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PS PostPost-Colonial Shakespeares:
Shakespeares: Course Schedule (Tuesday 18.15-19.45, C301)
→ Apart from the longer primary texts (Shakespeare’s Othello, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and
Warner’s Indigo) all other texts that are compulsory reading () for our class meetings are in the master
copy in the seminar library. The master copy also includes introductory texts for your papers () and
some background reading ().
→ You have to sign up for a conference paper (30 minutes presentation, 20 minutes discussion) and for a
tandem group (don’t worry, we will help you figure out what this means). For the conference, you will
therefore need in-depth knowledge of (at least) 2 conference topics: your ‘own’ topic as a speaker, and the
topic of your tandem partner, for which you will chair the discussion at the conference.
compulsory reading: introductory reading (papers): background reading: Nr.
Date
Topic – What to Read
01
15-04-08
organisation, preliminary information
technical stuff
02
E.C. Bartels, “Shakespeare’s View of the World” (Stanley and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 151-64); G.K. Hunter, “Elizabethans and
Foreigners” (Alexander and Wells, Shakespeare and Race 37-63); C. Levin, from “The Society of Shakespeare’s England”: “Those
on the Margins: Witches, Jews, and Africans” (Stanley and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 98-102)
22-04-08
Shakespeare & Post-colonial Theory
A. Loomba, “Introduction: Race and Colonialism in the Study of Shakespeare” (Shakespeare, Race, and
Colonialism 1-21)
03
J. Singh, “Post-Colonial Criticism” (Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 492-507)
29-04-08
Tragedy: Othello (1604)
read the play!
L. Woodbridge, “Tragedies” (Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 212-23)
04
R. McDonald, “Theater à la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama” (Bedford Companion to Shakespeare 79-98)
06-05-08
Comedy: The Merchant of Venice (1596)
(film clip: Shylock’s ‘conversion’ – M. Radford, The Merchant of Venice [2004])
read the play!
W.L. Carroll, “Romantic Comedies” (Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 175-85)
‘Berg’-Tuesday (no class)
05
20-05-08
Romance: The Tempest (1611)
read the play!
R. Foakes, “Romances” (Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 249-60)
film screening (1): O. Welles, Othello (1952)
20.00-ca. 21:30 (90 min.), C301
06
27-05-08
Post-colonial Rewriting: Marina Warner, Indigo (1992)
read the novel!
film screening (2): V. Bhardwaj, Omkara (2006)
20.00-ca. 22:30 (152 min.), C301
07
03-06-08
Films: Orson Welles, Othello (1952)
Vishal Bhardwaj, Omkara (2006)
T. Cartelli and K. Rowe, “Adaptation as a Cultural Process” (New Wave Shakespeare on Screen 25-44)
08
10-06-08
Soft Skills: Conference Papers – Dos and Don’ts
(how to write a conference paper, PowerPoint-presentations, presentations skills,...)
bring along your literature research!
Nadine Böhm & Susanne Gruß
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
www.susannegruss.de
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research period:
period no class – research and write your conference papers!
10-06-08
deadline 01: literature research (see above – bring along to session 08)
17-06-08
deadline 02: hand in your abstracts (max. 250 words – to be published on conference website)
24-06-08
deadline 03: hand in a preliminary outline of your conference paper
01-07-08
deadline 04: hand in your handout & PowerPoint-presentation – use the remaining 3 days to
finalise and practice your talk; don’t forget your tandem partner (prepare some questions)!
Preliminary Conference Programme 04-07-08 (Fri.)
09/
1430-1515
10
1530-1620
CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Keynote Lecture: Nadine Böhm & Susanne Gruß (topic tba)
Paper 01: “Racial Identity in Othello”
A. Loomba, “Religion, Colour, and Racial Difference” (Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism 45-74)
1620-1650
1650-1740
coffee break
Paper 02: “Gender, Race, Monstrosity: Shakespeare’s Othello”
K. Newman, “‘And Wash the Ethiop White’: Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello” (Fashioning
Femininity 71-93)
1740-1830
Paper 03: “Religion and Race in The Merchant of Venice”
A. Loomba, “Religion, Money, and Race in The Merchant of Venice” (Shakespeare, Race, and
Colonialism 135-60)
19oo-?
Conference dinner (Murphy’s Pub)
05-07-08 (Sat.)
1114
0900-0950
CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Paper 04: “The Rhetoric of Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice”
A. Rosen, “The Rhetoric of Exclusion: Jew, Moor, and the Boundaries of Discourse in The
Merchant of Venice” (MacDonald, Race, Ethnicity and Power 67-79)
0950-1040
Paper 05: “Colonising the Island? Power Relations in The Tempest”
K. Barbour, “Flout ‘em and Scout ‘em and Scout ‘em and Flout ‘em: Prospero’s Power and
Punishments in The Tempest” (Kendall, Shakespearean Power and Punishment 159-72)
1040-1100
1100-1150
coffee break
Paper 06: “‘Learning to Curse’: The Role of Language in Shakespeare’s Tempest”
S. Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century”
(Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture 16-39)
1150-1240
Paper 07: “Indigo: Post-Colonial and/or Feminist Rewriting?”
