Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0339. Sunday, 5 May 1996.
(1) From: Porter Jamison <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 3 May 1996 20:19:07 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0324 Street Shakespeare
(2) From: A. E. B. Coldiron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 4 May 1996 09:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: Re: Street Shakespeare
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From: Porter Jamison <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 3 May 1996 20:19:07 -0700
Subject: 7.0324 Street Shakespeare
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0324 Street Shakespeare
>Several friends and I wish to perform . . . on the street
>as a free entertainment this summer. We are having
>(difficulties) locating dialogues, especially between men,
>which appear interesting or colorful enough for such
>informal performance.
2m: CE; III,2 (sexist, but funny-- can be adapted to 2f)
1m1f: IH4; III,1
AW; II,2
Multi: R&J; I,1
All bold, require little explanation, and short. (It's difficult finding good
scenes of this nature that work in isolation-- but you can also adapt and
condense material from longer scenes. Check out IH4 Falstaff-Hal scenes.)
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From: A. E. B. Coldiron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 4 May 1996 09:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Street Shakespeare
Colorful bits you might wish to consider for your street Shakespeare: Winter's
Tale, some of Autolycus' appearances in Act 4. 4.3 has a pickpocket scene,
perhaps too close for comfort depending on the city in which you wish to play
this; 4.4 includes the rustics' songs; later, around 4.4.700ff, after a
clothing-switch, Autolycus feigns courtier status--this is fun to play with and
without a change of accent on his part, creating different levels of
incongruity between speech and clothing.