Unit I: Foundational Approaches
January 25: Introductions
Readings:
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No Readings this week. We will have a general introduction to the topic.
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February 1: Shakespeare and Performance
Readings:
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Chapters 2 and 4 in The Bedford Companion
The Comedy of Errors
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Presentation:
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No Presentation this Week
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February 8: Shakespeare and the Book
February 15: Neo-Classical Responses to Shakespeare
Feb. 22: Psychoanalytic Criticism
Feb. 29: New Criticism and Formalist Approaches CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
Readings:
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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).
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Presentation:
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No presentations this week--seminar members will give readings of their selected poems.
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Unit 2: The Turn to History and Theory
March 7: Historicizing Shakespeare
March 14: Shakespeare and Gender
March 21: NO CLASS--SPRING BREAK
March 28: Postcolonial Shakespeare
April 4: Shakespeare and Religion
April 11: NO CLASS--SEMINAR WILL ATTEND GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
April 18: Shakespeare's Life and the Authorship Debate
Readings:
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James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (excerpts)
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Presentation:
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Annika Advocate | Respondent: Frayda Sugar
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Assignment: |
Abstract and Annotated Bibliography for Final Research Paper |
April 25: Shakespeare and Film
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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