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Presentation Dates and Topic Options
Hamlet
| Date |
Presentation Type and Topic Options |
| 4/11 |
Context Presentations
1) Shakespeare Biography: Life and Career Events Surrounding Hamlet’s Composition
2) Editions of Hamlet
3) Elizabeth I and the Question of Succession
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4/13
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Context Presentations
1) Elizabethan Concepts of the Self
2) Elizabethan Gender Roles
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4/18
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Context Presentations
1) The Meaning of Madness in the Elizabethan Era
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4/20
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Context Presentations
1) The Revenge Tragedy
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4/27
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Group Adaptation Presentations
1) Textual Options:
- Lamb, Charles and Mary: “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (from Tales from Shakespeare, 1807)
- Stoppard, Tom: Dogg’s Hamlet (1979) or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- Updike, John: Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
2) Film Options:
- Hamlet parodies (The Simpsons, Monty Python, Hamlet for the Leet)
- Almeryda, Michael: Hamlet (2000)
- Branagh, Kenneth: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1996)
- Coronado, Celestino: Hamlet (1976)
- Gade, Sven: Hamlet (1920)
- Kurosawa, Akira: The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
- Olivier, Laurence: Hamlet (1948)
- Zefferelli, Franco: Hamlet (1990)
3) Music Options:
- Berlioz, Hector: Marche Funèbre, Op. 18, No. 3: Pour la Dernière Scène d'Hamlet (1844), or La Mort d'Ophélie (1842)
- MacDowell, Edward: Hamlet and Ophelia (1885)
- Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich: Hamlet Suite (1932)
- Thomas, Ambroise: Hamlet (1868)
4) Art Options:
- Hamlet paintings
- Ophelia paintings not discussed in class
- Delacroix series of Hamlet engravings (1834-1843)
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Frankenstein
| Date |
Presentation Type and Topic Options |
5/2
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Context Presentations
1) Shelley Biography: Life and Career Events Surrounding Composition of Frankenstein
2) Editions of Frankenstein
3) Early 19th-Century Class Structure
4) Female Authorship in the 19th Century
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5/4
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Context Presentations
1) Early 19th-Century Science
2) The Gothic as Literary Form
3) Literary Romanticism
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5/11
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Group Adaptation Presentations
1) Textual Options:
- Aldiss, Brian: Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
- Koontz, Dean, and Kevin Anderson: Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, Book One: Prodigal Son (2005)
- Koontz, Dean, and Ed Gorman: Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, Book One: The City of Night (2005)
- Milner, Henry: Frankenstein, or, The Man and the Monster! (1826)
- Morrison, Grant: Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein (2005-2006)
- Peake, Richard: Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein (1823)
2) Film Options:
- Branagh, Kenneth: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
- Brooks, Mel: Young Frankestein (1974)
- Morrisey, Paul: Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein) (1973)
- Whale, James: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Star Wars
| Date |
Presentation Type and Topic Options |
5/16
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Context Presentations
1) Lucas Biography: Life and Career Event Surrounding Film’s Production
2) Editions of Star Wars
3) Industrial Context: The Birth of the Blockbuster
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5/23
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Group Adaptation Presentations
1) Textual Options:
2) Film Options:
- Clone Wars animated series (2003-present)
- Star Wars, Episodes I, II, III, V, VI
- Star Wars Fan Films
- Star Wars Parodies (Hardware Wars, George Lucas in Love)
3) Star Wars Video Games (Battlefront, Galaxies, Knights of the Old Republic, etc.) |
Last Update: 3/31/06
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