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21L.010

Writing with Shakespeare

3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-HW · Undergraduate

Focuses on writing and speaking using Shakespeare as a model and means for mastery of English language skills. Emphasizes the development of students' ability to write clearly and effectively in a range of genres with an awareness of audience. Designed to increase students' confidence and pleasure in verbal communication and analysis of language. Students write frequently, give and receive feedback, improve their work through revision, and participate actively in class discussions and presentations. Enrollment limited.

Fall 2010

Topics

  • Introducing ourselves, our subject, and our voices.
  • Sharing of speeches and written assessments; introductory peer mentoring.
  • Discussion and scene work based on Much Ado , acts 1 and 2.
  • Branagh, Kenneth. Much Ado About Nothing . (1993).
  • Group analysis of visual clips.
  • Discussion of Othello, focusing on scenes from acts 1-3.
  • Discussion of Othello across cultures, based on online resources and your responses.
  • Our Othello mini-conference.
  • Continued discussion of Henry IV, Part I, including debate; Return Othello essay to partner with your own critique.
  • Discussion of the live performance of Henry IV.
  • Presentations based on the historical material.
  • Begin reading your assigned play together, develop a group plan.
  • Come to class ready to discuss your play and initiate research.
  • Work on annotated bibliography and your scene work.
  • Final group work and rehearsal day.
  • Henry V.
  • Coriolanus.
  • The Winter’s Tale.
  • Post-performance post mortem; Presentation of insights based on your long essays.
  • Thinking back, thinking ahead.

Readings

  • Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer with 2009 MLA Update: A Pocket Reference . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2009. ISBN: 9780312594596.
    Listed reading
  • Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing . New York, NY: Arden Shakespeare, 2005. ISBN: 9781903436837.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Othello (Pelican Shakespeare) . New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780140714630.
    Listed reading
  • ———. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 1997. ISBN: 9780312134020.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Henry V . New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451526908.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Coriolanus . New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451528438.
    Listed reading
  • ———. The Winter’s Tale . New York, NY: Modern Library, 2009. ISBN: 9780812969191.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 1 · READINGS: Monologues by Hamlet, Shylock, Portia, Viola, Rosalind, King Lear, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra. Selected sonnets.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 2 · READINGS: Monologues by Hamlet, Shylock, Portia, Viola, Rosalind, King Lear, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra. Selected sonnets. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 3 · READINGS: Continuation of work on texts assigned in Ses #1 and 2, adding surrounding dialogue. More selected sonnets.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 4 · READINGS: Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing . New York, NY: Arden Shakespeare, 2005. ISBN: 9781903436837.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 9 · READINGS: Shakespeare, William. Othello (Pelican Shakespeare) . New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780140714630.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 10 · READINGS: Shakespeare, William. Othello (Pelican Shakespeare) . New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780140714630. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 11 · READINGS: Critical essays on Othello
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 12 · READINGS: Critical essays on Othello (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 13 · READINGS: Shakespeare, William. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 1997. ISBN: 9780312134020.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 15 · READINGS: Historical documents pertinent to Henry IV
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 16 · READINGS: Historical documents pertinent to Henry IV (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • Shakespeare, William. Henry V . New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451526908.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 18 · READINGS: Criticism and context on your assigned plays. Your selected scenes for performance.
    Reading assignment

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 21W.042[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-HW

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