The course is focused on the main features of English literature and
British drama. The course aims at providing the students with a solid background, developing their critical reading, through the study of the most significant authors of English literature and British drama from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.
Keir Elam e Lilla Maria Crisafulli (a cura di) Manuale di letteratura inglese, Bologna, BUP, 2009.
Loretta Innocenti (a cura di) Il teatro elisabettiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994.
Giorgio Melchiori Shakespeare, Bari, Laterza, 2005
Learning Objectives
The course will focus on various aspects of Shakespeare's Romantic
comedies and of Elizabethan theatre. In particular, the course will focus on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The course aims at giving students a first approach to Shakespeare's theatre
and drama, giving them a background on Elizabethan theatre and drama,
Prerequisites
the prerequisites are those provided for the course of study
Teaching Methods
lectures with the aid of powerpoint presentation, DVD, internet
Further information
You can contact prof. Cioni via e-mail at
fernando.cioni@unifi.it
Type of Assessment
oral or/and written final exam
Course program
Shakespeare's Romantic comedies: from source to texts, from page to stage. Reading and analysis of Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night.
William Shakespeare Commedie romantiche, edited by Fernando Cioni,
Milano, Rizzoli, 2007.
William Shakespeare Complete Works, any edition.
William Shakespeare Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, edited by
Fernando Cioni, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012.
Criticism
Keir Elam e Lilla Maria Crisafulli (ed.) Manuale di letteratura inglese,
Bologna, BUP, 2009.
Loretta Innocenti (ed.) Il teatro elisabettiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994.
Giorgio Melchiori “Shakespeare e il mestiere del teatro” *
Northrop Frye “L’argomento della commedia”, in William Shakespeare
Commedie romantiche, a cura di Fernando Cioni, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007.
Fernando Cioni “Introduzioni” in William Shakespeare Commedie
romantiche, a cura di Fernando Cioni, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007.
Renée Girard “L’amore ama le lodi. Valentino e Proteo nei Due
Gentiluomini di Verona” *
Robert S. Miola “The infuence of New Comedy on The Comedy of Errors
and The Taming of the Shrew” *
slides and other material available in e-learning moodle (http://e-l.unifi.it/)
*available in a booklet