EN 326–Shakespeare’s Women , Block 8 2002
Prof. Re Meyer Evitt
Group Research/Web project, I
Group Research
[1]
Decide which play and which contextual readings you want to work on during Week Three of the block:Othello (class discussion: May 7 & 9)
Group 1: Honigmann, "Introduction"–"Shakespeare and the Barbarians, 1-2; Cyprus, 11-12; Othello, 14-27; Otherness, 27-31; Iago, 31-41
Eduardo Gabrieloff, Nicole Garst, Karen
Henderson, Rachel Lovell,
Kip Morris, Heidi
Overbeck, Zach Paquette
Group 2: Honigmann, "Introduction"--Venice in the sixteenth century, 8-11; Desdemona, 41-43; Emilia, 43-47; Relationships, 47-49; Sex and love, 49-54; Feminism, 54-58
Amber Atkins, Ernesto Barnabas, Darby DeGroat, Gabby
Ebert,
Niffy Hargrave, Jeri Hibbard, Erica Jensen,
Hamlet (class discussion: May 8 & 10)
Group 1: Wofford, "Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet" (241-55)
Vaughan Blake, Dolores McElroy,
Jana Miller, Dallas Rolnick
Group 2: Adelman, "Man and Wife is one Flesh’: Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body" (in Wofford, 256-82)
Cath Fink, Sara Gronewald, Ashly Lawrence, Lamont McMillan,
Nicole
Warren, A. J. Wielselman
[2] On your free day between your first and second class discussions (for Othello, May 8; for Hamlet, May 9):
Morning:
Read your assigned contextual reading;
Identify three to five interesting ideas the article introduced you to;
Identify–from the footnotes–two to three secondary sources you would like to investigate further; be able to explain why you think they might be of interest
Afternoon/Evening:
Meet with the other class members in your group during the afternoon or evening to discuss your articles with each other;
Identify 1 scene that comes to life in light of the ideas you’ve exchanged;
Prepare to discuss that scene with the class at the following class meeting.
EN 326–Shakespeare’s Women , Block 8 2002
Prof. Re Meyer Evitt
Group Research/Web project, II
Design a web page that focuses on a single play and that provides web surfers with information about a single aspect of that play. The web page should include links to visual images, critical resources, and descriptive information. You should comment on (describe and analyze) the links you’ve selected. What kinds of critical insights into Shakespeare’s work does your web page provide?
By Monday morning, May 13 at 8:00 a.m. , you should:
complete your web page and publish it to your "W" drive;
send me an email with the URL for your web page
I’ll link all of your pages to the course web page before class so that you can show the web page to your peers during our final class on Monday. (Presentation time limit: 5 minutes.)
Process
[1]
Decide which play you want to focus on for your web page.[2] Develop your critical focus for the web page. Pick an aspect of the play that interests you, that you want to provide more information about.
Feel free to choose between thematic, character, textual, or production focuses. Some suggestions include:
Taming of the Shrew and early modern attitudes towards domestic violence
Midsummer Nights Dream and dream theory, Elizabethan and/or modern
Twelfth Night and contemporary stage representations of cross-dressing
Measure for Measure and staging problem comedies
Othello and images of Desdemona in art
Hamlet and comparative scene analyses
Try out your own ideas. You have considerable creative license for this project.
[3]
Create a web page that provides web links to:visual images
textual resources
Shakespeare ‘mega-sites’
theater resources
critical articles you’ve scanned and downloaded (with Sarah Withee’s assistance)
scenes you’ve digitized (with Sarah Withee’s assistance)
[4] Publish your web page to your "W" drive so that we can link it to the course web page.