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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.1017 Saturday, 18 November 2006 From: Mary Rosenberg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Nov 2006 14:22:40 -0800 Subject: 17.1006 One More Howler Comment: Re: SHK 17.1006 One More Howler I once found the words "trunk for Camillo" on a property list for a production of "Winter's Tale." "What does Camillo need a trunk for?" I asked. "Well, in Act I scene 2, he says If therefore you dare trust my honesty,/ That lies enclosed in this trunk ..." Mary Rosenberg _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.1016 Saturday, 18 November 2006 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, November 18, 2006 Subject: New Shakespeare Search Engine Launches From: FOLGER E-NEWS New Shakespeare Search Engine Launches On the Web: Shakespeare Searched "Go search like nobles, like noble subjects" --Pericles, Act II, scene iv Discover shakeseare.clusty.com, a new online search engine providing quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Results are clustered by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you're looking for--whether it's identifying the speaker of a favorite passage or discovering underlying thematic elements across works or finding the perfect quote to start a celebratory toast. About Shakespeare Searched (http://shakespeare.clusty.com/search?v%3aproject=billy&v%3aframe=about&) Shakespeare Searched: Just for Teachers (http://shakespeare.clusty.com/search?v%3aproject=billy&v%3aframe=teachers&) Shakespeare Searched: Especially for Students (http://shakespeare.clusty.com/search?v:project=billy&v:frame=students&) ABOUT SHAKESPEARE SEARCHED Shakespeare Searched is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. We cluster search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. From something as simple as identifying the speaker of a particular quote to discovering underlying thematic elements across works, Shakespeare Searched has you covered. This website is not a replacement for a copy of the text. It provides no analysis or footnotes. It is meant to supplement a traditional reading of a work. Shakespeare Searched is built with Viv
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.1015 Saturday, 18 November 2006 From: Mari Bonomi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 19 Nov 2006 08:17:57 -0500 Subject: 17.1004 Plans to Reopen Shakespeare Theater in Comment: RE: SHK 17.1004 Plans to Reopen Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Conn. I'm not clear (nor do I wish to be) on the politics behind the decision to give the New York firm KKP the rights to reopen the Stratford CT theatre, but I do know (from having read letters and opinion pieces in the Connecticut Post) that the opponents have pointed to the contract language which contains zero promise to produce *Shakespeare* in the theatre. The leader of the Council group favoring the approved contract called those who supported the Burke proposal cult followers drinking the Kool-Ade. QUOTE: Burke said the council is "setting up the theater's reopening to fail due to total ignorance of the facts." Burke states in his handout that his group could provide immediate funding, while KKP has "admitted to having no funding," and that his plan includes a Theater Festival with more theaters, an academy, museum, library, and art gallery, while KKP, if successful, will "consider a smaller theater, but with no further plans." He also contends his plan guarantees annual productions for three Shakespeare plays, including a Children's Theater and musical, while KKP's contract makes "no mention of Shakespeare in its present contract. END QUOTE Source: http://www.connpost.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4635606 Visit www.connpost.com and search for Shakespeare will bring up a list of stories for those interested in the feuding. I tend to fall on the side of the Burke supporters but I haven't swallowed Kool-Ade in decades. Mari Bonomi _______________________________________________________________ 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 17.1014 Saturday, 18 November 2006 From: Jack Heller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 17 Nov 2006 11:38:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: 17.1003 New Poor Yorick Contest Comment: Re: SHK 17.1003 New Poor Yorick Contest This is off the point of Tanya Gough's Poor Yorick announcement, but the announcement does imply that Branagh's AS YOU LIKE IT will not be released to cinemas. Is this so? 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.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.1013 Saturday, 18 November 2006 [1] From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Nov 2006 23:21:14 -0000 Subj: Re: SHK 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday [2] From: Harry Connors <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 18 Nov 2006 03:22:20 +0000 Subj: Re: SHK 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 16 Nov 2006 23:21:14 -0000 Subject: 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday Comment: Re: SHK 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday Peter Farey writes ... >The Prayer Book also says: "Nevertheles (if necessitie >so require) children may at al tymes be Baptized at home" >so I think we can guess that this was the case with all six >of those Stratford baptisms? I don't see why. John and Mary only lived a few yards from Holy Trinity church. Peter Farey is correct in saying that babies were baptised as soon as possible after birth. Infant mortality was incredibly high, and only baptised babies got into heaven. William's baptismal entry (plus the one above) reads as follows ... 22 Johannes filius William Brooks 26 Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere The 26th was a Wednesday. The 25th was St Marks day, an inauspicious day for baptisms as altars and crosses were draped in black. This means that the 23rd (St George's day) or the 24th are the most likely days for William's birth. The 23rd if an exhausted Mary needed a day in bed before she was up, the 24th if she didn't. Peter Bridgman [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Harry Connors <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 18 Nov 2006 03:22:20 +0000 Subject: 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday Comment: Re: SHK 17.1005 Shakespeare's Birthday I'm not sure that we can conclude that William was baptized at home on April 26th and that he was, therefore, born on April 25th. I am better informed about 20th century Catholic practices in this matter than in 16th century Anglican practices, but John may have been Catholic and Anglican practices are not very different from Catholic practices. First, anyone can baptize. It doesn't take a priest or a minister. Most to the point, John could easily have baptized his son. He probably would have done so if he thought it likely that the baby's life was in danger or if he was Catholic and wanted his son baptized a Catholic. In either case, the baby would have been baptized again by the minister and in the church. It is the baptism by the minister that is recorded in church records, not the informal baptism by the father. This is the practice even though the baby is truly baptized at the informal baptism. The formal baptism doesn't replace the informal baptism, it is more the church's recognition that it has a new member. If John baptized his son because John was a Catholic, he is hardly likely to have mentioned the fact to the minister. I see no reason to reject the traditional April 23rd date for Shakespeare's birth based on the possibility that he might have been baptized at home. A home baptism, if it occurred, isn't what is recorded in the church records. Harry Connors _______________________________________________________________ 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.