English 135 - Shakespeare
Spring 2005 - evening division
Professor Lisa Schnell
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Dates and
Topics |
Required
Reading and Required Viewing
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Assignments
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Week I January 20 Elizabethan Shakespeare |
Introductions Shakespeare In Love (DVD 508) |
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Week II January 27 Form and Language |
Reading: Twelfth Night
Reading: "Shakespeare: An Overview" in the Signet Midsummer Night's Dream (vii-lxi) Reading: Comedy essay (online, link is on course website) [Recommended viewing: Trevor Nunn, Twelfth
Night,
VID 5663 or BBC Twelfth Night, VID 4953)] |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week |
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Week III February 3 Elizabethan Contexts |
Reading (all from Bedford Twelfth
Night):
Chapter 3, "Sexuality" 183-236 (all) Chapter 4, "Clothing and Disguise" 237-248, 273-278 Chapter 5, "Household Economies" 279-281, 297-312 Reading: Jean E. Howard, excerpt from "Cross-Dressing, the Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England"(e-reserve) |
Due in class: Summary of Jean E. Howard excerpt |
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Week IV February 10 Gender and Society |
Reading: A Midsummer Night's DreamReading: Brown (Signet 113-120) [Recommended viewing: BBC MND: VID 4661] |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week |
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Week V February 17 Gender and Society |
A Midsummer Night's Dream, continued Reading: "Men and Women" essay from Bedford Companion (e-reserve) Reading: Bamber (Signet 129-131) |
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Week VI February 24 Religion and Politics |
Reading: Measure for Measure
Reading: "Governance" excerpt
from Texts and Contexts (handout) [Recommended viewing: BBC Measure for Measure, DVD 2362] |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week |
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Week VII March 3 Religion, Politics and Gender |
Measure for Measure, continued Reading: Marcia Riefer Poulsen, "'Instruments of Some More Mightier Member': The Constriction of Female Power in Measure for Measure" (Signet 153-172) |
Due in class: Summary of Marcia Riefer Poulsen article |
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Week VIII March 10 History and Ideology |
Reading: Coriolanus
Reading: "Introduction"
(Signet lxiii-lxxxix)
Reading: Bruce Smith, "Sexual Politics in Coriolanus" (Signet 255-261) Reading: Tragedy essay (online, link is on course website) Recommended viewing: BBC Coriolanus (VID
10) |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week Take-home midterm distributed |
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Week IX March 17 Macbeth |
Reading: Macbeth
Reading: Harry Levin "Two
Scenes from Macbeth" (Norton 266-282) Reading: Marvin Rosenberg, "Culture, Character, and
Conscience in Shakespeare" (Norton 282-293) |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week Take-home midterm due in class |
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SPRING BREAK |
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Week X March 31 Adaptation |
Reading: Peter Holland,
"'Stands Scotland Where It Did?': The Location of Macbeth on Film" (Norton
357-380) Reading: Janet Adelman, "Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth" (Norton 293-315) Required Viewing (before class!): Billy Morrissette, "Scotland, PA," DVD on
reserve in Bailey-Howe Required Viewing (before class!): William Reilly, "Men of Respect," DVD on reserve in Bailey-Howe |
Due in class: Summary of Janet Adelman article |
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Week XI April 7 The Problem with Hamlet |
Reading: Hamlet
Reading: T.S Eliot, "Hamlet and
His Problems" (Norton 180-184) Reading: Ernest Jones, "Tragedy and the Mind of the Infant" (Norton 200-207) Reading: Stephen Greenblatt,
"Speaking with the Dead" (e-reserve) |
Quiz in class on all required reading for this week |
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Sunday, April 10 7PM McCarthy Arts Center St. MichaelÕs College |
Special
Event!
Attendance is required
Aquila Theater's Live production of Twelfth Night
Tickets provided
by the James and Mary Brigham Buckham Fund of the English Department |
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Week XII April 14 Freudian Hamlets |
Reading: Jacqueline Rose,
"Sexuality in the Reading of Shakespeare" (Norton 262-282) Required Viewing (before class!): Lawrence Olivier, Hamlet (1948), VID 118 Required Viewing (before class!): Franco Zeffirelli, Hamlet (1985), VID 4640 / VIDR
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Due from all individuals in Group A: Summary/review assignment on Olivier's Hamlet Due from all individuals in Group B: Summary/review assignment on Zeffirelli's Hamlet |
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Week XIII April 21 Hamlet the Epic |
Reading: Required
Viewing (before class!): Kenneth Branagh, Hamlet
(1996),
VIDR 385 Note: this is an uncut Hamlet and clocks in at just over 4 hoursÑgive yourself ample time for viewing. |
Due from all individuals in Group C: Summary/review assignment on Branagh's Hamlet |
Week XIV April 28 |
Reading: Jean Baudrillard, "Simulacra and
Simulations" online at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/ Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html Required viewing (before class!): Michael Almereyda, Hamlet (2000), DVD 2462 |
Due from all individuals in Group D: Summary/review assignment on AlmereydaÕs Hamlet |
Final Paper: Due by Monday, May 9 (hard
copies onlyÑI will not accept
electronic copies of your essays).
There is no final exam for this course.