English 357 Shakespeare/ Spring 2001
1/24 - M -
Introductions, background information; performance project
Read McDonald,
Ch 2 (p. 40-73) and Ch 3 (p. 74-99). You will find this
invaluable for the Mini-paper!
1/28 - Friday
- Mini-Paper Due; 3 pm in
my box in the English Department
Sacrificial
Bodies
1/31 - M - Finish
performance project;
Rape of
Lucrece
2/07 - M - Rape
of Lucrece
Titus
Andronicus
McDonald, Ch 5
(p. 151-179)
Rene Girard,
handout from Violence and the Sacred (pp. 1-27)
introduction to
Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction in The Critical Tradition
2/14 - M - Titus
Andronicus
McDonald, Ch 6
(p. 180-220)
Claude
Levi-Straus, “The Structural Study of Myth” in The Critical Tradition
Michel Bakhtin,
handout from Rabelais and His World (pp. 315-322)
2/16 - W -
Option I, Paper #1 Due
2/21 - M -
President’s Day
Fathers Sons
Daughters
2/28 - M - 1
Henry IV
McDonald, Ch 7
(p. 221-250)
introduction to
New Historicism and Cultural Studies in The Critical Tradition
suggested
reading: Michel Foucault, “Las
Meninas” in The Critical Tradition
3/06 - M - 1
Henry IV
Henry V
Stephen
Greenblatt, “The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance” in The Critical Tradition
introduction to
Marxist Criticism in The Critical Tradition
3/13 - M - Henry
V
McDonald, Ch 9
(p. 297-340)
Raymond Williams,
“from Marxism and Literature” in The Critical Tradition
3/15 - W -
Option II, Abstract Due
3/20-3/24 -
SPRING BREAK
3/27 - M - Midterm
Exam in class; first hour only
King Lear
introduction to
Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction in The Critical Tradition
Ferdinand de
Saussure, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign” in The Critical Tradition
4/03 - M - King
Lear
McDonald, Ch 8 (p.
251-296)
suggested reading:
Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” in The
Critical Tradition
Dressing the
Part
4/10 - M - Macbeth
4/17 - M - Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Annette Kolodny,
“Dancing through the Minefield” in The Critical Tradition
introduction to
Gender Studies and Queer Theory in The Critical Tradition
4/24 - M - Twelfth
Night
As You Like It
Eve Kosofsky
Sedwick, “from Epistemology of the Closet” in The Critical
Tradition
5/01 - M - As
You Like It
introductory
material to New Historicism and Cultural Studies
suggested reading:
Lee Edelman, “Homographesis” in The Critical Tradition
5/03 - W -
Option II, Paper Due
5/08 - M - The
Tempest
Edward Said, from
the “Introduction” to Orientalism in The Critical Tradition
5/10 - W -
Option I, Paper #2 Due
5/15 - M - The
Tempest
FINALS
5/23 - Tuesday - 5 PM
