Course Materials
The Adventure of English Documentary
- 📼 Episode One (YouTube)
- 📼 Episode Two (YouTube)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
- 📖 The General Prologue - Middle English 🇬🇧
- 📖 The General Prologue - Translation 🇧🇷
- 🔗 The General Prologue Interlinear Translation (Harvard)
The Wife of Bath - Prologue & Tale
- 📖 The Wife of Bath Prologue & Tale - Middle English 🇬🇧
- 📖 The Wife of Bath Prologue & Tale - Translation 🇧🇷
- 🔗 The Wife of Bath Prologue & Tale Interlinear Translation (Harvard)
Supplements
- 📖 The Canterbury Tales - Complete Translation 🇧🇷
- 🔗 The Canterbury Tales - Encyclopedia Britannica
- 🧠 The Canterbury Tales - Study Guide (CliffsNotes)
Handouts
William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
- 📖 Othello - Arden Edition 🇬🇧
- 📖 Othello - Translation 🇧🇷
- 🧠 Othello - Study Guide (Macmillan) - commentary scene by scene
- 🧠 Othello - Study Guide (CliffsNotes) with summaries, character analysis, themes, symbols, etc.
- 📊 Slide Deck
Adaptations
- 📼 Othello (1990, dir. Trevor Nunn) with Ian McKellen & Willard White (YouTube)
- 📼 Othello (1965, dir. Stuart Burge) with Laurence Olivier & Maggie Smith (YouTube)
Supplements
- 📼 You can read Shakespeare. Here's how by Henry Oliver (YouTube)
- 📼 Why We Can't Do Plays Like Shakespeare Anymore: The London History Show by J. Draper (YouTube)
- 📼 Acting Shakespeare by Ian McKellen (YouTube)
- 📼 Henry V (1944, dir. Laurence Olivier) - useful for seeing the theater (YouTube)
- 📄 Barbara Heliodora, "Otelo, uma tragédia construída sob uma estrutura cômica"