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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1977 Saturday, 28 October 2000. [1] From: Jim Harner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 11:50:02 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? [2] From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 12:13:19 -0700 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? [3] From: John Briggs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 26 Oct 2000 08:44:27 +0100 Subj: RE: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? [4] From: Nicolas Pullin <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Oct 2000 09:40:06 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Harner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 11:50:02 -0500 Subject: 11.1970 New Globe Book? Comment: Re: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? Next month's update of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online will include the following reviews of Pauline Kiernan's *Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe* Duncan-Jones, Katherine. *TLS: The Times Literary Supplement* 6 August 1999, pp. 18-19 (in review-article); Ellis, J. *Choice* 37 (1999-2000): 947; Mitchell, Ian. *Times Higher Education Supplement* 19 November 1999, p. 26; Skura, Meredith Anne. *Studies in English Literature 1500-1900* 40 (2000): 355-94 (especially 368). Jim Harner [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 12:13:19 -0700 Subject: 11.1970 New Globe Book? Comment: Re: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? Jennifer, I read the book a year and a bit ago. I did not keep it, so I can't refer to it, but if you have any questions, and my memory is up to it, I'll be happy to answer. You may wish to take that off list. I hope someone can offer to do better for you than that. It is an interesting book for content, but not a ton of fun to read. My overall impression is that it was a bit early in the Globe's life to have a book evaluating the impact of the Globe in performance, but that is an impression from someone mostly working outside the Globe Theatre. It may be different for a Globe worker. The impact, really the lack of impact, of boys playing girls playing boys overturns a lot of the ink that has been spilled in gender studies, as I suspected it would, but it is so quickly mentioned that anyone, Steven Orgel for example, who thinks this is very significant can easily dismiss Kiernan's comments. That would be a shame because she challenges the assumptions, but since she doesn't try to argue the case she can only convert the choir. Let's hope someone with a copy will also contact you. All the best, Mike Jensen [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Briggs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 26 Oct 2000 08:44:27 +0100 Subject: 11.1970 New Globe Book? Comment: RE: SHK 11.1970 New Globe Book? In response to Jennifer Miller's request, here is some information from the BookData Premier-CD (BooKFind). I don't seem to have any information about a US paperback. John Briggs Series: Early Modern Literature in History STAGING SHAKESPEARE AT THE NEW GLOBE By Pauline Kiernan (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, Cheapside, London). Series Edited by Cedric C. Brown Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press 1999, Published in UK Published in Association with The Renaissance Texts Research Centre, University of Reading 192pp 222 x 141mm Plates, references, bibliography, index HARDBACK UK
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1976 Wednesday, 25 October 2000. From: Terence Hawkes <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 10:29:37 -0400 Subject: Re: Holinshed Anecdote Comment: SHK 11.1968 Re: Holinshed Anecdote Sean Lawrence claims that when Lady Mortimer speaks Welsh she becomes 'effectively isolated from everyone except her father . . . the actors could have just made a meaningless jabber, used to indicate that they were speaking in Welsh'. Oh dear. I suspect that Shakespeare's audience was much less anaesthetised by English than we are. Try a bit of history. After the battle of Bosworth, it began to look as if Merlin's prophecies about the return of a Welsh hero-King to rule over the whole island of Britain had come true. Henry VII was a Welshman. He packed his court with his countrymen, named his eldest son Arthur, and observed St. David's day. With the unfolding of the Welsh Tudor dynasty, Welsh-speakers poured in to London, moving, as the historian Gwyn A Williams puts it, into 'every conceivable avenue of advancement'. The process reached its climax in the reign of Elizabeth 1, a monarch denounced by A.L.Rowse as 'that red-headed Welsh harridan'. One direct result was the rise to prominence of Welsh families such as that of Dafydd Seisyllt, whose grandson became William Cecil, Elizabeth's key statesman, or indeed that of Morgan Williams, which three generations later produced Oliver Cromwell. Not surprisingly, Welsh and Welsh-speaking actors found their way -then as now- onto the stage. At least two of them worked with Shakespeare. Under Elizabeth, what Williams calls the 'remote and distinguished past' of the Welsh effectively made available -at least in influential intellectual terms- some sort of underpinning for the new 'British' national identity. Their very presence bore out claims for the ancient existence of that complete 'world' of independent Britishness, of which the Arthurian legends spoke. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History swiftly became semi-official doctrine. A London Welshman, John Dee, calling himself Elizabeth's 'Brytish philosopher,' is said to have coined the term 'British Empire'. And Dee's proposal of the Welshman Madoc as the discoverer of America 300 years before Columbus was seized on by a whole generation as a cultural and quasi-legal weapon against Spain. In other words, the Welsh and their language were -and are- part of what 'British' means. In that context, what on earth can you mean by 'isolated' and 'meaningless jabber'? Perhaps you'd do better to ponder the implications of the term 'insular'. T. Hawkes
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1975 Wednesday, 25 October 2000. From: Virginia ByrneThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:04:50 EDT Subject: Screen Saver Does anyone know of a "Shakespeare" screen saver for MACS?
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1974 Wednesday, 25 October 2000. [1] From: David M Richman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 16:12:44 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans [2] From: Sam Small <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 11:18:50 +0100 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: David M Richman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 16:12:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans Comment: Re: SHK 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans Any critic may be excerpted, to the critic's cost. Eliot is often useful and incisive on the Elizabethans. His characterization of Marlowe as a writer of savage and serious farce still strikes me, thirty years after I first read it, as right on the money. (Even Mr. Eliot had an interest in money.) The long introductory essay called "Seneca in Elizabethan Translation" is still one of the best things I know on Seneca and the Elizabethans. His essays on Shakespeare are less good, and he disowned them (sort of) as the reflections of a young, or at least, an immature youngish man. Would we were all that candid. On balance, Eliot on the Elizabethans is very much worth reading. David Richman [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sam Small <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 25 Oct 2000 11:18:50 +0100 Subject: 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans Comment: Re: SHK 11.1965 Eliot on the Elizabethans > (Eliot) On Shakespeare: Perhaps it is a part of his special eminence to have > expressed an inferior philosophy in the greatest poetry I can perfectly understand this point of view. The later Shakespeare philosophy was opaque to say the least. I like to think of this view as a realistic vista of the universe where parallel truths hide and threaten. For all Fascists, Christians, Communists, Moslems, Atheists and other such certain-ists this must be painfully repugnant. I guess we have to classify Eliot thus. SAM SMALL
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1973 Wednesday, 25 October 2000. [1] From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 15:33:37 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1967 Guilio Romano [2] From: Dennis Taylor <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 16:32:37 -0700 Subj: Re: SHK 11.1967 Guilio Romano [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 15:33:37 -0400 Subject: 11.1967 Guilio Romano Comment: Re: SHK 11.1967 Guilio Romano >Can anyone help me remember the title/author of a recent (1980s/90s) >book on Guilio Romano, Italian Renaissance art and Shakespeare? asks Elizabeth Williamson. Guilio Romano figures largely in Bette Talvacchio's Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture (Princeton UP, 1999), while Shakespeare appears perhaps three times in this inspirational work. But see page 251, note 57: Talvacchio, "The Rare Italian Master and the Posture of Hermione in The Winter's Tale," LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 3 (1992): 163-174, which contains a bibliography that you may find stimulating. (Ah, my fatal Cleopatra!) Yours, Bill Godshalk [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dennis Taylor <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2000 16:32:37 -0700 Subject: 11.1967 Guilio Romano Comment: Re: SHK 11.1967 Guilio Romano Julia Lupton, Afterlives of the Saints (Stanford U.P.), 1996, excellent book, worth discussing