17328 Undergraduate Course

SoSe 19: PS-Surveying English Literatures: Early Modern Revenge Tragedy

Zoe Sutherland

Comments

A suspicious death, no justice, no peace: the question for the characters in revenge tragedies - and for us - is what to do about it, how to act. This introductory level course explores the politics and cross-cultural encounters, the philosophy and history of the series of plays about revenge written in English at the turn of the seventeenth century. In addition to the most renowned revenge tragedy in English literature, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

, we will read

The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd and

The Revenger’s Tragedy

by Thomas Middleton. The set text (which students should bring to each class) is

Five Revenge Tragedies

, ed. Emma Smith (London: Penguin, 2012). Secondary reading will be provided each week. Assessment is by term paper. close

13 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Fri, 2019-04-12 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-04-26 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-05-03 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-05-10 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-05-17 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-05-24 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-05-31 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-06-07 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-06-14 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-06-21 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-06-28 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-07-05 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Fri, 2019-07-12 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Zoe Sutherland

Location:
JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Subjects A - Z