COD 2011 - G606

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfasts: Shrews in Shakespeare

Literature lovers.

1 sessions, start: 02-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Verónica Storni Fricke
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Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 02 July 2011 10:00 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Verónica Storni Fricke

Verónica Storni Fricke is now doing her doctorate studies on feminist criticism of Shakespeare's plays at UBA, Filosofía y Letras. She is a graduate English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas, specialized in English Literature. Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Tenured Lecturer in the Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism" at IES en Lenguas Vivas. IB English teacher at Tarbut College and Instituto Ballester Schule.
Literature lovers.

- To encourage personal response to Shakespeare's texts from a feminist perspective.
- To acquaint candidates with different approaches within feminism.
- To consider whether Shakespeare is relevant to the feminist project and whether a reading against the grain is possible.
- The characterization of Katherine and Beatrice, and elements of the shrew in Desdemona and other characters.
- The concept of shrews in Shakespeare's times.
- Gender violence and the context of reception.
- Reading against the grain to fit the feminist project.
- Essentialist and postmodern feminist readings.


(Candidates are expected to have read The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing and Othello)
- Textual analysis.
- Group discussion.
(Candidates are expected to have read The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing and Othello)
- Belsey, C. (1985) The Subject of Tragedy. Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Routledge.
- Bloom, H. (1999) Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. London. Fourth Estate.
- Callaghan, D. (ed.) (2000) A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- Callaghan, D.; Helms, L. y Singh, J. (eds). (1994) The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- Coppélia Kahn (1981) Man's Estate. Masculine Identity in Shakespeare. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (available online in google books).
- Coppélia Kahn (1997) Roman Shakespeare. Warriors, Wounds and Women. Routledge: London.
- Dash, I. (1981) Wooing, Wedding and Power: Women in Shakespeare's Plays. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Dusinberre, J. (1996) Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. Macmillan: London.
- Jardine, L. (1989) Still Harping on Daughters. Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare, New York: Columbia University Press.
- Jardine, L. (1996) Reading Shakespeare Historically. Routledge: London.
- Kott, J. (1967) Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen: London.
- Lacqueur, T. (1990) Making Sex. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press: London.
- Paster, Gail Kern (1993) The Body Embarrassed. Drama and the Disciples of Shame in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press: New York.
- Rutter, C. (2001) Enter the Body. Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage. Routledge: London.
- Showalter, E. (1985) "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism", in Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, eds. Patricia Parker and Geofrey Hartman, New York and London (available online in google books).
- Sinfield, A. (2006) Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality. Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Routledge: New York
- Traub, V. (1992) Desire and Anxiety. Circulations of Sexuality in Shakesperean Drama. Routledge: London.
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