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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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