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ENGL 325 is an introduction to the study of the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare, focusing on his later works (tragedies, tragicomedies, and romances). The course will begin with an introduction to the perceptions of revenge in the age of Shakespeare and the conventions of revenge drama, and then it will progress through six of Shakespeare’s later plays and a selection of his sonnets.

Unit I: Introduction and Hamlet

Useful Websites and Videos
David Bevington’s online three-text edition for Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE).
Crash Course on Hamlet

Sarah Bernhardt, 1899 Hamlet, the Fencing Scene with Laertes

Hamlet. "Appearance of Ghost," Act 1, Scene 1, The Royal Shakespeare Company Starring David Tennant, BBC, 2009.

Natalie Merchant, Ophelia Music Video

Olivier's Hamlet. "Act 1: Soliloquy on Suicide." Directed by Laurence Olivier, performances by Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons, Films Media Group, 1948.
Olivier's Hamlet. "Act 3: Hamlet and His Mother." Directed by Laurence Olivier, performances by Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons, Films Media Group, 1948.
Olivier's Hamlet. "Act 3: Ghost of King Hamlet." Directed by Laurence Olivier, performances by Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons, Films Media Group, 1948.

Unit II: Othello

In Search of Shakespeare. "The Duty of Poets." Michael Wood, PBS, 2005.
Maggie Smith Sings "The Willow Song"  as Desdemona

Unit III: Measure for Measure

Useful Websites and Videos
Uncertainties: Shakespeare, the King's Man. "Measure for Measure." Digital Right Group Ltd., 2012.
Uncertainties: Shakespeare, the King's Man. "Shakespeare in the Jacobean Decade." Digital Right Group Ltd., 2012.
Angelina Jolie Pitt's Speech to the UN Security Council

Actor's Community Theatre: Act 3, Scene1

"O Take Those Lips Away"

Unit IV: The Sonnets

Useful Websites and Videos
Tal Bachman's "She's So High"

Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag"

L.O.V.E. (2012)—VOLCANO

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing, University of Toronto
Critical Reading Checklist, Queen's University
Required Reading
Yearling, Rebecca. “Homoerotic Desire and the Renaissance Lyric Verse.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, vol. 53, no. 1, 2013, pp. 53–71.
The Sonnets
Sonnet 3

Sonnet 10

Sonnet 20

Sonnet 21

Sonnet 29

Sonnet 37

You Complete Me

Sonnet 41

Sonnet 63

Sonnet 80

Sonnet 81

Sonnet 103

Sonnet 106

Sonnet 127

Sonnet 128

Sonnet 129

Sonnet 135

Sonnet 141

10 Things I Hate About You (Poem)

Unit V: King Lear

Useful Websites and Videos
King Lear (1910) Gerolamo Lo Savio

King Lear. "France's King Takes Cordelia." Directed by Michael Elliott, performances by Laurence Olivier, Granada Video, 1983.
Edmund's Soliloquy, Act 1, Scene 2

King Lear (1971) Directed by Peter Brook

King Lear. "Act 3, Scene 4." Directed by Edwin Sherin, Broadway Theatre Archive, 1974.
The Blinding of Gloucester

King Lear. "Goneril Sides with Edmund." Directed by Trevor Nunn, performances by Ian McKellen, Richard Price TV Associates Ltd., 2009.
Lady of  Sorrows
White Christmas Sisters

Required Reading
Pierce, Robert, B. “‘I Stumbled When I Saw’: Interpreting Gloucester’s Blindness in King Lear.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 36, no. 1, 2012, pp. 153–65.

Unit VI: The Winter’s Tale

Useful Websites and Videos
Star Wars' Opening Crawl

Gangstalicious—Homies Over Hoes

The Winter’s Tale. "Act 3, Scene 3: Bear and Antigonus."  Directed by Gregory Doran, Heritage Theatre, 1999.
The Winter’s Tale. "Act 4, Scene 4: Enter Perdita."  Directed by Gregory Doran, Heritage Theatre, 1999.

Unit VII: The Tempest

Recommended Readings
McMullan, Gordon. “The First Night of The Tempest.” Discovering Literature: Shakespeare, British Library.
"16th Century Dreams: Thomas More." Learning: Dreamers and Dissenters, British Library Board, n.d.
Jordison, Sam. "A Real Character: Is Prospero Shakespeare?" The Guardian, 15 April 2014.
Useful Websites and Videos
The Tempest with Trevor Nunn: Shakespeare Uncovered, PBS, 2013.
Forbidden Planet Trailer  

The Tempest with Trevor Nunn: Shakespeare Uncovered. "Tabula Rasa," PBS, 2013.
The Tempest: Epilogue

Assignments

Oxford English Dictionary
Crystal, David, and Ben Crystal. "Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary & Language Companion." shakespeareswords.com. 2008.
"Scholarly Voice: Using Academic Diction." Walden University Writing Center.
"How to Write a Comparative Analysis." Harvard College Writing Center.