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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 65. Monday, 24 Sep 1990. Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 20:37:41 EDT From: Ken Steele <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Subject: Conference Announcements, Calls for Papers The following Conference announcements and calls for papers appear in the September 1990 Newsletter of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS: English Renaissance Prose. Fourth annual conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. October 12-13, 1990. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St. Louis, Missouri, October 25-27, 1990. Information: Elisabeth Cleason, Dept. of History, University of San Francisco, California, 94117, USA. Attending to Women in Early Modern England. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, Nov. 8- 10, 1990. Information: Joan Hartman, Dept. of English, College of Staten Island/CUNY, 130 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island, New York, 10301, USA. CALLS FOR PAPERS: 30 Sept., 1990. "Sex and Sexuality in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance." To be held at the University of Toronto, 22-23 November 1991. Scholars are invited to propose papers analyzing any aspect of sex and sexuality. Papers from all disciplines and perspectives are invited and interdisciplinary methodologies are encouraged. Two copies of a one page abstract and a brief curriculum vitae should be sent by Sept. 30, 1990 to Jacqueline Murray, Dept. of History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4. Tel: (519) 253-4232 ext. 2323. January 15, 1991. 14th International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre. To be held at the University of Waterloo, July 22-26, 1991. Short papers on "Women and the Elizabethan Theatre" are invited to supplement a programme of invited addresses. Papers concerned with Elizabethan and Jacobean drama apart from Shakespeare are particularly welcome. Submissions, not exceeding ten pages, should be sent by Jan. 15 to Lynne Magnusson or Ted McGee, Dept. of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, N2L 3G1. Bitnet: <ALMAGNUS@watdcs>. 20 May, 1991. "Place and Displacement in the Renaissance." To be held at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, October 18-19, 1991. Abstracts or completed papers (the latter given preference) to be submitted by May 20 to Prof. Alvin Vos, CEMERS, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, 13902. International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Meeting to be held in Baltimore/Washington, Sept. 25-29, 1991. For information and abstract form write Prof. N. Struever, Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. __________________________________________________________________ [The CRRS Newsletter is distributed free of charge and its current circulation is 1250. To enter notices or to be placed on the mailing list, contact the editor: David Galbraith, Curator, CRRS, Victoria University, Toronto, Canada M5S 1K7. Bitnet: <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > or <CRRS@utorepas>. Fax: (416) 585-4584.]
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 64. Monday, 24 Sep 1990. Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 07:27:00 EDT From: Ken Steele <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Subject: Course Outlines, Reading Lists A SHAKSPERean has privately suggested that this conference might be an ideal medium for a "teaching exchange" on Shakespeare. I would like to invite members to submit course outlines, introductory handouts, or reading lists, whether for high school, undergraduate, or graduate level courses, to the group for distribution or archival on the Fileserver. Any other suggestions, as well as any other bibliographies, are also welcome. Members should be able to "upload" ASCII files to their mainframe accounts via a file transfer protocol such as "Kermit" -- I am not asking anyone to re-type a complete file. For more information, please contact your computing centre staff or (as a last resort) myself. I also look forward to continued discussion of the anthology issue -- (I'm just suggesting a parallel discussion, not a replacement.) Ken Steele University of Toronto
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 63. Monday, 24 Sep 1990. (1) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 20:28 EST (40 lines) From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS> Subject: collected vs paperbacks (2) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 07:39:46 EDT (38 lines) From: Ken Steele <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Subject: The Oxford Complete Works (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 20:28 EST From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS> Subject: collected vs paperbacks The choice of the collected Shakespeare or individual paperbacks is one that has long been a problem. I have in the past used selected paperbacks either the Pelican or Arden but lately have used only the Riverside. It's cumbersome and at times I am tempted to cut it up into smaller parts--tragedies, comedies, etc., but find that not really helpful. The advantage of a collected works, of course, is the fact that you have available for you in class a ready means to illustrate not just by reference but by actually turning to a passage or passages for comparison. For example, it is more effective, I think, to illustrate Shakespeare's self-referential in jokes by seeing the passages on the page and not just referring to them. Thus the bishop of Ely's strawberries in RIII are given yet another dimension when another Ely selects strawberries as a vehicle for his metaphor in Henry V. The sonnets and poems are handy also in relation to the plays. I typically do 9 or 10 plays in an undergraduate course for majors. I believe that an English major should have a complete Shakespeare and even though we will cover only approximately one third of the plays, the volume will become a permanent part of their libraries. (I know, I know. I'm being naive. I, too, have seen them lined up at the end of the semester to sell their books back to a jobber.) Whatever the stance of the editor(s), the value of a consistent, clearly spelled out approach to the textual problems is worth the disadvantages of a collected works. [John Dorenkamp College of the Holy Cross Worcester, Massachusetts] (2) --------------------------------------------------------------42---- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 07:39:46 EDT From: Ken Steele <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Subject: The Oxford Complete Works I am curious as to the general acceptance of the New Oxford Shakespeare in college classrooms. It seems to me that the individual volumes should be as useful as the New Arden or Cambridge Shakespeares -- up-to-date, fully annotated, carefully edited -- but the Complete Works have, of course, no annotation (unless one counts the glossary) and no textual information (unless one also lugs around the hefty and pricey Textual Companion, which is the definitive source). It seems clear that Oxford's primary target with the Collected Works (Old-Spelling and Modern-Spelling) and the Textual Companion was the Shakespeare scholar, not the student. I'm not sure Oxford realized this at the time -- but apparently negotiations are now being made with Norton in the United States to publish an Oxford Shakespeare with annotation at the foot of each page, presumably in a smaller format to be more convenient as a student edition. (Oxford's own smaller-format Collected Works has been available for some time, but does not differ textually from the larger, heavier volume -- the largest and most awkward text of Shakespeare I've ever carried around campus!) Does anyone out there use the Oxford Collected Works, in modern or old- spelling? The individual Oxford editions, as they become available? The electronic version? Does anyone suggest these texts to their students, or are these considered purely research materials, like the Textual Companion? Is the preferred collected works the Alexander text or the Riverside? And was Hardy Cook thinking of political implications beyond the expense imposed on students by an instructor's choice of Collected Works? The monumentality of a collected volume in terms of the reformulation of the canon? The editorial implications of one approach or the other? Ken Steele University of Toronto
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 62. Saturday, 22 Sep 1990. Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 17:38 EST From: <WRIGHTS@CUA> Subject: Anthologies In his query about using paperback editions of Shakespeare, Hardy M. Cook mentions the "theoretical and political implications" of using an anthology. I'd be interested to learn more about exactly what those implications might be. I assume that he means something besides the tacit assumptions and biases of the editor(s), since these would be evident in separate paperback editions as well. Does the anthology format itself raise certain problems for readers and teachers? Steve Wright WRIGHTS@CUAVAX
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 61. Saturday, 22 Sep 1990. Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 10:06 EDT From: "Hardy M. Cook" <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Subject: Anthology Versus Paperbacks I teach Shakespeare to undergraduate English majors. In past years, I have required my students to purchase a one-volume anthology: either Bevington's *Complete Works* or Evans' *Riverside*. In the spring, I'm planning to use paperback editions of individual plays for the first time. I would appreciate any comments on the merits of an anthology versus paperback editions. I am very aware of the theoretical and political implications of using an anthology, but I would still like to hear what others think on the matter. Hardy M. Cook Bowie State UniversityThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.