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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0527. Wednesday, 31 July 1996. From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, July 31, 1996 Subject: SHAKSPER's Back Dear SHAKSPEReans: I am back from my restful vacation and will post some observations of the plays I saw the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express perform at Harrisonburg in a few days. When I returned, I found that the machine on which LISTSERV resides had been turned off. Thus, requests sent to LISTSERV were rejected for the past week. I have cleared out my mailbox of posting, so if you have a posting that you could not get through or that got lost please resubmit.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0526. Wednesday, 31 July 1996. From: Helen Ostovich <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 29 Jul 1996 14:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New PLS Production [Originally posted on REED-L.] Of interest to people in the Toronto area: An announcement for those REED-L'ers within striking distance of Toronto: The PLS are presenting John Heywood's _John John: A Merry Play_ at the Tarragon Theatre's Extra Space, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, on 15 August 6.30pm 16 August 9.30pm 17 August 1.00pm 18 August 2.30pm 23 August 8.00pm Directed by Linda Phillips; FIght Direction by Daniel Linson; Performed by Ruth Barrett, Erik Buchanan, and Chet Scoville Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) 585-4594/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0525. Wednesday, 31 July 1996. (1) From: Anne-Mirjam Maczewski <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 19 Jul 96 10:49:45 +0200 Subj: Q: Shakespearean material in Goethe's _Faust_ (2) From: Cary M. Mazer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 29 Jul 1996 14:51:12 -0400 Subj: Shakespeare jokes (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Anne-Mirjam Maczewski <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 19 Jul 96 10:49:45 +0200 Subject: Q: Shakespearean material in Goethe's _Faust_ Dear list members, I am currently investigating the intertextual relations between Goethe's _Faust I_ and Shakespeare's _Midsummernight's Dream_ and _Tempest_ that Goethe establishes by having Oberon, Titania and Ariel appear in _Faust_'s Walpurgisnight's Dream scene. The amount of secondary literature I have been able to track down for these purposes has been extremely scarce--do some of you perhaps know of publications concerned with this relationship? Thank you in advance for your help! Yours, Anne-Mirjam Maczewski (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cary M. Mazer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 29 Jul 1996 14:51:12 -0400 Subject: Shakespeare jokes Friends, A former student of mine is currently working as scriptwriter on *Pearl*, a new tv sitcom (to be aired on Wednesday nights this fall on CBS), featuring a working-class adult going to college (Rhea Perlman) and her relationship with other conventional students and with her pompous professor (Malcolm McDowell)--sort of Educating Rita meets The Paper Chase. While preparing a proposed episode featuring some lectures on Shakespeare, my student called me for some Standard Shakespeare Jokes, at least ones that can be dumbed down enough to be comprehensible to a national middle-brow tv audience. I gave him the standard "Did Hamlet sleep with Ophelia" one. Does anyone have any others? If so, do send them on to me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or to my former student, Joshua Goldsmith (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) privately, so as not to clog up the listserv. Thanks, Cary
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0524. Wednesday, 31 July 1996. From: Bernice W. Kliman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Jul 1996 16:06:47 -0400 Subject: Lori Berenson Dear Friends, I am taking the liberty of asking you for your urgent help now for Lori Berenson. You'll recall that Lori, a New York woman, the twenty-six-year-old daughter of a colleague, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life in prison in Peru. A moment for action has now arrived. She did not receive a fair trial, having no opportunity to defend herself or to disprove the allegations against her, which keep shifting. Two letters are now circulating in Congress, one by Congresswoman Molinari and the other by Senator Moynihan. The goal is to get as many signatures as possible on these letters, addressed to Peru's President Fujimori and urging him to see to it that Lori has a trial in a civilian, open court. Please call your congressman and senator and urge them to sign the letters. Congress will adjourn in a little more than a week. The letters must be signed before that time, or this window of opportunity will close. Lori is now existing in harsh conditions, at high altitudes, with no running water or heat in Yanamayo Prision, Puno, Peru. She is eager to hear from the world but can only receive and send letters in Spanish. If you would like more information, please contact me. Thank you very much for your help with this matter. Bernice
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0523. Wednesday, 31 July 1996. (1) From: Andy White <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Jul 1996 00:29:36 -0500 (CDT) Subj: Thanks to SHAKSPER! (2) From: Chris J. Fassler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Jul 1996 08:30:43 -0400 Subj: Re: Fin de siecle texts (3) From: Dale Lyles <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 18 Jul 1996 23:18:40 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 7.0515 Re: Textual Criticism (4) From: Charles Whitney <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jul 1996 11:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Subj: Johannesburg '96 (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andy White <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Jul 1996 00:29:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Thanks to SHAKSPER! I wanted to thank all of you again who responded to my inquiry on Richard of Bordeaux. My apologies for botching the name -- of course it was Elizabeth Mackintosh, writing under the name of Gordon Daviot. Once I am successfully subscribed to your list, I look forward to sharing some of my research, as well as some related ideas I recently developed during a production of Hamlet, which I transposed into a more modern idiom (selectively, mind you -- none of this 'I can write better than the Bard' nonsense, I just tweaked it a bit) ... but more than that, I look forward to seeing what all of you have been up to! Cheers, Andy White (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris J. Fassler <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 17 Jul 1996 08:30:43 -0400 Subject: Re: Fin de siecle texts Genevieve Guenther asks what texts from the 1590s and 1600s have to do with the turn of our century, and in the interests of clarification . . . The director of our honors program has solicited course proposals in recognition of our upcoming turn of the century. The request prompted me to think about the turn of the century at the center of the period that interests me, and so I am working on putting a course together. BTW, I have received several intriguing suggestions/recommendations. My plan is to compile them and send a list to SHAKSPER for your information and further commentary. Thanks to all who have responded. --Chris Fassler (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dale Lyles <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 18 Jul 1996 23:18:40 -0400 Subject: 7.0515 Re: Textual Criticism Comment: Re: SHK 7.0515 Re: Textual Criticism Steve Urkowitz writes: "If anyone wants 'em, I have some parallel text handouts for Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and everyone's FAVORITES, Henry VI two and three. " Hey, watch it: Henry VI, part 3, *was* a favorite of my company! We liked playing with the blood bags. And Margaret was too much fun to resist. Dale Lyles Newnan Community Theatre Company (4)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Whitney <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jul 1996 11:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Johannesburg '96 I second the praises of Martin Orkin for organizing the wonderful conference on Shakespeare and Postcoloniality in Johannesburg. Accompanying our work was the felt awareness that this crucial time and place in contemporary history concentrates the aspirations and anxieties of much of the world. The intensity of the conference, the global diversity of the participants, the different personal meanings the conference held for us, the challenges and clarifications it offered concerning professional identity, purpose, and strategy, and the opportunities Martin provided for exchange and insight, made it for many of us a series of extraordinary events that cannot be assimilated and articulated in a short period of time. Thanks again Martin and all involved.