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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2204 Thursday, 30 November 2000 From: Brother Anthony <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 2000 09:44:48 +0900 Subject: EEBO The description of the process for getting access to the wonderful lists of freely available works in EEBO at http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo make it sound more painful than perhaps it need be. To view page-by-page images of the whole of Holinshed, or the First Folio, or whatever, it is not necessary to wait days. So long as you are viewing online, using the freely available DjVu plugin, it takes about 5 seconds to pass from one page to the next, sitting here in my office in Korea. The images zoom instantly for easy reading. The entire project is very impressive although obviously the sums involved are considerable. Especially the project of preparing searchable text format for all 96,000 volumes listed in STC etc is obviously going to take quite a while and cost quite a bit... Brother Anthony Sogang University, Korea
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2203 Thursday, 30 November 2000 From: David Kathman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 17:36:00 -0500 Subject: Mary Arden's House Shakespeare tourists view wrong house -- for 200 years November 29, 2000 Web posted at: 11:35 AM EST (1635 GMT) LONDON, England (AP) -- For years, tourists believed they were getting a glimpse inside the house where William Shakespeare's mother lived as a child. Now new research shows they were at the wrong address. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust said on Wednesday that research proves beyond a doubt that the Bard's mother grew up at Glebe Farm, not the property currently called Mary Arden's House, which is located just 50 yards (50 metres) away in Wilmcote, a little village outside Stratford-upon-Avon in England. The trust previously had taken the word of local historian John Jordan, who identified the house in 1792 -- though visitors were told by guides that there was no certainty. Now researchers commissioned by the trust have found a property deed dating from 1587 that proves Arden lived at Glebe Farm years earlier. Church of England records in London have confirmed the find. By chance, the trust owns both properties. "It's a wonderful coincidence, and thank God the trust decided to buy Glebe Farm. It could easily have become a housing estate or been demolished," said Nick Walsh, estate manager at the Wilmcote site. Some 100,000 people each year visit Mary Arden's House, which was bought by the trust in the 1930s. The trust's director, Roger Pringle, said he hoped the discovery would boost tourism. "My excitement at having this proof of the exact location of the Arden House will be shared by many people," he said. Merchandise bearing images of the current Mary Arden's House, which will be renamed Palmer's Farm before the end of the year, will now have to be redesigned.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2202 Thursday, 30 November 2000 From: H. R. Greenberg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 16:50:52 EST Subject: 11.2183 Re: Forbidden Planet Comment: Re: SHK 11.2183 Re: Forbidden Planet With respect, I doubt this -- although would like to see specific evidence. Have written on the film some time ago. Adamic parallels are also intriguing. At any rate, folks would made the film were exceedingly literate, at least some of them. Maybe TEMPEST was in their collective unconscious, but I'd say it was more likely at least preconscious. Best. HR Greenberg MD ENDIT
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2201 Thursday, 30 November 2000 [1] From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 16:36:29 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 [2] From: David Schalkwyk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 2000 10:06:27 +0200 Subj: Re: SHK 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 16:36:29 -0500 Subject: 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 Comment: Re: SHK 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 > If memory serves me correctly, the only bit from _Macbeth_ that has been > designated as Middleton's are the Hecate scenes, which are usually cut > in production (has anyone EVER seen these done on stage?). I played Hecate in a production that kept them about 25 years ago. Geralyn Horton, Playwright Newton, Mass. 02460 <http://www.tiac.net/users/ghorton> [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Schalkwyk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 2000 10:06:27 +0200 Subject: 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 Comment: Re: SHK 11.2189 Re: SER and H8 Stephen Orgel delivered a wonderfully witty plenary paper on the Hecate scenes at the Cleveland SAA conference, if my memory is correct. I don't know if he has published it. David Schalkwyk Associate Professor Chair English Department University of Cape Town
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2200 Thursday, 30 November 2000 From: Carol Barton<This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 14:36:45 -0500 Subject: 11.2182 King James Query Comment: Re: SHK 11.2182 King James Query Steve Sohmer asks, "Can anyone direct me to a scholar who is a bona fide expert on King James I of England?" CV Wedgwood, Steve . . . but she's passed on. J.P. Kenyon and Antonia Frasier are good second choices. It depends on what you're looking for. Best, Carol Barton