| L1 | Introduction | |
| Part I. Witches |
| L2 | Social history of witch-hunting |
Readings  Briggs, Robin. Excerpts from Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996, pp. 3-13, 137-157, and 259-286. ISBN: 9780670835898.
Stephens, Walter. "Why Women? The Malleus Maleficarum." Chapter 2 in Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 32-57. ISBN: 9780226772615. [Preview in Google Books]
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| S1 | Section discussions on witches introduction |
Readings Willis, Deborah. "(Un)neighborly Nurture." Chapter 2 in Malevolent Nurture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 27-65. ISBN: 9780801481949. [Preview in Google Books] Gibson, Marion. "Witches and magistrates: Essex 1582." Excerpt from Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003, pp. 28-36. ISBN: 9780801488740. [Preview in Google Books] Midelfort, Erik H. C. "The General Crisis of Confidence, 1627-1684." Excerpt from Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684. Standford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972, pp. 150-154. ISBN: 9780804708050. [Preview in Google Books]
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| L3 | Introduction to Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Readings Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth Oxford World's Classics Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780192834171. Notes on the supernatural in Shakespeare's Macbeth (PDF)
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| F1 | Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
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Film Kurosawa, Akira. Throne of Blood. 1957. Reading (optional) Goodwin, James. Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 169-191. ISBN: 9780801846618.
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| S2 | Shakespeare, Kurosawa and context |
Reading Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare Bewitched." In New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History. Edited by Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 108-135. ISBN: 9780691015460. [Preview in Google Books]
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| L4 | Purcell, Dido and Aeneas; Handel, Alcina (excerpts) |
Music Purcell, Heny. Dido and Aeneas. European Voices, Le Concert d'Astrée, Susan Graham, Ian Bostridge, et al. Virgin Veritas CD 7243 5 45605 2 1, 2004. Handel, George Frideric. Excerpts from Alcina. William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Renee Flemming, Susan Graham, et al. Erato, 2000. Ah! mio cor!
Verdi prati
Ah! Ruggiero crudel
Ombre pallide Readings Notes on the supernatural in 17th- and 18th-century music for London. (PDF) Notes on Alcina (PDF) Readings (optional) Price, Curtis. "Dido and Aeneas: The Allegory." In Henry Purcell and the London Stage. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (reissue of 1984 edition). ISBN: 9780521105156. Pietropaolo, Domenico. "Alcina in Arcadia." University of Toronto Quaterly 72, no. 4 (2003): 858-869.
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| S3 |
Alcina performance excerpts; discussion of Purcell, Handel |
Alcina synopsis (PDF) |
| L5 | Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique; Verdi, Macbeth (excerpts) |
Music Berlioz, Hector. Symphonie fantastique. Roger Norrington, London Classical Players. Virgin Classics, 2006 (reissue). Mvmt. 1, 2, 4 and 5. Verdi, Guisseppe. Macbeth. Claudio Abbado, Alla Scala Theater Orchestra and Chorus, Shirely Verrett, Piero Cappuccilli. Deutsche Grammophon, 1997. [Listen online to complete opera (MP3 stream) (64 kbps encoding)] Excerpts from Act 1 Preludio
Introduzione: Che faceste? dite su!
Due vaticini compiuti or sono
S'allontanarono!
Sappia la sposa mia
Di destarlo per tempo il re m'impose Excerpts from Act 3 Tre volte miagola
Ballo
Finche appelli
Fuggi, regal fantasima
Ondine e Silfidi
Macbeth libretto: Italian | English translation Readings Notes on Verdi's Macbeth (PDF) A Beginner's Guide to the Supernatural in Music: Macbeth and Symphonie fantastique (PDF) Parker, Roger. "Macbeth." In New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 98-104. ISBN: 9780195313147. [Preview in Google Books]
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| L6 | Berlioz, Verdi |
Reading Albright, Daniel. "MacBeth." Part II in Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007. ISBN: 9781580462556. [Preview in Google Books]
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| Part II. Wizards |
| L7 | Introduction to learned magic, alchemy and astrology |
Readings Kieckhefer, Richard. "Arabic Learning and the Occult Sciences," and "Necromancy in the Clerical World." Excerpts from Magic in the Middle Ages. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 116-119 and 133-165. ISBN: 9780521785761. [Preview in Google Books] Grafton, Anthony. "The Master of Time," and "The Astrologer's Practice." Chapters 1 and 2 in Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 1-37. ISBN: 9780674095557. [Preview in Google Books] Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Wizards: A History. London, UK: Tempus/History Press, 2004, pp. 13-32 and 77-81. ISBN: 9780752428406. Godwin, Joscelyn. Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds. Newburyport, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1991 (reprint), pp. 23, 30, 34, 40, and 47. ISBN: 9780933999695.
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| S4 | Section discussions on wizards introduction | |
| L8 | Introduction to Goethe's Faust
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Reading Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von. Faust: Part I. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780140449013. Beginning to line 2072 (p. 69).
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| S5 | Goethe's Faust
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Reading Goethe, Faust: Part 1. Line 2073 to end.
