The
Droeshout Engraving
Shakespeare - HR 202B
Dr. Richard Regan
Fall 2000
Office hours: Mon 2:20-4:30, Tu 3:30-4:40,
Wed 2-4:30, Th 2-4:30
Texts: Signet Classic editions of the plays
listed below.
Grading: 1/3 each for the weekly responses,
the major paper, and the final paper. All work may be rewritten after
a conference, but the due dates must be observed (the early date for
the final paper).
Attendance: for every two cuts, a point
will be deducted from your semester average. Excused absences by
written note from a Dean's office, Student Services/Health Center, or
your faculty advisor. Excessive absences may result in a failing
grade.
Required: 1. a major
paper on an approved topic. Topics must be submitted in writing and
approved in conference. 2. weekly summaries/responses to critical
articles or WWW sites. 3. a final paper (topic to be
announced)
Students with documented learning disabilities,
please see me. Alternative methods of testing and evaluation are
available.
Campus Cable Listings of the
BBC productions shown at 8pm on Channel 68
ERES
library server with additional course material
Theater related websites
Shakespeare and
the Globe
Virtual
Pictures of the New Globe
"The
Elizabethan Theatre": a lecture with slides
The
McGill Shakespeare Resources Page
Shakespeare
Examined through Performance
Interactive
Shakespeare Project
Shakespeare
at Hampton Court
Internet MetaSites for Shakespeare
Terry
Gray's Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Early
Modern Literary Studies
ArdenNet
(registration required - free!)
Shakespeare
Globe USA
Was
Shakespeare Shakespeare? The Authorship Controversy
The
Shakespeare Classroom
Schedule
September 7 - Introduction, Theory of
Comedy, The Taming of the Shrew
Read
the Works of Shakespeare at MIT: also click on the Shakespeare
Discussion Area
The
Internet Shakespeare Editions
September 12,14 - The Taming of the Shrew
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Mack, Greer, Bamber, and Slights
"Personations:
The Taming of the Shrew..."
Search
the Works of Shakespeare at MIT
The
Works of the Bard: another search engine
September 19,21 - Richard III
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Rossiter and Kahn
Scanning
Shakespeare's Lines
Richard
III On Stage and Off
Thomas
More's "The History of King Richard III"
"The
Misogyny of Richard III..."
September 26,28 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Meyers, Bamber, and Slights
"...Petrarch
and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens"
"Imaging
the Children of Pan": an article at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
website
A Midsummer Night's Web
and MOO
A
Study Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Hypertext
Version of A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Film
Website
October 3,5 - Henry IV, Part One
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Ornstein, Goldman and Kahn
"The
Making of a King": another article at the Illinois Shakespeare
Festival
"The
Education of a Prince"
"The
Prudence and Kinship of Prince Hal..."
October 10,12 - film and studio production excerpts from
2 Henry IV and Henry V
"Henry
IV, Part 2"
"Hal
Imitates the Sun"
"Holy
War in Henry Fifth"
October 17,19 - Twelfth Night
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Bamber, Kimbrough, and Howard
An
Essay on Twelfth Night
"The
BBC Twelfth Night : Relationships Revealed"
A Film
Website
"...the
Nature of Shakespearian Comedy"
October 24,26 - Hamlet
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Mack, Ornstein, Heilbrun, and Belsey
PAPER TOPICS DUE
"A
Romance of Electronic Scholarship"
A Short
Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Click on "COURSE" and/or "FORUM")
"On
Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet
Oct.31, Nov.2 - Hamlet
"The
Sublime or the Ridiculous": Hamlet in American
Culture
"...Last
Moments of Hamlet"
Hamlet
on the Ramparts
"'Too
Much in the Black Sun': Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan
View"
November 7,9 - Othello
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Mack and Sprengnether
"'That
Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomite': The Turks in Shakespeare's
Othello"
Patrick
Stewart's Othello
Women
in Shakespeare
November 14,16 - King Lear
Read: the Play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Mack, Bamber, and Brown
"Two
Lears for TV"
"King
Lear in its Own Time"
Joyce
Carol Oates: "Is This the Promised End..."
"Faires
and Gods: A Socio-religious Context for King Lear "
November 21 - King Lear
MAJOR PAPERS DUE
BBC
Site on Ian Holm's Lear
Furness
Shakespeare Library Editions of King Lear
Hypertext
Version of King Lear
King Lear
Resources on the Web
"The
Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theater"
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
Nov. 28,30 - The Winter's Tale
Read: the Play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Knight and Neely
"Poetry
vs. Plot in The Winter's Tale"
The
Shakespeare Discussion List Archive
December 5,7 - The Tempest
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Leininger and Greenblatt
A
background essay on The Tempest
"National
and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest"
"DatingThe
Tempest"
December 12 - Early Date for Final Paper (rewrite allowed)
December 18 - Final Paper
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