C. Cakebread, “Sycorax Speaks: Marina Warner’s Indigo and The Tempest” (M. Novy,
Transforming Shakespeare 217-35)
1240-1400
00
14 -14
50
lunch break
Paper 08: “Miscegenation and Race in Marina Warner’s Indigo”
L. Cao, “The Colours of Fiction: From Indigo/Blue to Maroon/Black (A Study of Miranda’s Story in
Indigo)” (ARIEL 36.1-2 (2005): 73-91)
1450-1540
Paper 09: “Black or White? Orson Welles’s Othello”
J. Nicholas, “A Bogus Hero: Welles’s Othello and the Construction of Race” (Shakespeare Bulletin
23.1 (2005): 9-28)
1540-1600
00
16 -16
50
coffee break
Paper 10: “Bollywoodizing Shakespeare – Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara”
D. Rosenthal, “Omkara” (100 Shakespeare Films 188-91)
1650-1800
Roundup Discussion, evaluation
Nadine Böhm & Susanne Gruß
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
www.susannegruss.de
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PS PostPost-Colonial Shakespeares: Literature primary literature:
Shakespeare, William. Othello. Ed. E. A. J. Honigmann. Walton-on-Thames: Nelson, 1997. [The Arden
Shakespeare. Third Series]
-----. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. John Russell Brown. London: Thomson Learning, 2006. [The Arden
Shakespeare]
-----. The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2000.
[The Arden Shakespeare. Third Series]
Warner, Marina. Indigo. London: Vintage, 1992.
films:
Othello. Dir. Orson Welles. Wr. Orson Welles, William Shakespeare. Prod. Orson Welles, et al. United Artists,
1952. DVD Second Sight Films Ltd, 2003.
Omkara. Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj. Wr. Vishal Bhardwaj, Robin Bhatt, Abhishek Chaubey. Prod. Kumar Mangat.
Eros Entertainment, 2006. DVD Eros International Ltd., 2006.
course material (... & a little help for your conference papers!):
Shakespeare – General Background
Bartels, Emily C. “Shakespeare’s View of the World.” Stanley and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 151-64. Dickson, Andrew. The Rough Guide to Shakespeare. The Plays – The Poems – The Life. London, et al.: Penguin,
2005.
Hawkes, Terence, ed. Alternative Shakespeares Volume 2. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Hunter, G. K. “Elizabethans and Foreigners.” Alexander and Wells, Shakespeare and Race 37-63. Levin, Carole, from “The Society of Shakespeare’s England”: “Those on the Margins: Witches, Jews, and
Africans.” Stanley and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 98-102. McDonald, Russ. “Theater à la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama.” The Bedford Companion to
Shakespeare. An Introduction with Documents. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 79-98.
McEvoy, Sean. Shakespeare: The Basics. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
Schabert, Ina, Hg. Shakespeare-Handbuch. Die Zeit – Der Mensch – Das Werk – Die Nachwelt. Stuttgart:
Kröner, 2000.
Wells, Stanley, and Lena Cowen Orlin, ed. Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Oxford, et al.: Oxford UP, 2003.
Shakespeare & Post-Colonial Theory
Alexander, Catherine M. S. and Stanely Wells, ed. Shakespeare and Race. Cambridge, et al.: Cambridge UP,
2000.
Habib, Imtiaz H. “Introduction: Race in Tudor England and Shakespeare: The Historical Ground and the Critical
Tools.”Shakespeare and Race. Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period. Lanham: UP of America,
2000. 1-21.
Loomba, Ania, and Martin Orkin. “Introduction: Shakespeare and the Post-Colonial Question.” Post-Colonial
Shakespeares. Ed. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. 1.19.
-----. “Introduction: Race and Colonialism in the Study of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism 121. -----. “Outsiders in Shakespeare’s England.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. Margareta de
Grazia and Stanley Wells. Cambridge, et al.: Cambridge UP, 2001. 146-66.
-----. “Shakespeare and Cultural Difference.” Hawkes, Alternative Shakespeares 164-91.
-----. Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. Oxford, et al.: Oxford UP, 2002. (€ 21,99)
Singh, Jyotsna. “Post-Colonial Criticism.” Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 492-507. Shakespeare, Othello
Burton, Jonathan. “‘A Most Wily Bird’: Leo Africanus, Othello and the Trafficking in Difference.” Loomba and
Orkin, Post-Colonial Shakespeares 43-63.
