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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1022 Friday, 12 April 2002 From: Bill Arnold <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 16:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Best Shakespeare Biography When I go to my shelf for a biography of Shakespeare, my hand reaches for Sam Schoenbaum's _Shakespeare's Lives_. Do I err in my reach? I would love to hear from all and sundry, what is your best biography of Shakespeare, and why. I wish to put it on my shelf. Oh, and please limit your remarks to 25 words or less in answering why, for the sake of our moderator's patience. Bill Arnold _______________________________________________________________ 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 13.1021 Friday, 12 April 2002 From: W.L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 17:01:08 -0400 Subject: Belmont on the Brenta? Thomas Coryate, Coryates Cruidities (1611), sig N8, comments on the river Brenta as "very commodius for the citizens of Padua. For they may passe forth and backe in a Barke downe the riuer from Padua to Venice, and from Venice againe to Padua very easily in the space of foure & twenty houres." He estimates the distance at twenty-five miles, and he notes that the river is lined with "goodly faire houses and Palaces of pleasure." And I have just been looking at Giuseppe Bruno's photographs of the Brenta in La Riviera del Brenta (1996). Some of the remaining palaces are striking. It occurs to me that Shakespeare may have had the Brenta in mind as the fictional locale of Portia's Belmont. John Florio could have given him the information. Were Belmont imaginatively placed on the Brenta, the characters' rapid transit between Belmont, Padua, and Venice would be accounted for. But this imaginative placing would NOT account for the apparent fact that Bassanio and his retinue take almost three months to go from Venice to Belmont, though his return to Venice is much, much quicker. Let's pretend, for the sake of discussion, that Belmont is one of the pleasure palaces on the Brenta. Why would Bassanio take so long to make the trip from Venice to Belmont if it is twenty-five miles or less? Yours, Bill Godshalk _______________________________________________________________ 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 13.1020 Friday, 12 April 2002 From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 14:52:55 -0400 Subject: 13.0999 Re: Romeo+Juliet=0 Comment: Re: SHK 13.0999 Re: Romeo+Juliet=0 >I have a question of my own for those on the list who have >seen most or all of the productions at the New Globe: at this stage do >you have any sense as to whether there has been any correlation between >success of productions (whatever that might mean) and intensity of >historicizing effort? I can imagine the imposition of standards of >historicity having a positive effect on the production process: >inventive responses to arbitrary constraints of one kind and another >lie >at the base of all successful art. But they can also just make people >be clumsy or tired or angry. I have seen all the Shakespearean productions at the Globe except for the pre-opening TG/V. It seems to me that the ones that worked best were the traditionally staged productions and the worst were the gimmicky ones. My ranking is as follows: AYLI (rated highest because of the enchanting Rosaline) A&C (all male cast) HenV (all male cast) C/E M/V Ham KL TNK JC Mac (gimmicky) Cym (very gimmicky) WT (gimmicky) _______________________________________________________________ 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 13.1019 Friday, 12 April 2002 [1] From: Nancy Charlton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 11:07:26 -0700 Subj: Re: SHK 13.1008 Re: Touchstone [2] From: Stuart Manger <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 22:34:24 +0100 Subj: SHK 13.1008 Re: Touchstone [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nancy Charlton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 11:07:26 -0700 Subject: 13.1008 Re: Touchstone Comment: Re: SHK 13.1008 Re: Touchstone R.A. Cantrell wrote, >http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk > >This link does not work for me. It worked just fine for me, and what a site it is! The link that doesn't work for me, however, is the one to SHAKSPER. My browser returns a 404 every time I've tried it. Is it there yet? Nancy Charlton [Editor's Note: There are times the site <www.shaksper.net> is down for maintenance, but these are very infrequent. Have you tried another browser? Both the latest Netscape and Internet Explorer work for me. -Hardy] [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stuart Manger <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 22:34:24 +0100 Subject: Re: Touchstone Comment: SHK 13.1008 Re: Touchstone Worked perfectly for me from UK. Is flash.net a derivative of AOL? Might there be a problem there? Stuart Manger _______________________________________________________________ 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 13.1018 Friday, 12 April 2002 From: Jack Heller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2002 17:52:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 13.1002 Billy Connolly at The Globe Comment: Re: SHK 13.1002 Billy Connolly at The Globe I don't know the program in which the following was said: >He approached in a river-boat, and told us that this was how many of >the theatre-goers would have arrived. There is a fair amount of evidence for it. See, for example, the Middleton pamphlet The Ant and the Nightingale. I don't have the passage with me, or else I quote it. Jack Heller _______________________________________________________________ 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.