ENGLISH 405

MR. PIERCE

Required text: Any recent annotated Shakespeare; please bring to each class

Topics for discussion:

Feb. 8 Introduction

Feb. 15 Research methods; skepticism--meet in Mudd 202

Feb. 22 Skepticism and Hamlet

Mar. 1 Stoicism and Juilius Caesar

Mar. 8 Cynicism and Timon of Athens

Mar. 15 Determinacy of readings: As You Like It

Mar. 29 Performance: text or interpretation

Apr. 5 Feminism and The Taming of the Shrew

Apr. 12, 19 Reports on individual projects

May 3 Criticism and its critics

May 10 Ludic approaches to Shakespeare (party)

Course requirements:

There will be a group reading assignment for class, and each member will have an individual topic as well. You need not hand in a written version of the latter, but you should be prepared to give a brief (about five minutes) presentation on it. Regular attendance is of course vital; don't miss more than one class without excuse, and if you cannot be in class, try to get warning to me in advance.

Your paper should be 15-20 pages on a topic that you choose in consultation with me. It should deal with one or more of the issues raised by the course, and it can be on any of the plays or poems in the canon. It is due by the end of the day May 18.

For there was never yet philosopher

That could endure the toothache patiently.

SKEPTICISM:

Annas, Julia, and Jonathan Barnes. The Modes of Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

Bradshaw, Graham. Shakespeare's Scepticism. Brighton: Harvester, 1987.

Frye, Roand Mushat. The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.

Jenkins, Harold, ed. Hamlet. New Arden Shakespeare. New York: Methuen, 1982.

Long, A. A. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. 2nd ed. London: Duckworth, 1986.

---, and D. N. Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Pierce, Robert B. "Shakespeare and the Ten Modes of Scepticism." Shakespeare Survey 46 (1994): 145-58.

---. "'Very Like a Whale': Scepticism and Seeing in 'The Tempest.'" Shakespeare Survey 38 (1985): 167-73.

Popkin, Richard H. The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Schofield, Malcolm, Myles Burnyeat, and Jonathan Barnes, eds. Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

STOICISM: (See also Long, Long and Sedley, and Schofield above.)

Colish, Marcia L. The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Vol. I. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985.

Spencer, T. J. B. "Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Romans." Shakespeare Survey 10 (1957): 27-38.

Stirling, Brents. Unity in Shaspearian Tragedy. New York: Columbia UP, 1956.

CYNICISM:

Branham, R. Bracht, and Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze, eds. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy. Berkeley: University of California, 1996.

Elliott, Robert C. The Power of Satire: Magic , Ritual, Art. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1960.

Farnham. Willard/ Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier: The World of His Final Tragedies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958.

Kahn, Coppelia. "'Magic of Bounty': Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power." Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (1987): 34-57.

Knight. G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretation of Shakspeare's Tragedy. 5th ed. New York: Meridian, 1957.

Nuttall, A. D. Timon of Athens. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Sayre, Ferrand. Diogenes of Sinope. Baltimore: J. H. Furst, 1938.

---. The Greek Cynics. Baltimore: J. H. Furst, 1948.

Soellner, Rolf. Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1979.

DETERMINACY OF READINGS:

Abrams, Meyer H. Doing Things with Texts. New York: Norton, 1989.

Barber, C. L. Shakespeare's Festive Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1959.

Doran, Madeleine. "Yet Am I Inland Bred." Shakespeare Quarterly 15 (1964): 99-114.

Evans, Bertrand. Shakespeare's Comedies. London: Oxford UP, 1960.

Fish, Stanley Eugene. Is There a Text in This Class? Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.

Montrose, Louis Adrian. "The Place of a Brother in As You LIke It." Shakespeare Quarterly 32 (1981): 28-54.

Scholes, Robert. Textual Power: Literary Theory and th Teaching of English. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.

Young, David. The Heart's Forest. New Haven: Yale UP, 1972.

FEMINISM:

Adelman, Janet. "Male Bonding in Shakespeare's Comedies." Shakespeare's "Rough Magic": Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber. Ed. Peter Erickson and Coppelia Kahn. Newark: University of Delaware, 1985.

Berry, Ralph. Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

Bradbrook, Muriel C. "Dramatic Role as Social Image: A Study of The Taming of the Shrew." Shakespeare Jahrbuch 94 (1958): 132-50.

Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare and His Comedies. London: Methuen, 1962.

Carroll, William C. The Metamorphoses of Shakespearian Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.

Dash, Irene G. Wooing, Wedding, and Power: Women in Shakespeare's Plays. New York: Columbia UP, 1981.

Dusinberre, Juliet. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975.

Hodgdon, Barbara. "Katherina Bound; or, Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life." PMLA (1992): 538-53.

Holderness, Graham. The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare in Performance Series. New York: Manchester UP, 1989.

Jardine, Lisa. Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1983.

Kahn, Coppelia. Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare. Berkeley: University of California, 1981.

Lenz, Carolyn Ruth Swift, Gayle Greene, and Carol Thomas Neely, eds. The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1980.

Levin, Richard. "Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy." PMLA 103 (1988): 125-38.

Neely, Carol Thomas. Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays. New Haven; Yale UP, 1985.

Nevo, Ruth. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare. New York: Methuen, 1980.

Novy, Marianne. Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1984.

Patterson, Annabel. "Framing The Taming." Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions. Ed. Tetsuo Kishi, Roger Pringle, and Stanley Wells. Newark: University of Delaware, 1994.

Rackin, Phyllis. "Androgyny, Mimesis, and the Mrriage of the Boy Heroine on the Elizabethan Stage." PMLA 102 (1987): 29-41.

Schleiner, Winfried. "Deromanticizing the Shrew." Teaching Shakespeare. Ed. Walter Edens and others. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.

PERFORMANCE CRITICISM:

Brown, John Russell. Discovering Shakespeare: A New Guide to the Plays. New York: Columbia UP, 1981.

Bulman, J. C., and H. R. Coursen. Shakespeare on Television. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England,1988.

Cook, Ann Jennalie. The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare's London. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.

Goldman, Michael. Shakespeare and the Energies of Art. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

Granville Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. 2 vols. London: B. T. Batsford, 1958.

Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare's Audience. New York: Columbia UP, 1941.

Joseph, B. L. Elizabethan Acting. London: Oxford UP, 1951.

Morgan, Joyce Vining. Stanislavski's Encounter with Shakespeare. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984.

Nagler, A. M. Shakespeare's Stage. New Haven: Yale UP, 1958.

Rutter, Carol, and others. Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare's Women Today. London: Womens Press, 1989.

Slater, Anne Pasternak. Shakespeare the Director. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1982.

Styan, J. L. Shakespeare's Stagecraft. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979.