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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.2129 Monday, 20 December 2004 [1] From: Jim Carroll <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 11:28:40 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query [2] From: Abigail Quart <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 11:30:57 -0500 Subj: RE: SHK 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Carroll <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 11:28:40 -0500 Subject: 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query Comment: Re: SHK 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query >>Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble, >>Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail! >>Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou! >>Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread! (4.3.106-10) Didn't insects infest clothing in those days? It seems to me that Petruchio is comparing the tailor to those things that, through the agency of cloth or thread, are enabled to enter his home and speak "brave" words, and the insects in particular are derogatory as well. Jim Carroll [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abigail Quart <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 11:30:57 -0500 Subject: 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query Comment: RE: SHK 15.2118 Taming of the Shrew Query Fleas, nits, and crickets all infest clothing. Winter crickets are adults looking for warmth and will leave the field and invade the home. http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/cricket.html The Field Crickets They are the most common cricket found in pastures and meadows. The field crickets are, at times, very damaging to field crops, especially alfalfa, wheat, oats or rye. In the Gulf states they may damage tomatoes, peas, beans or strawberries. They also consume dead or weakened crickets, grasshoppers, cutworms and other insects. When these crickets invade the home, they may attack textiles of cotton, linen, wool and silk, as well as furs. Clothing, if stained with perspiration, greasy foods, milk or syrup is liable to injury. http://www.bugspray.com/articles98/fieldcrickets.html Crickets feed on just about anything. This includes dead insects, live insects, silk, wool, man-made fabric, paper, wood, and just about anything we eat...In fact, crickets are just as likely to be a pest in closets as moths or carpet beetles. _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.2128 Monday, 20 December 2004 From: Joanne Gates <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 16:16:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: Shakespeare and Monkeys A clever use of the Shakespeare and Monkeys question (project?) appears in the Winter 2005 issue 48 of The Oxford American Magazine, newly restarted in partnership with University of Central Arkansas. My copy arrived in the mail 2 days ago, so it might be in Libraries, at bookstores, available by subscription. Other than having been a previous subscriber, I am not affiliated. Their website is oxfordamericanmag.com. Not online but a fun read is the Charles Portis story, "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth: An exclusive report on a strange writing factory," pages 122-4. Accompanying the article on page 123 is a cartoon of a monkey with Shakespeare's head, sitting at a manual typewriter, letters flying around in the background. The elegant contents page for this issue has a double page spread of artwork by Louie Psihoyos, entitled "The 100th Monkey" showing a nice ornate library full of the little beasts. Three in the foreground are working at keyboards, and we can just decipher the print on their flat screen monitors. One has a text labeled MACBEAST, another A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S CHIMP, the other, THE TAMING OF THE CHIMP. Search the SHAKSPER.net archive on Shakespeare and Monkeys if you are not up to speed on the legend and permutations. Joanne Gates _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.2127 Monday, 20 December 2004 From: Sherri Fillingham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2004 11:02:05 -0500 Subject: 15.2117 Shakespearean International Yearbook Comment: RE: SHK 15.2117 Shakespearean International Yearbook This is twice in a very short time that a publication has been touted on this list. And, both times, NO information on how to purchase these publications has been offered. Perhaps I am the only one who does not know where these intriguing sounding volumes may be bought, but somehow I doubt it. From now on, when promoting a book, publication, etc., can information on purchasing please be included? Sherri Fillingham Communications Assistant to the Dean Howard University School of Divinity _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.2126 Monday, 20 December 2004 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 19 Dec 2004 13:22:25 -0500 Subject: New Terence Malcick Film The New World-- on John Smith I saw the trailer last night. Looked wonderful, even if Colin Farrell is in the film. The official website is at http://www.thenewworldmovie.com/ In a first as far as I know, there's an option to see the trailer shot by shot. Complete with sound effects. _______________________________________________________________ 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 15.2125 Monday, 20 December 2004 From: Ken Graham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:52 PM Subject: CFP: 2005 Elizabethan Theatre Conference CALL FOR PAPERS 2005 Waterloo Conference on Elizabethan Theatre: "Religion and Theatre" We invite session and paper proposals for the seventeenth Elizabethan Theatre conference, to be held June 16-18, 2005, at the University of Waterloo. Proposals on any aspect of the relationship between religion and Tudor-Stuart drama are welcome. Plenary speakers: Anthony Dawson (University of British Columbia) Alexandra Johnston (REED Project, University of Toronto) Jeffrey Knapp (University of California, Berkeley) Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles) Richard Strier (University of Chicago) Paul Whitfield White (Purdue University) The conference will be held at the University of Waterloo Conference Centre, where anticipated 2005 rates for bed and breakfast accommodation, all taxes included, are $64.96 Cdn. (single) and $48.16 Cdn. (double). The conference schedule will include several trips to plays at the nearby Stratford Festival of Canada. Waterloo is part of a metropolitan area with a population of 450,000, located in the heart of Ontario's Mennonite farming country, adjacent to the historic village of St. Jacobs. It is about an hour west of Toronto's Pearson International Airport. High temperatures in mid-June average a pleasant 23 degrees Celsius (74F), with overnight lows a cool 11C (52F). For updated information, visit http://english.uwaterloo.ca/Elizabethan/htm. By January 31, 2005, submit paper or session proposals electronically toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. orThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , or by mail to: Kenneth Graham Department of English University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Philip Collington Department of English Niagara University Lewiston Road Niagara University, NY USA 14109-2035 _______________________________________________________________ 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.