| Week 1. August 22-24.
Monday. 22 Aug. Talk by Mike Gore, staff person from ITS, about
hardware and
software in our classroom. Introduction to the course. Monday. 22 Aug. Read Kim Hall, "Introduction: Who is English?"
pp.16-24 in her Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender
in Early Modern England. Monday. 22 Aug. Read Hall, "'An Object in the Midst of Other
Objects': Race, Gender, and Material Culture," pp. 211-53 in
her ToD. Wednesday. 24 Aug. Read Ben Jonson, Masque of Blackness. 24 August. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Clare McManus, "'Defacing the Carcass': Anne of Denmark and Jonson's The Masque of Blackness,," pp.93-113 in Julie Sanders, ed., Refashioning Ben Jonson.
Week 2. August 29-31 29 August. Read Shakespeare, Othello. 29 August. Read Karen Newman essay in Shakespeare
Reproduced, ed. Jean Howard and Marion O'Connor. On Reserve. 29 August. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Margo
Hendricks, part of "Surveying 'race' in Shakespeare," only pp.15-22 in
Catherine Alexander, ed., Shakespeare and Race. 31 August. Continue with Othello and Masque of
Blackness. READINGS31 August. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Bruce Dain.
chapters 1 and 2,
"The
Face of Nature," pp.1-39, and "Culture and the Persistence of Race,"
pp.40-80, and notes on pp.265-80, in A Hideous Monster of the Mind:
American Race Theory in the Early Republic. 31 August. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Pascale Aebisher, "Black Rams
Tupping White Ewes: Race vs. Gender in the Final Scene of Six
Othellos, pp.59-73 in Cartmell, Retrovisions: Reinventing the
Past in Film and Fiction. 31 August. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Ania Loomba, "'Delicious
traffick': racial and religious difference on early modern stages,"
pp.203-224 in Catherine Alexander, ed., Shakespeare and Race. Week 3. September 5-7. 5 September. Holiday.
7 September. Continue with Othello and Masque of Blackness.
Oral report on 7 September: Chris M., early modern issues.
7 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Joyce Green Macdonald, "Black
Ram, White Ewe:
Shakespeare, Race, and Women," pp.188-207 in Callaghan, ed., A Feminist
Companion to Shakespeare. 7 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Wole Soyinka, "Shakespeare and
the living dramatist," pp.82-100 in Catherine Alexander, ed.,
Shakespeare and Race. working paper #1 due at 11.59 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 September 2005. Send by email from your UCB email account only to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu Essays due on Saturday 10 September at 11.59 p.m. Send from your UCB account. Please send papers in either format as emails, not as attachments.
Week 4. September 12-14. Christopher Marlowe. The Jew of Malta. 12 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Daryl W. Palmer, "Merchants
and
Miscegenation:..." pp.36-66 in J. G. Macdonald, Race, Ethnicity, and
Power in the Renaissance. 12 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read James Shapiro, "Introduction,"
pp.5-12 and also notes on pp. 231-33 and also "The Jewish Crime,"
pp.89-111 and also notes on pp.254-59 in his Shakespeare and
the Jews. 14 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Randall Nakayama, "'I know she
is a courtesan by her attire': Clothing and Identity in The Jew of
Malta pp.150-63 in Sara Deats, ed., Marlowe's Empery: Expanding
His Critical Contexts. 14 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Julia Reinhard Lupton, The
Jew of Malta, pp.144-57 in Patrick Cheney, ed. Cambridge Companion
to Marlowe. Week 5. September 19-21. 19-21 September. Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
19 September. Re-READ HALL, "'An Object...'", pp.211-226 in
ToD. 19 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Alan Rosen, "The Rhetoric of
Exclusion: Jew, Moor,
and the Boundaries of Discourse in The Merchant of Venice,"
pp.67-79 in J. G. Macdonald, Race, Ethnicity... 21 September. Oral presentation: Lauren. 21 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Alan Sinfield, "How to Read The
Merchant of Venice without being Heterosexist," pp.115-34 in Chedgzoy,
Kate, ed., Shakespeare, Feminism, and Gender. 21 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Jyotsna Singh, "Gendered 'Gifts' in
Shakespeare's Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in Early Modern
England," pp.144-59 in Callaghan, Feminist Companion to
Shakespeare 21 September. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Sarah Kofman, "Conversions: The
Merchant of Venice under the Sign of Saturn," pp.142-66, in Collier,
ed. Literary Theory Today.
Week 6. September 26-28. 26-28 September. Continue with Merchant of Venice. 27 September. Working paper #2 due at 11.59 p.m. Please email to
R.Widmann@Colorado.edu 28 September. Oral presentation: Joe. 1 October. Second due date for essays on material studied so far.
Please email to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu
Week 7. 3-5 October. 3-5 October. Marlowe. Doctor Faustus. For 3 October, watch film of this play with Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor. Available on reserve in Norlin Academic Media
Library, can be viewed there. 3 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Sara Munson Deats,
"The Rejection of the Feminine in Doctor Faustus", pp.202-24
and also pp.258-61, in her Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of
Christopher Marlowe. 4 October. Working paper #3 due at 11.59 p.m. Please email to
R.Widmann@Colorado.edu 5 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Thomas Healy, "Doctor
Faustus, pp.174-92 in Patrick Cheney, ed., The Cambridge Companion
to Christopher Marlowe.
8 October. Third due date for essays. Please email by 11.59 p.m. to
R.Widmann@Colorado.edu Week 8. October 9, 10-12. 9 October. First due date for production analysis. Due by 11.59 p.m.
