02-05-0065-ps Macbeth

Lehrende: M. A. Ruth Knepel

Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar

Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Institut)

Anzeige im Stundenplan: Literary Theory PS

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

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Course description
This seminar is dedicated to one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies and its successors. Macbeth is not only one of the most imaginative and popular Shakespeare plays, its horrific and bloody story about the rapid decline of its opaque characters is also a paragon of modern novels and movies. We will start the semester with a fresh up on dramatic theory. Then we will focus on the structure, imagery and different characters of the drama: the morally challenged Macbeth, the maddeningly malevolent Lady Macbeth, the haunted and haunting Banquo and Duncan and the other supernatural dramatis personæ. After that adaptations of the play will be taken into account, such as the movie versions by Polanski and Kurosawa and a rather humoristic approach by Terry Pratchett.
Participants are required to purchase: 

Shakespeare, William (2007): Macbeth. London (Penguin Books).
ISBN: 978-0140623475.
Pratchett, Terry (1998): Wyrd Sisters. London (Corgi Books).
ISBN: 978-0552134606.

Additional material will be provided at the beginning of the semester.
Please read the play until the second week of the semester! There will be a test of textual knowledge. You can only participate if you pass this test!!

Literatur:

Literature
Bloom, Harold (1998): Shakespeare. The invention of the Human. New York (Riverhead Books).
Legatt, Alexander (2006): William Shakespeare`s Macbeth . A Sourcebook. London (Routledge).
Rank, Sven (2010): Twentieth-century adaptations of Macbeth. Writing between influence, intervention, and cultural transfer. Frankfurt am Main (Peter Lang).
Shamas, Laura (2007):"We three". The mythology of Shakespeare`s weird sisters. New York (Lang).
Shaughnessy, Robert (2011): The Routledge guide to William Shakespeare. London (Routlede).
Tanner, Tony (2010): Prefaces to Shakespeare. Cambride, London (Belknap Harvard).

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Requirements

Regular attendance and active participation, 2-3 short essays on a given question, participation in 1-2 additional movie screenings, final exam.

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