Textbook Readings for Study Away: Shakespeare

Summer Intersession 2009

If you are taking the course for undergraduate or graduate credit, read the following six (6) texts before we leave for Oregon. In our class discussions before and after we see the performances,, you will need to demonstrate your knowledge of these texts. Read the texts in their entirety except as noted below.

Your study of the three Shakespearean plays will be greatly enhanced if you can also listen to audio recordings and/or watch film adaptations of the plays. The NSU-BA library owns audio recordings of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Film productions of the assigned Shakespearean plays are available for checkout from NSU libraries and from the Tulsa City/County Library system.

Macbeth. Bantam Classic.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Bevington and Kastan.

Bantam, 1988.

ISBN-10: 0-553-21298-2

Give special attention to “Macbeth on Stage” and “Macbeth on Screen.”

Undergraduates may omit “Shakespeare’s Sources.”

All may omit “Further Reading.”

Much Ado about Nothing. Bantam Classic.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Bevington and Kastan.

Bantam, 1988.

ISBN-10: 0-553-21301-6

Give special attention to “Macbeth on Stage” and “Macbeth on Screen.”

Undergraduates may omit “Shakespeare’s Sources.”

All may omit “Further Reading.”

If you’ve never seen it, try to watch Kenneth Branagh’s film of Much Ado about Nothing.

Henry VIII. Folger Library Ed.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Werstine and Mowat.

Washington Square Press, 2007.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7330-5

Give special attention to “Shakespeare’s Theater.”

Undergraduates may omit “The Publication of Shakespeare’s Plays.”

All may omit “Further Reading.”

As far as I know, the only video version of Henry VIII is the BBC version, which is available through the Tulsa City/County Library system.

Death and the King’s Horseman. Norton Critical Edition.

By Wole Soyinka.

Ed. Gikandi.

Norton, 2002.

ISBN-13: 978-0-3939-7761-5

Undergraduates may omit all the readings that follow the play.

Graduates should read the entire casebook except for pages 74-88 (“Oba Waja” or “The King Is Dead”) and be especially prepared to discuss the content of the following pages assigned to you:

S. Barber: 67-73, 89-112

T. Danley: 113-38

S. Hazen: 141-64

D. Pendley: 164-87

J. Whitmer: 187-222

Don Quixote. Abridged. Signet Classics.

By Cervantes.

Intro. and trans. Starkie.

New American Library (Penguin), 2003.

ISBN-13: 978-0-4515-2890-2

Undergraduates may omit Part II (pages 239-537).

Graduates should read the entire book and be especially prepared to discuss the content of the following pages assigned to you:

S. Barber: 1-110

T. Danley: 110-206

S. Hazen: 206-308

D. Pendley: 308-410

J. Whitmer: 411-527

All students, please try to rent and watch the film version of Man of La Mancha.

Equivocation.

By Bill Cain.

Let’s just hope we receive this script in time to read it before we leave for Oregon!