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Shakespeare's Macbeth (EXAM)
Focus of the course:
- Analysis and interpretation of Macbeth (in excerpt): Genre (Tragedy), Plot, Characters (a protagonist, an antagonist, a tragic flaw), Themes (evil, appearance vs reality, ambition, masculine vs feminine stereotypes, etc.) Stylistic features and characteristics (Iambic pentameter, heroic couplet, enjambment, imagery, monologue and soliloquy, dialogue, alliteration, etc.)
- Gaining knowledge about who Shakespeare was and within which literary period and tradition he wrote.
- Discussion of questions such as how the story of Macbeth might be relevant to us today, and why people keep re-interpreting the play.
- Putting the play into perspective with Curzel’s film version from 2015.
Texts and Material:
Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 1-6 (Edited by Rex Gibson, Second Edition 2005, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Sonnet 18 (In Engberg-Pedersen, J. Grønvold, M. Ohland-Andersen, H., Wider Contexts, Basisbog til engelsk A, København: Gyldendal 2012)
Sonnet 130 (In M. Brynaa Hansen, A.L. Haugaard Christiansen, Unsex Me, København: Lindhardt og Ringhof 2016)
Macbeth (Justin Curzel, 2015)
“The Renaissance” (In: Vest Barkholt, G. Døssing Jepsen, J., 2010-2011, A Short History of Literature in English, Aarhus: Systime)
“Tragedy” (In: Elgaard Mogensen, H. Kristensen Back, K., 2009, Along Literary Lines, København: Gyldendal)
"Shakespeare in our Time" (pp. 76-77 (summary and characters) + pp. 189-190 (Glossary of literary terms)
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