1/16 Course Expectations and Requirements

New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, and the Early Modern English Stage

Viewing: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

1/23 Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596)

Montrose, "'Shaping Fantasies': A Midsummer Night's Dream and Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture" (Hand-out)

Howard, "Renaissance Theatre and the Representation of Theatrical Practice," The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, 1-21

Howard, "'Sathans Synagogue,'" Stage and Social Struggle, 22-46

Mullaney, "Civic Rites, City Sites: The Place of the Stage," Staging the Renaissance, 17-26

1/30 Shakespeare, As You Like It

 Belsey, "Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies" (On Reserve)

Jardine, "'As Boys and Women are for the Most Part Cattle of this Colour': Female Roles and Elizabethan Eroticism," Still Harping on Daughters, 9-36

Traub, "The (In)Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England," Erotic Politics, 150-169

2/6 Jonson, Epicoene (1609-1610)

Rose, "Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy," 43-77 (On Reserve--read only first part for this week)

Howard, "Power and Eros," Stage and Social Struggle, 93-111 (Read only first part for this week)

Newman, "City Talk: Femininity and Commodification in Jonson's Epicoene," Fashioning Femininity, 129-143

Jardine, "'Make Thy Doublet of Changeable Taffeta': Dress Codes, Sumptuary Law and 'Natural' Order," Still Harping on Daughters, 141-168

2/13 Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611)

Rose, "Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy," 77-92

Howard, "Sex and Social Conflict: The Erotics of The Roaring Girl," Erotic Politics, 170-190

Howard, "Power and Eros," Stage and Social Struggle, 121-128

Orgel, "The Subtexts of The Roaring Girl," Erotic Politics, 12-26

Garber, "The Logic of the Transvestite: The Roaring Girl," Staging the Renaissance, 221-234

2/20 Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614)

Marcus, "Pastimes and the Purging of Theatre: Bartholomew Fair," Staging the Renaissance, 196-209

Knapp, "Ben Jonson and the "Publicke Riot," Staging the Renaissance, 164-180

Stallybrass and White, "The Fair, the Pig and Authorship" (On Reserve)

2/27 Arden of Faversham (?1590; printed in 1592)

Belsey, "Alice Arden's Crime," Staging the Renaissance, 133-150

Newman, "Introduction," "Body Politics," "The Crown Conjugal," Fashioning Femininity, xvii-31

3/5 Middleton, Women Beware Women (?1621 or early 1620s)

Haselkorn, "Sin and the Politics of Penitence: Three Jacobean Adulteresses" (On Reserve)

3/19 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedie of Miriam, The Faire Queene of Jewry (?1613)

Ferguson, "The Spectre of Resistance" in Staging the Renaissance, 235-247

Fischer, "Elizabeth Cary and Tyranny, Domestic and Religious" (On Reserve)

Beilin, "Elizabeth Cary and the Tragedy of Miriam," (On Reserve)

Discussion of Scholarly Article Topics

3/26 Marlowe, Edward II (c. 1592)

Goldberg, "Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe," Staging the Renaissance, 75-82

Goldberg, "The Transvestite Stage: More on the Case of Christopher Marlowe" (On Reserve)

4/2 Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)

Brown, "'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine': The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism" (On Reserve)

Barker and Hulme, "'Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish': The Discursive Con-Texts of The Tempest" (On Reserve)

4/9 Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1604)

Newman, "'And Wash the Ethiop White': Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello," Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama, 71-93

Loomba, Gender, Race, and Renaissance Drama, Introduction, Chapters 1-3

4/16 Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (acted 1612-1614; printed 1623)

Rose, "Heroics of Marriage in Renaissance Tragedy" (On Reserve)

Jardine, "'I am the Duchess of Malfi Still': Wealth, Inheritance, and the Spectre of Strong Women," Still Harping on Daughters, 68-102

Choosing a Target Audience and Writing a Letter of Submission

4/23 Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (?1629-1633; printed in 1633)

 Jardine, "Shrewd or Shrewish: When the Disorderly Woman Has Her Head," Still Harping on Daughters, 103-141.

Stallybrass, "Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed" (On Reserve)

Course Wrap-Up