COD 2023 - S704

Face-to-face - The Uncanny Sense of History in the Tragedy of Richard III

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 tragedies and history plays, in particular.

1 sesiones, inicia: 05-Abr

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Ciclo: 2023
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Cecilia Lasa MA
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1 05 Abril 2023 05:00 pm 07:00 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 tragedies and history plays, in particular.
Objectives

- 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 account for the uncanny construction of the past in Richard III.
- To characterise the ambivalent construction of Richard III as an attractive villainous character.
- To analyse Shakespeare’s reappropriation of the tragic tradition.
- To analyse Shakespeare’s reappropriation of the tradition of history plays.
- Anthropocentrism, individualisation, secularisation and mercantilism in early modern England.
- Shakespeare’s tragedies: its main themes and recurrent formal features.
- Shakespeare’s history plays: its main themes and recurrent formal features.
- Construction of the setting, characterisation of characters and development of the tragic conflicts.
- Metadramatic features. Richard III as an actor and as 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 tragedies and history plays –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.– 5) Guided group analysis of the play.

This seminar 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 Place of Desire in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Tension between Life and Death in The Winter’s Tale
Source texts

Shakespeare, W. (2009). Richard III. London: Arden Shakespeare.

Critical and theoretical material

Lasa, C. and Menán, C. (2016). “Ricardo III, de Shakespeare, y la representación de lo ominoso”. In Aletta de Sylvas Graciela [et al.] Monstruos y monstruosidades: perspectivas disciplinarias IV. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2016; 217-222. Available at https://goo.gl/3dK1sp
Freud, S. (2003): The Uncanny. Translated by D. McLintock. London: Penguin Books.
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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