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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 488. Saturday, 14 August 1993. (1) From: Georgianna Ziegler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 09:44:00 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare (2) From: Ellen Edgerton <EBEDGERT@SUADMIN> Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 10:39 ET Subj: Re: Audio Shakespeare (3) From: Nick Clary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 11:54:32 -0500 (EST) Subj: Audio Shakespeare (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Georgianna Ziegler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 09:44:00 -0500 Subject: 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare The Folger gets a lot of audio and video Shakespeare materials. One catalog lists Caedmon records as having 14 Shakespeare plays in 34 audiocassettes for $280. The BBC has some audio cassettes also, but only for 4 plays. The only complete set we know of is the BBC Shakespeare video, 37 plays for $2500. Perhaps if your library contacted Caedmon directly, they might find that more are available. The catalog we have with this information is on Shakespeare and is put out by The Writing Company, 102000 Jefferson Boulevard, Room K01, P.O. Box 802, Culver City, CA 90232-0802. Phone 1-800-421-4246; FAX 310-839-2249. Hope this is helpful. Georgianna (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Edgerton <EBEDGERT@SUADMIN> Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 10:39 ET Subject: Re: Audio Shakespeare If you don't need the complete audio set right away, you might want to wait until the Renaissance Theatre Company is done with their series on Random Century Audiobooks. At the rate they are planning on doing the entire canon (one play every spring), they ought to have a complete set recorded by 2029. These are full-length productions available on cassette and CD (which allows for the interesting though silly possibility of Shuffle-Play Shakespeare). So far they have done HAMLET and ROMEO AND JULIET, and plan to do KING LEAR next spring. I wasn't terribly impressed with their HAMLET, though it had its moments. The production values are absolutely superb, however; this is Shakespeare with an emphasis on "ear." It's perhaps the only uncut HAMLET I've heard that didn't make me want to gnaw my leg off out of boredom, which I suppose counts for something. Ellen Edgerton Syracuse UniversityThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nick Clary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 13 Aug 1993 11:54:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: Audio Shakespeare You may wish to add to your list of audio recordings a wonderfully illuminating series published by Sussex Tapes International, under the title APPROACHES TO SHAKESPEARE. These tapes (each cassette addresses a single play) present a scholarly converstation/debate on one side and alternate readings of a small array of speeches and dramatic moments from the play on the other. In the case of the OTHELLO tape, for example, R. A. Foakes and Kenneth Muir discuss some of the salient critial questions concerning the principal characters (side 1), and John Barton directs the actors through alternate readings of the same speeches, which illuminate distinct character possibilities within the script. I am not certain how many of the plays are included in this series. Those that I have include HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR, MACBETH, and THE TEMPEST. Perhaps someone else can supply further information. The dealer that handled these tapes in the 1970's was Holt Information Systems (the price then was $11 per play). Nick ClaryThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 487. Friday, 13 August 1993. From: H-Rhetor <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 11 Aug 1993 13:40:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: Announcing a New List: H-RHETOR History of Rhetoric Discussion List FORMAT ------ H-RHETOR is moderated by Gary Hatch of Brigham Young University (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Posts to the list are collected by the moderator and distributed in digests daily. Announcements of interest and notes from the moderator may be sent as singular messages. MISSION ------- H-RHETOR is an international electronic discussion group based at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). H-RHETOR will provide a forum for scholars and teachers of the history of rhetoric, writing, and communication. There are no geographical or chronological boundaries. 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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 486. Friday, 13 August 1993. From: Peter Ayers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1993 08:23:48 -0400 Subject: *The Tempest* by the Sea References to Shakespeare in Central Park prompt me to suggest that any visitor to Newfoundland for the rest of August might want to experience a rather tempestuous Tempest performed on the ocean at Logy Bay, 10 minutes from central St. John's, on Aug. 15, 18, 22, and 25, starting at 6:00 pm. It is not for the faint of heart; if the weather is warm (not likely), insect repellent is advised; otherwise lots of woolies and blankets are appropriate. As Gonzalo, I get to deliver what seems the appropriate commentary: "Some heavenly power guide us from this fearful country." on the positive side, it is a very strong production with the best set in history; how many other productions have humpback whales surfacing regularly in the background?
