Shakespeare Comedies (ELIT611) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Shakespeare Comedies ELIT611 General Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Ph.D.
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Dersin öğretim elemanı (Academic staff)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives This course aims to analyse Shakespeare's comedies within the context of early modern period culture and society. In the course, new historicist and cultural materialist analysis methods will be used to investigate the early modern period discourse.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • are able to analyse Shakespeare's plays in the context of new historicist and cultural materialist approaches,
  • are able to understand Shakespeare and the early modern period in the light of social and political events,
  • are able to conduct research on Shakespeare's plays and write academic papers on them,
  • know Shakespeare's stance as a playwright, the sources of his plays and dramatical features in his plays.
Course Content Analysis of Shakespeare`s comedies.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Renaissance and Shakespeare's plays: cultural context Research
2 Theoretical context Research
3 A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream
4 Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing
5 All’s Well that Ends Well All’s Well that Ends Well
6 The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew
7 The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice
8 The Tempest The Tempest
9 The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Gentlemen of Verona
10 The Winter's Tale The Winter's Tale
11 The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors
12 Twelfth Night Twelfth Night
13 As You Like It As You Like It
14 General comments and comparison of the plays
15 Revision
16 Final exam

Sources

Course Book 1. The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition.
Other Sources 2. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, 2nd ed., (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2003)
3. Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance, (London, Routledge, 1982, repr. 2008).
4. Louis Montrose, The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and The Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996).
5. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Blackwell, 2005)
6. Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism, 2nd ed. Eds. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Cornell UP, 1994 (esp. Dollimore and McLuskie)

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 1 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 1 30
Presentation 1 20
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 4 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 To be able to use English language competently concerning four basic skills, namely listening, reading, speaking, and writing. X
2 To have extensive theoretical knowledge about English literature. X
3 To gain knowledge about literary theories and to be able to apply these theories to various literary texts. X
4 To acquire detailed knowledge about British culture in all its aspects. X
5 To be able to compare and contrast English literature with other literatures through works from different periods and genres. X
6 To be able to compare and contrast British culture with other cultures. X
7 To plan, organize, and conduct the activities related to the field. X
8 To acquire the skills of creative, critical, and analytical thinking. X
9 To gain knowledge about how to conduct an academic research and to use the acquired knowledge in accordance with the purpose of the research. X
10 To acquire professional ethics and to use them in the process of research and production. X
11 To get prepared for professional life by developing a sense of responsibility through individual tasks and group projects. X
12 To be able to understand and decipher various discourses involved in literature such as literary, philosophical, psychological, cultural, critical and theoretical discourses in English language. X
13 To be able to understand and be a part of world culture. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 15 3 45
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 1 10 10
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 1 10 10
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 15 15
Total Workload 128