The
University of
Texas at Dallas
Graduate
Program in the Humanities
HUHI
7314 Fall 2015 M 7:00 - 9:45
Sec. 501
Course # 85333 JO 4.112
Professor Gerald Soliday Office:
Jonsson 5.608
F
Office Hours: M 5:00 – 6:00 , and by appointment 972-883-2994
E-mail: soliday@utdallas.edu
Internet:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~soliday
Please note that I much prefer
e-mail contact to telephone messages at my university office.
HUHI 7368: Reading Shakespeare Historically
This course on the
“age of Shakespeare” examines the society and culture of late Tudor and early
Stuart England―as part of the general attempt today to situate the
playwright and his works concretely in time and place. While the seminar will involve group reading
and interpretation of only a few of the plays themselves, its larger goals are
to enable us as playgoers and readers to locate Shakespeare’s works culturally,
to appreciate their purposes and agency in his society, and to address the
thorny issues of their popular appeal and scholarly interpretation later. Thus readings and discussions will concern
the poet’s biography, English social and cultural life, the status and working
conditions of actors and playwrights, patronage and politics, popular and elite
cultures of the period, Shakespeare’s audiences and the later reception of his
works, as well as various scholarly or critical approaches to studying and
teaching Shakespeare historically.
Course requirements include active participation in
seminar discussions (25%), an oral and short written report (15%) on an important book or scholarly debate,
as well as a final paper (60%) of roughly twenty pages.
Students may choose writing projects that match their own interests or
places in the graduate program: a
research paper or
a critical review helpful for preparing doctoral exam fields.
All written work and class
discussions for this course are in gender-neutral, nonsexist language and
rhetorical constructions. Such practice
is part of a classroom situation according full respect and opportunity to all
participants by all others.
Written work is submitted in paper copy, without cover pages or
special folders. Papers are always
paginated, double-spaced, and presented in clear 10- to 12-point type.
Parenthetical annotation is now strongly recommended, though any
form of annotation (foot- or endnotes) and bibliography is acceptable for this
course, if used correctly and consistently.
Probably most appropriate for work in the arts and humanities are standard
guides like Joseph Gibaldi’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.;
NY, 2009) or Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (7th
rev. ed.; Chicago, 2007).
At the same time, The
Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers (9th rev. ed.; Boston and NY, 2014) summarizes MLA and
Chicago stylistic conventions, outlines current grammatical practices and
mechanical presentation, and offers helpful guidelines for researching and
writing papers. The Web site (www.hackerhandbooks.com/bedhandbook)
is also quite useful.
Any student who has not already read William Strunk Jr. and E. B.
White, The Elements of Style (4th
ed.; Boston, 2000), should do so immediately.
I should also mention that the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, MA, 2003) is still the standard for
everyday university work.
Required readings:
Most articles or shorter readings
below are available online through links from this syllabus (rather than on the
McDermott reserve shelf). Please note
that these materials are under copyright, you must always cite them properly,
and you must have a password to gain access to them. I will give you the password when we organize
our meetings at the beginning of the semester.
Changes in the Syllabus
Please also note that, although I
do not anticipate them, there may be some changes in the following schedule. If they occur, I will announce them in class
and post them on the syllabus at my Web site on the Internet.
E-mail Contact
IMPORTANT NOTICE: all course correspondence by e-mail must now occur through the
student’s UTD e-mail address. UT-Dallas provides each student with a free e-mail account
that is to be used in all communication with university personnel. This allows
the university to maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity of all
individuals corresponding and the security of the transmitted information. The Department of
Information Resources at UTD provides a method for students to forward email
from other accounts to their UTD addresses and have their UTD mail sent on to
other accounts. Students may go to the following URL to establish or maintain
an official UTD computer account: http://netid.utdallas.edu/.
SCHEDULE OF
CLASS MEETINGS &
ASSIGNMENTS
24 Aug Introduction to the Course
31 Aug Shakspere’s
Career: Player & Poet
Discussion of
Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional
Career, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Discussion
of Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare, and his Soul of the Age: A Biography
of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Recommended: Samuel Schoenbaum,
William Shakespeare: A Compact
Documentary Life
21 Sep His Working Conditions in London
Discussion of Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (3rd
ed.), chs. 1-4
The Issue of Authenticity
Discussion of
Stephen Greenblatt, "The Dream
of the Master Text," The Norton
Shakespeare,
ed. S.
