The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0838 Friday, 22 September 2006
From: John Briggs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 21:01:46 +0100
Subject: 17.0827 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0827 Shakespeare Outside of England/English
Peter Bridgman wrote:
>Although it doesn't quite beat the performance of Hamlet off the coast
>of Sierra Leone in 1607, Pericles was the only 'secular' play included
>in the 1619 playbook compiled by Jesuit schoolmasters at their school
>at St Omer in the Spanish Netherlands.
This is fascinating: it readily chimes with the manuscript book of six
of Shakespeare's plays (TN, ASYLI, Errors, R&J, Julius Caesar, Macbeth)
together with three Restoration-era plays, compiled 1695-5 at Douai for
either the English College or the boys' school of the English
Benedictine monastery. (The Jesuits were nearby.) This MS is discussed
in Appendix 4 (pp. 374-387) of Juliet Dusinberre's recent (2006)
magisterial (not quite the right word in the circumstances, I know, but
I can't think of a better one) Arden 3 edition of "As You Like It".
Perhaps I might add that the editor's entire career could seem to have
been a preparation for this edition. Of course, its beautifully nuanced
discussion of the genders and gender relations of both actors and
characters should be withheld from Charles Weinstein's delicate eyes.
John Briggs
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