FALL 2001
This information effective for Fall 2001.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: Earl Jackson Jr.
MWF 2:00-3:10 p.m.
College Eight Room 240
Go to: http://www.anotherscene.com/detective/
Fall 2001
Instructor: Margo Hendricks
Cowell College Room 229
Telephone: 459-2258
E-mail: margoh@cats.ucsc.edu
For Fall 2001, LIT 80Z will have as its focus Shakespeare's canon and film. The course has a number of aims, most important of which is to increase students' analytical and interpretive readings of selected Shakespeare texts. In addition, this course will introduce students to the cultural, historical, aesthetic, and generic issues that provide a context for Shakespeare's writings during the era in which he lived and examine the use of Shakespeare's work in a medium (film) that he did not envision. Issues such as the role of spectacle, literature, and performance in contemporary Shakespeare-related films will also be explored.
Students will read A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Part I, Pericles, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, and selected poetry. There will be film screenings of each play-text. Film screenings are scheduled for Mondays 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Course assignments include: 1 midterm, 1 final examination, a reading journal, either participation in performance assignment or completion of a textual analysis assignment.
For this course the required textbooks are: The Norton Shakespeare, eds., Stephen Greenblatt et al. (Norton) and Russ McDonald, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Bedford/St Martin's Press). Please do not use any other edition of Shakespeare's writings as all examinations, writing assignments, and textual analysis will be based on the Norton edition. All required texts will be available at Slug Express Bookstore or Baytree Bookstore.