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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 20: S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Shakespeare's Chaucer
Wolfram Keller
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How did early modern writers respond to the literary works of their medieval predecessors? Or, put differently, what kind of ‘middle age’ is constructed in Renaissance literature? This seminar aims to broach these questions by way of studying in detail William Shakespeare’s construction of the medieval, specifically with a view to how his plays and poems re-work Chaucer’s poetry. Our discussions of Chaucerian echoes in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and plays like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Two Noble Kinsmen will be embedded within recent theoretical discussions concerning periodization, that is, the way in which the Renaissance, the modern, constructs the medieval as its temporal Other.
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13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2020-04-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-04-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-05-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-05-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-05-26 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-06-02 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-06-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-06-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-06-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-06-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-07-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-07-14 10:00 - 12:00