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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0019 Monday, 11 January 2010 From: Ina Centaur <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 11 Jan 2010 18:59:33 -0800 Subject: Orthodox Three-Letter Abbreviations for Shakespeare? Shk vs Shx vs She vs WSB vs __? Of the many three-letter abbreviations of the Bard's name, is there one that is used more frequently, or more preferred? Which do you use? _______________________________________________________________ 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 21.0018 Monday, 11 January 2010 [1] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 23:14:53 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare [2] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 23:16:33 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 23:14:53 -0500 Subject: 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare >This is actually one of the truly fascinating character enigmas in >Shakespeare: There's nothing that definitively points to Gertrude >accepting Hamlet's word. But, on >the other hand, there's nothing >that definitively points the other way, either. Either is an interesting >choice and either is completely supported by the text. This brings to mind another odd choice made in the Tennant/Stewart RSC production. For some reason I cannot fathom, it was decided (contrary to the text) to have Gertrude present in a reordered part of IV.vii when Claudius conspires with Laertes to murder Hamlet. The actress registered shock in a long shot taken over Claudius's shoulder. To my mind, this choice heightens the ambiguity. This production does make clear though that C and G are in love; and Stewart is even a touch uxorious, which I think is consistent with the text (IV.vii.9-16). Apropos of my recent post on this subject: This production seemed at first to make a feint in the direction of Gertrude as alcoholic, but that got lost (alas!), and her antepenultimate speech ("I will, my lord, I pry you pardon me.") was confusing. [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 23:16:33 -0500 Subject: 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 21.0010 Good Marriages in Shakespeare My nominees: Duke Humphrey and Eleanor. _______________________________________________________________ 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 21.0017 Monday, 11 January 2010 [1] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 20:44:22 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet [2] From: Mark Bruce <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 19:45:09 -0600 Subj: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet [3] From: John C Zuill <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 08 Jan 2010 12:02:36 +1000 Subj: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet [4] From: Johanna Schmitz <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 2010 20:49:05 -0600 Subj: Tennant/Stewart Hamlet DVD [5] From: Olwen Terris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 8 Jan 2010 08:47:44 -0000 Subj: RE: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 20:44:22 -0500 Subject: 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet Comment: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet I was in England for the Christmas/New Year holidays and saw the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet as broadcast by BBC. I agree with Hardy, except that I think that some very bad directorial or dramaturgical choices were made about some of the cuts and a decision to reorder and telescope events from IV.iv to the end. For example, they couldn't seem to make up their minds about what to do with Fortinbras, leaving that part of the play at loose ends. The acting, however, is superb, especially Sir Patrick's (to anticipate only a little) very low key and regal Claudius. I would also single out the Player King for special mention -- his expression during Hamlet's lecture is priceless. [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Bruce <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 19:45:09 -0600 Subject: 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet Comment: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet >Having seen the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon the >summer before last and having enjoyed it thoroughly (and not just >because I am a Dr. Who and Star Trek fan), I only hope that the BBC >has plans for releasing the performance on DVD at sometime in the >future. -Hardy Hello All: In regard to this, I believe the DVD version of the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet just recently went on sale via the RSC website. Best, Mark Bruce Bethel University St. Paul; MN [3]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: John C Zuill <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 08 Jan 2010 12:02:36 +1000 Subject: 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet Comment: Re: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet Got a link? I can't find it on the BBC search. Perhaps Ms. Gough knows about a coming DVD. Eh? Ms. T? [4]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johanna Schmitz <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 2010 20:49:05 -0600 Subject: Tennant/Stewart Hamlet DVD Just a quick note to let you know that the Tennant Hamlet DVD was released last week. Check out: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hamlet-DVD-David-Tennant/dp/B002PXHRFQ/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1262918806&sr=1-1 Cheers, Johanna Schmitz [5]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Olwen Terris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 8 Jan 2010 08:47:44 -0000 Subject: 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet Comment: RE: SHK 21.0006 David Tennant Hamlet David Tennant's 'Hamlet', re-staged and re-directed by Gregory Doran for BBC television, was released on DVD in the UK on 4 January. It is available, region 2 only, in the UK from www.amazon.co.uk and other major retailers. It comes with an audio commentary and 35 minutes of documentary. Olwen Terris Project Researcher British Universities Film & Video Council _______________________________________________________________ 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 21.0016 Monday, 11 January 2010 From: Robert Projansky <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 8 Jan 2010 18:46:20 -0800 Subject: 20.0577 Shakespeare for children? Comment: Re: SHK 20.0577 Shakespeare for children? Had he ever seen "A Touch of Greatness", a moving 2005 documentary about Albert Cullum, whose fifth grade pupils' curriculum included performing Shakespeare, Professor Hawkes would have had to grump about something else. Albert Cullum taught fifth grade for ten years in Rye, NY, before a thirty-year career as a professor of education at Boston University and Stonehill College. Some of his Shakespeare efforts included children as young as five. He didn't stop at Shakespeare; his kids performed other classics too, including Antigone and Saint Joan. Professor Cullum, who died in 2003 at 83, was also the author of a number of books on children's education, one of which sold more than half a million copies. The film includes testimonials from some of his former 10-year-olds. More about the film and Albert Cullum at: http://www.rawfoodinfo.com/articles/art_atouchofgreatness.html and http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/touchofgreatness/ _______________________________________________________________ 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 21.0015 Monday, 11 January 2010 From: Lisa Warman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 08 Jan 2010 09:54:58 -0500 Subject: Hermeticism in Elizabethan Literature Dear All, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, has recently acquired a 75-year old unpublished manuscript written by Professor Richard Firestone, Professor of Modern Languages from 1921 until his death in 1944. His manuscript entitled Eros Paedagogicus: An Approach to Elizabethan literature and Its Underlying Traditions was donated to the Rollins College's Archives and Special Collections in 2007 by Mrs. Miriam Warner, daughter of Professor Richard Firestone. The URL address of this archived manuscript is: http://asp3.rollins.edu/olin/Archives/Firestone_Eros_Pae_searchable.pdf Enjoy, Lisa M. Warman _______________________________________________________________ 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.