The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1024 Saturday, 31 May 2003
[1] From: Martin Steward <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 23 May 2003 15:46:33 +0100
Subj: SHK 14.1017 Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
[2] From: Ivan Fuller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 23 May 2003 11:34:49 -0500
Subj: SHK 14.1017 Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
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From: Martin Steward <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 23 May 2003 15:46:33 +0100
Subject: Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
Comment: SHK 14.1017 Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
I agree with Peter Hyland.
The Unity of Time obviously looked particularly stupid to Shakespeare.
In the Tempest, which obeys the unity perfectly, there is a lot of play
with its absurdities, and with image and word-clusters around the idea
of time, tempus, etc. (q.v. the title!).
m
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From: Ivan Fuller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 23 May 2003 11:34:49 -0500
Subject: Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
Comment: SHK 14.1017 Re: 15 or 16 Years in Winter's Tale
>>The entire central part of this play dislocates the
>>expectations about "reality" set up by its first three acts. The
>>audience is surely expected to see the joke.
I don't know that I'd go so far as to say the audience would "surely"
see the joke. My audiences are sharp, but that may be expecting a bit
much from them.
Ivan Fuller
Bare Bodkins Theatre Co.
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