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ENGL 3332 – William Shakespeare
Fall 2016-2017
Instructor
Room No.
Office Hours
Email
Telephone
Secretary/TA
TA Office
Hours
Course URL (if
any)
Furrukh Khan
130 – SS Wing (Ground Floor)
TBA
[email protected]
COURSE BASICS
Credit Hours
Lecture(s)
Recitation/Lab (per
week)
Tutorial (per week)
2 lectures per
week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per
Week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per
Week
Duration 1hr 50mins
Duration
Duration
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course entails a study of a selection of Shakespeare’s dramatic works in more depth and detail than
undertaken by students previously. The hallmark of the course is not only its stress on close scrutiny of the texts,
but a wider engagement with the academic and cultural legacies of his writings. It will focus on the issues not
frequently associated with Shakespeare, themes and manifestations of racism, colonialism and gender relations
will be explicated. The theoretical basis of this course would rest on post-structuralist criticisms as well as
cultural materialist, new historicism and post-colonialist approaches would be used to better understand the
impact that Shakespeare continues to exert on the audiences and readers today. The historical and theoretical
issues raised by the works will be addressed as they emerge out of individual responses and class discussion,
rather than being established in advance as avenues of approach.
GOALS
By the end of this course, the students should have acquired a thorough and advanced knowledge of the different
types of plays that Shakespeare wrote. The students will have read widely in modern Shakespeare criticism,
familiarizing themselves with the variety of approaches available, and should be able to identify and debate the
key interpretive issues posed by each of the texts studied.
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LECTURES, TUTORIALS & ATTENDANCE POLICY
The classes will be a combination of lectures and seminars. Each play will be discussed in three seminars. Reading
of primary and secondary texts prescribed for week’s study. There will also be screening of some of the plays,
which all students are expected to attend. Efforts will be made to get outside speakers, which again have a
mandatory attendance policy.
GRADING
1. Students will be expected to write a 5-minute original response to each reading in each class (10%). They
will also be marked on class participation (10%). Each student is expected to do a 15-20 mins. class
presentation (15%). There will be a mid-term (35%) and a research paper (25%).
This course will have 28 sessions (two of 110 mins) every week.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Plays
Hysterical Women
Taming of the Shrew
Patriarchal controls
Violence as acceptable basis of marital relationship
The transformation of Kate
Macbeth
Regicide
Relationship between Husband and Wife
Lady Macbeth
Enemy Inside/Insight
Merchant of Venice
Margin and Centre
Outsider in the Centre
Shylock’s character and punishment
The Outsiders
Othello
The Outsider as an Insider
Othello’s relationship with Desdemona
The Moorish characteristics
Hamlet
Self-doubt
Psychoanalysis of paralysis
Family relationships
King Lear
Old age
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Father-daughter relationship
Madness and sanity
The Tempest
The Colonizing of Africa
Natives and Masters
Caliban
Sessions
1. Introduction to the Course.
2.
Anthony DiMatteo. The Use and Abuse of Shakespeare: A Review Essay.
3.
Richard Halpern. Shakespeare in the Tropics: From High Modernism to New Historicism.
4.
Jonathan Dollimore. Shakespeare, cultural materialism and new historicism.
5.
Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin. Shakespeare and the post-colonial question.
6-8.
Taming of the Shrew
Lynda E. Boose: Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman’s Unruly Member.
Emily Detmer. Civilizing Subordination: Domestic Violence and The Taming of the Shrew.
9-11.
Merchant of Venice
Karen Newman. Portia’s ring: Unruly women and the structure of exchange in The Merchant of Venice.
W.H. Auden. Brothers & Others.
12-14.
Othello
Eamon Grennan. The Woman’s voice in Othello: Speech, Song, Silence.
Michael Neill. Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello
15.
Midterm Exam
16-18.
Macbeth
King-Kok Cheung. Shakespeare and Kierkegaard: "Dread" in Macbeth.
Joanna Levin. Lady Macbeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria.
19-21.
Hamlet
Leroy F. Searle. The Conscience of the King: Oedipus, Hamlet, and the Problem of Reading.
Jacqueline Rose. Hamlet – the Mona Lisa of Literature
22-24.
King Lear
Dan Brayton. Angling in the Lake of Darkness: Possession, Dispossession, and the Politics of Discovery in King
Lear.
Michael Holahan. "Look, Her Lips": Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear.
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25-27.
The Tempest
Meredith Skura. Discourse and the Individual: the case of colonialism in The Tempest.
Paul Brown. ‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine’: The Tempest and the discourse of Colonialism.
28.
Sibnarayan Ray. Shylock, Othello and Caliban: Shakespearian variations on the theme of apartheid.
Nandi Bhatia. “Shakespeare” and the Codes of Empire in India