Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0934. Friday, 1 December 1995.
(1) From: Christine Mack Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 95 09:50:23 -0600
Subj: SQ
(2) From: Steven Marx <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 1995 08:29:41 -0800 (PST)
Subj: Measure for Measure 4.2.44-48 (fwd)
(3) From: J.M. Richardson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 1995 14:00:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Elizabethan Slang
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From: Christine Mack Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 95 09:50:23 -0600
Subject: SQ
A recent issue of *Shakespeare Quarterly* focussed on teaching; I would like to
acquire a copy of just this single issue. Could someone tell me the most
efficient way to do this; do they have e-mail, perhaps? Thanks in advance.
Chris Gordon
University of Minnesota
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From: Steven Marx <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 1995 08:29:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Measure for Measure 4.2.44-48 (fwd)
Can anyone help me, and one of my students, to construe the meaning of this
"proof" that Abhorson's occupation as hangman is a mystery?
Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be too little for your thief,
your true man thinks it big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your thief
thinks it little enough: so every true man's apparel fits your thief.
Signet edition footnote says: "interpretation uncertain."
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From: J.M. Richardson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 30 Nov 1995 14:00:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Elizabethan Slang
In her article, "Representing Ophelia..." Elaine Showalter argues that in
Elizabethan slang, "nothing" was a term for the female gentitalia, but gives no
Elizabethan source for this, or indeed any specific reference. I can find
nothing in the OED or in Partridge. Does anyone have a reference that can
establish the validity of this claim?
Thanks
J.M. Richardson, Department of English, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.
Ontario, P7B 5E1. jrichard@cs_acad_lan.lakeheadu.ca