UT Dallas Syllabus For Huhi7386.501.09s Taught by (Soliday)

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
The University of Texas at Dallas

Graduate Program in the Humanities
HUHI 7386 Spring

2009 R 7:00 - 9:45
Sec. 501 Call =
12462
Jo 4.312
Professor Gerald Soliday

Office: Jonsson 5.608 G
Office Hours: R 6:00 – 7:00 , and by
appointment 972-883-2175
E-mail: soliday@utdallas.edu Internet: http://
www.utdallas.edu/~soliday
HUHI 7386: The Artist and Writer in Society:
Reading Shakespeare Historically
This course on the “age of Shakespeare” examines the society and culture of late
Tudor and early Stuart England―as part of the general attempt today to situate the
playwright and his works concretely in time and place. While the seminar will involve
group reading and interpretation of only a few of the plays themselves, its larger goals
are to enable us as playgoers and readers to locate Shakespeare’s works culturally, to
appreciate their purposes and agency in his society, and to address the thorny issues of
their popular appeal and scholarly interpretation later. Thus readings and discussions
will concern the poet’s biography, English social and cultural life, the status and working
conditions of actors and playwrights, patronage and politics, popular and elite cultures of
the period, Shakespeare’s audiences and the later reception of his works, as well as
various scholarly or critical approaches to studying and teaching Shakespeare
historically.
Course requirements include active participation in seminar discussions (35%), an oral
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and short written report (15%) on an important book or scholarly debate, as well as a
final paper (50%) of roughly twenty pages. Students may choose writing projects that
match their own interests or places in the graduate program: a research paper suitable
for revision in an M.A. portfolio, a pedagogical or scholarly report suitable as a draft for
an M.A.T. casebook essay, or a critical review helpful for preparing doctoral exam fields.
All written work and class discussions for this course are in gender-neutral, nonsexist
language and rhetorical constructions. Such practice is part of a classroom situation
according full respect and opportunity to all participants by all others.
Written work is submitted in paper copy, without cover pages or special folders. Simply put
your name and course identification at the top of the first page and staple the upper left
corner. Papers are always paginated (at the bottom and center of each page after the first),
double-spaced, and presented in clear 10- to 12-point type.
Parenthetical annotation is now strongly recommended, though any form of annotation (foot-
or endnotes) and bibliography is acceptable for this course, provided that you use it correctly
and consistently. Probably most appropriate for your work in the arts and humanities are
standard guides like Joseph Gibaldi’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th
ed.; NY, 2003) or Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and
Dissertations (7th rev. ed.; Chicago, 2007).
At the same time, Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers (6th rev. ed.; Boston and NY, 2008)
summarizes MLA stylistic conventions, outlines current grammatical practices and
mechanical presentation, and offers helpful guidelines for researching and writing papers.
Her Web site (http://www.dianahacker.com/) is especially useful, since it offers both Rules for
Writers and her Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age (4rd ed.; Boston, 2005).
Any student who has not already read William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of
Style (4th ed.; Boston, 2000), should do so immediately.
I should also mention that the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
(Springfield, MA, 2003) is now the standard for everyday university work.
Required readings:

All required readings for this course are on the reserve shelf for use in the McDermott
Library, and most are also in paperback editions for sale in the UTD and Off Campus
bookstores. If you wish to purchase them elsewhere, please notice that I have provided the
ISBNs in the course description at my Web site.
Most articles or shorter readings below are available online through links from this syllabus
(rather than on the McDermott reserve shelf). Please note that these materials are under
copyright, you must always cite them properly, and you must have a password to gain
access to them. I will give you the password when we organize our meetings at the
beginning of the semester.
Changes in the Syllabus
Please also note that, although I do not anticipate them, there may be some changes in the
following schedule. If they occur, I will announce them in class and post them on the
syllabus at my Web site on the Internet.
E-mail Contact
IMPORTANT NOTICE: all course correspondence by e-mail must now occur through the
student’s UTD e-mail address. UT-Dallas provides each student with a free e-mail account
that is to be used in all communication with university personnel. This allows the university to
maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity of all individuals corresponding and the
security of the transmitted information. The Department of Information Resources at UTD
provides a method for students to forward email from other accounts to their UTD addresses
and have their UTD mail sent on to other accounts. Students may go to the following URL to
establish or maintain an official UTD computer account: http://netid.utdallas.edu/.
SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS & ASSIGNMENTS