Greenblatt et al. (NY & London, 1997), 65-76
Recommended: Stephen Orgel,
"The Authentic Shakespeare," Representations
21 (1988): 1-25
Recording:
Shakespeare's Original
Pronunciation. Perf.
Ben Crystal et al. The British Library, 2012.
28 Sep Shakspere and his
Audiences
Discussion of
Gurr, Playgoing, ch. 5 and the two
appendices as well as
Richard
Levin, “The Relation of
External Evidence to the Allegorical and Thematic Interpretation
of
Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980):1-29
Report on The Theatrical City:
Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649, ed. David L.
Smith, R. Strier,
and D. Bevington (Scott Swartsfager)
05 Oct Interpretive Strategies
Discussion of J. Leeds Barroll,
“Thinking About Shakespeare’s Thoughts,” William
Shakespeare:
His World, His Work, His Influence, ed.
John F. Andrews (NY, 1985), 291-308
The New Historicism
Discussion of Jean Howard, “The New
Historicism in Renaissance Studies,” Renaissance
Historicism, ed.
Arthur F. Kinney and Dan S. Collins (Amherst, 1987): 3-33, and Louis Montrose,
The
Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan
Theatre, xi-105
12 Oct The Cultural Politics of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Discussion of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-95) and
of Montrose, 109-211
Shakespeare on Film
Report
on The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, ed.
Russell Jackson (Shabnum Iftikhar)
Report on two film
performances (by Olivier and Loncraine) of Richard III (Claire Soares)
19 Oct Patronage &
Politics
Discussion
of Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare,
the King’s Playwright: Theater in the
Stuart Court,
1603-1613
Report
on Jonas Barish, The
Antitheatrical Prejudice (Janet Jacobs)
Outline of Lawrence Stone, "The
Causes of the English Revolution," The
Causes of the
English Revolution
1529-1642 (New York,
1972), 47-164
26 Oct Order & Disorder in English Society Discussion Leader: Dr. Pia Jakobsson
Discussion
of Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680
Highly
recommended: J. H. Hexter,
“The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England,”
Reappraisals in History (2nd ed.; Chicago,
1979), 71-116, and Theodore B. Leinwand,
“Shakespeare
and the Middling Sort,” Shakespeare
Quarterly 44 (1993): 284-303
Report on
Keith Wrightson,
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in
Early Modern Britain (Jeff
Hirshberg)
2 Nov Shakspere
& the “Woman Question” Discussion
Leader: Dr. Pia Jakobsson
Discussion of
The Taming of the Shrew (1592), ed. Frances
E. Dolan, 1-159
Viewing of
scenes from The Taming of the Shrew
Report
on Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following
the Feminine in Shakespeare’s Plays (Anna Fritzel)
9 Nov Discussion of the Dolan edition of Shr., 160-326, as well as David Underdown,
“The Taming
of the
Scold: The Enforcement of Patriarchal Authority in Early Modern England,” Order and
Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. A.
Fletcher and J. Stevenson (Cambridge, 1985), 116-136,
and
Martin Ingram, “’Scolding
Women Cucked or Washed’: A Crisis in Gender Relations in Early
Modern
England?” Women, Crime and the Courts in
Early Modern England, ed. J.
Kermode
and G.
Walker (Chapel Hill and London, 1994), 48-80
Report on Shakespeare
and Race, ed. Catherine M.S. Alexander and Stanley Wells (Sharron Conrad)
Report on Jonathan Hart, Columbus, Shakespeare, and the
Interpretation of the New World (Pedro Gonzalez)
First Discussion of Research Topics
All
members of the course should have decided on the type of paper and topic.
16 Nov Religious Cultures & Beliefs
Discussion
of Patrick Collinson, “The
Church: Religion and Its Manifestations,“ William
Shakespeare, ed.
