2021 - Syllabus - Pandemic

LEM5143 – Teatro Britânico
Prof. Cido Rossi

Morning and Evening 1
SYLLABUS
2021
[pandemic version]
† Drama in the British Isles
† William Shakespeare
Macbeth
† Martin McDonagh
The Pillowman
†††
Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

UNESP – FCL-Ar
Departamento de Letras Modernas
aparecido.rossi@unesp.br http://ocaminhorecusado.blogspot.com http://lattes.cnpq.br/0428069285054155
Prof. Cido Rossi
Link of the discipline video playlist on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH5wSCR5c1shw8uDt4kcA_2uh6xt
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Link of the discipline page on Moodle:

https://capra.fclar.unesp.br/moodle/course/view.php?id=233
Link to access Cido’s Virtual Library

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ai3vD70OUsiAiRzjtI3eZKOYAFku?e=mn8hiT
†††

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EVALUATION 1
Deadline 1: January 21, 2022

Deadline 2: February 25, 2022
Written test on Macbeth
INSTRUCTIONS
† In pairs only.
† Write a critical analysis about the passage from Macbeth
reproduced below.
† Analysis must be entirely written in English and in accordance
with the technical specifications.
† Quotations are mandatory to the text of your analysis.
† For the grade composition of this evaluation, it will be
considered the usage of the English language and the analytical
approach to the passage from Macbeth.
† Technical specifications (MUST BE STRICTLY FOLLOWED):
o Written in Word or similar software;
o Maximum 1 (one) page and a half of length (no
minimum);
o A4 paper size; margins of 3 cm all sides; letter Arial 12;
1,5 spacing;
o ABNT quotation rules (if quotations were made) and
Works cited at the end (also if quotations were made);
o No cover page; the first page must be organized this way:
name of the first student in the first line in normal letter;

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Prof. Cido Rossi
name of the second student in the second line in normal

letter; a blank line; the answer starts in the next line
after this blank line;
o Following the specifications above, one student of the
pair must send this evaluation in a PDF file (no other file
type will be accepted) to the email address
evaluationsunesp@gmail.com until one of the
deadlines.
***
A PASSAGE FROM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH

(Act 5, Scene 5)
MESSENGER: Gracious my Lord,

I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to do it.
MACBETH: Well, say sir.
MESSENGER: As I did stand my watch upon the hill,

I look’d toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move.
(SHAKESPEARE, 1934, p. 101)

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Prof. Cido Rossi
EVALUATION 2

Comparative paper on Shakespeare and ghosts
† In groups of 3 or 4 students only.

† IMPORTANT: to do this evaluation it is demanded the reading of the
Shakespearean plays Macbeth and Hamlet and the short novel The
Castle of Otranto, written by Horace Walpole [both plays are found on
the Moodle page of the discipline; the short novel is found on Cido’s
Virtual Library, inside the file ‘Romances [textos completos]’].
† Two critical texts may be helpful for the composition of this paper:
o ‘Gothic and the Ghost of Hamlet’, by Dale Townshend [this is
chapter four of the book Gothic Shakespeares, edited by John
Drakakis and Dale Townshend – you may find this book on the
topic ‘Useful and Complementary Texts’ from the Moodle page
of the discipline]
o ‘Shakespeare: a invenção do Gótico’, by Cido Rossi [you may
find this text on this link:
https://www.todasasmusas.com.br/17Aparecido_Donizete.pdf]
† In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, right at the beginning of the play, we have
the so famous scenes of the ghost of Hamlet’s father (Act 1, Scenes 4
and 5).
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth we have a very important scene for the
prophecy outcome, which is the moment when the ghost of Banquo
appears on Macbeth’s coronation feast (Act 3, Scene 4).

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In Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto we have this happening:

At that instant the portrait of his [Manfred's] grandfather,
which hung over the bench where they [Manfred and
Isabella] had been sitting, uttered a deep sigh, and heaved
its breast.
[...]
Manfred, distracted between the flight of Isabella, who had
now reached the stairs, and yet unable to keep his eyes from
the picture, which began to move, had, however, advanced
some steps after her, still looking backwards on the portrait,
when he saw it quit its panel, and descend on the floor with a
grave and melancholy air.
“Do I dream?” cried Manfred, returning; “or are the devils
themselves in league against me? Speak, infernal spectre!
Or, if thou art my grandsire, why dost thou too conspire
against thy wretched descendant, who too dearly pays for—”
Ere he could finish the sentence, the vision sighed again, and
made a sign to Manfred to follow him.
“Lead on!” cried Manfred; “I will follow thee to the gulf of
perdition.”
The spectre marched sedately, but dejected, to the end of
the gallery, and turned into a chamber on the right hand.
Manfred accompanied him at a little distance, full of anxiety
and horror, but resolved. As he would have entered the
chamber, the door was clapped to with violence by an
invisible hand. The Prince, collecting courage from this delay,
would have forcibly burst open the door with his foot, but
found that it resisted his utmost efforts.
“Since Hell will not satisfy my curiosity,” said Manfred, “I will
use the human means in my power for preserving my race;
Isabella shall not escape me” (WALPOLE, 1811, p. 14-16).

