========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1992 12:37:28 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0001 SHAKSPER Membership Listing Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 1. Thursday, 1 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Subject: SHAKSPER Membership List Date: Thursday January 2, 1992 A number of subscribers have recently asked for an updated membership listing, because SHAKSPER has continued to grow rapidly. It seems appropriate to start a new volume and a new year by listing the current participants, so we can all be reminded of the familiar names and introduced to some new ones. k.s. * * Following is a listing of current members of the Shakespeare * Electronic Conference. The list is automatically generated by * Listserv, alphabetically by email Node. 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Peacock RATUNIL@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU Ludemo Ratunil JAE@AIS.ORG Jae Walker R1AMF@AKRONVM Antonia Forster R1NR@AKRONVM Nicholas Ranson FFJL@ALASKA Janis Lull CCRUPI@ALBION Charles Crupi iluvwill@ALBY6055.UUCP Carey Cummings mez@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU Mez Allspice rose@ALSYS1.AECOM.YU.EDU Eric Rose HDCHICKERING@AMHERST Howell D. Chickering GW0F@ANDREW.CMU.EDU Gary Waller LSEFTON@APPLE.COM Laurie Sefton ATJXB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Jean R. Brink psdlit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Peter S. Donaldson RELIHAN@AUDUCVAX Constance C. Relihan davist@A1.RELAY.UPENN.EDU Tad Davis califfma@BAYLOR.EDU Mary Elaine Califf lav@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU John Lavagnino HMCOOK@BOE00.MINC.UMD.EDU Hardy M Cook ekelemen@BRAHMS.UDEL.EDU Erick R. Kelemen jhalio@BRAHMS.UDEL.EDU Jay L. Halio ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Elaine Brennan ST702266@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Lorin Wertheimer QUARK@BUCSF.BU.EDU Paul Fu, Jr. PHLCSW@BYUVM Camille S. Williams nwatson@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU Nicola J. Watson & Michael Dobson mwarren@CATS.UCSC.EDU Michael Warren tblackb1@CC.SWARTHMORE.EDU Tom Blackburn SABINSON@CCVAX.UNICAMP.ANSP.BR Eric M. Sabinson tdrga@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU Todd Drga BENNISON@CLT.ENET.DEC.COM Vick Bennison JWHITE@CMSUVMB D. Jerry White leosborn@COLBY.EDU Laurie E. Osborne LHT@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Nate Johnson CRF_ARMITAS@CRF.CUIS.EDU Sten-Erik Armitage TOM@CS.FAU.EDU Tom Horton dunne-bob@CS.YALE.EDU Bob Dunne shres@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU Robert K. Turner vjh@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU Virginia J. Haas MCCARTHY@CUAVAXA William J. McCarthy EHPEARLMAN@CUDENVER E.H. Pearlman SURCC@CUNYVM Steven Urkowitz lisch@DAD.MENTOR.COM Ray Lischner ELLISJ@DICKINSN Jennifer L. Ellis LEN11@DMSWWU1A Marga Munkelt D.C.Greer@DURHAM.AC.UK David C. Greer katy@ENG.SUN.COM Katy Dickinson Kathleen.Swaim@ENGLISH.UMASS.EDU Kathleen Swaim ian@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA Ian Lancashire ksteele@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA Kenneth B. 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Donow IRMSS908@SIVM Mark Lee SCOTT@SKLIB.USASK.CA Peter Scott MILLESJG@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU Eberly Milles SHAKESPR@SMITH SHAKSPEReans at Smith FZKR1001@SMUVM1 Larry Schwartz mcgarghan@SNAX.ENET.DEC.COM Kimberly McGarghan FEINMAN@SNYBKSAC Richard D. Feinman jmassa@SPONSORED-PROG-PO.DSP.UIOWA.EDU John S. Massa lee@SQ.COM Liam Quin ksteele@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Ken Steele MOYLEK@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Kenneth C. Moyle OSTOVICH@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Helen Ostovich HF.CHL@STANFORD Charles R. Lyons pinnow@STOLAF.EDU Timothy Dayne Pinnow monda@SUMAX.SEATTLEU.EDU Joseph B. Monda LDDENNO@SUVM Kathryn Barbour 91595@TAYLORU Jason Francis abartisc@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU Caesarea Abartis andersonj@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU James B. Anderson jhibbard@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU Jack H. Hibbard NickRanson@UAKRON.EDU Nicholas Ranson GSTOVAL3@UA1VM.UA.EDU Jerry Stoval USERKAY@UBCMTSG Kay Stockholder USERSTAP@UBCMTSG Paul G. 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Creamer SCHWARTZ@URVAX.URICH.EDU Louis Schwartz engler@URZ.UNIBAS.CH Balz Engler HORN_A@USP.AC.NZ Andrew Horn MICKEY@UTDALLAS Mickey Rogers HAG@UVMVM.UVM.EDU Hope Greenberg BEST@UVVM.UVIC.CA Michael Best werstine@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Paul Werstine SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Simon Rae ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Lou Burnard DHCRAIG@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK David Hugh Craig STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Stuart D. Lee GW2@VAXB.YORK.AC.UK Geoffrey Wall steele@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA Ian K. Steele FOSTER@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Donald W. Foster fac_mdhawtho@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Mark D. Hawthorne FAC_AMILLER@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Ann Miller FAC_JLFUNSTO@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Jay Funston STU_PALO@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Paul A. Lord engl_le@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU Lars Engle vfk57016@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU Kay Van Valkenburgh PECHTER@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA Ed Pechter ENG1683@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK John Manning JLH5651@VENUS.TAMU.EDU James L. Harner & Harrison Meserole shand@VENUS.YORKU.CA Skip Shand DLG8X@VIRGINIA David L. 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Boss BOLTON@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU Whitney Bolton BRODY@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU Roberta Brody * * Country Subscribers * ------- ----------- * ??? 117 * Canada 15 * France 1 * Germany 1 * Israel 1 * Korea 1 * USA 87 * * Total number of "concealed" subscribers: 18 * Total number of users subscribed to the list: 223 (non-"concealed" only) * Total number of local node users on the list: 0 (non-"concealed" only) * Total number of countries represented: 7 (non-"concealed" only) * Total number of nodes represented: 177 (non-"concealed" only) * ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 22:20:17 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0002 New & Forthcoming Books on Shakespeare Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 2. Friday, 3 Jan 1992. Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1992 15:07:00 -0500 From: Peter Scott/U of Saskatchewan Library Subject: New/forthcoming Shakespeare (Jan.92) [Ed. Note: Special thanks once more to Peter Scott for the following list of new and forthcoming books on Shakespeare. The information is useful and much appreciated. -- k.s.] HAMLET / William Shakespeare ; illustrated by W.G. Simmonds. -- New York : Gramercy Books : Distributed by Outlet Book Co., 1991. ISBN 0-517-06488-X : $8.99 KING LEAR / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. -- New York : Chelsea House, c1992. -- (Major literary characters) ISBN 0-7910-0922-X ISBN 0-7910-0977-7 (pbk.) THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ; illustrated by Charles Robinson. -- New York : Gramercy Books : Distributed by Outlet Book Co., 1991. -- (Illustrated Shakespeare) ISBN 0-517-07231-9 : $7.99 THE APPROPRIATION OF SHAKESPEARE : post-renaissance reconstructions of the works and the myth / edited by Jean I. Marsden. -- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992. ISBN 0-312-07198-1 SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY / edited and introduced by John Drakakis. -- London ; New York : Longman, 1992. -- (Longman critical readers) ISBN 0-582-05115-0 ISBN 0-582-05114-2 (pbk.) SHAKESPEARE--TO TEACH OR NOT TO TEACH : grades three and up / Cass Foster and Lynn G. Johnson. 1st ed. -- Scottsdale, AZ : Five Star Publications, 1992. ISBN 1-877749-03-6 : $19.95 SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH : language in the history plays / W.F. Bolton. -- Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1992. -- (The Language library) ISBN 1-55786-135-8 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 13:35:09 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0003 Astral Metaphors & Sonnet 116 Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 3. Monday, 6 Jan 1992. Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 16:20 CST From: Piers Lewis Subject: Sonnet 116 I have been thinking about sonnet 116 since Geoffrey Hargreaves asked the following question a few weeks ago: "Is there a definitive (or even confident) interpretation of the lines in Sonnet 116: It is the star to every wandering bark Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. ? Is the metaphor fractured? That is to say, you can take the height of a star, if you have a problem navigating, but no mariner has ever considered the worth of stars." I am not sure what is meant by a 'fractured' metaphor. I have never heard the expression before. If a metaphor is fractured, is that an imperfection? Should we be bothered by the fact that it 'says' two different things at the same time? On the one hand, love is like a star because you can steer by it; you always know where you are, no matter how storm-tossed or confused you may be in other respects; on the other, we don't understand it any better than we do the stars. We can 'take the height' of a star, which gives us a number that we can use, but that fact tells us nothing about its qualitative importance in what was for Shakespeare (in all liklihood) a ptolemaic universe where height had a moral value. So: while the true value of love may be as mysterious as that of the stars, we can use it to steer by as we do the stars; provided love is, as the poem's central conceit would have us believe, as unchanging as the fixed stars. Which brings us to the word that Shakespeare actually uses here which is 'worth' not 'value.' "Worth' was and is a word with a very wide range of social and moral applications, one of which pertains to character. The character of the person, man or woman, addressed in these sonnets is often in question which gives the line a particular poignance--especially if we remember that the man, at least, is socially higher and worthier than the poet. All this is pretty clear it seems to me; the real problems are elsewhere, beginning with the first lines-- "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments"--which in the very act of firmly slamming the door on possible impediments to such marriages, effectively acknowledges that there are plenty of them out there. Similar stresses and strains are evident in what follows: Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! . . . oh yeah? that "O, no!" tacitly admits that it happens all the time. Things change, alter over time. Alterations bring on alterations; removals, removals. when people lose their youthful good looks--or their money--friends or lovers who once proclaimed eternal fidelity remove themselves and look elsewhere. As Bessie Smith sings, "No one knows you when you're down and out." Love, like everything else, is subject to time, is "Time's fool." Such knowledge is implicit in the straining, struggling language of these lines. And that brings us back to the matter of the poem's central conceit, which bravely proclaims the opposite: love is the one fixed point in a turning world. Well, yes. That's what everyone says and there are a few people who really believe it and behave accordingly; including the poet who knows, however, that he is virtually alone in this. And that, it seems to me, is why the final couplet, with its studied non-sequiturs, has such an air of empty bravado, whistling in the wind. Does this sonnet offer us an example of a poem 'deconstructing' itself, rhetorically subverting its own rehetoric, as De Man says all poetry and all literature must? Or is it merely imperfect? Piers Lewis ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 17:58:55 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0004 Astral Metaphors and Wandering Barques Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 4. Tuesday, 7 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 15:05:50 -0500 From: Chet Vittitow Subj: SHK 3.0003 Astral Metaphors & Sonnet 116 (2) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 16:20:00 -0500 From: John S. Massa (John-Massa@UIOWA.EDU) Subj: Piers Lewis' comments on Sonnet 116 (3) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 14:40:48 PST From: kay.stockholder@mtsg.ubc.ca Subj: SHK 3.0003 Astral Metaphors & Sonnet 116 (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 15:05:50 -0500 From: Chet Vittitow Subject: SHK 3.0003 Astral Metaphors & Sonnet 116 I must admit that I feel a bit tentative jumping in at this point, especially by questioning what seems to be general wisdom. But isn't it possible that the phrase "whose worth's unknown" modifies the ship, not the star? Chet Vittitow (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 16:20:00 -0500 From: John S. Massa (John-Massa@UIOWA.EDU) Subject: Piers Lewis' comments on Sonnet 116 May I offer the following speculation concerning the interpretation of the following lines from Sonnet 116: "It is the star to every wand'ring barque Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken." Love is the guiding star to wandering lovers (barque = lover). These wandering lovers carry a heavy cargo of some sort, but the quality (worth) of the cargo is unknown. Yet, whether the cargo is valuable or worthless (i.e., whether the lover is genuine or frivolous "light love") is hard to tell from the outside of a barque (or a person). You have to eventually examine the contents of both. However, a worthless cargo or a valuable cargo is heavy in either case and difficult to steer toward that fixed ideal of the star of love. This is reminiscent of (R&J II:1, 121): JULIET: By whose direction found'st thou out this place? ROMEO: By love, that first did prompt me to enquire. He lend me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I should adventure for such merchandise. So the "Guiding Love; Pilot or Ship as Lover; Merchandise;" cluster of ideas seems to be represented in these lines from Sonnet 116. In other words, I suggest Shakespeare was drawing attention to the height (above water) and worth (cargo) of the BARQUE, NOT the height and worth of the star, as suggested by previous comments in this electronic forum. But, as with all things Shakespearean, he probably meant all of the above plus 20 things we haven't even thought of yet. __________________________________________________________ BASIC SHAKESPEAREAN BARQUE PHYSICS /|\ / | \ / | \ ____/______|______\______ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ water line \ wandering barque #1/ \__________________/ "...his height [above water] be taken." i.e., heavy with love but heavy things can be worth much (gold) or little (lead). So the BARQUE's WORTH is /|\ unknown. / | \ / | \ _____/______|______\______ \ / \ wandering barque #2/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ water line NOT heavy with Love, i.e., its "height" is not taken. ____________________________________________________________ end of speculation John Massa (3)-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 14:40:48 PST From: kay.stockholder@mtsg.ubc.ca Subject: SHK 3.0003 Astral Metaphors & Sonnet 116 Well, if the poem includes no awareness that things are not as we and the poem's author would like them to be, then I guess we could say it's imperfect, but only if we assume that a perfect poem must also tell the truth about the world. I agree with you that the poem shows the stresses of trying to maintain the truth of a transcendent ideal, but I don't know that it is therefore an example of De Manian deconstruction, for a work of literature could show such stress about something that we regarded as true. Kay Stockholder ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 17:59:46 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0005 The Death of Dame Judith Anderson Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 5. Tuesday, 7 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Date: Tuesday, January 7, 1992 Subject: The Death of Dame Judith Anderson [Ed. Note: Doubtless many other SHAKSPEReans have already heard the sad news of the death of Dame Judith Anderson at age 93, but as a small tribute to the great actress I reproduce here (without permission) the obituary from the *Los Angeles Times* (as reprinted in the local *Hamilton Spectator*). -- k.s.] Actress played classic and campy roles: Dame Judith Anderson dead at 93 Dame Judith Anderson will be remembered as one of the last grande dames of the world's stages and films. The Australian-born actress, whose potent portrayals of complex and tormented women, died Friday. The quintessential Medea, Lady Macbeth and the obsessively deranged Mrs. Danvers of *Rebecca* was 93. The tragedienne, whose gifts vastly exceeded the handy Hollywood label of "character actress," had been living near Santa Barbara, Calif. for more than 20 years. It was one of her last roles -- as the camp, imperiously dotty matriarch on the soap opera *Santa