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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1883 Tuesday, 15 November 2005 [1] From: Virginia Byrne <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 14 Nov 2005 12:49:57 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 16.1872 BBC Richard II [2] From: Robert Projansky <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 14 Nov 2005 14:54:16 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 16.1872 BBC Richard II [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Virginia Byrne <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 14 Nov 2005 12:49:57 -0500 Subject: 16.1872 BBC Richard II Comment: Re: SHK 16.1872 BBC Richard II Yes, indeed, I was hoping there was a DVD available of the Mark Rylance R2. [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Projansky <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 14 Nov 2005 14:54:16 -0800 Subject: 16.1872 BBC Richard II Comment: Re: SHK 16.1872 BBC Richard II Someone wrote: >>The BBC Shakespeare series RICHARD II is available in the >>UK on DVD from either www.bbcshop.com or >>www.choicesdirect.co.uk. In the US the play can be ordered >>from www.bardcentral.com. It comes part of a boxed set with >>HENRY IV 1&2, RICHARD III and HENRY V. To which Kathy Dent replied: >I think the wires have got crossed somewhere. This thread >concerns a broadcast made by BBC4 of a performance at >Shakespeare's Globe. This is NOT the same as the BBC >Shakespeare productions (produced during the 1980s?) >that are available on Video & DVD. If this DVD is the same Richard II we saw at the Globe in September 2003 I recommend that you skip it. Mark Rylance's Richard was awful -- simple-minded, and annoying -- and the Globe's artistic director seemed not to know basic verse technique, repeatedly breaking Shakespeare's verse in favor of his own chuckles, giggles, and snorts. Since R II is all verse, this mattered a lot. (The costumes and music were very nice, though, and the after-play dance was a real treat.) Bob Projansky _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.1882 Tuesday, 15 November 2005 From: Bill Lloyd <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 15 Nov 2005 09:02:29 EST Subject: Railed Stage Comment: SHK 16.1873 Railed Stage Just for the record, I did go for the yes-indoor and no-outdoor position in my initial summation on stage railings: >If one may generalize it seems as if stage-rails were not a feature of >[many? most? all?] public outdoor theatres [Swan; Fortune contract; Hope >contract] but were a feature of at least some private indoor theatres Concerning the possible public theatre railings mentioned in W. Smith's The Hector of Germany, earlier I had speculated: >...Hector of Germany was acted at the public houses the Red >Bull and the Curtain, though it may have been written for another venue. Dave Kathman writes me from London, where he is currently archive-diving: "I don't know of any evidence that Hector was performed at an indoor playhouse, though The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl, to which Hector was a sort of response, was performed at Whitefriars." Smith (William the Herald, not Wentworth says Dave) was not a regular professional playwright working for the public theatres, and it seems quite possible he wrote it with a performance at Whitefriars or another private venue in mind, and it was either only revived at the Curtain/Bull (by 'prentices!) or played there after other venues fell through. Speculation of course, but the evidence Hector offers for rails on public stages is ambiguous at best. Bill Lloyd _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.1881 Tuesday, 15 November 2005 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Subject: Dead Horses and Closing Threads Dear SHAKSPEReans, I would like to see the threads that follow -- 16.1882 through 16.1886 -- come to a rapid end. 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 16.1880 Tuesday, 15 November 2005 From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 14 Nov 2005 13:08:00 -0500 Subject: 16.1870 King Leer in Remake of The Producers Comment: Re: SHK 16.1870 King Leer in Remake of The Producers >I saw a trailer for another trailer for a film starring Judi Dench >entitled Mrs. Henderson Presents. The film is set in London >during WWII and focuses on negotiations with the censor to >allow nudity on stage. The trailer made no mention of >Shakespeare but the film may well. I have seen a rough cut of this film and can recommend it highly. The film does not mention Shakespeare in any significant fashion. It is possible that there might be a reference in passing, but, if so, it is so inconsequential that I have forgotten it. The premise of the film does involve the presentation of nudes on stage in WWII London, but its "focus" is not "negotiations with the censor," which were remarkably smooth according to the screenplay. Judy Dench and Bob Hoskins are delightful together. _______________________________________________________________ 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 16.1879 Tuesday, 15 November 2005 From: Sally Kingsley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 15 Nov 2005 15:00:20 -0000 Subject: Call for Papers: "Shrews" on the Renaissance Stage Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies University of York, England Call for Papers: "Shrews" on the Renaissance Stage Date: 26-27 May 2006 Location: University of York, England This interdisciplinary conference will focus particularly on The Taming of A Shrew; Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew; Fletcher, The Woman's Prize; John Lacy, Sauny the Scott. Speakers will include: Anna Bayman & George Southcombe (Oxford), Michael Cordner (York), Holly Crocker (South Carolina), Laura Gowing (King's London), Barbara Hodgdon (Michigan), Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt), David Wootton (York). We invite submissions for papers to be given at this workshop-style conference. Those giving papers will participate free, and there may be some scope to provide assistance with travel and accommodation costs. Submissions should be on one side of A4 and should reach Sally Kingsley (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) by 10 December 2005. A response will reach you by 1 January 2006. Sally Kingsley Centre Administrator Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies (CREMS) Vanbrugh College University of York York YO10 5DD _______________________________________________________________ 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.