• The following plays are abbreviated in the schedule below: Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Hamlet, King Lear (Folio text), Othello, The Tempest. 
• Acts and articles in parentheses should be read for the day on which they appear.

January

20: first day of class

25: historical background

27 historical background & meter (sonnets)

February

1: meter (sonnets)

3: Group Scene Day

8: Midsummer (entire play)

10: Midsummer (theatrical community of 1590s article in course packet)

15: Taming (Acts I-III)

17: Taming (entire play)

24 Taming; scene projects for Midsummer & Taming

March

1: Merchant (Acts I-III) -  excerpts from Jew of Malta in class

3: Merchant (Acts IV & V)

8: Merchant

10:Richard III (Act I)

15: Richard III (Acts II-IV)

17: Richard III (Act V); scene projects for Merchant & Richard III, creative writing assignment due

29: Hamlet (Acts I-III)

31: Hamlet (Acts IV & V)

April

5: Hamlet ("Flaw in the Flaw" - course packet)

7: Lear (Acts I-III)

12: Lear (Acts IV & V)

14: Lear (Lear article in course packet); scene projects for Hamlet & Lear; annotated bibliographies due

19: Othello (Act I)

21: Othello (Acts II & III)

26: Othello (Acts IV & V); scene projects for Othello & Tempest

28: Tempest (Acts I & II)

May

3: Tempest (Acts III-V)

6: research papers due (my office, HU 364, no later than 5pm)

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