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The Tragedy of Macbeth
CONTENT: The Elizabethan Era, William Shakespeare and The Tragedy of Macbeth. Forløbet starter med en introduktion til William Shakespeare og særligt til hvad der historisk, kulturelt og sprogligt karakteriserede the Elizabethan Era og Early Modern English. Herefter læser vi udvalgte scener der viser karakterudviklingen for Macbeth og Lady Macbeth og deres forhold. Vi fokuserer desuden på den afgørende rolle for the Weird Sisters og på hvilken rolle evil spirits og superstition spiller for plottet.
Key terms:
The Golden Age
Social mobility
The Great Chain of Being
Spirit (soul) vs Matter (body)
Order vs Chaos
The Elizabethan theatre and entertainment
Complex stories
Settings created through words
Witchcraft and superstition
Prose, Blank verse and Iambic pentameter
Tragedy (plot structure, definition)
The Tragic Hero
Dramatic structure
Humour in tragedies
Catharsis
Foreshadowing
Soliloquy
Metafiction
High style vs. Low style
Alliteration
Antithesis
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Fag-fagligt: How to analyse a play and film, dramatic tools, language features, and poetic devices. Shakespeare's language.
GRAMMAR: Early Modern English (pronouns and verbs, formal/polite vs. intimate/disrespectful)
MATERIALE:
Bo Høpfner Clausen & Jesper Kaalund: Historical Context, pp. 6-23, in: Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare - play, glossary, tasks, toolbox, Gyldendal, 1.udg., 1.opl., 2017.
Bo Høpfner Clausen & Jesper Kaalund: Language in the Elizabethan Era, pp. 34-53 in: Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare - play, glossary, tasks, toolbox, Gyldendal, 1.udg., 1.opl., 2017.
RSC, Royal Shakespeare Company: The Curse of the Scottish Play, https://www.rsc.org.uk/macbeth/about-the-play/the-scottish-play
William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth, edited by Ole Juul Lund, Gyldendal, 1. udgave, 3.oplag:
Act I, Scene I (p. 34)
Act I, Scene III (pp. 38-41, l. 89)
Act I, Scene V (pp. 46-49)
Act II, Scene I (pp. 56-58)
Act V, Scene V (pp. 123-124, l. 28)
Film:
Joel Coen: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2019)
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