The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1421 Friday, 8 June 2001
[1] From: Melissa D. Aaron <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 13:07:35 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters
[2] From: Mike Jensen <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 16:29:22 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters
[3] From: John Velz <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 19:19:45 -0500
Subj: SHAKSPERcast
[4] From: Virginia Byrne <
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Date: Thursday, 7 Jun 2001 20:25:36 EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters
[5] From: Sophie Masson <
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:11:08 +1000
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters
[6] From: Hardy M. Cook <
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Date: Friday, June 08, 2001
Subj: Re: SHAKSPERean Characters
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From: Melissa D. Aaron <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 13:07:35 -0700
Subject: 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
>Charles Weinstein wrote:
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> I played Polonius in a recent production ...
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>This gave me considerable pause for thought. Now, based on their
>postings here, are there any Shakespearean characters that members might
>be thought to play in real life (so to speak)?
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>Mike Jensen as Harry Hotspur? Sean Lawrence as Henry V? Terence Hawkes
>as Feste?
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>Any thoughts?
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>John Briggs
I'd like to add to this: is there any Shakespearean character
SHAKSPERians would most like NOT to be? I am reminded of a poem by
Ogden Nash, in which he ponders this question in re fiction in general,
and comes up with:
"one solid fact emerges:
I would most like not to be Yowler the Bobcat in the nature
stories
of Thornton W. Burgess."
I think I would most like not to be Cordelia. Fortunately, there is
little danger of that.
Unsilently yours,
Melissa D. Aaron
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From: Mike Jensen <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 16:29:22 -0700
Subject: 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
>Mike Jensen as Harry Hotspur?
How utterly bizarre to see yourself through the eyes of another,
especially when the fit seems so bad. As a descendant of the
Buckinghams, I expect to lose my head for faithful service.
Mike Jensen
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From: John Velz <
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Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2001 19:19:45 -0500
Subject: SHAKSPERcast
John Briggs wants to cast us. Good idea. May I lay claim to Escalus in
MM? It was my first substantial role in Sh. (1970 I was a benevolent
older man of 40 that year) and I still have some of the lines in my head
somewhere. My first role of all was the Bear in a production of WT. I
wrote about that (I think) for the listserv not long after I joined
perhaps 3 or 4 yrs. ago.
Cheers for blind casting
John
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From: Virginia Byrne <
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Date: Thursday, 7 Jun 2001 20:25:36 EDT
Subject: 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
George Bush as Richard the Third?
Virginia Byrne
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From: Sophie Masson <
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:11:08 +1000
Subject: 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1415 SHAKSPERean Characters?
I quite fancy myself as Rosalind or Viola, I must say--wishful thinking,
no doubt. But seriously, the idea of a girl dressing as a boy, to do
something adventurous and brave, and then being revealed for who she
was, always appealed to me as a child..and an adolescent.
Sophie
Author site: http://www.northnet.com.au/~smasson
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From: Hardy M. Cook <
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Date: Friday, June 08, 2001
Subject: Re: SHAKSPERean Characters
Oh, Oh, Oh !!!! Can we pick our own character? I'll play. I'll play.
I imagine myself a Prospero to this list, mysteriously making things
happen in the background and exercising my authoritarian ways. Wait a
minute; maybe I'm just the Wizard of Oz -- all smoke and mirrors.
Hardy
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