The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0440 Thursday, 11 May 2006
[1] From: David Crystal <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:15:13 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0418 A Roof on the Globe?
[2] From: Jeremy Fiebig <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:58:41 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
[3] From: Elliott Stone <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:20:48 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
[4] From: John Crowley <
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Date: Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:00:27 -0400
Subj: Roof on the Globe
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From: David Crystal <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:15:13 +0100
Subject: 17.0418 A Roof on the Globe?
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0418 A Roof on the Globe?
>I feel somewhat dismayed by the thought that the Globe's raison
>d'etre is so comprehensively nullified by putting a roof on it!
'Roof' is perhaps a misleading word. It is more an enclosing, using the
system described. You can still see the sky, and the groundlings will
still get wet. I've seen the first drawings and they look really
exciting - and well within the spirit of the Globe, which is to explore
the dramatic potential of the space. The effect as the audience enters
the theatre should be quite something.
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From: Jeremy Fiebig <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:58:41 -0400
Subject: 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
The sentiments expressed in Wednesday's posts reflect the willingness
among audiences and scholars to see the Globe become something other
than it's been. With some notable exceptions, the Globe has to this
point avoided becoming a "designer's theatre" -- one in which the
elements of production outweigh the very basic requirements of the text.
At the risk of tooting too loudly the horn of original practices, the
move by the Globe appears in some measure to deny itself -- the
building, and the imagination required to engage that building and its
players. Instead of "playing" dark and funereal in broad daylight, the
audience is caused to "feel" dark and funereal by an element that
Shakespeare presumably did not have at his beck.
I see this move as a lack on ingenuity rather than an application of it.
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From: Elliott Stone <
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:20:48 -0400
Subject: 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0427 A Roof on the Globe?
I believe that a very good case could be made that every Shakespeare
play was written to be performed indoors. There may be those critics
that believe the plays were written to be performed first at the Globe
but I am not persuaded. Tom Stoppard might have written the script for
"Shakespeare in Love" showing Queen Elizabeth viewing R&J at her local
playhouse but my sneaking belief is that they took the play to her.
There are many plays within the play in the Shakespeare Canon and they
all were performed indoors. The most famous, of course, is the Hamlet
Mousetrap performed in a castle. The "rude mechanicals" might have
rehearsed outdoors but even they performed their Thisbe before the Court
in a palace!
Best,
Elliott H. Stone
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From: John Crowley <
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Date: Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:00:27 -0400
Subject: Roof on the Globe
Is there clear evidence that Elizabethan theaters didn't have such
screens? Frances Yates and others have shown how much the Elizabethan
theater builders thought of themselves as heirs of the classical
theater, wanting for instance to replicate the (now quite
unintelligible) sound amplification system described by Vitruvius.
Maybe they adopted this concept too.
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