The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0784 Tuesday, 12 September 2006
[1] From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 12:20:48 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
[2] From: John W. Kennedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 15:13:23 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
[3] From: Norman D. Hinton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 15:42:59 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
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From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 12:20:48 -0400
Subject: 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
>I think you mean "bear/The whips and scorns of life" instead of "bare.
. ."
>
>No?
Maybe it's a BDSM thing.
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From: John W. Kennedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 15:13:23 -0400
Subject: 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
John Crowley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
>And not even to make easily sung rhyme and meter.
Rarely a grave consideration in opera. Consider the following sonnet
from Sturgis and Sullivan's "Ivanhoe", as it is actually set in the music.
Her
South- ern splen- dour, like the Syr- ian
moon, Draws the
full tide of my re- bel- lious
blood; Though
Death should clasp me close ere set of
sun, This hour is
mine,
[this hour is
mine,] and
mine the ty- rant's
mood. And I will
woo her as the
li- on woos To
bring his wild mate do- cile to his
side; And I will
win her as the li- on wins, That
in the de- sert leads his tawn- y
bride! [I will
woo her, I will win her, I will
woo and win her as the
li- on woos and
wins.] O
maid of Ju- dah, tremb- ling in my
arms, proud is thy
fate to own my con- quering
sword; Though
Hell op- pose, with all its dire a-
larms, This hour is
mine, [this hour is
mine,] and I [and I] thy
[lord, thy] ruth- less
lord. If
Death be host, I'll
drain his cup for wine- Come
Night, come
Death, so
this wild hour be
mine!
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From: Norman D. Hinton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 08 Sep 2006 15:42:59 -0500
Subject: 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0778 Lyrics for My Hamlet Opera
Why not just do the same thing Britten did with MSN, and just use the
text as we have it in some reasonably good edition ? It is certainly
no longer necessary for opera libretti to be in rhythmic/rhymed verses.
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