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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0449 Thursday, 10 March 2005 From: Susanne Greenhalgh <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 10 Mar 2005 09:38:14 -0000 Subject: Blair as Prince Hal A cartoon by Martin Rawson in the Guardian, 9 March 2005, depicts Derry Irvine (Blair's mentor and previous Lord Chancellor) as Falstaff saying 'I know thee not, young man' to Prince Hal (Blair). Irvine voted against the Government on sections of the anti-terrorism control orders currently going through Parliament. Susanne Greenhalgh _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.0448 Thursday, 10 March 2005 From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 Mar 2005 17:10:06 -0000 Subject: BSA Call for Papers: "Shakespeare and Ecology" -- Deadline extended An extra 3 weeks have been added to the deadline for the following Call for Papers: we'll take proposals up to the end of March. "Shakespeare and Ecology" The 2005 meeting of the British Shakespeare Association at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 1-4 September 2005 will include a seminar called "Shakespeare and Ecology", led by Dr Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University) and Dr Kevin De Ornellas (Queen's University, Belfast). Members of the SHAKSPER ListServ are warmly invited to apply for inclusion in what is certain to be a lively session. This is the seminar Call for Papers: "The most pressing social and political problem of our time, ecological degradation, has had virtually no impact upon Shakespeare studies to date. Debates about how the countryside and animals are exploited by humans are apparent in Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic and non-dramatic writing, but, since their productive forces were not sufficiently developed to make the widescale changes that we've become capable of, it is easily but wrongly assumed that ecological concern emerged only in the last 50 years. In fact, arguments about how to define the natural in contradistinction from the human, about the proper relations of these two spheres, and the ideological and political purposes to which arguments about nature might be put have long been apparent in literature and drama, as work on the Romantics has shown. Contributors to this seminar on 'Shakespeare and ecology' are invited to do such things as: raise questions about the representation of animals and the natural world in Shakespeare; historicize changing human relations with the natural world and how these affected the creation and reception of Shakespeare's work in his own time and across the centuries since then; put in the context of cultural theory the changing conceptions about humanity's place in the universe (including, for example, claims that an epistemic rupture separates us from Shakespeare's time); and consider how these matters might bear upon the duties of Shakespeare scholars today. The precise format of the seminar will be shaped by the number of attendees, but it is anticipated that abstracts will be publicly circulated on a website (www.GabrielEgan.com/ecoShakespeare) so that participants need not summarize their papers for the benefit of auditors and can move directly to engagement with one another's papers. This seminar will be inherently interdisciplinary-indeed it explicitly imports to Shakespeare studies concerns and methodologies from other subject areas-and the convenors are consciously distributing this Call for Papers in channels used by colleagues in science and social science, as well as in the usual channels that get to Shakespearians of all stripes." Please feel free to distribute this Call for Papers in any channels available. 300-words abstracts of proposed papers should be sent the seminar convenors: Gabriel Egan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Kevin De Ornellaas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.0447 Thursday, 10 March 2005 From: Shakespeare in Europe <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 09 Mar 2005 21:27:31 +0000 Subject: Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory 17-20 November 2005 SHAKESPEARE IN EUROPE: HISTORY AND MEMORY International Conference Krak
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0446 Wednesday, 9 March 2005 From: Susan St. John <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 Mar 2005 20:45:26 -0700 Subject: 16.0420 Shakespeare Songs Comment: Re: SHK 16.0420 Shakespeare Songs Phoenix Bach Choir also has a CD of Shakespeare's songs...you can find it at http://www.singers.com/choral/ and probably other places as well. Susan St. John _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.0445 Wednesday, 9 March 2005 [1] From: Bill Arnold <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 8 Mar 2005 13:56:08 -0800 (PST) Subj: Re: SHK 16.0432 A Claudius Question [2] From: Harry G. Rusche <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 Mar 2005 15:20:02 -0500 Subj: Hamlet's Father Claudius [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Arnold <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 8 Mar 2005 13:56:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: 16.0432 A Claudius Question Comment: Re: SHK 16.0432 A Claudius Question Susan St. John writes, "I love Abigail Quart's idea of looking at the marriage proposal between Claudius and Gertrude. After having played Gertrude twice I have decided that Old Hamlet was a good king but a lousy husband (married to his country first) and an even worse lover (only one son and he quit!). Whereas Claudius is a charmer, knows how to love a woman and makes Gertrude feel loved and wanted and sexy, etc. Gertrude is so lost in her newfound sensuality that she doesn't see Claudius' evil, scheming side. That's my take on it, anyway!" "Good grief!" to quote Charlie Brown! Is this why the infamous O.J. found his freedom at the hands of an American jury of mostly women, despite *blood* on his hands? Do not forget he was found guilty in a civil trial! So, I guess the reason we cannot read Shakespeare with any modicum of consensus is that our value systems have become, after the Feminist Movement, so *sexist*? God help us if we get a female President of the United States. Where is Margaret Thatcher, when we need her? Bill Arnold http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/scholars/arnold.htm [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Harry G. Rusche <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 Mar 2005 15:20:02 -0500 Subject: Hamlet's Father Claudius I know of one critic, Alfred Barkov, who "proves" from the text that Claudius is really Hamlet's father (among other assertions about the relations in the play). Does anyone know of other critics who have offered this novel reading of the play? Harry Rusche Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 _______________________________________________________________ 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.