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The study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in text and performance provides students with an opportunity to evaluate a range of critical debates and theoretical approaches of relevance to theatre, performance and historiography as scholarly and research disciplines and in relation to professional arts practice and contexts.

For the past thirty years, the study of Shakespearean drama and performance has been a prime location for a range of critical and theoretical debates. The aim of this course is to explore the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of the early modern period in relation to recent and current scholarly and professional concerns in this field. Topics and theoretical perspectives may include (but are not limited to) the following: the Shakespeare `industry'; New Historicism and Cultural Materialism; performance theory and theatricality; gender studies and queer theory; ecocriticism; the' new' phenomenology and the early modern body-mind; medicine and disease; practicing Shakespeare; authorship, textuality and print culture; online and digital Shakespeares.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. demonstrate advanced academic and professional literacy skills through descriptions of the principal elements of Shakespearean drama and performance;
2. effectively analyse and relate such knowledge to advanced critical skills through analysis of Shakespearean texts in order to reflect upon recent developments in scholarship and professional practice;
3. apply advanced disciplinary knowledge by discussing Shakespearean drama and performance in the context of a range of critical, theoretical, and professional perspectives;
4. employ advanced cognitive, technical and creative skills appropriate to the discipline by successfully articulating complex information and concepts in relevant written modes;
5. employ ethical research and enquiry skills in the consistent application of the norms and practices underpinning academic and professional integrity.