Advanced seminar: The Language of Shakespeare - Details

Advanced seminar: The Language of Shakespeare - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: The Language of Shakespeare
Semester SS 2024
Current number of participants 13
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Teaching
Preliminary discussion Monday, 11.03.2024 10:00 - 12:00
First date Monday, 11.03.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (per Zoom)
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch
Miscellanea Termine für Vorbesprechung sowie Nachbereitung:
-Montag, 11. März 2024, 10:00-12:00, über Zoom: Die Teilnahme ist verpflichtend, da hier auch die Aufgabenverteilung stattfindet!
-Freitag, 10. Mai 2024, 14:00-17:00, in Präsenz (vorläufiger Termin, u.U. noch Änderung): Die genaue Raum- um Zeitangaben weden noch bekannt gegeben.

Rooms and times

(per Zoom)
Monday, 11.03.2024 10:00 - 12:00
(D, 1003)
Thursday, 11.04.2024 - Saturday, 13.04.2024 09:00 - 18:00
(D, 1012)
Friday, 10.05.2024 15:45 - 17:30

Module assignments

Comment/Description

When mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence! and what think you, sailors? are two random quotes from Act 1, Sc. 1 of Twelfth Night, which illustrate in the underlined passages how Shakespeare’s language use diverges from the modern one. In this course we will be using two plays in order to investigate morphological and syntactic features typical of Early Modern English. We will also be looking at characteristic lexical uses of Shakespeare: First, some of the still familiar words he uses had very different meanings then. Secondly, he himself was rather inventive in coining new words and putting old ones to interesting new uses. Furthermore, we will be paying attention the dramatic and literary use of language within the larger context of the plays – such as: which metaphors do the characters use and why?, how do characters address each other and what does that say about their relationships?, what is the relationship between function and linguistic realisations of Goneril’s and Regan’s speeches at the beginning of King Lear?
The seminar will be based on examples from two plays: Twelfth Night (First Folio text), King Lear (Arden edition)

Termine für Vorbesprechung sowie Nachbereitung:
-Montag, 11. März 2024, 10:00-12:00, über Zoom: Die Teilnahme ist verpflichtend, da hier auch die Aufgabenverteilung stattfindet!
-Freitag, 10. Mai 2024, 14:00-17:00, in Präsenz (vorläufiger Termin, u.U. noch Änderung): Die genaue Raum- um Zeitangaben weden noch bekannt gegeben.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • Admission locked.