Shakespeare (CMEN52) - III Year

 

Academic Year 2024-2025 (Odd)

III Year –Semester V

Shakespeare (CMEN52)

 

UNIT I:           General Shakespeare and Popular Shakespearean Critics

            Importance of Opening Scenes

Supernatural Elements

Fools & Clowns in Shakespeare Plays

A. C. Bradley            : The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy from Shakespearean    

  Tragedy

Tiffany Stern            : The Theatre of Shakespeare’s London      Latest Essay


 

UNIT II:          Sonnets

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 65

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 121

 

UNIT III:         Comedy or Dark Comedy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

 

UNIT IV:        Tragedy

King Lear

 

UNIT V:         Historical

Antony and Cleopatra

 

Prescribed Texts:

A, C. Bradley. “The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy”, Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Penguin.             1991.

Tiffany Stern. “The Theatre of Shakespeare’s London”, The New Cambridge Companion to         

            Shakespeare. Ed. Margreta de Grazia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.

William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fingerprint Publishing, 2019.

William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.

William Shakespeare. King Lear. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

William Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.



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