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Dinner theatre at the Middle Temple.(Twekfth Night allusions)
March 22, 2008... The Great Hall of the Middle Temple is a secular temple to Shakespeareans. There's more outside, for Shakespeare makes the pivotal scene of Part One of Henry VI take place in the Temple Garden (2.4). He imagines the quarrel of the roses to have started among a group of high-spirited...

Veterans against the Iliad: Troilus and Cressida at the Sound Theatre Company, Seattle.
March 22, 2008... A war launched under dubious premises, the promise of swift victory belied by a bloody quagmire, unrest seethes among the troops, bickering and resignations paralyze the brass: given the contemporary resonance of the above scenario, and Troilus and Cressida's growing notoriety in the late...

Revisiting religious rites in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Six years ago I published a note in the Newsletter in which I tried to prove that Shakespeare regularly avoided presenting religious rites (including baptisms, weddings, funerals, and coronations) on the stage by arranging to have them take place between the scenes or after the play ends, or...

A lifetime spent in the company of the Bard.(John W. Velz )(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scholar, teacher, theater person, lover of humanity and language, John W. Velz died on Sunday, November 16. A big man, his scholarship and teaching matched his size in their impact on all who knew him or read his work. This space was meant to carry an ad for...

Some speculative notes on Shakespeare's life in Stratford.(Report)
March 22, 2008... It used to be said confidently that Shakespeare returned to Stratford seldom and reluctantly once he had left for London and a career as actor and playwright. (1) This confident assumption has ignored the evidence that Shakespeare was a Stratford man all his life. He bought and sold property...