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ENGL 6213
Topics in Lit: Fools and Folly
Spring 2024
​Dr. Scott O'Neil

Week One: Blizzardy Welcomes

Week Two: Evolution and Confusion of the Fool

Week Three: Player Fools; Dramatic Fools in Shakespeare

I have no idea why YouTube chose this awful screencap for the initial image, haha.
I had to edit out the Dogberry and Hamlet clips to get the lecture video through Youtube's copyright filter.  I uploaded them below as a standalone video:

Week Four: King Lear and Conservative Folly

Week Five: Doubling and Double Disappearances

Week Six: The Fool's Errand (Remember Remember...)

Week Seven: As You Like It, Touchstone, and Fools in Love

Week Eight: As You Like It, Acts 3-5

Four clips of Touchstone rather rustically threatening poor, simple William (and some recent photos of my dog, Windsor):

Week Nine and Ten: Paper Workshopping and The Breaking of Spring

Week Eleven: Twelfth Night, Acts 1 and 2

Sir Toby Belch intro (AKA: Send in the Clowns/Lords of Misrule)
Feste's Introduction (Folly has been out looking for work)
Mark Rylance production--Cesario/Viola and Olivia first meet (Olivia falls in love big time)
Malvolio and the plot with the letter (2.5)

Week Twelve: Twelfth Night Acts 3, 4, and 5 (I swear I didn't put this play in week 12 on purpose, haha)

Act 3, Scene 1: Feste and Viola (two clips)
Malvolio's New Groove (3 clips):
Feste meets Sebastian (2 clips):
Feste as Sir Topas (2 clips):

Week Thirteen: Acts 1 and 2 of Antonio's Revenge

The audio/video quality isn't great, but this is the full production of Antonio's Revenge by one of the only active schoolboy companies currently in existence (Edward's Boys in England).  The video below contains Acts 1 and 2.

Week Fourteen: Acts 3, 4 and 5 of Antonio's Revenge

Edward's Boys--Act 3 of Antonio's Revenge
Edward's Boys--Act 4 of Antonio's Revenge
Edward's Boys--Act 5 of Antonio's Revenge

Week Fifteen: Folly's Echoes in Modern Texts

Y'all.  I spent literal DAYS trying over and over again to upload the final lecture for this course.  Over and over again, it would load about 60-65% and then just...freeze.  I finally tried the same method that worked for Antonio re: Julio and just chopped the sucker in half.  Thus, below, find the final lecture in parts 1 and 2.
Part 1 focuses on the structure of the conference paper and Danny Kaye's film, The Court Jester​.
Part 2 has a short bit on the television show Galavant and then focuses on Christopher Moore's book, Fool​.
YouTube flagged two copyright claims.  I challenged them for educational fair use, but I don't know if/when it will clear.  IF it clears, the link to the YouTube version of the lecture is below:
In two parts: The Court Jester (1955), starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, and Basil Rathbone
Part One
Part Two
"Neque enim is verus est habendus orator, qui bene scit dicere, nisi et dicere audeat."
 “No one who knows how to speak well can be considered a true orator unless he also dares to speak out.”             
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