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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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