Shakespeare Survey 

Documents

• Schedule of Readings and Assignments
  
• Course Requirements and Policies
• Interpretation Assignments
• Discussion Questions
• Shakespeare Timeline
• Some General Thematic Questions
• Link to the Oxford English Dictionary (click here and scroll down the list to the OED)
• Online concordance (find multiple appearances of a word)
• Paper One Assignment
• Paper Two Assignment
• Paper "Ground Rules"
• Citation Guide 
• Exam Questions Directions

Resources

• Shakespeare and Theatre Powerpoint 
• The difference between literal and figurative (THIS is as literal as it gets)
• A Definition of Romantic Comedy and pastoral 
• An overview of Elizabethan life
• JP Sommerville's pages on early modern social structure
• A helpful "Prezzi" on Elizabethan Social Class
  
• Life on London's South Bank (south of the Thames, where the Globe was erected)
• A Map of Elizabethan Theaters
• More on Elizabethan and Jacobean Playhouses (pdf) 
• "Fly" through 17th-c. London!
• Views of Indigenous People
• Natives arrive in Portugal, 1501 
• 16th-C Settler Journal 
• Thomas Morton describes New England natives, 1637 
• 1700 

Rent Them at Amazon

• Richard II (season 1, episode 1 of The Hollow Crown)
• Another at Amazon, with Fiona Shaw 
• Twelfth Night 
• An innovative version with Sheila Atim 
• One more, with Alec Guiness 
• Merchant of Venice 
• Henry IV, part one (season 1, episode 2 of The Hollow Crown) 
• The King (on Netflix) (This covers H4 parts one and two, and H5, so only some of it is our play; on the other hand, Timothee!!) 
• Hamlet
•  Hamlet, with David Tennant (have to buy it, but only $5)
• Excellent BBC version
• Hamlet with Branagh
• Also at our library
• Free version if you have Prime (currently unavailable)
• Ethan Hawke plays the prince, modern adaptation (with Bill Murray!)
• Othello (Kenneth Branagh directs Laurence Fishburne and plays Iago) 
• Free (with Prime); Eamonn Walker stars 
• The Tempest (with Helen Miren as Prospera) 
• A freebie (if you have Prime) from BBC television 

Links

• St. Crispin's Day 
• Mark Rylance at the Globe
• Merchant
• Olivier as Shylock, Act 1, scene 3: Part one  Part two
• A devious Shylock
• The quality of mercy is not strained
• All of Act V: see it to appreciate the humor!
• Measure for Measure
• Fiona Shaw outlines the dynamics of Isabella and Angelo 
• Hamlet
• Hamlet's "solid flesh," by a young Kevin Kline 
• Jean-Luc knows Hamlet
• Branagh as Hamlet, "To be"
• Tempest
• Lame TV version (Richard Burton as Prospero)
• Claymation adaptation
• A less "monstrous" Caliban
• found the whole thing
• An introduction to the masque
• More clips at the ShakespeareFlix channel