Barbara* -- that brought her dominating presence and luxuriantly marbled voice to a generation who had never seen her command the stage in the ardent, demanding roles she adored, from the works of Eugene O'Neill and Euripides to Tennessee Williams and Shakespeare. She died at home, said a spokesman. In August, she spent 18 days in a hospital for an undisclosed ailment. No cause for death was disclosed. With her signature interpretations of theatre's classic roles -- particularly Medea -- she was first among the dwindling ranks of grande dames of the stage. In her 70s, she even dared the role of Hamlet -- to no great reviews. Her stagecraft earned her the extravagant tributes of theatre lovers. In Berlin, they once strewed rose petals from her car to the stage door. In London, she performed in only two plays, but that was enough to earn her the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from the Queen [in 1960]. Her hypnotically malevolent housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, in the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic *Rebecca*, brought an Oscar nomination, and her two television performances as Lady Macbeth earned her twin Emmys. One of those shows alone played "to an audience that would have taken us 33 years to reach on the stage," she sighed. Although she insisted she hated the "cold, cold" eye of the camera, it was TV and movies that ultimately registered her face and voice with vaster audiences. In her 80s, Anderson cheerily signed on for her soap-opera role, several years after her grand-nephew teamed with Leonard Nimoy and talked her into playing a bat-eared Vulcan priestess in *Star Trek III*. But it was her theatre roles like Medea and Lady Macbeth that left the enduring impression of an actress forever stalking the stairs with bloodied daggers. "People always think of me as playing these terrible, terrible women, but I've really played very few of them -- Medea, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth... yes, Mrs. Danvers in the movies... but no one remembers the pleasant people I've played -- Mary, the mother of Jesus, and so many others." Still, it was as the stage's leading player of tragic, powerful villains that she often excelled. Although she once remarked wistfully that she wished she was beautiful, her features seemed custom-made for the onstage torments of O'Neill and Williams, and endured in memory long after the milkmaid miens of Hollywood faded. "There are so many strange, alluring, hateful, lovable, weird, tender, ugly women of history and of life," Anderson once said. "I want to delineate all of them." In a career that began when she stepped onstage in 1915 in an Australian touring company, she eventually performed opposite William Gillette, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Errol Flynn, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power and Ronald Reagan in the film *King's Row*, as the wife of the doctor who amputates Reagan's legs. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 10:20:06 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0006 Sonnet 116 and the Barque Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 6. Thursday, 9 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Wed, 08 Jan 92 10:20:55 EST From: Ronald Dwelle Subj: SHK 3.0004 Astral Metaphors and Wandering Barques (2) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 22:22:04 -0500 From: Ian F. MacInnes Subj: Comments on Sonnet 116 (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 92 10:20:55 EST From: Ronald Dwelle Subject: SHK 3.0004 Astral Metaphors and Wandering Barques A brief response to John Massa's spec on 116. It's unlikely "worth" and "height" refer to the barque, because of the masculine pronoun, "his." Not only was barque feminine then--in common use among sailors even today a barque would be referred to as "she." (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 22:22:04 -0500 From: Ian F. MacInnes Subject: Comments on Sonnet 116 RE: John Massa and Chet Vittitow's suggestions on Sonnet 116 The phrase "whose worth's unknown, although his highth be taken" *should* (grammatically) refer to the wandering barque, but I don't think it can, for a number of reasons. 1. The subject of the clause is masculine ("his highth") whereas ships are traditionally feminine *even* when they have a male name. Compare Merchant of Venice 1.1 But I should think of shallows and of flats, And see my wealthy *Andrew* [dock'd] in sand, Vailing her high top lower than her ribs To kiss her burial. Even if the barque is supposed to represent a male lover, the demands of the conceit would weigh against a masculine pronoun. 2. The "height" of a ship usually (I think) refers to the height of the masts rather than the amount of freeboard, although an unladen vessel *is* said to be "riding high". In any case, the freeboard of a vessel is not something that can be easily "taken". A boat may appear to be unladen when in fact it just has high sides, hence the ubiquity of loading lines on modern vessels. Also, if the metaphor is to hold, the weight and quantity of the "cargo" would correspond to the amount and value of the lover's love---but love itself is supposed to be the fixed star above. 3. In other Renaissance "ship" poems (cf Wyatt, Petrarch) where the ship is a metaphor for the lover, the ship is not mysterious. If anything, it's worth is too well known as is its plight. From the lover's point of view, love and the beloved are the radically unknown. The more I write about this, however, the more uncertain I become. The proximity of "whose" to "barque" is certainly confusing. Ian MacInnes ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 10:21:19 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0007 CTI Centre for Textual Studies *Resources Guide* Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 7. Thursday, 9 Jan 1992. Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 08:44:00 -0500 From: Stuart D. Lee Subject: CTI Centre for Textual Studies _Resources Guide_ Dear All, The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies is one of twenty subject-specific centres which exist to promote and support the use of computers in higher education teaching. The CTI Centre at Oxford is aimed at aiding academics in the subjects of Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Logic, Theology, and Theatre Arts and Drama. We are currently updating our Resources Guide which lists and describes available software. We would appreciate any information about further software which should be included in this Guide, available sources of electronic text, and any relevant articles published in 1991 for inclusion in the bibliography. The list of software covered in the March 1991 guide is as follows: AskSam 4.1a The Beowulf Workstation CCAT-PHI CD-ROM CDWord Cognate Language Tutor Collate Construe GOfer Guide Hypercard Hyperdoc 2.10 Ibycus Scholarly Computer Intermedia Lbase 5.0 LogicWorks MacLogic OED on CD Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) and Micro-OCP The Oxford Text Archive Oxford Text Searching System Pandora Past Masters Perseus STELLA TACT Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) WordCruncher 4.3 Please contact Caroline Davis at the following address with any suggestions. Many thanks in advance. Caroline Davis Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies University of Oxford Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 0865 273221 E-Mail: CAROLINE@UK.AC.VAX ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1992 08:45:17 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0008 New History-Related Groups Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 8. Saturday, 11 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 12:22:29 -0500 From: Joe T. Coohill Subj: History and Macintosh Society (2) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 19:09:21 CET From: Thomas Zielke <113355@DOLUNI1.BITNET> Subj: [Early Modern History List] (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 12:22:29 -0500 From: Joe T. Coohill Subject: History and Macintosh Society Humanists and Social Scientists who use Macintosh computers should take note of the History and Macintosh Society, an Apple-registered user group. "History" is very broadly defined, and HMS welcomes Art Historians, Literary Scholars, Philosophers, Political Scientists, etc. Members receive a quarterly newsletter and software disk. Currently HMS is exploring research programs, databases, and organization tools. Other activities include reviewing computer/academic books, teaching and grading programs, and discussing the place of computers in humanistic and social research. The HMS newsletter package is not available on-line. For more information, write: