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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0972 Thursday, 10 June 1999. From: Richard Shechner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 13:08:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Speaking of the Bard Speaking of Shakespeare: EAST COAST ARTISTS production of HAMLET now on at The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street. Directed by Richard Schechner call (212) 966 3651 for tickets ($12) Performances: Wednesdays thru Saturdays at 7:30 Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 from now till 20 June Richard Schechner tel: (212) 998 1638 fax: (212) 998 1627; 777 1351This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Read TDR on the Web at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/TDR
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0971 Thursday, 10 June 1999. From: Holger Klein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday 09 Jun 1999 19:07:33 +0200 Subject: Shakespeare and Teaching "Shakespeare and Education: A Global View" Shakespeare Yearbook, Vol. XII (2001) will be dedicated to the world-wide teaching of Shakespeare's works, including challenges this represents. The editors are interested in contributions that address didactic principles, methods and practices, experiments made or projected, problems seen or resolved, and experiences, ideas and suggestions, bearing in mind the teaching of Shakespeare both to native and non-native speakers of English. Contributions not exceeding 25 pages (double-spaced) including notes are invited for submission by November, 2000. Please send proposals containing titles and a brief descriptions to either of the two editors: Professor Sharon Beehler at the Department of English, University of Montana, fax: (001) 406-994-2422, e-mail.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . edu OR TO or Professor Holger Klein, Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitaet Salzburg, Austria, fax: (0043) 662-8044-613; e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0970 Thursday, 10 June 1999. [1] From: Milla Riggio <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 12:37:43 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth [2] From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 17:05:47 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth [3] From: David Kathman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 19:18:14 -0600 Subj: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Milla Riggio <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 12:37:43 -0400 Subject: 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth Comment: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth Well, of course, there is the sleepwalking scene in Polanski's MACBETH, which was partly co-"sponsored" by Hugh Hefner. The hearsay, probably apocryphal, story is that Polanski showed Hefner the sleepwalking scene with the lovely lady in the nude and that is all Hefner saw before the film was released. What he saw is what he got. Milla Riggio [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 17:05:47 -0400 Subject: 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth Comment: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth I wonder if this isn't the same show put on by a Mike Pinter, owner of the Club Bwana Cocktail Lounge in Castlebury Florida. he tried to get around new laws limiting public nudity by doing a sketch of Macbeth. he was on NPR's All Things Considered last May 28. [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Kathman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 19:18:14 -0600 Subject: 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth Comment: Re: SHK 10.0962 Gymnomacbeth Mort Nickell wrote: >According to The Charlotte Observer of 06.08.99, some performers in >Orlando revealed a new wrinkle in performing Macbeth when, according to >the paper, "The owner of an adult nightclub and three dancers who >challenged an anti-nudity ordinance by performing Macbeth in the buff >were charged Monday with violating the law." I really doubt if this >exposes a new way to perform this work, since I'm relatively sure some >enterprising soul has thought of this before-maybe not for Stratford in >Ontario or Warwickshire, but probably at some lesser known venue. It >would certainly cut expenses for costumes to the bare bones. Here's an article about the performance as it appeared on cnn.com, but before the owner and dancer were charged. Dave KathmanThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ********************* >From cnn.com: Strrip club performs `Macbeth' to challenge anti-nudity law May 29, 1999 Web posted at: 10:53 AM EDT (1453 GMT) CASSELBERRY, Fla. (AP) -- Skipping the usual oil wrestling match, an adult nightclub challenged an anti-nudity law Friday night by performing part of "Macbeth" in the nude. Three dancers at Club Juana performed the opening witches scene from William Shakespeare's play as well as an adaptation of a play by the Marquis de Sade. The performance was intended to challenge Seminole County's anti-nudity ordinance. Since the ordinance was approved in November, the dancers have been forced to wear at least a G-string and pasties. The law exempts "bona fide performances"-which, according to county officials, refers to legitimate theater. "We're trying to say to the public, 'Look at this. Your government officials have prevented nudity but they're exempting bona fide nudity,"' said Steven Mason, Club Juana's attorney. "Whose bona fide nudity? It's hypocritical." Officers from the county sheriff's department videotaped the performances and will decide whether to charge the women. The show was not typical adult entertainment, said Lt. Sammy Gibson, commander of the City/County Investigative Bureau. "There was some choreography to it and some reading parts and speech parts and literature parts," he said. "I feel comfortable enough in saying that they were not professional theater-type performers," he said. "They had not been-or excelled-in any theatrical school." Between the "theater" performances, the strippers returned to dancing in G-strings and pasties. Dancers and club owners also have attacked the ordinance in court with four lawsuits, which are still pending.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0969 Thursday, 10 June 1999. [1] From: Judith Craig <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 10:58:24 -0500 Subj: Re: Chooseth [2] From: Barbara D. Palmer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 00:41:12 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 10.0963 Re: Chooseth [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Judith Craig <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 10:58:24 -0500 Subject: Re: Chooseth Judith Craig wrote: >I would argue from the woman's point of view that Portia loves her >father and respects his judgment: And I agree from the play's point of view. What no one seems to notice is that the play is as absolutely about keeping your word and the exceptions to that as The Odyssey is about the rules of hospitality. Why else have the fifth act? To a lesser extent, this is an obsession of Shakespeare's most everywhere in his plays. Try doing a word study of the words forswear, lie, and their derivatives and synonyms sometime throughout the canon. It is very instructive. This is why I am confident Portia does not tip off Bassanio as to which casket to chose. It is inconsistent with her character through the rest of the play. She absolutely believes of keeping your word, but