The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0154 Thursday, 19 February 1998.
From: Hardy M. Cook <
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Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998
Subject: Updates Available on the SHAKSPER Fileserver
Dear SHAKSPEReans,
Thanks to Chris Gordon, two of SHAKSPER's most popular fileserver files
have been updated: "Shakespeare Spinoffs: A Bibliography Arranged by
Source Play" (SPINOFF BIBLIO) and "Shakespeare, the Character: A
Bibliography" (CHARACTR BIBLIO). To retrieve these files, send the
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One of my graduate students, Mariann Woodward, has made several updates
to the "SHAKSPER Directory of Shakespearean Organizations, Institutes,
Projects & Journals" (DIRECTRY INSTITUT) file. I still have to add
information from Jean-Marie Maguin and James Harner, but still many of
the other entries are still out of date. I have appended the file
below. If you have information about these (including SAA) or any other
items that should be included, please send that information to me. If
you are simply not interested, please hit the delete button now.
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SHAKSPER Directory of Shakespearean
Organizations, Institutes, Projects & Journals
February 14, 1998, Revision
This file aims at comprehensiveness rather than consistency. Entities
are listed in alphabetical order, but the following index subdivides
them by category. Regularly updated versions of this file are
available as "DIRECTORY INSTITUT" on the SHAKSPER Fileserver at
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Shakespearean Organizations:
Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West
Internet Shakespeare Editions
International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
Pennsylvania Renaissance Seminar
Renaissance Texts Research Centre
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries / Shakespeare-
Genootschap van Nederland en Vlaanderen (SGNV)
Shakespeare Centre (Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Stratford-Upon-Avon)
West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association
Shakespearean Institutes & Libraries:
Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
Huntington Library
Newberry Library
Pierpont Morgan Library
Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Shakespearean Projects:
Oxford University Press Electronic Oxford Shakespeare
Munster Shakespeare Wordform Database
Shakespeare on Disk
Toronto Renaissance Textbase
Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research
CMC ReSearch Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Reading Groups:
The Cheltenham Shakespeare Scoiety
The Washington Shakespeare Reading Group
Shakespearean Journals:
*Shakespeare Bulletin*
*The Shakespeare Newsletter*
*Shakespeare Quarterly*
*Shakespeare Studies*
*Shakespeare Survey*
*The Upstart Crow*
CMC ReSearch Inc. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Address: CMC ReSearch, Inc.
7150 SW Hampton, Suite C-120
Portland, OR 97223
Telephone: (503) 639-3395
Focus: Shakespeare.
Product: CD-ROM of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare in both the Queen's English and
Modern English.
Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar
Address: Columbia University
Telephone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx
E-Mail:
Affiliation:
Chairs: Margaret Ranald (Queens College emerita)
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Irene Dash (Hunter College)
David Kastan (Columbia U)
Founded: 1982
Membership: 50 individuals (faculty, students, theatre
practioners, fans, etc.)
Members - faculty from Columbia
Associate Members - by invitation, after regular
attendance at seminars
Vistors - welcome at every session
Focus:
Hours: First or Second Friday of the Month
5:30 - 7:30 (discussion and dinner)
Activities:
Publications: *Shakespeare Bulletin* and *Shakespeare Newsletter*
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft eingetragener Verein
Address: Windischenstrasse 4-6 D-99423 Weimar, Germany
Telephone: xx49 3643 90 4076
Internet: <www.uni-weimar.de/shakespeare>
Affiliation: Library affiliated with the Shakespeare
Bibliothek, Universitat Munchen, Schellingstr. 3,
8000 Munchen 40, West Germany.
President: Professor Dieter Mehl
Vice-president: Maik Hamburger
Founded: 1864 (Re-established 1963)
Membership: 1721 individuals, 151 organizations
Focus: Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama
Hours: Consult with the Shakespeare Bibliothek
Activities: Annual Conference (according to the *Directory
of European Professional & Learned Societies,
1990*.)
Publications: *Shakespeare-Jahrbuch* (annual, price varies)
Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
Address: 201 East Capitol Street S.E.