HMS 734 Elkus Walk #201 Goleta CA 93117-4151 USA PS - HMS is always looking for contributors to its newsletter. If you've found an interesting and productive way to use the Mac, let us know! (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 19:09:21 CET From: Thomas Zielke <113355@DOLUNI1.BITNET> Subject: [Early Modern History List] [Ed. note: The following announcement was submitted to HISTOWNR (a conference for editors of History-related lists) by Thomas Zielke, forwarded to C18-L by Kevin Berland, and finally forwarded to FICINO by Germaine Warkentin. -- k.s.] NEW LIST ANNOUNCEMENT As of today, January 3, 1992, a new discussion forum has opened for the discussion of Early Modern History. EMHIST-L will discuss everything that is of interest for scholars and students of the period from ca. 1500 up to 1800, no matter what special region or topic is brought up. To subscribe, send the command SUB EMHIST-L to LISTSERV@RUTVM1. If you have any questions or problems, please notify the list owner, 113355@DOLUNI1. Sincerely yours, Thomas Zielke Historisches Seminar Universit{t Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-W-2900 Oldenburg ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1992 08:46:23 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0009 Re: Shakespearean Graphics Query Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 9. Saturday, 11 Jan 1992. Date: Fri, 10 Jan 92 09:54:31 EST From: Chris Sullivan Subject: A: Shakespearean Graphics Files? Dear SHAKESPEReans: This is my first contribution, and I don't know whether this mail address is going to work or not, but here goes... Ken Steele writes [in SHK 2.0312]: >Here's something we haven't discussed here, *ever*: are there any >accessible computer graphics of Shakespearean portraits, signatures, >facsimiles, productions, playhouses, etc. in any graphics format? >(I can make use of .GIF, .TIFF, .CGM, .PCX, .CDR, .MAC, etc. etc.) > >All I have is a not-terribly-good .PCX of what looks like Burbage's >portrait of Shakespeare. I'd like to be able to incorporate graphics >into hand-outs, collages, letterheads, and greeting cards using >PageMaker or Corel Draw. If anyone knows of graphics files available >on the network, or has a few at home on diskette, I'd like to talk to >you about them. I hadn't expected to have anything to contribute EVER let alone so soon, but on my travels looking for the address of this mailing list I used the wonderful resource at McGill called "archie". archie apparently runs around the worldwide Internet looking for files on anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol - a TCP/IP Internet protocol: anonymous means you don't have to have an account - you just use the user ID "anonymous"), and keeps up a database of what is "out there". I ran the command: archie shakespeare archie looked in its database for files or directories called "shakespeare". It found two of them, both files. One is some kind of dictionary (I didn't download it). The other is a very nice raster graphic file for Sunview. I now have it on the background of my screen. It is a picture of what looks to me like a family crest, with the letters WS near the top, and a motto at the bottom "NON SANZ DROIT". I wish I had a family crest of my own for my screen, but for now this will do. If you need other than a Sun rasterfile, and can't convert it yourself, send me mail and I might be able to supply your native format. The easiest thing for me is to uuencode and mail it, but other arrangements can be made as well. Perhaps Ken Steele might arrange to make it available on the file server? The output from archie was: Host phloem.uoregon.edu Location: /pub/Sun4/lib/dictionaries FILE -rwxr--r-- 5608 Jul 12 00:28 shakespeare Host slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com Location: /pub/pix/bkgnd FILE -rw-r--r-- 96562 Nov 16 1988 shakespeare "slopoke" had the raster file. Chris Sullivan Gandalf Data Ltd. chris@gandalf.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 19:10:48 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0010 Qs: Shakespeare's Correspondence; Elizabethan Portrait Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 10. Tuesday, 14 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 16:23:00 -0500 Subj: Shakespeare's Correspondence From: John Massa (2) From: Richard Abrams Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 09:44:51 -0500 Subj: Ficino: 16th-C portrait? (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 16:23:00 -0500 Subject: Shakespeare's Correspondence From: John Massa Is there any evidence for Shakespeare having written a letter to anyone? The biographies of him that I have read do not mention any, as far as I can remember. If not, does anyone know of any other correspondence among or involving English playwrights during Shakespeare's lifetime? If there is no evidence of Shakespeare's correspondence, I am trying to understand whether I should be surprised about this or not. One would think that a man of letters would be writing them too, and that there would be at least some indirect evidence, if not the letters themselves. Any insights out there? (No, I am not a secret agent for the Earl of Oxford Fan Club.) John Massa John-Massa@UIOWA.EDU (2)--------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Abrams Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 09:44:51 -0500 Subject: Ficino: 16th-C portrait? [Ed. Note: The following query is reproduced from FICINO, 13 January 1992, because it seems of relevance to SHAKSPER. -- k.s.] I am trying to decipher a British miniature portrait of perhaps the late 1590s. The gentleman-sitter wears a high-ruff collar and a black cloak or tunic, with a row of barely-visible black buttons in front. Several inches to the right of the buttons there descends a black cord or braid. Does this costume say anything to anybody? I'm particularly interested in that cord, which appears to me ceremonial in function, perhaps the mark of membership in some society. Also odd is the contrast between the high collar and the informal, round-shouldered, even lump- ish cloak. (2) Presumably, it would be possible to date the sitter from the unusual collar, since fashions in lace collars came and went, I suppose, in short cycles. Can anyone recommend a reference book on lace collars in Eliza- bethan England? Thank you for any help you can provide. Prof. Richard Abrams Dept. of English University of Southern Maine, Portland (207)-772-6990 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 19:34:01 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0011 R: Elizabethan Portraiture Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 11. Wednesday, 15 Jan 1992. Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 13:19:00 -0500 From: D.A.Bank@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: SHK 3.0010 Qs: ...Elizabethan Portrait Richard Abrams best help on that "black cord or braid" is likely to be Roy Strong's 2 vols on Eliz. and Jacobean portraits. Attributes of sitters were conventionally cued in the period, and there is helpful prefatory material on what the main conventions were. I would strongly advise Prof. Abrams to send a photograph of the miniature to the National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. Their comments will be helpful. Shurleyker's "Book of the Needle" (early 17th c.) is a lace pattern-book and I think the most helpful in getting a grip on this rather arcane subject. The trick is to learn to "read off" the Strong collars one against another, and against the Book of the Needle. That way the patterns become less varied than they seemed initially, and one becomes rather less hopeful about dating via collars alone. There is a copy of the Book of the Needle in the library of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Try also "Needlework" in RSTC vol 2. David Bank University of Glasgow, Scotland. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 16:48:02 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0012 Mountjoy & Sonnets; Jonson & *JC*; Eliz. Portraiture Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 12. Thursday, 16 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 15:58:01 -0500 From: Tim.Bowden@p0.f509.n216.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Bowden) Subj: Sonnets and history - a speculation (2) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 16:04:47 -0500 From: Tim.Bowden@p0.f509.n216.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Bowden) Subj: 400-year-old Slight! (3) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 09:53:00 -0500 From: D.A.Bank@vme.gla.ac.uk Subj: Re: SHK 3.0011 R: Elizabethan Portraiture (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 15:58:01 -0500 From: Tim.Bowden@p0.f509.n216.