ESAA72 Shakespeare and the Nature of Vice and Virtue

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021

The course is not taught in Spring 2021

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 16:00–17:40 C32
Prerequisites
Course is a very good way to develop advanced academic reading abilities in classical literature.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Shakespeare reflects many different kinds and forms of vice and virtue in terms of charity, hope, prudence, courage, chastity, versus lechery, lust, voluptiousness, lust, pride, envy, avarice, wrath, sloth etc. Course shows how to analyse those phenomena in the following plays against the background of the European spiritual tradition (Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, Bible, Augustine, Ficino, Renaissance)
Learning outcomes
The output of the study course lies in acquired ability to interpret crucial Renaissance concepts of arts and beauty.
Syllabus
  • Shakespeare reflects many different kinds and forms of vice and virtue in terms of charity, hope, prudence, courage, chastity, versus lechery, lust, voluptiousness, lust, pride, envy, avarice, wrath, sloth etc. Course shows how to analyse those phenomena in the following plays against the background of the European spiritual tradition (Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, Bible, Augustine, Ficino, Renaissance)
Literature
  • Richard Simpson: Love in Shakespeare´s Sonnets;
  • John Vyvyan: Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty
  • Love poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid. Edited by Ovid - David R. Slavitt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011, xxviii, 35. ISBN 9780674061224. info
  • Metamorphoses. Edited by Ovid - Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2010, xliv, 492. ISBN 9781603844581. info
Teaching methods
Interpretation of the selected plays and poems, discussion.
Assessment methods
Colloquium in the circle of students. Each of them bring his/her own ideas about the plays under analysis.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Lectures, literature, discussions and examination in English.
The course is taught only once.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Lectures, literature, discussions and examination in English.
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