), or from the Arden series (editor: A.R. Humphreys), or from the Oxford series (editor: Sheldon P. Zitner), or from the Penguin series (editor: R.A. Foakes and Janette Dillon). -- Please note that school editions, Klett parallel German/English editions, or random internet versions are NOT acceptable for scholarly work.