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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0987 Monday, 30 April 2001 From: David Linton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Apr 2001 14:35:20 -0400 Subject: SCOTLAND, PA, Study Guide There is a new adaptation of MACBETH called SCOTLAND, PA which is scheduled to open in February distributed by Lot 47 Films. It is a dark comedy which parodies both the original as well as the recent spate of Shakespeare adaptations. Christopher Walken plays McDuff. I have been asked to help prepare a study guide for the film and would appreciate opinions and suggestions regarding what makes a good, useful study guide for Shakespeare films. What kinds of materials are useful to include in such products?: pictures, posters, background, suggested writing and research assignments, etc.? Of course, I realize that if you haven't seen the film you can't be specific, but generic ideas are welcome. As special preview screenings for the Shakespeare community are scheduled, I'll keep the list informed. Perhaps responses should be posted off list unless you think the topic of the merits and demerits of study guides warrants an open airing. Thanks, David Linton Chair, Humanities Division Marymound Manhattan College _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0986 Monday, 30 April 2001 From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Apr 2001 13:23:42 +0100 Subject: 12.0943 Re: World Shakespeare Bibliography Comment: Re: SHK 12.0943 Re: World Shakespeare Bibliography Jim Harner writes about the World Shakespeare Bibliography: > Actually, searching for an author is quite simple: typing > 'harrison peter' in the Search screen box or in the Author > Name field in the Advanced Search screen will quickly > pull up all documents authored by Peter Harrison. (This > is a process common to searching so many databases > that I assumed even a novice would know this.) This is true of the new interface you've just implemented in the last few days, and my comment was about its predecessor: :GIE> Surprisingly, the answer was to put in a search like this: GIE> GIE> Author: Peter and Harrison GIE> GIE> That is, you had to do a logical 'and' within a single field The reviewer who reported this problem was anything but a "novice" and was in no way ignorant of common processes. The fault was entirely the rotten interface. The new interface and the new data appear to be vast improvements and the subscription costs are extraordinarily reasonable. If only there was a CD.... Gabriel Egan _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0985 Monday, 30 April 2001 From: Patricia Cooke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Apr 2001 17:18:02 +1200 Subject: New Maori MOV Film Members of this list may be interested in a Maori-language version of Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0984 Monday, 30 April 2001 From: Robert J. Matter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 28 Apr 2001 13:29:11 -0500 Subject: Judge Punishes Kids with Shakespeare http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/shake28.html Judge punishes kids with Shakespeare April 28, 2001 BY ADAM GORLICK PITTSFIELD, Mass.--He killed to be king. And in the end, he was killed in revenge. For the 15-year-old playing Claudius in a scene from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the role was uncomfortably close to real life. Convicted of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, Nate was among nine juvenile offenders sentenced to the stage by a judge. "I thought this was stupid at first, and I thought I would quit," he said. "But I'm proud of myself. I've never done anything all the way through." To quit or not to quit wasn't really an option. Participation was a mandatory part of probation for the Berkshire County teens. "What happens with these kids tomorrow--who knows?" said Juvenile Court Judge Paul Perachi. "But at least we've given them the chance to see they can complete something. We've given them tools to communicate and hopefully to make better decisions." The students' last names were not released, and authorities would not allow their pictures to be taken because they are juveniles. Thursday night's performance of 11 scenes from "Hamlet" was Perachi's way of dealing with something rotten in Berkshire County. He created the program with help from the Lenox-based Shakespeare & Co. theater troupe and a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The play was short on props; the sword fights and poisonings mostly were conveyed with gestures. The actors' princely robes and gravedigger rags could not conceal their sneakers and work boots. For four hours a week in the past three months, the teenagers worked with professional actors to practice lines, project their voices and build their confidence. Accomplishment, not the play, was the thing. "This is not a pack of frightening delinquents," said co-director Jenna Wade, an actress with Shakespeare & Co. "They're just a bunch of kids. But what they're experienced at is failure, so it was hard for them to commit to something that they could have failed at again." Associated Press _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Webpage <http://ws.bowiestate.edu>
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0983 Monday, 30 April 2001 From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 28 Apr 2001 09:20:23 -0700 Subject: 12.0969 Re: Hoffman's MND Comment: Re: SHK 12.0969 Re: Hoffman's MND Just to follow up on Eva Diskow's question about bicycles in Hoffman's MND, I would say that these elements of technology in the woods of Athens struck me as among the most successful elements of the production, which seemed to be set in a moment when technology was displacing magic and art. Another nice example occurs when Bottom shows the fairies how to use a phonograph. The Athenians also have a magic, which amazes the fairies. Cheers, Se