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Schedule
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Mon, 6/20
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Threads of Memory - Intro |
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Course aims, schedule, and design.
Shakespeare as an author and a cultural figure
High and low Elizabethan culture
Structure and history of the English Sonnet.
Readings Due: None
Recommended Readings: None
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Tue, 6/21
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Shakespeare and the Sonnet: Future posterity and current consolation |
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Heteronormativity and the legacy of the sonnets.
Bodily vs. Literary legacy
The power of memory
Readings Due: Sonnets: 2, 13, 18, 19, 20, 27, 29, 30, 55, 63
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Wed, 6/22
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Shakespeare and the Sonnet: Unhappy memory and rewriting remembrance |
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Memory in/of the sonnets
Narrative in/of the sonnet form
Sonnet Politics
Readings Due: sonnets 71, 74, 113, 121, 122, 135, 138, 144, 147, 148
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Thu, 6/23
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Titus Andronicus: Avenging/Revenging Memory |
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Overview of the Revenge Tragedy
Intro to Titus
Literary Contexts of Titus
Readings Due: Titus Andronicus Act I
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlix.
"The Theatrical World" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. vii-xxiii.
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Mon, 6/27
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Titus Andronicus: Myth, History, and Re-membering |
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Myth and Precedent in Titus
Re"member"ing dismemberment/desecration of the body
The female revenger?
Short Paper #1 Due
Readings Due: Titus Andronicus: Acts II, III
"The Theatrical World" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. vii-xxiii.
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlix.
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Tue, 6/28
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Titus Andronicus: Moor or less? Xenophobia, moral Authority, and begotten character |
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Race in Titus
Moral Authority and Justice
Action and Re-action
Ballad contexts
Readings Due: Titus Andronicus: Acts IV, V
Titus Andronicus Ballad Transcription - [ERES]
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlix.
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Wed, 6/29
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Titus Andronicus: Trauma, Drama, and Enacted Revenge |
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Trauma and Memory
Critical Analysis
Readings Due: Willis, Deborah.: "'The gnawing vulture': revenge, trauma theory, and Titus Andronicus." [ERES]
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction" in Titus Andronicus. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlix.
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Thu, 6/30
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Merchant of Venice: Bounds, Bonds and Biases |
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Jews in/(out of) Elizabethan England
Shylock and the stage Jew
Stereotype, Caricature and Memory
Character and Characterization
Readings Due: Merchant of Venice: Act I
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Merchant of Venice. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-l.
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Tue, 7/5
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Merchant of Venice: Dowries and Ducats. Memory and Legacy. |
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The caskets and the memory of paternal control
Personal and financial value
A friend of this description: friendship, memory and romantic contracts
Learned cruelties and remembered shame
Sins of the father: erasable race?
Readings Due: Merchant of Venice: Acts, II, III, IV
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Merchant of Venice. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-l.
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Wed, 7/6
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Merchant of Venice: The Jewish "Other" and the Elizabethan Religious World |
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Stage Jew as symbol?
Memory and Merchant
Readings Due: Merchant of Venice: Act V
Berek, Peter.: "The Jew as Renaissance man." [ERES]
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Merchant of Venice. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-l.
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Thu, 7/7
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Richard III: Politics, Melodrama, and Revisionary entertainment |
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Historical and Political Contexts of Richard
The history play as history ?
Character(s) and Lack Thereof
Readings Due: Richard III: Act I
Recommended Readings: Holland, Peter. "Introduction." in Richard III. New York, Penguin, 2000. xxix-xli.
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Mon, 7/11
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Richard III: Memory, Precedent, and Ambition |
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Richard's ambition and the role of language
Women in Richard
Nature and Society
Short Paper #2 Due
Readings Due: Richard III: Acts II, III
Recommended Readings: Holland, Peter. "Introduction." in Richard III. New York, Penguin, 2000. xxix-xli.
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Tue, 7/12
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Richard III: Spectres of Ambition and Forgetting the Self |
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Richard and the collapse of language
The past foretells the future: Ghosts, curses, and prophesy
"What is done cannot be now amended": the failures of redress
Traitorous logic: internal inconsistencies and the loved villain
Readings Due: Richard III: Acts IV, V
Recommended Readings: Holland, Peter. "Introduction." in Richard III. New York, Penguin, 2000. xxix-xli.
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Wed, 7/13
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Richard III: Tragedy, memory, and the fight against history |
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History in/and Richard
Condemned by the past: Richard and the weight of history
History, tragedy, and legacy
Readings Due: Marche, Stephen. "Mocking dead bones: Historical memory and the theater of the dead in Richard III." [ERES]
Recommended Readings: Holland, Peter. "Introduction." in Richard III. New York, Penguin, 2000. xxix-xli.
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Thu, 7/14
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Midsummer Night's Dream: Authority and inversion |
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Authority and structure in MND
Gender and power: historical contexts
parents and originals: cause, effect, and copying
Readings Due: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I, II
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction." in A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-xlviii.
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Mon, 7/18
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Midsummer Night's dream: (Un)fixed Oaths. Mutable memory and manipulation. |
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The shell game: doubling and interchangeability
mutable memory and the (un)fixed spheres
memory and power in the play
carnival and inversion: tragedy in comedy
Readings Due: A Midsummer Night's Dream: III, IV, V
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction." in A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-xlviii.
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Tue, 7/19
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A Midsummer's Night's Dream: Imperial desires and "person"al commodities |
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Empire and Midsummer's
Postcolonialism and Faerie desire
The exotic other on the English stage
Readings Due: Hendricks, Margo.: "'Obscured by dreams': race, empire, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream." [ERES]
Recommended Readings: McDonald, Russ. "Introduction." in A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York; Penguin, 2000. xxix-xlviii.
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Wed, 7/20
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Hamlet: The table of my memory. Personality, reprogramming, and revisionary memory. |
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Hamlet and its literary contexts
Hamlet and liminality
Ghostly injunction
Western humanism vs. vengeance
Readings Due: Hamlet: Act I
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Hamlet. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlvi.
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Thu, 7/21
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Hamlet: Acting and Reenacting murder |
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Staged memory
Forced remembrance
Memory, identity, and self-invention
Selective forgetting and tragedy
Readings Due: Hamlet: Acts II, III
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Hamlet. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlvi.
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Mon, 7/25
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Hamlet: Funereal comedy and memorialization |
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The female revenger?
The graveyard scene: remembering Yorick
Ophelia and revised memory
Vengeance as erasure
Resolution?
Final Paper Due
Readings Due: Hamlet:Acts IV, V
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Hamlet. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlvi.
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Tue, 7/26
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Hamlet: The Myth and Mind of Memory |
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Hamlet and Freud
Mourning and Action
Hamlet and Linguistic memory/memorialization
Mythical memory?
Readings Due: Gana, Nouri.: "Remembering forbidding mourning: repetition, indifference, melanxiety, Hamlet." [ERES]
Hammersmith, James P.: "'Hamlet' and the myth of memory." [ERES]
Recommended Readings: Braunmuller, A.R. "Introduction." in Hamlet. New York; Penguin, 2001. xxix-xlvi.
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Wed, 7/27
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Review Day for Final |
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Discussion, prep, and final review
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Thu, 7/28
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FINAL EXAM |
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FINAL EXAM
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= Reader 
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