- Overview
- Module description
Restoration Theatre:Culture and Politics (DRA3024)
Staff | Professor Jane Milling - Convenor |
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Credit Value | 30 |
ECTS Value | 15 |
NQF Level | 6 |
Pre-requisites | None |
Co-requisites | None |
Duration of Module | Term 1: 11 weeks; |
Module aims
This module aims to:
- Offer students an in-depth analysis of the culture, politics and theatre of England under the later Stuarts 1660-1714.
- Explore the place of theatre in generating the ideologies of celebrity, of monarchical democracy and party politics, of Englishness and England as an imperial trading nation.
- Assess the most recent scholarship on these topics and analyse the historiographical debates.
Students will gain an increased facility to assess and edit large amounts of complex information from diverse sources, and the ability to imaginatively engage with historical material.
ILO: Module-specific skills
- 1. Demonstrate an analytical understanding of the variety of approaches to the political and cultural issues of the period, through written and presentation work
- 2. Demonstrate a detailed grasp of current historiographical issues, through analytical writing and presentation
- 3. Evaluate a wide range of primary and secondary material relating to the period and synthesise this knowledge to generate argument, in written and presentation form
ILO: Discipline-specific skills
- 4. Contribute research to small groups in effective presentations, to evaluate visual and textual evidence and to develop advanced confidence in the ability to analyse, critique and manipulate complex material
- 5. Apply a wide range of library and IT skills in detailed independent research
- 6. Engage critically and analytically from different theoretical perspectives and utilie effectively in written form
ILO: Personal and key skills
Syllabus plan
Whilst the content may vary from year to year, it is envisioned that it will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Overview of theatre during the period and an orientation in questions surrounding the historiography of the period.
- Individual research presentations on a performer or playwright, examining the development of ideas of celebrity, satire, and patronage and the evolution of forms of biography and scandal narrative.
- Series of archive and historiographical tasks.
- Examination of plays in their context, analysing their relationship to a variety of themes.
- Presentation of religious fanaticism and belief
- The representation of parliament and emerging ideas of monarchical democracy and party politics
- Commodity and trade and the development of consumer society
- Imperialism and trade and the expansion of the slave trade.
Students will participate in weekly seminars, which will involve a mixture of staff and student presentation (group and individual), archive and historiographic tasks.
Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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33 | 267 | 0 |
Details of learning activities and teaching methods
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled learning and teaching | 33 | Seminar and lectures and archive tasks |
Guided independent study | 33 | Group preparation for weekly seminar tasks |
Guided independent study | 234 | Reading, essay preparation, archive work |
Formative assessment
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Presentations: Individual | 2 x 10 minutes | 1-4, 8, 9 | |
Presentations: Group | Weekly 10 minutes | 1-4, 8, 9 | |
Weekly seminar discussion tasks | Weekly 15 minutes | 1-4, 8, 9 |
Summative assessment (% of credit)
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
Details of summative assessment
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Critical Portfolio (including 2 critical analyses of articles, reflection on historiographical task, and a written excerpt from their presentation work) | 40 | 3000 words | 1-3, 5-7, 9 | Written feedback |
Essay | 60 | 3000 words | 1-3, 5-7, 9 | Written feedback |
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Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Critical Portfolio (including 2 critical analyses of articles, reflection on historiographical task, and a written excerpt from their presentation work) | Critical Portfolio (including 2 critical analyses of articles, reflection on historiographical task, and a written excerpt from their presentation work) | 1-3, 5-7,9 | Referral/Deferral period |
Essay | Essay 3,000 words | 1-3, 5-7,9 | Referral/Deferral period |
Re-assessment notes
Deferral – if you miss an assessment for certificated reasons judged acceptable by the Mitigation Committee, you will normally be either deferred in the assessment or an extension may be granted. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.
Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 40%) you will be required to submit a further assessment as necessary. If you are successful on referral, your overall module mark will be capped at 40%.
Indicative learning resources - Basic reading
- Bratton, Jacky, New Readings in Theatre History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- Canfield, J.D. & Payne, D., eds. Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995)
- Dawson, Mark, Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Fisk, D. Payne, ed., Cambridge Companion of English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- Hughes, D. English Drama 1660-1700 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996)
- Loftis, J. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963)
- Luckhurst, Mary and Jane Moody, eds. Theatre and Celebrity (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)
- Postlewait, Thomas, Introduction to Theatre Historiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Module has an active ELE page?
Yes
Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources
Available as distance learning?
No
Origin date
2007
Last revision date
13/11/2018
Key words search
Restoration theatre, performers, politics, 18th century, public sphere