The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0029 Tuesday, 14 February 2006
[1] From: Angela K Barbera <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 11:47:01 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
[2] From: Richard Burt <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 12:53:58 -0500
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[3] From: Hugh Davis <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 13:50:20 -0500
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[4] From: Ellen Joy Letostak <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 17:11:14 -0500
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[5] From: Peter Bridgman <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 23:24:18 -0000
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[6] From: Joe Conlon <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 19:43:50 -0500
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From: Angela K Barbera <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 11:47:01 -0600
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
One of the examples I've loved since I was a child is in "The Cosby
Show" -- Theo studies Julius Caesar for a high school history class.
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From: Richard Burt <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 12:53:58 -0500
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
There are numerous such episodes. I refer Ehrlich and Paul to my book
Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares as well as my article "Slammin' Shakespeare In
Acc(id)ents Yet Unknown: Liveness, Cinem(edi)a, and Racial
Dis-integration" Shakespeare Quarterly - Volume 53, Number 2, Summer
2002, pp. 201-225 and to my forthcoming Shakespeares After Shakespeare.
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From: Hugh Davis <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 13:50:20 -0500
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: RE: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Among others, there's a classic episode of Ozzie and Harriet with John
Carradine, and there's an episode of The Cosby Show with Christopher
Plummer and Roscoe Lee Browne where Theo has been assigned to read
Shakespeare. Malcolm in the Middle featured a school production of MND.
I'll even put in a plug for an episode of The Torkelsons, a short-lived
sitcom in the early 1990s, called "Swear Not by the Moon," in which the
Oklahoma-based high school puts on R&J, with a western setting, as the
teacher feels the students will better understand the text that way.
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From: Ellen Joy Letostak <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 17:11:14 -0500
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
There are numerous instances of sitcom Shakespeare. A few are:
Reba: Beginnings "A Mid-Semester's Night Dream"
Home Improvement "Mr. Wilson's Opus"
Boston Public "Chapter Sixty-Five"
For further examples, please see Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An
Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Ed. Richard
Burt. Greenwood, 2006. (forthcoming)
Best,
Ellen
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From: Peter Bridgman <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 23:24:18 -0000
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
From the 1999 special millennium episode of Blackadder ...
[After getting an autograph, Blackadder floors Shakespeare with a right
cross.]
BLACKADDER: THAT is for every schoolboy and schoolgirl for the next 400
years. ... Oh, and ...
[Blackadder kicks Shakespeare in the foot.]
BLACKADDER: THAT is for Ken Branagh's endless, uncut, four-hour version
of Hamlet!
SHAKESPEARE: Who's Ken Branagh?
BLACKADDER: I'll tell him you said that. And I think he'll be very hurt.
Peter Bridgman
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From: Joe Conlon <
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Date: Monday, 13 Feb 2006 19:43:50 -0500
Subject: 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0025 Shakespeare Sitcom Question
I remember two incidents. One episode of the Cosby show had Theo, the
son, studying Shakespeare.... I believe it was Julius Caesar, and as I
recall he wound up doing something with rap on the play. The other was
in the Andy Griffith show and Andy was telling Opie about Romeo and
Juliet. That one I believe was gleaned from his old stand-up routine
from the 1950's.
Joe Conlon
Warsaw, IN
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