Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0786. Sunday, 15 October 1995.
(1) From: David Jackson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 13 Oct 95 10:02:50 EST
Subj: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
(2) From: Peter Herman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 13 Oct 1995 15:51:11 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
(3) From: Gavin H Witt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Oct 95 0:20:20 CDT
Subj: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
(4) From: Chris Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Oct 95 17:04:30 -0500
Subj: Recreational Reading
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From: David Jackson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 13 Oct 95 10:02:50 EST
Subject: 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
Comment: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
From a production point of view, if the already suggested works have been read,
I would suggest Charles Marowitz's "Recycling Shakespeare", which may raise the
hackles of some, but he always has interesting insights, he is pragmatic, and
he doesn't suffer fools gladly. As a supplement, I would add Peter Brook's
Shakespeare materials in "The Shifting Point".
Of course, everyone has his/her favorite, and it will be interesting to see how
many (if any) people suggest the same book.
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From: Peter Herman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 13 Oct 1995 15:51:11 -0400
Subject: 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
Comment: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
My nomination would be Stephen Greenblatt's _Renaissance Self-Fashioning_. More
than ten years after its initial publication, it's still the most suggestive,
and certainly among if _the_ best written, critical book I've read.
Peter C. Herman
Dept. of English
Georgia State University
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From: Gavin H Witt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Oct 95 0:20:20 CDT
Subject: 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
Comment: Re: SHK 6.0782 Re: Suggested Readings
For a single book to open up a study of Shakespeare's plays, I have found John
Barton's _Playing Shakespeare_ to be a bible when considering issues of
performance. Even better if you can get your hands on the accompanying videos.
It is scholarly without being academic, historical but incidentally so; not for
a theoretical or literary critical reading necessarily, but truly indispensable
if you need access to issues of how the texts are brought to life on a stage.
Including some generally useful guides to close reading of the plays.
Just a thought from a different angle..
Gavin Witt
University of Chicago
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From: Chris Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Oct 95 17:04:30 -0500
Subject: Recreational Reading
For those Shakespeareans who enjoyed Stephanie Cowell's first novel, *Nicholas
Cooke* (which centered on a man who is a member of Shakespeare's company), the
second volume (it's designed as a trilogy), *Physician of London,* is being
published by Norton in November. I found a copy in a bookstore today, however,
and wish I had time to read it right now. Stephanie will also be reading from
the novel in NYC in November.
Chris Gordon