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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0093 Monday, 17 January 2000. [1] From: Stefan Kirby <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 16 Jan 1994 00:32:21 -0800 Subj: Off-topic, but remarkable! [2] From: Aaron Keith <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 15 Jan 2000 05:10:33 EST Subj: Re: SHK 10.2294 Re: Honorific... [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stefan Kirby <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 16 Jan 1994 00:32:21 -0800 Subject: Off-topic, but remarkable! Here's an interesting anagram I found, made from not just a word, but an entire sentence: "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." (anagram) "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten." (Cory Calhoun) Those interested in anagrams may look to this website: http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html ~Stefan Kirby [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Aaron Keith <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 15 Jan 2000 05:10:33 EST Subject: 10.2294 Re: Honorific... Comment: Re: SHK 10.2294 Re: Honorific... >Absolutely. I invite you to download any number of shareware anagram >programs on the internet and amuse yourself and your friends mightily by >inputting your names and seeing what you get. My own full name yields >"Mentally derails," which I don't think is preferable to "Mentally lead, >sir," although my theatre company has opted for the first. Where can one find these anagram programs? Aaron Keith
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0081. Monday, 31 January 1994. (1) From: Blair Kelly III <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 18:30:57 -0500 Subj: Suggested order in which to read plays? (2) From: Ronald Dwelle <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 31 Jan 94 09:43:32 EST Subj: Bianca Bait (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Blair Kelly III <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 18:30:57 -0500 Subject: Suggested order in which to read plays? Later this year the Washington Shakespeare Reading Group will finish its second cycle of reading the works of William Shakespeare. I would like to solicit suggestions from SHAKSPEReans on possible orders in which we might read our third cycle. Our first cycle was random order, our second cycle was in rough order in which the plays were written. Obviously, in the interests of variety, we would like to mix the histories, comedies, and tragedies, but other than that restriction, anything goes! Besides suggested orders for the entire canon, possible orders for subsets are also welcome - for example, read the history plays in order of the historical time line (although in the interests of variety, I would have to schedule some comedies and tragedies among the histories). And for any SHAKSPEReans who will be in the Washingon DC area, you are cordially invited to join us for a reading. Here is our upcoming schedule: Friday 4 Feb Measure for Measure Saturday 26 Feb Othello Friday 11 Mar All's Well that End's Well Friday 25 Mar Timon of Athens Friday 8 Apr Macbeth We meet in Memorial Hall of the Palisades Community Church, 5200 Cathedral Avenue NW, Washington DC, and begin promptly at 7:30 pm. --- Blair Kelly IIIThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Secretary, Washington Shakespeare Reading Group (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ronald Dwelle <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 31 Jan 94 09:43:32 EST Subject: Bianca Bait I'm seeking historical/cultural info. How are we to regard Baptista's offering of Kate & Bianca, particularly the requirement that Kate be married off before the suitors can get at Bianca? In Shakespeare's day, would this have been thought of only as a ludicrous, farcical proposition? Or is this more an exaggeration of rights and duties that Baptista would have had? If so, are these "legal" rights and duties, or moral compunctions for a father in his position? Is Baptista a pure Elizabethan or would the audience have thought him Italian/continental for making this proposition? Does the absence of a mother affect the situation? Related, how are we to take the dowery difference--Petruchio takes in but Lucentio/Hortension/Gremio have to put out? (same questions as paragraph 2). (If this has all been clearly addressed in print and I've simply overlooked it, please point me the way.) Thanks in advance.