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Bowden) SHAKSPER%clovis.FIDONET.ORG@husc6.BITNET (SHAKSPER) Subject: Sonnets and history - a speculation The Sonnets were written, it says here, during the plague years, 1592-4. The first definite mention is by Meres in 1598 ("Shakespeare's sugared sonnets among his private friends.." were not numbered or otherwise identified, of course), and they were entered into the Stationer's Register in 1609. The young lord addressed by the Poet in the first of the Sonnets is generally assumed to be the Earl of Southampton. However, there is some resonance in the legal history of this period I find extremely interesting. In 1602, Shakespeare was apparently living in the house of one Christopher Mountjoy, a wigmaker, and was pressed into service to persuade a young Mountjoy apprentice named Stephen Belott that he should marry the only Mountjoy daughter, Mary. This mission, according to testimony taken in 1612 on default of the dowery, the Bard duly undertook. Is it just barely possible, if not at all probable, that the form of the inducement to marry by the Bard was the Sonnet, and that several of these became associated with the canon of Shakespeare some seven years later? If not, isn't idle gossip fun, though? tcbowden@clovis.FIDONET.ORG (2)------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 16:04:47 -0500 From: Tim.Bowden@p0.f509.n216.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Bowden) SHAKSPER%clovis.FIDONET.ORG@husc6.BITNET (SHAKSPER) Subject: 400-year-old Slight! This one has intrigued me, and I thought my friends here would be able to offer insight if anyone could. It concerns one Ben Jonson, and specifically a comment he passed, presumably around 1630, in his posthumously-published _Timber, or Discoveries_. He remarks on the comment of the players on Shakespeare's speed of composition and lack of editing, and sees that as a fault. "Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him `Caesar, thou dost me wrong!'-he replied, `Caesar did never wrong but with just cause,' and such like, which were ridiculous." Now, the scene in _Julius Caesar_ does not read like that, and has not since probably the folio edition of 1623. In the scene in question, it is Metellus Cimber pleading for his banished brother, rather than himself, to a Caesar `as constant as the Northern Star' who would have them all "Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause Will he be satisfied." Seems supremely logical. The question is: was the passage mis-read by a hyper-critical Jonson (had many conceptual differences with the Bard, beginning with Shakespeare's departure from Classical regimen), or a brilliant re- editing by the Poet after an earlier chiding by Ben? tcbowden@clovis.FIDONET.ORG (3)-------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 09:53:00 -0500 From: D.A.Bank@vme.gla.ac.uk Subject: Re: SHK 3.0011 R: Elizabethan Portraiture For Richard Abrams: the Shorleyker book is listed in RSTC as item no. 21826, published 1624, 'But once published before'. The title begins "A schole-house, for the needle." In the STC period, it appears to have been three, perhaps four times printed. David Bank ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 10:33:55 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0013 Welcome! to Centre d'Etudes Elisabethaines Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 13. Tuesday, 21 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Subject: Welcome! to the Centre d'Etudes Elisabethaines Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 10:01:05 EST I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome the newest group of SHAKSPEReans, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Elisabethaines in Montpellier, France. Dr. Luc Borot, business editor of Cahiers Elisabethains and member of the Societe Francaise Shakespeare, is in charge of exploring all the possibilities of the Centre's newly acquired email facilities, but other members of the Centre will be joining us here on SHAKSPER in the near future. Dr. Borot has indicated the Centre's willingness to share electronic resources with SHAKSPEReans, including indexes of *Cahiers Elisabethains*, and I hope that this marks the beginning of a mutually-beneficial electronic relationship! (Incidentally, I will shortly post an announcement of another valuable resource on the SHAKSPER Fileserver -- stay tuned!) The complete text of Dr. Borot's message can be found in the current biography file (SHAKS-04 BIOGRAFY), but his summary of current research at the Centre deserves a wider audience, and I quote it here: The research in progress here is currently on: Analysis of theatre performance, elaboration of a theoretical model in semiotics through the rhetorical system (JM Maguin & Patricia Dorval), The body and wound symbolism in Sh's Roman plays (Marie Christine Munoz under supervision of JM Maguin), Editorial problems (Jean Fuzier, editor and translator of the Sonnets & Charles W Whitworth, editor of The Comedy of Errors for the New Oxford), popular mentalities and representations in the problem plays and tragedies (S. Lemonnier under supervision of F Laroque), idealism and machiavelianism in the History plays (L.Borot and MA students), humanism in Shakespeare, humanism in Hobbes (L BOROT), the Levellers in the tradition of popular festivals and riots (L Borot and F Laroque), national identity and its language from the Henrician Reformation to the Restoration (L Borot and JP Moreau of Limoges), edition of musical treatises of and around John Case (P Iselin, of Limoges). Dr. Luc Borot ELI16@FRMOP22.Bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 10:34:45 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0014 1992 Stratford (Ontario) Festival - Juliet Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 14. Tuesday, 21 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Subject: 1992 Stratford (Ontario) Festival Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 9:54:39 EST A number of SHAKSPEReans have written to ask whether I know why Stratford (Ontario) didn't seem to have cast the role of Juliet in the upcoming production of *Romeo and Juliet* to be directed by Richard Monette. Until yesterday, I didn't know, but here's the substance of a Stratford press release which explains it: Juliet will be played by internationally-known actress Megan Follows, best known for her award-winning performances as Anne Shirley in CBC's TV-movies "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea: The Sequel." Follows has been acting since the age of nine in theatre, film, and television, including "Facts of Life", "Termini Station", and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (at the Williamstown Festival in Massachusetts). The press release does not indicate any previous experience playing Shakespeare, but Follows will be supported by acclaimed director Richard Monette and Barbara Bryne (Nurse), Antoni Cimolino (Romeo), Colm Feore (Mercutio), and Bernard Hopkins (Friar Lawrence). The production promises to be one of the best this season, and with Follows in a leading role it will no doubt also be a box-office success. You can now order 1992 Stratford Festival brochures by calling (519) 271-4040 or writing: Festival Brochure, P.O. Box 520, Stratford, Ontario, Canada N5A 6V2. Tickets go on sale February 22nd, and *Romeo and Juliet* previews begin May 7th. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 10:35:38 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0015 R: Elizabethan Portraiture Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 15. Tuesday, 21 Jan 1992. From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: Portrait Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 8:01:39 EST One person who knows a good deal about Elizabethan dress is Dr. Grant McCracken of the Royal Ontario Museum here in Toronto. He has gone on to other work (I think he is their curator of modern artifacts or something) but he published several articles in anthropological journals a few years ago on Tudor dress and its significance. The ROM is at 100 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, but I don't know the postal code. Richard McCoy at Queen's College, New York, might also have some kind of handle on this; he has done a lot of work at the College of Heralds. Germaine Warkentin [Ed. Note: This item is reproduced from FICINO, 17 January 1992. -- k.s.] ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1992 22:47:38 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0016 Hypertext Shakespeare on the SHAKSPER Fileserver Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 16. Wednesday, 22 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Date: Tuesday, January 21, 1992 Subject: Hypertext Shakespeare on the SHAKSPER Fileserver Clifford Skoog, of El Cerrito California, has developed a Hypertext edition of the complete works of Shakespeare for the IBM DOS environment which is worth a look. The complete works are available for only $40, but a demonstration package including the complete texts of six history plays (1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, and Richard II) is available for free from the SHAKSPER Fileserver, and can be freely redistributed. (Instructions below). The demo version requires any IBM compatible with 1.5mb free hard disk space and a mouse. Even if you don't use the interface, you'll get text files of the six plays in electronic form. The program allows fairly complicated searches on the corpus, using speaker, play, genre, and date (among others) as possible parameters. Here's the description from the introductory text files: "PC-Shakespeare is more than a computerized concordance, rather it is a tool to think about and organize ones thoughts concerning the whats, whys and hows of all of Shakespeare's works, as well as draw out specfic contents and subjects therein. It should be broadly useful to writers, teachers, students, scholars and those in the dramatic arts, as well as anyone who wishes to use what is new in our world to investigate what is best in it. [...] "PC-Shakespeare embodies many characteristics of what has come to be called 'hypertext', and some new ideas as well. It has an attractive, convenient and internally consistent mouse-driven interface with a built-in help system. [...] "Finds are made available as complete lines, with or without surrounding context. These lines are collected in editable lists of quotations, and each line can serve as an immediate point of entry to its place in the larger text. Each text, in turn can bring back to quotation lists lines, contexts, or entire speeches with extreme ease. All speeches of any individual character may also be collected by a single selection into a quotation list. Lines and groups of lines in the lists may be moved within or between lists or sent to an external file. They may also be sorted by a number of criteria including definable sequences of plays. Records may be kept and commented (as may the quotations themselves), of previous searches both as to the search strings and the texts searched (and/or sorted), and these may be reinstantiated or edited. All of these facilities, and it is fair to say that there are quite a few more, are available in close and convenient proximity to each other." The PC-Shakespeare Hypertext Demo is available in 26 separate files on the SHAKSPER Fileserver, but SHAKSPEReans can obtain it simply by requesting PCSHAK PACKAGE SHAKSPER. Please Note that all 26 files are UUencoded for network transfers -- you will require the program UUdecode.exe on your personal computer in order to convert these files to executables. Special thanks are due to SHAKSPERean Joseph Urban for UUencoding and uploading these files. More detailed information about the package, and ordering instructions by mail, are available in the file PCSHAK INFO SHAKSPER on the SHAKSPER Fileserver. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fileserver Procedures: SHAKSPEReans can retrieve the complete package from the SHAKSPER Fileserver by issuing the interactive command, "TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO GET PCSHAK PACKAGE SHAKSPER". If your network link does not support the interactive "TELL" command, or if Listserv rejects your request, then send a one-line mail message (without a subject line) to LISTSERV@utoronto, reading "GET PCSHAK PACKAGE SHAKSPER". For a complete list of files available, send the command "GET SHAKSPER FILES SHAKSPER" to obtain an annotated index. For further information, consult the appropriate section of your SHAKSPER GUIDE, or contact the editor, or . ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 22:20:05 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0017 Q: Sh'n Prod'ns in Ohio/NY/Penn Region? Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 17. Thursday, 23 Jan 1992. Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 13:11:00 -0500 From: Kevin Berland Subject: Help! I still have time to rearrange my syllabus for this semester -- can anybody on the list tell me anything of Shakespeare in production between now and May Day, on the Pittsburgh/Cleveland geographical axis (but willing to go west to Toledo, Ohio, or north-east to Buffalo ["beau fleuve"] or Toronto?? Kevin Berland, Penn State ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 09:00:16 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0018 Mac Text Analysis?; Cahiers Elisabethains; PC-Shakespeare Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 18. Friday, 24 Jan 1992. (1) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 11:49:00 -0500 From: Luc Borot Subj: [Text Analysis on Macintosh; Cahiers Elisabethaines] (2) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 08:39 EST From: Joseph Urban Subj: PC-Shakespeare [needs no mouse] (1)-------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 11:49:00 -0500 From: Luc Borot Subject: [Text Analysis on Macintosh; Cahiers Elisabethaines] Dear SHAKSPEReans, My first contribution to discussion will be a question. Someone in the Elizabethan Centre in Montpellier is preparing a review of the Oxford Electronic Shakespeare, for which we have received a review-copy of the Macintosh set of disks. We are slightly disap- pointed to hear from OUP that there is no software for text analysis like Micro OCP for work on the Mac. Have you heard of an equivalent of Word-cruncher or Micro OCP for the Mac, available or being prepared? I have asked the service in charge of Electronic editions at OUP and they say they won't adapt OCP, and the Apple engineers who replied to my question on the Apple France server don't seem to know what it is or even to bother to ask someone who may know. If it does not exist, it should be developed, shouldn't it? Thank you for your help. I read in the logbooks which were sent me on 1st subscribing that there were enquiries about multiple Ariels in Tempest productions before Greenaway's. The answer may be in the play-reviews of Cahiers Elisabethains. When the indexes are sent, and made available on SHAKSPER, check for our reviews of the Tempest. As the journal is in many libraries (and also for sale from Montpellier) we may provide you, or you may look for yourselves. Current subscription price: FF180,00 (French Francs only, sorry) and 140,00 in France. Separate issues: 85,00. For you, current year and 1991 for the price of your first sub.. 2 issues: April and October. Any volunteers to review Shakespeare productions in Canada may send papers (1-2 pp. in English preferably) through e-mail here, or to our address sent by K. Steele with our bios earlier this week. We shall send reply as to acceptance as soon as possible. Thank you if you help. Luc Borot, (2)-------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 08:39 EST From: Joseph Urban Subject: PC-Shakespeare [needs no mouse] [...] Others might like to know that even though they do not - or do not yet - have a mouse, it's still possible to evaluate the [PC-Shakespeare Hypertext] program. One would use one's arrow keys on the numeric pad instead, entering where one wishes to go or do what one wants to do. A bit cumbersome and certainly, I'd think, a great incentive for anyone to go out and get themselves a mouse. :-)) [...] Joseph [Ed. Note: Joseph Urban has kindly pointed out that I made a mouse sound like a hardware requirement for PC-Shakespeare, and it's not. I have edited the above from private correspondence, because it's a point worth making. It also might be worth pointing out that the six history plays included in the package will probably be useful to those on other platforms, too. -- k.s.] