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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0905 Monday, 23 April 2001 From: Eva Dikow <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 22 Apr 2001 19:11:12 +0200 Subject: Hoffman's MND (1999) Dear List, I am currently writing my final paper for University. It's a film analysis of Hoffman's (starladden) 1999 version of MND. I know that the film has briefly been a topic on the list in 1999 and (not having been a subscriber back then) was able to have a look at the relevant postings on the website (brill work, Eric, thanks!). Still, I wandered whether any of you would like to share any new ideas or insights (or to raise more questions) concerning the film. I am (obviously?) most interested in Bottom and the special role he plays in Hoffman's version. And what about Mrs Bottom? What about the bicycles? Clever conceit or cheap farce? Anything you can think of will be welcome. I'm also desperately seeking some more detailed information on the director's cv and formation which seems to be rather difficult to find. There isn't anything much on the IMDB and I haven't found much on the Internet in general. Thanks for any suggestions. Greetings from Aachen, Germany, Eva Dikow _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0904 Monday, 23 April 2001 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:39 -0400 Subject: The King Is Alive For a review of he film The King is Alive (dir. Kristian Levring, 2001), about a production of King Lear by people stranded in the African desert, click on http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/arts/22DURB.html _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0903 Monday, 23 April 2001 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, April 23, 2001 Subject: Server Celebration Dear SHAKSPEReans: Once again we all owe a large expression of gratitude to Eric Luhrs and Rick Gaine for driving down from New Jersey yesterday and configuring and installing a new hard drive in the SHAKSPER server. The hard drive is the only moving part in Sun workstation and, therefore, the only part that can wear out. With its replacement, the SHAKSPER server should have years and years of trouble free operation. In addition, the new hard drive more than quadruples the available disk space. During the crash, a number of the databases needed for the complete functioning of the SHAKSPER website were corrupted and will need to be recompiled. In as short time, then, the SHAKSPER website should be fully operational again. What a birthday present! Hardy
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0902 Sunday, 22 April 2001 From: Martine van Elk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 20 Apr 2001 15:37:26 -0700 Subject: CFP (RSA) CALL FOR PAPERS: A session at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, 11-13 April 2002 in Tempe, Arizona Proposals are invited for presentations on early modern rogue books, cony-catching pamphlets, trickster tales, and other texts in which vagrants are central. The very real presence of rogues, vagabonds, and 'sturdy beggars' in early modern Europe had a profound cultural impact. Fictional and non-fictional representations of these marginal figures show that they provided a focal point for important questions about social hierarchy and the construction and basis of social position. Proposals are requested on the theoretical significance of what William Carroll calls the "discourse of poverty," both in literary and in historical texts (court cases, prose pamphlets on vagrancy and prostitution, legislation for the poor). Work on vagrancy and gender and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Please e-mail an abstract and a brief curriculum vitae to Martine van Elk atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as soon as possible, but no later than April 28, 2001. This session will be sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach Martine van Elk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Assistant Professor California State University, Long Beach Department of English _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0901 Sunday, 22 April 2001 From: Anders Klitgaard <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 20 Apr 2001 06:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Danish Student Seeks European Research Network Dear list members, I am hoping to start reading for a PhD in October 2001 at the University of Cambridge, UK. My project concerns Shakespeare's influence on the Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard. Sadly, however, the financial aspects have proved more difficult than I had anticipated. Therefore, I am now hoping to become affiliated with a European research network, which would allow me to benefit from the funds administered by the European Commission. If you are associated with such a research network and would like to include me as a member, please contact me. I will then inform you about my project and myself in more detail as well as the European funds I have in mind. Thank you Yours sincerely, Anders KlitgaardThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.oeuvre.org _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>