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Homework
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Links |
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8/20 |
Opening activities; PowerPoint
- II. Much Ado About Nothing: Readaround Part I
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Films
- Tennant version: 46:00
- Branagh: 36:00
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8/22 |
Assignment due today:
- READ Shakespeare from Page to Stage (SfPtS): Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1
- READ Ghose, Much Ado: Language and Writing (MALW): 29-49 (See BB for this week)
- STUDY Quiz guide: What to study for today
Discussion
- Setting, language, and wit
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8/27 |
Assignment due today:
Quote: "Shakespeare’s plays are cross-hatched with verbal echoes and submerged patterns, all of which contribute to their rich tapestry of meaning."
Activity:
- Imagery Analysis. Looking for imagery and rhetoric.
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Imagery: Stuff you'll need
Context, Language I
- Imagery and Metaphor:
- Rhetorical figures:
- hierarchies or domains
- Shakespeare's coinages and phrases
- Shakespeare's texts
Context, Language II
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R |
8/29 |
Assignments DUE TODAY
Discussion
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Useful links abouto Peformance and Shakespeare's stage
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T |
9/3 |
Assignments due today
Discussion/ Activity
- Practice reading Shakespeare: verbs
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Practice reading Shakespeare: verbs
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R |
9/5 |
Assignments due today
- READ SfPtS: Much Ado, Act 5
- READ Ghose MALW: 123-126
- REMINDER: Imagery Analysis due by 9/10 (Tuesday) on blackboard
Discussion/ Activity
- Research Papers and Writing Matters of Ghose
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9/10 |
Assignments Due Today
- READ SfPtS: Othello Act 1
- READ Macguire Othello Language and Writing (OLW) chapter 1 (19-44)
- STUDY Quiz guide: What to study for today
Discussion/ Acitivity |
Reminder: Imagery Analysis Form for Othello due September 25
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R |
9/12 |
Assignments Due Today
Discussion/ Activity
- 2.1.220-310 relay
- 2.3.245 (film 1:03.18)
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9/17 |
Assignments Due Today
Discussion/ Activity
- 3.3.90-end globe 1.18.20 (Parker 48.58)
- 3.4 pass the handkerchief; read and watch lines 32 (Othello enters) to 98 (Othello exits)
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Imagery:
Soul, heaven, hell, damned, faith, Moore, handerchief, honest, whore/strumpet, love, monster, hate, devil, jealous, black, white, military, animal (avoid), cannibalism, ocean, witchcraft, prostitution, clothing, travel (exotic), jewelry, robbery, poison, nature, art, plants, monstrous birth (also "say," "and yet," and modals)
Rhetoric: puns, hendiadys, antithesis, etc.
Context: Prodigy books and monster babies
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R |
9/19 |
Assignments Due Today
- READ SfPtS: Othello Act 4
- READ OLW: 154-178
- STUDY Quiz guide: What to study for today
Activity
- 4.1 Globe version 2: 9:00
- 4:2,3
- 5.2 45.14
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Othello, U.S. History, and Performance: Should Othello be Performed in the U.S.?
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9/24 |
Assignments Due Today
Discussion/ Activity
- Starting at the End
- Roderigo: 4.2, 5.1 (Globe version 2:24-28; 36:20-44:30)
- Continue into the Beginning of 5.2
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ideas to think about:
- Venice and the Islamic World (Metropolitan Museum)
- Mercantilism
- Colonialism and boundaries (Venetians as "defenders of the faith")
- Handkerchiefs, Venetian fabric, Women and exotic possessions/ colonization ("Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted" 5.1)
- Turning Turk in Othello (Jonathan Bate) (otello/ottoman rhyme)
- Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes: Othello is a Janizary in reverse, not a Christian turned Muslim fighting against Christians, but a Muslim turned Christian fighting against Muslims
- Arbitariness of identity: "I am not what I am" ; "It is as sure as you are Roderigo, /Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago"; "That's he that was Othello: here I am"
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9/26 |
Discussion/ Activity
- Discussion of Paper 1: Bring both OLW and MALW, as well as your first two imagery analyses
- Othello: Writing Matters
- Thesis Generation
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T |
10/1 |
Introduction to Twelfth Night (Act 1)
Assigments due today:
Discussion, Activity
II. Twelfth Night Act I
