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Shakespeare & The Elizabethan Stage
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Location NYU London
ENGL-UA 9412 - 001
Class code
Instructor
Details Prof. Michael Hattaway Email: [email protected]
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Office Hours: By appointment (in 103A)
Class Details SHAKESPEARE AND THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-5, plus some evening performances, and one Friday day-trip
Location: Room 102
Prerequisites Some college-level study of literature and/or theatre very helpful, but not essential
Class
Description
This course provides an introduction to a variety of plays in the context of contemporary Shakespearean scholarship. Our aim will be to develop skills for enjoying Shakespeare and for reading both texts and performances. The focus will be on how these are represented on stage and on screen, in the past and now. The aim is to move forward from issues of plot and character, to consider genre, structure, and the particular textual, critical, and performance conventions of the plays.
Plays to be studied and performances to be enjoyed this semester include Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado about Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Tempest at the Barbican (RSC), Hamlet (starring Andrew Scott) at the Harold Pinter Theatre, and Titus Andronicus at Stratford (RSC)
Our course is designed to fit around these theatre visits, and the choice of plays studied depends on what is on offer this summer.
Teaching is by a combination of lectures, discussions, and screenings, complemented by required theatre visits and the trip to Stratford. We might also take a walking tour of Shakespearean sites on Bankside.
Desired
Outcomes
• A good knowledge of a selection of Shakespeare’s plays and Early Modern playing conventions • An appreciation of the range of Shakespearean drama • An understanding of how these texts worked/work in performance
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Assessment
Components
Assessment is by course work: including a 1500 word close reading exercise (20%), a longer study (2500 words) of a live performance (50%), and class preparation – including postings on NYUClasses (these are required) – participation, and initiative (30%). Full and detailed instructions for both pieces of assessed work will be found on the course website (NYUClasses). These are more than mere ‘cues’ and must be carefully followed. Failure to submit or fulfil any required course component results in failure of the class.
Be as specific as possible about your expectations regarding student work
Assessment
Expectations Grade A: Informed and coherent lines of reasoning deriving from textual, performance, and/or contextual evidence, or from a sense of form or genre; very good English
Grade B: Close engagement with text and/or performance and context; good insights linked to evidence; generally well-written and good enough for me to wish it were better
Grade C: Adequate knowledge and some degree of argumentation; adequate English
Grade D: Errors of fact; slipshod or disorganised thinking; failure to relate generalisations to evidence; careless writing
Grade F: Unsubstantiated claims or generalisations; gross errors; lack of organisation; culpably bad writing
Required
Text(s)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, (London, Arden Shakespeare, 2006). 1904271332 William Shakespeare, King Richard II, ed. Andrew Gurr, The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated edn. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003). 0521532485 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ed. Claire McEachern, (London, Arden Shakespeare, 2005). 978-1903436837 William Shakespeare, Othello, ed. Michael Neill, The Oxford Shakespeare, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008). 0199535876 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. René Weis, Arden Shakespeare, (London, 2012). 9781903436912 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. David Lindley, (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2002). 0 521 29374 x William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ed. Jonathan Bate, Arden Shakespeare,
(London, 1995). 0415048680
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Supplemental
Texts(s) (you
are not required
to purchase
these as copies
are in the NYU-L
Library)
Sylvia Adamson, et al., (ed.), Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide, The Arden Shakespeare, (London, Thomson Learning, 2001) Jonathan Bate, Russell Jackson, Stanley W. Wells, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996).
A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, 2nd ed., (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2003)
Peter Brook, The Empty Space, (London, Penguin, 1968).
Alan C. Dessen, Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984). Andrew Dickson, The Rough Guide to Shakespeare, (London, Rough Guides Ltd, 2005).
Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001). Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London, (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1987). Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642, 4th edn (Cambridge, Cambridge, UP, 2009). Peter Hall, Shakespeare's Advice to the Players, (London, Oberon, 2003). Michael Hattaway, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays, (Cambridge, 2002) Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance, (London, Routledge, 1982, reprinted 2008). Russell Jackson, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, 2nd edn, (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007)
Dennis Kennedy, Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance, (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1993).
John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996). Leggatt, Alexander. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Patricia Lennox and Bella Mirabella, (ed.), Shakespeare and Costume, (London, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015) Laurie E. Maguire, Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays, (Oxford, Blackwell, 2003).
