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Introduction
to Shakespeare
English 15, Summer 2002, Steve Deng
Schedule M-Th 3:30-5:00 pm., South Hall
1415 |
Menu
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| Class 1 (June 24 M) |
Introductory |
Course business and discuss preconceptions about Shakespeare
and Renaissance England
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| Class 2 (June 25 T) |
Shakespeare's World and the Theater
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| Class 3 (June 26 W) |
Shakespeare's life and art, the texts
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Read Norton, pp. 41-76
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Look over pp. 3345-57.
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| Class 4 (June 27 R) |
Staging Shakespeare
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| Class 5 (July 1 M) |
Much Ado About
Nothing:
The Power of Shame |
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Read Much Ado About Nothing (entire
play)
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| Class 6 (July 2 T) |
Much Ado About Nothing:
Branagh Film Version
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| Class 7 (July 3 W) |
Much Ado About Nothing:
Theatricality and Anti-Theatricality
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Read Jean Howard article in reader:
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"Renaissance Antitheatricality
and the Politics of Gender and Rank in Much
Ado About Nothing"
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Bring discussion question (on the
play) to class
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| Class 8 (July 4 R) |
NO CLASS: Independence
Day |
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| Class 9 (July 8 M) |
Henry V: From
Prince Hal to King Harry |
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Read Henry V (entire play),
Read from Henry IV, Part 1 (1.2, 2.2, 2.3,
2.5)
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| Class 11 (July 10
W) |
Henry V: The Great Chain of Being and Machiavellian
Realpolitik
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Read Norman Rabkin article in reader:
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"Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry
V "
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| Class 12 (July 11
R) |
Henry V:
Wrap-up and discussion |
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| Class 13 (July 15
M) |
Twelfth Night
and Social Transgression |
Assignment due: preliminary paper proposal (1 page)
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| Class 14 (July 16
T) |
Twelfth Night:
Trevor Nunn Film Version |
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| Class 15 (July 17
W) |
Twelfth Night:
Theories of Gender and Sexuality
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Read Stephen Greenblatt article
in reader:
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| Class 16 (July 18
R) |
Twelfth Night:
Carnival and Its Boundaries
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| Class
17 (July 22 M) |
Othello:
An Anti-Social Play? |
- Read Othello (entire play)
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| Class 18 (July 23
T) |
Othello:
"O" Film Adaptation
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Assignment due: final paper proposal (2 pages w/ sec.
sources)
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| Class 19 (July 24
W) |
Othello:
A Social Play? Miscegenation and Purgation
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Read Dympna Callaghan article in reader:
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"'Othello was a white man':
Properties of Race on Shakespeare's Stage"
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| Class 20 (July 25
R) |
Othello:
Wrap-up and discussion |
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| Class 21 (July 29
M) |
The Tempest |
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| Class 22(July 30 T) |
The Tempest:
From Context to "Con-text": The New Historicism |
Assignment due: final paper
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Read Francis Barker and Peter
Hulme article in reader:
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"'Nymphs and reapers heavily
vanish': The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest"
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| Class 23(July 31 W) |
The Tempest:
Wrap-up, course review and discussion |
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| Class 24 (Aug 1 R) |
Final Exam |
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FINAL PAPER due Tuesday, July 30 IN CLASS
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FINAL EXAM, Thursday, August 1, 3:30-5
pm., South Hall 1415
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