Iyengar, Sujata
MWF 9:10 AM
Park Hall 0145
Shakespeare I
Books
William Shakespeare, The Bedford Shakespeare, ed. Russ McDonald and Lena Cowen Orlin (Bedford/St. Martin's)
(You must have the Bedford Shakespeare; it includes invaluable background essays on the historical period and on performance practices that I will be requiring you to read. Used, rented, Kindle etc. is fine as long as you can read the essays and cite them by page number and read the plays and cite them by act, scene, and line number.)
John Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed, ed. Lucy Munro (Methuen Drama; imprint, New Mermaid)
Plays we will be studying:
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher), Richard II (William Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton), Othello (William Shakespeare), The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Screen Versions (most available through UGA Library databases: Alexander Street, Swank, Digital Theatre Plus, as well as through ad-supported free streaming services such as Tubi, Roku etc.; some also available as DVDs at UGA Media Library, which has players)
The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (feature film)
The Hollow Crown, Season 1, episode 1 (Richard II), dir. Rupert Goold (BBC TV mini-series)
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, dir. Baz Luhrmann (feature film)
Twelfth Night, dir. Trevor Nunn (feature film)
Measure for Measure, dir. Gregory Doran (recording of stage production)
Othello, dir. Kenneth Branagh (feature film)
The Tempest, dir. Julie Taymor (feature film)
Policies
Come to class regularly; you have six non-consecutive excused absences OR five consecutive excused absences before failure, including absences for illness, professional or family or religious commitments, and so on. I encourage students who become ill for two weeks or longer, or who have repeated bouts of illness during the semester, to contact SCO or DRC, as appropriate, to figure out the best way to complete their program.
Assignments
Oral: All students will be responsible for participating in class discussion both singly and as part of a group, and should expect regularly to be called upon to read aloud or speak in class about our assigned reading or viewing.
Written: Assignments will include three mid-term timed in-class responses (passages for identification and commentary; no AI use permitted), and a final timed in-class essay exam (open-note, open-book, no AI use permitted).
Graduate Students: Graduate and Honors students will complete the timed assignments and will additionally take on responsibility for leading one class period and producing a final paper that incorporates additional secondary reading.