The University of
Texas at Dallas
Graduate Program in the Humanities
HUHI 7386 Spring 2009 R
7:00 - 9:45
Sec. 501
Call = 12462 Jo 4.312
Professor Gerald Soliday Office:
Jonsson 5.608 G
Office Hours: R 6:00 – 7:00 , and by appointment 972-883-2175
E-mail: soliday@utdallas.edu Internet:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~soliday
HUHI 7386: The Artist and Writer in Society:
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 (35%), an oral and
short written report (15%) on an
important book or scholarly debate, as well as a final paper (50%) of roughly
twenty pages. Students may choose
writing projects that match their own interests or places in the graduate
program: a research paper suitable for
revision in an M.A. portfolio, a pedagogical or scholarly report suitable as a
draft for an M.A.T. casebook essay, 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. Simply put your name and course
identification at the top of the first page and staple the upper left
corner. Papers are always paginated (at
the bottom and center of each page after the first), 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, provided that you use it correctly and consistently. Probably most appropriate for your work in
the arts and humanities are standard guides like Joseph Gibaldi’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers (6th ed.; NY, 2003) or Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (7th
rev. ed.; Chicago, 2007).
At the same time, Diana Hacker's Rules
for Writers (6th rev. ed.; Boston and NY, 2008) summarizes MLA
stylistic conventions, outlines current grammatical practices and mechanical
presentation, and offers helpful guidelines for researching and writing
papers. Her Web site (http://www.dianahacker.com/) is
especially useful, since it offers both Rules
for Writers and her Research and
Documentation in the Electronic Age (4rd ed.;
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 now 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
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address. UT-Dallas
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communication with university personnel. This allows the university to maintain
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and the security of the transmitted information. The Department of
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SCHEDULE
OF CLASS MEETINGS
& ASSIGNMENTS
15
Jan Introduction to the Course
Discussion of Jonathan
Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare
Recommended: Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
29
Jan Shakspere’s Job: Player & Poet
Discussion of Peter
Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional
Career, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
5 Feb His
Working Conditions in London
Discussion
of Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in
Shakespeare’s London (2nd ed.), chs. 1-4
Access to His Works
Discussion of Stephen
Orgel, "The Authentic Shakespeare," Representations 21 (1988):
1-25, and Stephen Greenblatt, "The Dream of the Master
Text," The Norton Shakespeare,
ed. S. Greenblatt et al.
(NY & London, 1997), 65-76
12
Feb Shakspere and his Audiences
Discussion
of Gurr, Playgoing, ch. 5 as well as
the two appendices
Shakesperotics: The Evolving
Reputation
Reports on Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration
to the Present, chs. 1-4 (Sara Keeth)
and 5-7 (Calli Birch)
19
Feb Interpretive Strategies
Discussion of Richard Levin, “The Relation of External Evidence to the
Allegorical and Thematic
Interpretation of
Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980):1-29, and 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
Recommended: Leeds Barroll, “A New History for Shakespeare
and His Time,” Shakespeare
Quarterly 39 (1988): 441-464
26
Feb The Cultural Politics of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Discussion of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (1594-95) and of Montrose, 109-211
MND in Film: Reinhardt (1935), Hall (1968), Moshinsky
(BBC, 1981)
Report on The Cambridge
Companion to Shakespeare on Film, ed. Russell Jackson (Karen Sanders)
5 Mar Patronage &
Politics
Discussion of Alvin Kernan,
Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court,
1603-1613
Report on Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics,
Culture, ed. Mark Burnett and Ramona Wray
(Krista
Rascoe)
12
Mar Religious Cultures & Beliefs
Discussion of Patrick Collinson, “The Church: Religion and Its
Manifestations,“ William
Shakespeare, ed. John F. Andrews (NY, 1985), 21-40, and Jeffrey Knapp, Shakespeare’s
Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England
Report on Jonas Barish, The
Antitheatrical Prejudice (Tom McNeely)
Witch Belief & Prosecution
Instructor’s Outline of
Keith Thomas, Religion
and the Decline of Magic, 3-112, 151-166,
253-279, 283-292, 332-357,
435-468, 493-583, 631-668 (Jennifer
Culver)
Report on Owen Davies, The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts (Jennifer Culver)
Report on Linda
Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking
(Brad Dominy)
19 Mar [Spring
Break]
26
Mar 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 (Megan
Richardson)
Report on Jonathan Burton, Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624
(Cristian
Panaite)
First Discussion of Research Topics
2 Apr Order
& Disorder in English Society
Discussion of Keith
Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680
If you have time, read also
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 Susan Amussen, An
Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England
(Catherine Morphis)
Report
on David Bergeron, English Civic Pagentry (Rev. Ed.) (Mary Young)
Discussion
of Paper Topics
9 Apr Shakspere
& the “Woman Question”
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 Marcus Nordlund, Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture,
Evolution (Rethinking Theory) (John MacEachern)
Continued Discussion of Paper
Topics
16
Apr 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 Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: the Performance of Gender
in Shakespeare’s England
(Justine White)
Reports on individual research
projects
23
Apr Reports on individual research
projects
Report on Phoebe Sheavyn, The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan
Age (Catherine Dean)
Report on Shakespeare and the Classics, ed. Charles Martindale and A.B.
Taylor (Crissy Hamilton
Report on Gary schmidgall, Shakespeare and Opera (Deb Daniel-Richard)
Report on Roger
Lockyer, James VI and I (Brian Blake)
30
Apr Discussion of Research Topics or
Problems (Individual sessions with instructor)
7 May 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
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare became
Shakespeare
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 Shakespearian Playing Companies
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
Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (2nd
ed.)
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
J.W. Binns, Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age
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
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, English Puritanism
Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Kristen Poole, Radical
Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
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. Johathan Dollimore and
Alan Sinfield (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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