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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0333 Friday, 9 December 2011
[1] From: Hugh J. Gorman < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: December 8, 2011 3:31:00 PM EST Subject: Herb Coursen
[2] From: Hardy M. Cook < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: Friday, December 9, 11 Subject: Herb Coursen
[1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh J. Gorman < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: December 8, 2011 3:31:00 PM EST Subject: Herb Coursen
I write with the sad news that my friend and Shakespearean scholar H.R. Coursen passed away this week. I prolific poet and writer, Herb was one of our country’s foremost experts on all things involving the Bard particularly Shakespeare on film. A representative of the Globe Theatre in the US for many years, Herb was Chair of the English Department at Bowdoin College for many years. A fighter pilot during the Korean conflict, Herb passed suddenly at his home in Brunswick Maine.
Hugh Gorman
[2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hardy M. Cook < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: Friday, December 9, 2011 Subject: Herb Coursen
Herb Coursen was another Shakespearean to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
Herb conducted the first SAA seminar I attended on Shakespeare and film in Boston, in which I presented the foundation of my thesis. He later included the resulting essay in Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews, which he edited with James C. Bulman. He even cited some of my ideas in one of his essay.
Herb had a reputation for going out of his way to help younger scholars, a loss to future generations of Shakespeareans.
Thanks, Herb. You will be missed.
Hardy |