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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2670 Tuesday, 27 November 2001 From: Don Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 26 Nov 2001 06:16:17 -0600 Subject: 12.2657 Re: Richard II Comment: Re: SHK 12.2657 Re: Richard II I won't respond directly to Stephen Dobbin's explosion of rage against Terence Hawkes, except to suggest that perhaps it's unwise to be too vituperative when blaming another for vituperation. In defense of TH, however -- and I hear the ghost of Brother Dave saying, "Now ain't that weird" -- I also have problems with audiences being too close to the actor, whether as an audience-member or an actor. I grant this may simply be a personality problem on the one hand, and a limitation of skill on the other, but it is true. When I'm on-stage I think as little as possible about the audience (not at all is best) and have to remind myself when doing comedies to wait for laughs to subside. "Intimate" theatres, where you're in danger of tripping over the audience's feet, drive me nuts because they make it that much more difficult to do. Of course, this can be overcome. I have been part of some very successful shows in small theatres, and have seen any number of excellent performances in such venues (especially at The Octagon (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery)), but I find it distracting from either side. And the fewer distractions the better as far as I'm concerned. On another issue, a correspondent (Larry Weiss) suggested a few days ago with reference of R&J that "the feud has pretty much petered out by the time the play starts. The only character who takes it seriously is Tybalt. For the servants it is an occasion for fun and exercise, for everyone else it is in the background with no immediate impact." While I agree that the play is (as traditionally held) about young love, I disagree that the feud is unimportant. All the productions I have seen (and the one I have performed in) made a great deal of the feud, especially the opening brawl. The murderous hatred of Montague and Capulet is necessary to make the play make sense. Cheers, don _______________________________________________________________ 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> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2669 Monday, 26 November 2001 From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 26 Nov 2001 07:52:07 -0600 Subject: TOC Review of English Studies 52 (Nov. 2001) Review of English Studies, Volume 52, Issue 208 dated November 2001 ARTICLES: `Comfortable Doctrine': Twelfth Night and the Trinity Paul Dean 500-515 Ravished and Revised: The 1616 Lucrece Katherine Duncan-Jones 516-523 REVIEWS: Print, Manuscript, Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England -- Arthur F. Marotti, Michael D. Bristol H. R. Woudhuysen 562-564 Galatea; Midas. John Lyly Leah Scragg 564-566 A Companion to Shakespeare -- David Scott Kastan Brian Vickers 566-570 Shakespeare and Narrative: Shakespeare Survey 53 -- Peter Holland Emma Smith 570-571 Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems -- A. B. Taylor Peter Happe 571-573 Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton -- Katherine Eggert Emma Smith 573-575 Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy -- Raphael Falco Adrian Poole 575-576 The `Shepheards Nation': Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture, 1612-1625 -- Michelle O'callaghan Mishtooni Bose 576-578 Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth -- John Dolan Howard Erskine-Hill 578-579 _______________________________________________________________ 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> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2668 Monday, 26 November 2001 From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 26 Nov 2001 07:42:03 -0600 Subject: TOC Essays in Criticism 51 (Oct 2001) Essays in Criticism, Volume 51, Issue 4 dated October 2001 David Ellis, "Black Comedy in Shakespeare": 385-403. _______________________________________________________________ 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> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2667 Monday, 26 November 2001 From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 25 Nov 2001 11:15:43 -0800 Subject: Sight and Sound Jan. 1997 Does anybody have a copy of the January 1997 issue of Sight and Sound? I want to get read the review of Adrian Noble's film version of *MND,* and would very much appreciate getting a photocopy. Please contact me off list at the address above if you can help. Thanks, Mike Jensen _______________________________________________________________ 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> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2666 Monday, 26 November 2001 From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 23 Nov 2001 16:49:33 -0000 Subject: Globe Research Seminar in Early Modern Drama GLOBE RESEARCH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA ON 2 DECEMBER Globe Education, in coordination with the English Department of King's College London, the Drama Department of University of Bristol and the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, has initiated a new research seminar in early modern drama for postgraduate students and people who have recently gained their PhDs. The seminar is a forum for up-and-coming scholars working in English and Drama to talk about their work with those who are at a similar stage in their careers, and all postgraduate students are welcome. The next seminar takes place at Shakespeare's Globe London From 12 noon to 2 pm on Sunday 2 December, and there will be two speakers: Farah Karim (Royal Holloway) "Cosmetics in early modern drama" Heloise Senechal (Shakespeare Institute) "Stephen Gosson and acting" After the speakers there will be questions and wine. At 3pm there will be a "Read Not Dead" performance of Thomas Drue's _The Duchess of Suffolk_ in the Globe Education Centre. "Read Not Dead" is a Globe Education project to stage-read all of the 400 or so non-Shakespearian plays written between 1567 and 1642 with professional casts, and so far about 10 percent of this body of work has been performed and digitally recorded by Globe Education. The seminar is free of charge, but tickets for the staged readings will cost