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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.0737 Thursday, 17 April 2003 [1] From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 07:11:38 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet [2] From: Peter Hadorn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 08:40:03 -0500 Subj: RE: SHK 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet [3] From: Michael B. Luskin <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 09:44:55 EDT Subj: Re: Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 07:11:38 -0500 Subject: 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet Comment: Re: SHK 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet >Prior to the reading of that book, I had always heard Hamlet >referred to as "The Procrastinator." The idea that Prince Hamlet was "a man who simply could not make up his mind" was set upon large, popular feet by Olivier in his voice over prologue. I'm sure he relied on then current scholarship. A shot in the dark at the book you have in mind might be RENAISSANCE HAMLET (I think) by Roland Mushat Frye. All the best, R.A. Cantrell [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hadorn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 08:40:03 -0500 Subject: 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet Comment: RE: SHK 14.0731 Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet Regarding Bill Arnold's post about Hamlet as a "reasoned and cautious Prince." I suppose I agree, which is why, for me, the most important line in the play occurs in the closet scene with his mother. He hears a noise behind the arras, pulls out his sword, and stabs the person behind it. When his mother asks, "O me, what hast thou done?" Hamlet replies, "Nay, I know not. Is it the King?" In other words, here is this "reasoned and cautious Prince" for the first time in the play acting on a gut reaction (I hesitate to say "instinct"). He knows it's not Claudius because he just passed him on the way to see his mother. He has no idea who he just killed. He didn't think; he just acted. And of course, this action sets in motion each of the ensuing deaths. Peter Hadorn UW-Platteville [3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael B. Luskin <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 09:44:55 EDT Subject: Re: Book on Shakespeare's Hamlet This reminds me a bit of Goddard's essays on Hamlet, in which he argues that Hamlet decided that he does not want to kill Claudius, after considering everything. mbl _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0736 Wednesday, 16 April 2003 From: John Briggs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 11:12:42 +0100 Subject: 14.0719 Re: King John, Titus, Peele Comment: Re: SHK 14.0719 Re: King John, Titus, Peele Perhaps I should point out that Brian Vickers' book "Shakespeare, Co-Author" is treated to a long review by Jonathan Bate on pp3-4 of the issue of the TLS for April 18, 2003. (Summary: he likes it!) In fact, this is something of a Shakespeare issue with a long piece on "The Phoenix and Turtle" by John Finnis and Patrick Martin, and another on the Rose playhouse by Andrew Gurr. There are pieces on Shakespeare celebrations by Michael Caines and on "Henry V" performance by Katherine Duncan-Jones. John Briggs _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0735 Wednesday, 16 April 2003 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 15 Apr 2003 18:18:14 -0400 Subject: She Stoops to Comedy and As You Like It The visible simplicity of She Stoops to Comedy is only a way of clearing space for the emotional complexity of the illusion Greenspan invites you to create. Alexandra, a lesbian thespian famous for playing tragic roles in "concept" productions (you remember her Phaedra in a space suit), is having a bumpy time with her lover Alison, a musical-comedy gal about to try something new ("How often can you be a cock-eyed optimist in Pittsburgh?"). A young indie film director is trying his hand at As You Like It up in Maine, and Alison has been cast as Rosalind. The production's Orlando has just been lost to Hollywood; in a reckless, lovelorn moment, Alexandra disguises herself as a man ("Harry Samson," if you please), auditions for the role, and gets it. Among the extra complications she finds in Maine are another lesbian couple gone splitsville, a troubled hetero relationship between the director and his assistant, and Simon Languish, the melancholy gay actor to whose Brick Alexandra once played Maggie. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0316/feingold.php _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0734 Wednesday, 16 April 2003 From: Graham Hall <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 10:00:17 +0000 Subject: Skinflint Castle Ros King (14 Apr) about R2 at Middle Temple Hall ticket availability "I suspect it's a case of block bookings to US tour operators not being taken up(?)" More like the ludicrous prices (which I won't be paying this year).This is the folly of involving the legal profession in any way in anything one does. But it is nice to think that the cost may subsidize my fiver penny stinkard tickets and of which I may buy more this season. The commendable efforts of the Globe to accommodate the parsimonious and the profligate are the eighth wonder of the mundi. Best, Graham Hall _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.0733 Wednesday, 16 April 2003 From: Russell MacKenzie Fehr <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 00:20:48 -0400 Subject: Sejanus In the introduction to his "Sejanus", Ben Jonson seems to suggest that he had help from another playwright, who (presumably) wrote some of the scenes. Has anyone ever attempted to figure out what this collaborator contributed, or who the collaborator was? Russell MacKenzie Fehr _______________________________________________________________ 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.