THE SEMINAR IN DETAIL: Week By Week (MWF 2:00 – 5:00 PM)
PLEASE NOTE: EVERY DAY SESSION WILL BE FROM 2:00 – 5:00 PM (though the very first session, with the film, might run a bit longer). Except for the introductory session, each session will include two 10-12 minute reports on materials on the syllabus by members of the Seminar; everyone will do one. The syllabus is available for download here. A Guide to Critics can be found here .
WEEK I: The Texts
- Monday, 7/10: Lear in Shakespeare’s Development; FILM 1: dir. Peter Brook (1971).
- Wednesday, 7/12: Comparing the Quarto and the Folio texts
(“the 2-text view”: from The Division of the Kingdoms). - Friday, 7/14: Comparison continued (& Clare critique of the two texts, revision view).
- Friday, 7/14 (7:30 PM): FILM 2: dir. Grigor Kozintsev (1971).
WEEK II: Intertexts and Contexts
- Monday, 7/17: Sources & Nachleben:
Anon., King Leir & [from] Sidney’s Arcadia;
Nahum Tate, History of KL; discussion of Brook & Kozintsev. - Wednesday, 7/19: Contexts 1:
Religious: “Old” & “New” Historicism:
W. R. Elton; Stephen Greenblatt. - Friday 7/21: Contexts 2
Social & Political:
Rosalie Colie; Richard Strier; Walter Cohen;
Michael Ignatieff; Judy Kronenfeld.
WEEK III: Symbols, Psychology, Humanism & Post-
- Monday, 7/24: Characters & Psychology:
A. C. Bradley; Harold Bloom; Janet Adelman. - Wednesday, 7/26: Symbolism:
Robert B. Heilman; Paul Alpers; Stanley Cavell. - Friday, 7/28: Humoralism & Animal Studies:
Gail Paster; Andreas Höfele.
Friday evening, 7/28 – FINAL BANQUET AT THE FACULTY CLUB
(participants will pay for themselves).