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Shakespeare II

Dr. Richard Regan

Spring 2001

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 68

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 in Performance Instutute Projects

Shakespeare in Performance Instutute Acting Exercises

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 15 - Introduction to Comic Theory

Read the Works of Shakespeare at MIT

The Internet Shakespeare Editions


January 22 - 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


January 29 - Twelfth Night

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction, and the articles by Bamber, Kimbrough, and Howard

An Essay on Twelfth Night (click on title)

A Film Website

"The BBC Twelfth Night: Relationships Revealed"

"the Nature of Shakespearian Comedy"


February 5 - 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 12 - Julius Caesar

Read: the play and articles by Mack and Kahn

PAPER TOPICS

"Caesar"s Reviving Blood: 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 19 - EXAM, Hamlet

Read: the play and the Signet Introduction

A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet on the Ramparts

"A Romance of Electronic Scholarship"

"On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet"


Febuary 26 - 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"


March 5 - 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


SPRING HOLIDAYS


March 19 - 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 26 - 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 2 - King Lear

EXAM

BBC Site on Ian Holm's Lear

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

Furness Shakespeare Library

A Hypertext Version of King Lear

King Lear Resources on the Web


April 9 - 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"


April 16 - 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"


April 23 - 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"

"Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance"


April 30 - The Tempest

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

An Essay on The Tempest (click on title)

"Natural and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest

"Dating The Tempest"


FINAL EXAM: Monday, May 7, 9:00


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