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 17:08:51 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0019 1992 RSA Conference in Stanford Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 19. Friday, 24 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Date: Friday January 24, 1992 Subject: Preliminary Programme for RSA in Stanford Attached is the preliminary programme and registration form for the 1992 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, to be held March 26-8 in Stanford, California. SHAKSPEReans will be particularly interested in the papers given by our co-participants Hardin Aasand, Bruce Avery, Jean R. Brink, and Stephen Orgel (hope I didn't miss anyone!) and in the Shakespearean topics, touching on *Othello*, *Merchant of Venice*, *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, the Histories, and Marlowe. As always, any errors in this transcription are my own, and the RSA may or may not be surprised if they receive print-outs from this electronic version of their registration form (but I'm sure they'll accept your cheque anyway). This file will be stored on the SHAKSPER Fileserver as 1992RSA PROGRAM SHAKSPER, should anyone find a belated need for it. -- k.s. Renaissance Society of America 1992 Annual Meeting "Cross-Cultural Encounters" Stanford University, California March 26-28 1992 Preliminary Programme Thursday March 26, Session 1 (2:30-4:00pm): Cultural and Religious Encounters in the Mediterranean World: Mary Elizabeth Perry, "The Subversive Word: Language and Literature, Christians and Muslims in Golden Age Spain" Elaine G. Rosenthal, "Paradoxical Relations: Jews and Christians in Early Modern Florence" Jonathan Reiss, "Luca Signorelli's Acts of the Antichrist and the Christian Encounter with the Infidel" Contextualizing Science: Anna Maria Busse Berger, "Musical Proportions and Arithmetic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance" Bette Talvacchia, "From Mythology to Science: Estienne's Anatomy" Eileen Reeves, "Who Read Early Modern Maps?" Encounters, Exchanges, and Enclosure: Nuns and Lay Society in Renaissance Tuscany: Sharon Strocchia, "The Politics of the Pen: Literacy and Social Exchange in Florentine Convents" Ann Roberts, "'Le fenestre della morte': The Parlatorio in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" Elissa Weaver, "The Cloister and the World: Social, Economic, and Cultural Exchange in Tuscany, 1500-1650" Craig Monson, "With Hearts Outside their Cloisters, to Please the World with their Songs" Thursday March 26, Session 2 (4:15-5:45pm): Woodrow Borah and the *Ecole de Berkeley*: Murdo J. MacLeod, "A Latin Americanist's Perspective" Richard Herr, "A Europeanist's Perspective" Richard Salvucci, "A Personal View" The Color Black: Constructions of the Other in Renaissance Texts: Hardin Aasand, "Making Blackness Familiar: *Othello* and the Staging of Alienation" Paul H.D. Kaplan, "Black Africans in Italy in the 1490s: Servitude and its Representation" Heather Dubrow, "Foreign Currencies: John Collop and the 'Ugly Beauty' Tradition" Humanist Encounters with the Transalpine Other: Ingrid D. Rowland, "Revenge of the Huns, 1504" Julia Haig Gaisser, "Pope Adrian VI and the Roman Academy" Kenneth Gouwens, "Roman Humanist Perceptions of Northern 'Barbarians'" Christianizing Jewish Hebraica in a Confessional Age: Action and Reaction: Jerome Friedman, "Protestant *Hebraica*: Orthodox and Heterodox Use of Jewish Sources" Ronald Delph, "Agostino Steuco and the Use of the *Hebraica veritas* in the Counter-Reformation" Michael T. Walton & Phyllis J. Walton, "Abravanel and Sforno, Jewish Biblical Exegesis in the Renaissance" Plenary Session (8:00pm): Exploration and Discovery: Norman Thrower, "Cartographic Images of the New World" Stephen Orgel, "Elizabeth Surveyed" Reception Friday March 27, Session 1 (8:45-10:15am): Enclosing Nature: Carroll Brentano, "'The World in a Chamber': The Founding of Padua's Botanical Garden" Claudia Lazzaro, "A Sixteenth-Century Medici Menagerie in the Grotto of Cosimo's Villa at Castello" Joy Kenseth, "Nature's Marvels Displayed" Crypto-Jews and the Construction of the Other in Renaissance Culture: Marc Shell, "Skepticism in Renaissance Spain and France: The Judeo- Christian Spectrum" M. Lindsay Kaplan, "'These Be Christian Husbands': Jews, Conversion, and Marriage in Marlowe and Shakespeare" Jim Shapiro, "Shakespeare and the Jewish Question" From the Law of Conquest to the Conquest of Law: the Politico-Institutional Organization of the "New World": Aldo Mazzacane, "From the Law of Conquest to Conquest of the Law: Early Juridical Treatises about America" Antonio M. Hespanha, "Images of the Orient and of the West in the European Juridical Order in the Early Modern Period" Diego Quaglioni, "The Discovery of America and the Redefinition of the Law of the People: Bodin, Reader of Ramus" His Other Half: Amazons and the Construction of Gender in the Renaissance: Cristelle L. Baskins, "Close Encounters: Amazon Battles on Tuscan Wedding Furniture" Caroline Springer, "Armor and the Construction of Masculinity in the Renaissance" Randall Anderson, "Ariosto's *Orlando Furioso*, Spenser's *Faerie Queene* and Amazons" Kate Schwartz, "Falling off the Edge of the World: Ralegh Among the Amazons" Mapping England: Jonathan Crewe, "Cultural Noninteractions: Spenser's View" Richard Helgerson, "Nation or Estate?: Ideological Conflict in the Early Modern Mapping of England" Shankar Raman, "Maps and Mapping: The Production of Colonialist Space" Bruce Avery, "Topography and Topology: The Dynamics of Representation in Narrative and Maps" Friday March 27, Session 2 (10:30am-12:00): On the Quincentenary of Piero della Francesca: James Banker, "The Paintings of Piero della Francesca and his Master in the 1430s" Thomas Martone, "Piero della Francesca's Resurrection, the Quintessential Painting of the Renaissance" Michael Baxandall, "The Eloquence of Piero della Francesca: Asyndeton, Apocope, Hendiadys" European Voyages of Discovery into Canada: Jane Couchman, "Perceptions of Tribal Diversity in the Accounts of Canada by Jaques Cartier and Andre Thevet" Maxwell Ian Cameron, "'Bloody and Man-Eating People': Some Reflections on the Accounts of Martin Frobisher's Voyages to Canada" Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, "Textual Dehumanization and the Inventory Process: The Postulates of Colonial Discourse in Champlain's Texts" History and Heterogeneity: Versions of the Other: Robert Ulery & Patricia DeMartino, "Sallust's Africa: Renaissance Commentaries Before and After 1492" David Marsh, "Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Voyages and Veracity in Exploration Narratives" Albert Ascoli, "Liberating the Tomb: Difference and Death in *Gerusalemme Liberata*" Eastward Ho: Asians and Africans in English Renaissance Literature: Bashir El-Beshti, "Orientalism and the Construction of English Renaissance Culture" Ann Marie McEntee, "Binging and Purging: African and European Amazons and their Appetites" Margo Hendricks, "Obscured by Dreams, or a Brief Account of Race in *A Midsummer Night's Dream*" Science and Court Culture: Jay Tribby, "Gawk Like an Egyptian: Rehearsing Cleopatra's Death in the Courts of Florence and Paris" Pamela Smith, "Science and Symbols: Alchemical Transmutation at the Hapsburg Court in Vienna" Mario Biagioli, "Science and Misogyny: The Accademia dei Lincei, 1603-1631" Friday March 27, Session 3 (2:30-4:00pm): Early English-Irish Encounters: Perspectives on Spenser's *View of Ireland*: Annabel Patterson, "Anthropology vs Necessity in Spenser's *View*" Jean R. Brink, "The Munster and Ulster 'Plantations': Edmund Spenser and Sir John Davies" Curtis C. Breight, "Patterns Established in Colonial Ireland: Elizabethan Militarism as Domestic Control" Cross-Collecting: Curiosities, Perceptions, and Responses: Paula Findlen, "Theaters of Nature: Collecting and the Pilgrimages of Science in Early Modern Italy" Joneath Spicer, "Curiosities as Art: The Cultural Limits of Perception" Thomas Kaufmann, "Curiosities and Scientific Investigation: Response to the Kunstkammer" The Practice of Utopia: Renaissance Ideals and the Experience of Other Cultures in European Expansion: Adriano Prosperi, "Missionaries and the Use of the 'Galateo' for Cultural Conquest" Giuseppe Imbruglia, "Civilization through Utopia: Jesuit Ideals and Jesuit Missions in South America" Ann Katherine Isaacs, "Utopia and Monarchia: Renaissance Administrative Ideals, European and American Experience in Charles V's Empire" Claudio Zanier, "Different Paths of Encounter: European Adaptation to Asian Realities" Cultural Encounters Through Time and Space: Jyotsna Singh, "Critical Encounters: Can Renaissance Studies Engage Cultural Studies?" Ron Strickland, "What Does He Mean 'Us'?: The Crisis of the Euro- African Subject in Leo Africanus" Jennifer Lee Carrell, "Transforming Translations: Imagining Geographical, Physical and Linguistic Clashes in the 1560s" Cultures, Women and Discourse in the Early Modern Period: Stephanie Jed, "Twinning in the Early Modern Period: The Writings of Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" Kim Hall, "'I would rather wish to be a Blackmoor': Race, Colonialism and the Female Subject" Jane Tylus, "Colonizing Nymphs and Peasants: Pastoral Drama in the Italian Renaissance" Friday March 27, Session 4 (4:15-5:45pm): Recent Trends Panel: New Perspectives on the New World: Walter Mignolo, "The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Colonization and the Discontinuity of the Classical Tradition" Helen Nader, "The End of the Old World Then and Now" Evening: A Feast of Tapas and Spanish Wines Judith Frankel Singing Sephardic