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The Tragic Hero: From Macbeth to Modern TV Drama
EXAM COURSE
In this course, "The Tragic Hero: From Macbeth to Modern TV Drama" (Literary History), the students are introduced to the tragedy as a specific genre (with a reference to Senecan and Sophoclean tragedies). More specifically, we read, analyze and discuss extensive parts of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (1605/1606) as a prime example of the so-called "Shakespearean tragedy". "Macbeth" is analyzed in its own right, but also in terms of its genre (generically), its author (biographically) and its historical time frame (historically).
Finishing off the course on "Macbeth", the students also worked with different passages from the following drama series that all alluded to or resonated with "Macbeth" and Shakespearean tragedies:
- "Breaking Bad" (Vince Giligan, AMC, 2008-2013; Ep. 6)
- "House of Cards" (Beau Willimon, Netflix, 2013-2018; Ch. 1)
- "Barry" (Alec Berg & Bill Hader, HBO, 2018; Ep. 6)
As a part of the exam preparation, we also discussed one scene from "King Lear".
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FORLØBSBESKRIVELSE (på dansk):
I forløbet "Shakespearean Tragedies" arbejder vi med Shakespeares tragedier, hans samtid (The Elizabethan World Picture) og hans skildring af ondskab. Eleverne introduceres til Senecas velkendte tragedie-model og får et mere indgående kendskab til de træk der særligt kendetegner Shakespeares tragedier (den såkaldte "Shakespearean tragedy"). "Macbeth" fungerer som den centrale case og læses i uddrag.
Foruden at læse ekstensive uddrag af "Macbeth", læser vi om Shakespeare og hans samtid, og vi hører en britisk 'audio introduction' til "Macbeth" (i relation til dens forfatter, dens genre og dens samtidig). I denne forbindelse (gen)introduceres eleverne også til forskellige litteraturteoretiske/analytiske tilgange, navnlig den biografiske metode (Biographical reading), genreanalyse (Generic analysis) og nykritikken (New Criticism).
Keywords:
- Soliloquy
- The Elizabethan World Picture
- The Great Chain of Being
- Senecan tragedy (and The Senecan structure)
- Tragic (Sophoclean) Irony
- Tragic flaws
- Tragic hero
- The Shakespearean tragedy
- Tragedy of ambition
- Iambic pentameter vs. tetrameter
- Rationality vs. irrationality
- Foreshadowing and equivocation
- Hubris (vi brugte moderne tv-serier til at anskueliggøre nogle af disse forhold/koncepter, og udfra disse udfoldede jeg Senecas og Aristoteles tragediekonceptioner).
TEKST (kernestof):
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" . Cambridge University Press 2006 (ed. Rex Gibson):
- Act 1, scenes 1,2,3,5,6,7
- Act 2, scenes 2,3
- Act 3, scenes 4 (the students also read summaries of Acts 3 and 4)
- Act 5, scene 5
TEKST (supplerende stof):
- William Shakespeare, "King Lear" (1603/1606), Act 1, Scene 1 (compared to "Macbeth" in terms of genre and themes)
- Scener fra Vince Gilligans "Breaking Bad" (AMC, 2008-2013, Ep. 1:6), Beau Willimons "House of Cards" (Netflix, 2013-2018, Ch. 1) og "Barry" (Alec Berg & Bill Hader, HBO, 2018-; Ep. 1:6)
- Sekvenser fra forskellige adaptationer of "Macbeth", heriblandt Roman Polanskis version fra 1971, Geoffrey Wrights australske version fra 2006 og Rupert Goolds tv-film fra 2010.
- Andreas Halskov, "Interview with Beau Willimon", in "Beyond Television: TV Production in the Multiplatform Era" (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2021)
- "Macbeth", en parodisk genfortælling af stykket fra "The Simpsons" (Matt Groening, Fox, 1989-)
- Christopher Gaze, "Shakespeare is Everywhere", TedX, 2013. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsESSyMnwmU.
- Louis Bayard et al., "There Is No Escaping Shakespeare", The New York Times, April 28 (2016). Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4fWhObaTM.
- Michael Skovmand, "Shakespeare og renæssancen", Aarhus University, November 7 (2013). Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8Ah3KMEOc.
- David Duchovny, "LA is a Bad Place to Die" (digt fra den kommende digtsamling "The Reservoir", 2022)
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Ordbøger, grammatikparagraffer mv. (må bruges ifm. terminsprøven):
- Dansk-engelsk/engelsk-dansk: Titel
- Engelsk-engelsk ordbog + thesaurus: Cambridge Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Kollokationsordbog: Online OXFORD Collocation Dictionary of English
- Etymologi-ordbog: Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary
- Grammatikparagraffer og noter: Grammatik og skriftlighedsnoter_2022
- Engram: Minlærings hjælp og support
- Synonyms & antonyms: Thesaurus.com - The world's favorite online thesaurus!
- En visuel guide til engelsk (Carol Vorderman, 2017)
- English in Danish (Ole Buhl & Marianne Larsen, 2008)
- Tools for analysis_2022.pdf (metode- og terminologioversigt ifm. stilistik, tekstfunktioner og non-fiction-analyse)
- Engelsk grammatik med synonymer (Aase Herskin, Systime)
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