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Islamic University of Gaza 1st. Semester 2017-2018 Faculty of Arts Course: Elizabethan Lit.

English Department Course Number: ENGL 3330

Course Outline Course Description:

This course encourages students to encounter the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in relation to Elizabethan culture and the wider literary traditions of poetry and drama. The texts that are going to be studied will reflect the preoccupations of both sixteenth century writers and their audience. This course is writing-intensive, and students will be assessed on the skill and care that inform several interpretive essays.

Objectives: I- Cognitive Objectives:

1. Identify major themes and forms in the literature of the Elizabethan period. 2. Analyze the Elizabethan writing as both a register and response to historical, social, and political developments of the sixteenth century. 3. Analyze, explicate, and interpret the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the . 4. Apply literary scholarship on selected works studied. 5. Understand the major characteristics of the literary movement during the Elizabethan period. 6. Identify and discuss universal themes and human conditions in Elizabethan poetry and drama mainly.

II- Skills Objectives:

1. use critical thinking skills to demonstrate understanding of different traditions, methods, and approaches within human experience. 2. speak clearly and effectively in standard English. 3. Speak and listen effectively during discussions. 4. extend the skills of expository writing. 5. apply problem solving skills or methods to make informed decisions in a variety of contexts. 6. use appropriate technology to access, manage, integrate, or create information, and/or use technology to accomplish a given task. 7. develop their creative written ability by contextualizing their ideas dramatically.

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III- Values Objectives:

1. Differentiate between ethical and unethical behavior. 2. Demonstrate an appreciation for human diversities and commonalities and appreciate the similarities and differences between one’s own culture and the cultures of others through a study of the arts, customs, beliefs, values, and history that define the Elizabethan culture. 3. Evaluate the power of literature to address personal values and goals and to challenge human endeavors. 4. Gain insight into the variety and complexity of human life through reading the Elizabethan literature. 5. Have a team spirit and work harmoniously with others.

Assigned Texts: 1- Introduction to The Elizabethan Age. 2- Drama: a- 's The Merchant of Venice. b- 's Dr. Faustus. 3- Poetry: 10 Elizabethan Poems for different

Note: is going to be a self-study play and students are going to be tested based on that at the end of the semester. (Don’t be afraid: You will be given specific guiding questions to concentrate on while reading the play before being tested.)

Course Schedule:

Week one and Two Introduction to the Elizabethan Age and drama as a literary genre in the Elizabethan era. Week Three to Week eight The Merchant of Venice. Week Nine to Week Twelve Dr. Faustus Week Thirteen to week Fourteen Poems Week Fifteen General discussion on Macbeth

Grading Criteria: 5 marks=attendance 5 marks =participation 5 marks= Quizzes 10 Marks =Presentation 10 Marks= 4 Assignments; related critical essays plus attendance 20 Marks= Mid-Term exam 5 Marks =A distinguished critical essay (1500 words minimum), creative literary piece of work (writing a play or 5 poems), or dramatization of some acts. 40 Marks=Final Exam

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------Up to +5= creative contribution or creative presentation

Some Elizabethan Writers and their works for presentations: Poetry: The Italian Tasso: "Jerusalem delivered," Elizabethan translation by Edward Fairfax. Sir Thomas Wyatt: “Whoso List to Hunt” Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” Sir : “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” William Shakespeare's : 18,29,30,73,116,130,55,106,104. : Faerie Queen (Book I, Canto I from Norton Anthology) Wyatt: “The Long love That in My Thought Doth Harbor” Howard: “Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought”, Sidney: Sonnets1, 31 from Astrophel and Stella

Drama: Shakespeare:

• • The Two Gentlemen of Verona • The Merry Wives of Windsor • Measure for Measure • The of Errors • • Love's Labour's Lost • A Midsummer Night's Dream • The Merchant of Venice • • The Taming of the Shrew • All's Well That Ends Well • • The Winter's Tale

Histories

• King John • Richard II • Henry IV, Part 1 • Henry IV, Part 2 • • Henry VI, Part 1 • Henry VI, Part 2 • Henry VI, Part 3 • Richard III • Henry VIII

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Tragedies

• • Coriolanus • Titus Andronicus • • Timon of Athens • • Macbeth • • • • •

Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta

Ben Johnson: Every Man in His Humour, Every Man out of his Humour, Volpone

Thomas Kyd: The Spanish

John Webster:

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