COD 2023 - D832

Webinar - The Place of Desire in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Literature lovers interested in discussing this piece of prose from a critical perspective in the context of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio; Language and Literature teachers interested in literary analysis and its impact on teaching literature, in general, and in Shakespearean comedies in particular

1 sesiones, inicia: 30-Ago

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Ciclo: 2023
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Cecilia Lasa MA
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1 30 Agosto 2023 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Cecilia Lasa

Cecilia Lasa is a Teacher of English (IESLV “Juan R. Fernández”) and a Teacher of Literature (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA). She holds a Master's Degree in Literatures in Foreign Languages and in Comparative Literatures (UBA) and a Higher Diploma in Research in Humanities (UBA). She has done a Specialisation in Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and in Writing and Literature (Ministerio de Educación). She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of academic reading and writing in Teacher Training Colleges in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and in Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. She is currently working as a teacher and researcher in English Literature and American Literature (FFyL, UBA) and conducting her Ph. D research at Instituto de Filología “Amado Alonso” (UBA-CONICET). She is the author of Academic Writing and has edited and co-authored Literatura y formación docente. Proyectos de lectura y de escritura.
Literature lovers interested in discussing this piece of prose from a critical perspective in the context of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio; Language and Literature teachers interested in literary analysis and its impact on teaching literature, in general, and in Shakespearean comedies in particular
- To identify the main economic, political and social features of late 16th and early 17th-century England in the context of the transition towards Modernity.
- To characterise the different settings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- To analyse the relationships between characters in terms of their gender as well as their social and economic background.
- To analyse the conflicts of the play in terms of the place of desire within the social order.
- To analyse Shakespeare’s reappropriation of the comic tradition.
- Anthropocentrism, individualisation, secularisation and mercantilism in early modern England.
- Shakespeare’s comedies: its main themes and recurrent formal features.
- The problems related to the play’s closure as an expression of a “happy ending”.
- Construction of the setting, characterisation of characters and development of conflicts.
- Metadramatic features. The contest between characters for the position of a proto stage director.
1) Recovery of attendees’ previous knowledge about the text and its author 2) Discussion of the problems related to the context of production 3) Introduction to Shakespeare’s dramatic world 4) Exploration of specific features of comedies –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.– 5) Guided group analysis of the play.

This webinar is part of the series “Rereading Shakespeare”, which tackles history plays, tragedies and comedies. Although each webinar is independent from the others, each of them deals with genre-specific aspects of analysis.
The other two webinars are:
- The Uncanny Sense of History in the Tragedy of Richard III
- The Tension between Life and Death in The Winter’s Tale
Source texts

Shakespeare, W. (2007). A Midsummer Night’s Dream. London: Arden Shakespeare.

Critical and theoretical material

Lasa, C. and Menán, C. (2017). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: Regulating Desire in the Emerging Modern State”. In Interstudia. Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies of Contemporary Discursive Forms, N° 21 . Bacău: Alma Mater Publishing House; pp. 81-90.
Thomas Crane, M. (2003). “Early Tudor Humanism”. In Hattaway, M. (ed.) A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

Cambridge’s Bibliography about Literature in English

Cambridge International Examinations.Learner Guide IGCSE®Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Russell, Carey. Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Whitthome, Elizabeth. AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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