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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2161 Wednesday, 30 October 2002 [1] From: Richard Nathan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 15:49:02 +0000 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... [2] From: Jay Louden <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 09:25:32 -0800 Subj: RE: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... [3] From: Virginia Byrne <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 17:00:04 EST Subj: Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... [4] From: John V. Knapp <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 2002 00:30:13 -0600 (CST) Subj: Response to Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Nathan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 15:49:02 +0000 Subject: 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... Comment: Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... The ACT production of "Taming Of The Shrew that Michael B. Luskin wrote about is now available on DVD from Broadway Theater Archives, which also has the Sam Waterston production of "Much Ado About Nothing." Richard Nathan [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jay Louden <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 09:25:32 -0800 Subject: 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... Comment: RE: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... The trouble is, though, that students often assume that because they have seen the movie, they needn't read the text. They even assume that because they have seen "Ten Things I Hate About You," they know "Shrew." I would just give them a teaser, say the first scene between Kate and Petruchio and then show the whole video after they have read the entire text. Jay Louden Sage Hill School Newport Beach, CA [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Virginia Byrne <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 17:00:04 EST Subject: 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... Comment: Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... I just ordered the DVD from The Broadway Archives actually kultur international film in New Jersey www.kultur.com Virginia Byrne [4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: John V. Knapp <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 2002 00:30:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... Comment: Response to Re: SHK 13.2152 Re: Taming of the Shrew Film... Dear Mr. Luskin -- With all due respects to your attempt at motivating semi-literate students to "experience" Shakespeare, I think the WORST strategy for a teacher is to show the kids a film version BEFORE they've struggled with the text themselves. There are many pedagogically-sound ways of getting recalcitrant students to read early modern English; however, once they've seen a film version first, THAT version is embedded in their minds as THE play, and their imaginative recreation (imagining characters, scenes, specific movements) of the words-on-the-page is calcified in a way that does not seem to happen with live theater. In the USA at least, we seem to be raising a generation of non-readers aided and abetted, in part, by teachers giving in to the pressures of those more interested in video-games, TV, and film versions of S. glossing over the most important elements -- language and verbal music -- found in much live theatre. John V. Knapp _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> 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 13.2160 Wednesday, 30 October 2002 From: Alexander Huang <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 07:44:37 -0800 Subject: Recent Discovery of T. Jenkins' Diary (Titus Andronicus) I need to verify the sources, references, and validity of the following discovery, and would appreciate any info. Does any one know of the recent discovery of diary fragments (December 2, 1592 and January 23, 1593) in the Bodleian Library which have been claimed to be the direct evidence of the working process of the Elizabethan theatre? The entries in Latin were said to have been written by Thomas Jenkins, a law student who worked briefly at the Theater in Shoreditch. The participants in the dialogue are probably James Burbage, Richard Burbage, and William Shakespeare, conversing on Titus Andronicus and its tragic elements. Thomas Kyd's Jeronimo (Spanish Tragedy), a successful play in Henslowe's Rose, is mentioned as a major competitor. Alexander Huang _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> 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 13.2159 Wednesday, 30 October 2002 From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 09:43:51 -0600 Subject: 13.2149 Re: Barbican Comment: Re: SHK 13.2149 Re: Barbican For centers of print activity and lists of where printers were located Thanks for the response, but my interest is not in printers or print activity, but in centers of public activity per se. Powle's churchyard was a center for speaking (at the Cross) and for other infotainment. Did the same kinds of things (sermons, broadside readings, novelty acts) take place at some spot in the Barbican district? Were there more such places? Is there a study extant that focuses on same? _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> 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 13.2158 Wednesday, 30 October 2002 [1] From: Marcus Dahl <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 10:36:05 EST Subj: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day [2] From: D Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 09:46:09 -0600 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day [3] From: Steve Roth <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 11:12:58 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2136 Re: St. Crispin's Day [4] From: Al Magary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 13:41:01 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Marcus Dahl <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 10:36:05 EST Subject: 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Comment: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Just on a related note: Henry Sixth Part One is of course full of Saints: (due we must suppose to the abounding influence of the late to become St.Joan ...) St. Martin (obscurely linked with Halcyon Days) St. Philip (Acts XXI) St. Denis (French Nat. St.) St. George (our hero Talbot's St.) Best, Marcus [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: D Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 09:46:09 -0600 Subject: 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Comment: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Robert D. Swets refers to "Noo Yawk accent," but our non-American