Learning outcomes

The course, held in English, aims at introducing Students to the English Literature from the 16th century to the Restoration (1660), paying emphasis on some canonical literary texts. Besides, it will offer skills and abilities for the critical analysis of literary texts and their genres. The course objective is to provide a good knowledge of the literature of the period (historical context, texts, genres, literary movements and authors) and to develop in Students a capacity of analysis and argumentative abilities in relation to the various typologies of literary texts set in their literary, historical, and cultural context. At the end of the course, Student will be able to - analyse the examined literary texts setting them in their historical and cultural context; - discuss them in an argumentative way, with due consideration to contemporary literary conventions, and by applying a critical, knowledgeable, and aware approach to the specificity of the literary texts; - present the acquired competences in English, and in a coherent and clear way.

Program

Part I: Prof. Bigliazzi (12 hours, 2 CFU)

A selection of Shakespearean sonnets will be examined, taking into account their editorial history and stylistic, intertextual and performative characteristics, also in relation to contemporary Shakespearean dramas.
Attending and non-attending students, as well as Erasmus students are required to do all the readings indicated below:

Primary Texts:

Alessandro Serpieri, a cura di, William Shakespeare, Sonetti, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995.

Secondary Texts:

Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Part II: Prof. Fiorato (24 hours, 4 CFU)

Attending and non-attending students, as well as Erasmus students are required to do all the readings indicated below:

Testi Primari

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, a cura di S. Bigliazzi (testo a fronte)

Testi critici
- Gayle Whittier, The Sonnet's Body and the Body Sonnetized in "Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring, 1989, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 27-41
- A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Futher bibliography will be indicated during the course

Examination Methods