The
Droeshout EngravingShakespeare - En 255
Dr. Richard Regan
Fall 2003
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.
Theater related websites
"The Elizabethan Theatre": a lecture with slides
FESTE:
Royal Shakespeare Archives in PADS Theatre Resources
(click on "Browse")
The McGill Shakespeare Resources Page
Shakespeare in Performance Institute Acting Exercises
Interactive Shakespeare Project
Internet MetaSites for
Shakespeare
Terry Gray's Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? The Authorship Controversy
Schedule
Week of:
September 1 - Introduction, Theory of Comedy, The Taming of the Shrew
The Internet Shakespeare Editions
September 8 - The Taming of the Shrew
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack, Greer, Bamber, and Slights
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Rossiter and Kahn
Richard III Society Online Library
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Myers, Bamber, and Slights
"Imaging the Children of Pan": an article at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival website
A Study Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Web and MOO
September 29 - Henry IV, Part One
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Ornstein and Goldman
EXAM
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Bamber, Kimbrough, and Howard
Romantic comedy, with an inlay of literary romance
"The BBC Twelfth Night : Relationships Revealed"
"Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night:: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre"
"...the Nature of Shakespearian Comedy"
PAPER TOPICS DUE
October 20 - Hamlet
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack, Ornstein, Heilbrun, and Belsey
A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Click on "COURSE" and/or "FORUM")
October 27 - Hamlet
"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'"
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack and Sprengnether
Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello
(access to video clips)
November 10
- King Lear 
Read: the Play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Mack, Bamber, and Brown
"King Lear in its Own Time: The Difference That Death Makes"
Read: the Play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Knight and Neely
"Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance"
December 1 - The Winter's Tale and The Tempest
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Leininger and Greenblatt
"Natural and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest
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