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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 104. Monday, 25 May 1992. (1) From: Vinton Cerf <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, May 3, 1992, 16:05 GMT Subj: Re: SHK 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film (2) From: Steve Urkowitz <surcc%cunyvm.bitnet@utcs> Date: Friday, May 8, 1992, 08:01:00 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film (3) From: Daniel Traister <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, May 3, 1992, 19:35:01 -0400 Subj: RE: SHK 3.0098 Productions of the Shakespeare Apocrypha? (4) From: Karen K. Marshall <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1992, 21:51:41 -0400 Subj: Oregon Festival (1)--------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vinton Cerf <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, May 3, 1992, 16:05 GMT Subject: 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film Comment: RE: SHK 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film Regarding Tad Davis' comments on Branagh in *Henry V* and Nicol Williamson's *Hamlet*, I have to agree. The battle scene in *Henry V*, particularly the slow-motion treatment, lent an air of inescapable fate to the scene. Swords descend with infinite, slow, and inevitable consequence. The same method is used in the Merchant Ivory production of *Howards End* after the court scenes and rendering of the verdict. Is this technique now considered a cliche? With regard to Williamson, despite the many other Hamlets I have scene, I thought Williamson's rendering by far the most convincing (particularly in the soliloquy). I also liked Mel Gibson's energy and range, but was left less convinced in the introspective scenes. Vint Cerf (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Steve Urkowitz <surcc%cunyvm.bitnet@utcs> Date: Friday, May 8, 1992, 08:01:00 -0400 Subject: 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film Comment: Re: SHK 3.0094 Shakespeare on Film About Tad Davis's appreciation of Branaugh's HENRY V: Yes, I agree it does a lot of stirring things. But despite der wunderkind's protestations about the anti-war intentions he may have had, I'd like to pass on Michael Warren's comment. He said, "The Branaugh movie is about the glory of young men being blooded. "What Branaugh does, as I see it, is glorify Henry, especially in the battle. Those "slow-motion" death-on-the-rugby-pitch scenes of anonymous combat between equal warriors is more like CHARIOTS OF FIRE than it was like the absurd slaughter of 10000s, most of whom died from the crush of their own comrades rather than from arm-to-arm combat. The arithmetic of the story and the arithmetic of the movie are cock-eyed. All those single or double combats make it seem like there were lots of fair fights going on. And then, at the last moment after showing the discovery of the innocent dead lads, Branaugh leaves out Henry's "kill the prisoners" episodes. Hey, I've seen Robin Hood movies and simple cowboy flicks that generated more ambivalence about the killing done by the "good guys" than Branaugh's movie managed. Overlaying the Duke of Burgundy's lament about the war's destruction with romantic-dramatic clips of glorious battle esentially gutted any sense of the brief combat's futility. Sorry about that. Don't mean to rain on your happy parade for what is in many ways a fine film. But it ain't ugly where Shakespeare calls in ugly, so it's less than it ought to be, than it could have been. Steve Urkowitz, SURCC@CUNYVM (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Daniel Traister <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, May 3, 1992, 19:35:01 -0400 Subject: 3.0098 Productions of the Shakespeare Apocrypha? Comment: RE: SHK 3.0098 Productions of the Shakespeare Apocrypha? In either 1974 or 1977, I saw *Two Noble Kinsmen* produced in Regent's Park, London, in a production that was acceptable if unexciting. One left with the feeling that the play might have worked better than it did--which was good enough, but no better than that--in a production graced by better actors than I fear I remember seeing on that occasion, and perhaps less urban noise than I also remember. At this date, I can recall little else about the production--but it is *certainly* a viable work for the stage and I find it difficult to imagine why one might suppose it *not* "viable." Daniel Traister, Curator of Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215 898 7088 (phone); 215 898 0559 (fax)This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. @in (e-mail) (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Karen K. Marshall <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1992, 21:51:41 -0400 Subject: Oregon Festival I'll be going to the Oregon Shakespearean Festival this summer. Does anyone have any recommendations for the productions being offered this year? It will be my first time attending, so any tips will be welcome. KareMarshall University of VirginiaThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 103. Monday, 25 May 1992. From: Peter Scott/U of Saskatchewan Library <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday May 7, 1992 )8:28:00 -0400 Subject: New/forthcoming books, May 1992 THE RHETORIC OF COURTSHIP : courting and courtliness in Elizabethan language and literature / Catherine Bates. