Iyengar, Sujata
MWF 1 :50 PM
Park Hall 0250
**Great news! I have received a grant from the Franklin College to subsidize the cost of some of the remote streamed Shakespeare performances we'll be watching this semester! **
This upper-division English class introduces students to the life, times, and selected works of playwright, poet, actor-manager, and businessman William Shakespeare (1564-1616). We'll investigate the plays on both page and stage, watching, as available, recorded live-streamed productions of the plays. Later in the semester we'll look at some of the different approaches that critics, directors, actors, and artists have taken to interpret these works -- from feature film to contemporary theory to vlogs to material objects.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
BOOK (play): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Folger Shakespeare Library edition, ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, used is fine
BOOK (play): Much Ado About Nothing, Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. Claire McEachern, used is fine
BOOK (play): Twelfth Night, Folger Shakespeare Library edition, ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, used is fine
BOOK (play): Henry V, Folger Shakespeare Library edition, ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, used is fine
BOOK (play): Hamlet, Arden 3rd series, Revised edition, ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, ISBN-13: 978-1472518385
ISBN-10: 1472518381 (this edition is important -- but I don't care if it's used or new or a rental)
BOOK (play): Othello, Folger Shakespeare Library edition, ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, used is fine
BOOK (play): Desdemona, by Toni Morrison and Rokia Traouré, Oberon Books, ISBN: 9781849433891, this edition necessary
BOOK (play): Pericles, Folger Shakespeare Library edition, ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, used is fine
BOOK (novel): Spring, by Ali Smith, Anchor Books, used is fine
RECORDED STREAMING PERFORMANCES: American Shakespeare Center bundle: 3 performances, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Othello, for $25, registration and access from ASC website: JUST IN!! Franklin College will subsidize up to 25 students for this expense!
RECORDED STREAMING PERFORMANCE: Public Theatre, New York: Much Ado About Nothing (2019), via PBS, available free until the end of September
TV FILM: Henry V: The Hollow Crown, Season 1, Episode 3 (streaming on Amazon Prime for $2.99)
RECORDED STREAMING PERFORMANCE: Stratford (ONT) Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet (2016), available streaming for free through the UGA Libraries' Films on Demand database
RECORDED STREAMING PERFORMANCE: Cheek by Jowl, France and UK: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2018), free password-protected recording provided by subscription
Check your email if you have questions; I have been sending regular updates to registered students. I am an experienced teacher in online and hybrid formats as well as, of course, face-to-face, and am doing my best to keep up with the constantly-changing information we are receiving from the USG.