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Russ McDonald, (ed.), Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000, (Oxford, Blackwell, 2004)
Claire McEachern, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2003). Jonathan Miller, Subsequent Performances, (London, Faber and Faber, 1986).
Carol Chillington Rutter, Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage, (London, Routledge, 2001). Kiernan Ryan, Shakespeare's Comedies, (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Kiernan Ryan, Shakespeare's Universality: Here's Fine Revolution, (London, Bloomsbury, 2015). Wells, Stanley W. and Sarah Stanton. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. George T. Wright, ‘Shakespeare’s Metre Scanned’, Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide, ed. Sylvia Adamson, et al., (London, 2001), 51-70.
Internet
Research
Guidelines
There is a lot of dodgy Shakespearean material on the net – most of which might be avoided by following the external links (including that to Oxford Bibliographies Online) on the course website (NYUClasses). The Cambridge Companions listed above are pitched at an appropriate level and, along with Shakespeare Survey, may be accessed from ‘Cambridge Core’, to be found among NYU Library’s databases. Oxford’s large collection of Shakespeare materials (including OUP editions) are to be found on Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. There is a large amount of video material on the Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive (http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/#), and you may wish to follow up material from the International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio (http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare), You can explore past Globe productions on http://www.globeplayer.tv. All sorts of goodies on Shalt: Shakespearean London Theatres: (http://shalt.dmu.ac.uk). This is definitely worth a visit.
To celebrate 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the BBC created a stupendous new archive, the BBC Archive Resource, http://shakespeare.ch.bbc.co.uk. It contains thousands of items – film and TV versions of the plays, clips, interviews, documentaries, lots of audio material… It will be available to you only when you are in the UK. You have to log on to access material: Username: nyulondon, Password: ShakESPeareNYU. It is immensely useful.
Additional
Required
N/A
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Equipment
Session 1
Tuesday 20 June
Introduction to Playing in the Age of Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Performance of Romeo and Juliet at 7-30 pm, Globe Theatre
Session 2
Thursday 22 June Friday 23 June
Post-performance Romeo and Juliet; Titus Andronicus Visit to Stratford-upon-Avon before a performance of Titus Andronicus (7-15, Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
Session 3
Tuesday 27 June
Post-Performance Titus Andronicus; Shakespeare on Film
Session 4
Thursday 29 June
Hamlet Performance of Hamlet, Harold Pinter Theatre, 7-00 pm
Session 5
Tuesday 4 July
Post-performance Hamlet; Scansion
Session 6
Thursday 6 July
Richard II Assignment 1 to be submitted
Session 7
Tuesday 11 July
The Tempest Performance of The Tempest by RSC at the Barbican Theatre at 7-15
Session 8
Thursday 13 July
Post-performance Tempest
Session 9
Tuesday 18 July
Much Ado about Nothing Performance of Much Ado about Nothing, Globe Theatre,7-30
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Session 10
Thursday 20 July
Post-performance Much Ado about Nothing; Othello
Session 11
Tuesday 25 July
TBA
Classroom
Etiquette Toilet breaks should be taken only before or after class or during class breaks.
Food & drink, including gum, are not to be consumed in class.
Mobile phones should be set on silent and should not be used in class except for emergencies.
Laptops are only to be used with the express permission of the teacher.
Please dispose of rubbish in the bins provided.
Required Co-
curricular
Activities
Daytrip to Stratford to see Titus Andronicus, Friday 23 June
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Estimated
Travel Costs
Suggested Co-
curricular
Activities
As much theatre-going as you can afford!
Your Instructor
Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus of English Literature in the University of Sheffield. He was born in New Zealand and studied in Wellington and at Cambridge. He also taught at the Universities of Wellington, Kent at Canterbury, British Columbia, and Massachusetts at Amherst. Author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); editor of As You Like It, and 1-3 Henry VI (New Cambridge Shakespeare), of plays by Ben Jonson and Francis Beaumont, of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990 and 2003) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994). He has written an electronic book on King Richard II (2008) and edited a New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2 vols, 2010). In 2010 he gave the Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy; in 2015 the opening keynote lecture for the European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, ‘Shakespeare's Europe — Europe's Shakespeare(s)’. In January 2017 he gave a keynote lecture at the Société Française Shakespeare Conference in Lyon.
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