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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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Mistresses of Mayhem: Shakespeare's Ladies as Catalysts of Mischief- Dozent/in
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Mi 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.08.2017 (10:00) - 10.01.2018 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Beneath the lenses of a literary microscope, Shakespeare's female characters reveal dichotomous shadows, a binary system, the contrast between the “good” and the “evil” woman. In the majority of his plays, power in the hands of women invites chaos. Empowered female characters were represented as being “unnatural” or as threat to patriarchy, hence the common association with “villainesses”. The existence of such women highlights, however, their very counterpart: the stereotypical and idealized pure, virginal, passive and submissive “lady”.
This concept becomes clear when the archetypes of the good and evil women are juxtaposed. For instance, the vengeful Tamora in contrast with the quintessential “good girl” Lavinia; the spiteful and greedy sisters Regan and Goneril opposed to the kind and devoted Cordelia; the ambitious Lady Macbeth versus the domestic wife Lady Macduff; or Cymbeline’s nameless Queen and his daughter Imogen. Even Shakespeare's comedies depict how women were expected to behave, as we see in The Taming of the Shrew (Katherine vs Bianca).
This seminar will offer an in-depth analysis of the archetype of the good and evil female characters in Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies and how female power was a synonym to the corruption of the Female. Furthermore, we will discuss themes such as revenge, ambition and greed from the female characters’ perspectives, and topics such as misogyny and double-standards from an anachronistic angle.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- To read until the beginning of the semester:
William Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus.
William Shakespeare. King Lear.
To read during the semester:
William Shakespeare. Cymbeline.
William Shakespeare. Macbeth.
William Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew.
More material to be added in class.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
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