Hamlet
EE 01
Spragins
Fall 2015

3rd Period: Even Days, Drop Down Day 1

Room GC 202
Office Hours 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily)
jspragins@gilman.edu 
(410) 828-5212 
 
De Witt's sketch of The Swan 1596		Backgrounds to Hamlet Projects

Hamlet: Act One  


Hamlet: Act Two
Hamlet: Act Three

Hamlet, Act Four

Hamlet, Act Five

Hamlet and the Critics
Shakespeare Festival


Scene Annotation Project in YouTube

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09/01Day 0Orientation

09/ 

02

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Wed.

Minischedule

[The 1579 drawing of The Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana]		Course Description

Virginia Woolf on Reading Shakespeare

At the Globe:


Homework:

09/

03

Day 1

Thurs

 4th Period Drop Down Day


Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Virginia Woolf on Reading Shakespeare

 

The Reformation in England and Shakespeare’s Early Years (Notes from Greenblatt)

Backgrounds to Shakespeare (Spragins Powerpoint) (Slide 18ff)

Homework:

09/

04

Day 2

Fri.


Shakespeare. The Chandos Portrait

What did Shakespeare look like?


Christoper Marlowe  (1564-1593)

 

    Why Study Shakespeare?


    Homework:

    for further reading:

    Mountebank Stage, 15th c.

    09/

    07

    Day 0 

    Mon.

     Labor Day
    09/

    08

    Day 3

    Tues.
    09/09Day 4Wed.
     
    De Witt's sketch of The Swan 1596

    Why Study Shakespeare?


    Research Backgrounds to Hamlet Project List


    09/10Day 5Thurs.Upper School Parents Night
    09/11Day 6Fri.

    The Four Elements:

    AirFire
    Earth Water
    		Group Presentations Begin
    Backgrounds to Hamlet:

    Revenge Tragedy and The Ur-Hamlet

    Homework:
    09/14Day 0Mon.Rosh Hashanah

    09/15Day 7Tues.
    09/ 16 Day 8 Wed.





    		Act I scene i  "Elsinore's Ramparts"

    Exercise: Composition of Place: After reading the first 50 to 100 lines of scene 1, stop and use your imagination to construct the setting. Use all of your five senses, and note how Shakespeare uses poetry to appeal to each of them. 

    • What year is it? 
    • What time of year is it?
    • What time of day is it (precisely)?
    • What can you see, hear, feel, smell, even taste?
    • Take the next step: where is the scene located philosophically?

    Key Moments?

    Paragraph on the First Scene of Hamlet

    Homework:

    09/17Day 9Thurs.
    09/ 18 Day 10 Fri.
    Senior College Visit Day
    09/21Day 1Mon.4th Period  Drop Down


    		Backgrounds to Hamlet:

    Act I scene 2 Claudius' Court (video)

    Homework:

    09/

    22

    Day 2

    Tues.



    		Close Reading:

    Hamlet's desire to be distill'd into pure spirit/ the coalescing of a ghost from thin air.

    Homework:

    • Memory Passage #1: Hamlet speech : "Seems madam? Nay I know not seems.... These but the trappings and suits of woe."  (Act I scene 2 lines 76-86)
    • Memorize Passage #2: "Oh that this too too solid flesh" to "But break my heart for I must hold my tongue." (Act I scene 2 lines 129-159)

    09/

    23

    Day 0

    Wed.

    		Yom Kippur
    09/

    24

    Day 3 

    Thurs.

    09/25Day 4Fri.

     Gertrude and Claudius


    Hamlet and Horatio

    Act I scene 2: Claudius' Court

    Homework:

    09/

    28

    Day 5

    Mon.

     

    09/29Day 6Tues.


    Laertes and Ophelia


    Polonius' Advice to Laertes


    Polonius and Ophelia

    		Act I scene 3 Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius (video)

    Paraphrase: Polonius' Advice

    Imagery in Hamlet:

    Laertes and Ophelia: 
    • "A violet in the youth of primy nature"
    • "The canker galls the infants of the spring,
      Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
      And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
      Contagious blastments are most imminent"
    • "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
      Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
      Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
      Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads..."

    Polonius and Ophelia:
    • "Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
      That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
      Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
      Or -- not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
      Running it thus -- you'll tender me a fool."
    •                                         "in few, Ophelia,
      Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
      Not of that dye which their investments show,
      But mere implorators of unholy suits,
      Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
      The better to beguile."

    Paragraph: Two Families

    Homework:
    09/30Day 7Wed.
    10/01

    Day 8

    		Thurs.



    Act I scene 4: The Ramparts (Video: Olivier (1948); Tennant (2008))
    Act I scene 5: Hamlet and the Ghost (Video Olivier (1948); Gibson (1990); Burton (1964); Branagh (1996 )
    Act I scene 5 After Ghost's Exit (Video: Tennant (2008))

    Tragedy's Igniting Action:

    Compare Hamlet's encounter with the Ghost to 

    • Macbeth Meeting the Witches
    • Teiresias' Prophecy in Oedipus Rex
    • The Soothsayer's Prophecy in Julius Caesar

    Paragraph: Hamlet's Response to the Ghost

    Homework:  

    • Test on Act One
    10/

    02

    Day 9

    Fri..
    10/

    05

    Day 10

    Mon.


