The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0054 Tuesday, 23 January 2007
[1] From: John Drakakis <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 16:19:36 -0000
Subj: RE: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
[2] From: Larry Weiss <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 12:52:33 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
[3] From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 17:53:38 -0000
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0045 Wordless Macbeth
[4] From: David Evett <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 20:54:57 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
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From: John Drakakis <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 16:19:36 -0000
Subject: 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
Comment: RE: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
OK, now that we've had a good giggle about 'wordless Shakespeare' let's
perhaps take the proposition a little more seriously. To reduce
'Shakespeare' to the 'language' (although this is what perforce Radio, for
example, has to do) is to push the argument to the opposite extreme.
Drama, by its very nature consists of words and gestures (let us assume
that the gestures we are talking about are silent). To eliminate the
language altogether is to offer only a part of the play, and vice versa.
Presumably a 'wordless' Shakespeare can only work when you recognise what
is missing. In other words, it is a defamiliarising gesture that ranks
alongside Stoppard's 'Dogg's Hamlet' or the work of the Reduced
Shakespeare Company, or that of Charles Marowitz. It is now up to those
who champion wordless Shakespeare to tell us what it is that this
contributes to our understanding of the play.
Cheers,
John Drakakis
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From: Larry Weiss <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 12:52:33 -0500
Subject: 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
>[b] in the 'Mousetrap', Hamlet is interpreting and explaining /
commentating all the time IN WORDS because he does not trust the mere dumb
show to convey the import.
How does Stuart Manger know what Hamlet is thinking?
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From: Terence Hawkes <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 17:53:38 -0000
Subject: 18.0045 Wordless Macbeth
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0045 Wordless Macbeth
The most disturbing feature of the 'wordless' Macbeth must be its
political dimension. As the Russian Twelfth Night showed in Buenos Aires,
the Bard's words need not be reduced to anyone's puny linguistics. Who
needs language? Access from Shakespeare's intense height can make all
culture's kin. That is, like ours.
Terence Hawkes
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From: David Evett <
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Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2007 20:54:57 -0500
Subject: 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0048 Wordless Macbeth
In this context I'd be curious to see comments on the musical version of
Wiv now on view at the RSC.
Dave Evett
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