The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.127  Thursday, 22 March 2012

From:        John Briggs < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         March 21, 2012 7:22:53 PM EDT

Subject:     Re: SHAKSPER: Shakespeare in London

Terence Hawkes wrote:

>South Sudan have indicated that they plan to perform Cymbeline in Juba 

>Arabic. There will also, apparently, be performances in British Sign Language. 

>Nobody has yet suggested that a play might be offered (an idea of the TV show 

>Monty Python’s Flying Circus) by means of Semaphore.

It was, of course, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights that was performed by [flag] semaphore; Julius Caesar was performed on an Aldis lamp (we were to understand that the signal lamp was transmitting Morse code.)

John Briggs