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0080. Monday, 31 January 1994. (1) From: James McKenna <MCKENNJI@UCBEH> Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 22:04:44 -0500 (EST) Subj: Gender Switching (2) From: Norman J. Myers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 31 Jan 94 10:19:34 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 5.0073 Q: Stage Productions (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James McKenna <MCKENNJI@UCBEH> Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 22:04:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Gender Switching Dear Chris Daigle, ADO's Don John the bastard is a good candidate. His use of Hero becomes even uglier--and just what is the relationship between Don Joanne and her minions, Borachio and Conrad? In CE, either the father of the Antipholi or the Duke of Ephesus would probably work. The rest of the characters seem a lot of effort or not significant enough in reversal. Thanks for some fun speculation! James McKennaThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Norman J. Myers <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, 31 Jan 94 10:19:34 -0500 Subject: 5.0073 Q: Stage Productions Comment: Re: SHK 5.0073 Q: Stage Productions I directed a "Shoestring Shakespeare" production of COE last year. Shoestring Shakespeare means that we do the plays in a small room and strip the production of most of the "necessary" trimmings so as to focus on the text. I was faced with the typical problem of more women auditioning than men. After casting the sets of twins, Adriana, Luciana, Abbess., Egeon, Duke, Courtesan, I found I had several women and only one man left of those deemed sufficiently adept. So I had these people play "everybody else". Women played Angelo, the first and second merchant (same actress), Guard and Luce and Headsman (same actress) and Dr. Pinch's attendants (Angelo and Second Merchant). It seemed to work well, and nobody assumed any particular comment was being made by having women play those male roles. Of course it all depends on what you want to do. I suppose in MND, for instance, you could make quite a comment by having Bottom played by a woman. Norman Myers Bowling Green State University
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0079. Monday, 31 January 1994. From: William Godshalk <GODSHAWL@UCBEH> Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 16:52:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: 5.0074 Re: *MND*, *Lear*, and the Human Condition Comment: Re: SHK 5.0074 Re: *MND*, *Lear*, and the Human Condition Richard Jordan and Sean Lawrence seem to be right on target. Of course, there are universal human experiences. Let's try hunger for one; the experience of a beating heart for another. Terence, do you know any humans who don't get hungry when deprived of food, or who do not have a heart (no metaphors, please)? Shakespeare's kings are constantly alluding to the different between their social identities as KING and their private selves, e.g., Richard II and Henry V. It's part of the tension in the histories plays. The only way we understand each other in a culture and across cultures is by shared experiences. In fact, that's how we understand the needs of other mammals, e.g., cats and dogs. Yours, Bill Godshalk
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0078. Monday, 31 January 1994. (1) From: Mary-Katie Lindsey <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 14:41:43 -0600 (CST) Subj: Romantics list (2) From: Daniel Traister <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 19:42:58 -0500 (EST) Subj: Re: SHK 5.0076 Q: Romantic Lists (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mary-Katie Lindsey <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 14:41:43 -0600 (CST) Subject: Romantics list There is indeed one -- NASSR -- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. It is on English Romanticism. I do not know about French lit of the c19 or on Baudelaire. The address is: NASSR-L For members of the North American Society for the Study of ROmanticism. Scholarly discussions of Romantic literature.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. listserv@wvnvm -- BITnet address If those don't work, send toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (David C. Stewart) Since the description doesn't specifically say that it is only about English Romanticism, I could be mistaken. Certainly it seems as if all Romantic literature could be discussed. (I hope so.) If you are interested in more addresses, I recommend Eric Braun's _Internet Directory_; it seems to me to be the most complete bibliographic sourse on Net discussion lists. I got mine at Waldenbooks for about $25 (whew!). If you would like for me to look up any other addresses, please ask; I am glad to do so for anyone. Cheers, Mary-KatieThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Traister <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 30 Jan 1994 19:42:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: 5.0076 Q: Romantic Lists Comment: Re: SHK 5.0076 Q: Romantic Lists Kimberly Nolan, with a Miami e-mail address, asks: > I have been bragging about the vast knowledge of the participants on > SHAKSPER, so now one of my colleagues has asked me to put out a query. > Does anyone know of a good list for the European Romantics or for > 19th Century French literature? Just how specific do most of these > electronic conferences get? Could she find a list just for Goethe, or > Baudelaire? Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. While there is no special reason to assume that a list of Shakespearians will know the answer(s) to such a query, there is *every* reason to assume that someone in your own library's reference department *will* know it/them. I heartily recommend that you seek out Nora Jane Quinlan at your library. If she does not know how to answer this question herself, she will know someone at Miami who does. In any case, someone in that Department is also likely to be willing to introduce you to a gopher and thus to a kind of gateway to e-lists. The only excuse for posting so specific a reply to the entire list, need I add, is that, while the names of the resource people will obviously differ at other institutions, there is almost invariably someone in *your* library whose *business* it is to know how to answer just this sort of question. And they *are* resources whom it is occasionally worth meeting. Dan Traister, Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library University of PennsylvaniaThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.