15 Jan Introduction to the Course
22 Jan The Bard from Stratford: Biography & Mythology
Discussion of Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare
Recommended: Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact

Documentary Life
29 Jan Shakspere’s Job: Player & Poet
Discussion of Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional Career, 1 2 3

4 5 6 7
5 Feb His Working Conditions in London
Discussion of Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (2nd ed.),

chs. 1-4
Access to His Works
Discussion of Stephen Orgel, "The Authentic Shakespeare,"

Representations 21 (1988):
1-25, and Stephen Greenblatt, "The Dream of the Master Text," The Norton
Shakespeare,
ed. S. Greenblatt et al. (NY & London, 1997), 65-76
12 Feb Shakspere and his Audiences
Discussion of Gurr, Playgoing, ch. 5 as well as the two appendices
Shakesperotics: The Evolving Reputation
Reports on Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the

Restoration
to the Present, chs. 1-4 ( ) and 5-7 ( )

19 Feb Interpretive Strategies
Discussion of Richard Levin, “The Relation of External Evidence to the

Allegorical and Thematic
Interpretation of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980):1-29, and J.
Leeds Barroll,
“Thinking About Shakespeare’s Thoughts,” William Shakespeare: His World, His
Work, His
Influence, ed. John F. Andrews (NY, 1985): 291-308
The New Historicism
Discussion of Jean Howard, “The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies,”

Renaissance
Historicism, ed. Arthur F. Kinney and Dan S. Collins (Amherst, 1987): 3-33,
and Louis Montrose,
The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the
Elizabethan Theatre, xi-105
Recommended: Leeds Barroll, “A New History for Shakespeare and His

Time,” Shakespeare
Quarterly 39 (1988): 441-464
26 Feb The Cultural Politics of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Discussion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-95), ed. Gail Kern

Paster and Skiles Howard, 1-85,
and of Montrose, 109-211
MND in Film: Reinhardt (1935), Hall (1968), Moshinsky (BBC, 1981)
Report on Deborah Cartmell, Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen

( )
5 Mar Patronage & Politics

Discussion of Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater in the

Stuart Court,
1603-1613
Report on Allan Bloom, Shakespeare’s Politics
12 Mar Religious Cultures & Beliefs
Discussion of Patrick Collinson, “The Church: Religion and Its Manifestations,“

William
Shakespeare, ed. John F. Andrews (NY, 1985), 21-40, and Jeffrey Knapp,
Shakespeare’s
Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England
Report on Jonas Barish, The Antitheatrical Prejudice
Witch Belief & Prosecution
Instructor’s Outline of Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 3-112,
151-166,
253-279, 283-292, 332-357, 435-468, 493-583, 631-668
Report on Linda Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and

Magical Thinking
19 Mar [Spring Break]
26 Mar Merchants & Jews
Discussion of The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise

Called the Jew
of Venice (1596/1598?), ed. M. Lindsay Kaplan
Report on James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews ( )
First Discussion of Research Topics

2 Apr Order & Disorder in English Society
Discussion of Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680
If you have time, read also J. H. Hexter, “The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor
England,”
Reappraisals in History (2nd ed.; Chicago, 1979), 71-116, and Theodore B.
Leinwand,
“Shakespeare and the Middling Sort,” Shakespeare Quarterly 44 (1993): 284-303
Report on Susan Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in

Early Modern England
Discussion of Paper Topics
9 Apr Shakspere & the “Woman Question”
Discussion of The Taming of the Shrew (1592), ed. Frances E. Dolan, 1-

159
Viewing of scenes from The Taming of the Shrew
Continued Discussion of Paper Topics
16 Apr Discussion of the Dolan edition of Shr., 160-326, as well as David

Underdown, “The Taming
of the Scold: The Enforcement of Patriarchal Authority in Early Modern England,”
Order and
Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. A. Fletcher and J. Stevenson (Cambridge,
1985), 116-136,
and Martin Ingram, “’Scolding Women Cucked or Washed’: A Crisis in Gender
Relations in Early
Modern England?” Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England, ed. J.
Kermode
and G. Walker (Chapel Hill and London, 1994), 48-80

