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

• 📄 General Prologue
• 📄 Wife of Bath

William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

Text

• 📖 Othello - Arden Edition 🇬🇧
• 🔗 Othello - Folger Online Edition 🇬🇧
• 📖 Othello - Translation 🇧🇷

Summary

• 🧠 Plot summary from Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages

Discussion questions

• 📄 Act I
• 📄 Act II
• 📄 Act III
• 📄 Act IV
• 📄 Act V

Quiz

• 📄 Act V Quiz

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"

Study Guides

• 🧠 Othello - Study Guide (Macmillan) - commentary scene by scene
• 🧠 Othello - Study Guide (CliffsNotes) with summaries, character analysis, themes, symbols, etc.