The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1599  Saturday, 24 September 2005

[1] 	From: 	JD Markel <
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	Date: 	Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
	Subj: 	Re: SHK 16.1582 ducdame

[2] 	From: 	Thomas Pendleton <
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	Date: 	Friday, 23 Sep 2005 12:39:45 -0400
	Subj: 	RE: SHK 16.1573 ducdame


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From: 		JD Markel <
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Date: 		Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 16.1582 ducdame
Comment: 	Re: SHK 16.1582 ducdame

Larry writes:

 >"Right. But to get to Vienna, Italy, it is necessary
 >to travel from the nearest seaport of Bohemia."

Good one! Memory refreshed - the locale is Vienna, but many of the 
character's names more likely
Italian(ish), e.g. "Vincentio."  None German.  Why?

Johnson noted the "folios" of his day rewrote princely for prenzie.  I 
found an example, an excerpt from Hazlitt's "Characters of Shakespear's 
Plays"

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_ch30.html

Claudio. The princely Angelo?
Isabella. Oh, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
The damned'st body to invest and cover
In princely guards! ..

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From: 		Thomas Pendleton <
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Date: 		Friday, 23 Sep 2005 12:39:45 -0400
Subject: 16.1573 ducdame
Comment: 	RE: SHK 16.1573 ducdame

If Measure for Measure "transpires" at all, doesn't it transpire in Vienna?

If "prenzie" is a Folio misprint, how can it be a hapax legomenon?

Does anyone find Terence Hawkes as entertaining as Terence Hawkes?

Tom Pendleton

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