Shakespeare Studies

Taught jointly between King's and Shakespeare's Globe, our unique MA course offers you the opportunity to study the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

You will be able to draw on expertise at both King's and Shakespeare's Globe, studying Shakespeare close to the types of theatres for which he wrote and just a stone's throw from where his plays were originally performed.

At the Globe you will learn about early modern playhouses, audiences, performance practices and get to play on the stage and at King's you will cover early modern drama and other literary genres, examining Shakespeare alongside his contemporaries.

Key benefits:

• Unique collaboration between Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the Department of English, King's College London.
• Ideal opportunity to study the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in a theatrical context in the heart of London.
• Graduates of the degree have gone on to study a PhD at King's and at other major universities both in the UK and the US or to work in the creative industries, arts administration and publishing.

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours in English, Drama or an equivalent subject.

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)
• Early Modern Playhouse Practice (20 credits)
• Staging Shakespeare in Early Modern Playhouses (20 credits)
• Dissertation Shakespeare English (90 credits)

You will also write a 15,000-word Dissertation and 4,000-word Critical survey module which includes training in research and writing skills on a related topic.

Please note that if you are a part-time student, you will take 'Early Modern Playhouse Practice in your first year. You will take the rest of the required modules in your second year.

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take 20 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include those listed below.

If you are a part-time student, you will take these 20 credits in your first year. There will be no optional modules in your second year.

• Global/Local Shakespeares (20 credits)
• Professing Writing in Early Modern England (20 credits)
• Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London (20 credits)
• Premodern Dialogues: Medieval & Early Modern Literatures in Conversation (20 credits)
• Poetic Movements, Poetic Moods 1660-1800 (20 credits)
• Flatter & Fawn: Early Modern Drama & the Court (20 credits)
• Up to 20 credits from Graduate Language modules offered by King's Modern Language Centre

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

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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