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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0373 Monday, 11 June 2007 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, June 11, 2007 Subject: The Best Laid Plans: My Mistake Dear SHAKSPEReans, I need to explain a mistake that I just made and reassure members that SHAKSPER and our Linux server are still SECURE. As I was finishing up editing the SHAKSPER digests for today, I noticed that I was almost late for a student-parent-teacher conference at Rebecca's school. Very rushed and distracted, I ended up making a mistake that made it appear that a Spammer had once again compromised our elaborate security. The problem, however, was not one with either the security or the newly installed upgrade of the listserv software. The problem was mine and mine alone. To reduce spamming problems I turned on the CONFIRM message command in listserv. I had a number of SHAKSPER digests to confirm in a queue and rushed through them, only to confirm a message that I should have left alone. The Subject lines for messages for distribution to the list that need to be confirmed have "SHAKSPER: confirmation required." Ones that are spams that have been delivered to me but not to the list have "SHAKSPER: approval required." After confirming 4 or 5 SHAKSPER digests, I inadvertently confirmed the next message in the queue, one with the Subject line "SHAKSPER: approval required" -- the Russian spam members received. This error was all my fault, and I will strive not to repeat my mistake. Reassuringly yours, Hardy M. Cook, Editor PS: Eric Luhrs has devised and implemented a way to block all attempts to "harvest" e-mail addresses from the SHAKSPER website archives. Kudos, Eric. _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0372 Monday, 11 June 2007 From: Marilyn A. Bonomi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 8 Jun 2007 10:13:22 -0400 Subject: 18.0358 Distinguishing Goneril from Regan Comment: RE: SHK 18.0358 Distinguishing Goneril from Regan Abigail Quart wrote "Just words. Only words. The picture that is worth a thousand words didn't exist for the common man." But the folks in the pit and the folks on the seats did have more than words! They had the visuals to go with them. Granted they did not have close ups, but they could pan the stage themselves simply by turning their heads-albeit they had to choose on which actor to focus. And they had action. Plenty of action. I have no knowledge of Elizabethan acting techniques other than Hamlet's speech to the players, but clearly there were traditional gestures that signified certain emotions and reactions, so the audience in the Globe would have been *more* likely to know what Shakespeare's words "meant" than we, trying to be "imaginary auditors" as Harry Berger would style us. When we go to the theatre today we still rely on these visual clues, usually unconsciously. We struggle with the theatre of other cultures not simply because of language but also because we don't know their kinesthetic signifiers the way we know our own. A broad wink and nod as a visual aside to the audience, as one example, would tip the Elizabethans that the speech was not to be taken seriously. Certain gestures would communicate respect or distain or fear or longing or whatever other emotion was intended with the words being spoken. Elizabethans did not lack stage conventions any more than we do. Nonetheless, Quart is essentially correct that those who are not literate or who do not have regular access to printed/written text have far better auditory memories and processing skills than those of use who read as though our lives depended upon it. One modern proof is all those people who manage to grow up, graduate from high school, and make a reasonable living for themselves and their families and are then discovered, at age 25 or 45 or whatever, to be functional (or actual) illiterates. Mari Bonomi _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0371 Monday, 11 June 2007 From: Elliott Stone <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 7 Jun 2007 18:33:50 -0500 Subject: 18.0357 Upstart Crow Comment: Re: SHK 18.0357 Upstart Crow It was my understanding that as long ago as 1970 Professor Louis Marder in "The Shakespeare Newsletter" described at length the finding that "Greenes Groats-worth of Wit" had not been written by Robert Greene but had in fact been written by Henry Chettle! The discovery of this fact in 1969 is credited to a Texas Professor, Warren B. Austin. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare had funded Austin's computer based research and the U.S. Government was responsible for its publication. Best, Elliott H. Stone _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0370 Monday, 11 June 2007 From: John Savage <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 7 Jun 2007 16:36:09 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Subject: 18.0354 Ariane Mnouchkine Moliere on DVD Comment: Re: SHK 18.0354 Ariane Mnouchkine Moliere on DVD From: Richard Burt >>The Ariane Mnouchkine made for TV film Moliere (1978) came out on DVD in >>2004. It is available on amazon.fr for around 38.00 U.S. dollars >>(including shipping). The DVD contains two discs and the made for TV >>film is in French and has an English subtitles option. The image >>transfer is excellent. Ah, but is it NTSC? _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0369 Monday, 11 June 2007 From: Tom Salyers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jun 2007 19:25:44 +0000 Subject: 18.0356 Journal Request Comment: Re: SHK 18.0356 Journal Request Harvey Roy Greenberg wrote: >Would anyone know of a journal covering dramaturgical issues, >Shakespearean or otherwise? > >I finally completed an essay on the staging of the Archbishop of >Canterbury's speech in Act 1, sc 2, of Henry V, and have been told at >SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY that such a journal might be a more appropriate >venue for the piece. I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but there's Theatre Topics from Johns Hopkins University Press. It's described this way on their web site: "Theatre Topics focuses on performance studies, dramaturgy, and theatre pedagogy. Concise and timely articles on a broad array of practical, performance-oriented subjects, with special attention to topics of current interest to the profession, keep readers informed of the latest developments on the stage and in the classroom." I hope that helps. Tom Salyers _______________________________________________________________ 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.