English 366C, Spring 2020

COVID-19 Completion Plan

• PDF of our completion plan: ENGL366C_CompletionPlan (posted 2020-03-17).
• Click here for a webpage version of our completion plan.
• Download an Excel spreadsheet to help you crunch numbers and decide on your assessment Plan (A, B, or C): AssessmentPlan_Workbook (corrected 2020-03-23).
• Take-home exam as a .docx file: 366C_2020_Take-home_Exam (posted 2020-04-15)
• Take-home exam as a .pdf file: 366C_2020_Take-home_Exam (posted 2020-04-15)

Handouts and Links (General)

• Books/Editions for this course
• 366C_2020_Jenstad_Syllabus
• Tips on Quizzes
• Learning Outcomes (being built; link added 2020-03-17).
• Terms and Concepts to Know (we will add to this page as the term unfolds)
• Digital Resources
• Reading Strategies … or, How to Read a Shakespeare Play (being built; link added 2020-03-17).
• Staging Assignment: 366C_StagingAssignment_2020
• Term Project: 2020_366C_TermProject
• Handout on how to analyze a character: Character Analysis Worksheet (added 2020-03-17).

Handouts and Links from classes (by date)

MND Unit

• Facts and Study Questions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Comedy_Analysis (2020-01-06; required reading)
• Antitheatrical Prejudice and Purpose of Playing Handout (2020-01-06; optional reading)
• Shakespeare’s Globe 360 iPhone/iPad app (2020-01-08; optional at-home activity)
• Amphitheatre Stage Picture (2020-01-08; you will need this handout again): Amphitheatre Stage Picture
• Performance Exercise on MND 3.1 (2020-01-09; in-class handout): MND Performance Exercise

LLL Unit

• Required reading: Facts and Study Questions: Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Optional reading: a pre-show talk I gave on LLL in 2017
• Table of rhetorical terms with examples: LLL_RhetoricScavengerHunt_v2 (2020-01-22; in-class handout)
• Optional follow-up reading (after Wednesday, 2020-01-22): Wales, Katie: Wales, An A-Z of Rhetorical Terms (downloadable PDF).
• Slides from 2020-01-22: Rhetoric_ScavengerHunt (updated and corrected after class)
• Jan. 29 Visit from Cam Culham (actor who played Holofernes in Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival 2017 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost). See production photos here.

Merry Wives (Wiv) Unit

• Links to digital resources:
  • The First Folio. Brandeis University copy, with link directly to Wiv.
  • Shakespeare Census: https://shakespearecensus.org/
    • Entry for Wiv quartos
  • Database of Early English Playbooks: http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/.
    • DEEP entry for Wiv Q1

MV Unit

• Handout for the screening of the televised version of Trevor Nunn’s 1999 Merchant of Venice. MV_PerfIssues_Questionnaire_2020
• Handout on Jessica and Pronouns: Jessica and Pronouns 
• Slides from MV Class 5 and Class 6: MV_Class5 (posted 2020-03-17)

MM Unit

• Facts and Study Questions for Measure for Measure
• Film screening of Bob Komar film, William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (2007). Production metadata at the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
• Press kit for Bob Komar film: Komar_MM_PressKit2007.
• Review of Bob Komar film by Andrea Stevens (Shakespeare Bulletin 27.2 [2009]: 261-65): ShakBulletin_Review_Komar_MM.
• MoEML essay on Constables (written by a past undergraduate Shakespeare student!): https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/CONS1.htm
• CANCELLED: Mar. 18 Field Trip to Special Collections and University Archives

WT Unit

Links to Facts and Study Questions

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (forthcoming)
• The Merchant of Venice (forthcoming)
• Measure for Measure
• The Winter’s Tale (forthcoming)