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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0784. Friday, 1 November 1996. (1) From: Tai-Won Kim <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 03:19:25 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 7.0780 Re: Benjamin, Adorno (2) From: Andrew Walker White <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 12:33:49 -0500 (EST) Subj: Re: SHK 7.0776 Qs: Lodgings in London (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tai-Won Kim <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 03:19:25 -0500 Subject: 7.0780 Re: Benjamin, Adorno Comment: Re: SHK 7.0780 Re: Benjamin, Adorno >John Lee asks: > >I'd be very grateful if anyone could locate the phrase `the aestheticization of >politics' for me. I thought it was from Walter Benjamin, but perhaps it was >from Adorno. David Norbrook in his recent essay mentioned "aestheticization of politics" in relation to Kantorowicz and Burckhardt. Look at his article "The Emperor's New Body" in <Texual Practice> 10.2 (Summer 1996): 329-357, particularly 334 and note 11. And also his other essay, "Life and death of Renaissance Man" in <Raritan> 8.4 (Spring 1989): 89-110. Taiwon (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrew Walker White <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 12:33:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: 7.0776 Qs: Lodgings in London Comment: Re: SHK 7.0776 Qs: Lodgings in London If your students haven't already joined up, there is an International Youth Hostel organization, which has lodgings in London in various locations. They are cheap, usually with kitchen facilities (food is very expensive in London, and I highly recommend bringing your own coffee, as the beans there have an odd taste to them, by US standards), and the atmosphere at the Youth Hostels is quite collegial ifyou'll pardon the expresion. The HQ for Hostelling International is at: 733 15th Street, NW Suite 840 Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 783-6161 Memberships are reasonable ($25? I forget) and you would receive a guide to Hostels available all over the world. THe Guides come with information about what each specific hostel has to offer. Good luck, Andy White Urbana, IL
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0783. Friday, 1 November 1996. From: Edward Gieskes <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 09:08:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: Production of The Borderers Willing Suspension Productions Presents: William Wordsworth's _The Borderers_ Set on the border of Scotland and England in the fourteenth century, this rarely performed gothic tragedy portrays the downfall of Mortimer, the idealistic young leader of a band of dispossessed landowners. An early Romantic play that anticipates the drama and internal psychology of the modern stage. Thursday, November 14: 8:30pm Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16: 8pm Sunday, November 17: 2 and 8pm Tickets: $6 general admission, $5 students and seniors. All performances at The Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University, 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. For more information or reservations call 617/734-6360. Willing Suspension Productions is an acting company founded by graduate students in the English Department at Boston University in 1993 and is committed to producing rarely seen non- Shakespearean early modern drama. Our past productions include Thomas Middleton's _Revenger's Tragedy_,Ben Jonson's _Alchemist_, Thomas Kyd's _Spanish Tragedy_, and, most recently, Thomas Middleton's _Chaste Maid in Cheapside_. _The Borderers_ is the company's first foray into the drama of a later period.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0782. Friday, 1 November 1996. (1) From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 1996 22:42:41 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 7.0778 Re: Politics (2) From: Sean K. Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 10:05:40 -0800 Subj: Re: SHK 7.0778 Re: Politics (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 1996 22:42:41 -0500 Subject: 7.0778 Re: Politics Comment: Re: SHK 7.0778 Re: Politics As I read the words "politics" and "political" in this debate, I'm beginning to believe that they have little relationship to the definitions found in the OED (which I checked today). I think "political" may here mean "culturally constructed." And since everything we do and have is "culturally constructed" in one way or another, it is a truism to say that Shakespeare's play are "political," i.e., culturally constructed. "Political" seems to be losing any precise reference, and it is used more as a rallying cry than as a meaningful category. Yours, Bill Godshalk (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sean K. Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 10:05:40 -0800 Subject: 7.0778 Re: Politics Comment: Re: SHK 7.0778 Re: Politics > To paraphrase Wm. James, perhaps "pure" reading of the texts is posssible, but > where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet is it to be found? That's not the point. To say that it something is never found in a "pure" state, with no admixture of anything else, is only to say that it participates in our world. It doesn't deny that such a thing (say, reading of the texts) *is*. To use an analogy, just because we never encounter pure oxygen, or straight lines, in nature, is not to deny that oxygen or straight lines *are*. Nor does it stop us from debating and exploiting them, if only as abstractions or ideals, in our various disciplines. Cheers, Sean.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0781. Friday, 1 November 1996. (1) From: Ron Moyers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 1996 22:04:24 -0600 (CST) Subj: RE: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare (2) From: Douglas Buchanan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 8:10:24 -0500 Subj: RE: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare (3) From: Alan Young <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 14:48:41 AST4ADT Subj: Re: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare (4) From: Edna Z. Boris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 96 19:21:06 EST Subj: TN thanks (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Moyers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 30 Oct 1996 22:04:24 -0600 (CST) Subject: 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare Comment: RE: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare The Playing Shakespeare tape in which Barton rehearses Judi Dench, Richard Pasco, Norman Rodway, and Michael Williams in TN 2.4 is "Rehearsing the Text." --Ron Moyer, Univ. of South Dakota <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Douglas Buchanan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 8:10:24 -0500 Subject: 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare Comment: RE: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare The episode is "Using the Text". I hesitate to use numbers as there was an episode (without Barton) filmed before episode #1. For quick reference see the book version (which he said he wouldn't write). It has extra material as well. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alan Young <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 1996 14:48:41 AST4ADT Subject: 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 7.0779 Q: TN in Playing Shakespeare The tape showing John Barton rehearsing a scene from TN is, if memory serves, titled "Rehearsing the Text". Alan Young (Acadia University) (4)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edna Z. Boris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 96 19:21:06 EST Subject: TN thanks Many thanks to all of you for the "Rehearsing the Text" title.