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Revenge Tragedy- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Inhalt
- A father goes mad when he tries to avenge the death of his son; a young woman is raped and mutilated; a mother is forced to eat a pie that contains the limbs of her sons; one mad revenger sprinkles his father’s grave with the blood of his opponent’s son; and another revenger uses the poisoned skull of his fiancée to kill her seducer. These are just some scenes from the plays we will discuss in this class, which might therefore necessitate a CN: revenge tragedy is not for the faint-hearted – these plays are gory and include rape scenes, depictions of madness, and gratuitous violence.
We will cover a range of (revenge) tragedies from the Elizabethan era through the Jacobean period, plays that are (in)famous for their imaginative killings and bloody catastrophes, excessive violence and gory details, their morbid atmosphere as well as their social criticism. In discussing these plays, we will look into early modern depictions of (sexual) violence and their dependence on generic developments (the revenge tragedy) and early modern discourses (anatomy, the anxiety about the stability of gender roles, the development of English law, the status of the English monarch). We will then analyse one ‘late’ example of the revenge mode and discuss what happens to a popular genre when it seems to have run out of steam.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Reading:
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1582-92) (in Four Revenge Tragedies, ed. K. Eisaman Maus, Oxford University Press)
- William Shakespeare & George Peele, Titus Andronicus (1594) (Arden edition)
- John Marston, Antonio’s Revenge (1600) (Revels Plays, Manchester University Press)
- Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)
- Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedy (c.1611) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Revenge Tragedy
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Contents
- A father goes mad when he tries to avenge the death of his son; a young woman is raped and mutilated; a mother is forced to eat a pie that contains the limbs of her sons; one mad revenger sprinkles his father’s grave with the blood of his opponent’s son; and another revenger uses the poisoned skull of his fiancée to kill her seducer. These are just some scenes from the plays we will discuss in this class, which might therefore necessitate a CN: revenge tragedy is not for the faint-hearted – these plays are gory and include rape scenes, depictions of madness, and gratuitous violence.
We will cover a range of (revenge) tragedies from the Elizabethan era through the Jacobean period, plays that are (in)famous for their imaginative killings and bloody catastrophes, excessive violence and gory details, their morbid atmosphere as well as their social criticism. In discussing these plays, we will look into early modern depictions of (sexual) violence and their dependence on generic developments (the revenge tragedy) and early modern discourses (anatomy, the anxiety about the stability of gender roles, the development of English law, the status of the English monarch). We will then analyse one ‘late’ example of the revenge mode and discuss what happens to a popular genre when it seems to have run out of steam.
- Literature
- Reading:
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1582-92) (in Four Revenge Tragedies, ed. K. Eisaman Maus, Oxford University Press)
- William Shakespeare & George Peele, Titus Andronicus (1594) (Arden edition)
- John Marston, Antonio’s Revenge (1600) (Revels Plays, Manchester University Press)
- Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)
- Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedy (c.1611) (in Four Revenge Tragedies)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 30
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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