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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0029. Monday, 15 January, 1995. From: Stuart Lee <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 16 Jan 1995 11:00:02 +0000 Subject: CTI Workshops: Reminder Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 1995 Workshops Throughout the early part of 1995, the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies, based at Oxford University Computing Services, will be running a series of workshops aimed at introducing some of the latest developments in humanities computing. Details, dates, and the cost of each workshop are listed below. Please contact the CTI Centre for Textual Studies for more information, noting which workshop(s) you are interested in. **************************************************************************** Stuart Lee or Michael Popham CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ **************************************************************************** UW=Unwaged or not in full-time employment; AR=Academic rate; CR=Commercial rate. All prices are in pounds sterling. Costs include registration, lunch, and coffee only. A list of accommodation will be made available by the CTI Centre but it is up to individuals to make their own arrangements. **************************************************************************** WORKSHOP 1: Introduction to the World-Wide-Web and HTML Date: 15th February 1995; Venue: Oxford University Computing Services; Cost: UW=25.00, AR=50.00, CR=100.00 This workshop will set out to introduce the basics of the World-Wide-Web and the markup language HTML. A provisional programme for this workshop is as follows: * An Introduction to the WWW * Hands-on Browsing of the WWW * An Introduction to HTML Mark-up * HTML Mark-up (Practical) * HTML Tools * Publishing on the WWW * The WWW of the Future **************************************************************************** WORKSHOP 2: The Poetry Shell and the Creation of Hypermedia Editions for Teaching. Date: 17th March 1995; Venue: Oxford University Computing Services; Cost: UW=25.00, AR=50.00, CR=100.00 The Poetry Shell has been developed as part of the Oxford University Hypermedia in Literary and Linguistic Subjects Project which was funded under the ITTI. The Shell is written in Asymetrix ToolBook and allows academics to prepare teaching editions of poems, in particular those written in languages other than Modern English. It allows the incorporation of translations, critical essays, grammatical information, glossary, notes, and even images. The workshop will introduce participants to the principles of electronic teaching editions in the Shell by first of all giving access to a poem already prepared. They will then be taken step-by-step through the process of creating their own edition. A short poetic text and supporting materials will be provided. *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP 3: The Electronic Text (1) Date: 30th March 1995; Venue: Oxford University Computing Services; Cost: UW=25.00, AR=50.00, CR=100.00. This workshop will set out to introduce some of the basic issues of using electronic texts. Areas covered will include a discussion of the nature of the elctronic text and the advantages of its use in teaching and research. This will then be followed by a discussion of some of the sources of electronic texts (predominantly literary in nature) including commercial suppliers, electronic archives, and the stages of creating your own (e.g. scanning and mark-up). The day will end with some demonstrations of the various projects mentioned in the talks. Familiarity with the contents of this course is a pre-requisite for 'The Electronic Text (2)'. *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP 4: The Electronic Text (2) Date: 31st March 1995; Venue: Oxford University Computing Services; Cost: UW=25.00, AR=50.00, CR=100.00. This workshop will consist of two half-day sessions. The first will include an introduction to the principles of text analysis, an overview of some of the key tools, and an opportunity to gain some hands-on experience with the text analysis package TACT. The second session will focus on the use of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), provide delegates with the chance to try out some SGML-aware tools for creating and browsing texts, and look at the Guidelines produced by the Text Encoding Initiative. All delegates should either have attended the workshop "The Electronic Text (1)" or be familiar with its subject matter.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0028. Monday, 15 January, 1995. From: Andrew Gurr <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 16 Jan 1995 10:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Conference on New Globe There is to be a conference on what to do with the new Globe in Southwark, what theatre experiments should be conducted there, what kinds of costume and what kind of acting might work best there. Dates 18 - 20 April, place the Globe, Southwark, London. Title of conference "Within this wooden O". If you are interested in attending, or in giving a paper, please contact Alastair Tallon, Globe Education, Bear Gardens, LONDON SE1 9EB, UK. Fax number 0171 928 7968/928 6330. Andrew Gurr.