Shakespeare: Text and Performance
English 425/10493
3 Credits
W 6.00 – 8.45 pm
Duda Hall 116
M. G. Aune
Office Hours: TTh 10.00 – 11.30 & W 3.00-6.00
and by appointment
aune(at)cup.edu
724.938.4341
223 Azorsky Hall
Subject to change. NB: I expect you to
have the works listed after “Read:” read and annotated before class so that we
may discuss them.
I also assume that you will have read the relevant
introductions, and footnotes. “Topics:” list the lecture and discussion points
for that week.
Part One: Editing as Mediation
Week 1 27 August
Topics:
Taming of the Shrew,
Development of Early Modern Theater, Key dates: 1558, 1564, 1576, 1603, 1616,
1625, 1642, Mediation
Week 2 3 September
Topics: Textual editing
Read:
Taming of the Shrew;
Norton
Shakespeare. “The Dream of the Master Text”
(68-78), quarto, foul papers, fair copy, playbook/promptbook, bad quarto, copy
text/control text, First Folio, memorial reconstruction, gloss, textual variant,
through line number, textual crux
Week 3 10 September
Topics: Print and manuscript publication, collaboration,
authorship, canon, apocrypha
Read:
Romeo & Juliet
Week 4 17 September
Topics: Shakespeare’s poetry,
Passionate Pilgrim,
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, “A
Lover’s Complaint,” sonnet, sonnet sequence, stigma of print, patronage, dark
lady, fair youth, rival poet
Read: Sonnets 1-5, 18, 20, 127-138, Introduction pp. 1937-45
Week 5 24 September
Topics: Shakespeare’s Biography, education, Catholicism, Lost
Years, St. George’s Day, fantasies, power and representation, patronage, Tudor
Myth, anti-Stratfordians, collaboration, rivals
Read:
Merchant of Venice,
Norton Shakespeare. “Shakespeare’s Life and Art”
(42-67).
Week 6 1 October
Topics: Early modern culture, everyday life, death, money,
commodities, enclosures, sumptuary laws, social class, gender, primogeniture,
print culture, the Reformation, the Bible, otherness, dowry, family metaphor,
Read:
Hamlet, Norton
Shakespeare. “Shakespeare’s World” (2-30).
Week 7 8 October
Topics:
Read:
Hamlet
Week
8
15 October No Class, Mission Day
Due: Editing Project (In English department office by 12.00
noon on Thursday 16 October)
Part Two Performance as Mediation
Week 9 22 October
Topics: amphitheater, hall theater,
metatheater, subversion, Master of Revels, lords’ rooms, yard, galleries, tiring
house, trap, heavens, frons scenae,
discovery space, costumes, visual/verbal
Read:
King John,
Norton Shakespeare
“The Shakespearean Stage” (79-94)
Week 10 29 October
Topics: Lord Chamberlain’s Men, King’s Men, joint stock
company, cross-dressing, traveling company, the Globe, Blackfriars, boy
companies, formalist/realist, doubling, clowns
Read:
Macbeth,
Norton Shakespeare
“The Shakespearean Stage” (94-99)
Week 11 5 November
Topics:
Holinshed
Read:
Macbeth
Week 12 12 November
Topics: Performance project and groups
Read:
As You Like It
Week 13 19 November
Topics: how to watch Shakespeare, performance cruces,
modernizing, cross-gender casting, point of view, omissions/additions, open
silences
Read:
As You Like It
Screen:
As You Like It
(2006)
Week 14 24 November No
Class, Thanksgiving Break
Week 15 3 December
Topics:
As You Like It,
performance project rehearsal, conclude discussions, clips
Due: Review Project
10 December Wednesday, Performance Projects, 6.00 – 8.45 pm,
regular room