The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.127 Thursday, 22 March 2012
From: John Briggs <
Date: March 21, 2012 7:22:53 PM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Shakespeare in London
Terence Hawkes wrote:
>South Sudan have indicated that they plan to perform Cymbeline in Juba
>Arabic. There will also, apparently, be performances in British Sign Language.
>Nobody has yet suggested that a play might be offered (an idea of the TV show
>Monty Python’s Flying Circus) by means of Semaphore.
It was, of course, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights that was performed by [flag] semaphore; Julius Caesar was performed on an Aldis lamp (we were to understand that the signal lamp was transmitting Morse code.)
John Briggs