English 208      •       Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century

Scholia

(plural of scholium). These are short texts mentioned in class, assigned for discussion,
or recommended for reflection.


1. The Klingon Shakespeare and "the English Gomez"

2. Walter Benjamin on historicism and literary history

3. Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare's Sister

4. Terry Eagleton: the quintessential commodity

5. Cole Porter, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

6. Dryden, Johnson, Coleridge on genius and nature.

7. D. de Rougemont on love and death in the Western world.

8. Joseph Quincy Adams on "Shakespeare and American Culture."

9. Coleridge on Iago's "motiveless malignity."

10. Virginia Vaughan on "an Othello for the 1990s" (i.e. the Nunn production).

11. Coppelia Kahn, on Lear and the "mother."

12. Octave Mannoni, on the "Prospero complex."

13. Judith Butler, on gender and performance.

16. T.S. Eliot, on Hamlet, Eliot, and their problems.

17. Kozintsev on the elements of the material world.

18. Jan Kott on "the Grand Mechanism."

19. Bertolt Brecht [from] A Short Organum.

20. T. S. Eliot on Othello's final speech.

21. "Representations of Buddhist cycle of suffering.


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