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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0807. Thursday, 31 July 1997. From: C. Jenise Williamson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 Subject: Job at Folger Library [Editor's Note: This announcement appeared July 17, 1997, on Associated Writing Programs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >. -HMC] Dear AWP Job List subscribers: Here is an update for a job posted last month. An extended job list will be posted shortly. REVISED Submission for AWP Job List ----------------------------- Poetry and Lectures Coordinator: Salary mid to upper 20's. Excellent benefits. Reports to Director of Museum & Public Programs. B.A. in English, advanced degree preferred. In-depth and on-going knowledge of modern literature required. Three to five years' experience in arts administration, including fundraising, grant writing, and budget preparation and implementation. As part of the Folger's Public Programs, designs, administers and arranges the Folger Poetry and Lecture Series. Researches, selects and contracts speakers and poets for series' programs. As part of the Folger development effort, identifies and solicits funding sources for programs, prepares grant applications and proposals, and leads the Folger Poetry Advisory Board in the organization of fundraising activities. Responsible for administration of poetry and lecture series budget. Administers the Hardison Poetry Prize Endowment fund and program and the Lannan Poetry Fellowship Program with area universities. Serves on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Committee of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area and maintains contact with national literary organizations. Supports the promotion of the series and other Public Programs in the preparation of announcements, invitations, and brochures. Send cover letter and resume to Folger Shakespeare Library, Attn: Poet, 201 E. Capitol St., S.E., WDC 20003-1094. No phone calls please. EOE. DEADLINE FOR RESUMES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 2, 1997.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0806. Thursday, 31 July 1997. [1] From: Rodney G Higginbotham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 19:56:13 -0500 (CDT) Subj: Actor's Identity [2] From: Ching-Hsi Perng <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 1997 16:39:30 +0800 Subj: Harwood's _The Dresser_ and _Lear_ [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rodney G Higginbotham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 19:56:13 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Actor's Identity I recently picked up an old print in an antique shop of an actor in the role of Falstaff. I haven't had any luck identifying the actor; therefore, I seek the assistance of fellow list members. I've scanned the image to the following web page: http://www.neiu.edu/users/urghiggi/fals.htm Please take a look and let me know. If you wish to contact me off-list, I am atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Many thanks. Rodney Higinbotham [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ching-Hsi Perng <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 1997 16:39:30 +0800 Subject: Harwood's _The Dresser_ and _Lear_ Does anyone know of any comment on the relationship between _King Lear_ and Ronald Harwood's _The Dresser_? As a translator of the latter I would appreciate any information on this. Sincerely, Ching-Hsi Perng National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0805. Thursday, 31 July 1997. From: Tanya Gough <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 08:34:21 -0400 Subject: Call for Videos Greetings to you all. Many thanks for all your interest in my endeavor, and special thanks to all of you who have already placed orders or made inquiries into our Shakespeare multimedia list. I am currently looking to expand our inventory to include festival and community theatre productions. Please contact me directly if you have or know of any commercial videos produced in conjunction with any of your local university, community or established theatre groups. We have just acquired several copies of the Russian "Twelfth Night" (1956), and we will be adding a range of audio spoken word and film soundtracks to our list shortly. Keep an eye on our website for updates. Thanks again, Tanya Gough
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0804. Thursday, 31 July 1997. [1] From: John McWilliams <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 12:50:38 +0100 Subj: The New/Old Globe [2] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 14:57:58 -0400 Subj: Re: Shakespeare on Radio; John Barrymore [3] From: Paul Nelsen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 09:24:45 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 8.0803 Juliet's Birthday [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: John McWilliams <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 12:50:38 +0100 Subject: The New/Old Globe To go back to the old debate about The New Globe, I went yesterday and it was fairly poor. They performed 'The Winter's Tale' which was a pretty silly choice in the circumstances: the atmosphere generated by tourists continually walking through the standing room in front of the stage, putting their rucksacks down for a few minutes, looking bored and then going away again hardly allows you to be carried away by this magical 'old tale'. And the production wasn't great anyway. It was quite interesting actually to see the thing reconstructed having seen pictures/diagrams etc. and this did give some idea of atmosphere and staging (and a well performed comedy might work well here), but otherwise it did seem very Disneylandesque. Has anyone seen anything else there that worked better? [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 14:57:58 -0400 Subject: Re: Shakespeare on Radio; John Barrymore I have a set of the 1937 radio broadcasts on the Ariel label. Although I have not listened to them in many years, I recall that they are worth the trouble to find-for the amusement, not for any brilliant acting or interesting insights. Bogart. for example, presents a uniquely slow-speaking Hotspur. I admit it was a novel approach. By the way, anyone who has a chance to see Christopher Plummer's "Barrymore" at the Music Box theater in New York will find the effort most rewarding. The play (a monologue, really) portrays the has-been Jack Barrymore trying to make a comeback in 1941 in a one-night only reprise of his first and greatest legitimate triumph, Richard III. Plummer has captured Barrymore's style, voice, mannerisms and appearance perfectly. On the night I attended he received a 10 or 15-minute standing ovation which, so far as I can see, was enthusiastically joined by everyone in the audience. [3]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Nelsen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 1997 09:24:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 8.0803 Juliet's Birthday Comment: Re: SHK 8.0803 Juliet's Birthday > Has anyone any suggestions on how I can obtain further information on the >saints days which might have been known to Shakespeare? A fertile source to begin with is Francois Laroque's *Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage* available in a translation by Janet Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. 1993). The bibliography itself will prove very helpful in developing an expanded reading list. A terrific index enhances the usefulness of this volume. I'd add that Michael Bristol's *Carnival and Theatre* (1985) and Robert Weimann's *Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theatre* are also key references. Paul Nelsen Marlboro College
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0803. Wednesday, 30 July 1997. From: Peter Nockolds <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Jul 1997 23:09:54 +0100 (BST) Subject: Juliet's Birthday 30th July 1997 Juliet's Birthday In Romeo and Juliet the nurse says Even or odde, of all daies in the yeare come Lammas Eve at night, shal she be fourteen. In a current French calendar of saints 30th July is the feast of St. Juliette, so was Juliet really born on an even-numbered day, the 30th, shortly before midnight? I've managed to trace the feast day of this saint - under the name Julitta - back to a calendar of saints from the 1660's, but no further. I've tried all the calendars of saints I could find in the British Library, but these are clearly not comprehensive. There were various reforms of the calendar of saints, with certain changes of dates, in the late 16th and early 17th century. Has anyone any suggestions on how I can obtain further information on the saints days which might have been known to Shakespeare? Peter Nockolds Richmond, Surrey, UK