January 20: Introductions
Readings: | No Readings this week. We will have a general introduction to the seminar and topic. |
January 27: Shakespeare and Performance
Readings: | View* Twelfth Night (Globe Shakespeare Production). **links to video sent via e-mail**
Reading: “The Shakespearean Stage,” by Andrew Gurr (Norton Shakespeare 2nd Edition, 79-99) OR “The Theater of Shakespeare’s Time” by Holger Schott Syme (Norton Shakespeare 3rd Edition, 93-118) *for this week I would like you to watch the play only! Try to avoid reading along with the performance. |
Seminar Starter(s): | Holly Lattimer |
Seminar Synopsis | Chris Page |
February 3: Shakespeare’s Language
Readings: | The Rape of Lucrece
Chapters 2 and 5 in The Bedford Companion (“Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language” and “Shakespeare’s Reading” |
Seminar Starter(s):
Seminar Synopsis: |
Mike Marks
Holly Lattimer / Kathleen O’Mally |
Assignment: | FIRST SHORT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT (Due 2/5, 2/12, or 2/19) |
February 10: Shakespeare’s Text I
Readings: | The History of King Lear. Quarto Text (1606) [An edited version of the Quarto text is available in the Norton Shakespeare: read only the LEFT side of the book beginning with p. 2330 in the 3rd edition or p. 2336 in the 2nd edition. The 3rd edition also has the quarto text available in the Digital Edition.]
Chapter 6 of The Bedford Companion (“What is your Text?”) |
Seminar Starter(s): | Kristina Ginnick / Meghan Gallucci |
Seminar Synopsis: | Brendan Tanner |
February 17: Shakespeare’s Text II
Readings: | The Tragical History of Hamlet, First Quarto Text (1603) [The 3rd Edition of the Norton Shakespeare includes an edited full text of Q1. If you don’t have the 3rd Edition, you can download a copy of the text here.]
Ron Rosenbaum, “Shakespeare’s Badass Quarto” (2016) OPTIONAL: Leah Marcus, “Bad Taste and Bad Hamlet” from Unediting the Renaissance (1998) |
Seminar Starter(s): | Brendan Tanner |
Seminar Synopsis: | Shannon Plackis |
February 24: Shakespeare and Politics
Readings: | Richard II
David Scott Kastan, “Proud Majesty Made a Subject: Shakespeare and the Spectacle of Rule” Chapter 9 of The Bedford Companion (“Politics and Religion”) |
Seminar Starter(s): | Joe Curra / Chris Page |
Seminar Synopsis: | William Perry |
March 2: Shakespeare and Gender
Readings: | The Taming of the Shrew
Frances Dolan, “Household Chastisements: Gender, Authority and ‘Domestic Violence'” Chapter 8 in The Bedford Companion (“Men and Women: Gender, Family, Society”) |
Seminar Starter(s): | Colleen Stewart |
Seminar Synopsis: | Kasey Tveit |
March 9: Shakespeare and Sexuality
Readings: | The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Stephen Guy-Bray, “‘Shakespeare and the Invention of the Heterosexual” |
Seminar Starter(s):
Seminar Synopsis: |
Kasey Tveit
Kristina Ginnick |
March 16: Shakespeare’s Life
Readings: | James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (excerpts)
Chapter 1 of The Bedford Companion, (Shakespeare, “Shakespeare,” and the Problem of Authorship |
Seminar Starter(s):
Seminar Synopsis: |
William Perry
Mike Marks |
Assignment: | SECOND SHORT ASSIGNMENT DUE (by Friday, 3/18) |
March 23: NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK
March 30: Shakespeare and Film I
Readings: | Read Much Ado About Nothing and view 2014 film directed by Joss Whedon |
Seminar Starter: | Shannon Plackis |
Seminar Synopsis: | Sunny Hoang |
April 6: Shakespeare and Adaptation
Readings: | Othello
Desdemona, by Toni Morrison |
Seminar Starter: | Shelby Seipp |
Seminar Synopsis: | Colleen Stewart |
April 13: Shakespeare and New Media
Readings: | Digital Editions of The Tempest |
Seminar Starter:
Seminar Synopsis: |
Kathleen O’Malley
Meghan Gallucci |
Assignment: | THIRD SHORT ASSIGNMENT DUE |
April 20: Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
This week members of the seminar will present on materials selected from a range of adaptations and responses to Shakespeare.
April 27: Shakespeare and Film II
Readings: | Macbeth (2015), dir. by Justin Kurzel SCREENED IN CLASS |
Seminar Starter:
Seminar Synopsis: |
Sunny Hoang
Joe Curra / Shelby Seipp |
Wed., May 4 (No Class): Fourth Short Assignment Due
Wed., May 11: Final Presentations, in our Classroom at 7:15