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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.0667 Friday, 7 April 2003 From: Bill Arnold <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 4 Apr 2003 08:20:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: 14.0578 Re: Love's Labour's Wonne Comment: Re: SHK 14.0578 Re: Love's Labour's Wonne John Drakakis writes, "The secret's out: Love's Labours Wonne is Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure For Measure (problem), All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing etc. etc. Mind you, whisper it noth in Gath, but Shakespeare wrote the script for Robocop!" It appears that John Drakakis, and others, do make light of the suggested existence of "Love labours wonne." I thought it might be instructive to all to recall that the play was listed by Francis Meres in Shakespearean English of 1598 in his Palladis Tamia, Wit's Treasury, accordingly: "So the sweet wittie soul of Ovid lives in melliflous and honytongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private frinds...the most passionate among us to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love...so Shakespeare among y'English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for Comedy, witnes his Ge'tleme' of Verona, his Errors [The Comedy of...], his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummer night dreame, and his Merchant of Venice: for Tragedy his Richard the 2. Richard the 3. Henry the 4. [assumed, Parts I and II combined] King John, Titus andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet." This is an early and historically accurate list of the known and accepted writings, poetry and plays of Will Shakespeare, and certain conclusions can be drawn. The play is listed as a "Comedy" by a contemporary and is attributed to the same author, and it is listed as a separate play from known plays--such as MND and "Ge'tleme' of Verona." Unless there is another earlier list than this one [brought to my attention by Samuel Schoenbaum's Shakespeare's Lives], it appears that "Love labours wonne" is not to be confused with others cited in the 1598 list by Francis Meres. Perhaps there are other early lists, of which I am not aware? Bill Arnold http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/scholars/arnold.htm _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0666 Friday, 7 April 2003 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, April 07, 2003 Subject: Virus Dear SHAKSPEReans: It appears that two messages from 2001 were used to distribute a virus (W32.Bugbear@mm virus). Once again I had nothing to do with this and in this case SHAKSPER's listserv software did NOT send out the messages. I can only repeat that anyone how uses e-mail should never open attachments and simply delete anything that looks in the least bit suspicious. Hardy _______________________________________________________________ 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://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 14.0665 Friday, 7 April 2003 From: Susan Hawthorne <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 4 Apr 2003 08:00:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Second Blackfriars Conference Shenandoah Shakespeare announces the second Blackfriars Conference 22 October -- 26 October 2003. Papers: We invite papers about Shakespeare, performance and related topics. All papers will be presented in plenary sessions but are limited to ten minutes. Papers that include the use of our actors may be thirteen minutes. Workshops: Workshops can be up to 45 minutes in length and some may be simultaneous. Guest Speakers: Our speakers this year include Andrew Gurr, Stanley Wells, and Tina Packer. Cost: Registration is $250.00 and includes tickets to four shows, and several meals. Details: Owing to the fall foliage season lodging will be at a premium. We, therefore, recommend that you make your hotel, motel, or b&b reservations early. Deadlines: 15 May 2003--general registration 15 June 2003--for submission of abstracts Contact: Susan Hawthorne, Deputy Executive Director 540-885-5588This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ------------------------------------------------------ Many thanks, Susan Hawthorne Deputy Executive Director Shenandoah Shakespeare _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0664 Friday, 4 April 2003 From: H. S. Toshack <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 4 Apr 2003 06:30:09 +0700 Subject: Another New Educational Website Well, quite new. Lit Works.com offers resources in pdf format to support the study of Literature texts at high school and undergraduate level. At the moment it carries line-by-line commentaries on 'Macbeth', 'Othello' and 'Hamlet' ('Lear' is at the planning stage). Since the pdf files can be saved, printed and searched, they are very flexible study tools. We wish to expand the site, and would be happy to consider proposals from SHAKSPEReans for further commentaries - or other relevant material. You are most welcome to visit: http://www.litworks.com _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0663 Friday, 4 April 2003 From: S. L. Kasten <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 04 Apr 2003 11:42:14 +0200 Subject: 14.0646 Re: The Real Beale Comment: Re: SHK 14.0646 Re: The Real Beale Martin Steward challenged, >If Sam has found Mozart's "Tempest" opera he has a duty to humanity to >let us all know! > >Ah! If only! IF ONLY! Now there's "such stuff as dreams are made on". "The Tempest" doesn't map seamlessly onto Mozart's "The Magic Flute" but the opera does have some elements of the play as important features, among them: A prince finds himself alone in a strange land and is made aware of the existence of a young princess, whose hand to win he must perform various tests of character. The witch figure, the Queen of the night, is a mother (albeit that of the princess). There is a Caliban figure, who is the minion serially of the father and the mother, and who lusts after the princess. Ariel is present in the form of the three agents of the Queen of the Night who save the Prince from the dragon in the opening scene (which creature can be understood as a metamorphosised storm), and again in the form of the three boys who prevent the prince and princess from acts of despair. The father is a powerful and good purveyor of magic. And of course "marvellous sweet music" imbedded in the plot as distinct from the score of the opera. I wouldn't have thought of this connection had I not had the pleasure of viewing Ingmar Bergman's filming of a Drottingham Palace (Sweden) production of the Opera. During the interval the camera took us backstage, lighting first on the "father" studying the libretto of "Parsifal", and then on the mother figure treating her coloratura vocal cords to a cigarette below a "no smoking" sign. The camera continues to wander the backstage area, finally coming to a secluded corner where we find the Prince and the princess...playing chess! Shakespeare quotations can be very satisfying, the subtler the better. But there should be a "spinoff" list that wouldn't force the sublime (in whose number I personally would include, for example, "The Last Action Hero" takeoff) to rub shoulders with the ridiculous and worse. Best wishes, Syd Kasten _______________________________________________________________ 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.