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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2083 Monday, 13 November 2000. From: William Sutton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 12 Nov 2000 04:56:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: 11.2067 Book Announcement Comment: Re: SHK 11.2067 Book Announcement Hi there, Diana's book is another hole in the dyke of the 'Orthodox' authorship question. (Is Shakespeare the sea or the dyke)? Apparently from the blurbs she has new evidence that Shakes was indeed a shakedown artist and some aristocrat wrote the lot. Who? She doesn't say in the blurb, but I fear it's Looney's friend. She has a link on her author's page to Dave Kathman and Terry Ross' site. Anybody have any info on this new unbiased evidence she's presenting? Or is it a new bias on old evidence? Sorry I'm too cheap to spend the forty dollars and find out. Maybe Diana herself can reply to me off list. The authorship question being taboo. I wait with bated breath paddling in the swirling pool at the foot of the dyke. Yours, W. [Editor's Note: William is correct. Any responses should take place privately and not on the list. I posted Diana Price's announcement because it corresponded to the guidelines that were established a year or so ago. I post William Sutton's response for more information, but I will not post discussion of the content or arguments associated with the work. -HMC]
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2082 Monday, 13 November 2000. From: C. K. Clarke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 12 Nov 2000 11:15:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Call for Papers MartianusCapella.com, a new online metajournal, is calling for papers in all disciplines. The site's purpose is to promote cross disciplinary research, open discussion and synthesis, as well as to provide an easy way to search through multiple documents for specific keywords and topics. Even though we have just opened the site, and only recently issued our first call for papers, MartianusCapella.com has already had more than 4000 visitors. For more information, please see our Mission Statement and FAQ at http://www.MartianusCapella.com or receive a copy of our submission guidelines in your email box by emailing our autoresponder atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Thanks and have a good day, C. K. Clarke Editor, MartianusCapella.com
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2081 Monday, 13 November 2000. From: Mike LoMonico <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 12 Nov 2000 16:27:42 -0500 Subject: Peggy O'Brien and Kiko Peggy O'Brien--of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Shakespeare Set Free series --is in cyberspace, trying to figure out about how this technology can be really useful in teaching and learning. She's Chief Learning Officer at Kiko, Inc. (Kiko stands for Knowledge In, Knowledge Out), and she's begun a Shakespeare Center there (www.kiko.com/shakespeare). The lessons and activities in the Center at this point are really good---they stimulate inquiry and extended thinking in students of many ages, they're engaging, and they use the web in a way that's both compelling and sensible. But she's looking for this to be an active gathering place on the web, focused on teaching Shakespeare. Check it out, and participate! This is a chance to shape a hot, new website. Communicate with Peggy about how you'd like to see this Shakespeare Center evolve, and send along your questions, challenges and successes teaching Shakespeare, and other contributions. I have had my own graduate and undergraduate students creating lessons on Kiko and Peggy has included them as well. Best, Mike LoMonico SUNY Stony Brook Shakespeare Magazine www.shakespearemag.com
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2080 Monday, 13 November 2000. From: Abigail Quart <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 12 Nov 2000 01:53:51 -0500 Subject: Hamlet Does Palm Beach? >From Salon Magazine's Table Talk, Florida Election thread: "This isn't Florida, it's Denmark, and something sure does smell."
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2079 Monday, 13 November 2000. From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 10 Nov 2000 10:24:23 -0800 Subject: Spit in His Mouth My favorite stage direction in not _Exit, pursued by a bear_. It is in Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl 2.1, when Master Gallipot _Spits in the dog's mouth_. Andor Gomme's New Mermaid glosses this as obscure, but mentions Henn's idea that it is _a device to ensure that the dog memorized its master's scent_. Yeah. My dog so needs the extra help. Does anyone know an alternate gloss? Also, assuming there was an actual dog on stage, any speculation on how they got the dog to go along with this? I'm not suggesting it is impossible, it is probably quite possible, but there are some problems to solve to get a dog to do this. Finally, did anyone see the RSC's production, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago? Assuming this was not cut, how was it handled? I am 10 months from getting to The Shakespeare Center Library, but will check the prompt book next time I'm there if no one knows. All the best, Mike Jensen