The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1976 Wednesday, 30 November 2005
[1] From: Philip Tomposki <
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Date: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2005 16:48:26 -0500
Subj: RE: Living Characters
[2] From: Bill Arnold <
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Date: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2005 20:24:46 -0800 (PST)
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1966 Living Characters
[3] From: Duncan Salkeld <
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Date: Wednesday, 30 Nov 2005 12:03:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1966 Living Characters
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From: Philip Tomposki <
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Date: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2005 16:48:26 -0500
Subject: RE: Living Characters
From Joseph Egert:
"Fine word "legitimate"! Let the Forum partake of Edmund's vigor and
ingenuity. We need more upstart crows, not fewer. No more caged Ariels.
Let the eagle soar!"
More like turkeys, and there not soaring, their fluttering about making
a great deal of fuss without achieving anything useful!
I'm not a scholar, but I joint this list to read and engage in serious,
thoughtful and informed discussions on Shakespeare. It's been
distressing to find that of late, the lunatics have been taking over the
asylum.
There are plenty of lists where anyone can float all the kooky, nutty
theories they want. If you think someone else wrote the canon, or that
Shakespeare was a Jew, Italian, Ethiopian or alien life form, or have
interpretations that has absolutely NO textural evidence, that's where
you belong. Please leave this list to we old farts who actually believe
in employing facts and reason in our discussions.
Philip Tomposki
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From: Bill Arnold <
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Date: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2005 20:24:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 16.1966 Living Characters
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1966 Living Characters
David Bishop writes, "The fact that Claudius is King Hamlet's brother
intensifies the foulness of the murder, but what's sibling rivalry got
to do with it?... As for how one brother 'persuaded his immature son
into continuing the family battles', this begs a great many questions.
Laertes, in some ways a mirror of Hamlet, needs no such persuasion
because he believes it's a son's duty to revenge his father's death. As
I've said elsewhere, I think the play's focus shifts, by the end, away
from revenge toward justice."
Ah, the *art* of Shakespeare! Leave it to a man of his genius to
include foils and a comparative plot and comparative character to show
the difference: Laertes is *only* interested in revenge, and Prince
Hamlet is *truly* interested in justice. The text rules!
Bill Arnold
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/scholars/arnold.htm
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From: Duncan Salkeld <
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Date: Wednesday, 30 Nov 2005 12:03:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: 16.1966 Living Characters
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1966 Living Characters
Biblical names from the Old Testament become common during Elizabeth's
reign - thanks to people reading those Protestant Bibles, of course.
Other names such as Susanna and Judith had become popular earlier in the
century - they are names familiar from the Mystery Plays, funnily enough.
I think it is worth pointing out that the names Judith and Susanna were
relatively rare in Elizabeth's reign (and Susan was a far more popular
form than Susanna).
Duncan Salkeld
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