Professor Amy Tigner
Faculty Profile: https://www.uta.edu/profiles/amy-tigner
Carlisle Hall 622
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Office Hours: T/Th 1:30-2:30 pm and by appointment
Class meets T/Th 3:30-4:50 pm, Preston Hall 207
English 4326: Culinary Shakespeare, Fall 2015
In this course, we will investigate culinary and medicinal references and uses in the literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We will also be working with 16th and 17th century manuscript receipt (recipe) books. Students will gain the skills to do archival research for early modern manuscript texts and to participate in the burgeoning scholarly conversations about 16th and 17th century receipt books. We will begin with an intensive study of early modern paleography, or handwriting, enabling students to read manuscripts produced in the period. Students will participate in and contribute to the two related digital humanities initiatives, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), and Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) by collectively transcribing and making an online edition of a seventeenth-century recipe book, Folger Va430, Mary Grenville. Students will blog about their experiences and their knowledge both on the class blog site and on a public access blog site devoted to recipe research. Throughout the course, we will investigate how to write about these texts, both as separate entities and in concert with literary production of the period. We will be reading several of Shakespeare’s plays, including Merry Wives of Winsor, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Students will also read the most recent scholarly work in the field about food in the early modern period.
This syllabus is subject to change by the professor
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| Week 1
Th 8/27 |
Introduction
Shakespeare Early Modern Handwriting
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| Week 2
T 9/1 |
Macbeth – Read the entire play and be prepared for a quiz.
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Begin work on Cambridge Handwriting site |
| Th 9/3 | Macbeth
Leong “Recipe Collections” Thirsk, Food In Shakespeare’s England.
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Discussion Presentations
Work on Cambridge Handwriting site/transcriptions |
| Week 3
T 9/8 |
Macbeth
Merry Wives of Winsor |
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| Th 9/10 | Merry Wives of Winsor
Sebek “Wine and Sugar of the best and the fairest” Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor” |
Discussion Presentations |
| Week 4
T 9/15 |
Merry Wives of Winsor
Wall Staging Domesticity chapter one |
Discussion Presentations |
| Th 9/17 | Test One: Macbeth, Merry Wives of Winsor, articles Paleography, Transcription | Test one |
| Week 5
T 9/22 |
Antony and Cleopatra | Transcription assignment |
| Th 9/24 | Antony and Cleopatra
Peter Parolin “Cloyless Sauce” |
Discussion presentation
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| Week 6
T 9/29 |
Antony and Cleopatra | Transcription assignment |
| Th 10/1 | Transcription day: begin transcribing Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio. Each student will be assigned one page. Each page will be transcribed by 2 students. | |
| Week 7
T 10/6 |
No Class: Out of class transcription assignment | |
| Th 10/8 | No Class: Out of class transcription assignment | |
| Week 8
T 10/13
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Titus Andronicus | Paper one due Transcription assignment due |
| Th 10/15 | Titus Andronicus
Goldstein “The Cook and the Cannibal” |
Discussion presentation
Transcription assignment. One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 9
T 10/20 |
Titus Andronicus
Templeman, Sally. “’What’s This? Mutton?’: , Food, Bodies, and Inn-Yard Performance Spaces in Early Shakespearean Drama” |
Transcription due.
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment: One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Th 10/22 | Test Two: Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, articles, Transcription | Test Two |
| Week 10
T 10/27 |
Twelfth Night | Transcription due.
Transcription assignment:One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Th 10/29 | Twelfth Night
Appelbaum “Aguecheek’s Beef” |
Discussion Presentation |
| Week 11
T 11/3 |
Twelfth Night
Doring “Feasting and Forgetting” |
Discussion Presentations
Transcription assignment: One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Th 11/5 | Transcription day: Mini transcribathon. Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio | Transcription due. |
| Week 12
T 11/10 |
The Tempest | Transcription due.
Transcription assignment: One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Th 11/12 | The Tempest
Fumerton “Consuming the Void” |
Transcriptions due. Discussion Presentations |
| Week 13
T 11/17 |
The Tempest
Lupton “Room for Dessert” |
Discussion Presentations |
| Th 11/19 | Transcription day: One page from Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio | |
| Week 14
T 11/24 |
Writing Workshop | |
| Th 11/26 | Thanksgiving-No class | |
| Week 15 T 12/1 | Paper presentations | Transcriptions due.
Final paper due |
| Th 12/3 | Test Three: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, articles, transcriptions | Test Three |
| Week 16
T 12/8 |
Cooking Early Modern Recipes | Final Transcriptions due |
Assignments and Evaluation:
Daily quizzes: 10%
Group Transcriptions: 5%
Individual Transcriptions 5%
Conference Presentation: 5%
Participation and homework: 10%
3 Tests: 30%
Paper one: 15%
Final paper: 20%
Text: Norton Shakespeare
Daily Quizzes: Most days we will have a quiz about the readings for that day. Quizzes will be over the plot of the assigned play, the readings, paleography/transcription, and/or lecture. You must be in class to take the quiz; you cannot make up any quiz.
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