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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0478 Wednesday, 28 February 2001 From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 28 Feb 2001 13:44:53 -0500 Subject: Othello and Early Modern Italians In Othello, Shakespeare's Early Modern Italian characters seem to have varying attitudes toward Othello's race. In Merchant of Venice, the Italian characters seem very ethnocentric, witness Portia's contemning of Morocco, Arragon, and a whole host of "foreign" suitors. Would Shakespeare have had sources -- written sources -- for these "Italian" attitudes? I realize that I am confusing fiction and history, but I'm wondering if Shakespeare was aware of the Italian history that may or may not parallel his Italian fictions? I'm thinking, for example, of Duke Alessandro d'Medici, who was of mixed moorish and Italian blood. Yours, Bill Godshalk
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0477 Wednesday, 28 February 2001 From: Scott Oldenburg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 28 Feb 2001 10:45:16 -0800 Subject: Castration Query Conference I wonder if anyone on the list could direct me to primary or secondary texts dealing with castration in early modern England/Europe. I am particularly keen on finding works from which I could glean early modern attitudes toward castration, eunuchs, and so on. Email me off-list atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. unless you think the references would be of interest to SHAKSPERians in general. Thanks in advance, Scott
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0476 Wednesday, 28 February 2001 From: Edmund Taft <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:29:54 -0500 Subject: West Virginia Shakespeare Conference The Steering Committee of the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association is happy to announce that it will hold its annual conference on 6-7 April 2001 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Charleston, WV. This year's theme is "New Approaches to Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century British Literature." The keynote speaker for this year's conference will be HARDY M. COOK Professor and Chair of the English Department at Bowie State University. The title of Dr. Cook's lecture will be "The Varieties of the Electronic Textual Experience" It will be accompanied by an 80-slide PowerPoint presentation. The two-day conference will include the following panels: Early Modern Playwrights Shakespearean Tragedy Milton and Lanyer The Return to Characterization in Shakespeare Renaissance Problem Texts Shakespeare in Film and Performance Theater and Pageants Shakespearean Genres All in all, 24 scholars from 21 universities, representing 10 states and two other countries -- Canada and Scotland -- will be delivering papers. Those interested in attending can make their own reservations at the Embassy Suites by calling (304) 347-8700 or sending a FAX to (304)-347-8737. The Charleston Yaeger Airport is minutes away from the hotel. Conference rates are discounted: $89.00 per night. Please make reservations by 15 March at the latest. Pre-registration (no later than 15 March) is $25.00. Registration at the conference will be $35.00. If registering by mail, please send a check payable to WEVSARA to Edmund M. Taft, English Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755-2646. --Ed Taft
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0475 Wednesday, 28 February 2001 From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 28 Feb 2001 11:27:03 -0600 Subject: Ephesians Dear Colleagues, Shakespeare uses the terms Ephesian(s) epithetically in Merry WIves (IV, 5) and Henry IV, Part II. (II,II) Can anyone please direct me to similar usage in the work of other dramatists of the period?
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0474 Wednesday, 28 February 2001 From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 28 Feb 2001 10:12:46 -0500 Subject: Movie Cheaters In the HBO movie Cheaters, there is a brief reference to Shakespeare's sonnets. The teacher (Jeff Daniels) asks his students what kind of verse they are in. The central literary reference in the film is Paradise Lost.