- Read 1.1, 1.2 together
- Exercise on Blocking
- Explication "willow speech"
- 1:5 (19:50 film)
VI. Two close readings: 1.3 (willow speech) and 2.4 (gender)
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Context:Sources and Music
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R |
10/3 |
Assignments due today
- READ SfPtS: Twelfth Night, Act 2
- WRITE and HAND IN: Thesis for Paper 1 due
Discussion/ Activity
- Learn the catch "Hold
thy peace thou knave" (see sheet music here)
- 2.2 "I am the man"
- Three versions of 2.3:
- Globe 45.13
- Supple 29.37; 34 (song)
- Nunn 49:20
- 2.4 Man to man (1:02)
- 2.5 Malvolio gulling
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Context/ Gender links
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T |
10/8 |
Assignments due today
- READ SfPtS: Twelfth Night Act 3
- READ STB: Comedy (see Blackboard)
Discussion
Activity
I. Sword fighting (Shakespeare in love 1:05:59; She's the Man 1:06:50)
II. Challenge scene 3.2 (end), 3.4227-83 1:59:12 (Globe); 1:37:00 (Nunn); Sebastian arrives (2:08:50 Globe-2:14:20);
III. Cross-gartering (Nunn) 3.4 1:46 (Globe)
IV. Feste and Viola (handout); Olivia & Cesario (3.1) 1:33.06; 1:05:19 (She's the Man)
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Useful links on Comedy as Genre
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R |
10/10 |
NO CLASS |
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T |
10/15 |
FALL BREAK: NO CLASS |
R |
10/17 |
FALL BREAK: NO CLASS |
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T |
10/22 |
Assignments due today
- READ: SfPtS: Twelfth Night Act 4
Activity:
I. Sword fighting (Shakespeare in love 1:05:59; She's the Man 1:06:50)
II. Challenge scene 3.2 (end), 3.4227-83 1:59:12 (Globe); 1:37:00 (Nunn); Sebastian arrives (2:08:50 Globe-2:14:20);
Discussion (comedy, continued):
- 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?
- One-sex theory of gender
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Links to discuss the concluding scene
- Dark Room 4.2 (Globe 2:14:20) and Sir Thopas
- 5.1 film (Nunn 1:55:30; She's the Man 1:14:52 to end)
- Final song
- Why Musicals? Twelfth Night Song Lyrics
- How do you see the ending?
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R |
10/24 |
Assignments due today
- READ: SfPtS: Twelfth Night Act 5
- HAND IN: Paper 1: Revised thesis with in-text support
- SCHEDULE: IN-OFFICE CONFERENCE WITH TWO OTHER STUDENTS (YOU PICK)
- Imagery Analysis due for Twelfth Night by TOMORROW (Friday 10/25) at mdnight
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T |
10/29 |
ADVISING DAY: NO CLASS |
R |
10/29-11/1 |
In-office conference with groups |
(scheduled T, W, R, F) |
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T |
11/5 |
Assignments due today
- READ: SfPtS: Macbeth Act 1
Discussion/ Activity
- Adding research to your paper to strengthen it (and reshaping your ideas)
Film / scene discussion
Act 1 Macbeth Film (Patrick Stewart version) 13:00-34
- 1.1, 1.3 Witches language
- 1.2 Description of Macbeth (seeds)
- 1.4 (planting/growing) primogeniture
- 1.5 Lady Macbeth, fertility and sterility [compare NFS]
- 1.7 Macbeth and Lady: babies
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Note: Imagery Analysis Form for Macbeth due November 21 (right before Thanksgiving)
Motifs and themes:manhood and gender, omens and prophecy, cannibalism; being and knowing; babies and compassion; clothing and disrobing; the metaphor of acting [Character or characterization as revealed in action or its representation]; oceans, dismemberment, architecture, birds, seeds and growing, eyes and hands, heath as psychological or liminal space
Key words: strange (16x; 2nd most of plays), bloody (most frequent), night (4th most); most common substantive words are now, time, fear, self, man, well, why, great (not including titles and names)
Phrase: Give me your hand (tragedies and late comedies)
Historical forces in conflict:
- Definitions of manhood
- Military values vs. courtly values
- Meritocracy (medieval Scotland) vs. absolute monarchy (early modern)
- What is reality? Supernatural vs psychological
- Acting vs being
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R |
11/7 |
Assignments due today
Discussion/ Activity: Macbeth Acts 2
- 2.1 (32-63)
- 2.2.1-73
- 2.2.74-95
- Acts 2.1, 2 (2.01.28);
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Productions
- Fassbinder dagger scene 34.07
- stewart dagger scene 32.57
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T |
11/12 |
Assignments due today
- READ: SfPtS Macbeth Act 3
Discussion/ Activity: Macbeth Act 3
Macbeth Film (Rupert Goold/Patrick Stewart & Kate Fleetwood version)
- 1.1 18:00 "full of growing"
- 3.1 Murderers (1:33:09)
- 3.4 (1:18:40)
- 3:5 (not in all editions)
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Context/ Links:
Political links
Gender links
Textual history: 1.2, 3.5, 4.1 (40-65)
revision or collaboration?