Reports on individual research projects
23 Apr Reports on individual research projects
Report on Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to

Shakespeare ( )
30 Apr Discussion of Research Topics or Problems
7 May Final Paper Due. Seminar Party at the Instructor's Home Map
Please attach a stamped self-addressed envelope to the paper, so I may return

it with comments
and your marks for the course.
HUHI 7386: Reading Shakespeare Historically Some

Recommended Books
General Works & Biographical Studies

Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life

William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence, ed. John F. Andrews
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. Stanley Wells
Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives (1970; new ed., 1991)
James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
A.D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker
Players, Playwrights, and the Theater
G.E. Bentley, The Profession of Dramatist and Player in Shakespeare’s Time, 1590-1642
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearian Playing Companies
Phoebe Sheavyn, The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age (2nd ed., revised by J.W.
Saunders)
Wendy Wall, The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance
Shakespeare’s Globe Rebuilt, ed. Ronnie Mulryne and Margaret Shewring
David Bradley, From Text to Performance In the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the
Stage
Shakespeare Performed, ed. Grace Ioppolo
Patrick Tucker, Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach
Robert Weimann, Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the
Social Dimension
of Dramatic Form and Function
Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance
Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England
The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare’s England, ed. Anthony B. Dawson and Paul
Yachnin
Roslyn Lander Knutson, Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time
Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time
James Shapiro, Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare
The Social Order
D. M. Palliser, The Age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603
(2nd. ed.; 1992) (Social and Economic History of England, v. 5)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
Susan D. Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England
Order & Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. Anthony Fletcher and J. Stevenson
Ralph Houlbrooke, The English Family 1450-1700

Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex & Subordination in England 1500-1800

Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England

Amy Erickson, Women & Property in Early Modern England
Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (2nd ed.)
Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641

G.E. Mingay, The Gentry: Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class
Rosemary O’Day, The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800
The Middling Sort of People, ed. Jonathan Barry and C. Brooks
A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640
Paul Slack, Poverty & Policy in Tudor & Stuart England
David Katz, Jews in the History of England 1485-1850
Steve Rappaport, World within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London

Ian Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London
Alan Dyer, Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640
The Polity & Political Culture
Alan G.R. Smith, The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529-
1660
Penry Williams, The Tudor Regime
Penry Williams, The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603
John Guy, Tudor England
Tudor Political Culture, ed. Dale Hoak
Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England 1550-1640
Christopher Haigh, Elizabeth I (Profiles in Power) (2nd ed., 1998)

Wallace MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I
The Reign of Elizabeth I, ed. Christopher Haigh
Susan Frye, Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation
Michael A. R. Graves, Burghley (Profiles in Power)
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, ed. John Guy
Anne N. McLaren, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Roy Strong, The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry
The Myth of Elizabeth, ed. Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman
Derek Hirst, Authority and Conflict England, 1603-1658

Roger Lockyer, James VI and I (Profiles in Power)
S.J. Houston, James I (2nd ed., 1995)
W.B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom
The Mental World of the Jacobean Court, ed. Linda Levy Peck

Intellectual & Cultural Life
J.W. Binns, Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of
the Age
Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
Linda Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking
E.M.W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture
Hiram Haydn, The Counter Renaissance
William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance 1550-1640
Lawrence Manly, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649, ed. David L. Smith,
R. Strier,
and D. Bevington
Graham Parry, The Golden Age Restor’d: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603-42
Graham Parry, The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English
Literature
1603-1700
Goldberg, Jonathan, James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne,
and their
Contemporaries
Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of
Elizabethan Literary
Practice
Christopher Haigh, English Reformations

J.J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People
Patrick Collinson, English Puritanism
Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Kristen Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart
England
Keith Thomas, “The Meaning of Literacy in Early Modern England,” The Written Word, ed.
Gerd
Baumann (NY, 1986), 97-131
Eugene R. Kintgen, Reading in Tudor England
Rosemary O’Day, Education and Society, 1500-1800 The Social Foundations of Education
in Early
Modern Britain
Barry Reay, Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750