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| L9 | Liszt, Faust Symphony
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Music Liszt, Franz. Faust Symphony. Leonard Bernstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Kenneth Riegel. Deutsche Grammophon, 1996 (reissue). Song settings of Goethe's poem "Der Erlkönig" (text), by Franz Schubert and Johann Friedrich Reichardt: - In-class performance of both songs by Ellen Harris, voice, and Charles Shade, piano.
- Recording: Schubert, Franz. The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Vol. 8: Complete Songs. Sarah Walker, Graham Johnson. Hyperion, 1990. Reading Searle, Humphrey. "Franz Liszt (1811-1886)." In The Symphony. Edited by Ralph Hill. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1949, pp. 191-197; music examples 1-8, pp. 200-201. "Dr. Johannes Faustus: Puppet play." London, UK: David Nutt in the Strand, 1893. - Required excerpts ( PDF - 1.0MB)
- Optional: Complete edition (Open Library | PDF - 4.1MB)
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| S6 | Symphonic repertoire |
Reading Handout on Liszt (PDF)
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| F2 | Murnau, Faust
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Film Murnau, F. W. Faust. 1926. (View or download the complete work from Internet Archive.) Reading (optional) Ott, Frederick W. "Faust." In The Great German Films. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1991, pp. 69-73. ISBN: 9780863695728.
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| S7 | Murnau and Goethe | |
| L10 | Gounod, Faust
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Music Gounod, Charles. Excerpts from Faust. Serge Baudo, Philadelphia Opera Orchestra, Marta Senn, Valerie Masterson, et al. Ponto, 2005. Libretto for Faust: French | English translation Reading Notes on Gounod's Faust (PDF) Sternfeld, F. W. "Faust." In New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195221862. (Also in the library subscription service Oxford Music Online.) Huebner, Steven. "Faust (ii)." In New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195221862. (Also in the library subscription service Oxford Music Online.)
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| S8 | Gounod, Goethe |
Readings Faust comparison: Goethe, Carré, Gounod, Murnau (PDF) Kelly, James William. The Faust Legend in Music. Detroit, MI: Detroit Reprints in Music, 1976. ISBN: 9780911772814. [See especially the lists of musical works.] Huebner, Steven. "Faust." In The Operas of Charles Gounod. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 99-132. ISBN: 9780193153295.
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| Part III. Ghosts |
| L11 | Introduction to hosts and spiritualism; Henry James's Turn of the Screw; Britten's Turn of the Screw
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Readings James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780141439907. [Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg] - Introductory notes Historical Outline on Henry James and Benjamin Britten (PDF) Britten's Turn of the Screw: A Basic Guide (PDF) - Context Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism & Women's Rights in Nineteenth Century America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, chapters 1-2 (required); chapter 3 (optional). ISBN: 9780253215024. [Preview in Google Books] Menand, Louis. "The Man of Two Minds." Chapter 4 in The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York, NY: Macmillan, 2002. ISBN: 9780374528492. [Preview in Google Books] Richardson, Robert. Excerpts from William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2007, pp. 257-265, 478-79, and 506-510. ISBN: 9780618919895. [Preview in Google Books] - Henry James Jones, Vivien. "Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw'." Chapter 1 in Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw. Edited by Patricia Howard. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 1-22. ISBN: 9780521283564. [Preview in Google Books] Beidler, Peter. Excerpts from Ghosts, Demons, and Henry James: The Turn of the Screw at the Turn of the Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989, pp. 76-101 and 150-159. ISBN: 9780826206848. - Benjamin Britten Howard, Patricia, eds. "Myfanwy Piper's 'The Turn of the Screw'." Chapter 2 in Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 23-62. ISBN: 9780521283564. [Preview in Google Books] For students with considerable musical experience: Evans, Peter. "The Turn of the Screw." Chapter 10 in The Music of Benjamin Britten. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 203-222. ISBN: 9780198165903. [Preview in Google Books] For students with less musical experience: White, Eric Walter. Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970, pp. 176-186. ISBN: 9780520016798. Music Britten, Benjamin. The Turn of the Screw. English Opera Group Orchestra. 1955 original recording. In Britten Conducts Britten Operas 2. Decca, 2005 (box set reiusse).
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| L12 | Spiritualism and ghost stories |
Film "Telegrams from the Dead." American Experience. PBS/WGBH, 1997. Reading Gaskell, Elizabeth. "The Old Nurse's Story." In Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology. Edited by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780192829993.
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| F3 | Evening film screening Britten, Turn of the Screw
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Film Britten, Benjamin. The Turn of the Screw. Mark Padmore, Lisa Milne, Diana Montague, Catrin Wyn Davies, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox. BBC / Pro Arte DVD, 2005.
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| S9 | Discuss choice of presentations | |
| L13 |
Turn of the Screw on film | |
| S10 | Presentation preparations | |
| S11 | Student presentations; discussion of context and James | |
| S12 | Student presentations; discussion of James and Britten | |
| L14 | Summary of class | |
