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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0147 Tuesday, 23 January 2001 From: Janet Costa <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 22 Jan 2001 01:22:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: The Third British Graduate Shakespeare Conference 2001 The Third British Graduate Shakespeare Conference 2001 will take place on 28, 29, 30 June 2001 at The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. The conference is open to any registered student engaged in postgraduate research on any aspect of Shakespeare and his contemporaries at any institution in the world. For further details, please check the website: www.geocities.com/BritGrad E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ms. Janet Costa The Shakespeare Institute Mason Croft, Church Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HP England
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0146 Tuesday, 23 January 2001 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jan 2001 18:27:41 -0500 Subject: 12.0136 Gilligan's Island and Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 12.0136 Gilligan's Island and Shakespeare I have a tape of the episode if anyone would like a dub of it.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0145 Tuesday, 23 January 2001 From: Victor Bennison <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jan 2001 14:42:00 EST Subject: 11.1432 Performing 'The Tempest' Comment: Re: SHK 11.1432 Performing 'The Tempest' I'm going to be directing "The Tempest" this May at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH, under the auspices of a local community theatre group. The question I have which I haven't found an answer for yet in the dozens of books on the Tempest I've been reading is this; is the play usually performed without dramaturgical cuts? i.e., Is the play as it stands, say in the first folio, of reasonable length, say two to three hours, for performance in front of a typical modern audience? Thanks, and I'm sure I may have more questions as the rehearsals begin and progress. Victor Bennison
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0144 Tuesday, 23 January 2001 From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jan 2001 19:38:07 -0000 Subject: 12.0134 Re: Shaxicon Comment: Re: SHK 12.0134 Re: Shaxicon David Kathman writes >Shaxicon indexes words (in the sense of dictionary >entries) rather than strings. Two occurrences of the >same string may represent different words, while >several different strings may all represent variants >of the same word. Sorting the text into words (as >opposed to strings) cannot be done by computer, >though a computer can give you a start This extract from David's very full answer is the gist of it: SHAXICAN needs a lemmatized etext of the complete works to be doing what SHAXICON does. I shall go looking for one. (I recall that H. Joachim Neuhaus's "Shakespeare Database" project was intended to help those of us for whom this word/string distinction requires hard thinking.) In the meantime, SHAXICAN has been updated so that Stage (3), producing a list of the rare words (or rather strings, as David points out) for each character, is half-way solved. I've written a script which separates out the 1047 "parts" (i.e., characters' collections of speeches) in the Shakespeare canon and writes each out to a separate file. It still remains to sift out those words which aren't "rare" and to count the occurrences of the remaining ones. (This shouldn't be too hard, since Stage (2) produced a list of the rare words.) Gabriel Egan
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0143 Tuesday, 23 January 2001 From: L. Swilley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 21 Jan 2001 11:04:19 -0600 Subject: 12.0125 Re: Hamlet's Family Comment: Re: SHK 12.0125 Re: Hamlet's Family Ms. Peterson-Kranz wrote, "If we play the "what if-speculation" game, it seems like part of Claudius's master plan might have been to get rid of Hamlet, THEN find a way of getting rid of Gertrude ... And of course, if Claudius managed to eliminate Gertrude while Hamlet was on his way to his death in England, he wouldn't have to explain it to her at all." But Claudius, in his soliloquy, says he is "still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder -... my queen." I suppose that "queen" here might indeed be construed as merely another aspect of his political ambitions, as Ms. Peterson-Kranz suggests, but it would dangerously lighten Claudius' character if his problem is not extended by a passionate love for this lady. L. Swilley