Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission

Our degree in Early Modern English Literature is taught with the British Library and provides a unique opportunity to study early modern literary works, including Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson, in the light of recent critical approaches and as print and manuscript material artefacts.

Our MA offers an ideal foundation for doctoral work and careers in the arts, education, curatorship and broadcasting.

Key Benefits:

• A strong tradition of Shakespeare and early modern literary studies at King's.
• Unique access to unparalleled collections at the British Library and to the expertise of world-class curators, who will teach the core module and supervise some dissertations.
• Close links with the London Shakespeare Seminar, the London Renaissance Seminar, the Institute of English Studies, and Lambeth Palace Library.
• Located in the heart of literary London.

The module taught at the British Library is specially designed to teach students how to search collections of early modern manuscripts and rare books held in major research libraries worldwide and how to identify the agents involved in their production, transmission and preservation in libraries and private collections.

Minimum 2:1 BA honours degree in English or in a subject in which English plays a significant part; other well-qualified candidates may be considered.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Working with Early Modern Literary Texts (30 credits)
• The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts (20 credits)
• Dissertation (90 credits)

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take two modules, totalling 40 credits, from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Global/Local Shakespeares (20 credits)
• Professing Writing in Early Modern England (20 credits)
• Pre-modern Dialogues: Medieval & Early Modern Literatures in Conversation (20 credits)
• Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London (20 Credits)
• Poetic Movements Modes, Poetic Moods 1660-1800 (20 credits)
• A range of master's modules offered in the School of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes, subject to approvals.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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