EN5307
Renaissance Popular Culture
2025-2026
30
15
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2025-2026
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
This module aims to build upon the themes explored in EN5304, 'Learned Culture'. Here, the emphasis is less upon rhetoric and classroom practice in the sixteenth century, and more upon Renaissance literature's engagement with a wider field of influences and practice, explored as aspects of 'the popular' in its widest sense. Themes for discussion may include: the place of the stage; popular festivity and literary form; ballads and print; jests and alehouses; drama and the city; the impact of the Reformation; and news pamphlets.
Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar (x 9 weeks)
As used by St Andrews: 100% coursework
Re-assessment: 100% coursework