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 485. Friday, 13 August 1993. (1) From: Tad Davis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 93 9:35:35 EDT Subj: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare (2) From: Gardner Campbell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1993 14:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Subj: RE: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare (3) From: Celine Gura <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1993 04:36:26 Subj: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tad Davis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 93 9:35:35 EDT Subject: 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare I know of four sets of more or less complete Shakespeare, and I still run across them in the odd bookstore or two. Caedmon and Cambridge both produced Shakespeare series, with the complete texts of the plays. The Caedmon recordings, directed by Howard Sackler, are particularly elaborate, and feature people like Paul Scofield playing Hamlet and Lear, Sean Connery (if memory serves) playing Hotspur, and a host of other notables. I find the pace of the Caedmon recordings to be a bit slow; on the other hand, when I was a junior in college and they were available at the Richmond Public Library, I used to check them out on the weekends and spend hours listening to them over and over again. They're designed for people who really want to drink deep. The Cambridge recordings are a little faster-paced but the acting is more formal, a little more shallow in some way. Where the Caedmon series is an audio "experience," the Cambridge series seems more like a recording of a stage production. Neither would be intelligible to someone who was not otherwise familiar with the play. (Since they're complete, though, it's possible to follow along in the script.) The BBC has a series of recordings too, but I'm not sure if it's the complete set. I've heard the Lear with Alec Guiness and it's quite good. The recent CBC production of Lear drew much praise on this list recently, but I haven't heard it. There are two sets of abridged performances that are still around: the "Living Shakespeare" series, about an hour per play, with introductions by Bernard Grebanier. Name-brand actors, great production values (lots of music and sound effects), probably a good way for high school students to make contact with the text, hacked and pared as it might be. Spoken Arts also has a series of recordings produced by Micheal MacLiammor and the Dublin Gate Theater, again about an hour per play. The emphasis here is more on the sound of the poetry, with longer chunks of individual speeches than the Living Shakespeare set. LS gives a more carefully proportioned view of the story; SA lets you revel in the language. I'm very much interested in other responses to this query. I've recently become intrigued (again) with the idea of radio drama, which was always my first love. It seems to me an ideal Shakespeare for audio would be about two hours long, requiring many cuts, but not as many as the one-hour versions; with period music and realistic sound effects, and the occasional BRIEF narration (under protest). I don't know if anyone's ever tried it this way. Tad DavisThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gardner Campbell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1993 14:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare Comment: RE: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare I can't speak to the plays on audio cassette, but I can vouch for a lovely two-cassette edition of the complete *Sonnets* on Argo, read by Richard Pasco (of the RSC--Jacques in the BBC *As You Like It*). Hearing all the sonnets read, in order, by such a superlatively good reader as Pasco, effects transport ... for this listener, anyway. Gardner Campbell University of San DiegoThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Celine Gura <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1993 04:36:26 Subject: 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 4.0484 Q: Audio Shakespeare John- I did a very brief search this morning for you and you might want to try calling some of these places and inquiring about the complete works: Educational AV Pleasantville, NY 1-800-431-2196 Precision Video and Audio Bellwood, IL 312-544-7770 Audio Partners Auburn CA (couldn't track phone #) American Audio Prose Library Columbia MO 1-800-447-2275 Annenberg/CPB S Burlington VT 1-800-learner These are from my database which came up under a search of "audio" and "humanities". I am putting word out to the librarians on my media mailing list(Media-L%This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) and I will write with more info. Celine Gura (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) Media Acquisitions Coordinator Rush University LRC 312-942-6799
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 484. Thursday, 12 August 1993. From: John Ottenhoff <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 11 Aug 1993 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Audio Shakespeare The director of my college's library has proposed buying a complete set of audio tapes for Shakespeare's plays. Any ideas out there about a good set of tapes and vendors thereof? Thanks John Ottenhoff / Alma College