Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0555. Wednesday, 22 June 1994.
(1) From: Steven Marx <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jun 1994 08:47:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
(2) From: Rick Jones <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jun 94 13:35:51 EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
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From: Steven Marx <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jun 1994 08:47:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
Comment: Re: SHK 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
William Proctor Williams says "Disney is the total negation of what we're all
about." I disagree. In fact, I generally begin my first class of "Introduction
to Shakespeare" by comparing Shakespeare to Disney--both masters of public
media, of corporate show business, of national and international cultural
traditions, and of multiple worlds of the imagination.
Steven Marx
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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From: Rick Jones <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jun 94 13:35:51 EDT
Subject: 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
Comment: Re: SHK 5.0548 Re: Shakespearean Disney
I guess I'm confused about what William Proctor Williams would have us do: deny
or ignore the apparently self-conscious Shakespearean references in Disney
films? Chastise the nearest seven-year-old for preferring "The Lion King" to
"Hamlet"? Insist that only the originator of a plot idea may use it (thereby
wiping out the entire Shakespearean canon)? I have no desire to "give aid and
comfort to the enemy": but please, someone, lest I stray again: tell me who
that enemy might be, and how I am betraying the cause.
Sidebar: I have this recurring vision of the academic response to the premiere
of "Comedy of Errors"... a group of bejowled, terminally constipated "scholars"
complaining about "this new play I heard about... a re-arrangement of
perfectly good Plautus and... (sit down, you're not going to believe this) in
(GASP!) the VERNACULAR!!! Aaaaiiieeeee!!!!"
Perversely yours,
Rick Jones
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