English Literature and Theatre Studies

Postgraduate

In Leeds

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This distinctive, flexible and wide-ranging degree interweaves workshop-based theatre making with the textual study of English literature, allowing you to explore your interests from both creative and critical perspectives.
You’ll study literature from Old English to the contemporary period, including American and postcolonial literature. You can integrate your textual and theatrical interests through topics such as stage adaptation and dramaturgy. You’ll also participate in workshops designed to develop your skills as an artist-researcher, led by our own theatre specialists and guest tutors ranging from emerging theatre companies to internationally acclaimed playwrights.
Our Workshop Theatre has been pioneering theatre studies since 1968 and counts among its alumni leading theatre practitioners, dramatists and educators. With us, you’ll develop collaborative, creative, critical thinking and project management skills that will benefit you in a wide range of careers.
Specialist facilities
Leeds has fantastic facilities for literature and theatre students. The world-class Brotherton Library has an array of archive, manuscript and early printed material in its Special Collections, alongside other extensive library resources. All of this will be valuable for your independent research, and the University Library offers training programmes to help you make the most of our resources.
The University also has four performance and rehearsal spaces, fully equipped with lighting and sound, which are used for teaching and group work on theatre studies modules as well as performances.

Facilities

Location

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: AAB-AAA including A in English (Literature, Language, or Language and Literature) and excluding General Studies or Critical Thinking.
Other course specific tests:
When an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English (Language, Literature, or Language and Literature) excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking and grade A in the EPQ. s or...

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Subjects

  • Interpretation
  • English
  • Theatre Studies
  • Theatre
  • University
  • Poetry

Course programme

In your first year you’ll study core modules introducing you to different aspects of literary and theatre studies, including poetry, drama, prose, literary theory and criticism as well as approaches to exploring contemporary theatre practice. This will allow you to develop your skills in analysing text and performance.

Once you have this base of knowledge and skills, you’ll develop them in your second year. Core modules will encourage you to think about the historical context of dramatic texts and how theatre can convey social and political agendas. At the same time, you’ll choose from core modules focusing on literature in different historical periods and select optional modules from the wide range on offer.

You’ll choose from further core modules focusing on different historical periods in your final year, as well as an even broader range of optional modules. You’ll also undertake the Practical Essay, a core module which allows you to become a critical theatre practitioner and work on creating a short piece of theatre.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Studying and Researching English 5 credits
  • Poetry: Reading and Interpretation 20 credits
  • Drama: Reading and Interpretation 20 credits
  • Approaches to Theatre and Performance 20 credits
  • Foundations of English Studies 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Prose: Reading and Interpretation 20 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Performing the Past 20 credits
  • Theatre, Society and Self 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Medieval Literature 20 credits
  • Eighteenth Century Literature 20 credits
  • Literature of the Romantic Period 20 credits
  • Renaissance Literature 20 credits
  • Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices 20 credits
  • Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story 20 credits
  • Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting 20 credits
  • Shakespeare and Global Cinema 20 credits
  • African American Narrative: Eight Major Works 20 credits
  • Dialect and Heritage 20 credits
  • Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen 20 credits
  • Contemporary Postcolonial Texts 20 credits
  • American Danger 20 credits
  • Refugee Narratives 20 credits
  • Victorian Literature 20 credits
  • American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present 20 credits

English Literature and Theatre Studies

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