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English 431: Shakespeare and his Age
Mary Adams, Instructor
M 6-9 Coulter 304
Office Hours M 5-6; T-R 10-11; 3:30 -4 or by appointment
madams@wcu.edu
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Journal Form
Texts: Bevington, David, editor. The Complete
Works of Shakespeare. 4th edition updated. New York: Longman,
1997.
Henry VI Part IIRichard
IIIHenry IV, Part I (+ movie) As You Like ItTroilus And CressidaKing
LearAntony & CleopatraThe Tempest
McDonald, Russ. Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with
Documents. Bedford Books, 1996. Useful Links
Assignments:
Reading Journal 20%Anotated
Bibliographical Essay and Presentation 25%. Final Paper 20%Final
Exam 20%Participation 15%
Annotated Bibliography: For this 5 - 7 page paper
and presentation, you will read around 7 articles or two full books on
varying approaches to your topic. You will summarize the approaches, noting
where necessary the significant differences between approaches. The topics
are divided into literary criticism; pedagogy; and general background.
The paper is due on disk (for publication to the web) on the day you present
your topic.
For English
Majors-ways of Reading Shakespeare
As You Like It
Start with Twentieth century interpretations of As you like it;
a collection of critical essays, 1968. edited by Jay L. Halio.
WCU PR2803.Z5 H1
Henry IV, Part I
Start with Henry the Fourth, parts I and II : critical essays
/ [edited by] David Bevington. New York : Garland Pub., 1986. WCU
GENERAL PR2809.H46 1986. Also check out Engendering a nation : a feminist
account of Shakespeare's English histories / Jean E. Howard and Phyllis
Rackin . 1997. ABC Express PR2982 .H67 1997
King Lear.
Start with Critical essays on Shakespeare's King Lear / edited
by Jay L. Halio c1996. ABC Express. PR2819 .C75 1996
Antony & Cleopatra
Start with Twentieth century interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra
: a collection of critical essays / edited by Mark Rose. c1977.
WCU GENERAL: PR2802 .T85.
Problem Comedies.
Start with Northrop Frye's The myth of deliverance : reflections on
Shakespeare's problem comedies. WCU: PR2981.F68 1983. Also Shakespeare's
division of experience / Marilyn French WCU: PR3069.S45 F7 and
Foakes' Shakespeare: the dark comedies to the last plays; WCU PR2976
.F57.
The Tempest
Start with Critical essays on Shakespeare's The tempest / edited
by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan, 1998. ABC Express.
PR2833 .C75 1998.
Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
Start with A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, available through
ABC Express from UNCA GENERAL; PR2991 .F45 2000; also check Kolin
(on reserve).
for Education Majors-ways of teaching
Teaching Through Performance
Start with Teaching Shakespeare through performance / edited
by Milla Cozart Riggio 1999. ABC Express PR2987 .T366 1999. Also Charles
Frey's Experiencing Shakespeare : essays on text, classroom, and
performance. WCU: PR2976 .F66 1988 .
Teaching Through Film and Multimedia.
Start with Salomone (on reserve) and Coursen (on reserve).
Also check out Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum; Aers,
Lesley (ed.)--Wheale, Nigel (ed.); Publication: 1991. ABC Express
PR2987 .S484 1991
Teaching King Lear
Start with Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's King Lear /
edited by Robert H. Ray. New York : Modern Language Association of
America, 1986. ABC Express PR2819 .A95 1986.
Teaching the Tempest
Start with Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's The tempest and
other late romances / edited by Maurice Hunt. Available from ASU
MAIN STACKS: PR2981.5 .A67 1992
Teaching Hamlet., MacBeth, or Romeo & Juliet.
Start with Swope's Ready-to-use Series (e.g. Activities for Teaching
Hamlet. WCU CMC LA-LI CET ha 1994. )
Teaching through the Web and Computer (two students).
For this assignment, you will compile sites from the web that deal
with Shakespeare's text, background, teaching, interpretation, etc.