Washington, DC 20003, USA
Telephone: (202) 544-4600
Bitnet:
Affiliation: 23 Cooperating Universities
Director: Barbara A. Mowat
Exec. Dir.: Lena Cowen Orlin
Founded: 1932
Focus: Shakespeare, Renaissance, 18th Century Studies
Purposes: A collaborative enterprise co-sponsored by 23
major universities, the Institute offers a complex
interdisciplinary program of seminars, workshops,
symposia, colloquia, and lectures. The library
holds the largest collection of English
Renaissance books outside the British Isles, as
well as extensive collections in the English 17th
and 18th centuries, in the Continental
Renaissance, and in English and American
theatre history from their beginnings to the 20th
century.
Hours: 08:45 - 16:45 Monday to Saturday
Access with Postdoctoral References
No annual closure
Activities: Conferences, Seminars, Colloquia
Fellowships: Yes, contact the institute.
Publications: *Shakespeare Quarterly*, Conference
Proceedings, Folger Documents of Tudor and
Stuart Civilization, Folger Booklets on Tudor and
Stuart Civilization, *Shakespeare: The Globe and
the World* Travelling Exhibit & Published
Catalogue (Oxford University Press).
Details: Founded by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930),
President of Standard Oil. Endowment
administered by trustees of Amherst College.
Performances began in the 250-seat replica of a
"typical" Renaissance theatre in the 1960s.
Gift Shop offers specially-commissioned posters,
musical recordings, printed clothing, and books.
Directors: Joseph Quincy Adams (1934-1946),
Louis B. Wright (1947-1967), O.B. Hardison, Jr.
(1969-1983), Barbara Mowat (1983 - ).
Henry E. Huntington Library
Address: 1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108-1218 USA
Telephone: (626) 405-2141
Internet: <www.huntington.org>
Affiliation:
Director: Robert Allen Skotheim, President
Robert C. Ritchie, Keck Foundation Director of
Research
Founded: 1922 by Henry Edwards Huntington
Membership: 2000+ friends of the library, 200 library fellows
Focus: Shakespeare, English and American History and
Art.
Purposes:
Hours: 12:00-4:30 Tuesday-Friday
10:30-4:30 Saturday and Sunday
Activities: Lectures, Conferences, Seminars, Colloquia,
Concerts, Workshops
Library: 5400 incunabula, papers of 455 British writers,
Wallace Stevens and Conrad Aiken. Nearly
complete holdings of all books printed during
16th and 17th Centuries.
Fellowships: 30 or more research grants per annum.
Publications: *Huntington Library Quarterly*, *Guide to
American History Manuscripts in the Huntington
Library* (1979), *Guide to Literary Manuscripts in
the Huntington Library* (1979).
Details: Administered by a self-perpetuating board of five
trustees.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Address: Department of English
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C.
Canada, V8W 3W1
Telephone: (250) 721-6210
Fax: (250) 598-7899
Internet: <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare>
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Affiliation: University of Victoria
Coordinating
Editor: Michael Best
Focus: Shakespeare's texts: transcriptions of original
Folio and quartos texts; modern editions with
full annotation; source materials; performance
records, interactive discussions.
Purposes: To make high quality scholarly texts of
Shakespeare freely available in a format
native to the medium of the Internet.
International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
Address: c/o The Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire CV37 6QW, England
Telephone: (0789) 20-4016
E-Mail
Affiliation: Independent
Chair: Dr. Ann Jennalie Cook
Vice-Chair: Dr. Levi Fox
Founded: 1973
Membership: 500 individuals
Focus: Shakespeare
Purposes:
Hours:
Library: Books received are deposited with the
Shakespeare Centre (q.v.)
Activities: World Shakespeare Congress held every five
years; occasional lectures at different academic
meetings around the world.
Fellowships:
Publications: Occasional Papers; Proceedings of ISA World
Shakespeare Congresses held in 1976, 1981, and
1986.
Malone Society
Contact: Dr John Jowett,
The Shakespeare Institute,
Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire CV37 6HP,
UK.
Telephone: 01789 293138
E-mail
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OR: Professor Thomas Berger,
St Lawrence University,
Canton, NY 13617
USA.
Telephone: (315) 379 5134 or 5125
E-mail
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Product: The Society exists to make available the
manuscript and printed materials essential
for the study of English Renaissance drama.
