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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2014 Tuesday, 16 November 1999. [1] From: Stuart Hampton-Reeves <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 20:41:07 -0000 Subj: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet [2] From: Joe Conlon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 16:53:06 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet [3] From: Dale Lyles <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 22:18:42 EST Subj: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet [4] From: Sarah Boswell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Nov 1999 20:55:25 +1300 Subj: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stuart Hampton-Reeves <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 20:41:07 -0000 Subject: 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet Comment: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet > Should we discuss what would be an appropriate repertoire? Pyramus and Thisbe? But only if Bottom played all the parts. Stuart Hampton-Reeves [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Conlon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 16:53:06 -0500 Subject: 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet Comment: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet How about "All's Well That ENDS Well" ? Maybe "Taming of the Spew", of course "King John". Joe Conlon Warsaw, IN [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dale Lyles <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 22:18:42 EST Subject: 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet Comment: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet King John, of course... Dale Lyles Newnan Community Theatre Co. Newnan, GA, Theatre Mecca of the Universe <tm> [4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sarah Boswell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Nov 1999 20:55:25 +1300 Subject: 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet Comment: Re: SHK 10.2000 Shakespeare in the Toilet Well, I must say.... very bizarre... but as the man himself said "all the world's a stage"! Sarah Boswell New Zealand
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2013 Tuesday, 16 November 1999. [1] From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 09:30:26 -0800 Subj: SHK 10.1993 Re: Innogen [2] From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 22:34:53 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 10.1993 Re: Innogen [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 09:30:26 -0800 Subject: Re: Innogen Comment: SHK 10.1993 Re: Innogen I am not persuaded the current discussion of Innogen's lack of lines in Much Ado is fruitful. I suspect we are not casting our net widely enough. There are other such characters in other plays. A systematic study will probably reveal more than concentrating on Innogen. I did see an article once. I don't remember where I saw it, probably Shakespeare Quarterly, Yearbook, Studies, or Survey, since I look at those most often. It may have been a chapter in Molly M. Mahood's excellent Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare. If so, I am embarrassed to not remember what she said about these characters. Alas, I no longer have the book. The point is that bordering our consideration should be more effective than sticking to Innogen, and I know there is a resource out there, if only I can remember it. Does anyone else know it? Best, Mike Jensen [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 22:34:53 -0800 Subject: 10.1993 Re: Innogen Comment: Re: SHK 10.1993 Re: Innogen Hi, Karen. About whether early modern parents attended marriages, the evidence of the Book of Common Prayer in the reign of Edward would seem to indicate that normally they did, but that they didn't have to. The rubric following the minister's query "Who geueth this woman to be maried to this man?" reads as follows: And the minister receiuing the woman at her father or frendes handes: shall cause the man to take the woman by the right hande, and so either to give their trouth to other: In other words, the father has a role in the marriage ceremony, but it's a role that could be taken over by any (presumably male) "friend". It would seem that the family, or at least the community, had to publicly consent to the marriage. Cheers, Se
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2012 Tuesday, 16 November 1999. From: Dana Shilling <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 12:18:47 -0500 Subject: Interpretive Leaps In response to Mike Jensen's call for imaginative (though perhaps strained) interpretations, last year I saw Frog & Peach Company's "Measure for Measure." I noticed on the program that they didn't include Abhorson in the cast list-I figured they cut his scene to save an actor. Actually, their thesis was that Angelo's hobby was to pop by the jail and execute malefactors. Dana (Shilling)
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2011 Tuesday, 16 November 1999. [1] From: Melissa Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 09:14:09 -0800 (PST) Subj: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness [2] From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 14:48:41 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness [3] From: Alexander Houck <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 12:49:46 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness [4] From: Stefan Kirby <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 23:51:55 -0800 Subj: Shakespeare for Kids [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Melissa Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 09:14:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: 10.1997 Age of Awareness Comment: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness I first became interested in Shakespeare in the first grade when I heard the third graders reading through MSND and I thought it was funny that they had a character named Bottom. I went home and asked my father to show me some Shakespeare and he pulled out his collection of the BBC videos and showed me the Tempest. I've been in love ever since. [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 14:48:41 -0500 Subject: 10.1997 Age of Awareness Comment: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness I think we've had this conversation before. In my humble opinion, the greatest gift one can give a child is to expose the child to great poetry-and archaic forms-very early, while the brain is still learning language, and mastering usage. Then, sound patterns have not faded into background, but are enjoyed for their own sake, and unfamiliar words are not obstacles, but treasures to be caught up by guesswork and added to one's growing store. There were Shakespearean lyrics among the nursery rhymes and psalms and Victorian nonsense poems my grandmother read to me and I (without effort) memorized. Whenever I'm stuck in traffic or subjected to the dentist's drill, I recite these bits of beauty to myself, and am transported. I can recall vividly after fifty years the Shakespeare performances I saw before I was old enough to go to school. Like Katy Dickinson, I was >"interested in Shakespeare during grammar school, very >interested in High School, and a zealot by college." However, I did not ace the one Shakespeare course I took in college. I felt as if I "owned" Shakespeare- and a handful of other playwrights of his era-and I was too passionate about my own opinions to be willing to adopt the professor's. Geralyn Horton, Playwright Newton, Mass. 02460 <http://www.tiac.net/users/ghorton> [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alexander Houck <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 12:49:46 -0800 Subject: 10.1997 Age of Awareness Comment: Re: SHK 10.1997 Age of Awareness My first Shakespearean role was at he ripe age of 6. I was the Changling Child in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Granted, I didn't have any lines, but it was my first real contact and birth for my interest in Shakespeare Alex Houck Santa Clara University [4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stefan Kirby <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 23:51:55 -0800 Subject: Shakespeare for Kids >Is Shakespeare only for the >intelligent, grown-up, well-read and educated? When my eldest daughter was an infant, I used to read her to sleep with Shakespeare. For a long time, it was the only way to get her to sleep. >I probably should have spent more time dusting off those books (since >no young people were reading them) while I read L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in >Time." I read that book when I was seven. -Stefan Kirby-
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2010 Tuesday, 16 November 1999. From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Nov 1999 09:00:19 -0800 Subject: 10.2001 Apocryphal Gospels Comment: Re: SHK 10.2001 Apocryphal Gospels I want to thank John Velz and Brother Anthony for their helpful answers to my questions about the influence of gnostic gospels on in English Mystery Plays. I wonder if there isn't some confusion of language. John, to my knowledge, the texts you refer to are certainly New Testament apocryphal, but not necessarily gnostic. Yes, certainly the story of Jesus descent into hell was a powerful influence, but not particularly gnostic. I wonder if you used the word gnostic, but really intended to say apocryphal? That would explain my confusion. I'll have to print you message and take it home with me to check if any of them are considered gnostic texts. I think little real gnostic writing was available in the Middle Ages, beyond a few fragments not recognized as gnostic. For those who are curious about my reference, HarperCollins published a book called The Other Bible. It is not exhaustive, alas, but it does contain many examples of New Testament Apocrypha, gnostic texts, pseudepigrapha from both testaments, and more, including some Dead Sea Scrolls. It has a lot of material. Some of the texts make lively reading, others are a real slog. Texts not found in The Other Bible are available in other sources for the completests amongst you. Thanks again John and Brother Anthony. Mike Jensen