BC3 Academic Catalog: 2024-2025
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ENGL 203 - Shakespeare 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description
The course includes a study of selected plays of William Shakespeare. Primary focus is placed on texts and performances. Secondary focus is placed on the author’s life and times.
Note Fall semester only.
Prerequisite ENGL 101 or permission of instructor.
Text
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Norton Shakespeare. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Analyze the structure of the plays read.
B. Discuss the development of the writing of Shakespeare.
C. Identify various stylistic devices used by Shakespeare.
D. Discuss the relationship of imagery and theme in Shakespeare’s plays.
E. Discuss the “condition of man” as presented in plays at various stages of Shakespeare’s career.
F. Analyze live or filmed performances of Shakespearean plays.
G. Relate the plays read to various aspects of contemporary theatre and to the social, political, religious, etc. scenes of the time.
Content
Students are expected to read ten to twelve plays and see, live or filmed, at least two. Plays will be chosen from each of the genres in which Shakespeare wrote and from each of the major periods of his career.
Student Evaluation
A. Three exams
B. Two critical papers
C. Two performance analyses (which may be evaluated separately or appended to and evaluated as part of critical papers)
D. Class participationBibliography
A. Books
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare. New York: Avenel Books, 1970.
Bamber, Linda. Comic Women, Tragic Men. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982.
Bartlett, John. A Complete Concordance of Shakespeare. New York: Macmillan Company, 1966. 2 vols.
Bently, Gerald Eades. Shakespeare and His Theatre. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin, 1998.
Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. New York: St. Martin’s Press 1964.
Campbell, Oscar James. (ed.) The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966.
Chute, Marchette Gaylord. Shakespeare of London. New York: Dutton and Company, 1949.
Clarke, Charles, and Mary Clarke. The Shakespeare Key. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1961.
Dash, Irene G. Women in Shakespeare’s Plays. New York: Columbia Press, 1981.
Dean, Leonard. (ed.) Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Goddard, Harold Clarke. The Meaning of Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Editors of Horison Magazine and Louis B. Wright. Shakespeare’s England. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1964.
Ralli, Augustus. A History of Shakespearean Criticism. New York: Humanities Press, 1965.
Rowse, Alfred Leslie. William Shakespeare, A. Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Satin, Joseph. Shakespeare and His Sources. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare: The Globe and the World. Folger Shakespeare Library: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Shakespeare, William. The Standard Book of Shakespeare Quotations. Compiled and arranged by Burton Stevenson. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1953. Caroline F. E.
Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Cardenio, or The Second Maiden’s Tragedy. Ed. Charles Hamilton. Lakewood, CO: Glenbridge Publishing, Ltd., 1994.
Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. Shakespeare’s Imagery and What it Tells us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935.
—. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt, 1994.
Webster, Margaret. Shakespeare Without Tears. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1955.
Waith, Eugene M. (ed.) Shakespeare: The Histories. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
B. Audio-Visual Bibliography
Records
Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1963.
As You Like It. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1962.
The Comedy of Errors. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1967.
Hamlet. Adapted by John Gielgud. RCA Victor, 1953.
Henry the Fourth, Part One. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1964.
King Henry the Fifth. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1968.
King Lear. Spoken Word, n.d.
King Richard II. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1967.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1964.
Othello. RCA Victor, 1964.
Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1961.
Sonnets. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1963.
The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1960.
The Tempest. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1964.
Twelfth Night. Shakespeare Recording Society, 1961.
Video Cassettes
The Comedy of Errors. BBC/Time-Life; Ambrose Video.
Hamlet. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. With Mel Gibson. Warner Home Video, 1990.
Hamlet. Dir. Laurence Olivier. 1948; Films for the Humanities.
Henry IV, Part I. BBC/Time-Life; Ambrose Video, 1987.
Henry V. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. 1990.
Henry V. Dir. Laurence Olivier. 1945; Films for the Humanities.
King Lear. With Laurence Olivier. Granada Television; Films for the Humanities.
Macbeth. Dir. Roman Polanski. With Jon Finch. Columbia Pictures Home Video.
Macbeth. With Nicol Williamson. BBC/Time-Life; Films for the Humanities, 1982.
The Merchant of Venice. BBC/Time-Life; Films for the Humanities.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With James Cagney. MGM/United Artists Home Video.
Much Ado About Nothing. BBC/Time-Life; Ambrose Video.
Richard II. With Derek Jacobi. BBC/Time-Life; Ambrose Video.
Richard III. Dir. Laurence Olivier. Embassy Entertainment Home Video.
Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. Hollywood: Paramount Home Video, 1980.
The Taming of the Shrew. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. With Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Burbank, CA: Columbia Pictures Home Video.
The Tempest. With Efrem Zimbalist Jr. London: Bard Productions, 1983.
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