also in forgiveness. From a stagecraft POV, there is not tension of she tips him off. This is a moment made for tension. I know I'm swimming upstream having this opinion on this list, but I do think a close and consistent reading bears this out. Mike Jensen In responding to Mike Jensen's post, I would agree and refer him to Frances Shirley's book on Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare's Plays (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979). I am using that book on my latest effort on Cymbeline but don't know what she says about Merchant of Venice. I sure it would be interesting, though! Judy Craig [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Barbara D. Palmer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 00:41:12 -0400 Subject: 10.0963 Re: Chooseth Comment: Re: SHK 10.0963 Re: Chooseth The present Michael Kahn production of Merchant at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C. presents a most astute reading of the text in answer to whether and/or how Portia tips off Bassanio's choice of casket. In Bassanio's lines 37-38, he somewhat charmingly turns to Portia "for deliverance"; in equally charming response, she didactically punches up the word "music" in lines 43, 45, and twice in 48, pointing Bassanio to the instructive music which follows in "A song, the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself." The song (3.2.63-72) is sung by Portia's three waiting women, on the balcony above, who pound out the song's "bred," "head," "nourished" rhymes to steer Bassanio emphatically towards "lead"-and sound out "eyes," "dies," "lies," to steer him away from the silver and gold caskets. One of those many moments when performance illuminates meaning, with both grounded in text. In this Shakespeare Theatre production, Portia maintains her admirable character, keeps her word to her father, and manipulates "the husbandry and manage of [her] house" to tip off Bassanio. The tension "from a stagecraft POV" which Mike Jensen rightly requires of the casket scene comes from whether Bassanio is swift enough to decipher four warnings to listen to the music and then six musical rhymes which direct him to the proper casket. The lady keeps her word. Barbara D. Palmer Mary Washington College
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0968 Thursday, 10 June 1999. [1] From: Fran Teague <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 11:08:08 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter [2] From: Peter T. Hadorn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 10:30:16 -0500 Subj: RE: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter [3] From: Steve Urkowitz <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 12:16:15 EDT Subj: Re: SHK 10.0957 Q: Butter [4] From: Laura Fargus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 22:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter [5] From: Nora Kreimer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 09:19:00 -0300 Subj: Butter and others [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fran Teague <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 11:08:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 10.0958 Re: Butter Comment: Re: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter I don't know anything about the relevant scholarship on butter, although surely a reference librarian could guide such a search. I'd like to suggest that a stop at the reference desk would be a good starting place for many of the inquiries that people address to the list. (I'm not trying to scold, but I think many of us need the occasional reminder.) Following some of the recent discussion about what the web can offer, I thought I'd try a number of search engines on the phrase "history of butter" and see what turned up. (As you may know placing quotation marks around the words asks most search engines to look for the phrase itself.) Lycos, Excite, and so on all produced something, and the sites they named ranged from 5 to 15 in number. (These included some on the history of peanut butter, depending on whether the search engine allowed intervening words in the phrase or not.) A query to Alta Vista (www.altavista.com), which most folks think is the best search engine, really did have the most useful info, I thought. Asking about the "history of butter" yields 12 sites, including these: http://drinc.ucdavis.edu/html/butter2.html http://www.milk.co.uk/butterhistory.html http://www.cme.com/market/ag/oldbutr.html It also suggests http://www.butterinstitute.org/ which might be a good place to e-mail for further suggestions. And the somewhat idiosyncratic search engine, www.northernlight.com searched on the phrase "history of butter" and found 1,549 items! Fran Teague http://www.arches.uga.edu/~fteague [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter T. Hadorn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 10:30:16 -0500 Subject: 10.0958 Re: Butter Comment: RE: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter Joseph Tate <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > wrote: >Where might one find a history of butter in Shakespeare's England? >Are there books or articles on butter, cheese >or other such dairy food items in this time period? I derived the following sources from "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England From 1485-1649" by Kathy Lynn Emerson: Peter Clark, "The English Alehouse: A Social History 1200-1830," London and NY: Longman, 1983. J.C. Drummond and Anne Wilbraham, "The Englishman's Food: A History of Five Centuries of English Diet," London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. F. G. Emmison, "Tudor Food and Pastimes: Life at Ingatestone Hall," London: E. Benn, 1964. Hope this helps! [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Urkowitz <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 12:16:15 EDT Subject: 10.0957 Q: Butter Comment: Re: SHK 10.0957 Q: Butter One e-place to begin searching is the delightful Compendium of Common Knowledge: 1558-1603. Elizabethan Commonplaces for Writers, actors and re-enactors. (generated by Maggie Secara) at http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html There's a heading "Food." And I seem to recall various guides to household management reprinted by the Early English Text Society with instructions to dairy-maids. Or maybe that's just a factoidal hallucination ? Ever, Steve Urcholesterolowitz [4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Fargus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Jun 1999 22:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 10.0958 Re: Butter Comment: Re: SHK 10.0958 Re: Butter > Joseph Tate <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > wrote: > > >Where might one find a history of butter in Shakespeare's England? > >Are there books or articles on butter, cheese > >or other such dairy food items in this time period? I'm sorry not to have a title for you, but someone has put together a collection of banquet menus from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, with some recipes. It came out in the last four or five years. Laura [5]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nora Kreimer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 09:19:00 -0300 Subject: Butter and others A very fine history of food has a history of butter since pre-Christian times. . Tousant-Samat, Maguelonne. History of Food. France: Bordas. 1987. Translated by Anthea Bell.USA: Blackwell Reference. 1992. ISBN 0-631-17741-8 Nora KreimerThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.