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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0466 Wednesday, 11 July 2007 [1] From: Edmund Taft <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 9 Jul 2007 11:16:43 -0400 Subj: Shakespeare Golden Ear Test [2] From: Bob Grumman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 9 Jul 2007 10:38:02 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 18.0459 Shakespeare Golden Ear Test [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edmund Taft <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 9 Jul 2007 11:16:43 -0400 Subject: Shakespeare Golden Ear Test Well, so far, folks have earned some "golden ears," some "silver ears," and some "bronze ears." If I do really awful, can I earn a "lead ear"? Ed Taft [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bob Grumman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 9 Jul 2007 10:38:02 -0500 Subject: 18.0459 Shakespeare Golden Ear Test Comment: Re: SHK 18.0459 Shakespeare Golden Ear Test I couldn't get through the Golden Ear test. I took a rest after carefully deciding yes or no on twenty of the passages. When I came back, I tried to continue but was ejected from the test. I'm sure I came out with a tin ear. Especially since I recognize the passage from the Elegy and said it was by Shakespeare. For me what makes the test stupid boils down to its being based on a pair of invalid premises: (1) that Shakespeare always wrote like Shakespeare and (2) that no one else ever wrote like Shakespeare. --Bob G.l _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0465 Wednesday, 11 July 2007 From: Al Magary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0700 Subject: Hogging all the best word orders The NYTimes today had four writers imagine an ending to the Harry Potter series (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08potterintro.html). Polly Horvath imagines everyone dying in a blaze of glory--except Harry, who trips, and Hermione, who survives and finds herself with a newborn in a coffee shop, with pen and notebook. The waitress asks: "Isn't it a bit tricky then, writing a bunch of books if you've never written anything before?" "Nah, I got it beat. I figure it's all in arranging words in some sort of order. Sentences they call it. Like this one I come up with this morning: 'Started out, Could nutshell myself infinite were bad dreams God, I count, a king, oh, space bounded in not I have that and it of a be.' Then I rearranged things a bit and got this: 'Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams.' Don't know what it means." "That's Shakespeare, that is," said the waitress. "DRATS! Not again. He hogged all the best word orders. Never mind, I got the whole day to reorder me words. Bring a piece of cake and keep them cups of tea coming. I plans to knock off three of these suckers by closing time." Cheers, Al Magary _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0464 Wednesday, 11 July 2007 From: Rick Jones <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 14:17:20 -0500 Subject: Shakespeare and (East) Asian Philosophy/Religion Gentles: I'm looking for materials relating Shakespeare-especially the comedies-to East Asian religions and philosophies. I'm particularly interested in exploring the philosophical Taoist concept of yin and yang, but Zen, Shinto, Pure Land, Confucianism, etc., all might be relevant. I'm less interested at the moment in Western Asia (e.g. Hindu), but if the study expands I might end up going there, as well. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Rick, who is hoping find a research avenue, prepare for a production, and brush up for a course he hasn't taught in four years... all at once _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0463 Wednesday, 11 July 2007 From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 17:17:46 +0100 Subject: Final Call for Papers: Writing about Performance of Shakespeare With apologies for cross-posting, this is the final CFP for a seminar at the 3rd British Shakespeare Association Conference in Warwick UK, 31 August to 2 September 2007 ______________________________ Writing about Performance of Shakespeare As Pascale Aebischer recently reminded us, writing about performance can be likened to tap-dancing about architecture: it is hard to see how one way of making meaning can relate to the other. In a recent exchange in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, W.B. Worthen and R.A. Foakes, coming from very different approaches, debated how discursive writing can describe, engage with, and critique performance, and this seminar will take the debate further. The seminar invites papers that consider all matters of how writing relates to performance, which might include: * what theatre reviews ought to comment upon * how far can performance can be theorized? * does the script 'contain' all the possible performances, or conversely does performance necessarily exceed the meanings in the script? * should insights about theatre practice in Shakespeare's time inform writing about his meanings? * what is theatre history for? * do we still think Shakespeare was essentially a man of the theatre and not a literary author? Abstracts to seminar leader Gabriel EganThis 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. Seminar website http://www.gabrielegan.com/BSA _______________________________________________________________ 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 18.0462 Monday, 9 July 2007 [1] From: Janet Costa <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 7 Jul 2007 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Subj: Re: SHK 18.0409 Degree in Shakespeare [2] From: Sam Small <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 8 Jul 2007 19:45:30 +0100 Subj: Re: SHK 18.0457 Degree in Shakespeare [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Janet Costa <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 7 Jul 2007 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 18.0409 Degree in Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 18.0409 Degree in Shakespeare I have followed this thread with interest, noting that no responder has mentioned whether they actually have a degree in Shakespeare. For those of us who do (and our Eric Luhrs is one), I must say that I'm not all that sure if it made us better people (better than what??), but it was a very expensive proposition. One of the great rewards, however, is sharing stories and anecdotes that only Shakespeare Institute graduates can truly appreciate, e.g. Thursday afternoon lectures and tea or the BritGrad Conference. It is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. For those who may be interested, Alex Kapila has begun an informal blog for SI alumni at http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=873295062&k=8c26ddfe6f Janet [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sam Small <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 8 Jul 2007 19:45:30 +0100 Subject: 18.0457 Degree in Shakespeare Comment: Re: SHK 18.0457 Degree in Shakespeare To Dan Venning: I am sorry that you find me unconvincing and un-collegial. What I was asking was quite clear. Does the study of Shakespeare make us better people? Perhaps I should have added extra clarification of "if so, how?" >From the answers I got there was nothing definite at all. You inferred >that politics was as important as "art, theatre, language, critical reading, >and plain old entertainment on personal and cultural levels." This is >very strange when the "begetter of this list" wrote about precious little >else other than institutional, international and sexual politics - in short >'morality'. And I see little difference, as you seem to, in the morality >of the individual and the morality of a greater culture. The former >begets the latter, does it not? How can millions of immoral people >represent a moral society? Don't blame George Bush for getting to >be President - blame the American people. Which brings us full circle to the original premise of my question. If we all had English Literature degrees what sort of foreign policy would we have? Do Shakespeare anoraks make a better and more joyful world? If you agree, please tell me how, Dan. (or anyone) Love and peace, SAM SMALL PS: Please don't answer, "entertaining the troops." _______________________________________________________________ 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.