The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0159 Tuesday, 25 January 2000.
[1] From: Norman J. Myers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 11:13:12 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
[2] From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 09:04:33 -0800
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
[3] From: Simon Malloch <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 25 Jan 2000 01:17:34 +0800
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
[4] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 13:06:06 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
[5] From: Jefferson Cronin <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 25 Jan 2000 07:57:10 +1000
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
[6] From: Carol Barton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 23:07:57 EST
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
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From: Norman J. Myers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 11:13:12 -0500
Subject: 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
Comment: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
>> What exactly is the benefit of knowing about pornographic versions of
>> Shakespeare's works? or that a current Penthouse centerfold identifies
>> herself with Juliet?
Well, I don't really know, but I suspect the same guy who penned that
immortal line:
"O, Romeo, that she were, O that she were
An open-arse, thou a pop'rin pear!"
might find such "knowledge" amusing.
Norman J. Myers, Professor Emeritus
Theatre Department
Bowling Green State University
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From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Jan 2000 09:04:33 -0800
Subject: 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
Comment: Re: SHK 11.0146 Re: Seeking Enlightenment
Gabriel Egan writes, courageously:
>The benefit is a comforting masculinist reassurance that despite 30
>years of feminism, abuse victims can still be coerced into degrading
>poses to gratify the infantile sexual power fantasies of adult men.
Would a gay production of MND be better? What about pornography that
aims at a female audience?
>A tenuous link with Shakespeare and contemporary culture gives this
>wank-material an intellectual gloss.
Alternatively, it might comfortingly reduce intellectual material to
wank-material, making it a lot less challenging. It strikes me that
reducing the world to wank-material seems to be a basic goal of
advertising. Been in a magazine store recently?
Cheers,
Se