March
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0503 Monday, 5 March 2001 From: Jane Drake Brody <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 2 Mar 2001 09:50:52 EST Subject: Mannerist Measure for Measure I will be leading a discussion of Measure for Measure as a Mannerist play and am wondering if anyone one the list has any thoughts on the topic. We are using "The Four Stages of Renaissance Style" by Wiley Sypher as our major text. Jane Drake Brody
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0502 Friday, 2 March 2001 From: Marga Munkelt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 02 Mar 2001 15:53:56 +0100 Subject: 12.0489 Query from Alaska Comment: Re: SHK 12.0489 Query from Alaska According to Marvin Spevack's computerized Concordance, the total of different words in Shakespeare's plays and poems is ca. 29,000 (including inflected forms). For more information, see the various appendices in Vol. 6 and also the introduction in Spevack's shortened Harvard Concordance. Marga Munkelt
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0501 Friday, 2 March 2001 From: Clifford Stetner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 2 Mar 2001 06:48:26 -0500 Subject: Weed Noted http://Salon.com/people/wire/2001/03/01/shakespeare/index.html The South African test results are in: apparently there was some midsummer night's dreaming going on around Stratford in the 17th century. The clay pipes showed traces of not just coca leaves, but marijuana, camphor and "a chemical with hallucinogenic properties." Clifford Stetner CUNY
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0500 Friday, 2 March 2001 From: Paul E. Doniger <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 1 Mar 2001 20:40:51 -0800 Subject: Shakespearean Sheet Music Comment: SHK 12.0470 Shakespearean Sheet Music Barrett, The melody you're looking for (I assume you mean "Farewell, dear heart, ... ") is in Naylor's _Shakespeare and Music_. NY: Da Capo P, 1965 - page 183 (Appendix entry #11). Many of the other tunes from _Twelfth Night_ are in there, too. Good luck, Paul E. Doniger
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0499 Friday, 2 March 2001 From: Ann Carrigan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 1 Mar 2001 23:18:21 EST Subject: Reduced Shakespeare on PBS in March (U.S.) Dear Friends, I caught this on the PBS website today and thought some of you might like to know about it if you don't already. The Reduced Shakespeare Company is one of the world's best-known touring comedy troupes. Now in its fifth year at London's Criterion Theatre, the company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), an irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, is London's longest-running comedy. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "wildly funny" and by the Montreal Gazette as "the funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime," The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) comes to PBS in REDUCED SHAKESPEARE, airing on PBS as part of the March 2001 pledge drive (check local listings). You can go to http://www.pbs.org if you need help finding your local PBS station (United States.) Peace and joy, Ann Carrigan