...	Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar Proseminar: Literature and Culture Studies summer term 2002
...	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark course programme
.	preparation: editions - Shakespeare dictionaries - reading Hamlet (study questions and quizzes) - Inszenierung von Stefan Bachmann im neuen Schauspielhaus - links - questions course programme bibliography film programme editing Hamlet
...	week content preparation 2) Mon 8 / Tues 9 April - course organization - reading drama - discussion of Act I re-read Hamlet, Act I 3) Mon 15 / Tues 16 April - the Elizabethan stage - anthropological approach to performance - discussion of Act II re-read Hamlet, Act II Schechner, "Towards a Poetics of Performance" (course pack p. 6) 4) Mon 22 / Tues 23 April - discussion of Act III re-read Hamlet, Act III Greenblatt, "Introduction to Hamlet" (course pack p. 25) Bohannan, "Hamlet in the Bush" (course pack p. 30) for Stephen Greenblatt see also: New Historicism, Beginning Theory, chapter 9 Wed. April 24 24. April 2002, Mittwoch. 19 Uhr (Theater, Nachtcafé) Geschichte als Phantom oder Hamlet und die Schweiz Jörg Wiesel (Deutsches Seminar) diskutiert mit Stefan Bachmann und Christine Richard über mögliche Hintergründe der ungewöhnlich scharfen deutschen Kritik der Hamlet-Aufführung in Basel. Nachtcafé Stadttheater. .. 5) Mon 29 / Tues 30 April - Bachmann's Hamlet production in Basel - critical paper assigned - discussion of Act IV re-read Hamlet, Act IV Hamlet at the Schauspielhaus in Basel 6) Mon 6 / Tues 7 May - discussion of Act V - discussion of critical texts - psychoanalytic approach - feminist approach re-read Hamlet, Act V Jones, Ernest. "Hamlet and Oedipus." (course pack p. 36) for Ernest Jones see also: Psychoanalytic Criticism, Beginning Theory, chapter 5 Showalter, Elaine. "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibility of Feminist Criticism." (course pack p. 43) for Elaine Showalter see also: Feminist Criticism, Beginning Theory, chapter 6 7) Mon 13 / Tues 14 May discussion of critical text (the construction of the subject) Belsey, K. "Introduction: Reading the Past", "Unity" (The Subject of Tragedy) (course pack p. 53) for Catherine Belsey see also: English feminist criticism, Beginning Theory, chapter 6, p. 126 8) Tues 21 May Balz Engler: "Performance and Performativity" Culler, J. "Performative Language" (course pack p. 81) for Jonathan Culler see also: Structuralism, Beginning Theory, p.49f 9) Mon 27 / Tues 28 May discussion of critical text Ferguson, M. "Hamlet: Letters and Spirits" (course pack p. 89) 10) Mon 3 / Tues 4 June discussion of critical text Hawkes, "Elizabethan Language, Culture, Drama" (course pack p. 98) for Terry Hawkes see also: Cultural materialism, Beginning Theory, p. 182-190 11) Tues 11 June Balz Engler, "Media & Literature" Taylor, N. "The Films of Hamlet" (course pack p. 107) 12) Mon 17 / Tues 18 June discussion of lecture and Hamlet films - 13) Mon 24 / Tues 25 June editing and translating Hamlet see: editing Hamlet Philip Edwards, introduction, "The play's shape" (p. 8-32) editing Hamlet 14) Mon 1/ Tues 2 July - stage workshop - summing up Stoppard, Dogg's Hamlet (course pack p. 115) preparation: editions - Shakespeare dictionaries - reading Hamlet (study questions and quizzes) - Inszenierung von Stefan Bachmann im neuen Schauspielhaus - links - questions course programme bibliography film programme editing Hamlet
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