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September |
October |
November |
December |
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Date |
Day |
Topic |
Reading For Next Class |
| 1 |
23-Aug |
T |
Intro to course,
policies
Renaissance
Interactive
Early Modern Drama (Powerpoint) |
Reading ffor Next Class
terms
to know for quiz |
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25-Aug |
R |
Context
- Tropes:
- Rhetorical figures:
- hierarchies or domains
- Shakespeare's coinages and phrases
- Shakespeare's texts
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Reading for Next Class
- STB 31-55
- Will Power Day 2
terms
to know for quiz
DROP ADD ENDS FRIDAY |
| 2 |
30-Aug |
T |
- Shakespeare's Language (II)
- handout on repetition, balanced pairs, alliteration
- Tropes:
- Intro to Shakespeare's stage
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Reading for Next Class
- SBS 55-71
- Will Power Day 3 (Note: most people say "tetrameter," not "quadrimeter"
terms
to know for quiz |
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1-Sep |
R |
Intro to Presentations
Verse and Prose
Types of Stage Action
Context--Reflexivity
Spectacle
Radical theatre
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Reading for Next Class
terms
to know for quiz |
| 3 |
6-Sep |
T |
Plays in Performance
Practice reading Shakespeare: verbs
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Reading for Next Class
terms
to know for quiz |
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8-Sep |
R |
Scene acting assignment and how I grade it
From yesterday:
Genre and Comedy
Discussion:
- New historicists' view of gender in Shakespeare:
Is women's desire for independence a fantasy?
do they rebel against fathers' authority only
to submit to lover's authority, and is that
submission the point of the play?
- Cultural materialists' view of gender in Shakespeare:
Do Shakepeare's plays so transform lovers that
they may experience a "more equal"
relationship after marriage?
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Reading for Next Class
- SfPtS: Much Ado About Nothing Act 1 and 2
- Will Power Day 6
- Begin imagery
analysis sheet (to be turned in on last
day of play)
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| 4 |
13-Sep |
T |
Much Ado About Nothing
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Reading for Tomorrow
- SfPtS: Much Ado...2.1-4.2
- Will Power Day 7
terms to know for quiz |
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15-Sep |
R |
Much Ado 2.1-4.2
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Reading for Tomorrow
- Much Ado Acts 4.3-5.4 (end)
- Will Power Day 8
terms to know for quiz |
| 5 |
20-Sep |
T |
Much Ado 4.3-5.4 (end)
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Reading for Tomorrow
- Prepare for presentations
- Begin reading STB 169-175
- Will Power Day 9
terms to know for quiz |
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22-Sep |
R |
Presentations:
- Group 1 River: Stearns and Keziah
- Group 2 Water, Sewers, Streets: Cline and Ratsch
- Group 3 Buildings: McDowell and Shepherd
Introduction to Twelfth Night
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Reading for Next Class
terms
to know for quiz (on presentations) |
| 6 |
27-Sep |
T |
Presentations:
Twelfth Night Act 1
Discussion of Imagery Analyses
Context:
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Reading for Next Class
- Twelfth Night Acts 2 and 3
- Will Power Day 11
Begin imagery
analysis sheet (to be turned in on last
day of play)
terms to know for quiz (on reading and presentations) for next Tuesday, not this Thursday |
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29-Sep |
R |
Twelfth Night
Acts 2 and 3
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Reading for Next Class:
- Twelfth Night Acts 4 and 5
- Will Power Day 12
terms to know for quiz (on reading and presentations) |
| 7 |
4-Oct |
T |
Group 7 Presentation (Brown and Parker)
Twelfth Night Acts 4 and 5
Context:
She's the Man
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Reading for Next Class
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6-Oct |
R |
Imagery Sheets -- example
Presentations
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Will Power Day 14 |
| 8 |
11-Oct |
T |
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Reading for Next Class
Terms to know for Quiz (STB and Merchant act 1) |
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13-Oct |
R |
FALL BREAK--NO CLASS |
| 9 |
18-Oct |
T |
FALL BREAK--NO CLASS |
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20-Oct |
R |
Take home midterm
Merchant of Venice -- Act 1
Context
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Reading for Next Class
- SfPtS: Merchant of Venice Acts 2 and 3
- Will Power Day 15
What to study for Quiz on STB and Will POwer 15
