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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0215 Thursday, 31 May 2012
From: Pete McCluskey <
Date: May 30, 2012 2:11:22 PM EDT
Subject: RE: Maria
John Briggs correctly identifies the implausibility of my off-the-cuff suggestion that Maria and Antonio might be played by the same actor. Here’s a more-plausible suggestion: the same actor doubles as Maria and the Priest. Maria’s last appearance in the play ends with her exit as 4.2.71 (Riverside), and the priest appears about 90 lines later (4.3.20) and again at 5.1.150 to confirm that he has married Olivia to Sebastian. The text gives no indication that the Priest exits, so he remains onstage throughout the scene, thus making an appearance by Maria impossible.
Peter M. McCluskey
Associate Professor
English Department
Middle Tennessee State University
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0214 Thursday, 31 May 2012
From: Gabriel Egan <
Date: May 30, 2012 10:05:19 AM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: WordCruncher/Riverside; Maria
Hardy: in your Virtual Machine software create a machine running 32-bit Windows XP. (You can still buy XP on Ebay.) That 32-bit XP machine will happily run the Chadwyck-Healey CD-ROMs even though the software running the virtualization is 64 bit. That’s what I do to keep running CD-ROM versions (well, virtualized as hard disk images of CD-ROMs) of OED, Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, ESTC, and The Arden Shakespeare. Running the Virtual Machine is a 64-bit copy of Windows 7, but the applications don’t know that.
Happy to expand on the above if it’s helpful.
Gabriel Egan
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0213 Thursday, 31 May 2012
From: Hardy Cook <
Date: May 31, 2012 8:27:12 AM EDT
Subject: Next-Generation Platform for Academics
[Editor’s Note:
WARNING: Patricia Parker followed up with the IT department at Stanford who informed her that the Next-Generation Platform announced here last week is not a project of Harvard University but is trading on the Harvard name.
My apologies for any confusion.
-Hardy Cook]
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0212 Wednesday, 30 May 2012
From: Anna Kamaralli <
Date: May 30, 2012 4:59:58 AM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Maria
Richard Madeleine has spent a long time working on the training of boy actors, and has (in a paper given at a colloquium I attended, but that I think is, unfortunately, still unpublished) put forward the theory that as boys probably ‘shadowed’ specific senior actors, some comic female roles may have been written for boys apprenticed specifically to clowns. Richard felt that Maria is being ‘mentored’ by Sir Toby. To extend this speculation a little further than Richard did (and I do concede this is speculation), Maria’s absence during the uncovering of the gulling of Malvolio could be because the boy’s mentor has been taken off stage at V.1.192, and couldn’t be there to shepherd him.
Anna Kamaralli
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0212 Wednesday, 30 May 2012
From: Hardy M. Cook <
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Subject: Updated WordCruncher
After using PCs since the early 1980s, I switched to Macs several years ago. I was able to find Mac programs for almost every PC application I had used as my excuse for not switching. Well, there were a few for which no clear replacement was evident, so I have a virtual machine on a separate 27” monitor to run those programs. Among them are Elaine and John Thiesmeyer’s Editor program from Serenity Software, Quicken for Windows, and TurboTax. (I know about Quicken for Mac and I will share my opinion of it privately to anyone who asks. Hint, it rhymes with mucks.)
However, because I was now using a 64-bit machine, I could no longer run some of the old 32-bit Widows programs I was still attached to. These programs included TACT and the Chadwyck-Healey The Bible in English and the Chadwyck-Healey Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, both of which I could still use in LION, but I missed as standalone programs.
However, the program I missed the most and that I had used since my early days of computing was WordCruncher with The Riverside Shakespeare. Other concordances are available online, but I found WordCruncher with the Riverside particularly useful when I was annotating text for notes in an edition.
As I returned to annotating Lucrece the other day, I was reminded of how much I missed the WordCruncher/Riverside combination that I discussed in my 1990 paper “A Shakespearean in the Electronic Study,” a paper presented to the computing approaches seminar of the 1990 SAA conference in Philadelphia: http://shaksper.net/documents/doc_download/53-electronic-study.
On whim, I thought I might check and see if an updated 64-bit WordCrucher existed and to my amazement I found it at its original site of creation—Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah:
http://www.wordcruncher.com/wordcruncher/Download.htm
This updated WordCruncher comes in both a Windows 32-bit and 64-bit version with a free copy of The Riverside Shakespeare; a few other applications can be downloaded. I forget how much I initially paid for WordCruncher and the Riverside, but the cost was not nominal and certainly not free.
Perhaps the time of WordCruncher as a text analysis tool has passed, but I am enormously pleased to have my old friend back.
Hardy M. Cook
Professor Emeritus
Bowie State University
Editor of SHAKSPER <shaksper.net>