Drama and English Literature BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules:

• Theatre Histories
• Making
• Critical Reading 1
• Critical Reading 2
• Introduction to English Studies
• Early English Texts and Contexts

Year 2

Optional modules:

• C20th Ghosts: Theatre, Time, Identities
• Shakespeare and Ideology
• Production Project
• Popular Performance
• Theatre and Cultural Difference
• Controversy and Censorship
• Theatre as Cultural Action
• Theatre-in-Education, and Drama-in- Education
• Digital Performance
• Puppetry and Object Manipulation
• Physical Theatres
• Open Project
• Musical Theatre in the UK and USA
• Immersive Performance
• Contemporary Cultural Heritage
• Transcultural Practices
• Role of the Actor - Intermediate
• Role of the Actor - Advanced
• Writing for Performance
• Performance Criticism
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
• The Modern Age
• Chaucer and His World
• Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
• Victorian Fictions
• British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
• Literature in the Shadow of Revolution 1745-1775-1789
• Gothic and Romantic Fiction
• Postcolonial Fictions
• The Postmodern Age
• Individual Project
• Literary Adaptations for Film and Television
• Contemporary Children's Literature
• Volunteering for English
• American Gothic
• American Science Fiction
• Writing America
• Literature and Film
• Work and Money in American Literature
• Middle English Texts in Context
• Old English 1

Year 3

Optional modules:

• Extended Independent Project
• Group Project
• Group Project: Theatre as Cultural Action
• Performance Now: Debates and Discourses
• Performance Now: Advanced Research Practice
• Creative Entrepreneurship and Production
• Body Parts
• Theatre Stories
• Women, Autobiography and Performance
• British Theatre 1945-2015;
• Volunteering
• The Shakespeare Phenomenon
• Crime and Englishness
• Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Biography and the Body
• William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
• Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
• Consumer Culture
• Jewish Identities
• Keywords
• Literature, Sexuality and Morality
• The City in American Literature 1868- 1925
• Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
• Romantic Celebrity Culture
• Globalization and Contemporary Fiction
• Literature and Psychoanalysis
• Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
• The Figure of the Law in Literature
• Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
• African American Literatures and Cultures
• The Contemporary American Novel
• American Crime Fiction
• Sex and the City and Beyond
• Chick Lit/Womens Writing before Sex and the City
• Old English 2

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.