General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06 Mediterranean Shakespeare
Subtitle
Course number	10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-06
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	20
expected number of participants	20
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
First date	Tuesday, 08.04.2025 18:15 - 19:45, Room: GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Ursula Kluwick-Kälin

Tutors

Rooms and times

GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum): Tuesday: 18:15 - 19:45, weekly (10x)
(Room GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)): Tuesday: 18:15 - 19:45, weekly (4x)

Module assignments

Universität Bremen
- English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media - MA English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media, 2. Version valid from WiSe 2024/2025
  - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media, MA E-SC (gültig ab WiSe 2018/19)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo1 - Erweiterungsmodul 1 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo1 (Seminar 2)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo2 - Erweiterungsmodul 2 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo2 (Seminar 2)
- Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft: Literatur, Theater, Film - Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft: Literatur, Theater und Film, 3. Version valid from SoSe 2024
  - Wahlpflichtbereich - Profilmodule
    - 10-ROM-MA-TnL-ProL - Profilmodul Literatur (valid from SoSe 2024)
      - Seminar (Seminar zum TNL Profilmodul Literatur)

Comment/Description

Many of Shakespeare’s plays are set in the Mediterranean region; Italy, for instance, has been called Shakespeare’s “favourite imaginative haunt”. Padua, Rome, Sicily, Verona, Venice – these are just some of the Italian locations in which Shakespeare set one or several of his plays. Other Mediterranean settings include Alexandria, Athens, Marseilles, and Troy. Partly, the fact that Shakespeare chose Mediterranean settings for so many of his plays reflects a broader Elizabethan fascination with this region as a source of classical civilisation and a cultural archive. But Shakespeare’s Mediterranean plays frequently also comment on his contemporary England. We will consider how Shakespeare used the Mediterranean to examine the rise and fall of great empires and their leaders, as well as to explore the poetic language of love, which was, after all, modelled on Italian poets and verse forms.

Required Reading:
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (c. 1599).
Shakespeare, William. Anthony and Cleopatra (c. 1606-7).
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595).
Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602).
Preferred edition: Arden Shakespeare, Third Series.

Registration mode

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