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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1076 Wednesday, 9 May 2001 From: David Bishop <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 13:44:20 -0400 Subject: 12.1055 Re: Peter Brook's Hamlet Comment: Re: SHK 12.1055 Re: Peter Brook's Hamlet I saw only excerpts from the Peter Brook production, along with an interview, on Charlie Rose. It didn't make me eager to go. From what I could tell, Brook's love for the actor gets identified with his love for the character. This appears to be a Hamlet who can do no wrong. Like David Warner's 60s student-rebel Hamlet, he's a pure soul whose anger is always justified. Did anyone who's seen it get another impression? Best wishes, David Bishop _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1075 Wednesday, 9 May 2001 From: Kevin De Ornellas <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 15:50:19 -0000 Subject: Hamlet in Ulster A new film version of 'Hamlet' is being shot in Derry (article URL below). The dialogue will be spoken partly in English, and partly in Irish. It will, inevitably, be a heavily politicised interpretation. I wonder if the idea to film an Irish 'Hamlet' was germinated via the representation of the young Prince as an Irish-American in Almereyda's film? http://www.belfasttelegraph.com/today/may08/News/hamlet.shtml Kevin De Ornellas Queen's University, Belfast _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1074 Wednesday, 9 May 2001 From: Jim Shaw <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 15:46:12 GMT Subject: Sir William Empson I am trying to help someone working on a biography of Professor Sir William Empson (1906-1994), and an edition of his letters. I would be grateful if anyone can suggest individuals - or if necessary their literary executors, heirs or assigns - or libraries that might hold ms or archive material relating to Empson. Yours sincerely, Jim Shaw _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1073 Wednesday, 9 May 2001 [1] From: Kevin De Ornellas <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 15:04:12 -0000 Subj: Re: SHK 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works [2] From: Jonathan Hope <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 11:01:02 +0100 Subj: Re: SHK 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin De Ornellas <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 15:04:12 -0000 Subject: 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works Comment: Re: SHK 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works >I would like to know if exist(ed) any form to present Shakespeare's works' >names abbreviated; > Alberto Uttranadhie (Madrid) Gibaldi's 'MLA Handbook' lists standard abbreviation forms for all Chaucerian and Shakespearean works; it is really convenient. Kevin De Ornellas Queen's University, Belfast [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Hope <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 11:01:02 +0100 Subject: 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works Comment: Re: SHK 12.1064 Abbreviations for Shakespeare's Works I'd suggest that the best ones to use are those employed in Spevack's Harvard concordance. Jonathan Hope Strathclyde University _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1072 Wednesday, 9 May 2001 [1] From: Don Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 09:26:05 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 12.1036 Re: Color-Blind Casting [2] From: Vick Bennison <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 14:29:25 EDT Subj: Re: SHK 12.1059 Re: Cordelias [3] From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 22:41:15 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 12.1059 Re: Cordelias [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Don Bloom <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 09:26:05 -0500 Subject: 12.1036 Re: Color-Blind Casting Comment: Re: SHK 12.1036 Re: Color-Blind Casting I have generally been suspicious of "color-blind" casting because I feared that it moved drama too much into the never-never-land of opera. You could accept the drama only under conditions that destroyed much of its impact as drama. And, of course, modern black plays would be rendered idiotic by casting white actors in definitively black parts. Yet, I have to confess that I'm reconsidering the whole business -- under compulsion. I saw a brilliant and hysterical production of MSND recently in which the actor playing Lysander was black. When he first came on I was stricken with dread that some heavy anti-racism message would be tacked on, since the actors playing Aegeus, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena were all white. But they played it straight-up and I quickly forgot about any lingering racial overtones. The fact that Lysander was a first-rate actor doubtless made all the difference. Perhaps, too, some plays (of which MSND is a prime example) are already set so far into never-never-land that they can't be damaged by lingering and unfortunate cultural tensions. --Provided the production is good from top to bottom (pun unintentional -- really)! Cheers, don [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vick Bennison <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 14:29:25 EDT Subject: 12.1059 Re: Cordelias Comment: Re: SHK 12.1059 Re: Cordelias Stuart Manger asks: >>Current touring production of RSC 'The Tempest' in >>UK has a white Prospero and a black Miranda. Does that work for you? Since we know nothing about Prospero's wife, why not? But in general, the only thing that doesn't "work" for me is a bad performance. - Vick P.S. on the other hand, if we knew Prospero's wife were white, then his comment: "Thy mother was a piece of virtue and she said thou wast my daughter" would become either comical or disingenuous. [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 08 May 2001 22:41:15 -0400 Subject: 12.1059 Re: Cordelias Comment: Re: SHK 12.1059 Re: Cordelias Sure-- why not? We don't know what Prospero's wife looked like. Now, if Miranda were to speak in a different accent than Prospero's, given that he has been her only model for speech.... _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>