Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004932
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Camilla Caporicci
- Teachers
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- Camilla Caporicci
- Hours
- 54 ore - Camilla Caporicci
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature straniere
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature, with a particular focus on drama and lyric poetry. For what concerns poetry, we will examine texts by some of the major poets of the period, including Thomas Wyatt; Philip Sidney; Richard Barnfield, Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; John Donne. For what concerns drama, we will read and discuss two plays by William Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet.
- Reference texts
- W. Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Garzanti, parallel text)
W. Shakespeare: Hamlet (Marsilio, parallel text)
R. Camerlingo, Il Rinascimento e Shakespeare, in La Letteratura Inglese vol. 1, edited by P. Bertinetti, Einaudi.
C. Caporicci, Introduzione to W. Shakespeare, Sonetti, in W. Shakespeare, Tutte le opere, Bompiani. The text will be available via Unistudium.
The texts of the poetic works will be available via Unistudium.
Further bibliography will be given during the course. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to offer a basic knowledge of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature, as well as the tools and techniques to analyse poetic and dramatic texts. At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a good knowledge of the main cultural and literary phenomena of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England;
2. read, translate and analyse the primary texts, both through close reading techniques and in relation to their cultural context;
3. communicate the acquired knowledge with argumentative consistency and adequate critical language. - Prerequisites
- To follow the course, both attending and non-attending students should:
1. have a basic knowledge of the history, culture and literature of Renaissance Europe;
2. be able to read and understand the primary texts in the original language (English);
3. be able to communicate their knowledge in an effective way, both in oral and written form. - Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching
- Other information
- Students with disabilities and/or DSA can cansult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department representative.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam will consist of an ORAL test, on texts and topics examined during the course and on the assigned bibliography.
The course programme is valid for one year only. - Extended program
- The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. Among the various genres taken into account, particular attention will be devoted to lyric poetry and drama. The exploration of the poetic production of the period will be aimed at investigating the relation between English and European poetic traditions and the evolution of the sonnet tradition. We will read works by some of the major poets of the time, including Thomas Wyatt; Philip Sidney; Richard Barnfield, Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; John Donne. For what concerns drama, after an exploration of the origins and main features of Elizabethan drama, we will examine two plays by William Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet. These plays will be studied with reference to both the general context of the Elizabethan theatre and the specificity of Shakespeare’s work. Both the dramatic and the poetic productions will be considered in light of the historical and cultural situation of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, and of the aesthetic, philosophical and religious paradigms of the time.