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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesFuturelearn

The Syllabus

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Meet the Sidney Family of Writers
  • Penshurst Place and Ben Jonson
  • The Sidneys, Nature and Writing
  • Summing Up

  • The Sidneys and love poetry
  • Sonnets by Philip Sidney and Robert Sidney
  • Writing Sonnets: calligraphy and decoration
  • Lady Mary Wroth's Writing about love
  • The Gods of Love: Venus and Cupid
  • Summing Up

  • Household theatre and Shakespeare's Sisters
  • Philip Sidney "The Lady of May"
  • Shakespeare's Sisters (I) The First Play by an Englishwoman
  • Shakespeare's Sisters (II) Mary Sidney's "Tragedy of Antony"
  • Music and Performance
  • Shakespeare's Sisters (III) Lady Mary Wroth's "Love's Victory"
  • Summing Up

  • Introduction: The Sidneys and Religion
  • Reformation and Counter Reformation
  • "A Discourse of Life and Death" trans. Mary Sidney Herbert
  • Mary and Philip Sidney's translations of the Psalms of David
  • The classical gods
  • Quiz
  • Summing up

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