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0027. Monday, 15 January, 1995. From: Stan Beeler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 13:44:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Copyright and Commentary I am developing a wais/http server that will include an indexed version of the works of Shakespeare. At the moment I have most of Shakespeare's poetry indexed so that you can search for single words or perform true boolean searches with "and," "or" and "not." The search returns hypertext links to entire sonnets or the stanzas of longer poems that include the target material. If you follow the links to the stanzas you are given a link to the entire poem so that you can read the material in context. I would like to expand the hypertext links to include more traditional secondary material on the works of Shakespeare. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything already on the Internet so I believe that I will have to provide it myself. I would like to know what the copyright issues are concerning the presentation of material like Johnson's ``Preface to Shakespeare.'' It has been suggested that if I find old editions of these commentaries I can legally scan them in with OCR software and include them in my project. If you have any thoughts on this subject or suggestions for material to include could you please send them along. For those of you who have web browsers my http server address is: http://andreae.unbc.edu Stan Beeler
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0026. Monday, 15 January, 1995. (1) From: E. L. Epstein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 12:33:19 EDT Subj: RE: SHK 6.0014 Re: Dreams (Prep.) (2) From: E. L. Epstein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 12:44:14 EDT Subj: RE: SHK 6.0018 Re: *Rom*/*Oedipus* (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: E. L. Epstein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 12:33:19 EDT Subject: 6.0014 Re: Dreams (Prep.) Comment: RE: SHK 6.0014 Re: Dreams (Prep.) I would like to thank Mr. Evett for his thoughtful reply to my comments. He is right about varieties of English, but they are not different languages. They are different *registers* and *dialects* of English, each with its own rules, which are followed within each register and within each dialect. We can tell when these rules are broken; we get an uneasy or ironic effect at that point. As for the difficulty in agreement for Coral and Are, see Abbott(/) on Shakespearean grammar; he points out that Shakespeare frequently makes verbs agree with the *nearest* noun, whether or not that is appropriate, which makes for difficulty in heavily inverted constructions. Which still leaves us with the problem of *of* in the Tempest line. (I think the name of the author of Shakespeare's Grammar is Abbott.) E. L. Epstein (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: E. L. Epstein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 12:44:14 EDT Subject: 6.0018 Re: *Rom*/*Oedipus* Comment: RE: SHK 6.0018 Re: *Rom*/*Oedipus* I once had an odd thought in re Greek (ie Athenian) tragedy. It seemed to me that the Athenians attitude toward tragedy has a rather gloating element about it. "Sure, the king of Thebes killed his father and married his mother! What else would you expect from such a place!" I think that the Athenian attitude toward Thebes, and Argos, and other such places is that none of them are good old Athens, where such things don't happen, with the unfortunate exception of the doing to death of Hippolytus, which was just too bad. This would also shed some light on hamartia, which could bear the nuance "the stupid things that non-Athenians do." I see the Athenian attitude towards Thebes as something like the Bostonian/ New York attitude towards Dallas. How about comment? Sorry, Dallas guys--just reporting. E.L.Epstein
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0025. Monday, 15 January, 1995. (1) From: Daniel M Larner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 08:57:01 -0800 (PST) Subj: Re: SHK 6.0020 Re: *MV* and Anti-Semitism (2) From: Tom Dale Keever <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 15 Jan 95 22:32:18 EST Subj: The Miller/Olivier Merchant (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel M Larner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 14 Jan 1995 08:57:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: 6.0020 Re: *MV* and Anti-Semitism Comment: Re: SHK 6.0020 Re: *MV* and Anti-Semitism Thanks to David Evett for his posting on the video of the Jonathan Miller MV with Olivier and Plowright. I saw this production in London when it first appeared (1971?) and was deeply moved by the way it puts the moral pinch on Jessica, and leaves us with the bitter pill to swallow that no one here--not just Shylock, Jessica, Bassanio and Antonio, but also Portia and whole crew--are living over a barely covered swamp of deadly hatred. Daniel Larner Fairhaven College Western Washington University (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Dale Keever <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 15 Jan 95 22:32:18 EST Subject: The Miller/Olivier Merchant Yes, Jonathan Miller's 1973 MERCHANT OF VENICE is a tour de force. Miller discussed the production in an interview I saw once. He said Olivier was determined to use a panoply of facial prosthetics to make himself look more "Jewish." Miller let him play with his false nose, his distorted upper lip, and his other artificial deformities in rehearsal but then gently stripped them away one by one as he convinced him, using himself as an example, that Jews didn't really look that much different from other people. The performance he helped Jeremy Brett shape in the role of Bassanio is also unique. Miller's MERCHANT is availabe on VHS videocassette for $19.98 from The Writing Company. Call 1-800-421-4246 to order or get on their mailing list. Their new 1995 catalog has also added, at the same price, Welles' OTHELLO and Branagh's MUCH ADO.