The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1962 Thursday, 9 August 2001
[1] From: Melissa D. Aaron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 07 Aug 2001 09:23:20 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
[2] From: Barbara D. Palmer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 7 Aug 2001 13:40:46 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
[3] From: Maijan H. Al-Ruwaili <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 08 Aug 2001 02:22:35 +0300
Subj: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
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From: Melissa D. Aaron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 07 Aug 2001 09:23:20 -0700
Subject: 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
Mike Jensen wrote:
>Over dinner tonight I heard about a book on Elizabethan body language.
>The woman who mentioned it didn't know the title or author. The book
>was simply mentioned to her.
>
>Immediately mental red flags started waving. Who has the time machine?
>OK, so maybe there are extant contemporary books and pamphlets on this
>subject that I don't know about. What I don't know can fill an
>encyclopedia - and does!
>
>Does anybody know this book? Will you please give me the
>title/author/publisher data? Has anyone read it? What are the author's
>sources, and on what does s/he build conclusions? What do you think?
>Well reasoned and reliable? A piece of clean you shoe? Something in
>between?
I wonder if she could have been referring to David Bevington's excellent
book *Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture.* It's
been a while since I read it, but one of his sources is an Elizabethan
gesture manual, which I *think* is called Chirologia, the Natural
Language of the Hand, or something like that. Anyway, if that's the
book she meant, it's very good.
Melissa D. Aaron
Cal Poly Pomona
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From: Barbara D. Palmer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 7 Aug 2001 13:40:46 -0400
Subject: 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
She may have meant John Bulwer's _Chirologia: or the Natural Language of
the Hand; and Chironomia: or the Art of Manual Rhetoric_, ed. James W.
Cleary (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press,
1974), a codification of gestures to accompany oratory which was first
published in 1644. Some of the Bulwer gestures are reprinted in Andrew
Gurr's _The Shakespearean Stage_, I believe, and others in my article,
"Gestures of Greeting: Annunciations, Sacred and Secular," in _Gesture
in Medieval Drama and Art_, ed. Clifford Davidson (Kalamazoo: Medieval
Institute Publications, 2001).
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From: Maijan H. Al-Ruwaili <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 08 Aug 2001 02:22:35 +0300
Subject: 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
Comment: Re: SHK 12.1958 Elizabethan Body Language
I am not quite sure this is what Jensen is looking for, but it is worth
looking into:
"Commodification and Representation: The Body in Shakespeare's History
Plays" by --K. A. Ewert, in
WEST VIRGINIA SHAKESPEARE AND
RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION
SELECTED PAPERS
(SRASP)
Volume 21, 1998
The good thing is that the whole article (the issue too) is online.
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