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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0036 Wednesday, 7 January 2004 From: Michael Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2004 08:34:57 -1000 Subject: 14.2480 1 Richard II? Comment: Re: SHK 14.2480 1 Richard II? Mac Jackson is a little unkind to Mssrs. Corbin and Sedge who simply note that his article came too late for their response or incorporation. Their tone is quite respectful. Prof Jackson is also wrong when he says that there is no consensus regarding the relationship between 'Woodstock' and Richard II. The consensus is that the relationship is tenuous at best. This will change some time in 2004. --Michael Egan _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.0035 Wednesday, 7 January 2004 From: Martin Green <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 06 Jan 2004 18:42:25 -0500 Subject: 14.2478 Important Changes to the World Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 14.2478 Important Changes to the World Shakespeare Bibliography That "Next year's Bibliography . . . will be the final printed volume" of the World Shakespeare Bibliography is dreadful news; no electronic version visible only only in small sections within the confines of a computer monitor can possibly be as great an aid to study and research as the printed volume, with its text and finding aids easily and quickly accessible. If for economic reasons a choice has to be made between printing the SQ or the Bibliography, the better decision, from the point of view of students and researchers, would be to relegate the SQ to the Internet, and to continue the printing of the Bibliography. I hope that others feel the same, and that the matter can be reconsidered. _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.0034 Wednesday, 7 January 2004 From: Megan Fitzpatrick <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2004 17:09:51 -0500 Subject: "Spin-off" Help? I'm teaching a course on intertextuality, and am using "Hamlet" as the jumping off point since our local Shakespeare troupe is currently performing it, and doing R&G next. I have plenty of plays, poems and a novel (many of which I found on the SHAKSPER site) but am in dire need of a short story (or two, or three) that picks up on any of the themes/characters in "Hamlet." Can you help? Right now, the only one I've got is Melville's Bartleby. Thank you! Megan Fitzpatrick _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.0033 Wednesday, 7 January 2004 From: Joseph Sullivan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2004 22:03:27 -0500 Subject: RSA CFP Cambridge 2005 Call for Papers: Audience Hindsight Bias and Renaissance Literature Panel proposal for: 2005 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Cambridge, UK. April 7-9 The fundamental process for generating new interpretations of literature is reengagement: scholars return to texts countless times in hopes of new insights. Yet social psychologists have demonstrated that our perceptions of probability are skewed by outcome knowledge, such as familiarity with plot. While actors have long guarded themselves against "anticipation", literary scholars have continued to behave as if this pervasive "creeping determinism" does not exist. Papers that address either how scholarship has been shaped by hindsight bias or how scholars can avoid creeping determinism are invited for a proposed panel. Deadline for submission (abstract/c.v.) is May 7, 2004. Informal inquiries are welcome. Materials can be sent via email or mail. Early submissions are encouraged. Joseph Sullivan English Department Thomas Hall Marietta College Marietta, OH 45750This 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.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0032 Wednesday, 7 January 2004 From: John D. Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2004 13:09:46 -0500 Subject: TGV Rape Scene In the concluding scene of Two Gentlemen, much depends on the stage direction ("Swoons") added for Julia by Alexander Pope when she says, "Oh me unhappy" (First Folio, TLN 2208). As a matter of fact, only one character is ever directed to "swoon" in the Folio, and that character is King Henry VI, in 2H6: "King sounds" (TLN 1729) or "The King falls in a sound" (Quarto). The dialogue surrounding this SD is instructive: Queen: How fares my Lord? Help, lords, the King is dead. Somerset: Rear up his body, wring him by the nose. Queen: Run, go, help, help. Oh Henry ope thine eyes. Suffolk: He doth revive again, madam, be patient. Here is the dialogue in TGV: Proteus: Look to the boy. Valentine: Why, boy? Why, wag? How now? what's the matter? Look up. Speak. The next line is Julia's, and it is perfectly coherent. If I were directing TGV, I would ignore Pope's added SD and direct the actor playing Julia simply to burst into loud weeping with her head down and perhaps her hands covering her face. This would motivate the men's concerned questions and Valentine's direction, "Look up." Julia's doing these things, instead of fainting, directs attention away from Valentine's silly and impossible offer and focuses it on Julia, who then offers the "wrong" ring, which Proteus recognizes, thus beginning to ravel up the frayed plotlines and allowing Julia to reveal herself beneath her disguise. Whatever Julia does when she says "Oh me unhappy," ignoring Pope's SD allows her to take CONTROL of the scene rather than be weakly passive in it. John Cox Hope College _______________________________________________________________ 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.