It publishes editions of sixteenth and seventeenth-
century plays from manuscript, photographic facsimile
editions of printed plays, and editions of original documents
relating to the theatre and drama. Its publications
are renowned for their meticulous scholarship and
high standard of accuracy. Members of the Society
pay an annual subscription and in return receive the
annual volume. Publications of the Society currently
in print are available to members at prices
substantially below those at which they are offered
to the general public.
Activities: The Society arranges occasional conferences
relating to its publications and its editorial
objectives.
Munster Shakespeare Wordform Database
Address: Professor Dr. H.J. Neuhaus, Direktor
Englisches Seminar
Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat
Johannisstrabe 12-20
D-4400 Munster Germany
Telephone:
E-mail: <len14@dmswwu1a.bitnet>
Affiliation: Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat
Director: Professor Dr. H.J. Neuhaus
Focus: Elizabethan England and English (Early Modern,
Shakespearean, Elizabethan).
Product: Database. A collection of wordforms --
grammatical units rather than lexical units
(lemmas) -- permits distinctions among the uses of
individual word types (e.g. Database distinguishes
between such uses of "love" as common noun,
verb, root of a contraction, and component of a
hyphenated term.) Options: string search;
concordance; dictionary; indexing; parsing;
collating; "grammatical windowing". Spevack's
*Concordance to Shakespeare* [1968-1980] and
Leisi and Wolff's *Chronological English
Dictionary* [1970] were used in the
computer-assisted lemmatization procedure to
produce the dictionary entries. Project uses a
Pr1me 250-II computer and CODASYL-DBMS
software. Components of the database are being
ported from the mainframe to CD-ROM.
Newberry Library
Address: 60 West Walton Street
Chicago, Illinois
USA
Telephone:
Affiliation: Independent, Privately Endowed.
Chair: Chalkley J. Hambleton (1979- )
Founded: 1892 by Walter Loomis Newberry
Membership:
Focus: History, Humanities; Western Civilization from
late Middle Ages to the end of the Napoleonic
Era in Europe, from the era of discovery to the
era of revolution in Latin America, and to
modern times in North America.
Purposes:
Hours:
Activities: Renaissance Studies Center (since 1980).
Library: 1.4 million volumes, 4,110 running feet of
manuscripts, Pullman Railroad Archives, 13,000
pre-1900 maps. Collections in history of
printing, cartography, music; the Italian
Renaissance, colonial Brazil, Latin Americana.
Fellowships: Yes.
Publications: *Newberry Library Bulletin* (1944- ), *Newberry
Newsletter* (1973- ).
Details: 1889 purchase of Henry Probasco collection,
2500 volumes including incunabula and
Shakespeare Folios.
Oxford University Press Electronic Oxford Shakespeare
Distributor: Oxford Electronic Publishing
Oxford University Press
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel. (212) 679-7300 ext. 7370
OCP Info: Oxford Concordance Program
Oxford University Computing Service
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN, United Kingdom
tel. (0865) 273200
Internet: <
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(questions about OCP mainframe only)
Product: *William Shakespeare: The Complete Works,
Electronic Edition* for the IBM PC, ed. Stanley
Wells and Gary Taylor, Oxford University Press,
1989.
Description: Textbank to facilitate the analysis of the
complete works of William Shakespeare.
Micro-OCP (text analysis package) produces word
lists, indexes, and concordances. Held in a
series of plain ASCII files on low density
5.25-inch or 3.5-inch disks formatted for use on
the IBM PC; simple yet comprehensive coding
scheme -- reserved characters that act as
markers to signal start and end of references,
characters to denote accents; fixed format and
COCOA format are the two reference schemes;
designed for use with the Oxford Concordance
Program. IBM PC, XT, AT, or PS/2 micro-
computers, or full compatibles. 512K RAM, hard
disk (7 mgb min.), DOS of 3.0 or higher, and
IBM-PC compatible printer (optional). Program
(Micro-OCP) is distributed on two 5.25" or two
3.5" disks (including tutorial).
Costs: Micro-OCP $350 (Educational Site License
$1750). Complete Works $150 (Site License $450).
