The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1537 Saturday, 17 September 2005
[1] From: Walter Cannon <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 08:37:36 -0500
Subj: RE: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 11:06:28 -0400
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[3] From: Jonathan Hope <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 16:11:14 +0100
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 11:50:22 -0700
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[5] From: Bruce Young <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 17:11:56 -0600
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[6] From: Martin Steward <
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Date: Friday, 16 Sep 2005 09:09:50 +0100
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[7] From: Joseph Egert <
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Date: Friday, 16 Sep 2005 15:27:05 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1522 Suggestions for Readings on the Notion of Time
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From: Walter Cannon <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 08:37:36 -0500
Subject: 16.1522 Notion of Time
Comment: RE: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
You might want to check Ricardo Quinones' *The Renaissance Discovery of
Time* with chapters on Dante, Petrarch, Rabelais, Montaigne, Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Milton. He does discuss the sonnets, Richard II,
Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.
Walter Cannon
Central College
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From: Alberto Cacicedo <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 11:06:28 -0400
Subject: 16.1522 Notion of Time
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
I vote for _The Tempest_ and a "dark backward and abysm of time"
separated from a future implied in "Every third thought shall be my
grave" by the timed haste of a "now" that "depend[s] upon / A most
auspicious star." It's quite similar to _Comedy of Errors_ in that
regard, but more intensely absorbed in questions of time and timing.
Al Cacicedo
Albright College
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From: Jonathan Hope <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 16:11:14 +0100
Subject: 16.1522 Notion of Time
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
John Kerrigan has an outstandingly good section on time in the
introduction to his Penguin edition of the sonnets.
Jonathan Hope
Strathclyde University, Glasgow http://www.sinrs.stir.ac.uk/
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From: Ward Elliott <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 11:50:22 -0700
Subject: 16.1522 Notion of Time
Comment: RE: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
Take a look at Ricardo Quinones, The Renaissance Discovery of Time,
Harvard, 1972.
Ward Elliott
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From: Bruce Young <
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Date: Thursday, 15 Sep 2005 17:11:56 -0600
Subject: 16.1522 Notion of Time
Comment: RE: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
In response to Edna Boris's request for suggestions for Shakespearean
works dealing with time: Yes, you're right; time is an issue in many of
the plays. In fact, I've noticed that the word "time" appears (more
than once) in the closing lines of several plays. (I haven't checked,
but I think that's true of Macbeth, for instance.)
In addition to Macbeth and some of the history plays, I'd suggest the
late romances, especially The Winter's Tale, in which personal time,
seasonal time, generational time, and providential time are all at work.
Greene's Pandosto, from which Shakespeare (in part) took the plot, is
subtitled "The Triumph of Time." And of course Time appears as a
character midway through the play, arguing (among other things) that he
has the power to change human conventions and that it is therefore no
crime that the play does not follow the so-called unity of time.
Bruce Young.
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From: Martin Steward <
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Date: Friday, 16 Sep 2005 09:09:50 +0100
Subject: Notion of Time
Comment: SHK 16.1522 Notion of Time
"Among the readings I'm thinking of including are Stephen Hawking's A
Brief History of Time and Shakespeare's Richard II because of Richard's
line about his having wasted time which now wastes him, but time is a
theme in almost all of Shakespeare's writing, so I'm not convinced that
that would be the best Shakespeare play to include if there's room for
only one. I'd welcome suggestions on any readings"
The Tempest.
Gary Schmidgall draws attention to "a crucial word-cluster in the play
centering upon temperance, season (tempestas), temporal, time (tempus),
tempest, and temper" (Schmidgall, Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic.
Berkeley 1981, pp. 253-262; also Douglas Peterson, Time, Tide, and
Tempest: a study of Shakespeare's romances. San Marino 1973, esp. pp.
238-244; T. R. Langley, "Shakespeare: Dream and Tempest", Cambridge
Quarterly 20 (1991), pp.118-137).
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From: Joseph Egert <
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Date: Friday, 16 Sep 2005 15:27:05 +0000
Subject: 16.1522 Suggestions for Readings on the Notion of Time
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1522 Suggestions for Readings on the Notion of Time
To Edna Z. Boris in her hunt for the best Shakespeare play on the notion
of time, why not check out MACBETH? The play's central metaphor may be
the impenetrable womb of Time. Related is the Manichean clash of
life-giving spring/summer Sun light against the harvesting fall/winter
Lunar night amid endless cycles of usurpation and restoration since
Creation. Shakespeare reveals how, in the twilight fog of war, the two
resemble and indeed engender each other.
Regards,
Joe Egert
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