colleagues should be advised that the correct pronunciation is Nuh Yuck. Noo Yawk is how it would be said in, say, Alabama. N'yuckers themselves, however, usually refer to specific areas, such as Bwooklun, da Bwonx, Juisey, Lawn Guyland, and so forth. Cheers, don [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Roth <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 11:12:58 -0800 Subject: 13.2136 Re: St. Crispin's Day Comment: Re: SHK 13.2136 Re: St. Crispin's Day Alison Anne Chapman addresses the St. Crispin's issue in great depth in Chapter 3, "Whose St. Crispin's Day Is It?", in her 1996 dissertation, Reforming Time: Calendars and Almanacs in Early Modern England (U. Penn.). A (very brief) summary of some of her points: o Shoemakers and cobblers had some claim to higher social status than other guilds, and pretensions to greater, including greater ability to rise to gentility. It was called "the gentle craft." o The guild also staked a claim to some control over holidays, including the ability to declare and coopt holidays and some shuffling of saint's names and dates. o Shoemakers and the shoemaker's holidays were hence closely associated with the mixing and reversal of social classes associated with holiday revels. o Shoemaker's ability to mend "souls" may also have contributed to their holiday-making status o This is all depicted in many writings of the time that treat shoemakers, cobblers, and the brothers Crispin/Crispianus (the titles themselves speak volumes): Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday (1599), Match Mee in London (1631), and If This be not a Good Play, the Divell is in It (1612), Robert Greene's Quip for an Upstart Courtier (1592), Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tragedie of Locrine (1595, anonymous), George a Greene, Pinnar of Wakefield (1599, anonymous), The Cobler Turned Courtier (1680, anonymous chapbook), Deloney's The Gentle Craft (1597), Rowley's A Shoemaker, A Gentleman (1609), Ward's Simple Cobler of Aggawam (1647), and A Knack to Know a Knave (1594, anonymous). Chapman cites several others. o By invoking St. Crispin's (repeatedly!) in the place that St. George occupied earlier in the play and in other accounts of Agincourt, Henry coopts the holiday-making power for his own, and for the crown. In Chapman's words: "Just as Henry forestalls the traitors' challenge to his life and kingship, on the eve of battle he preempts another threat to his sovereignity, one that is posed by plebeian shoemakers and that challenges his control over the calendar and the nation's memory. ...by linking St. Crispin's Day to a rhetoric of obedience, martial solidarity, and loyalty to the king, the play neutralizes the tendency of shoemakers to make subversive holdiays that celebrate their own material advancement. Henry fastions a shoemaker's holiday that celebrates monarchical instead of artisinal power, and he insures that this holiday will celebrate his own apotheosis as England's saint-king rather than the transformation of shoemakers into gentlemen. ... [he] rechannels the unruly, upward-thrusting energies of shoemakers into royal service, figuring the king's war as the shoemaker's primary work and martial valor as the only lawful means of social and economic advancement." N.B.: Chapman acknowledges her debt to Jonathan Baldo's article, "Wars of Memory in Henry V" [SQ 47, Summer 1996]. I have not read this article. Chapman says: "Jonathan Baldo has shown how the play repeatedly manipulates national memory in order to build a sense of nationhood that serves monarchial interests, and he points to the St. Crispin's Day speech's appropriation of the ritual calendar as an instance of such elite configurations of memory." For those interested in the power of the calendar in early modern England, I enthusiastically recommend David Cressy's Bonfires and Bells: national memory and the Protestant calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England (London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989). Some of the best history writing I've come across in a while, enjoyably written and largely untainted with ideological cant. Thanks, Steve http://princehamlet.com [4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Al Magary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 13:41:01 -0800 Subject: 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Comment: Re: SHK 13.2145 Re: St. Crispin's Day Many thanks to those who offered views on why Shakespeare has Henry V make six references to St. Crispin. I'm especially persuaded by the story that Crispin and Crispinian were in Faversham, on the London-Dover road, and that Deloney and Rowley helped make the shoemaker brothers local/London favorites among the saints. BTW standard histories sometimes mention that Agincourt was fought on that feast day but neither the English nor French planned ahead to engage that day. Shakespeare's luck. Al Magary _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> 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 13.2157 Wednesday, 30 October 2002 [1] From: Terri Bourus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 10:24:42 -0500 Subj: RE: SHK 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions [2] From: Steve Roth <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 11:46:42 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions [3] From: David Bishop <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 14:44:02 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Terri Bourus <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 10:24:42 -0500 Subject: 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions Comment: RE: SHK 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions A new Arden Hamlet will be available soon: one that includes Q1. Still, my copy of the 1982 edition is dog-eared from use. Until I see the new Arden, I recommend the Jenkins text--combined with The First Quarto of Hamlet, edited by Kathleen Irace and published by Cambridge University Press. Terri Bourus [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Roth <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 11:46:42 -0800 Subject: 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions Comment: Re: SHK 13.2144 Hamlet Available Editions I'd definitely recommend Jenkins for a single modern-spelling edition. It's also worth picking up a cheap used copy of the Dover reprint of the Furness Variorum on Abebooks.com. If you really want to look at the source texts look to the Enfolded Hamlet, online at <http://www.global-language.com/enfolded.html>. (You can get it printed for a few bucks by ordering the 1996 Shakespeare Newsletter "Extra Issue" containing it.) I'd also recommend a new edition that Bernice Kliman has spoken well of on this list, and that I also find useful: Tronch-P