(Shipping additional).
Pennsylvania Renaissance Seminar
Address: c/o Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
Special Collections, Van Pelt Library
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206, USA
Telephone: (215) 898-7552
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
President: Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
Secretary: Prof. Ivy Corfis
Founded:
Membership:
Focus: Interdisciplinary studies primarily in history, art
history, classics, English, French, Italian.
Purposes:
Hours: 09:00 - 16:45 Monday to Friday,
10:00 - 16:45 the first Saturday of each month
during term
(call 215-898-7088 for further information) Annual
Closure: National holidays.
Activities: Sponsors speakers, primarily drawn from its own
members, or visiting scholars (ca. 6 times p.a.).
Lectures are usually in the late afternoon,
followed by discussion and dinner.
Library: Access to the Rare Book and Furness
Shakespeare Libraries at the University of
Pennsylvania. Specialization: Shakespeare,
Renaissance English Drama, Aristotle, texts and
commentaries; Elzevier imprints; Tasso; Ariosto;
STC books; neo-Latin literature; 17th cent. Latin
Americana; herbals; Golden Age Spanish drama.
Fellowships:
Publications:
Pierpont Morgan Library
Address: 36th Street
New York, NY USA
Telephone:
Affiliation: Public Reference Library, NY City (1924- )
Director: Charles Ryskamp (1969- )
Chair:
Founded: 1902 by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913)
Membership: 600 Fellows
Focus: Shakespeare Folios, Rare books of all kinds,
manuscripts, William Morris' library,
Library: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts; 2000
incunabula; tens of thousands of autographs,
manuscripts, letters and documents (especially Sir
Philip Sidney, Milton); Americana; early children's
books.
Hours:
Activities: Graduate study courses, lectures, exhibitions
Fellowships:
Publications:
Renaissance Texts Research Centre
Address: English Department, University of Reading, P.O.Box
218,
Reading, UK
Telephone:
Internet: www.reading.ac.uk/globe
E-mail:
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Affiliation:
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Focus:
Purposes: Study of plays in original performance, especially at
the new Globe; work on various projects, including New
Variorum TEMPEST.
Activities: Now linked with Globe Research, the group recording
what is done in performance at the new Globe, and
reported on its web page.
Renaissance Textbase [Proposed]
Address: Center for Computing in the Humanities
University of Toronto
Robarts Library, Room 14297
130 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A5
Telephone: (416) 978-8656
E-Mail: <CCH@Utorepas.Bitnet>
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Coordinator: Ian Lancashire
Focus: English Literature 1450-1700, major poets
(Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton)
Purposes: Goals: new tools in scholarly editing developed
with electronic texts, improved definition of the
global literary vocabulary of the age of
Shakespeare, and new mapping of allusions and
references to printed and manuscript works;
Components: unmodernized texts of all major
works, commentaries, contemporary glosses of
entire vocabulary from period lexicons and
complete instances in textbase. TEI markup
standards, planned distribution on CD-ROM.
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
Address: c/o Prof. Nancy Elizabeth Hodge
Department of English
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275 USA
Telephone:
Bitnet: Prof. Phillis Rackin
Affiliation: Independent
Exec. Dir.: Prof. Nancy Elizabeth Hodge
Founded: 1973
Membership: 850 Individuals
Focus: Drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in
England; Shakespeare's verse.
Purposes:
Activities: SAA Annual Meeting (See VANCOUVR
CONFERNC on the SHAKSPER Fileserver for
information about the 1991 SAA Conference).
Fellowships:
Publications: *Bulletin of the Shakespeare Association of
America* (1978 - ) (Twice p.a.)
Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries / Shakespeare-
Genootschap van Nederland en Vlaanderen (SGNV)
Address: c/o Dr. A. J. Hoenselaars
Department of English,
Utrecht University,
Trans 10,
3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: 030-2537845
E-Mail:
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Affiliation: International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
Founded: 1992
Membership: 100 individuals and institutions
Focus: Plays and poems of Shakespeare (English, theatre,
translation, adaptation)
Purposes: Coordinating interest in Shakespeare in The
Netherlands and in Dutch-speaking Belgium
(Flanders). Interface between the Low Countries
and Shakespeare societies or libraries abroad.