    Test On Act One

    Homework:
    10/06

    Day 1

    		Tues.

    Drop Down Day


    		 Act II scene 1:

    Homework:
    10/

    07

    Day 2

    Wed.

    Act II scene 2: The Funhouse

    Homework:

    10/

    08

    Day 3

    Thurs.

    10/09Day 4Fri.

    Act II scene 2: The Funhouse

    Homework: 

    10/

    12

    Day 5

    Mon.

    10/

    13

    Day 6

    Tues.



    		Catch Up Day:

    Memory Passages:

    Homework:

    10/

    14

    Day 7

    Wed.


    10/

    15

    Day 8 

    Thurs.

    		Hamlet National Theatre Cinemark Towson 7:00 p.m.



    DaVinci, Vitruvian Man (1490)

    Act III scene 1:

    • Close Reading: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" (Video: Burton 1966; Branagh 1996)
    • Close Reading: Memory Passage #4: "To Be or Not to Be..."; Video: Branaugh ; Scofield ; Olivier; Burton ; Gibson ;
    • Paragraph Work: 
      • Hamlet ends the long 'Funhouse Scene', in which he ridicules Polonius, banters with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and the welcomes the Players to Elsinore, with the soliloquy beginning "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I..." 
      • At the end of the speech he has come up with a plan: to put on a play which will 'catch the conscience of the king.'
      • Yet moments the very next time we see Hamlet he is contemplating suicide in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. 
      • Compare these two moments. How do you make sense of them.

    Homework:
    10/

    16

    Day 9

    Fri.

    10/19

    Day 10

    		Mon.

     

    		Shakespeare's Acting Manifesto:

    Hamlet's Plan in Action:
    Act III scene 2: The Mousetrap
    (Gibson) (Tennant)



    Homework:


    10/20

    Day 1

    Tues.

    		Drop Down Day


    Act III scene 3: Claudius' Soliloquy  (Tennant) (Branagh) (Gibson)

    Homework:

    10/

    21

    Day 2 

    Wed.

    Hamlet's 'Plan'  in Action:

    Act III scenes 4: The Queen's Bedroom (Tennant part one) (Tennant part two) (Gibson) (Olivier)

    Discuss: Hamlet's Choices

    Homework:

    10/

    22

    Day 3 

    Thurs.

     

    10/

    23

    Day 4

    Fri.

    Hamlet's 'Plan'  in Action:

    Act III scene 3: Claudius' Soliloquy  (Tennant) (Branagh) (Gibson)
    Act III scenes 4: The Queen's Bedroom  (Tennant part one) (Tennant part two) (Gibson) (Olivier) (Plummer)

    Discuss: Hamlet's Choices

    Homework:

    10/

    26

    Day 5

    Mon.

    10/

    27

    Day 6

    Tues.

    		 

    		Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England
    Homework:

    Test on Acts 2 and 3; Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England
    10/

    28

    Day 7 

    Wed.

    10/

    29

    Day 8

    Thurs.



    		Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England
    Homework:

    Test on Acts 2 and 3; Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England
    10/

    30

    Day 9

    Fri.

    		1/2 Day Happy Halloween!
    11/02Day 0Mon.Professional Day
    11/03Day 10Tues.

    		Test on Acts 2 and 3; Act 4, Scenes 1-4: England

    Homework:  

    11/

    04

    Day 1 

    Wed.

    		Drop Down Day

    Act 4, Scenes 5-7: Ophelia's Madness (Tennant Part One) (Tennant Part Two)

    excerpts from Aristotle’s Poetics: the aesthetics of catharsis

    Homework:

    11/

    05

    Day 2 

    Thurs.


    Ophelia (1852) by John Everett Millais

    Act 4, Scenes 5-7: Ophelia's Madness

    Homework:

    11/06Day 3Fri.
    11/

    09

    Day 4

    Mon.


    Act 5, Scene 1: 

    Homework:

    11/10Day 5Tues.
    11/

    11

    Day 6 

    Wed.


    Act 5, Scene 1: 

    Homework:


    11/

    12

    Day 7

    Thurs.

    		 

     11/

    13

    Day 8

    Fri.

    Act 5, scene 2: 


    The Swordfight

    Homework:
    • Test on Hamlet, Acts 4 and 5

    11/

    16

    Day 9 

    Mon.

    11/17Day 10Tues.

    Act 5, scene 2: 


    Homework:
    11/18Day 1Wed.Drop Down Day
    11/

    19

    Day 2

    Thurs.

    NO CLASS

    11/

    20

    Day 3

    Fri.

     

    11/

    23

    Day 4        

    Mon.



    A.C. Bradley


    Virginia Woolf

    Hamlet and the Critics: Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet?

