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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0042 Monday, 10 January 2000. [1] From: Fiona P McNeill <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 8 Jan 2000 11:05:12 -0500 (EST) Subj: Re: SHK 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies [2] From: Kristen McDermott <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 8 Jan 2000 11:39:05 EST Subj: Re: SHK 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fiona P McNeill <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 8 Jan 2000 11:05:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies Comment: Re: SHK 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has a catalog listing the collection of playbills and reviews of New York productions. Their number is 212 870 1630. Try also the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 212 491 2200. I'd be interested to hear what you find. [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kristen McDermott <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 8 Jan 2000 11:39:05 EST Subject: 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies Comment: Re: SHK 11.0038 African American Shakespearean Companies Of course, Errol Hill's "Shakespeare in Sable" is still (I believe) considered the definitive study. But, in addition to the many scholarly sources I am sure will be recommended, don't miss Carlyle Brown's well-researched and entertaining 1993 play, "The African Company Performs Richard III." It's available through Samuel French, but may also be commercially published.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0041 Saturday, 8 January 2000. From: Hugh Davis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 07 Jan 2000 10:38:33 EST Subject: Shakespearean Soundtracks Is there a collection with the film music (in particular the songs) of Shakespearean adaptations? I know soundtracks can be purchased for individual films, but has any sort of "retrospective" been put together? Thanks, Hugh Davis
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0040 Saturday, 8 January 2000. From: Karen Peterson-Kranz <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 7 Jan 2000 17:40:09 +1000 Subject: 11.0031 Re: Goofy Answers Comment: Re: SHK 11.0031 Re: Goofy Answers This isn't a goofy test answer...just a goofy student story. Last year, after making a number of really strange comments, it came out that one of my students had thought that since we in the faculty were called "Dr. This" and "Dr. That," that we were all medical doctors, and that it was required that all university professors go to medical school first before pursuing our further specialty studies. Scalpel, please. Karen Peterson-Kranz University of Guam
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0039 Saturday, 8 January 2000. From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 06 Jan 2000 21:05:29 -0500 Subject: WB Popular and Lady Macbeth In an episode of the Warner Brothers TV show Popular broadcast Thursday evening, Jan 6, 2000, there was a reference to Lady Macbeth's mad scene-the "out damn spot" line. The episode was about several students cheating on a mid-term exam. One student, a reporter named Sam, is on to them, and runs into another student named Brooke McQueen in the girl's bathroom as Brooke is drying off her hands (these girls hate each other; also, their parents, who are both single, happen to be sleeping together and for some reason, this grosses both girls out; at the end of the episode, the parents tell the girls that the y are all moving into together the following week). Sam, the non-cheater, says to Brooke, the cheater-"you can wash them and wash them and they'll never come clean." And Brooke replies "Oh, thank you for your Lady Macbeth reference."
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0038 Saturday, 8 January 2000. From: Peter Webster <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 6 Jan 2000 19:00:11 EST Subject: African American Shakespearean Companies Has anyone information, research sources or books to suggest on the subject of African American Shakespearean Companies in the 19th or early 20th Centuries? I know there were touring companies that performed the works of WS, and I believe that there was an African American production of Macbeth in New York City at roughly the same time the famous Anglo "Dueling Macbeths" were causing riots. I believe the city authorities shut down the popular African American offering because of racial controversy, and that performances were then held in unannounced venues, advertised only by word of mouth. You may post your thoughts or reply to me atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Thank you in advance for your help and inspiration! Peter Webster Artistic Director, Mappamundi