The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.1158. Saturday, 15 November 1997.
[1] From: Kristine Batey <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 10:29:34 -0600
Subj: Kingship
[2] From: Louis C Swilley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 09:36:21 -0600 (CST)
Subj: Re: SHK 8.1151 Re: Am Reporter
[3] From: Richard Regan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 23:32:05 -0500 (EST)
Subj: Re: SHK 8.1145 Re: Seduction of Lady Anne
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From: Kristine Batey <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 10:29:34 -0600
Subject: Kingship
Lex Ames wrote:
>It is my position that comparisons of
>Lear to other, more successful, Shakespearean kings, such as Henry V,
>significantly illuminate the definition of Shakespearean kingship.
Don't forget to look at Claudius (and maybe Hamlet's dad as well). Good
luck, and welcome!
Kristine Batey
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From: Louis C Swilley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 09:36:21 -0600 (CST)
Subject: 8.1151 Re: Am Reporter
Comment: Re: SHK 8.1151 Re: Am Reporter
Joe Shea writes:
> I was
> once visited by Shakespeare in a dream when I was deeply involved in
> writing sonnets and worried to death about starving in the process. He
> told me:
>
> Tell Joe that if he must he can
> Wear a belt three times wrapped around;
> Even Great Joe in Old New York
> Wore a longer one in London Town.
>
> Naturally, I continue to love him.
If for your dream-visitor, your love may be dangerously misplaced, for
no Shakespeare would write lines that evidence such an ignorance of
prosody. As the vision may occur again, I recommend you take a garlic
wreath, a crucifix and a handbook to poetry to bed.
L. Swilley
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From: Richard Regan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 14 Nov 1997 23:32:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 8.1145 Re: Seduction of Lady Anne
Comment: Re: SHK 8.1145 Re: Seduction of Lady Anne
Vanessa Redgrave was reported by the New York Times a year or two ago as
telling a group of acting students that the wooing scene between Richard
and Anne could not possibly work. Perhaps the McKellan-Thomas version
accepted this verdict in some way, because it seemed to me that they
just ran the lines without a particular attempt to make them plausible.
Instead, the film seemed to rely on the shock value of the scene being
played in a morgue to carry the audience through to the rest of the
play.
Richard Regan
Fairfield University
