The Droeshout Engraving

Shakespeare - En 255

Dr. Richard Regan

Fall 2002

Office hours: Mon 11:30-12:15, Wed 1-1:45, 3-4, Th 11:30-12:15

Texts: Signet Classic editions of the plays listed below.

Grading: modified contract system. Three tests and an optional paper, each of equal weight in the final grade.

Attendance: for every three 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) two tests based closely on the texts of the plays; 2) weekly summaries/responses to critical articles or WWW sites. These are graded as quizzes and can raise or lower the final grade.

Modified contract: an 8-10 page paper to be eligible for a grade of A or A-. Papers may be rewritten after a conference. Topics must be in writing and approved in conference.

Final Exam: essays and passages for analysis.

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 104


Theater related websites

Shakespeare and the Globe

"The Elizabethan Theatre": a lecture with slides

FESTE: Royal Shakespeare Archives

The McGill Shakespeare Resources Page

Shakespeare in Performance Institute Acting Exercises

Interactive Shakespeare Project

Shakespeare at Hampton Court


Internet MetaSites for Shakespeare

Terry Gray's Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

SH:in:E

Early Modern Literary Studies

Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? The Authorship Controversy

The Shakespeare Discussion List Archive

Shaksper Website

The Shakespeare Classroom


Schedule

Week of:

September 2 - Introduction, Theory of Comedy, The Taming of the Shrew

Read the Works of Shakespeare at MIT

The Internet Shakespeare Editions

RhymeZone Shakespeare Search Engine


September 9 - 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..."

The Works of the Bard: including a SEARCH engine

Scanning Shakespeare's Lines


September 16 - Richard III

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Rossiter and Kahn

Richard III Onstage and Off

Richard III Society Online Library

Thomas More's "The History of King Richard III"

"The Misogyny of Richard III..."


September 23 - 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


September 30 - 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 7 - 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"

EXAM


October 14 - 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

"Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night:: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre"

"...the Nature of Shakespearian Comedy"

PAPER TOPICS DUE


October 21 - Hamlet

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack, Ornstein, Heilbrun, and Belsey

"A Romance of Electronic Scholarship"

A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet

(Click on "COURSE" and/or "FORUM")

Enfolded Hamlet

"On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet


October 28 - Hamlet

"The Sublime or the Ridiculous": Hamlet in American Culture

"Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet"

Hamlet on the Ramparts (see "Films")

"'Too Much in the Black Sun': Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View

"An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word 'Tragedy'"

"Shakespeare and the Tragic Virtue"


November 4 - Othello

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack and Sprengnether

"'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites':The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello"

Patrick Stewart's Othello

Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello

(access to video clips)

Women in Shakespeare


November 11

EXAM

- 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: The Difference That Death Makes"

Joyce Carol Oates, "Is This the Promised End..."

"Faires and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context for King Lear


November 18 - King Lear

PAPERS DUE

BBC Site on Ian Holm's Lear

"King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family"

Furness Shakespeare Library

The Complete Text of Shakespeare's King Lear with Quarto and Folio Variations, Annotations, and Commentary

A Hypertext Version of King Lear


Nov. 25 - 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"

"Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance"


THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS


December 5,7 - The Winter's Tale and The Tempest

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Leininger and Greenblatt

An Essay on The Tempest (click on title)

"Natural and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest

"Dating The Tempest"


December 9 - The Tempest


FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 17, 9:00


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