英文学研究・演習�U

授業コード	受講区分	学科	授業期間	履修年次	単位	担当者
520101		英米文学専攻	通年		4	Preston L.Houser

授業の主題（テーマ）

"The Big Four": Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello

授業の目標（講義概要）

In this graduate seminar we will study what are considered the heart of English literature, William Shakespeare's four major tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. Conventions of dramatic tragedy and Elizabethan society, culture, and politics will be examined. Class meetings will be devoted to discussion of the plays, Shakespearean themes, on-going writing assignments, research skills, as well as the viewing of film adaptations of the plays. Students should expect to complete the seminar will a firm grasp of Shakespearean tragedy and the social conditions which contributed to audience appreciation of the plays. Students are expected to have read Japanese translations of the four tragedies before the seminar begins in order to familiarize themselves with plot and character. Good luck!

授業計画

評価方法

Students will be evaluated on in-class performance, examinations, as well as several class assignments designed to give students an opportunity to experience academic challenges they might expect to have during an American graduate course in literature. Scheduled assignments are as follows: oral presentations (x2, plus one-page written summary of each), preces (x3), performance reviews (x2), position papers (x8), as well as a final, independent research essay (1000 words) demonstrating the research skills acquired during the year related to our seminar topic. Copies of presentation summaries, presces, and performance reviews are to be distributed to class members.

テキスト

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Edited by Joseph Gibaldi.

備考

Scheduled assignments are as follows: oral presentations (x2, plus one-page written summary of each), preces (x3), performance reviews (x2), position papers (x8), as well as a final, independent research essay (1000 words) demonstrating the research