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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0562 Thursday, 15 June 2006 From: Perng Ching-Hsi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 14 Jun 2006 07:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Looking for Portrait of Antonio For my new Chinese translation of The Merchant of Venice, I'm considering using some portraits by 19th century artists. In the library of Shakespeare Centre, I found reprints of Chas A. Buchel's fine portraits of all the major characters except Antonio, the title role. Would deeply appreciate any help in locating it--or photographs by Louise Jopling or Ellis A. Walery. Many thanks! Sincerely, Ching-Hsi Perng Professor of English and Drama National Taiwan University _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.0561 Thursday, 15 June 2006 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 Subject: Google Launches "Summer with Shakespeare" Site The Google Book Search on Wednesday, June 14, 2006, launched a Shakespeare Site at www.google.com/shakespeare. Google's Press Release reads: Summer's here and that means two things: summer reading and the commencement of Shakespeare festivals around the country. Today, Google Book Search celebrates both traditions with the launch of its "Summer with Shakespeare" site, a place to find and search all the plays of Shakespeare-from the popular favorites to the lesser-known gems. The site launches in conjunction with the commencement of Shakespeare in the Park (http://www.publictheater.org/), New York City's famous outdoor festival, which this year will feature the production of Macbeth. In Shakespeare's day, gaining greater access to theatrical events meant duking it out with the other "groundlings" for the best view of the stage. It took centuries before the modern publishing industry could make works like Macbeth widely available. Today, the Internet is continuing to remove the barriers between people and knowledge, and Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/) is helping people all over the world browse and discover the great texts of history. At www.google.com/shakespeare, book lovers and theater fans alike can explore Shakespeare's entire oeuvre right from their desktop. You can search for famous lines in Macbeth without toil and trouble, browse through all the plays you know, or follow your curiosity to discover new works on the site. And if you decide you want to buy a copy of one of Shakespeare's works, the "All editions" link will show you every version in Google Book Search, many of which are available for purchase. While on the site, readers can check out other ways to enjoy Shakespeare by: Uncovering more resources on Shakespeare with Google Web Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shakespeare&btnG=Google+Search) Exploring scholarly perspectives on Shakespeare with Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=shakespeare&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search) Connecting with Shakespeare enthusiasts through Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=shakespeare&qt_s=Search) Watching Shakespeare in action on Google Video (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shakespeare) Browsing Shakespearean images on Google Image Search (http://images.google.com/images?q=shakespeare) Finding the latest articles on all things Shakespeare with Google News (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=shakespeare&btnG=Search+News) Visiting the Globe Theater and other Shakespearean landmarks with Google Earth (Due to their lengths, the above URLs may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) For more information, please see today's Google Blog post at http://booksearch.blogspot.com or Google Book Search at http://books.google.com. Google Contacts Jill Lindenbaum, 415-305-1626This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Megan Lamb, 703-926-5292This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Google Launches Shakespeare Site http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003921591 June 15, 2006 12:15 p.m. EST Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - On Wednesday Google launched a website entirely dedicated to the great writer and philosopher William Shakespeare. The site will allow the lovers of the Brad to browse through the texts of his plays. Users can even base their search in words, such as "to be or not to be" from "Hamlet," and they will immediately be taken to that part of the play. According to a report by Reuters, the site, which was introduced in conjunction with Google's sponsorship of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park," also provides links to related scholarly research, Internet groups, and even videos of theater performances of Shakespeare plays. The site also encourages users to "take a literary field trip" by searching for London's Shakespeare's Globe Theater on Google Earth, which combines satellite imagery, maps and a search engine to find historic locations around the world. In addition, Google Book Search, the Google product which houses the Shakespeare site, even allows users to view books or parts of books through their Web browsers if the copyright has expired or a publisher has given permission to do so. Other stories can be found at http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003921591 _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.0560 Wednesday, 14 June 2006 From: Donald Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 13 Jun 2006 09:04:39 -0500 Subject: 17.0555 The Big Question Comment: RE: SHK 17.0555 The Big Question To Joe Egert: Those who justify (to whatever degree) "B" in the example are not straw men, and I refer him to the posting from Frank Whigham for an instance. To Frank Whigham: I did not have you in mind when I wrote the post, so I'm sorry if it sounded like a personal affront. To the issue at hand: The example of "B" is, perhaps, definitive, even if it has been worked over many times. B has a legal bargain to lend a certain sum of money to A, for which A puts up his life as security. Leaving aside the insanity of there being allowed such a bargain, A defaults and B demands the payment of A's life. Money is made available from another source to pay off the defaulted loan. B refuses and continues to demand that A be legally killed in accordance with the initial bargain. FW is correct in noting that the phrase "judicial murder" generates certain problems in meaning, but I use it with full consciousness of that fact. Although I can be called to account as to what "murder" can mean when modified by "judicial," so can FW as to why he can say that what B does is not murder. I would not ordinarily care about such matters-seeking a vote, as he suggests, as to who's right-until I start reading responses that appear to justify B in what he does, and to suggest that Shakespeare also justifies him. At this point I make a moralistic demand: do you seriously mean what you seem to mean, that spitting and name-calling justify murder? Do you seriously think that Shakespeare felt they justified it? These are, of course, two separate issues. The first requires some explanation of the general moral context that excuses a horrendous crime when it is hate-based. I find this a dubious idea indeed, but I have probably misunderstood. In any case, it doesn't relate to Shakespeare until it is applied to him as part of an interpretation. This, then, is the second issue. To what extent can this idea be found in Shakespeare's works so that we can have some assurance that the IB actually held such an idea? It is a challenging possibility and would require my changing my responses to many of the plays if I concluded that it was correct. But there are lots of possibilities out there, and as time allows I consider them. FW is right in suggesting that I don't care as much as he does about the origin and operation of hatred. De gustibus and all that. I do care about clarifying as much as possible the moral nature of a given act when an expected response is questioned or even attacked. It is not that my moral ideals are right (of course, I believe they are or I wouldn't hold them), but that I cannot discuss the issue with any hope of gaining a deeper understanding of the play if I don't understand the moral context of the person I'm discussing it with. This post is rather long, and for that I apologize. But I hope it is not irrelevant. Plays consist of actions and actions always have a moral nature. Because there is widespread agreement about the moral content the vast majority of these actions, they are not "morality-free." In any discussion of WS we have to know what our own moral context is and how we are applying it. Cheers, don PS. For example, why does my morality allow me to condemn Shylock and justify Hamlet? Is it because I like the latter and detest the former (and is thus logically invalid)? Or is it because there is a crucial difference in what they try to do? _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.0559 Wednesday, 14 June 2006 From: Robin Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 13 Jun 2006 17:22:14 +0100 Subject: 17.0552 Dedications to Printed Plays-- Comment: Re: SHK 17.0552 Dedications to Printed Plays-- My thanks to Matthew Steggle for the direction to Bergeron, and to Bill Lloyd. I had thought of both Jonson's +Works+ and Gascoigne's +Hundreth Sundry Flowers+ (but not +The Glass of Government+), but as these both include non-dramatic texts, they're not quite comparable to plays without some covering "proper literature" to make them respectable. >By the way, I've seen it said that Samuel Daniel's *Certain >Small Workes* of 1607 (which along with much verse >includes three plays) trumps Jonson's 1616 *Workes* as >the first 'collected plays' in English. Gascoigne would seem >to trump Daniel. > >Bill Lloyd This would still leave the First Folio of 1623 the first "collected plays" in the sense of plays and plays alone. Robin Hamilton _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.0558 Wednesday, 14 June 2006 From: Randall Martin <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 13 Jun 2006 08:52:16 -0300 Subject: 17.0553 Roast or Roost? Comment: Re: SHK 17.0553 Roast or Roost? Last night I happened to come across a reference further confirming that 'rule the ro[a]st' was the common early modern expression. The anonymous author of A True Description of the Pot-Companion Poet (1642) ends his satirical pamphlet with an additional portrait, 'A Character Of the Swil-Bole Cooke'. 'The Kitchen is [the Cook's] Hell', he says, and in it 'he domineers and rules the Rost' (A3v). Randall Martin _______________________________________________________________ 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.