BA English and Drama
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: A Level B in an essay-based subject We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including 5 in an essay-based subject at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Performance and design for theatre and screen, combining textual study with theatrical practice. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Entrepreneurship. The course integrates literary study with performance practice throughout, and includes a final-year dissertation project.
Modules
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Theatre and Performance Making 1
- Theatre and Text 1
- Shakespeare from Page to Stage
- Theatre and Ideas 2
- Middle English Poetry
- Tolkien's Roots
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Modernisms
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Adaptation
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Casting
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Tragedy
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Knowledge and the Body
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Time
- Theatre and Ideas: Ideas of Gender and Sexuality
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Money
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Acting
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Live Art
- Theatre and Ideas: Ideas of Race and Indigeneity
- Theatre and Ideas: Arts Entrepreneurship
- Theatre and Performance Making 2
- Theatre and Performance Making: Scenography
- Theatre and Performance Making: Dance and Theatre
- Theatre and Performance Making: Theatre Directing
- Theatre and Performance Making: Devising
- Theatre and Performance Making: Playwriting
- Theatre and Performance Making: Acting for Camera
- Dancing Bodies, Global Culture
- Theatre and Culture: Cultures of Memory
- Theatre and Culture: Aesthetics of Anxiety
- Theatre and Culture: Theatre for Young Audiences
- Theatre and Culture: Southeast Asian Theatre and Performance
- Theatre and Text: Greek Tragedy
- Theatre and Text: Staging the Real
- Theatre and Text: Dramaturgy
- Theatre and Text: Decoding debbie tucker green
- Literature and the Digital
- British Drama from Shaw to Priestley
- Writing as a Critic
- Final Year Project - Dissertation
- Group Project
- Final Year Project - Special Study
- Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
- On Murder
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reading Like a Victorian
- First World War Literature
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Byron, Modernity and Europe 1780-1830
- Poetic Practice
- Violence, Sex and Magic in Medieval Literature
- Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting and Music in the 1950s
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Virginia Woolf
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Screenwriting
- English Dissertation