ELIT 17 Introduction to Shakespeare
Grading Rubric for Traditional Essay and for Sonnet/Play
Revision and Turnitin.com Guidelines
Scene Enactment Checklist of Points
ELIT 17 Fall 2017 Presentations
ELIT 17 Fall 2017 Presentations with Names
Presentation PowerPoints from Group Work
Presentation #1 Religion/Order of the World
Presentation #2 Mythology and Folklore
Original Pronunciation in Shakespeare’s day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Side splitting funny 90 minutes of all the Shakespeare plays. A must see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqmfrqAVeK0
WEEK 1
Shakespeare Biography Questions
A&E Biography William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama
Introduction to Sonnets and Literary Criticism
Hip Hop and the Sonnets – Akala, the hip hop artist, demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and Hip-Hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and it’s power. Got to around 5 minutes to hear sonnet 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY
Flowcabulary – More Hip Hop Shakespeare (Midsummer Act 2 Scene 1) https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/a-midsummer-nights-dream-the-merry-wanderer/
John Green’s Crash Course Sonnets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpW1sHrBaU
Week 2
Presentation #1 Religion/Order of the World https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14tLjKKcb46xa_6LEgtIpUa66J2goCT4i3okTAXO9YQo/edit#slide=id.p
Introduction to the Comedies by Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism
Characteristics of the Comedies Shakespearean Comedy
Midsummer Night’s Dream 
Interesting Articles:
The Missing Child in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Thomas R. Frosch
1935 Midsummer (Directed by William Dieterie and Max Reinhardt). Lots of use of Felix Mendelson's music. Puck played by a very young Mickey Rooney and Bottom played by James Cagney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlZ5oGibiDc&t=26s
1968 Midsummer (Directed by Sir Peter Hall and using The Royal Shakespeare Academy’s cast of actors — including Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Ian Holm). This version is hippy trippy. Naked and green fairly world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RD-7aRcxmA
1999 Midsummer (All star cast – Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Stanley Tucci) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
Gender Roles in Midsummer: Not bad Prezi on the traditional and subverted roles in Midsumer https://prezi.com/vngipgbhkjst/the-portrayal-of-men-and-women-in-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
Infinite thanks to Tuan who introduced me to Thug Notes. Pure Genius. Here’s the Midsummer Thug Notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLqTC2-HuA
Mythology in Midsummer Night's Dream
Week 3- Week 4
Much Ado About Nothing 
Extra Credit: Answer the questions analyzing the 1993 Kenneth Branaugh Film Production Much Ado About Nothing film
1993 Kenneth Branaugh Much Ado Trailer
‘Returned from the Wars’: Comedy and Masculine Post-war Character in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing Much Ado ‘Returned from the Wars_
Interesting Video Interview of Much Ado and Feminism from University of Wisconsin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-BOCjkeBE
2013 Modern Version of Much Ado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAMsDP_DMHE
David Tennet Much Ado – Interesting Cross Dressing Mask https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBIGT70JG4
Sassy Gay Friend – Othello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKttq6EUqbE Perhaps if Hero had a sassy gay friend, she would have avoided her situation.
Week 5
Taming of the Shrew
Film Adaptations
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 1967 directed by Franco Zeffirelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-5TeQAeM8
“Shakespeare Re-told” Modern Taming of the Shrew with Rufus Sewell as Petruchio 2005 http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/tamingoftheshrew/
10 Things I Hate About You 1999 modern Taming of the Shrew with Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn4Hg-VsXnE
Kiss Me Kate 1948 Musical by Cole Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKVGo7FL4n8&spfreload=10
Literary Criticism
“Tranio Transformed: Social Anxieties and Social Metamorphosis in The Taming of the Shrew” by Sonya L. Brockman of University of North Carolina TranioTransformed
"Queer Renaissance Dramaturgy, Shakespeare’s Shrew, and the Deconstruction of Marriage" by
"The Public, the Private, and the Shaming of the Shrew" by Gary Schneider
Week 6
Week 7
Conventions of Tragedy Abbreviated
Conventions of Shakepearean Tragedy Shmoop Video
Romeo and Juliet 
Film Adaptations
1968 Romeo and Juliet directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey
1996 Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann. Starrling Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
2013 Romeo and Juliet with Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet
2013 Warm Bodies - Romeo is reduced to one letter R and is a zombie. Juliet is a zombie killer and her father is trying to keep them apart.
Shakespeare in Love 1998 - Biographical Fiction on Shakespeare's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet
Reduced Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Sassy Gay Friend - Romeo and Juliet
Literary Criticism
"Juliet's Taming of Romeo" by Carolyn E. Brown
"The Language of Paradox in Romeo and Juliet " by Joseph S. M. J. Chang
Hamlet 
Film Adaptations
1. 1996 Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branaugh - Over fours hours long and set in the 19th century. Probably my favorite Hamlet film.
2. 1990 Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli starring Mel Gibson and Glen Close
3. 2000 Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke
4. 1948 Hamlet starring Lawrence Olivier
5. 2009 Hamlet starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart
6. Reduced Shakespeare - Hamlet
8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead directed by Tom Stoppard
Analysis
Literary Criticism
1. "Assembling the Ophelia Fragments: Gender, Genre, and Revenge in Hamlet"
2. "The Mousetrap of Hamlet's Mystery"
3. "Gertrude's Elusive Libido and Shakespeare's Unreliable Narrators"
4. "Shakespeare in (Same-sex) Love"