John F. Andrews (NY, 1985), 21-40, and Keith Thomas, Religion and the
Decline of Magic, 3-21, 25-112, 151-166, 253-279, 283-292, 332-357
Report on Christopher Haigh, The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in
Post-Reformation England 1570-1640 (Briana Bacon)
Report on J. J. Scarisbrick,
The Reformation and the English People (Brinton Smith)
Witch Belief & Prosecution
Reports
on Thomas, 435-468, 493-583, 631-668 (Jennifer Crumley)
Continued Discussion of Paper Topics
30 Nov Merchants & Jews
Discussion of The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew
of Venice (1596/1598?), ed. M. Lindsay Kaplan
Report on James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews (Sarah Valente)
Reports on individual research projects
7 Dec Discussion of Research
Topics or Problems
14 Dec Final
Paper Due. Seminar Party at the
Instructor's Home Map
Please attach
a stamped self-addressed envelope to the paper, so I may return it with
comments
and your
marks for the course.
General Works &
Biographical Studies
Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
William Shakespeare: His World,
His Work, His Influence, ed. John F. Andrews
The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespeare Studies, ed.
Stanley Wells
Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives
(1970; new ed., 1991)
James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of
William Shakespeare: 1599
James Shapiro, Contested
Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in
the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare:
An Ungentle Life
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare:
Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan 1592-1623
A.D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker
Players, Playwrights, and the
Theater
G.E. Bentley, The Profession of Dramatist and Player in Shakespeare’s Time, 1590-1642
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 4th
ed.
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespeare Company 1584-1642
Andrew Gurr, Shakespeare’s Opposites: The Admiral’s Company 1594-1625
Phoebe Sheavyn,
The Literary Profession in the
Elizabethan Age (2nd ed., revised by J.W. Saunders)
Wendy Wall, The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English
Renaissance
Shakespeare’s
Globe Rebuilt, ed. Ronnie Mulryne and Margaret Shewring
David Bradley, From Text to Performance
in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing
the Play for the Stage
Shakespeare
Performed, ed. Grace Ioppolo
Patrick Tucker, Secrets of Acting
Shakespeare: The Original Approach
Robert Weimann,
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in
the Theater: Studies in the Social
Dimension
of Dramatic Form and Function
Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of
Power: Political Theater in the English
Renaissance
Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender
in Shakespeare’s England
The Culture of Playgoing
in Shakespeare’s England, ed. Anthony B. Dawson and Paul Yachnin
Roslyn Lander Knutson, Playing
Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time
Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare and the
Drama of his Time
James Shapiro, Rival Playwrights:
Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare
The Social Order
D. M. Palliser, The Age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603
(2nd. ed.; 1992) (Social and Economic History of England, v. 5)
Keith Wrightson,
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in
Early Modern Britain
Susan D. Amussen,
An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early
Modern England
Order
& Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. Anthony Fletcher and J. Stevenson
Ralph Houlbrooke, The English Family 1450-1700
Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex & Subordination in England
1500-1800
Sara Mendelson and Patricia
Crawford, Women in Early Modern England
Amy Erickson, Women & Property in Early Modern England
Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in
Early Modern London
Frances E. Dolan, Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern
Legacy
Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641
G.E. Mingay,
The Gentry: Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class
Rosemary
O’Day, The
Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800
The
Middling Sort of People, ed. Jonathan Barry and C. Brooks
A.L. Beier, Masterless Men:
The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640
Paul Slack, Poverty & Policy in Tudor & Stuart England
David Katz, Jews in the History of England 1485-1850
Steve Rappaport, World within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London
Ian Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London
Alan Dyer, Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640
The Polity &
Political Culture
Alan G.R. Smith, The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529-1660
Penry Williams, The Tudor Regime
Penry Williams, The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603
John Guy, Tudor England
Tudor
Political Culture, ed. Dale Hoak
Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern
England 1550-1640
Christopher Haigh, Elizabeth I (Profiles in Power) (2nd ed., 1998)
Wallace MacCaffrey,
Elizabeth I
The
Reign of Elizabeth I, ed. Christopher Haigh
Susan Frye, Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation
Michael A. R. Graves, Burghley
(Profiles in Power)
The
Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, ed. John Guy
Anne N. McLaren, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Roy Strong, The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry
The
Myth of Elizabeth, ed. Susan
Doran and Thomas S. Freeman
Derek Hirst, Authority and Conflict England, 1603-1658
Roger Lockyer, James VI and I
(Profiles in Power)
S.J. Houston, James I (2nd
ed., 1995)
W.B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom
The
Mental World of the Jacobean Court, ed. Linda Levy Peck
Intellectual & Cultural Life
T. W. Baldwin, Wiliam Shakspere's Small
Latine and Lesse Greeke.
