To make sure you're seeing the most recent version of this syllabus, clear or bypass your cache each day. To do this, Hit Control + Shift + Reload (Chrome) or for Safari, .

If you are using a browser not listed here, see more at this link

Activity

• Readaround (10 parts)

• I. The Imagery Analysis

  • Imagery Form
  • Example: imagery analysis
  • Basic List of tropes
  • Lots more tropes

Discussion (readings due today)

• Richard III Act 1

Activity

II. Shakespeare's Language and the Imagery Analysis

• Activity: Look for metaphors (these could be nouns, verbs,and adjectives)
• Activity: Look for repeating tropes
  • Hamlet Act 1 scene 2
  • Much Ado Act 4 scene 1

• Shakespeare's Language

I. The Imagery Analysis

• Imagery Form
• Example: imagery analysis
• Basic List of tropes
• Lots more tropes

• Thee and Thou (Much Ado 1:19), 1:33.40)
• Verse and prose in Shakespeare
• Scanning
• Midsummer Night's Dream
  • "Rude mechanicals"
• Henry V
• Hamlet
• Playing Shakespeare: Using the verse
• Performing Incomplete and partial lines in Shakespeare

Context/ Links

• Emblem to Imagery:
  • Nakedness emblem
  • Lear quote about nakedness
  • Disease in Hamlet
  • Feudalism / capitalism metaphors in Henry IV
• Shakespeare's language: grammar and class
• Shakespeare's coinages and phrases
• Shakespeare's texts (quartos, bad quartos, and folios)
  • 2 scenes from Hamlet
• Richard and the "monster baby"
  • image 1
  • image 2
  • image 3
• Prodigy books
  • Schenck von Granfenberg's Memorable Monsters
  • Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia
  • Monsters
  • Munster's 1544 Cosmographia

Discussion (readings due today)

• Richard III Act 2

Activity

• Practice Imagery Analysis for Richard III (due on last day of play discussion) using Imagery Form

• Elizabethan map with theatres (interactive)
• Print map of Elizabethan london
• Dewitt drawing of Swan Theater and exterior drawing as of 1616
• Hollar's Long View of London from Bankside (1644) with a detail
• Illustrations of theatres (Shakespeare's Life and Times)
• Sonnet 20 (Earl of Southampton)
• The Hammer for Witches
• the Castlehaven scandal and 17th c. "libels"

Assignments Due

• Discussion (readings due today)

• Richard III Act 3
  • 3.1 Regent Richard and young prince Edward (now king) (48:00)
  • 3.7 staged show with Lord Mayor (59:35)

War of the Roses & Shakespeasre's Tetralogies

• War of the Roses
  • White Rose of York
  • Red Rose of Lancaster
  • Edward IV Rolls and badges
    • 15th c. propaganda
  • Tudor Rose
  • White Boar of Richard, Duke of Gloucester
• War in a nutshell
• Machiavellli's The Prince

Discussion (readings due today)

• Richard III Act 4
  • 1.08.55 Richard loses Buckingham's good will
  • 1:17:00-1:26 4.4 Queen Margaret and the women
• Questions:
  • Women and children in the play. Why so many?
    • Act 2.2 and Act 4.4
  • What's great and what's amateurish about this early play?
  • What is the conflict, and how does the resolution to the conflict play out?
  • Politics: By what right does the king govern? How do kings get and maintain power?
  • Metaphysics: Is Richard's end "just"? Is his punishment deserved? Is God or Providence at work (see prophecies)?
  • Pschology: Is Richard a stereotypical "vice" or is he more complex? What evidence do we have? What causes him to do evil?

Assignments Due

• Imagery Analysis for Richard III

Discussion (readings due today)

• Richard III Act 5

Assignments Due

• What to study for quiz on Hamlet: Language and Writing (HLW) Introduction

Discussion (readings due today)

• Hamlet: Language and Writing (HLW) Introduction
• Hamlet Act 1
• Imagery analysis: all the repeating tropes

Opening of Hamlet:

• Obama speech
• an alternative staging?
• secret service
• Patrick Stewart and David Tennant: 1:4
• Laurence Olivier 1.2 first soliloquy
• Quarto 1 vs Quarto 2
• 3 minute Hamlet (fixed)
  • text
  • youtube
  • Animaniacs do Yorick
  • Star Trek: The Undiscoverd Country, Clip 1
• drawing of interior off Globe
• exterior of Globe

Hamlet, the Text

• Ian McKellen on blank verse
• scanning and variation
• Hamlet's soliloquies
• Hamlet in Quarto and Folio (by scene)
• Chronolgical list of plays
• Plays organized by degree of difference between folio and quarto (if any)

Teaching Hamlet

• Mel Gibson goes back to school (improvisation unit 3): 7:30
• Shakespeare set free, acting, and unit plans

Discussion (readings due today)

• Hamlet Act 2

Discussion of thesis sentences and possible support

Hamlet Act 2

• 2.2 Branagh
• 2.2 Tennant

Assignments Due

• What to study for quiz on HLW Chapter 1

Discussion (readings due today)