Some Recent Criticism
Alternative Shakespeares, ed. John Drakakis (1985)

The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader, ed. Kiernan Ryan
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism, ed. Johathan Dollimore and
Alan Sinfield (2nd ed., 1994)
Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations
Leeds Barroll, “A New History for Shakespeare and His Time,” Shakespeare Quarterly 39
(1988): 441-464
Brook Thomas, The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics
Lisa Jardine, Reading Shakespeare Historically
Brian Vickers, Appropriating Shakespeare Contemporary Critical Quarrels (1993)

Edward Pechter, What Was Shakespeare? (1995)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Susanne L. Wofford (Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism)
Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language (2000)
Michael Taylor, Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century (2001)
The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, ed. Carolyn R. Swift Lenz,
Gayle Greene, and Carol Thomas Neely
The Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, ed. Valerie Wayne
Linda Woodbridge, Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of
Womankind,
1540-1620
Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-
1640,
ed. Katherine Usher Henderson and Barbara F. McManus
Constance Jordan, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models
Jack J. Jorgens, Shakespeare on Film

Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, ed.Richard Burt and
Lynda Boose
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, ed. Russell Jackson
Teaching Shakespeare
P. Roberts, Shakespeare and the Moral Curriculum: Rethinking the Secondary School
Shakespeare Syllabus
Shakespeare and the Triple Play: From Study to State to Classroom, ed. Sidney Homan

Susan Leach and Frank Harrison, Shakespeare in the Classroom: What’s the Matter?
Mary A. Rygel, Shakespeare among School Children: Approaches for the Secondary
Classroom
Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Ronald E. Salomone and James E.
Davis
Teaching Shakespeare through Performance, ed. Milla Cozart Riggio
The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents, ed. Russ McDonald
(2nd ed., 2001)
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, ed. Frances E. Dolan
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

The University of Texas at Dallas

HUHI 7386 Spring

Professor Gerald Soliday

HUHI 7386: The Artist and Writer in Society:

Reading Shakespeare Historically

Course requirements include active participation in seminar discussions (35%), an oral

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SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS & ASSIGNMENTS

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15 Jan Introduction to the Course

22 Jan The Bard from Stratford: Biography & Mythology

Discussion of Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare

Recommended: Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact

29 Jan Shakspere’s Job: Player & Poet

Discussion of Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional Career, 1 2 3

5 Feb His Working Conditions in London

Discussion of Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (2nd ed.),

Access to His Works

Discussion of Stephen Orgel, "The Authentic Shakespeare,"

12 Feb Shakspere and his Audiences

Discussion of Gurr, Playgoing, ch. 5 as well as the two appendices

Shakesperotics: The Evolving Reputation

Reports on Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the

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19 Feb Interpretive Strategies

Discussion of Richard Levin, “The Relation of External Evidence to the

The New Historicism

Discussion of Jean Howard, “The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies,”

Recommended: Leeds Barroll, “A New History for Shakespeare and His

26 Feb The Cultural Politics of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Discussion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-95), ed. Gail Kern

MND in Film: Reinhardt (1935), Hall (1968), Moshinsky (BBC, 1981)

Report on Deborah Cartmell, Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen

5 Mar Patronage & Politics

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Discussion of Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater in the

Report on Allan Bloom, Shakespeare’s Politics

12 Mar Religious Cultures & Beliefs

Discussion of Patrick Collinson, “The Church: Religion and Its Manifestations,“

Report on Jonas Barish, The Antitheatrical Prejudice

Witch Belief & Prosecution

Report on Linda Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and

19 Mar [Spring Break]

26 Mar Merchants & Jews

Discussion of The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise

Report on James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews ( )

First Discussion of Research Topics

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2 Apr Order & Disorder in English Society

Discussion of Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680

Report on Susan Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in

Discussion of Paper Topics

9 Apr Shakspere & the “Woman Question”

Discussion of The Taming of the Shrew (1592), ed. Frances E. Dolan, 1-

Viewing of scenes from The Taming of the Shrew

Continued Discussion of Paper Topics

16 Apr Discussion of the Dolan edition of Shr., 160-326, as well as David

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Reports on individual research projects

23 Apr Reports on individual research projects