Macbeth, Acts II-III

Class

Imagination, or why does Shakespeare not put the murder of Duncan on stage?

For next class 

Quiz on Acts 4-5 of Macbeth

Macbeth, Act I

Class

Where we discuss the nature of The Weird Sisters, the conflict present in Macbeth, and the set up of Banquo as his foil.

For next class 

Quiz on Acts 2-3 of Macbeth

For Monday, May 15
Journal 10: First Impressions: Lady Macbeth

Much Ado about Nothing

Class

• Today we will screen Kenneth Branagh's film version of Much Ado about Nothing.
• If you miss the screening, you can stream it in school: http://media.laguardia.edu/search/search.php?query=much+ado+about+nothing&type=and&results=10&search=1
• If you'd like to learn the bare facts of the play, see this slide presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Egjt-4g-yZb0JSUzdSSkU2cnc/view?usp=sharing

For Next Class

• Quiz for Macbeth, Act 1.
• Journal 9: Love, Death, and Patriarchy
• Fill out this form telling me what other Shakespeare play you intend to present on towards the end of the semester: https://goo.gl/forms/q9DnbI6bQpWwwSUC2

Looking Back at Othello

Desdemona's Death Song by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Class

• The Othello Quote Game!
• Thinking about the Women: Looking at Journal 7

For next class

• Read "The Language of Othello" (packet, page 49)
• Due May 3: Journal 8: Motiveless Malignity?

Othello, Acts IV-V

In Class

Today we will attempt to answer a few key questions, such as the role that Desdemona's handkerchief plays in the development of the action, what effect does Othello's fit have, and how the tension is built at the end of the play in 5.2.

Plus, we will try to do Othello's soliloquies in 5.2
a thorough review.

Othello, Acts II & III

Class

Today we will focus on how Iago spins his web of lies and intimations to have Cassio suspended from his post and to use this suspension to convince Othello that Desdemona is disloyal.

Assignments due Wednesday, April 26 

Journal 6: Othello in Black and White; Quiz for Othello, Acts 4-5

Othello, Act I

Class

Today, we will examine the kind of rhetoric that allows Iago to manipulate others, with a bit of help from Oliver Parker's film version of Othello (1995). (4:50) (18:15)

Then we will examine what Othello's rhetoric reveals about his character (with a bit of help from James Earl Jones):

For Next Class

Complete Quiz for Othello, Acts 2-3