You will organize them into categories and give a description about
the function of each. You should edit your paper/ presentation so
that it only has useful sites. Make sure to include the site information
and links. Should also include a guide to articles about Shakespeare
and the web. Check out Hypermedia and literary studies / edited
by Paul Delany and George P. Landow. ABC Express PN98.E4 H97 1994.
Other Topics
Renaissance History and Art.
Start with Howarth's Images of Rule (art). WCU GENERAL N6765
.H68 1997. On Reserve. Also Evett's Literature and the Visual Arts
in Tudor England (art). ABC Express: NX543.A1 E94 1990. For history,
look at Tillyard's Elizabethan World Picture WCU; PR428.P5
T5 1944 and Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning; WCU: PR429.S45
G7 1980.
Foreign Language: Shakespear in Translation.
Start with Foreign Shakespeare : contemporary performance /
edited by Dennis Kennedy. WCU: PR2971.F66 F66 1993.
Shakespearean Performance:
Start with Perspectives on Shakespeare in performance / J.L.
Styan. ABC Express: PR3091 .S79 1999. Also look at Shakespeare
in the South : essays on performance / Philip C. Kolin, editor
. c1983. ABC Express: PR3105 .S47 1983.
Textual issues in Shakespeare.
Start with F. P. Wilson's Shakespeare and the new bibliography; ABC
Express PR3071 .W5 1970. Also W.W. Greg, The editorial problem in
Shakespeare; WCU: PR3071 .G7; and Hinman, Charlton: The Printing and
Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare-WCU: PR3071 .H5 v.1,
2; (good for a once-over).
Final Paper (7-10 pages)Topic One: Analyze
the use of one kind of imagery in at least two of the plays, and compare
how they are used. For instance, you might examine animal imagery, imagery
of gardens, imagery of disease and illness; imagery of food and feeding;
imagery of sex, corruption, and prositution. Also consult Caroline Spurgeon's
definitive book on this topic, Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells
Us (on reserve). WCU: PR3081 .S64 1958.
Topic
Two: Try staging key three scenes from one of the plays
we have read this semester. Then examine how it is staged in two film
productions, and read about its staging in Kennedy's Looking at Shakespeare:
a visual history of twentieth-century performance (on reserve). WCU:
PR3100 .K46 1993. Read about other performances. Discuss how the differences
in staging affect the way the play can be interpreted.
Topic Three:
Examine the characterization of three Shakespearean women, one in a
history play (Henry VI or Richard III); one in a tragedy, and one in
a comedy (Troilus or As You Like It). Examine the way the characters
are created, and discuss their similarities and differences. Speculate
on the reasons for these differences. Look at Adelman, Janet. Suffocating
Mothers: Fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet
to the Tempest (on reserve) PR3065 .A37 1992. Also look at As
she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / Penny Gay (on reserve):
PR2991 .G38 1994.
Topic Four:
Take on of the plays below, and compare it to at least two of the movies
that revise it. Make sure you can get hold of the movies before you
decide on this topic. Discuss what they keep and what they leave out,
and speculate about why.
Romeo & Juliet
Dirty DancingShakespeare
in LoveWest Side Story
Lear
Kurosawa's RanSmiley's
A Thousand Acres (Book & Movie w. Jessica Lange)Star Trek: The Conscience
of the King
Henry IV
Kurosawa's KagemushaOrson
Welles Chimes at MidnightMy Own Private Idaho
Taming of the Shrew
10 Things I Hate About YouOverboard
Tempest
Forbidden Planet, Stations
of the Tide-SwanwickThe Sea, The Sea - Iris MurdochPaul Mazursky's The
Tempest (movie)Prospero's Books
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead (play/ movie)
Doggs Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth (in Stoppard: The Real Inspector
Hound and Other Plays)Midwinter's Tale (movie)The Lion KingStrange
Brew
MacBeth
Dutten--King Hereafter (novel)Kurosawa's
Throne of BloodMen of Respect ( movie)
Richard III
Finding RichardRichard
III (modern dress version)
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