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- Students will have drawn upon their understanding of theatre to examine the ethics and politics of speech in the public sphere.
- Students will have engaged in focused analysis of the way spoken address functions in a range of theatre and performance examples.
- Students will be conversant in key concepts in speech act theory, performative theory and rhetorical theory.
- Students will have developed their skills in academic writing.
Week 1: Introduction - what makes a speech 'great'?
Week 2: How do politicians use theatricality to legitimate their power?
Week 3: How does theatre question the legitimacy of political rhetoric? Julius Caesar
Week 4: What is theatrical about the law? Courtroom drama and tribunal plays
Week 5: What does it mean to ‘give your word’? Oaths and promises
Week 6: Can 'non-serious' utterances have real consequences? Spells, curses, and superstition
Week 7: Can jokes perform violence?
Week 8: Can words heal injury? Testimony, commemoration, apology
Week 9: How does a crowd speak? Riots, protests, shouting, chanting
Week 10: How do ‘involuntary’ utterances challenge norms and expectations of speech?
Week 11: Why are some forms of eloquence valued over others? Vernacular forms
Week 12: Module review and essay prep
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 12 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 88 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Performance Analysis: Students will attend a live performance and write an analysis of this performance based in and using ideas and vocabulary acquired in the module | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Continuous Assessment: Students will engage in short weekly question and answer writing assignments based on readings and in-class discussion. | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Essay: Students will be offered a choice of three short theoretical texts, one of which they will apply analytically to an example (of a play, performance work or public speech) they have studied on the modu | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Students will received written feedback post assessments.
Name | Role |
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Samantha Cade | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |