The Chandos
Portrait
Shakespeare II
Dr. Richard Regan
Spring 1999
Office hours: Mon 3-4, Wed & Thurs 2-4,
and by appointment.
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 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) 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 54
ERES
library server with additional course material
Theater related websites
Shakespeare and
the 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
Week of:
January 18 - Introduction to
Comic
Theory
Read
the Works of Shakespeare at MIT
The
Internet Shakespeare Editions
January 25 - As You Like It
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Gardner, Erickson, and Howard
"Instruction
Versus Deception: from Rosalynde to As You Like It"
Scanning
Shakespeare's Lines
Search
the Works of Shakespeare at MIT
The
Works of the Bard: another search engine
February 1 - Twelfth Night
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Bamber, Kimbrough, and Howard
An
Essay on Twelfth Night
A Film
Website
"The
BBC Twelfth Night: Relationships Revealed"
"the
Nature of Shakespearian Comedy"
February 8 - Sonnets
Read: the poems and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Empson, Smith, and Nowottny
A
Guide to the Sonnet
Shakespeare's
Sonnets (1609): A Guide to Electronic Texts
Was
Shakespeare Shakespeare? The Authorship Controversy
February 15 - Julius Caesar
Read: the play and articles by Mack and Kahn
PAPER TOPICS
"Shakespeare
and the Religion of Revolution"
Director's
Insight
William
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (from Perseus at Tufts)
"An
English Renaissance Understanding of the Word 'Tragedy'"
"Shakespeare
and the Tragic Virtue"
February 22 - EXAM, Hamlet
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction
A Short
Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
"A
Romance of Electronic Scholarship"
"On
Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet"
March 2 - Hamlet
Read: articles by Mack, Ornstein, and Heilbrun
"The
Sublime or the Ridiculous": Hamlet in Amerucan Culture"
"Multiplicity
of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet"
"'Too
Much in the Black Sun':Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan
View"
SPRING HOLIDAY
March 15 - Othello
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Mack and Sprengnether
"'That
Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomanites':The Turks in Shakespeare's
Othello"
Women
in Shakespeare
March 22 - Measure for Measure
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the article
by Poulsen
Essays
from the Holy Cross site on Measure for Measure
"Desperate
Measures: Politics and the Process of Performance"
"Vincentio's
Fraud: Boundary and Chaos, Abstinence and Orgy in Measure for
Measure" (click on title)
"The
Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre"
PAPERS DUE
March 29 - 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
April 5 - King Lear
EXAM
BBC
Site on Ian Holm's Lear
Furness
Shakespeare Library
A
Hypertext Version of King Lear
King Lear
Resources on the Web
April 12 - Macbeth
Read: the play and Signet Introduction, and the articles by
McCarthy and Klein
"To
Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources
for Macbeth"
"The
Inversion of Gender Roles in Macbeth"
"Idiotic
Takes: Identity vs. Community in Macbeth and Coriolanus"
April 19 - Antony and Cleopatra
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Danby, Adelman, and Novy
"The
Tragedy of Imagination: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
"Roman
Letters and Egyptian Performatives"
A
Review of Janet Adelman's "Suffocating Mothers"
Shakespeare
Globe USA
April 26 -The Winter's Tale
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Knight, Neely, and Kahn
"Poetry
vs. Plot in The Winter's Tale"
May 3 - The Tempest
Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the
articles by Knox, Leininger, and Greenblatt
An
Essay on The Tempest
"Natural
and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest
"Dating
The Tempest"
FINAL EXAM: Thursday, May 4, 1:30
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