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| 10 |
25-Oct |
T |
Merchant of Venice -- Acts 2 and 3
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Reading for Next Class
- SfPtS: Merchant of Venice Acts 4 and 5
- Will Power Day 16
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27-Oct |
R |
Merchant of Venice -- Acts 4 and 5
- 5.1: Famous lovers
- Dido and Aeneas
- Troilius and Cressida
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- Jason and Medea
- Comparable lovers
- Prince Charles and Lady Diana
- Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
- OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher
- Paul and Fiona Donnison
- House and Cuddy
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Reading for Next Class
- STB 175-203
- Henry IV Part 1, Act 1 and 2
- Begin imagery
analysis sheet (to be turned in on last
day of play)
- Will Power Day 17
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| 11 |
1-Nov |
T |
Take home midterm due
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV and the History Plays
History and Context
Shakespeare's stagecraft
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Reading for Next Class
- Henry IV Part 1, Acts 3 and 4
- Wil Power Day 18
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3-Nov |
R |
Henry IV Part I Acts 2 and 3
- 2.1: Starvation
- Shakespearean
Insult generator
- Two Harry Scenes
- Three Hotspur Scenes
- 1.3.194-212
- 2.3 Hotspur and wife
- 3.1.1-139
- Three Falstaff scenes
- Themes: language, manhood, honor
- Structure: look for parallels between major and minor plot (see this paper on Seinfeld)
Context:
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Tomorrow is the last day to drop with a W
Reading for tomorrow
- Henry IV Act 5
- Will Power Day 19
LAST DAY TO DROP WITH A W |
| 12 |
8-Nov |
T |
Henry IV Part I Acts 4 and 5
- Harry's reformation: 4.1.90-111
- Hotspur and chivalry 4.1.75-131
- Hotspur's grievances 4.3
- Falstaff's charge: 4.2
- 5.1-4 Battlefield: All plots come together
- Chimes at Midnight battle scene
- Falstaff fakes death on battlefield
Tragedy and Comedy;
selections
- Greek heroes, nobility, and hamartia
- English heroes, politics, and power
- McEvoy: "When powerful historical forces
come into conflict, individuals are sometimes
the site of that conflict and are destroyed
by it"
- The king's two bodies: Who is Prince Hamlet
without his office? Can we separate kingship
from personality?
- Female betrayal and male identity
- Female power and chaos
- Prophecy and self-determination
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Reading for Next Class
- STB 208-241
- Macbeth 1-2
- Begin imagery
analysis sheet (to be turned in on last
day of play)
What to study for quiz on Tragedy (McEvoy) and Macbeth |
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10-Nov |
R |
Macbeth Acts 1 and 2
Motifs and themes:manhood and gender, omens and prophecy, cannibalism
Textual history: Acts 1.2, 3.5, 4.1 (40-65)
revision or collaboration?
Act 2 -- murder scenes
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Reading for Monday
- Macbeth 3-4
- Will Power Day 20
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| 13 |
15-Nov |
T |
Macbeth Acts 3 and 4
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Reading for Next Class
- Macbeth Act 5
- Othello, Act 1
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17-Nov |
R |
Macbeth Act 5
Othello, Introduction and Act I |
Reading for Tomorrow
- Othello Acts 2 and 3
- Begin imagery
analysis sheet (to be turned in on last
day of play)
- Will Power Day 21
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| 14 |
22-Nov |
T |
Othello Acts 2,3,4
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Reading for Next Class:
- Othello and 5
- Tempest Act 1
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24-Nov |
R |
THANKSGIVING--NO CLASS |
| 15 |
29-Nov |
T |
Othello Act 5, Tempest Act 1
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Reading for next class:
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1-Dec |
R |
The Tempest Act 1 & 2
Scene performance
Scene performance
Scene performance |
Tomorrow is the last day for a medical W
Reading for Next Class: Tempest Acts 2 and 3 |
| 16 |
6-Dec |
T |
The Tempest Act 3
- Scene performance
- Scene performance
- Scene performance
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Finish The Tempest |
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8-Dec |
R |
The Tempest Acts 4 and 5
History is as light as an individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
- Milan Kundera
- Scene performance
- Scene performance
- Scene performance
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14-Dec |
W |
333 FINAL EXAM due by Thursday, December 15 at 5 PM
Final Exam
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16-Dec |
F |
303 FINAL EXAM IN COULTER 105 12:00 - 2:30 |
