Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse plays for their visual, aural, performative and literary elements
- Evaluate how visual and aural components of performance combine to speak to their audiences and create emotional and cognitive impact
- Evaluate the efficacy of key theories and critical methods pertinent to analysis of dramatic texts
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- write in a range of registers appropriate for different purposes and readerships
- construct a reasoned, well written argument based on research and analysis of text
- research a topic or issue independently
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the concept of drama as a composite and collaborative art form; a sense of a play-text as a blueprint for performance, a starting point for directors, actors, and designers
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Wider reading or practice | 53 |
Lecture | 11 |
Follow-up work | 10 |
Seminar | 11 |
Teaching | 5 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk (eds.) (1998). Exploring the Language of drama: From Text to Context. Routledge.
Dennis Kennedy (1993). Shakespeare: a Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. CUP.
Peter Meineck (2018). Theatrocracy. Routledge.
Paul Woodruff (2008). The Necessity of Theater. OUP.
Bruce R. Smith (1999). The Acoustic World of Early Modern England. University of Chicago Press.
Susan Bennett (1990). Theatre Audiences, A Theory of production and Reception. Routledge.
Maria Delgado and Paul Heritage (1996). In Contact with the Gods? Directors Talk Theatre. Manchester University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assignment | 70% |
Text analysis | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Assignment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Text analysis | 30% |
Assignment | 70% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External