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Updated 5/7//01
Welcome to The Shakespeare Project, a website developed and primarily maintained for undergraduate study of the plays of William Shakespeare. The site is organized in four groups: Group One collects in two files course notes for those plays and poems I teach in my classes at Grand Rapids Community College and Western Michigan University; it also features a research bibliography, "Sources for Research," which is subdivided into fifty Shakespearean research topics; a "Teaching Shakespeare" file for those interested in teaching Shakespeare at the secondary level; and a "Shakespeare and Other" file with overview of marginalized characters and their representation in the plays. Group Two features links to major theatres and theatre scenes, links to other Shakespeare websites, a link to a Shakespeare Tour I have led in the past, and examples of first and second year Shakespeare courses at a variety of U.S. colleges. Group Three features selections from Elizabethan and Jacobean source essays; although still incomplete, the selections here include important prose documents which are currently out of print or unavailable to students in colleges with smaller library databases. Group Four, also incomplete, features some contemporary essays bearing on Shakespearean issues; I welcome submissions from post-graduate scholars whose work reflects the best postmodern scholarship. Ideally, these essays should reflect "unusual" areas of Shakespearean scholarship, and the purpose of including them here is to give undergraduate students more sources from which to draw for their researched essays. So here's to the Swan of Avon, and to all those students who find their way to this site, hungry for ways to live in his plays.
Peace! David Cope
Content of This Site:
Group Two: LINKS and CONNECTIONS
Group Three: ELIZABETHAN and JACOBEAN SOURCE ESSAYS
Group Four: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
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GROUP ONE: COURSE MATERIALS
Course Notes#1: Background, Plays to 1599 (54pg document)
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Course Notes#2: Plays 1600-1611/Sonnets (59pg document)
*Sources for Research
*Teaching Shakespeare
*Shakespeare and "Other"
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GROUP TWO: LINKS and CONNECTIONS
English 293: Shakespeare in Performance
Links to Reliable Shakespeare Sources
Links to Shakespeare Theatre Guides
Shakespeare Courses at other Colleges and Universities
GROUP THREE: ELIZABETHAN and JACOBEAN SOURCE ESSAYS
George Puttenham: The Arte of English Poesie (1589) (17 pg. document)
*Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year (1603) and The Gull's Hornbook (1609) (30 pg. document)
*Puritan Attacks on the Theatre
Defenses of theTheatre
GROUP FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
Dr. Henry Seaton: "All-licensed fool"; all licensed film: Akira Kurosawa's Ran (46 pg document)
*David Cope: Cross Dressing with a Difference (14 pg document)
*David Cope: Shakespeare/Melville (15 pg document)
*David Cope: Censorship and Representation in the Stuart Era: Three Roman Plays (26 pg document)
*David Cope: Poetomachia and the Early Jonson: The Aesthetics of Topical Satire (38 pg document)
*David Cope: Marlowe's Tamburlaine: Unsettling Audience Loyalties (18 pg document)
*Send Comments to dcope@grcc.cc.mi.us
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