BA Theatre and English (4CC8)
Bachelor's degree
In Bristol
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Bristol
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Start date
Different dates available
About BA Theatre and English
This course combines theatre with the study of English, and provides you with the key skills to understand and make performance through exploring critical and historical frameworks alongside practical workshops. There are opportunities to engage with professional theatre-makers and our museum-accredited archive, the Theatre Collection.
In your first year you will learn how to analyse performance and develop practical skills in theatre. In your second and third years you will choose options that deepen your critical and practical expertise, culminating in independent study, which can take the form of group or individual performance, an extended essay or an industrial placement.
For English you will study a broad range of literature written in English from the medieval period to the present day. This will include the close, analytical study of poetry, fiction and drama, and critical and theoretical approaches to studying literature.
In years one and two the study of successive periods of English literature is complemented by work on individual authors, topics and genres. In your second and third years you will be able to choose from a range of stimulating options and research-led special subjects, including creative writing. Year three is fully optional and includes the opportunity to write a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing.
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Subjects
- Poetry
- Writing
- Theatre
- English
- Options
Course programme
- Critical Issues
- Production for Design and Performance
- Performance Forms and Analysis
- Producing the Performance
- Staging the Text
- Approaches to Poetry
- Literature 1550-1740
Year 2 (2019/20)
- Literature 1740-1900
- Performance Histories
- American Literature: 1945 to Present
- Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Dangerous Books
- Darkest London
- Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing
- Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage
- Literature and Science: Newton to Darwin
- Poetry of the 1960s
- Queer Writing
- Revenge Tragedy
- Travellers' Tales
- Utopian Literature
- War Stories: Women Writers and Conflict from WWI to 9/11
- Decolonising the Stage
- Melodrama
- Popular Performance: Cabaret, Music Hall, Musicals and Revue
- Revenge Tragedy
- Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage
- Shakespeare
- Writing the City: London 1550-1740
- Shakespeare
- Choreography for Theatre
- Early Modern Theatre Practice
- Interpreting Plays
- Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation
- Literature 1900-present
- Politics of Performance
- Arthurian Literature
- Chaucer and Chaucerians
- Old English Language and Literature
- Choreography for Theatre
- Applied Theatre
- Early Modern Theatre Practice
- Performing the Archive: Re-use, Re-enactment and Adaptation
- Interpreting Plays
- Black British Literature
- Literature and the Sea: The Seafarer to The Shipping News
- Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception
- The Author as Character
- The Fairy Tale in English
- Writing the Working Classes
- Travellers' Tales
- War Stories: Women Writers and Conflict from WWI to 9/11
- Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E and E2 above
Year 3 (2019/20)
- Independent Study: Extended Essay
- Independent Study: Dissertation
- Independent Study: Work Placement
- Independent Study: Performance Project
- Devised Performance
- Contemporary British Theatre
- Translation and Adaptation
- The Age of the Actress: Eighteenth-Century Performance Practices
- Site-Specific and Immersive Performance
- Choose open units
- Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction
- American Revolutions
- Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace
- Decolonising Literature and Literary Studies
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Dissertation (English)
- Literatures of Slavery
- Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics
- Charles Dickens
- Postcolonial Imaginings
- Writing for Art
- Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism
- Literature and Medicine
- Twentieth-Century Women Writers
- Prize Culture and Prestige in Contemporary Fiction
- American Masculinities
- Contemporary Literature and Science
- The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing
- Victorian Materialities
- Literature's Children
- Illness Narratives
- Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature
- Literature and Revolution
- Samuel Beckett
- Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography
- Imagining Americans
- Postcolonial Environments
- The Romantics: Poetry, Politics and Place
- The History of the Language of English Literature
- Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present
- Courtly Desire from Troubadours to Elizabethans
- The Public Role of the Humanities
- Dissertation for English/Classical Studies
BA Theatre and English (4CC8)