Course Schedule

6/14: Introduction and Historical Contexts

6/15: Riverside Shakespeare, 1-27
In-class Video: The Renaissance

6/16: Riverside Shakespeare, 28-48
In-class Video: The Shakespeare Mystery

6/17: Suggested further reading:

Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England,
1500-1800 (Chapter 4)

Hugh Grady, Modernist Shakespeare (esp. pp. 28-73)
Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare (esp. pp. 187-209)
Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare (esp. pp. 311-318)
Alan Sinfield, "Give an Account…" from Political Shakespeare

Ron Strickland, "Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain"

6/18: Rehearsal/Performance Response

6/22: Hamlet, Riverside Shakespeare, 1183-1224
In-class Video: Excerpts from Recent Films

Reading: Hamlet, Subjectivity and Community in Revenge Tragedy

6/23: Hamlet, Riverside Shakespeare, 1183-1224
In-class Video: Excerpts from Recent Films

6/24: Hamlet, Riverside Shakespeare, 1183-1224
In-class Video: Excerpts from Recent Films

6/25: Rehearsal/Performance Response

6/28: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Riverside Shakespeare, 177-205
In-Class Video: Excerpts from BBC production

Read also:
Taming of the Shrew, Act I, scene i, lines 1-46 (Riverside 145-146)
Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene i, lines 1-65 (Riverside 1104-1105)
Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene ii, lines 1-121 (Riverside 290-291)

6/29: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Riverside Shakespeare, 177-205

Read also:
As You Like It, Act I, scene iii, lines 1-46 (Riverside 408-410)
Othello, Act III, scene iii, lines 1-240 (Riverside 1268-1240)
King Lear, Act I, scene ii, lines 1-115 (Riverside 1307-1308)

6/30: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Riverside Shakespeare, 177-205

Suggested further reading:

Peter Lindenbaum, "Education in The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Studies in English Literature 1500-1800 15 (1975): 229-44.

William Rossky, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Burlesque." English Literary Renaissance 12 (1982): 210-19.

J. L. Simmons, "Coming Out in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona." English Literary Renaissance 60 (1993): 857-77.

7/1: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Riverside Shakespeare, 177-205

In-class Video: Excerpts from Various Films

7/2: Rehearsal/Performance Response

7/5: The Taming of the Shrew
In-class Video: Excerpts from BBC production

7/6: The Taming of the Shrew
In-class Video: Excerpts from BBC production

7/7: Love's Labour's Lost
In-class Video: Excerpts from Branagh Film

7/8: Love's Labour's Lost
In-class Video: Excerpts from Branagh Film

Suggested Further Reading:

John Porter, "Roman New Comedy"

C. L. Barber, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

8/4: Research Paper Due: Possible Topics for Final Paper