Textbooks for Study Away: Shakespeare

Summer Intersession 2009

Students taking the course for credit are required to read these six (6) texts in their entirety (except as noted below) before the trip and bring them to Ashland. Those not taking the course for credit will also get more out of the plays and discussions by reading the texts in advance. The first five (5) texts should be available at the NSU bookstores in Broken Arrow and Tahlequah sometime before the end of the spring semester. If you want to start reading before the texts are in the bookstore, you could order them on the Internet or from one of the large commercial bookstores. A note at the bottom of this list explains how to order the sixth text.

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

By Wole Soyinka.

Ed. Gikandi.

Norton, 2002.

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

For undergraduate credit, read the editor’s introduction and the play itself.

For graduate credit, read the entire volume. Also, be prepared to discuss the particular sections that will be assigned to you individually.

Macbeth. Bantam Classic.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Bevington and Kastan.

Bantam, 1988.

ISBN-10: 0-553-21298-2

Much Ado about Nothing. Bantam Classic.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Bevington and Kastan.

Bantam, 1988.

ISBN-10: 0-553-21301-6

Henry VIII. Folger Library Ed.

By Shakespeare.

Ed. Werstine and Mowat.

Washington Square Press, 2007.

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

Don Quixote. Abridged. Signet Classics.

By Cervantes.

Intro. and trans. Starkie.

New American Library (Penguin), 2003.

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

We will be seeing the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of this classic novel. The script of the play will not be available for purchase until after we return from Oregon. The required text is an abridged version of the novel on which the play is based.

For undergraduate credit, read Part I (about 225 pages).

For graduate credit, read Parts I and II (about 550 pages). Also, be prepared to discuss the particular section that will be assigned to you individually.

Equivocation.

By Bill Cain.

The script of this new play will be available for sale from the Tudor Guild Gift Shop at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival around May 1 (exact date not known). The NSU bookstore will not be able to order this play, but it is a required text for the course. If you want me to order you a copy (and save you several dollars in individual shipping costs), please send me, no later than April 27, a check for $12 payable to John Mercer. (This is the estimated cost of the script plus bulk shipping from OSF to me; the exact cost is not known.) If you will be seeing me, you may pay in cash. If you will not be on an NSU campus to pick up your script or receive it through campus mail, after May 1 please order your script directly from www.tudorguild.org.