Music from Renaissance Spain The Whole Noyse: A Renaissance Music Ensemble Saturday March 28, Session 1 (9:00-10:30am): Urbi et Orbi: Paradigms of Urban History in the Renaissance: A Roundtable in Honor of Gene Brucker: Randolph Starn (Chair) Thomas Brady, Jr. Jonathan Dewald Judith C. Brown Helen Nader Going Baroque: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Spanish Renaissance: Anne Cruz, "Cross-Cultural Encounters between Spanish *picaros* and English Rogues" Adrienne Martin, "Cervantes' Pretended Aunt Transgresses" Diana de Armas Wilson, "Cross-Cultural Encounters between Cervantes and the Amerindians" Lester Brothers, "Musical Learning in Seventeenth-Century Mexico: The Case of Francisco Lopez Capillas" Renaissance Drama and the History of Imperialism: Dympna Callaghan, "Re-reading *The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queen of Jewry*: Postcolonialism, Race, Gender, Class" Lorraine Helms, "The Work of Death: Gender Mourning and Colonialism in Shakespeare's Histories" Katharine Eisaman Maus, "Machiavels and Family Men" Constance Jordan, "Legitimating Rules: Political Authority and the Native Subject" Accommodation and Communication: Jesuits in China and Japan: Theodore Foss, "Transmission of Text: The Use and Abuse of Languages in Jesuits' Translations to and from China" James Ketelaar, "Accommodation Denied: The Failure of the Jesuits Mission in Japan" Ronnie Hsia, "Tales of Conversion in Jesuit-Chinese Encounters of the Sixteenth Century" Women in the Renaissance: Diana Robin, "Writing the Female Self: Cassandra Fedele and Autobiography" Margaret Rosenthal, "A Venetian Body Politic: Patronage and Prostitution in an Age of Conspicuous Consumption" Jennifer Rondeau, "The Republic of Letters: Women, Woman, and Humanism in Renaissance Italy" Saturday March 28 (10:45am): Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: Natalie Zemon Davis, "Gifts and Misunderstandings: Forms of New World Exchange" Saturday March 28 (12:00-1:30pm): Roundtable: Presenting the Cultures of the Renaissance in the High School and the College Curriculum: Robert E. Proctor (Chair) Maryanne Horowitz (Discussant) Participants: Representatives from the world of textbook publishing, high school and community college teachers, and educational consultants. Saturday March 28, Session 2 (2:15-3:45pm): Lorenzo de' Medici and Encounters with the Past: Roberto Bizzochi, "The Search for a Nobler Past" John Paoletti, "The Antiquarianism of Lorenzo de' Medici" Konrad Eisenbichler, "Lorenzo de' Medici and the 'sacra rappresentazione'" Mythic, Historical, and Apocalyptic Time in Europe and the New World: Cornell Fleischer, "The Beginning of the End: Apocalypticism and Imperialism in the Mediterranean, 1492-1550" Sabine MacCormack, "Prophecy and Exegesis in Golden Age Spain" Frank Salomon, "The Renaissance Agendas of a Peruvian 'Native Chronicle' (Huarochiri, 1608?)" Sexuality in the Old World and the New: Valerie Traub, "The (In)Significance of 'Lesbian' Desire in Early Modern England" Guy Poirier, "Sin and Hermaphroditism; Morality and Imagination in French Renaissance Accounts" Gary Spear, "The Law of Desire: Civilization, 'Government,' and New World Sexualities" The Uses of Religious Institutions in the Old World and the New: Ronald Weissman, "From Confraternity to Congregation: European Confraternities Between Renaissance and Counter Reformation" Murdo McLeod, "The European Confraternity and the Mesoamerican Colonial Indian: Continuities and Change" Pauline Moffitt Watts, "The Gods of the Missionaries: Monasticism, Resistance, and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" The Construction of the East: Sujata G. Bhatt, "Passages to India, Passages About India: European and Iranian Travellers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" Nina Berman, "German Travel Literature of the Early Renaissance and Arabic Travel Reports" Richmond Barbour, "Representing England at the Court of the Great Mogul" Saturday March 28, Session 3 (4:00-5:30pm): Reading Renaissance Readers: Philological Practice and Textual Interpretation in the Renaissance: Carol Quillen, "Inventing a Tradition: Augustine and Petrarch's Genealogy of Humanism" Anthony Grafton, "Leon Battista Alberti: Attitudes Toward Reading and Reading the Attitudes" Kristin Zapalac, "'Sharper than any Two-Edged Sword': Philology and Community in the Sixteenth Century" Magic and Madness in the Renaissance: Katherine Rowe, "That Curious Engine: Agency, Witchcraft and Main- de-Gloire" Laura Levine, "Magic as Theater, Theater as Magic" Gary Tomlinson, "Two Views of Poetic Furor at the End of the Renaissance: Towards a Rehabilitation of Foucault's Early- Modern Archaeology" Representing Mexican Culture: Eloise Quiones Keber, "A Twice Told Tale: The Conquest of Mexico in Sixteenth Century Illustrations" Ramon A. Gutierrez, "A Gendered History of the Conquest of America: A View from New Mexico" Mary R. O'Neil, "A Mexican Indian Before the Roman Inquisition: Modena, 1628" The Other End of Self: Darcy Donahue, "Describing Difference: Friar Gaspar da Cruz' *Treatise of the Things of China*, 1569" Roberto J. Gonzales-Casanovas, "Muntaner's and Martorell's Narratives of Eastern Adventures: Byzantine History/Story as Myth and Propaganda" David Rosen, "Cultural Knots: Jews, Indians, Moors, Orientals, Spaniards and the Shaping of English Identity" Mary Fuller, "Spatializing History in the Renaissance: Models and Consequences" Jewish Communities After the Expulsion from Spain in 1492: Miriam Bodian, "The Biblical Hebrews as Early Modern Republicans: Some Views of Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jews" Anna Foa, "Spanish Jews in Italy" Jaime Contreras, "Conversos in Spain and in the New World" -------------------------Registration Form-------------------------------- Name: Address: Telephone: Early Registration Fee (before March 2, 1992) $55 _____ Late Registration Fee (after March 2, 1992) $65 _____ Student Registration Fee $15 _____ Box Lunch (Friday March 27) $10 _____ Tapas Feast (Friday March 27) $25 _____ Box Lunch (Saturday March 28) $10 _____ Parking Permit ($4 per day, send SASE) _____ Total Enclosed: _____ Please make cheques payable to RENAISSANCE ENCOUNTERS and mail to: Renaissance Conference Department of History Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 For further information, please contact: Judith C. Brown History Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 723-2758 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 17:29:19 -0500 Reply-To: Ken Steele Sender: Shakespeare Electronic Conference From: Ken Steele Subject: SHK 3.0020 PD *Comedy of Errors* now on the SHAKSPER Fileserver Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 20. Friday, 24 Jan 1992. From: Ken Steele Date: Friday January 24, 1992 Subject: PD *Comedy of Errors* on SHAKSPER Fileserver As many of you are no doubt aware, the SHAKSPER Fileserver is fast becoming a repository for a wide range of public domain electronic texts of Shakespeare. Special thanks to Tom Horton, who has submitted the "Cornmarket facsimile" of Thomas Hull's 1793 adaptation of the *Comedy of Errors*, which is now available as CORNMARK ERRORS SHAKSPER. (If anyone has public domain texts of Shakespeare, or conference papers or articles which might be of interest to SHAKSPEReans, please contact ksteele@epas.utoronto.ca). Following is a brief excerpt of the provenance information and the first few speeches of the text. -- k.s. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [This text is Thomas Hull's (1728-1808) adaptation of Shakespeare's play Comedy of Errors. The text was entered from the Cornmarket Press's 1971 facsimile of the 1793 published edition of this adaptation. It was entered by the staff of the (then) Edinburgh University Computing Center before 1982 as part of a research project involving Andrew Morton and Sidney Michaelson; the text was re-formatted with by Tom Horton in 1983. The book from which it was entered exists in the University of Edinburgh's main library; here is the on-line catalogue information on it: Call Number: .82233/S4 AUTHOR: Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 TITLE: The comedy of errors / [adapted by] Thomas Hull IMPRINT: London : Cornmarket Press 1971 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 50 p ; 19 cm NOTE: Facsimile reprint of the 1793 ed. OTHER AUTHORS: Hull, Thomas OTHER TITLES: The Comedy of errors CSN: ocm00977040 Tom Horton has submitted this e-text to the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference . It may be FREELY distributed for scholarly, educational, or literary purposes, so long as this paragraph remains intact, and no fee or copyright is claimed. Use of this text for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden.]