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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 636. Thursday, 7 October 1993. From: Nate Johnson <LHT@CORNELLA> Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 93 16:03:34 EDT Subject: Shakespeare in Watergate Query Does anyone know how I can identify Shakespearean references (especially Senator Ervin's) in the 12,000 pages of Watergate hearing transcript? "Shakespeare," unlike "Ehrlichmann" is not one of the indexed categories. Please reply privately unless your response is of general interest. --Nate Johnson
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 635. Thursday, 7 October 1993. (1) From: Herbert Donow <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 11:30:39 CST Subj: Moor / Moro (2) From: Ed Pechter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 19:14:01 -0500 (EST) Subj: [Variorum Editors] (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Herbert Donow <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 11:30:39 CST Subject: Moor / Moro A recent note about moor-moro prompt me to ask the following: I have a student named Mattimore. Her family is from Ireland. When I asked her if she traces her lineage to Spain (Matamoros), she thought I must be crazy for asking? Is there anyone out there who knows about that name, or names like it? Herb Donow Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ed Pechter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 19:14:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Variorum Editors] To Anyone Who Knows, Who's in charge of the new new Variorum Shakespeare project, and where can I reach them? Since this is not of general interest, feel free to write to me privately. Many thanks.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 634. Thursday, 7 October 1993. (1) From: Katy Egerton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 93 14:28 EDT Subj: Re: Adaptations - Jane Smiley's _A Thousand Acres_ (2) From: Ed Pechter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 19:14:01 -0500 (EST) Subj: Re: SHK 4.0631 Q: Adaptations of Shakespeare (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katy Egerton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 93 14:28 EDT Subject: Re: Adaptations - Jane Smiley's _A Thousand Acres_ Smiley's _A Thousand Acres_ recasts the Lear story in the Iowa farm crisis of the early 1980's. Ginny (Goneril) is the principle speaker, and her telling of the tale highlights, among other things, an intriguing reading of the play in terms of gender. Cordelia is almost a non-presence, Lear an abusive father, etc.. I've been a fan of Smiley's for a long time, and while I prefer her novellas ("The Age of Grief" and _Ordinary Love & Good Will_), I thought that _ATA_ deserved its Pulitzer. In terms of studying the links with/departures from Lear, what about the "punishments" - the blinding of Gloucester (ammonia poisioning) and Rose's (Reagan's) breast cancer interested me specifically. cheerio - Kate Egerton (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ed Pechter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 19:14:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: 4.0631 Q: Adaptations of Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 4.0631 Q: Adaptations of Shakespeare To Cora Eng, I wouldn't get hung up on *A Thousand Acres* as an "adaptation" of *King Lear*; "adaptation" suggests that Smiley was based in *Lear* when writing her novel, but it seems to me the other way round. The novel has its own concerns and energy and makes use of *Lear* to suggest resonances of the heroic and mythic: this book isn't limited to The Fate of the Family Farm. Would you really want to get into specific similarities between, say, Gloucester and the other farmer who gets blinded? You COULD do that, if you wanted to, but I don't think it would be very useful. On the other hand, if that's what your prof wants . . . Good luck.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 633. Thursday, 7 October 1993. (1) From: Jeff Nyhoff <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 07:43:06 -0700 Subj: [Re: *Tempest* Videos] (2) From: Jean Peterson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 1993 11:17:40 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos (3) From: Mary Jane Miller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 14:21:47 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Nyhoff <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 07:43:06 -0700 Subject: [Re: *Tempest* Videos] I'm missing something: in a single sentence, Mr. Orgel dismisses "Prospero's Books" from a consideration of productions of _The Tempest_, as if the reasons for doing so should be obvious. Was this film collectively dismissed by this discussion group upon its release? In any case, I cannot agree. I must argue that hypermedia treatments of Shakespeare's plays (e.g. the MIT presentations at SAA last April), ultimately approach a striking similarity to "Prospero's Books," and consequently I cannot think of a more timely film for consideration in a Shakespeare course. Regardless, can someone suggest where in the group archives I might find previous discussion of the film? Thanks, Jeff Nyhoff UC Berkeley [To locate past discussions, I would