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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Arts
Course Code other registration
Theme・Subtitle シェイクスピアの『オセロー』を読む
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.3・A101
Credit 2
Course Number EAL3813
Language Others
Class Registration Method "Other" Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code AM103

【Course Objectives】

The objective of this course is that, through the close reading of one of Shakespeare's representative plays, Othello, students will improve their abilities as follows:
1. Students will improve their reading ability of Early Modern English and acquire basic knowledge of theatre in Early Modern England.
2. Students will cultivate the critical reading skills of a literary text and practise expressing their opinions.

【Course Contents】

Students will closely read the original text of one of Shakespeare's best-known plays, Othello (c.1604), in a seminar style. Each week, assigned students will make their presentations on the work. Also, all students in the course should participate in the discussion.
Othello is based on an Italian didactic tale. However, in this play, Shakespeare gives the proper name ‘Othello’ to a nameless minor black character in the source material who villainously murders his white wife, and develop his inner self as a suffering hero for suspicion and jealousy. This play can both be said as a tragedy of a black man who failed in the desperate attempt to domesticate himself in an Italian city state that turns him down as the other and as a tragedy of a woman who gets dragged into his troubles. In this course, through the close reading of the text, students will learn about the historical and cultural background of the early 17th century behind the play, as well as consider the important themes to understand Othello, such as race and gender, which are still relevant today.

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