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Prof. Cido Rossi
† Propose a comparative analysis between Shakespeare’s ghosts and

Walpole’s ghost taking into consideration the following two
statements:
a) ghosts in fiction normally represent the return of repressed
things from the past;
b) “That great master of nature, Shakespeare, was the model I
copied” (WALPOLE, 1811, p. viii), writes Horace Walpole
himself in the preface to the second edition of his The
Castle of Otranto.
† For the grade composition of this evaluation, it will be considered the
usage of the English language, the critical approach, creativity, and
the accordance to the technical specifications.
o Minimum 2 and maximum 4 pages (cover page and bibliography
not counted);
o Cover page containing students’ complete names and paper
title;
o A4 paper size; margins of 3 cm all sides; letter Arial 12; 1,5
spacing;
o Quotations are mandatory for this paper;
o ABNT quotation rules and Works cited at the end;
o Entirely written in English;
o Following the specifications above, one student of the group
must send this evaluation in a PDF file (no other file type will
be accepted) to the email address
evaluationsunesp@gmail.com until one of the deadlines.

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Prof. Cido Rossi
EVALUATION 3

Creative writing composition
INSTRUCTIONS
† Individual only.
† You must write a short fictional tale on the following theme:
Michal So, what, I could’ve done ones that wouldn’t’ve been
so horrible? Like what? […] ‘The Shakespeare Room’? Old
Shakespeare with the little black pygmy lady in the box, gives
her a stab with a stick every time he wants a new play
wrote? (McDONAGH, 2003, p. 62).
† Directions:
o the title of your short story must be ‘The Shakespeare Room’;
o William Shakespeare must be a character in your plot;
o your short story must be a narrative (it must tell a tale); drama
and poetry will not be accepted;
o your short story must be, necessarily and mandatorily, a
horror story.
† You may find either useful — but you are NOT obliged to use it — or
inspirational the fact that William Shakespeare wrote 28 sonnets
about a very intriguing figure the scholars now call ‘the Dark Lady’
[sonnets 127 to 154; you may read them on this link:
https://allpoetry.com/The-Dark-Lady-Sonnets-(127---154)].

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† Creativity is mandatory for this evaluation, since it is directed to those

who like to work out their creative, fictional, and literary sensibilities.
You are hereby invited to express yourself through fiction.
† For the grade composition of this evaluation, it will be considered
creativity, the usage of the English language, and the accordance to
the technical specifications.
o Minimum 2 and maximum 4 pages (no cover page);
o The first page must be organized this way: title of the tale in full
capital letter; the name of the student in the next line in normal
letter; a blank line; the tale starts in the next line after the
blank line;
o A4 paper size; margins of 3 cm all sides; letter Arial 12; 1,5
spacing;
o Entirely written in English;
o Following the specifications above, the student must send this
evaluation in a PDF file (no other file type will be accepted) to
the email address evaluationsunesp@gmail.com until one of
the deadlines.

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LEM5143 – Teatro Britânico

Prof. Cido Rossi

† Drama in the British Isles

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

Link of the discipline video playlist on YouTube:

Link of the discipline page on Moodle:

Link to access Cido’s Virtual Library

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

Deadline 1: January 21, 2022

Written test on Macbeth

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

name of the second student in the second line in normal

A PASSAGE FROM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH

MESSENGER: Gracious my Lord,

MACBETH: Well, say sir.

MESSENGER: As I did stand my watch upon the hill,

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

Deadline 1: January 21, 2022

Comparative paper on Shakespeare and ghosts

† In groups of 3 or 4 students only.

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

In Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto we have this happening:

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

† Propose a comparative analysis between Shakespeare’s ghosts and

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

Deadline 1: January 21, 2022

Creative writing composition

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

† Creativity is mandatory for this evaluation, since it is directed to those

Prof. Dr. Aparecido Donizete Rossi

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