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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0179  Sunday, 1 March 1998.

[1]     From:   Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu>
        Date:   Friday, 27 Feb 1998 15:27:32 -0500 (EST)
        Subj:   Veronica Franca: *Dangerous Beauty*

[2]     From:   Nick Kind <Nick.Kind@nelson.co.uk>
        Date:   Friday, 27 Feb 1998 13:48:48 +0000
        Subj:   Announcing the Launch of ArdenNet


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From:           Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu>
Date:           Friday, 27 Feb 1998 15:27:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject:        Veronica Franca: *Dangerous Beauty*

                  *PLEASE EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS*

Opening today in Philadelphia, and perhaps at other movie theaters
across the U.S. and Canada, is a movie called *Dangerous Beauty*, about
which you can learn something by clicking here

        http://www.newregency.com/

Succinct as always, *The Philadelphia Inquirer* encapsulates it for you
as follows:

        The story of 16th-century Venetian courtesan Veronica
        Franco and her seduction of France's Henry III for
        political reasons. Stars Catherine McCormack and Moira
        Kelly. Marshall Herskovitz directs.

The film is based on Margaret Rosenthal's *The Honest Courtesan:
Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Centruy Venice*
(University of Chicago Press, 1992).

        "Sensuous, smart, sexy, fresh and beautiful," the ad
        from last weekend's paper quotes Dr. Joy Browne (WOR-AM
        radio) as saying: "Don't miss it!"

        Elsewhere in the same ad, Jeffrey Lyons (WNBC-TV) says:
        "Lavish and erotic! A stunning feast for the eye."

        Still lower down the scale--whoops! I mean, of course,
        "still lower down on the page"--I find Lisa Hendricksson
        (*GQ*) quoted as remarking: "Unabashedly decadent. A bodice
        ripper for smart people."

Alas, one wonders whether anyone will ever say anything similar about,
let alone rip a bodice over,

        http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/occult/franca/index.html

where the interested decadent will find reproduced a copy of the
*Lettere Familiari a diversi della S. Veronica Franca [sic]* (1580?), as
well as some pages from the only known North American copy of her *Terze
rima di Veronica Franca [sic]* (1585; two other copies, in Florence and
Venice, are known to us).

Nonetheless, provided scholars use due caution themselves and are also
careful to warn their students about unanticipated side effects that may
harm clothing, visits to this site are welcome.

Daniel Traister, Department of Special Collections
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
USA

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From:           Nick Kind <Nick.Kind@nelson.co.uk>
Date:           Friday, 27 Feb 1998 13:48:48 +0000
Subject:        Announcing the Launch of ArdenNet

The Arden Shakespeare is delighted to announce the launch of a
pioneering and unprecedented service on the Internet for Shakespeare
studies: ArdenNet. Visit this new website at:

     <http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/ardennet/>

Initially entirely free, ArdenNet provides a peer-reviewed, interactive
community space which allows Shakespeare researchers and educators the
opportunity to:

· Access regularly updated resources, including:
· a review of Shakespeare sites on the Internet;
· listings of Shakespeare organisations and conferences;
· listings of upcoming international performances;
· listings of currently available Shakespeare videos
  in collaboration with Poor Yorick
· Share and comment on:
· Short articles and "work in progress" from the world-wide
  academic Shakespeare community (this currently includes an essay by
  Peter S. Donaldson and an interview with RSC actor Philip Voss);
· "My favourite Shakespeare book" and "My favourite Shakespeare
  performance" areas, currently including contributions from Olwen
  Terris and Martin Banham;
· Reviews of Shakespeare productions (now available are three
  essays from graduate students at the Shakespeare Institute on the
  RSC's current production of The Merchant of Venice).
· Read about and discuss the issues surrounding the teaching of
  Shakespeare in the late twentieth century. Articles available in this
  section currently include essays from Rebecca Bushnell and David Scott
  Kastan.

The editorial board of ArdenNet includes Susan Brock, Peter S.
Donaldson, Peter Holland, Lynette Hunter, David Scott Kastan and Ann
Thompson.

As Electronic Development Manager for the Arden Shakespeare, I would
like to invite you visit this resource now and contribute to it - either
immediately, should you have something suitable, or in the future, when
appropriate.

Our intention is to provide a space in which lively and innovative, but
nevertheless respectful, scholarly debate can occur. I hope that you
feel as excited about the possibilities of this new development as I and
the members of the editorial board do.

Visit ArdenNet at: <http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/ardennet/>

Please address submissions and enquiries via private email to me at
<nick.kind@nelson.co.uk>.

Regards,
Nicholas Kind
Electronic Development Manager
The Arden Shakespeare
nick.kind@nelson.co.uk

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