William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community
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The Syllabus
Videos
- 1.1 Welcome and Course Overview
- 1.2 Twelfth Night: A First Introduction and Overview
- 1.3 Introduction of Tim Orr and Amanda Giguere
- 1.4 Design and Directorial Choices as a Way of Understanding the "World of the Play"
- 1.5 Performance History of Twelfth Night
- 1.6 Feste and the World of the Play
- 1.7 Feste and the Comic World of Twelfth Night
- 1.8 Roundtable: Act 3 Scene 1 - Feste and Cesario
Readings
- Reading and Engaging with Twelfth Night
- Applied Shakespeare at CU Boulder
- Annotation Project Overview and Full Description
- Using Hypothes.is for web-based social annotation of texts
- Annotation Project: Step 1
Practice Exercise
- Twelfth Night and the World of the Play Module Quiz
Videos
- 2.1 Overview of Themes of Desire and Identity
- 2.2 Faculty Roundtable: Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1 - Orsino's Desire, Melancholy and Desire
- 2.3 Disguises, Identity, and the Play of Desire
- 2.4 Viola - Survival, Disguise, and Love
- 2.5 Olivia: Identity and Desire
- 2.6 Faculty Roundtable: Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 5 - Olivia, Viola, and the Power of Desire
- 2.7 Sebastian and Antonio
Readings
- Review Twelfth Night Acts 1 and 2
- Annotation Project Step 2
Practice Exercise
- Desire, Identity, and Chaos Module Quiz
Videos
- 3.1 Addressing Minor Characters; How Desire Leads to Class Conflict
- 3.2 Malvolio: Order and Aspiration
- 3.3 Sir Toby Belch's Worldview
- 3.4 Maria on Class
- 3.5 Roundtable Seminar Introduction
- 3.6 Roundtable Act 2, Scenes 3 & 5 - Confrontation of Malvolio and Sir Toby
- 3.7 Religion and the Punishment of Malvolio
Readings
- Review Twelfth Night Acts 3, 4, and 5
- Introduction to Lecture 3.7
- Annotation Project Step 3
Practice Exercise
- Class, Comedy, and Conflict Module Quiz
Videos
- 4.1 Module Introduction
- 4.2 On Resolution and Reunion - Discussing the Play's Conclusion
- 4.3 Roundtable Act 5, Scene 1 - Play's Conclusion
- 4.4 Twelfth Night and Comedy's Tragic Potentials
- 4.5 Malvolio and Revenge
- 4.6 Feste - Perspectives on Malvolio
- 4.7 Concluding Twelfth Night: "We'll Strive to Please You Every Day"
Readings
- Review Twelfth Night Act 5
- Creative Application Project
Practice Exercise
- Limits of Comedy Module Quiz
Videos
- 5.1 Module Introduction
- 5.2 Shakespeare in the Schools: Anti-Bullying Campaign
- 5.5 Course Conclusion
Readings
- 5.3 Written Resources for Shakespeare in the Schools Anti-Bullying Effort
- 5.4 Scholarship and Practice of Applied Shakespeare
- 5.4.1 Bibliography of Resources for Applied Shakespeare
- 5.4.2 CU Boulder’s Applied Shakespeare Graduate Certificate
Videos
- Amanda Giguere -Dramaturge
- Rinde Eckert - Fixed
- Garreth Saxe - Malvolio
- Jessica Robblee - Lady Olivia
- Robert Sicular - Sir Toby Belch
- Amber Scales - Viola / Cesario
- Tim Orr - Director
- Emma Messenger - Maria
Reading
- Optional Additional Video Content
Articles