Romantic Drama - AAA132014

• Title: Romantic Drama
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 15 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4067
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D.

Annotation

This course will trace the development of Romantic drama from the famous women playwrights of the turn of the century, through the dramatic works of the first and second generation of the English Romantics. Starting with Inchbald’s adaptation of Kotzebue, we move to Baillie’s project of the ‘Plays on the Passions’ and the Romantic treatment of tragedy, with Coleridge’s Remorse and Shelley’s The Cenci. Southey’s Wat Tyler and Wordsworth’s The Borderers will take us through the Romantic dramatization and appropriation of revolution. Moving on to the famous dramatic poems, Byron’s Manfred and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, we will enter the realm of Romantic transcendence and the Imagination. Altogether, the course will have mapped the multi-faceted engagement of these works with the dramatic form and the prevalent literary and dramatic genres of the age, and their varied and exciting performance of history, gender, class, revolution and transgression.

Primary texts:

Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers‘ Vows (1798)

Joanna Baillie, De Montfort (1798)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse (1797/1813)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1816)

Robert Southey, Wat Tyler (1817)

William Wordsworth, The Borderers (1796-7/1842)

John Keats, Otho the Great (1819)

Lord Byron, Manfred (1817)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820)

Lord Byron, Cain (1821)

Last update: Horová Miroslava, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.09.2019)

Course completion requirements

ASSESSMENT

1 in-class presentation (10 mins, ppt)
1 essay (2000 words) on a topic of the student’s own choice (instructor approval needed).
regular attendance and active participation in class discussion

Last update: Horová Miroslava, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)

Literature

Sources

Primary texts online:

http://www.etang.umontreal.ca/bwp1800/plays/inchbald_vows/index.html

https://archive.org/stream/dramaticpoetical00bail#page/n17/mode/2up (pp.76-104 for De Montfort)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924105501948  (Remorse)

https://archive.org/stream/cencitragedyinfi00shelrich#page/n9/mode/2up (The Cenci)

http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/wattyler/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10219/10219-h/10219-h.htm#section9a (The Borderers)

https://archive.org/stream/poemsofjohnkeats00keat#page/340/mode/2up/search/otho  (pp.289-340 for Otho)

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/prometheus_unbound/complete.html

Manfred http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20158/20158-h/20158-h.htm

Cain http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23475/23475-h/23475-h.htm

 

 Secondary material is available on Moodle in PDF format, listed under the relevant sessions.

Last update: Horová Miroslava, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.09.2019)

Teaching methods

PROCEDURE

Sessions will be opened by short talks (10 minutes max.) given by students, on topics assigned in the schedule. Students are required to read the primary texts for each seminar and participate in class discussion.

Last update: Horová Miroslava, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)

Syllabus

For the current syllabus, see Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4067

Last update: Horová Miroslava, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.09.2019)