Shakespeare: Text and Performance
English 425/10476
3 Credits
Tuesday and Thursday 2.00 – 3.15 pm
Keystone Hall 106
M. G. Aune
Office Hours: TTh 8.00 – 9.15 & W 2.00-4.00
and by appointment
aune(at)calu.edu
724.938.4341
223 Azorsky Hall
Part One: Editing as Mediation
Week 1 19-21 January
Topics:
Taming of the Shrew,
Development of Early Modern Theater, Key dates: 1558, 1564, 1576, 1603, 1616,
1623, 1642, Mediation
Read:
Taming of the Shrew
Induction & Act 1
Week 2 26-28 January
Topics: Textual editing, 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
Read:
Taming of the Shrew
Acts 2-5;
Norton Shakespeare, “The Dream of the Master
Text” (68-78)
Week 3 2-4 February
Topics: Print and manuscript publication, collaboration,
authorship, canon, apocrypha, Stationers’ Register
Read:
Romeo & Juliet
Week 4 9-11 February
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 16-18 February
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 23-25 February
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 2-4 March
Topics: soliloquies
Read:
Hamlet
Due: Editing Project (4 March)
8-12 March Spring Break
Part Two Performance as Mediation
Week 8 16-18 March
Topics: the material theatre,
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 9 23-25 March
Topics: actors and acting, 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 10 30 March (1 April
no class)
Topics:
Holinshed
Read:
Macbeth
Week 11 6-8 April
Topics: Performance project and groups
Read:
As You Like It
Week 12 13-15 April
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 13 20-22 April
Topics:
As You Like It,
performance project rehearsal, conclude discussions, clips
Due: Review Project (20 April)
5 May (Wednesday) 1.00 – 2.50 (Final Exam Period) Performance
Projects, regular room
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