    Hamlet Essay Due December 10th at 3:30 p.m.

    Sewall: The Boundary Situation "The tragic vision  impels the artist, in his fictions, toward   what Jaspers calls "boundary-situations," man at the limits of his sovereignty.. . Here, with all the protective covering stripped off, the hero faces as if no man had ever faced it before the existential question-- "What is man?"  (Sewall, The Vision of Tragedy  49-50).

    Other Interesting Articles


    Homework:
    11/

    24

    Day 5

    Tues.

    11/25Day 0Wed.Thanksgiving Break
    11/

    30

    Day 6

    Mon.


    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel 
    (1772 – 1829)

    Hamlet Essay Due December 10th at 3:30 p.m.

    Hamlet and the Critics: Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet?

    A.W. Schlegel, “Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature” (1809)

    Homework:

    12/01Day 7Tues.

    12/

    02

    Day 8

    Wed.


    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834) portrait by Washington Allston (1814)

    Hamlet Essay Due December 10th at 3:30 p.m.

    Hamlet and the Critics: Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet?

    Oscar Wilde from The Decay of Lying (1891): "Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterises modern thought, but Hamlet invented it. The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy."

    S.T.      Coleridge, “Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets” (1818)

    Homework:

    •  A.C. Bradley, “Hamlet” from Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) pp. 89-128
    12/

    03

    Day 9 

    Thurs.

    12/04Day 10Fri.


    Hamlet and the Critics: Thesis Discussion: What is Shakespeare's purpose in Hamlet?

    Hamlet Essay Due December 10th at 3:30 p.m.

    A.C. Bradley, “Hamlet” from Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) pp. 89-128

    Homework:

    12/

    07

    Day 1

    Mon..

    		Drop Down Day

    Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi.    		 Ernest Jones, “The Oedipus-Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery: A Study in Motive” (1910)

    Homework:

    Hamlet Essay Due December 10th at 3:30 p.m.

    12/

    08

    Day 2 

    Tues.


    Adrian Lester and Natasha Parry in The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002) Peter Brook's version of Hamlet     		 Virginia Woolf on Reading Shakespeare

    Writing Workshop:
    Explore the Criticism Table for ways to improve your thesis and argument.

    Hamlet as Tragic Hero: excerpts from Aristotle’s Poetics:
    1. The Prophecy (Hamlet's Situation)
    2. The Funhouse (Hamlet's Vain Quest)
    3. Hamlet's Return to Face Fate (Adult Identity)

    Hamlet Essay Due November 25th at noon p.m.

    12/

    09

    Day 3

    Wed.

     

    12/

    10

    Day 4

    Thurs



    		 Hamlet Essay Due at 3:30 p.m.

    Shakespeare Festival Projects

    Opening Workshop:

    Festival Documents

    Homework:
    • Choose Scene for your acting project and read it:

    Scenes for Student Acting Projects:
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    11

    Day 5

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    Day 6

    Mon.

     

    12/

    15

    Day 7

    Tues

     

    12/

    16

    Day 8

    Wed

     



    		SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL!!!
    5th period in Centennial Hall

    Food:

    12/

    17

    Day 9

    Thurs.

     

     

    12/

    18

    Day 10

    Fri.

    		1/2 Day
    Electronic Promptbooks Due.

    Begin Final Projects:
    Research the Production History of Your Scene:
    from Robert Hapgood, Hamlet: Shakespeare in Production (1999)
    from Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of Hamlet (1992)
    12/

    19

    Day 0

    Sat.

    		 Winter Break
    01/ 04 Day 1 Mon.

    		Choose your favorite performance and defend it by analyzing how it fits into your understanding of the scene and its relationship to the rest of the play. Then compare your group's interpretation of the scene with the professional production. (Directions)

    Create and Edit Annotations: 

    With annotations you can layer text, links, and hotspots over your video. They help you enrich the video experience by adding information, interactivity and engagement.

    Here's how to access annotations and add them to your video:

    1. Go to your YouTube channel Video Manager. (Click "My Channel, then click "Video Manager" under search field near the top of the page)

    2. Next to the video you wish to edit, click the down arrow to the right of the Edit button and select Annotations

    3. Click the Add annotation button on the right.

    4. Click Publish when you've finished creating your annotations.


    Tubechop.com

    Allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

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    Annotation Projects:

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    Day 7

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    Day 8

    Wed.

    		 REVIEW DAY
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    Day 9

    Thurs.

    		 REVIEW DAY

    01/

    15

    Day 10 

    Fri.

    READING DAY

     

     
    01/

    18

    Day 0

    Mon.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

    01/

    19

    Day 1

    Tues.

    EXAMS

     
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    20

    Day 2

    Wed.

    EXAMS
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    Day 3

    Thurs.

    EXAMS

     

     

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    Day 4 

    Fri.

    EXAMS
    01/25Day 5MonExam Make-up Day
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    Day 6 

    Tues.

    SECOND SEMESTER BEGINS