Seminar: Restoration Drama - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

Seminar: Restoration Drama - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

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Course name Seminar: Restoration Drama - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.05584.02; ANG.05292.02
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 18
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 03.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Performance record Written Examination (90 mins)
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch
Studiengänge (für) MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP
MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP
MA Kulturen der Aufklärung
LAG / LAS / LAF Englisch
SWS 2
Miscellanea Students who wish to write their “Staatsexamensklausur – Arbeit unter Aufsicht” in “Anglistik: Literaturwissenschaft” are welcome to attend the course.
ECTS points 5

Rooms and times

No room preference
Thursday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The restoration of the monarchy and the reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked the end of the so-called Interregnum and more than a decade of Puritan rule in England. Often described as the ‘silver age’ of English drama, the period is mainly remembered for its comedies, which will also be the focus of this course. Written to entertain an urban, wealthy, and fashionable audience, Restoration drama features elegant and witty dialogues, portrays and ridicules sexual lust, and problematizes social hierarchies and moral hypocrisy alike. After discussing major concerns of politics and culture in the Restoration era, we will examine three examples of Restoration drama in greater detail: William Wycherley’s The Country Wife (1675) with its presentation of stock characters such as the aristocratic rake, Aphra Behn’s portrayal of unequal gender and class structures in The Rover (1677), and William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695), which features the conflict of love vs. money.

The primary texts given below must be purchased in advance of the teaching term and in exactly the formats and editions given below. There will be short assignments during the semester, and an oral discussion of written work. The module examination (“Prüfungsleistung”) will be a written exam (90 mins) on the plays and topics discussed in class. Further details will be introduced in the first session.

In addition, the course is open to students who wish to write their “Staatsexamensklausur – Arbeit unter Aufsicht” in “Anglistik: Literaturwissenschaft”.

Please note that prior registration for the course via StudIP is mandatory.

OBLIGATORY READING:
Students are required to purchase EXACTLY the editions given below, so that we can all work with the same text, paratextual apparatus, and pagination. Please note that it is NOT possible to attend the course without these editions.

Congreve, William, George Etherege and William Wycherley. Three Restoration Comedies. Ed. with an introduction by Gāmini Salgādo. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin. Reprint edition 2005. ISBN 978-0-14-043027-1. Paperback. Print.

Behn, Aphra. The Rover and Other Plays. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-199540204. Paperback. Print.

RECOMMENDED READING:
Additional secondary sources will be made available on our shelf (“Semesterapparat”) in the university library, Steintor Campus.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung: Restoration Drama - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 11.03.2025, 00:00 to 03.04.2025, 23:59.

Registration mode

The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.