The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0096 Thursday, 17 January 2002
[1] From: Tanya Gough <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 16 Jan 2002 11:02:42 -0500 (EST)
Subj: Re: SHK 13.0091 Re: BBC Series
[2] From: Mary Jane Miller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 16 Jan 2002 14:18:02 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 13.0055 BBC Series Has Arrived
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From: Tanya Gough <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 16 Jan 2002 11:02:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 13.0091 Re: BBC Series
Comment: Re: SHK 13.0091 Re: BBC Series
>A Midsummer Night's Dream. Surely the cast includes Pippa Guard rather
>than Sward and Brian Glover rather than Clover (although he may have
>been rolling in the stuff during his scene with Helen Mirren as
>Titania)? Congratulations for making them available anyway.
We took the blurbs from our supplier's list, which was quite abominable
indeed. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to find and fix all the
errors, so our apologies to all. The first person to point out an
inconsistency or error that has not yet been brought to our attention
will receive a $2.00 discount on the BBC Shakespeare video or DVD of
his/her choice.
Cheers,
Tanya Gough
Poor Yorick
www.bardcentral.com
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From: Mary Jane Miller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 16 Jan 2002 14:18:02 -0500
Subject: 13.0055 BBC Series Has Arrived
Comment: Re: SHK 13.0055 BBC Series Has Arrived
Would we enjoy a thread on what the list thinks about various specific
versions in the BBC series? I haven't seen them all but I'll offer to
start.
Despite the controversy about casting Antony Hopkins as Othello, ie as
an 'Arab' Moor, this was a very fine version - complete as the BBC
versions are, beautifully designed, acted for television not the
theatre and therefore full of small nuances, with the verse given full
value and wrenching in the last scenes. Othello is my least favourite of
the mature tragedies but this is a superb production.
I'm also recommending to our library that we purchase T and C ( for
rarity mostly), Lear, Hamlet, teh Henriad, AYLI and one of the best of
the bunch I think - Measure for Measure.
Mary Jane
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