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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0222 Saturday, 5 June 2010
From: Steve Roth <
Date: June 5, 2010 12:39:52 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0217 Directions for www.hamletworks.org
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0217 Directions for www.hamletworks.org
My favorite Hamletworks access is slightly buried.
1. Click Browse Hamletworks.
2. Click Linked Enfolded Hamlet. This delivers the whole play to your browser window, with a popup menu at top to choose F1/Q2 display options.
You can then search the whole play using normal browser search (Command- or Control-F).
Clicking on a line number takes you to commentary for the line.
Double-clicking any word gives you all the other usages of that word in the play, with three lines of surrounding context for each.
3. Right-click (or Control-click on Macs) on the main frame, and select Open Frame in New Window (/Tab). (This will vary by browser.)
This gets rid of the (wonderful but less used, by me at least) other Hamletworks menu items in the left frame.
This window is the one I have bookmarked, and go to constantly.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0223 Sunday, 6 June 2010
[1] From: Arthur Lindley <
Date: June 3, 2010 3:59:23 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
[2] From: Nicole Coonradt <
Date: June 3, 2010 4:44:56 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
[3] From: Sam Small <
Date: June 3, 2010 7:24:47 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
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From: Arthur Lindley <
Date: June 3, 2010 3:59:23 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
For what it's worth, Hardy, the director of that Tempest, which I didn't like very much either, was Rupert Goold whose remarkably exciting version of Romeo and Juliet is currently in rep at the Courtyard in Stratford. Its Miranda -- in, I believe, her first RSC role -- was Mariah Gale, Goold's current Juliet and, in the David Tennant Hamlet, about the best Ophelia I have ever seen.
Regards,
Arthur
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From: Nicole Coonradt <
Date: June 3, 2010 4:44:56 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Re: "Four years ago, I believe it was, my younger daughter, Rebecca, and I saw Patrick Stewart in Stratford in _The Tempest_ as Prospero in one of the least satisfying RSC production I have ever watched."
was there!
I was in Oxford for a summer class in 2006 and our group attended this very production, directed by Rupert Goold. I agree w/ the assessment 100%. Tres strange! The fact that it was set in the arctic was bizarre, esp. when Gonzalo's lines of verdant vistas, "How green!", were left in tact. The whole production was a weird inversion of the play-- Caliban's first appearance (played by the dishy John Light) was when he dropped out of a cage from above; Ariel (played by Julian Bleach, who, to my estimation, stole the show), appeared from below, devil-like, and looked more like Nosferatu than an airy sprite. The harpy scene that disrupts the vanishing feast was horrifying and wholly unexpected-- leaving the audience thunder-struck by the intermission. During the "beautiful" wedding masque, Ferdinand and Miranda were blindfolded and manhandled by the witchy-looking Iris, Juno, and Ceres-- forced to kneel in submission and have what looked like mud (or something else more foul?) smeared on their faces before being subjected to what seemed nothing less than a water-torture-dunking of their heads in a bucket all to the disturbingly cacophonous sounds of wild drums. Of course this made Ferdinand's subsequent: "This is a most majestic vision!" beyond ridiculous. In the middle of this scene, a fellow student in the class leaned over and said, "I think we're watching MacTempest!"
The production traveled to the States and was apparently altered significantly -- one among our group saw it in Ann Arbor and liked the re-do much better. Apparently, Goold had considered staging it in *space,* but after Stewart was cast, thought better of it. A wise move, surely -- but perhaps the arctic was not the best alternative? I remember thinking that, despite Stewart's gratuitous unrobing early in the play, that it would have been funny and perhaps fitting if, at the end, no one had indulged him with the famously solicited applause.
Ahhh, good times!
But Hats Off to Sir Patrick!
Nicole Coonradt
University of Denver
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From: Sam Small <
Date: June 3, 2010 7:24:47 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
As a UK citizen I am frequently appalled at the social structure and practices of my culture. Giving honours and titles to prominent members of the working public is one such practice that is particularly embarrassing. The absurdity is that a strata of English society that does no work gives prizes to those that do. What is actually happening is that the aristocracy gain credence by association with the good and great of the UK. It is they that benefit from this odious custom. For all it's many faults the US has a better system. Exceptional luminaries from the world of theatre and screen stand or fall by their reputations not by any vacuous title pompously bestowed by President Obama.
When a member of the British aristocracy was recently caught selling her husband by the pound it makes you wonder what honours they can mete out with a straight face. Also remember that all titles and honours are not bound by any law. They can simply call themselves what they want. Neither is it in any way illegal to merely call any of them by their real names. However, I have decided. I shall give myself an honour.
You will now call me Lord Samuel Small, Duke of Kilburn High Road. And don't you forget it.
All this is so Shakespearean, don't you think?
SAM
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0224 Monday, 7 June 2010
From: Annie Martirosyan <
Date: June 6, 2010 3:35:12 AM EDT
Subject: 21.0221 Hammond Edition of Double Falsehood
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0221 Hammond Edition of Double Falsehood
I have just read "Double Falsehood". While I had been expecting something as
sloppy and totally un-Shakespearean like "A Yorkshire Tragedy" -- I must say
I found "Double Falsehood" much more Bardian than not! I encountered strange
wordings or usages, and the play on the whole is 'easier', but Shakespeare's
fingertips are recognizable in many a place throughout. Extralinguistically,
there are situations bringing to mind The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, and
Cymbeline. A nice play on the whole.
Though it might well be, as Professor Bate notes, a considerably modern,
18th century product, as much altered and distanced from the original
Cardenio as Tate's King Lear -- it should not, to my mind, be dismissed as
one of the light apocrypha, some of which so shallowly align with
Shakespeare's fingers.
Would like to see what others think on the play.
Regards,
Annie
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0225 Monday, 7 June 2010
[1] From: Stuart Manger <
Date: June 3, 2010 3:37:23 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
[2] From: Jacqueline Roe <
Date: June 4, 2010 3:08:22 AM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
[3] From: Larry Weiss <
Date: June 6, 2010 4:36:48 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
[4] From: Brad Berens <
Date: June 6, 2010 11:20:26 PM EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
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From: Stuart Manger <
Date: June 3, 2010 3:37:23 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
I suspect he is more admired in USA than in UK.
Stuart Manger
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From: Jacqueline Roe <
Date: June 4, 2010 3:08:22 AM EDT
Subject: 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0216 Sir Patrick Stewart
My own experience of Patrick is of him racing off stage to join us for a fund-raising event at the Young Vic. He joined us at about 11, and stayed to talk to each of us to emphasise his commitment to the YV, and to London theatre... Now there were probably only about 25 of us, but Patrick stayed to the end.
In an age when celebrity seems to be the aim of many actors, it's refreshing to see that even where fame came quite late in life, Patrick continues to play in actual theatres, and not just on the big screen.
His Macbeth, whilst not necessarily a stellar performance, did highlight the gap between his abilities and those of many of the company. At least his performance was effortless, which I think increases the level of audience enjoyment.
We should praise his advocacy of live theatre, and particularly of Shakespearean plays. Every additional member of the audience brought to the theatre by celebrities such as Patrick is to be lauded.
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From: Larry Weiss <
Date: June 6, 2010 4:36:48 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
>The absurdity is that a strata of English society that
>does no work gives prizes to those that do.
What H.G. Duke of Kilburn High Road surely knows is that the honours are awarded by H.M. Government, and are merely bestowed by H.M. herself (except for a few granted to the senior Palace staff). Of course, he may be right that they do no work.
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From: Brad Berens <
Date: June 6, 2010 11:20:26 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0223 Sir Patrick Stewart
Hi all,
While I find the royal family's practice of knighting celebrities absurd, I do want to defend Sir Patrick's contribution to our mutual endeavor in Shakespeare studies.
I've enjoyed some, but not all, of his Shakespeare work and admired his courage in being a white Othello in an otherwise African-American cast at the Shakespeare in D.C. some years back. Regardless, though, of our subjective opinions of his talent on the stage, what folks on this list might not know is that for the many years he was doing Star Trek: The Next Generation and the subsequent movies he also taught Shakespeare acting courses -- either for free or low cost -- on or near the lot in Los Angeles, helping truckloads of TV and film actors to wrestle with the language. I also found his essay on Shylock in "Players of Shakespeare 1" quite useful and interesting.
I've met the man and chatted with him and found him quite gracious.
Sincerely,
Brad
www.bradberens.com
www.mediavorous.com
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0226 Monday, 7 June 2010
From: Peter Groves <
Date: June 5, 2010 11:01:43 PM EDT
Subject: 21.0218 Hamlet's Feminine Endings
Comment: Re: SHK 21.0218 Hamlet's Feminine Endings
Richard Waugaman asks "what about Sonnet 20 ('A Womans face with natures owne hand painted')? Surely, it is no coincidence that, as Booth put it, 'Only this sonnet about gender has feminine rhymes throughout.'"
No doubt it is no coincidence, but it has always struck me as a sort of one-off joke: we observe that the sonnet is about confusion of gender, note the feminine endings, and think "how witty!". But this is not the same as automatically associating feminine endings with femininity (sonnet 87 -- "Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing" -- has 12 of them, almost as many as 20, but no connection with gender), and I find no evidence that readers and audiences have typically done so (or would gain anything from so doing).
Peter Groves
Monash University
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