- Docente: Simon Swift
In the autumn semester some of the essential features of drama (genre, character, plot, language and media) will be introduced through a close reading of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Some of the basic features of narrative, such as story, plot, characterisation, and narrative voice, will then be introduced through close analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
Reader and course texts:
- There is a reader for this BA1 lecture course, which you must order from polycopie.unige.ch.
- In addition to the reader, students are required to buy William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Folger Shakespeare Library edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (Simon & Schuster, 2012), ISBN: 9781451669411,
- as well as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, edited by Anne Fernald (Norton, 2021), ISBN: 9780393655995
Both are available from Payot, Rue de la Confédération, or from good online book depositories.
Each lecture will be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation which will be available before each week's lecture on this page.
The lecture is also recorded; you can listen to it again via the UNIGE mediaserver website, and on this Moodle page.
The lecture schedule is available below. This will be updated each week with the PowerPoints and recordings for each lecture.