The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0687 Friday, 24 July 1998.
[1] From: Cary M. Mazer <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 13:08:16 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 9.0686 Re: Children and Shakespeare
[2] From: Andrew Walker White <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 14:01:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Hamlets on Video
[3] From: Martin Jukovsky <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 14:17:08 -0400
Subj: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
[4] From: Tom M Mueller <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 21:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Poison
[5] From: John Owen <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 23:07:25 EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 9.0678 Shakespeare Films and Videos
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From: Cary M. Mazer <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 13:08:16 -0400
Subject: 9.0686 Re: Children and Shakespeare
Comment: Re: SHK 9.0686 Re: Children and Shakespeare
>Kathleen Hannah wrote:
>Diane Stanley has a few books out that deal with Sakespeare's time, lots
>of nice illustrations. Bruce Coville and Ann Keay Beneduce have both
>recently retold _The Tempest_ in large-format illustrated books.
>Coville also did _Midsummer_, I believe it is. Other retellings include
>E. Nesbit's from the 1890s, Bernard Miles's _Favorite Tales from
>Shakespeare_ (1976) and _Well-Loved Tales from Shakespeare_ (1986),
>Geraldine McCaughrean's _Stories from Shakespeare_ (1994), and, perhaps
>best, Leon Garfield's _Shakespeare Stories_ (1985) and _Shakespeare
>Stories II (199?). There are dozens more.
I grew up with a volume my parents have given me as a birthday present,
_Twenty Tales from Shakespeare_ by Irene Buckman, with a forward by
Peggy Ashcroft (Random House, 1963), designed expressly for parents and
children about to go to see the plays in the theatre. I don't know how
good the text is (I haven't reread any of it, even after I fetched it
from my bookshelves in my parents' house to put it on the Shakespeare
shelves in my study), though I do remember treasuring-and I treasure
still-the fact that the book is illustrated with photographs (mostly
McBean shots from the 50s) from theatrical performances. I remember
being intrigued by photographs of more than *one* production for any
given play, an indication, which I must have absorbed even then, that
character resides, not in the sky or in the imagination, but in each
actor's embodiment.
Cary
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From: Andrew Walker White <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 14:01:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Hamlets on Video
On this subject, there was a 2-part BBC series, interviewing Schell,
Gielgud, Olivier, Barrault, et al., I think the title was "To Be
Hamlet". Any information on how to get that one would be appreciated
here!
Cheers,
Andy White
Arlington, VA
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From: Martin Jukovsky <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 14:17:08 -0400
Subject: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
Today's Boston Globe has a good piece on Shakespeare in the Parking Lot-
free open-air productions done in a New York City parking lot. You can
read it at
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/204/Shakespeare_and_company.htm>.
I f the article is no longer at the Globe's site, send me an E-mail and
I'll send it to you. (Copyright restrictions prohibit me from posting
it here.)
Martin Jukovsky
Cambridge, Mass.
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From: Tom M Mueller <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 21:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Poison
Regarding the poison used in R & J (although if I remember correctly the
original question was concerning Romeo's poison), did anyone consider
Barabas' potion in Marlowe's _The Jew of Malta_ ?
I drank of poppy and cold mandrake juice,
And being asleep, belike they thought me dead, (V.i.80-81)
Tom Mueller
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From: John Owen <
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Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 23:07:25 EDT
Subject: 9.0678 Shakespeare Films and Videos
Comment: Re: SHK 9.0678 Shakespeare Films and Videos
>Can anyone recommend a VHS-recorded performance or film (preferably a
>full-performance) of A Mid-Summer Night's Dream? I'm feeling seasonal .
>. .
You can hardly do better than the easily available BBC version with
Peter McEnery and Helen Mirren. It is beautifully acted and brilliantly
conceived by director Elisha Moshinski.
John Owen
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