Welcome to The Shakespeare
Project, a website developed and maintained for under-graduate 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; 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, 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. 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. Group Five includes
exemplary student essays from GRCC students.
Peace! David Cope
Content of This Site:
Group One: COURSE MATERIALS
Group Two: LINKS and CONNECTIONS
Group Three: ELIZABETHAN
and JACOBEAN SOURCE ESSAYS
Group Four: CONTEMPORARY
ESSAYS
Group
Five: STUDENT
ESSAYS
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GROUP ONE: COURSE MATERIALS
Course Notes #1: Background, Plays to 1599, Sonnets
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PDF file
Course Notes #2:Plays 1600-1611
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PDF file
Sources for Research
PDF Document
Teaching Shakespeare
Microsoft
Word Document
* PDF
File coming soon
Shakespeare and "Other"
Microsoft
Word Document
*PDF
file coming soon
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GROUP TWO: LINKS and CONNECTIONS
Links
to Reliable Shakespeare Sources
Links to Shakespeare Theatre Guides
Shakespeare in Performance: Brief Reviews:
Word (.doc) |
Acrobat (.pdf)
Shakespeare
Courses at other Colleges and Universities
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GROUP THREE: ELIZABETHAN and JACOBEAN
SOURCE ESSAYS
George Puttenham: The Arte of English Poesie (1589)
(17 pg. document)
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PDF file
Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year (1603) and The
Gull's Hornbook (1609) (30 pg. document)
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PDF file
Puritan Attacks on the Theatre
PDF file
Defenses of the Theatre
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PDF file
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GROUP FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
Dr. Henry Seaton: "All-licensed fool"; all licensed film:
Akira Kurosawa's Ran (46 pg document)
Word
Document
*PDF
file coming soon
David Cope: Cross Dressing with a Difference (14 pg
document)
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PDF file
David Cope: Shakespeare/Melville (15 pg document)
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PDF file
David Cope: Censorship and Representation in the Stuart Era:
Three Roman Plays (26 pg document)
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PDF File
David Cope: Poetomachia and the Early Jonson: The Aesthetics
of Topical Satire (38 pg document)
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David Cope: Marlowe's Tamburlaine: Unsettling Audience
Loyalties (18 pg document)
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David Cope: Shakespeare Adapts Chaucer: Troilus and Cressida (26 pg document)
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GROUP FIVE: STUDENT ESSAYS
Mendelssohn's Music to MND, 1826 and Today, by Naomi Droge
Summer 2009 Shakespeare class
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PDF File
Worlds in Warfare: Crisis and Social Breakdown, by Sarah Johnson
Fall 08 Shakespeare class
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PDF File
Critical Debate Over the Sonnets, by Tyler Steimle
Winter 08 Shakespeare class
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PDF File
Cher Monsieur Shakespeare, by Jennifer Reynolds
Summer 08 Shakespeare class
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PDF File
The Curse of Macbeth, by Laura O’Neill
Winter 08 English 102
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PDF File
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