Iyengar, Sujata
MWF 9:10 AM
Park Hall 0145
Shakespeare I
GRADS: I recommend you purchase, rent, or borrow copies of the ARDEN Shakespeare, 3rd series, for the plays by Shakespeare we're studying, as well as consulting the Bedford, which I have assigned for the undergraduate section. I will put a copy of the Bedford on reserve reading at the library so that you can consult the background essays, but the Arden-- the scholarly edition of record – and its apparatus is the level at which you should be working.
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)