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Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06 Blue Shakespeare - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06 Blue Shakespeare - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06 Blue Shakespeare
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06
Semester SoSe 2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 20
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin Mittwoch, 27.05.2026 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
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Voraussetzungen We will read the texts in this order: Twelfth Night – Pericles – The Tempest. As we will start with a theoretical introduction to the blue humanities, sessions on water in Shakespeare’s age and on the sonnets, students will have time to catch up at the beginning on the course, but you must all have read Twelfth Night by the time we begin to discuss it in class. Reading all plays early on is, of course, an advantage, as it will allow you to draw connections between the different texts from the start.
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Räume und Zeiten

FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Mittwoch: 16:15 - 17:45, wöchentlich (14x)
(GW1 A0010)
Dienstag, 02.06.2026 16:00 - 17:45
(Haus der Wissenschaften - exact time to be determined)
Samstag, 27.06.2026 15:00 - 21:00

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

This seminar approaches Shakespeare’s writing from the perspective of the blue humanities. The blue humanities is a fairly recent literary and cultural theory that focuses on the representation of water. It asks how the world might appear from a perspective that foregrounds water rather than land, and how different concepts that structure the lives of many people (such as the nation state) are intricately bound up with a land-based view of this blue planet.
Historically, the blue humanities has partly evolved from early modern studies. The early modern period was shaped by shifting power balances as well as shifting conceptions of the world, and humanity’s relationship with the ocean was pivotal to these changes. In this seminar, students will familiarise themselves with key concepts and tenets of the blue humanities. We will apply these to Shakespeare’s writing and we will explore both the presence of and references to bodies of water (the sea, rivers, storms) in Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, as well as his use of water as an image and symbol.
We will also participate in the Long Night of the Sciences with a poster exhibition, which means that students will have the chance to communicate the outcomes of the course and the expertise they have acquired to a non-academic audience (for more information, please consult the syllabus).
Reading: Please buy the following texts, which have been ordered by the university bookshop (on campus):
William Shakspeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02)
William Shakspeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-11)
William Shakspeare and George Wilkins, Pericles (c. 1609)

The preferred edition is the Arden edition (3rd series). Other editions that contain a good critical apparatus are also possible (for instance, The New Cambridge Shakespeare or The New Oxford Shakespeare, The Norton Shakespeare). No digital editions, please. Copies have been ordered by the Universitätsbuchhandlung Bremen, on campus.

!!! Important note on course preparation: We will read the texts in this order: Twelfth Night – Pericles – The Tempest. As we will start with a theoretical introduction to the blue humanities, sessions on water in Shakespeare’s age and on the sonnets, students will have time to catch up at the beginning on the course, but you must all have read Twelfth Night by the time we begin to discuss it in class. Reading all plays early on is, of course, an advantage, as it will allow you to draw connections between the different texts from the start.

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