Please email to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu Please check "Guidelines for
Production Analyses" before writing and transmitting your work. 10 October. Oral presentation: Dani
10 October. Finish Doctor Faustus. 10 October. OPTIONAL READING. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Susan
Zimmerman, "Duncan's
Corpse," pp.320-38 in Callaghan, Feminist Companion to
Shakespeare. October. OPTIONAL READING. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Sinead Cusack,
"Lady Macbeth's
Barren Sceptre," pp.53-72 in
Carol Rutter, Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare's Women Today. 5 October. optional reading: Irene G. Dash, "Dependent Identities:
MACBETH," pp.155-207 in Women's Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays. 12 October. Exam takes the place of meeting in the classroom. Email answers by 11.59 p.m. on date to be decided to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu
Week 9. October 17-19. 17-19 October. Elizabeth Cary. Mariam.
17 October, ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Dympna Callaghan, "Re-Reading
Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry,,
pp.163-77 and also pp.330-35 in Hendricks and Parker, in Women, "Race,"
and Writing in the Early Modern Period. 17 October. ELECTRONIC
RESERVE. Christina Luckyj, "Historicizing Gender: Mapping Cultural
Space..." pp.134-41, in Bamford and Leggatt, eds, Approaches to
Teaching English Renaissance Drama. 19 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Laurie Maguire, "Teaching
Cary's 'The Tragedy of
Mariam,' pp.95-98 in Bamford and Leggatt, ATTERD. Week 10. October 24-26. 24-26 October. Mary Sidney, Antonie.
24 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Joyce Green Macdonald,
"Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge," pp.21-44 in her Women and Race
in Early Modern Texts. 24 October. Oral presentation: Margaret.
26 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Carol Chillington Rutter,
"Shadowing Cleopatra," pp.57-103 in her Enter the Body: Women and
representation on Shakespeare's stage. 26 October. oral presentation: Nick, Eric.
Week 11. October 31-November 2. 31 October-2 November. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra. 31 October. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Joyce Green Macdonald, "Sex, race,
and empire in Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra, pp.45-67 in her
Women and Race in EMTexts. 31 October. Read Hall, on A&C in "Commerce and Intercourse," pp.141-60 in ToD. DUE DATE CHANGED FROM 1 November TO 8 NOVEMBER. Working paper #4 due at 11.59 p.m. Please send as an email message and not as an attachment to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu Essay #4 due date is 5 November.
2 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. John Michael Archer, "Antiquity and Degeneration in Antony and Cleopatra pp.145-64 in J. G. Macdonald, ed., Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Renaissance. 2 November. Optional reading: ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Janet Adelman, "Making Defect Perfection: the One-Sex Model," pp.23-52 in Comensoli and Russell, eds., Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage. 2 November: oral presentation: Ladi.
5 November. Essay #4 due date. Please send by 11.59 p.m. to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu as an email message and not as an attachment.
Week 12. November 7-9. 7-9 November. Marlowe. Edward the Second.
7 November. Hall, "'An Object..." pp.226-39 in her ToD 7 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Sara Munson Deats, "Masquerade or Metamorphosis: The Performance of Gender in Edward II, pp.162-201 and also pp.251-58 in her Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. 9 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Thomas Cartelli, "Edward
II, pp.158-73 in Patrick Cheney, ed., Cambridge Companion to C.
M. 9 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Karen Cunningham, "'Forsake thy
king and do but join with me': Marlowe and Treason," only pp.141-49 in
Sara Munson Deats, Marlowe's Empery. 9 November: oral report: .
Week 13. November 14-16. 14-16 November. Shakespeare. Richard the
Second. ***AND*** Derek Jarman's film, "Queer Edward II" critical readings to be decided... 14 November: oral presentation: Christi, Chad.
DUE DATE CHANTED FROM 15 November TO 29 NOVEMBER. Working paper #5 due by 11.59 p.m. Please send as an email message to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu Essay #5 due date is 19 November; send by 11.59 p.m.
17 November. SECOND DUE DATE for production analyses. Please send by email to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu by 11.59 p.m. on 17 November.
19 November. Essay #5 due by 11.59 p.m. Please send to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu
Week 14. November 21-23. 21 November. Exam. 24 November. No class, as this Wednesday is "Friday" when we have
no class scheduled.
Week 15. November 28-30, 2 December. 28-30 November. Shakespeare. As You Like It.
30 November. Oral presentation: Adam.
28 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Read Phyllis Rackin, "Misogyny is
Everywhere," pp.42-56 in Callaghan, Feminist Companion to
Shakespeare. 30 November. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Juliet Dusinberre, passim on
As You Like It pp.248-69 in THIRD EDITION of her Shakespeare and
the Nature of Women. If possible, please read the introduction to
the third edition and also the introductions to the first and second
editions of this groundbreaking book from 1975. 2 December. Viewing and discussion of Stage Beauty on Friday
2 December 2-5 p.m. in 1B90 Humanities. Postponed to 8 December. THIRD DUE DATE FOR PRODUCTION ANALYSES.
Please send your
work by email to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu by 11.59 p.m. on Thursday, 8
December1005
4 December. Working paper on As You Like It due Sunday night
4 December by 11.59 p.m.
8 December. Final date for turning in production analyses. Due by
11.59 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2005. Please email from your UCB
account to R.Widmann@Colorado.edu OPTIONAL READING: 5-7 December. Ben Jonson. Bartholomew
Fair or
Epicoene. 5-7 December. No oral presentations.
5 December. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Kate McLuskie, "Making and Buying:
Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre Audience," pp.134-54 in Sanders,
Refashioning Ben Jonson,". 5 December. ELECTRONIC RESERVE. Mick Jardine, "Jonson as
Shakespeare's Other," pp.104-115 in Richard Cave, ed. Ben Jonson and
Theatre: Performance, Practice, and Theory.
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