Friday, November 2, 2007

OPTIONAL Blog - Romeo & Juliet Sources due by 11 November

Please choose ONE essay and discuss the author's argument:

Lehmann, Courtney. “Strictly Shakespeare? Dead Letters, Ghostly Fathers, and the Cultural Pathology of Authorship in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.Shakespeare Quarterly 52.2 (2001): 189-221.


Levenson, Jill L. "Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare." Studies in Philology 81.3
(1984): 325-347.


Negron-Muntaner, Frances. “Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and Puerto Rican Identity Discourses.” Social Text 18.2 (2000): 83-107.

OPTIONAL Blog - The Chalk Circle - due 04 November


The Chalk Circle (Huilan ji), a Chinese zaju play by Li Qianfu, was written in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)