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Schedule of Readings and Assignment Deadlines

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Unit I: Foundational Approaches

 

January 25: Introductions

 

Readings:
No Readings this week. We will have a general introduction to the topic.

 

February 1: Shakespeare and Performance

 

Readings:

Chapters 2 and 4 in The Bedford Companion

The Comedy of Errors

Presentation:
 No Presentation this Week

 

February 8: Shakespeare and the Book

 

Readings:

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet (Be sure to read the version linked here!)

Leah Marcus, "Bad Taste and Bad Hamlet" from Unediting the Renaissance (1998)

Chapter 6 in The Bedford Companion

Presentation:
 Ian Hammons | Respondent: Lou Reid

 

February 15: Neo-Classical Responses to Shakespeare

 

Readings:

Othello, The Moor of Venice

Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693) 

Samuel Johnson, from The Works of William Shakespeare (1765) 

Presentation:
Joe Oliveto | Respondent: Don Henke

 

 

Feb. 22: Psychoanalytic Criticism

 

Readings:

Hamlet (the version in your Norton Shakespeare) 

T.S. Eliot, "Hamlet"

Signmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams (1899/1900)

Presentation:
 Alicia Brienza | Respondent: Mark Schaefer

 

Feb. 29: New Criticism and Formalist Approaches CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW

 

Readings:

The Sonnets

Library Session (we will also spend some time in the library this week looking at resources available to you for your final papers and collaborative projects).

Presentation:
 No presentations this week--seminar members will give readings of their selected poems.

 

Unit 2: The Turn to History and Theory

 

March 7: Historicizing Shakespeare

 

Readings:

Richard II

David Scott Kastan, "Proud Majesty Made a Subject: Shakespeare and the Spectacle of Rule" 

Presentation:
 Lou Reid | Respondent: Joe Oliveto

 

March 14: Shakespeare and Gender

 

Readings:

Macbeth 

Janet Adelman, "'Born of Woman': Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth" 

Chapter 8 in The Bedford Companion

Presentation:
 Nicole Hitner | Respondent: Alicia Brienza
Asssignment: Short Response Paper Due

 

March 21: NO CLASS--SPRING BREAK

 

March 28: Postcolonial Shakespeare

 

Readings:

The Tempest

Paul Brown, "'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism"

Presentation:
 Sarah Hurd | Respondent: Gregario Vergara

 

April 4: Shakespeare and Religion

 

Readings:

The Merchant of Venice

Derek Cohen, "Shylock and the Idea of the Jew"

James Shapiro, from Shakespeare and the Jews

Presentations:

 1. Frayda Sugar | Respondent: Nicole Hitner

 2.Gregorio Vergara | Respondent: Sarah Hurd

 

April 11: NO CLASS--SEMINAR WILL ATTEND GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

 

April 18: Shakespeare's Life and the Authorship Debate

 

Readings:

James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (excerpts)

 

Presentation:
Annika Advocate | Respondent: Frayda Sugar
Assignment: Abstract and Annotated Bibliography for Final Research Paper

 

April 25: Shakespeare and Film

 

Readings:

Scotland (PA) (Dir. Billy Morissette, 2001) 

 

Presentation:

 1.  "The Banquet of Scotland (PA)," Lauren Shohet

Mark Schaefer | Respondent: Annika Advocate

 

 2. "White Trash Shakespeare," Elizabeth Deitchman

Don Henke | Respondent: Ian Hammons

 

 

May 2: Seminar Mini-Conference

 

Monday, May 7th: Final Papers Due in my office by 5:00

 

May 16: Final Exam, in our Classroom at 7:15

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