SHAKSPER 1999: Re: Mrs. Bottom

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 12/09/99 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2180  Thursday, 9 December 1999.

[1]     From:   Peter Holland <HollandP@hhs.bham.ac.uk>
        Date:   Tuesday, 7 Dec 1999 17:12:07 -0000
        Subj:   Re: SHK 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video

[2]     From:   Sean Lawrence <seanlawrence@writeme.com>
        Date:   Tuesday, 07 Dec 1999 10:39:48 -0800
        Subj:   Re: SHK 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video


[1]-----------------------------------------------------------------
From:           Peter Holland <HollandP@hhs.bham.ac.uk>
Date:           Tuesday, 7 Dec 1999 17:12:07 -0000
Subject: 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video
Comment:        Re: SHK 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video

Mrs Bottom was going to appear in Max Reinhardt's 1935 film version -
see Russell Jackson's article about the shooting script he discovered
(*Shakespeare Buuletin* 16 (1998) pp.39-41).

[2]-------------------------------------------------------------
From:           Sean Lawrence <seanlawrence@writeme.com>
Date:           Tuesday, 07 Dec 1999 10:39:48 -0800
Subject: 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video
Comment:        Re: SHK 10.2170 Re: Midsummer Night's Dream--on video

Terence Hawkes muses:

> Much more fetching was the restoration of
> the play's pivotal character, Mrs. Bottom. Indeed, it seemed to me that
> the intellectual toughness beneath the slight lyric grace of her lines
> had palpable puddling potential.  I have always felt that this lady,
> last seen in Hollywood, could tell us a great deal about Gertrude.

Could she tell us something about Innogen?

Cheers,
Seán.


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