Callaghan, Dympna. “‘Othello Was a White Man’: Properties of Race on Shakespeare’s Stage.” Hawkes,
Alternative Shakespeares 2 192-215.
Habib, Imtiaz H. “‘Speak of Me as I Am’: T.S. Eliot, Othello’s Subaltern Voice and the Politics of Ethnic
Mimesis.” Habib, Shakespeare and Race 121-55.
Loomba, Ania. “Othello and the Racial Question.” Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism 91-111.
-----. “Religion, Colour, and Racial Difference.” Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism 45-74. Newman, Karen. “‘And Wash the Ethiop White’: Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello.” Fashioning
Femininity and English Renaissance Drama. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1991. 71-93. Woodbridge, Linda. “Tragedies.” Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 212-23. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Carroll, William C. “Romantic Comedies.” Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 175-85. Loomba, Ania. “Religion, Money, and Race in The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism
135-60. Orgel, Stephen. “Imagining Shylock.” Imagining Shakespeare. A History of Texts and Visions. London and New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 144-62.
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FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Rosen, Alan. “The Rhetoric of Exclusion: Jew, Moor, and the Boundaries of Discourse in The Merchant of
Venice.” Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Renaissance. Ed. Joyce Green MacDonald. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh
Dickinson UP, 1997. 67-79. Shapiro, James. “Shakespur and the Jewbill.” Alexander and Wells, Shakespeare and Race 124-38.
Smith, Rob. “Venice and Its Treatment of Jews.” Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. Cambridge, et al.:
Cambridge UP, 2002 [Cambridge Student Guide]. 23-43.
Sousa, Geraldo U. de. “Textual Encodings in The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare’s Cross-Cultural
Encounters. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1999. 68-96.
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Barbour, Kathryn. “Flout ‘em and Scout ‘em and Scout ‘em and Flout ‘em: Prospero’s Power and Punishments
in The Tempest.” Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays. Ed. Gillian Murray Kendall.
Madison, NJ and London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP and Associated UP, 1998. 159-72. Bate, Jonathan. “Caliban and Ariel Write Back.” Alexander and Wells, Shakespeare and Race 165-76.
Brotton, Jerry. “‘This Tunis, Sir, Was Carthage’: Contesting Colonialism in The Tempest.” Loomba and Orkin,
Post-Colonial Shakespeares 24-42.
Cartelli, Thomas. “Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as Colonialist Text and Pretext.” Repositioning
Shakespeare. National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
87-104.
Foakes, Reginald. “Romances.” Wells and Cowen Orlin, Oxford Guide 249-60. Greenblatt, Stephen. “Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century.” Learning
to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. 16-39. Habib, Imtiaz H. “Caliban and Racial Education.” Habib, Shakespeare and Race 207-52.
Warner, Indigo
Cakebread, Caroline. “Sycorax Speaks: Marina Warner’s Indigo and The Tempest.” Transforming Shakespeare:
Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. Ed. Marianne Novy. New York: St.
Martin’s, 1999. 217-35 Cao, Li. “The Colours of Fiction: From Indigo/Blue to Maroon/Black (A Study of Miranda’s Story in Indigo).”
ARIEL 36.1-2 (2005): 73-91.
Cuder Domínguez, Pilar. “‘I Had Peopled Else This Isle with Calibans’: Miscegenation in Marina Warner’s
Indigo.” On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain. Ed. Fernando Galván and Mercedes Bengoechea.
Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 1999. 171-79. Döring, Tobias. “Chains of Memory: English-Caribbean Cross-Currents in Marina Warner’s Indigo and David
Dabydeen’s Turner.” Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New
Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Klooss. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 191-204.
Sanders, Julie. Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation. Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2001.
Shakespeare and/on Film – Welles: Othello, Bhardwaj: Omkara
Cartelli, Thomas and Katherine Rowe. “Adaptation as a Cultural Process.” New Wave Shakespeare on Screen.
Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2007. 25-44. Cartmell, Deborah. “Shakespeare, Film and Race: Screening Othello and The Tempest.” Interpreting
Shakespeare on Screen. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 2000. 67-93.
Ganti, Tejaswini. Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema. New York, NY and London: Routledge,
2004.
Jackson, Russell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge, et al.: Cambridge UP,
2000.
Jones, Nicholas. “A Bogus Hero: Welles’s Othello and the Construction of Race.” Shakespeare Bulletin 23.1
(2005): 9-28. Rosenthal, Daniel. “Omkara.” 100 Shakespeare Films. Forew. Julie Taymor. London: British Film Institute,
2007. 188-91. Stone, James W. “Black and White as a Technique in Orson Welles’s Othello.” Literature Film Quarterly 30.3
(2002): 189-93.
Nadine Böhm & Susanne Gruß
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
www.susannegruss.de