FF:ESA056 Shakespeare: Question of Evil - Course Information

ESA056 Shakespeare and the Questions about Evil

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

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: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

The course is a very good way to develop advanced academic reading abilities in classical literature. Students must be able to present and defend their own opinions and to accept constructive criticism and advice. Tackling topics in depth and defending the arguments in their written work sharpens their thinking.

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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The aim of the course is a) to get a better knowledge of Shakespeare; b) to learn the method of analyzes and interpretation according to the philosophical and religious views of the Elizabethan epoch.

Learning outcomes

Student will increase his ability to analyze and interpret Shakespeare's works combining several humanistic approaches, the historical, ethico-philosophical, linguistic and artistic. That is why and especially recommandable to all university students.

Syllabus

This is a very unusual approach to Shakespeare's plays and poems, nevertheless utterly substantiated with a hoard of evidences. Our bard is an overt and staunch defender of the sacrality of marrige, and, nota bene, in the age of its crisis and defamation - think only about the divorce of Henry VIII and its consequences and the exclusion of the marriage from the seven sacraments done various reformers in the 16th century. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Henry V and Henry VIII, All's Well, Winter's Tale, Cymbelin and even Othello supply many examples, topics and declarations that will be analyzed in the course of the semester. A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Attested by the holy close of lips, Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings; And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony. Twelfth Night 5.1

Teaching methods

Analysis of plays, aesthetic and historical interpretation.

Assessment methods

written test from three selected plays

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught every week.
General note: Předmět je vhodný pro všechny posluchače MU.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Při překročení kapacity kursu je možné zapsat si totožný ARTS019 v témže čase.

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