Shakespeare at WCU

Day	Date	Topic	Notes
T	19-Aug	Intro; discussion of Shakespeare's texts and stagecraft; film excerpts Stage, production Whitehall Links: The British Monarchs The British Church
R	21-Aug	Read Wells, Shakespeare: an Oxford Guide (SOG) pp 9-42 (download here until book arrives in bookstore) Elizabethan map with theatres (interactive) Print map of Elizabethan london Illustrations of theatres (Shakespeare's Life and Times) Sonnet 20 (Earl of Southampton)	Note: Drop add ends Friday
T	26-Aug	Read SOG 67-78; 93-125 download here (on order at the bookstore, late as usual) Scenes 11, 14, 17 from Much Ado... Shakespeare's coinages and phrases Oxford English Dictionary (OED) The Hammer for Witches Martin Luther on "the jews" the Castlehaven scandal and 17th c. "libels" St. Paul's Cathedral
R	28-Aug	Read SOG 582-593;391-409 (download this reading here, if you still can't get the @#$&! book...) Read Richard III,* 1.1 (and see speech of this character at the end of Henry VI part 3) Links: The war of the roses Shakespeare's Canon and Chronology from William Shakespeare: A textual companion
M	1-Sep	LABOR DAY--NO CLASS
T	2-Sep	Read SOG 79-90 Richard III, acts 1-3 Ian McKellen on blank verse scanning and variation Shakespeare's Editors Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare	RS (we'll do this one in class)
R	4-Sep	Read SOG 193-203 Richard III, acts 4-5
T	9-Sep	Film: Much Ado About Nothing (meanwhile, be reading ahead in Shapiro's 1599)
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T	16-Sep	Henry IV Part I- Acts 1 and 2 Discussion of presentations History and Context History Plot background "This England" speech from Richard II Text Video War of the Roses Machiavellli's The Prince Henry IV in quarto Shakespeare's texts My notes on Henry IV Shakespeare's stagecraft The globe Blackfriars Theater Sumptuary Laws	RS Fifth Week Grade Reporting this week
R	18-Sep	Henry IV Part I-- Acts 3-5 Lord of Misrule (wikipedia entry)
T	23-Sep	Read Shapiro, 1599 1-103 Discussion; excerpts from Henry V (film) and Elizabeth I Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech Andrews' Sermon at Richmond Isle of Dogs Swan Theatre in 1596 Map of Elizabethan London Detail: Bankside (South of Thames) Quarto of Henry V Portrait in Whitehall of Edward VI (anamorphic) Wonder Cabinet of 1599 in Naples Imprese (with illustrations) The jig Kemp's jig (music) written by himself...
R	25-Sep	Read Shapiro 1599 107-170 See excepts Elizabeth I Herbert, The Windows Guild Chapel wall paintings Sumptuary Laws Elizabethan holidays Eliza Triumphans Triumph of Chastity over love
T	30-Sep	Julius Caesar, Acts 1-3 Time for the Plebs (more on calendars in JC) Jack Cade's rebellion (from Henry VI)	RS
R	2-Oct	Julius Caesar, Acts 4-5 Online text at MIT Source material: Plutarch Another translation stoics and epicureans Shakespeare's Rome and Roman Women Jonson satirizes Shakespeare Leithart's Introduction to JC (with a theological bent)
T	7-Oct	Read Shapiro 1599: 173-249 Fluff Stephen Greenblatt on Colbert Report Playwright game--see how long you can stay alive Context In Search of Shakespeare: the Players (political and biographical figures) Robert Armin the comedian Donald Sutherland in Make em Laugh Shakespeare's actors AYLI: Genre Beyond the sea video Mama Mia video American in Paris finale Morley's It was a lover and his lass (w. male singers) Morley's April is in my mistress' face upcoming film of as you like it Female anatomy acc. to the 16th century	Take home midterm
R	9-Oct	FALL BREAK
T	14-Oct	FALL BREAK
R	16-Oct	As You Like It, Acts 1-3	RS Discussion of Papers
T	21-Oct	As You LIke It, Acts 4-5 Pastoral Handout
W	22-Oct	ADVISING DAY--NO CLASS
R	23-Oct	Shapiro, 1599 254-320	Note: Friday is last day to drop with a W
T	28-Oct	Hamlet Acts 1-2 Quarto 1 vs Quarto 2 3 minute Hamlet (fixed) text youtube Animaniacs do Yorick drawing of interior of Globe exterior of Globe	RS
R	30-Oct	Hamlet Acts 3-5 Hamlet in Quarto and Folio (by scene) Chronolgical list of plays Plays organized by degree of difference between folio and quarto (if any)
T	4-Nov	READING DAY--NO CLASS	Start studying for those finals?
R	6-Nov	Finish Hamlet; see film excerpts Read Shapiro 1599: Epilogue Opening of Hamlet: Obama speech an alternative staging? secret service
T	11-Nov	Othello 1-2 Shakespeare' Colors: An article about race in WS's plays Jonson's Masque of Blackness Gary Taylor on whiteness and blackness	RS Presentation:Chele W.
R	13-Nov	Othelo 3-5	Presentation:Rachel J.
T	18-Nov	The Tempest 1-2 Masque: Masque Design Fountain designs by an associate of Jones Masque ballet Masque Guided Tour Clips of a recreated masque Ben Jonson Masque Costumes A PowerPoint overview Inigo Jones Queens House Greenwich Banqueting House Whitehall (Interior Shot) and Another interior Shot Marlborough House Chapel Covent Garden Chapel Bridge in Wales Spiral Staircase and Tulip Staircase Stage design for Florime Set design for House of Fame	RS Presentation: Presentation:
R	20-Nov	The Tempest 3-5 3.3 Antimasquers 4.1 Iris and Ceres (masquers) Caliban's Antimasque (by Kevin Pask)	Presentation: Presentation:
T	25-Nov		Presentation: Presentation: Presentation: Presentation: Last day to drop for mental health, etc.
R	27-Nov	THANKSGIVING--NO CLASS
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M	8-Dec	Shakespeare final 12 PM -2:30 PM
W	10-Dec	251 final 12 PM - 2:30 PM

Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 20-nov-08