Course Documents

• Schedule
• Course Description and Policies
• A Definition of Tragedy (first-day PowerPoint) 

Course Assignments

• Writing Assignments
• Theoretical Concepts
• Short "Problem" Paper
• Long Paper Topic and Claim Assignments 
• Long Paper Assignment (with bibliography)
• Final Exam 
• Presentations
• Course Bibliography 

398 Handout Sources

Course Resources

• MLA Works Cited format (books, see the left side for other types of text) 
• My own page on citation (far less comprehensive) 
• Another of my pages on quotation in Shakespeare 
• Oxford English Dictionary (scroll down to "Oxford English")
• Online Shakespeare concordance (find multiple appearances of a word) 
• Overview of Aristotelian Tragedy 
• Some practical feminist critical questions 
• Purdue Guide to Critical Theory 
• Intro to Modern Lit Theory (Kristi Siegel--temporarily down) 
• Yale YouTube lectures by Paul Fry on literary theory (checkout the whole series!)
• Personality surveys are fun?!
• Everything Foucault 
• Foucault on confession 

• Spanish Tragedy text (no line numbers or notes) 
• Tower of Babel (King James Version)
• "Shaking of the Sheets" lyrics 

Othello

• Branagh/Fishburne Othello at Amazon
• Reflections on Othellos at the National Theatre (UK)
• Olivier as mad Othello
• Is Othello a racist play?

• Othello: A brief stage history (for a more thorough version see the essay in the Norton)