suggest that you first search the four indexes to the past discussions -- DISCUSS INDEX_1 (1990), DISCUSS INDEX_2 (1991), DISCUSS INDEX_3 (1992), DISCUSS INDEX_4 (1993). After you have the digest numbers, you can either order the appropriate monthly log or use a gopher server to get to the Conference's LISTSERV ARCHIVES at the University of Toronto to read the appropriate digests. --HMC] (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jean Peterson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 1993 11:17:40 -0400 Subject: 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos Comment: Re: SHK 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos >Dear Gardner Campbell, The Tempest that you refer to is one of a series >made by Bard Productions in rivalry with the BBC Shakespeare Plays. The >release date I have is 1985. The big selling point was to use American >actors whom American students could identify with. So far as I know the >series was never completed, though about six exist, some well received >others denounced. Just another word about the Bard productions: there was a review of this *Tempest* in *Shakespeare Film Newsletter* some years ago; I recall that the critic made some intelligent associations between Zimbalist as Prospero and the political climate of the '80's--Prospero for the Reagan Years! (I think there was also some reference to Zimbalist's association with the religious right). Afraid I can't give you the date of the issue, but maybe you can track it down. I have seen the Bard *Shrew*, and it is so awful it must be seen to be believed. Which is not to say it isn't food for thought--especially since Bard sells itself as offering "definitive" versions of the plays as pedagogical resource. Jean Peterson Bucknell University (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mary Jane Miller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 6 Oct 93 14:21:47 -0400 Subject: 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos Comment: Re: SHK 4.0628 Re: *Tempest* Videos Has anyone mentioned the film made of Peter Brook's extraordinary workshop on *The Tempest*, with Brook talking about his own vision. It is full of vivid sound and physical imagery with a Japanese Ariel in kimono, everyone else in blacks, done in, on and around an audience seated on scaffolding and on a bare platform. The only props which I remember are a set of coloured scarfs used at the end. Actors names elude me but I could check an off-air tape of it after [the Canadian] Thanksgiving coming up. Whether it's available on video I don't know - but it does provoke some interesting discussion in class when I have used it. As much for what Brook said about the play as for his realization of it. I would guess that the time it was made is the early 70's. I'll dig further if anyone needs to know more. Mary Jane Miller, Dept. of Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1. e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 632. Thursday, 7 October 1993. (1) From: James Schaefer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 09:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE (2) From: Robert Burke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 16:49:52 -0500 (CDT) Subj: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE (3) From: William Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 21:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James Schaefer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 09:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE Comment: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE Three cheers for Kenneth Rothwell for admitting that he gleans ideas and insights about Shakespeare wherever he can, including from biochemist/ mathematician/popular sci-fi writers! We all want to promote solid scholarship. But as one of my two dissertation advisers told me, everything is grist for the mill; and as the other one said, she rather have a student with enthusiam that needs disciplining than a plodding, unimaginative performer/scholar. Amateurism in its basic sense (loving what one does) is what got most of us into this business in the first place, and we should encourage it in others. Jim SchaeferThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Burke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 16:49:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE Comment: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE I have always found Asimov a treasure-trove of answers to the questions which most of us never think to ask - but which students are probably asking. For example: I think he tells us how far Mantua is from Verona. I have never cheked out his answer on a map, but I presume he is ac- curate. My students seem to value him, if only because he is a name they recognize. Glad to know someone else has found him interesting. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 06 Oct 1993 21:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE Comment: Re: SHK 4.0630 Q: Asimov's GUIDE Regarding Ken Rothwell's comments on Asimov, I've never used the Guide (but I'll certainly check it out now). I was, however, at Asimov's talk at the MLA, and I heartily agree with you: he was great. I went away with a new respect for him. Yours, Bill Godshalk