12-164-01
Shakespeare
TTh 2pm (Brother Anthony)
In this course we will be studying A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night; Richard II; Macbeth. We will study the texts in detail and watch videos of each play.
Students will need to buy copies of all four plays in the Arden edition.
An introduction to the life and theatre of Shakespeare can be found in
my book Literature in English Society, Volume II, The Renaissance
(Sogang University Press). The introductions of the Arden editions will
provide useful information and there are many books about Shakespeare in
the library.
Detailed Course Description
September 2 Week 1
Introduction to Shakespeare
September 9 Week 2 (No class Thursday, Chusok)
A
Midsummer Night's Dream The
text of the play for downloading and printing.
September 16 Week 3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
September 23 Week 4
A Midsummer Night's Dream
September 30 Week 5
Twelfth
Night
October 7 Week 6
Twelfth Night
October 14 Week 7
Twelfth Night
October 21Week 8
Mid-term Exams
October 28 Week 9
Richard
II
November 4 Week 10
Richard II
November 11 Week 11
Richard II
Novermber 18 Week 12
Macbeth
November 25 Week 13
Macbeth
December 2 Week 14
Macbeth
December 9 Week 15
Final exams start on Thursday
Students will write a Midterm Essay (due on the Monday after the Mid-term Exam) in which you discuss the attitudes toward love found in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night including discussion of the way the works were interprested in the video/film productions.
The Final Essay (due on the Monday after the Final Exam)
will be on the different portrayals of kingship and tragedy in the
second two plays.
Grading will be based on the 2 reports and the result of the Mid-term
and Final Exams (Max 50 points each). The exams will test students' knowledge
of the action of the plays, and will include tests of precise memorization
of the most celebrated passages in the plays. Exams and reports are
of equal weight.