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-521-41480-6 EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA : an anthology / edited by John C. Coldewey. -- New York : Garland Pub., 1992. -- (Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1313) ISBN 0-8240-4699-4 (acid-free paper) ISBN 0-8240-5465-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) HAMLET AND THE CONCEPT OF CHARACTER / Bert O. States. -- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. ISBN 0-8018-4339-1 THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR / edited by Jay L. Halio. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. -- (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) ISBN 0-521-33111-0 ISBN 0-521-33729-1 (paper) IAGO / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. -- New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1992. -- (Major literary characters) ROMEO AND JULIET : original text of Masuccio Salernitano, Luigi Da Porto, Mattio Bandello, William Shakespeare / introduction by Adolph Caso. -- Boston :MA : Dante University of America Foundation, c1992. Contents: Thirty-third story / Masuccio Salernitano. -- Romeo and Juliet / Luigi Da Porto. -- Romeo and Juliet / Matteo Bandello. -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare. ISBN 0-937832-32-4 : $19.95 SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICAN PAINTING : a catalogue from the late eighteenth century to the present / Richard Studing. -- Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 1992. ISBN 0-8386-3408-7 (alk. paper) SHAKESPEARE AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN : approaches for the secondary classroom / Mary Ann Rygiel. -- Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c1992. ISBN 0-8141-4381-4 JUNG AND SHAKESPEARE / Barbara Rogers-Gardner. -- Wilmette, Ill. : Chiron Publications, 1992. -- (The Chiron monograph series ; v. 7) ISBN 0-933029-55-1 : $12.95 DESIRE AND ANXIETY : circulations of sexuality in Shakespearean drama / Valerie Traub. -- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. -- (Gender, culture, difference) ISBN 0-415-05526-1 ISBN 0-415-05527-X (pbk.)
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 102. Monday, 25 May 1992. (1) From: "Daniel Traister" <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday May 3, 1992 19:30:01 Subject: RE: SHK 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? (2) From: William Kemp <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday May 4, 1992 13:52:03 EDT Subject: Re: SHK 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? (1)--------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Traister" <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday May 3, 1992 19:30:01 Subject: 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? Comment: RE: SHK 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? I understand from Columbia Professor Terry Belanger, who dealt with this matter on ExLibris, that the threat of FCC taxes on modems is a new-style "urban legend" (see the several works on *that* topic by Brunvand) and has no basis in reality. You might want to check with him for confirmation on this point; my memory could be faulty (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). But I don't think so. Daniel Traister, Curator of Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215 898 7088 (phone); 215 898 0559 (fax)This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. @in (e-mail) (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: William Kemp <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday May 4, 1992 13:52:03 EDT Subject: 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? Comment: Re: SHK 3.0097 New FCC Surcharges for Modem Use? The warning about FCC surcharges for modem users refers to a proposal about two years that the FCC abandoned when it got flooded with complaints. It started appearing again about three weeks ago on various lists as a kind of electronic legend. It's not accurate. Dump it, and don't write the FCC. They might revive the idea if anyone reminds them of it. Bill Kemp Mary Washington College Fredericksburg, Va.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 101. Sunday, 3 May 1992. From: Ken Steele <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, May 3, 1992 Subject: Apologies for SHAKSPER Delays Dear Fellow SHAKSPEReans; My apologies, particularly to recent contributors, for the undue delays in processing SHAKSPER digests in the past few weeks. I've been overwhelmed in other areas of life (including buying our first house) and unfortunately email has suffered. The next two weeks will be still worse, I'm afraid, as I will be out of town until mid-May and will probably not have network access. Unfortunately these disadvantages come with the advantages of a moderated list... at least you're not all being inundated with error messages. The good news is that Hardy Cook, SHAKSPER's co-editor, will shortly be taking on the formidable task of editing the daily contributions into digests. Hardy has proven diligent and indefatigable in managing the SHAKSPER Fileserver and membership inquiries, and I have every confidence that the time lag currently facing contributors will virtually disappear under his care. In the meantime, feel free to submit messages to SHAKSPER, but please realize that they will wait two weeks before being published. Yours, Ken Steele University of Toronto