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Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno I
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
Un insegnamento a scelta
Terza lingua straniera
3
F
-

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera anno II
Un insegnamento a scelta

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno III
Seconda letteratura straniera anno III
Un insegnamento a scelta
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-LIN/01
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno I
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
Un insegnamento a scelta
Terza lingua straniera
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera anno II
Un insegnamento a scelta
activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Prima letteratura straniera anno III
Seconda letteratura straniera anno III
Un insegnamento a scelta
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-LIN/01
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S00869

Coordinator

Susanna Zinato

Credits

9

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre dal Oct 1, 2013 al Jan 11, 2014.

Location

VERONA

Learning outcomes

The module aims at making students familiar with authors and genre modes representative of the English literature and culture of the period scheduled for the second-year course (1660-1830) and at fostering their critical approach to the texts and their contexts.

Program

Restoration theatre stages the impossibility to ‘restore’
The aim of this course is to guide students through the uncertainties and precarious balance between aesthetics, ethics and ideology that are to be taken as the Restoration bearers of the modern on its flourishing stage. Starting from Dryden’s most radical adaption of Shakespeare, passing through the highest point reached by the libertine comedy-satire with Wycherley, and then through its grotesquely tragic contestation in The Libertine, students are made aware of culturally crucial texts sharing in common not only themes but also a problematic genre definition.

BIBLIOGRAFIA
Testi primari (si raccomanda la lettura delle rispettive introduzioni)

- W. SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida (1600), se non già in possesso di un’edizione Arden, si consiglia l’edizione Garzanti con testo a fronte e introduzione di Nemi D’Agostino (1994)
- J. DRYDEN, Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth Found Too Late (1679)
- W. WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife /La moglie di campagna (1675), nell’edizione italiana con testo a fronte curata L. Innocenti, Marsilio, 2009 oppure nell’edizione New Mermaids.
- T. SHADWELL, The Libertine (1677)

N.B.: i testi primari vanno portati all’esame

Testi secondari
- E. LANGHANS, “The Theatre”, in D. Payne Fisk (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, CUP, 2000, ch.1 (1-18)
- J. MARSDEN, The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare Adaptation and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory, UP of Kentucky, 1995, ch. 1
- J. SPURR, “England 1649-1750: differences contained?”, in S.N.Zwicker (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740, CUP, 1998, pp.3-32
- J. MUNNS, “Change, scepticism, and uncertainty”, ch.9 (142-157), in D.Payne Fisk (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, 2000
- S. J. Owen (ed.), A Companion to Restoration Drama, Blackwell, 2001, ch. 4 (“Libertinism and Sexuality”, M.E. Novak), ch.6 (“Masculinity in Restoration Drama”, L.J. Rosenthal)
- H. Weber, The Restoration Rake-Hero, U. Of Wisconsin Press, 1986 (le pagine che verranno indicate a lezione)
- C.J. WHEATLEY, Without God or Reason: the Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration, Bucknell UP, 1993 (la parte che verrà indicata a lezione)

Manuali di riferimento generale
I manuali di riferimento consigliati per il contesto storico-letterario sono: A. Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2004. M. D’Amico, Dieci secoli di teatro inglese, Mondadori, .

Per la contestualizzazione strettamente storica, si veda M. Kishlansky, L’età degli Stuart. L’Inghilterra dal 1603 al 1714, Il Mulino, 1996

Per la lettura dei testi si consigliano, inoltre, i seguenti manuali di consultazione, del tutto facoltativi:
- C. Segre, Teatro e romanzo, Einaudi, 1984, pp.1-26
- E. Aston, Theatre as a Sign System. A Semiotics of Text and Performance, Routledge, 1988,ch. 6 “Semiotics of Performance”

Informazioni relative al materiale bibliografico e al suo reperimento saranno fornite all’inizio del corso.

BIBLIOGRAFIA SUPPLETIVA OBBLIGATORIA PER GLI STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI

-G. Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from Restoration to the Present, ch. 1 “Restoration” (7-39), The Hogarth Press, 1990
-S.J. Owen, Perspectives on Restoration Drama, Manchester U.P., ch.2 (42-64, “William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”); ch.6 (147-169, “John Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida”)

Examination Methods

Assessment at the end of the course through oral examination, mostly in English (or in English only, according to the student’s linguistic competence).

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE