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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.

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

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GROUP ONE: COURSE MATERIALS

Course Notes #1: Background, Plays to 1599, Sonnets
Word Document
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Course Notes #2:Plays 1600-1611
Word Document
* PDF file

Sources for Research
Microsoft Word Document
Adobe PDF Document

Teaching Shakespeare
Microsoft Word Document
* PDF File coming soon

Shakespeare and "Other"
Microsoft Word Document
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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)
Microsoft Word Document
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Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year (1603) and The Gull's Hornbook (1609) (30 pg. document)
Microsoft Word Document
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Puritan Attacks on the Theatre
Microsoft Word Document
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Defenses of theTheatre
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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
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David Cope: Cross Dressing with a Difference (14 pg document)
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David Cope: Shakespeare/Melville (15 pg document)
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David Cope: Censorship and Representation in the Stuart Era: Three Roman Plays (26 pg document)
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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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