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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1373 Thursday, 3 July 2003 From: Pat Dolan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 03 Jul 2003 05:11:24 -0500 Subject: Re: SHAKSPER Digest - 1 Jul 2003 to 2 Jul 2003 (#2003-115) >Editor's Note: And I thought that I was the Walrus Hardy, Has anyone done any kind of analysis <linguistic, stylistic, aesthetic, lingua-stylistic, aestheto-linguistic or deconstructive> to see if Shakespeare might be the Eggman? Anyway, the Walrus was Paul. Cheers, Pat _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.1372 Thursday, 3 July 2003 From: Brother Anthony <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 03 Jul 2003 12:47:57 +0900 Subject: Warwickshire I think that some SHAKSPERians might like to know that John Webb has created a very fine site with lots of good photos to serve as a kind of introduction to Warwickshire http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/default.htm . It includes a page with many pictures of places in Stratford-upon-Avon associated with Shakespeare http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/stratford.htm and another about places in Warwickshire associated with the Shakespeare family http://mysite.freeserve.com/heartofengland/shakespeareroots.htm . He also provides a useful Tourist Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon http://mysite.freeserve.com/heartofengland/stratford.htm . Of course, the number of photos on each page may make this difficult for slow modems... but the photos really are very fine and quite make one long for the English countryside, especially on today's muggy Korean monsoon afternoon. Brother Anthony (An Sonjae) Sogang University, Seoul, Korea http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.1371 Thursday, 3 July 2003 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 02 Jul 2003 21:35:47 -0400 Subject: Henry V as Business Manager ftd.de, Sa, 28.6.2003, 8:00 Casual Friday: ?Esel und Schw
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1370 Thursday, 3 July 2003 From: Jim Carroll <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 2 Jul 2003 20:12:07 EDT Subject: 14.1347 Re: Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 14.1347 Re: Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare Keith Hopkins <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > wrote on Tuesday, 1 Jul 2003: >PS. Are there history programmes on American TV? Sure, on the History channel 24/7 (excluding the UFO stuff, of course). Shakespeare will always be a magnet for fantasy posing as history; the "Shakespeare as Catholic" fantasy (and I say this for lack of evidence, not that it might not be true) is just another example of things like the Dark Lady, the relationship with the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare as Lawyer etc. The connection with the Phoenix and the Turtle that you mention is probably related to the article in the April 18 Times Literay Supplement, which reads the presence of some kind of Catholic circle around Shakespeare into the various nouns and verbs of the poem. I'm toying with the idea of a fantasy historical novel which in the first half presents Shakespeare as a straight, Protestant doctor, and then in the second half a "parallel universe" version where he is a gay, Catholic lawyer. The hero is trapped in between the two universes, until a dream narrated by Leslie Hotson reveals the truth in an acrostic buried somewhere in act 4 of "The Winter's Tale" (which reveals that Shakespeare was a Mediterranean pirate who entertained his crew with plays stolen from the naughty and haughty Lord Speare). So that's where all those Italian settings came from! If The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction doesn't buy it, maybe the Times Literary Supplement or the New York Times will. Jim Carroll _______________________________________________________________ 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 14.1369 Thursday, 3 July 2003 From: Brian Willis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 2 Jul 2003 16:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 14.1350 Katherine Hepburn Comment: Re: SHK 14.1350 Katherine Hepburn There are some personal recollections by Bob Smith in Hamlet's Dresser about his experience waiting on Hepburn and an interesting story about her backstage persona at Stratford Ontario. I forget which Shakespearean roles she was performing, but I seem to recollect her performing Isabella in Measure and Cleopatra in repertory. What a pairing of roles that would have been! Also, Hume Cronyn passed away. Dare I say it, Grebanier in Then Came Each Actor calls him the best Polonius he has ever seen. If you have not seen his performance in the 1964 Gielgud/Burton Hamlet (DVD and VHS), it's certainly worth seeing for his Polonius. He handled the verse with restraint and control and achieved great comic effect, especially on the night it was recorded. I would certainly concur that it is one of the best I have seen. Long after viewing it, his performance lingers in my mind, which certainly cannot be said for any other Polonius I have experienced. Brian Willis _______________________________________________________________ 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.