The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.1020. Thursday, 9 October 1997.
[1] From: Milla Riggio <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 1997 10:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Re: A dumb query
[2] From: Barrett Fisher <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 1997 14:37:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 8.1014 Qs: 1000 Acres; Clapping; Race/Religion/Opera
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From: Milla Riggio <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 1997 10:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: A dumb query
Dear Hardy and others:
I have been asked by someone planning a retirement party for a
Shakespeare director what the best net/web source for Shakespeare's
plays is, so that they can browse through for quotations. How would an
informed person answer this (probably all too obvious) question. I need
to know in something of a hurry.
Thanks,
Milla Riggio
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From: Barrett Fisher <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 1997 14:37:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: 8.1014 Qs: 1000 Acres; Clapping; Race/Religion/Opera
Comment: Re: SHK 8.1014 Qs: 1000 Acres; Clapping; Race/Religion/Opera
SHAKSPEREANS:
A colleague who will be teaching "Othello" has asked me if I can think
of any books or movies "inspired" by, or responding to, the play in much
the same way as Jane Smiley's "1000 Acres." I cannot think of either a
film or book off the top of my hand, so I am drawing on your collective
wisdom for suggestions.
Since one theme of the play is miscegenation, I did tell her that Spike
Lee's "Do the Right Thing" is a good recent film treatment of mixed race
relationships, but that movie is hardly inspired by "Othello"; the
Denzel Washington character is also an adulterer, there is a large
subplot with a crackhead brother and, most importantly, the movie does
not have an Iago-figure or Iago perspective (though I suppose the
brothers of the white woman provide that to a certain extent).
Any help would be much appreciated. Private replies are welcome if this
is not of general interest.
Barrett Fisher
Bethel College (MN)