In this assignment we'll all read some texts, mentioned by Linebaugh and Rediker, that will help us put their discussion of The Tempest into historical perspective.
Everyone -- Group 1 and Group 2 -- should download Brown, "'This Thing Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine'".(Canvas)
In addition, you will divide up the studying and making notes on the following "supplementary" essays.
Groups 1 should read Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals",
Group 2: the essay by Ronald Takaki cited in footnote 30 to Chapter One.
Groups 1 and 2, Bacon's essay "Of Seditions and Troubles".
Groups 1 and 2: Read, and make notes on, the essay by Stephen Greenblatt, "Murdering Peasants," from Representations I:1 (February, 1983). NOTE: Linebaugh and Rediker do NOT use this article. I have assigned it because it shows some similarities with their discussion.
NOTE: If you are not connected to the Internet through MSU, you will have to go through the Sprague Library Home Page, then "Articles & Databases", then "Periodicals List". Then find Representations. Eventually you will have to log in using your MSU NetID -- the same login and password you use in your mail.montclair.edu account.
Everybody should makes notes on Brown too.
You should share these notes with those in your own group, as well as with those in the other groups, so that everyone has a good set of notes on all five articles. For example, people in Group 1 should share their notes on Montaigne with people in Groups 2, and so on. I assume you can arrange how to do this amongst yourselves?
In every case when I ask you to read an essay, and do not provide any information about locating it, you can be sure that
it is in Sprague Library; or
you can obtain it through the electronic databases available through the Sprague Library Page; or
it is on our CANVAS space.
The electronic databases most relevant for us are these four: Ebsco; Infotrac; JSTOR; and Project Muse.
We will discuss these materials, the approaches they take, and the problems raised in them, in MHH, and in Shakespeare's play, in class.
Email to me, and to the others in your group, the notes YOU have made on the supplementary essay for your group. Make them good, thorough notes. Use proper format. Indicate the article by putting the last name of its author on your Subject line, after your last name and the class date.