J. W. Binns, Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and
Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age
Quentin Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare
Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
Linda Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking
E. M. W. Tillyard,
The Elizabethan World Picture
Hiram Haydn, The Counter Renaissance
William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the
Renaissance 1550-1640
The
Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein
and Janel Mueller
Lawrence Manly, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
The
Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649, ed.
David L. Smith, R. Strier,
and
D. Bevington
Graham Parry, The Golden Age Restor’d: The Culture of the
Stuart Court, 1603-42
Graham Parry, The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and
Cultural Context of English Literature
1603-1700
Goldberg, Jonathan, James I and the Politics of Literature:
Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and their
Contemporaries
Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of
Elizabethan Literary
Practice
Christopher Haigh, English Reformations
J. J. Scarisbrick,
The Reformation and the English People
Patrick Collinson, The Religion of
Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625.
Patrick Collinson, English Puritanism
Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan
Puritan Movement
Christopher Haigh, The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of
Christianity in Post-Reformation
England 1570-1640.
Kristen
Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early
Modern England
David Cressy,
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading
and Writing in Tudor and
Stuart England
Keith Thomas, “The Meaning of
Literacy in Early Modern England,” The
Written Word, ed. Gerd
Baumann (NY, 1986), 97-131
Eugene R. Kintgen,
Reading in Tudor England
Rosemary O’Day, Education and Society, 1500-1800 The Social Foundations of Education in Early
Modern Britain
Barry Reay, Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750
Some Recent Criticism
Alternative Shakespeares, ed. John Drakakis
(1985)
The
New Historicism, ed. H.
Aram Veeser
New
Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader, ed. Kiernan Ryan
Political
Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism, ed. Jonathan Dollimore and
Alan Seinfield (2nd ed., 1994)
Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations
Leeds Barroll,
“A New History for Shakespeare and His Time,” Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988): 441-464
Brook Thomas, The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics
Lisa Jardine, Reading Shakespeare Historically
Brian Vickers, Appropriating Shakespeare Contemporary Critical Quarrels (1993)
Edward Pechter,
What Was Shakespeare? (1995)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Susanne L. Wofford (Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism)
Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language (2000)
Michael Taylor, Shakespeare Criticism in
the Twentieth Century (2001)
The
Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, ed. Carolyn R. Swift Lenz,
Gayle Greene, and Carol Thomas Neely
The
Matter of Difference: Materialist
Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, ed. Valerie Wayne
Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women 2nd ed., 1996
Linda Woodbridge, Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of
Womankind,
1540-1620
Half
Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England,
1540-1640,
ed.
Katherine Usher Henderson and Barbara F. McManus
Constance Jordan, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models
Lisa Jardine, Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama
in the Age of Shakespeare
Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: the Performance of Gender
in Shakespeare’s England
Laura Levine, Men in Women’s Clothes: Anti-Theatricality
and Effeminization 1579-1652
Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England:
A Cultural Poetics
Deborah
Cartmell, Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen
Jack J. Jorgens, Shakespeare on Film
Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, ed.Richard
Burt and Lynda Boose
The
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, ed. Russell
Jackson
Teaching Shakespeare
P. Roberts, Shakespeare and the Moral Curriculum: Rethinking the Secondary School
Shakespeare Syllabus
Shakespeare
and the Triple Play: From Study to State to Classroom, ed. Sidney Homan
Susan Leach and Frank Harrison, Shakespeare in the Classroom: What’s the
Matter?
Mary A. Rygel, Shakespeare among School Children:
Approaches for the Secondary Classroom
Teaching Shakespeare in the
Twenty-First Century, ed. Ronald
E. Salomone and James E. Davis
Teaching Shakespeare through
Performance, ed. Milla Cozart Riggio
The Bedford Companion to
Shakespeare: An Introduction with
Documents, ed. Russ
McDonald
(2nd ed., 2001)
The Bedford Shakespeare Series (Texts and Contexts Series)
includes:
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the
Shrew, ed. Frances E. Dolan
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ed. Bruce R. Smith
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, ed. Gail Kern Paster and Skiles
Howard
William Shakespeare, Othello, ed. Kim F. Hall.
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website address given below. Additional
information is available from the office of the school dean. (http://www.utdallas.edu/Business
Affairs/Travel_Risk_Activities.htm)