January 15 Introduction
January 22 Theater in Context: Government and University
Richard Mulcaster, The Queen's Majesty's Progress (1558/9)
Cox/Kastan Chap 9 "Wonderful Spectacles"
William Stevenson, Gammer Gurton's Needle (c 1560)
W.G. Ingram"GGN: Comedy Not Quite of the Lowest Order?"
(1967)
Gail Paster, "Covering His Ass" (1993)
Anon, Robin Hood plays
Anon, Rowland's Jig
Cox/Kastan Chap 13 "Theatre and Popular Culture"
January 29 The Material Theater; Metatheater
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy" (1588/9?)
G. K. Hunter, "Ironies of Justice in The Spanish Tragedy"
(1965)
Jonas Barish, "TheSpT or the Pleasure and Perils of
Rhetoric" (1966)
Peter Sacks, "Where Words Prevail Not: Grief, Revenge. .
."
(1985)
Jonathan Bate, "The Performance of Revenge: Sp T and
Titus
Andronicus" (1992)
Cox/Kastan, Chap 17 "Audiences"
Cox/Kastan, Chap 18 ". . .Acting Styles"
Cox/Kastan, Chap 19 "Personnel and Professionalization"
February 5 Collaboration
Munday, Shakespeare et al, Sir Thomas More (1592/3)
Cox/Kastan Chap 16 "Censorship"
Cox/Kastan Chap 20 "Playwriting. . .Collaboration"
Cox/Kastan Chap 23 "The Revision of Scripts"
Introduction to the Revels edition of Sir Thomas More
February 12 Theater and Domestic Culture
Anon, Arden of Faversham (1592?)
Cox/Kastan Chap 10 "The Theater and Domestic Culture"
Lena C. Orlin, "Man's House as His Castle" (1985)
Richard Helgerson, "Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's
Impertinant History" (1997)
February 19 Theater and Homosocial Culture
Christopher Marlowe, The Troublesome Reigne and Lamentable
Death of King Edward the Second (1593)
Greg Brodbeck, "Writing Edward II" (1991)
Shakespeare, King Richard II (1595)
Derek Jahrman, Edward II (film)
February 26 Theater and Nationalism
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599)
Shakespeare, King Henry V (1599)
David Kastan, "Workshop and/as Playhouse: Comedy and Commerce
in
Shoemaker's Holiday" (1987)
Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: the Elizabethan Writing
of
England (1992), Introduction, Chapter 5
March 5 Theater and Marriage
Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness (1607)
Anon, A Yorkshire Tragedy (1607/8)
March 12 BREAK
March 19 Theater, Law, and Appetite
Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1613)
Luke Wilson, Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early
Modern England (2000), Introduction, Chapters 2 and
3
Bruce Boehre, The Fury of Men's Gullets: BJ and the Digestive
Canal,
Introduction, Chapter 5 extract
March 26 Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
(1613)
Stephen Wigler, "TM's Chaste Maid: The Delicious and
the
Disgusting" (1976)
April 2 Elizabeth Cary, Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry
(1613?)
------------Cary, Biography
April 9 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (1614)
April 16 NO CLASS; annotated bibliography for your play
due
April 23 NO CLASS; abstract of paper due
May 9 PAPER DUE
Any student with a documented disability needing academic
adjustments or accommodations is requested to speak with me
during the first two weeks of class. All discussions will
remain confidential. Students with disabilities should also
contact Disabled Student Services in the Ley Student Center.
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REQUIRED TEXTS
Arthur Kinney, ed. Renaissance Drama (1999)
Margaret Fergusson and , Elizabeth Cary, Mariam, Fair
Queen of Jewry
John Cox and David Kastan, eds., A New History of Early English
Drama (1997)
Bibliography (Xeroxed; to be distributed)
Xerox packet (can be purchased at English office)
Books on reserve (see below)
REQUIRED WRITING
1. Weekly short (3 pages) papers (ungraded, unless the group as
a whole decides
otherwise)
Due each week on the Wednesday of class meeting EXCEPT for
One online response due the Monday before class (you'll take turns)
One online reply due the Tuesday before class (you'll take turns)
2. Annotated bibliography for your play (see below)due April 16
3. Longer paper (c. 20 pages) about one of the plays read this
semester and its relation to theatrical and if possible (some
aspect of) cultural context during the two or three years surrounding
its production.
LIBRARY RESERVE BOOKS
Munday, Shakespeare, et al, Sir Thomas More (for introduction)
Revels editions of all plays (where available)
Renaissance Drama bibliography (through the 70's)
Yoshiko Kawachi, Calendar of English Renaissance Drama 1558-1642
G. Blakemore Evans, Annals, 1552-1616
G. B. Harrison, Elizabethan Diaries
Many anthologies of commentaries