All students undertaking this course are warned that course materials are posted on Dr Booth’s academic web pages, and are NOT distributed as coursebooks, hand-outs, etc. Extracts from texts are also among these web pages (eg, for weeks 3, 8, 9). You will not be able to follow the course unless you use this website on a regular basis! Please note that where an extract from a text is given, that is considered sufficient reading from the text: there is no need to hunt out a copy of the whole play.
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All students will be expected to have read the major text for each seminar, you will write an essay for submission in Week 8 of term, and you will contribute to presentations, as below.
Each student will be expected to contribute to a presentation on one of the minor texts. The total time for a presentation should be 15 minutes.
Week 3: Rebecca Bletcher Text: Robert Armin, The Valiant Welshman.
Week 4 (Two student sessions) Ceri Jones text: Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2 (aka The First Part of
the Contention in the Norton edition) Jacky Chan Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
Week 6: Consultation Week
Week 7: Samuel Hinton Text: Dekker: The Whore of Babylon, Naomi Bowers John Bale, The Three Laws.
Week 8: Stephanie Lebby Text: Lodowyck Carlell, Arviragus and Philicia
Week 9: Martina Leimgruber Text: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd , Leah Kowalski and Anne Zimmer, Ben Jonson, Volpone.
Week 10: Sally Sherwood and Elizabeth SpainText: Thomas Heywood, The Wise-Woman of Hogsden
Week 11: Week not available this term!! Session dropped. Various Shakespearean Texts: Witchcraft as Metaphor. (5 minutes per text).
Recommended Shakespeare texts: Twelfth Night; Comedy of Errors; Antony and Cleopatra
Note also: All students doing this course unit will be asked what their home town, county or country (and region) is. If any of these places conduce to research into historical witchcraft cases, you may be asked to undertake a further brief presentation on your local or ‘native’ witchcraft. Adjustment will be made to the other coursework requirements, or essay topics might be tailored to this research, if undertaken.