- Written 1606 (references to Gunpowder
plot January - March 1606; referred to in
1607; metrical tests place between Lear and
A & C)
- First performed at court August 7, 1606 during
visit by King of Denmark
- Viewed at Globe 1610 by
Simon Forman
- Revised by Thomas Middleton after 1613?
- Published 1623 (from promptbook)
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R |
11/14 |
Assignments due today
- SfPtS Macbeth Act 4
- Hand in paper 1
Discussion/ Activity: Macbeth Acts 4
Macbeth Act 4 and 5
- 4.1 Vision of Stewart kings and the babies (1:39)
- 4.3 Sounding of Macduff in England (1:49:30)
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Writing an abstract: Links
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11/19 |
Assignments due today
- READ SfPtS Macbeth Act 5
- DUE: Imagery Analysis due for Macbeth by tomorrow night (Wednesday)
- BRING TO CLASS: Sources due for paper two (UPDATE: PLEASE LOAD THIS ON BLACKBOARD. link is not ACCESSIBLE IF YOU HAVEN'T TURNED IN YOUR PAPER)
Discussion/ Activity: Macbeth Acts 5
- ***What is tragedy?***
- 5.4 Birnham wood (2:14) [1.1 18:00 "full of growing"]
- 5.5 Death of Lady Macbeth and "the cry of women" (18:40)
- 5.8 (last scene): Malcom's final speech
Key words: strange (16x; 2nd most of plays), bloody (most frequent), night (4th most); most common substantive words are now, time, fear, self, man, well, why, great |
Writing an abstract: Links
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R |
11/21 |
Assignments due today
- DUE: Notes for Paper 2 (sources) due with revised thesis
- READ: Merchant of Venice Act 1
Discussion/ Activity: Merchant of Venice -- Act 1
- 1.1 Antonio, Bassanio, and the Salads
- 1.2 Portia, Nerissa, and the caskets (read aloud)
- 1.3 Shylock, Antonio, Bassanio (read aloud)
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NO MORE IMAGERY ANALYSIS. (If you did it already, well then, you can have extra credit)
Imagery patterns
- Self knowledge and division (“two headed Janus”)
- Ocean/storm/voyage/navigation/ “sandy hour glass”
- Religion, heresy, and conversion (as metaphors)
- Money, venture, and investment
- East (spices, exotic things)/ islands
- Acting and stage-related things
- Speech, words, and silence
- language (native and foreign)/ quibbles/ riddles/legal language
- Games (archery, hazard)
- Animals (especially unclean animals like dogs)
Fashion
- Fashion (context): Broadsides depicting errant women and their babies
- Sumptuary laws
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T |
11/26 |
NO CLASS |
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R |
11/28 |
THANKSGIVING: NO CLASS |
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T |
12/3 |
Assignments due today
- READ: Merchant of Venice Act 2-3
Discussion/ Activity: Merchant of Venice --
- Riddles: 2.1, 2.7 (Morocco), 2.9 (Aragon), 3.2 (Bassanio)
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Long Act 4
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R |
12/5 |
Assignments due today
- WRITE Paper 2 due: Revision of Paper 1 due on final exam date
- READ: Merchant of Venice, Acts 4-5
- HAND IN: Imagery Analysis Form due tonight by midnight tomorrow night (Friday)
Discussion/ Activity: Prep for final exam |
Patrick Stewart: Two ways of playing Shylock
- Queer theory and homosocial connections
- Shakespeare's villains
- The rings
- Subplot: Jessica
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FINAL EXAMS |
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W |
12/11 |
12-2:30 PM: ENGLISH 390 |
F |
13-Dec |
12-2:30 PM: ENGLISH 333 |
F |
13-Dec |
8:30-11 ENGLISH 190 |