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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0433 Thursday, 14 February 2002 From: Robert Teeter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002 21:33:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: R&J I.M. in the NYer A cartoon by Roz Chast on the back page of the Feb. 4 New Yorker has Romeo and Juliet exchanging instant messages. Bob Teeter (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) | http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/ _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0431 Thursday, 14 February 2002 From: William Walsh <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002 11:04:24 -0500 Subject: Rosencrunch & Guildenpop This morning, I heard a Trader Joe's commercial on Boston's classical station for a Hamlet related popcorn snack food. It was early, so I thought I might have imagined the whole thing, but I later checked their site and found the following: To crunch or not to crunch? Rosencrunch and Guildenpop Clusters of Popcorn and Nuts This nutty combination of pecans, almonds and sweet popcorn is to die for! Indulge yourself in these crunchy clusters or share the sweet sensation with the people in your hamlet. Get it? Hamlet. This snack is true to its sweet nature (unlike the Shakespearean characters). But its crunch is indeed "rosen," and its popcorn certainly "guilden." The sweet coating marries the nuts and popcorn, creating a duo that clusters together, no matter their foe. It has no artificial colors or flavors and no preservatives. I have no affiliation with Trader Joe's, etc. Bill Walsh _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0430 Thursday, 14 February 2002 From: Nancy Charlton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002 00:25:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and this 'n that When I went to GMN today I found they had most obligingly posted a webcast of this opera. Audio only, alas, and they don't seem to mention the date of the performance. It was at the Barbican, done by the Kirov theatre. The URL: http://classicalplus.gmn.com/ Click on the Webcasts tab, and Lady Macb is second from the top. It will be available through the 15th. It is long, about 145 minutes, but each of the four acts is on a separate track. There is good material about the opera and about the Kirov on the site, including a detailed synopsis of the story. If you understand Russian, the clear diction will be a delight, but if you don't you'll have to be content with the superb music. Another webcast has the Kirov conductor, Valery Gergiev, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra in Berlioz' "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet. Seems that Berlioz was intrigued by Shakespeare, went night after night to hear a performance in Paris in French, and fell in love with Ann Smithson, the Juliet of this performance. This translated into a weird and wonderful hybrid of symphony and oratorio. A few days ago Martin Steward wrote, >It's not surprising that Nancy Charlton felt Shostakovich's opera "Lady >Macbeth of the Mtensk District" strayed away from its "source material", >if she thought that this material was a little-known tragedy called >"Macbeth", by William Shakespeare. Mea culpa. I should not have used the term "source" in the sense that, say, Holinshed is the source of the history plays. I don't really know a term, however, for a work that serves as a theme so slight that it barely more than an allusion. The Leskov story is the source of this opera in the proper sense of the term. Since there is so much interest on this list in Shakespearean outcroppings in popular culture, I thought it might be interesting as a note on how such as use--or misuse--might pop up in a very different milieu. It was, then, interesting to me to find three or four Shakespearian references in the Sunday papers and several websites this week to date. One of these, if I dare mention it, was in the NY Times: an article about how the Oxfordian theories are gaining wider acceptance. Of the rest, the most noteworthy was the use of Much Ado III.v.12 apropos of the Enron mess: I am as honest as any man living, that is an old man, and no honester than I. This was in the newsletter of the Institute for Global Ethics, http://www.globalethics.org Nancy Charlton _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0429 Thursday, 14 February 2002 From: John F. Andrews <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002 17:38:16 -0800 Subject: Speaking of Shakespeare with Richard Clifford London Actor-Director Richard Clifford To Discuss His Roles on Stage and Screen Richard Clifford, a veteran of such Kenneth Branagh films as Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost, and Much Ado About Nothing, is now at the Folger Theatre, where he is directing She Stoops to Conquer. We're very happy to announce that he'll be Speaking of Shakespeare a few days from now, and we invite you to join us for a delightful evening. If you were in London's Middle Temple Hall in January 2000 for A Salute to the Man of the Millennium (the fifth annual Gielgud Award ceremony, with Kenneth Branagh as the honoree), you'll recall that Mr. Clifford was the artist who assembled a cast that included Keith Baxter, Samantha Bond, Richard Briers, Helena Bonham Carter, Dame Judi Dench, Patrick Doyle, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Bob Hoskins, and Sir Derek Jacobi. Monday, February 18 Reception 6:30 p.m. Program 7:00 p.m. The Washington Club 15 Dupont Circle NW Reception and Program, $25 Program Only, $15 To reserve space for this program, simply reply to this message. Tickets may be billed to American Express, Visa, or MasterCard. John F. Andrews, President The Shakespeare Guild 2141 Wyoming Avenue NW, Suite 41 Washington, DC 20008-3916 Phone 202 483 8646 Fax 202 483 7824This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. _______________________________________________________________ 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 Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.