• HLW Chapter 1
• Hamlet Interview with Father 1.5 (Film 31)
• Ophelia/Polonius/Laertes Plot (1.3, 2.1) (Film 21.10;
• Players and R&G (2.2) film 1:08, 1:16

Hamlet Act 3

• Hamlet on acting 1:26:40 play 1:32:38
• Hamlet: to be or not to be (Branagh)
• Soliloquy (1:43:20)
• Closet sceen 1:53:27

Textual Links for Hamlet (HLW Ch. 1)

• Internet Shakespeare Editions

Assignments due

• Hamlet Act 3

Discussion (readings due today)

• Hamlet Act 3.1 Ophelia, famous soliloquy 3 (Film 57)
• 3.2 Play within play
• 3.4 Gertrude scene

Hamlet Act 4 and 5 links

• Dekker's Wonderful Year
• Macbeth: Physical Shakespeare
• Last soliloquy (cut from Folio): 4.4 (Branagh Disk 1 2:32:30) and an exercise on imagery for students
• Ophelia 4.5 (2:14:30) (Tennant)
• Death of Ophelia; grave scene end of 4.7-5.7 (2:23:20) (Tennant)
• Same scene, Branagh (disk 2 38:22)

Assignments Due

• What to study for quiz on HLW Chapter 2.1

Discussion (readings due today)

• HLW Chapter 2.1
• Hamlet Act 4

Primary Sources

• Ophelia's ballad and EBBA
• Thinking about Tragedy: Disability Studies (and an article about it)
• Ophelia and herbals

[Medieval revenge feuds aka Romeo and Juliet are intolerable to society, and yet as the] "first modern intellectual of our literature," Hamlet realizes that "power is in the hands of a class whose values humane people feel they must repudiate." — Arnold Kettle, Marxist [The "fatal flaw" is not in the individual but in the state and the social order it upholds]

"Tragedy is so far from being a proof of the pessimism of the Greeks that it may, on the contrary, be considered a decisive rebuttal....Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes ... Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity...." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Assignments Due

• What to study for quiz on HLW Chapter 2.2
• Hamlet Act 5
• Imagery analysis for Hamlet
• Bring your imagery analysis for Hamlet to class today (also, bring Hamlet, Language and writing)

Discussion (readings due today)

• HLW Chapter 2.2

Activity:

Assignments Due

• Introduction to research papers
• Brainstorming about thesis sentences
• PAPER: Thesis sentences (hand these in on Blackboard) by Friday

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Sign up for group presentations in my office

Discussion (readings due today)

• Measure for Measure Act 1
• Discussion of thesis sentences

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Bring to class and submit on Blackboard: quotations to support your thesis (remember to focus on rhetorical tropes, not plot, and make sure they are cited.)

Discussion (readings due today)

• Measure for Measure Act 2

Activity:

• Practice analysis of trope quotations and correct presentation/ citation
• Handout: quoting and analyzing

EXTENDED SPRING BREAK

EXTENDED BREAK

Assignments Due

• PAPER: PowerPoint (due on Blackboard by today; presented this week in my office (bring two classmates with you)

Discussion (readings due today)

• Measure for Measure Acts 3-4

Assignments Due

• Imagery analysis for Measure for Measure due

Discussion (readings due today)

• Measure for Measure Acts 5

Activity

Assignments Due

Julius Caesar act 1

Activity:

• Zotero demonstration
• Places to look for primary sources

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Paper 1 draft due Wednesday at midnight)

Juius Caesar Act 2

Activity:

• More on Zotero and finding sources

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Preliminary List of primary secondary sources you plan to read for paper revision (use Zotero) due on Blackboard

Discussion (readings due today)

• Julius Caesar act 3

Activity:

• Demo: How to look at my comments and print out a pdf

Assignments Due

Discussion (readings due today)

• Julius Caesar Act 4

Activity:

• Demonstration of Track changes
• Discussion of paper 1 (grammar and mechanics) with a partner

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Today: Corrected paper 1 grammar and mechanics (with track changes) due on Blackboard
• Before you leave for break: Imagery analysis for Henry V

Discussion (readings due today)

• Julius Caesar Act 5

Activity:

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Quotations from primary and secondary sources due on Blackboard

Discussion (readings due today)

• Winter's Tale Act 1

Activity:

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Bring your laptops with paper 1 and quotations from primary and secondary sources

Discussion (readings due today)

• Winter's Tale Act 2

Activity:

• How and why to support points and integrate outside sources

Assignments Due

Discussion (readings due today)

• Winter's Tale Act 3

Activity:

• Happy 456 birthday Shakespeare Party!

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Bring your laptops to class with a rough draft of your final paper, including sources

Discussion (readings due today)

• Winter's Tale Act 4

Activity:

• Exchange papers with one or two classmates and make final suggetions

LAST CLASS

Assignments Due

• PAPER: Final paper due

Discussion (readings due today)

• Winter's Tale Act 5