The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0768.  Thursday, 17 July 1997.

[1]     From:   Lisa Hopkins <
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        Date:   Thursday, 17 Jul 97 09:42:00 0BS
        Subj:   Merchant and Dracula

[2]     From:   Richard Dutton <
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        Date:   Thursday, 17 Jul 1997 08:13:00 +0100
        Subj:   RE: SHK 8.0763  Help with Thesis


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From:           Lisa Hopkins <
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Date:           Thursday, 17 Jul 97 09:42:00 0BS
Subject:        Merchant and Dracula

I know nothing about the production to which Jerry Bangham refers, but
I've just been reading Judith Halberstam's 'Technologies of Monstrosity:
Bram Stoker's _Dracula_', in _Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle_,
edited by Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken (Cambridge University Press,
1995).  She argues that Stoker drew on stereotypical images of the Jew
in creating Dracula - and since he was Henry Irving's stage manager at
the Lyceum, he was very familiar with Shakespeare - so maybe this
production is suggesting a similar association.

Lisa Hopkins
Sheffield Hallam University

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From:           Richard Dutton <
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Date:           Thursday, 17 Jul 1997 08:13:00 +0100
Subject: 8.0763  Help with Thesis
Comment:        RE: SHK 8.0763  Help with Thesis

As far as *Hamlet* is concerned, Karen Dempsey should know about Bernice
Kliman's *Hamlet: Film, Television and Audio Performance* (Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 1988), which is very good about early film
and TV versions of the play, and often lists where copies are available
- though it is clear that many of them are not in general distribution.

Richard Dutton