English 365 - Shakespeare

Section 2:
Monday & Wednesday Lawson 101
Friday Parkinson 108

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ALL work should be handed in following MLA format.
 

Last Update: 18 February, 2012 9:45 pm

January Calendar

MON

TUE

WED

THU

FRI

16
MLK DAY

 

17 18
Intro
19 20
As You Like It / strategies for reading / succeeding

Section 02 Parkinson 108: flashcards & photos

 

23
As You Like It Acts 1-2 (emphasis on Society vs. Forest; Orlando & Oliver / Dukes Frederick & Senior; Rosalind & Celia; Rosalind & Orlando)


Power Points Dr. Lamb uses for lecture are available on Blackboard

How to print Power Points as outlines (vs. printing 20 individual slides)

 

24 25
As You Like It Acts 3-4 (emphasis on Jacques & Touchstone; Phebe & Silvius; best way to love)
26 27
As You Like It Quiz (Acts 1-4)

Handed out: As You Like It Response

Reviewed how to quote (Act. scene. line).

February Calendar

30
As You Like It Act 5
31 1
As You Like It (global review)
2 3
DUE: As You Like It Response
6
Twelfth Night Acts 1-2

Comment about how I comment on papers
 

7 8
Twelfth Night Acts 3-4
(emphasis on Upstairs/Downstairs plots; Viola's/Cessario's role as servant/friend; truth in love; the role of joy and parties in life)
 
9 10
Twelfth Night Quiz (Acts 1-4)

Check out the "Seeing Shakespeare" page from the Folger Shakespeare Library - images of cross garters from Twelfth Night as well as the anthropophagi Othello mentions, harpies from The Tempest, and more.
 

13
Twelfth Night Act 5
(examination of film interpretation; focus on party and Malvolio)
14 15
Twelfth Night (global review)
16 17
DUE: Twelfth Night Response

Paper Prompt Discussed

20

TEST: Re-read and study key quotes from As You Like It & Twelfth Night

View Hamlet with David Tennant on the PBS Great Performances page for free in its entirety

And for Shakespeare junkies, 2 more which are not on our syllabus, but are well worth viewing:

Macbeth with Patrick Stewart and surreal witches

And King Lear with Sir Ian McKellen

 

 

21 22
Hamlet

Due: thesis statements for papers

23 24
Hamlet

Discuss thesis statements

March Calendar

27
Hamlet
28 29
Hamlet
1 2
Hamlet Quiz

Conferences with Borger
 

5
Hamlet

Conferences with Borger
 

6

 

7
Hamlet

Conferences with Borger

8 9
DUE: Hamlet Response

PAPER DUE

12
SPRING BREAK
13
SPRING BREAK
14
SPRING BREAK
15
SPRING BREAK
16
SPRING BREAK
19
Othello
20 21
Othello
22 23
Othello Quiz
26
Othello
27 28
Othello
29 30
DUE: Othello Response


April
Calendar
 

2
TEST
3 4
Winter's Tale

Due: thesis statements for papers

5 6
Winter's Tale

Discuss thesis statements

9
Winter's Tale
10 11
Winter's Tale
12 13
Winter's Tale Quiz
16
Winter's Tale
17 18
Tempest

PAPER DUE

19 20
DUE: Winter's Tale Response
23
Tempest
24 25
Tempest
26 27
Tempest Quiz
30
Tempest
       


May Calendar
 

30
Tempest
1 2
Tempest
3 4
Tempest Response
7
Week of May 6: Exam on date scheduled by the Dean or a paper on the last two plays, if conferenced and approved by section leader.
8 9 10 11