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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2374 Wednesday, 17 October 2001 From: John Ramsay <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 16:18:36 -0400 Subject: 12.2347 Scanners, non Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 12.2347 Scanners, non Shakespeare If you still have your files on your old computer you might be better off just saving them on floppy disk as Text or RTF (Rich Text) on your old computer and then transfer to your new one. Your new computer's Word Processor is programmed to translate older formats but Text or RTF is a safer bet. You may have to open a blank document in your new WP, then import files from the floppy disk. You don't have to print out all your old files then scan them in page by page. _______________________________________________________________ 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 12.2373 Wednesday, 17 October 2001 [1] From: David Enzer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 10:50:41 -0700 Subj: RE: SHK 12.2351 CBC Othello [2] From: John Ramsay <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 16:19:47 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 12.2351 CBC Othello [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Enzer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 10:50:41 -0700 Subject: 12.2351 CBC Othello Comment: RE: SHK 12.2351 CBC Othello Neat stuff. de [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Ramsay <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 16:19:47 -0400 Subject: 12.2351 CBC Othello Comment: Re: SHK 12.2351 CBC Othello > For those of you who can receive CBC, tonight (15th October) at 8.00 > there is a broadcast of a British Othello updated and relocated in > contemporary London, starring Eamonn Walker and Christopher Eccleston. I > know nothing about it except what is in a review by John Doyle in > today's Globe and Mail. Doyle, who is usually reliable, writes, 'it's > the sort of TV drama that leaves you in awe of the medium's power and > adaptability'. > > Peter Hyland Just finished watching it. Well worth watching. Doyle's comment on the power and adaptability of TV is appropriate. And the power and adaptability of Iago come through as clearly on modern TV as on an Elizabethan stage. Sometimes the message is the medium. _______________________________________________________________ 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 12.2372 Wednesday, 17 October 2001 [1] From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 15 Oct 2001 20:57:31 -0700 Subj: Re: SHK 12.2340 Re: PBS Masterpiece Theatre/Merchant [2] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 13:29:29 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 12.2361 Rings around Merchant [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 15 Oct 2001 20:57:31 -0700 Subject: 12.2340 Re: PBS Masterpiece Theatre/Merchant Comment: Re: SHK 12.2340 Re: PBS Masterpiece Theatre/Merchant Gabriel writes, >Portia does not point out that "murder is illegal". She points out that >if "an alien . . . by direct or indirect attempts" seeks to take the >life of a citizen, he forfeits his wealth and is thrown on the Duke's >mercy. This Venetian law is concerned quite specifically with the >socio-ethnic statuses of the persons involved (alien and citizen), and >the causal distance between the 'doer' and the 'done'. How terribly >modern this Shakespeare is. I can hardly disagree that this particular murder statute in culturally inflected; however, it is hardly surprising that murder is illegal. Even if we didn't have access to the statute, we ought still to suppose that some such a statute would exist. It is, perhaps, doubly strange that, despite the clear fact that the relations of Venice with its "aliens" is the subject of special laws, everyone up to this point considers Shylock's demands to the court in terms of contractual law alone. By the way, now that you mention it, "indirect attempts" seems widely open-ended. It could, in principle, cover Shylock's normal business, since he might have to foreclose on debtors and you take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. Cheers, Se
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2371 Wednesday, 17 October 2001 From: Martin Steward <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 17:38:56 +0100 Subject: Othello's Name In conversation once the subject of where Othello's name came from and what it might mean (if anything) arose. I have always harboured a pet theory that it is an Italilanized version of Ottoman/Othoman/Othman, and that the play might be capitalizing on contemporary interest in the Turkish empire following the publication of Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes... to the rising of the Othoman Familie (1603). This would suggest some interesting perspectives on aliens, alienation, racism, miscegenation and national loyalty, if we see Othello as a sort of Italo-Turk fighting against Turks. I gather that the term "Turk" could refer to just about anyone without a white skin in WS's day... I've never followed this up myself, although at a conference in Reading earlier this year I did mention it to Mark Hutchings of the University of Aberdeen, who is working on a study of "the image of the Turk in early modern England". That did not come to much, though... Any thoughts? Martin S. _______________________________________________________________ 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 12.2370 Wednesday, 17 October 2001 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001 11:53:29 -0400 Subject: Rocky and Bullwinkle Follow-up to Jeff Meyers A transcript of the episode Jeff Meyers mentioned can be found at http://www.sirbacon.org/links/hollywood.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> 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.