The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0003 Thursday, 3 January 2008
[1] From: Stanley Wells <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 21 Dec 2007 15:21:16 +0000
Subj: RE: SHK 18.0834
[2] From: John W. Kennedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 21 Dec 2007 18:18:27 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0834
[3] From: Tom Reedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 22 Dec 2007 10:50:05 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0834
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From: Stanley Wells <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 21 Dec 2007 15:21:16 +0000
Subject: 18.0834
Comment: RE: SHK 18.0834
It might be worth remembering T J B Spencer's dictum about Roman history
in Titus Andronicus - that Shakespeare seems to have been anxious not
so much to get it all right as to get it all in.
Stanley Wells
Chairman, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Shakespeare Centre
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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, 21 Dec 2007 18:18:27 -0500
Subject: 18.0834
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0834
Chris Jacobs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
>Whilst going through the initial stages of preparing to
>direct a production of Titus Andronicus for the first
>time of asking, it struck me that there exists within
>the text a greater than usual number, almost
>amounting to a plethora, of allusions to the ancient
>Gods of Greece and Rome.
>Whilst such allusions occur within a great number of
>the Bard's plays, I have not noticed such a preponderance
>as exists in TA.
>I wonder what might account for this... if indeed there is
>any truth in my observation, since I must admit to not
>having specifically searched for 'quantities' of such
>allusions elsewhere.
>So, before undertaking the task of revisiting the entire
>canon in order to discover the relevant facts, perhaps
>others may have some material information or opinion
>on the subject.
I have always thought it of a piece with the Latin quotes and the
blatant use of Ovid -- a young writer a little too eager to show off his
grammar-school learning.
John W. Kennedy
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From: Tom Reedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 22 Dec 2007 10:50:05 -0600
Subject: 18.0834
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0834
Chris Jacobs <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> wrote:
>Whilst going through the initial stages of preparing to direct a
>production of Titus Andronicus for the first time of asking, it struck
>me that there exists within the text a greater than usual number, almost
>amounting to a plethora, of allusions to the ancient Gods of Greece and
>Rome.
>
>Whilst such allusions occur within a great number of the Bard's plays, I
>have not noticed such a preponderance as exists in TA.
>
>I wonder what might account for this... if indeed there is any truth in
>my observation, since I must admit to not having specifically searched
>for 'quantities' of such allusions elsewhere.
>
>So, before undertaking the task of revisiting the entire canon in order
>to discover the relevant facts, perhaps others may have some material
>information or opinion on the subject.
In light of Jonathan Bates's (convincing, to me at least) claim that
Shakespeare collaborated with George Peele in writing this play, it
might be helpful to collate the allusions by act and scene to determine
if Shakespeare is responsible for the higher rate of classical allusions
or if it should be credited to Peele.
Tom Reedy
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