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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0730. Monday, 30 June 1997. From: Peter Nockolds <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 30 Jun 1997 14:32:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: Shakespeare and Astrology May I announce my web-site, EGMA, to SHAKSPERians. It's now widely recognised that Chaucer constructed his narratives taking account of the movements and positions of heavenly bodies on certain dates. My research shows that Shakespeare did the same. You don't have to believe in astrology to accept that Shakespeare may have had an interest in this subject. Once this is recognised it opens all sorts of possibilities. In the current posting I give a general introduction to the topic. Further articles show how The Winter's Tale was inspired by an event in Bohemia, how it is possible to date Titus Andronicus from astrological imagery, and how two words usually amended by editors were not misprints. The URL is http://www.sonnet.co.uk/egma/ Best wishes, Peter Nockolds
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0729. Monday, 30 June 1997. [1] From: Louis Marder <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 6 Jul 1997 21:13:42 PST Subj: Re: SHK 8.0724 Q: Recent Editions [2] From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 1997 13:42:50 -0700 Subj: RE: SHK 8.0721 Re: *Lear* [3] From: Carl Fortunato <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 97 15:39:00 -0400 Subj: Re: Hamlet's Madness [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Louis Marder <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 6 Jul 1997 21:13:42 PST Subject: 8.0724 Q: Recent Editions Comment: Re: SHK 8.0724 Q: Recent Editions Dear Barrett: I can't place my hand on my copy at this moment, but there was a book published a few years ago called Which Shakespeare. It lists the current issues, describes their virtues and shortcomings, and makes recommendations. The book costs $99!!! There are many good editions not mentioned there. Your choice should depend on the level of your students. There are those with great glossaries or great notes. Some give a lot of textual emendation. [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 1997 13:42:50 -0700 Subject: 8.0721 Re: *Lear* Comment: RE: SHK 8.0721 Re: *Lear* >I think in this play "the gods" function as God, and are being used to >set a fine Druid mood (only half-successfully). Your point is a *very* >good one. Sort of "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in >the morning." This idea seems very strong during the storm ("you >houseless poverty"), but it is certainly not made explicit, and one >would think that it would be. Thanks for your kudos. I actually think that the joy which cometh in the morning never comes in _Lear_, for the simple reason that it's set in pre-Christian times. Degradation, then, does not point towards redemption in the world of the play, though it may very well imply redemption to the Elizabethan audience. They, after all, are Christian, and can see the Deus Absconditus as implying a Deus Revelatus. That this insight is not expressed by any of the pre-Christian characters of the play is only to be expected. Cheers, Sean. [3]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carl Fortunato <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 97 15:39:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Hamlet's Madness > From: E. H. Pearlman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > > On the subject of Hamlet's madness, the definitive statement was > offered by Willima Schwenk Gilbert, who said, if I remember correctly, > that Hamlet was "idiotically sane with lucid intervals of lunacy." E. > Pearlman I think it was Oscar Wilde (if I'm wrong, correct me) who said, "The question of Hamlet is, are the critics mad or only pretending to be?"
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0728. Monday, 30 June 1997. [1] From: Douglas M Lanier <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 1997 15:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Re: SHK 8.0722 Terror and Magnificence [2] From: Carl Fortunato <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 97 15:39:00 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 8.0722 Terror and Ma [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Douglas M Lanier <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 1997 15:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 8.0722 Terror and Magnificence Comment: Re: SHK 8.0722 Terror and Magnificence In reply to Jimmy Jung's query about John Harle's Terror and Magnificence: I have heard it, and it is rather pleasant, though not particularly memorable. Elvis Costello's singing is, IMHO, the best reason to give it a try; it's not particularly illuminating in its setting of the Shakespeare texts. Cheers, Douglas Lanier [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carl Fortunato <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 97 15:39:00 -0400 Subject: 8.0722 Terror and Ma Comment: Re: SHK 8.0722 Terror and Ma > I've been piling up SHAKSPER e-mails since early May, so maybe I > missed it; but has anyone heard John Harle's new album Terror & > Magnificence? > "Elvis Costello sings three Shakespeare songs set to music by Jazz > Saxophonist John Harle" > I think the songs are from 12th Night and I was wondering how it > sounded, especially after having to sing "Come away, death," once > myself. Why just that one song? Feste sings *all* the songs. I'm playing Feste this autumn, and I have to write the music to the songs myself. I'm not sure I want to get an album, since I'd like the music to be as original as possible, and I don't think jazz is what I have in mind. Right now, I'm gravitating toward the blues for "Come away, death" and country for "Oh, mistress mine." I'm not sure *what* to do with "The rain it raineth every day" but I think that one may have to be traditional minstrel style. I want 12th Night to seem like an actual musical, if possible. When you sang it, where did you get the music, and what kind of music was it?
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0727. Monday, 30 June 1997. From: Karen Bamford <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 1997 17:36:48 -0300 Subject: Accommodation in London Fully furnished London flat available Sept. 15-March 15; in Twickenham (west end of Greater London), five minutes from British Rail station (frequent service to Waterloo); 2 bedrooms, electric shower, automatic washing machine; 495 pounds per month. Karen Bamford Dept. of English Mount Allison University Sackville, NB CANADA E0A 3C0 (506) 364-2543;This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0726. Saturday, 28 June 1997. From: Gwenette Gaddis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Jun 1997 13:30:36 -0500 Subject: Plays Shakespeare Didn't Publish (fwd) Have a laugh, folks. From: Erik Yocum[SMTP:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ] Sent: Friday, June 27, 1997 1:16 PM To:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Subject: Top5 - 6/25/97 - Plays Shakespeare Didn't Publish (fwd) June 25, 1997 The Top 16 Plays Shakespeare Chose Not to Publish 16> Christopher Marlowe Can Kiss My Elizabethan Ass 15> Henry VIII, I Am, I Am 14> Fast Times at Verona High 13> A Midsummer Night's Nocturnal Emission 12> Om'let 11> Love's Fing'r Pulled 10> Romeo & Steve 9> Twelfth Night, Children Stay Free 8> Felines 7> Henry VIII was a Big Fat Idiot 6> Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 5> Stratford-upon-Avon 90210 4> Hamlet II - Where the hell is everybody? 3> Romeo & Michelle's High School Reunion 2> King Gump And the Number 1 Play Shakespeare Chose Not to Publish... 1> Booty Calleth [ This list copyright 1997 by Chris White and Ziff Davis, Inc. ]