ENGL2060 Lecture 1: Week 1 Lecture
ENGL2060 Lecture 1
Assessment:
• Participation
• Close reading, Research 1 and 2
• No duplication of texts
Lecture Plan:
• Design of course
• Shakespeare and his First Folio
• Early modern stage
Tamburtaine the Great by Marlow
• Most successful and popular of the time
• Died in bar-room brawl
• Stratford grammar school – grammar, logic and rhetoric (art of persuasion)
• Rhetorical devices still used today
• First to use blank verse
• Just rise
Richard III by Shakespeare:
• Rise and fall
• Overly evil but charismatic
Jew of Malta by Marlow:
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Ben Jonson:
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New Historicism:
• Study of the content in their own time
• Historical context
Modules:
• Rhetoric and state power - used to create effective public speakers – Tamburlaine
and Richard III
• Gender and sexualities – only heterosexuals, at the time many nations ruled by
women, head of patriarchy contentions over men who she had right to claim,
challenging, could not act on public stage, cross-dressing, letting young men act like
women they will become women – Epicine and As You Like It
• Racial and religious identities – shift from universal church (Catholic), after was
Roman Catholic, rise of other religions (Calvinist, Anabaptists) – Jew of Malta,
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Document Summary
Assessment: participation, close reading, research 1 and 2, no duplication of texts. Lecture plan: design of course, shakespeare and his first folio, early modern stage. Tamburtaine the great by marlow: most successful and popular of the time, died in bar-room brawl, stratford grammar school grammar, logic and rhetoric (art of persuasion, rhetorical devices still used today, first to use blank verse. Richard iii by shakespeare: rise and fall, overly evil but charismatic. New historicism: study of the content in their own time, historical context. Roman catholic, rise of other religions (calvinist, anabaptists) jew of malta, Merchant of venice and othello (all set in catholic communities but set in protestant. England: nation and empire products of the british empire, no clear impact but represents heritage, considered nations in the modern sense, 3 shakespeare plays. India, now anti-imperialist, can be what we need him to be)