Activities: Annual General Meeting. Conferences. Pre-
and post-performance discussions. Lectures.
Guest lectures.
Publications: *Folio* (Bulletin of the Shakespeare Society of
the Low Countries), twice per annum since 1994.
*Reclamations of Shakespeare* (Editions Rodopi:
Amsterdam and Atlanta, Ga., 1994).
Shakespeare Centre
Address: Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6QW, England
Telephone: (0789) 20-4016
E-Mail:
Affiliation: Independent
Director: Dr Levi Fox, O.B.E.
Sr.Librarian: Mrs Marian J. Pringle
Sr.Archivist: Dr. Robert Bearman
Founded: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust founded 1847
Membership: Use of the Shakespeare Centre Library facilities
is free to any `bona fide' student or scholar.
Focus: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan world, theatre,
local studies.
Purposes: The Centre provides accommodation and
facilities for the Trust's educational activities,
together with a visitors' centre for Shakespeare's
Birthplace. The tasks of the Trust are to
preserve and maintain the Shakespearean
properties and to be responsible for assisting the
general advancement of Shakespearean
knowledge.
Hours: 10:00 - 17:00 weekdays, 09:30 - 13:20 Saturdays,
Annual Closure: Bank holidays and Saturdays
preceding Bank holidays.
Activities: Colloquia, seminars, exhibitions, conferences.
Shakespeare Centre is the administrative office
for the International Shakespeare Association
(q.v.).
Courses: A variety of courses for senior school students,
interested individuals, degree students, etc.,
arranged on request or as part of the regular
programme of the Centre's work.
Library: ca. 40,000 vols (10,000 mss; 500 rare books; 100
modern imprints; 500 microforms; 20,000
photographs; 50 journals); a Records Office, with
its own reading room, is attached to the library
Specialization: Shakespeare, theatre,
Warwickshire history and topography. Includes
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Library
collections.
Fellowships: The Jubilee Educational Fund can assist scholars
with small financial assistance; details available
on written request to the Director.
Publications: Guidebooks to Shakespeare properties; Levi Fox,
*In Honour of Shakespeare* (Norwich, 1983).
Shakespeare Institute
Address: Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire CV37 6HP,
England
Telephone: 01789 293138
Fax: 01789 414992
E-mail
enquiries:
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham
Director: Professor Peter Holland
Deputy Diector: Dr. Russell Jackson
Librarian: James Shaw
Founded: 1951
Membership: Institute staff and registered students.
Focus: The study of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries, with special emphasis on the
plays in performance, textual study, and
critical history.
Purposes: To further postgraduate research in
Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Hours: 09:00 - 17:00 weekdays; access by application
to the Director. Annual Closure: Bank holidays
and university closures.
Activities: The Shakespeare Institute is a centre for
research and postgraduate teaching in
Shakespeare attached to the Department of
English, University of Birmingham.
Research students work towards PhD and other
degrees assessed by thesis. The Institute also
offers full-time one-year courses for the
degree of MA and for the Postgraduate Diploma
in Shakespeare Studies. The Biennial
International Shakespeare Conference
(attendance by invitation) is held at the
Institute, as is the annual Royal Shakespeare
Company Summer School.
Library: 120,000 vols (2500 rare books; 54,000 modern
imprints 60,000 vol. equivalents in microfilm
and microform; 70 journals). Specialization:
All aspects of Shakespeare studies and English
dramatic literature, 1475-1700. Special
collections include Renaissance Theatre
Company promptbooks.
Visiting
Fellowships: Non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowships are
available for distinguished scholars and
critics. The Institute also welcomes
applications for the status of Visiting
Scholar.
Publications: "Report of the International Shakespeare
Conference" (proceedings); *Shakespeare Survey*
(annual), edited by the former Director,
Professor Stanley Wells.
Shakespeare On Disk (Clinton Corners, NY)
Update newsletter: Shakespeare on Disk
Hollow Road, P.O. Box 299
Clinton Corners, NY 12514
Ordering: Shakespeare on Disk
Dept 29B, Hollow Road
Clinton Corners, NY 12514
tel. (914) 266-5705
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