Shakespeare Newsletter articles from December 2006

Shakespeare Newsletter archives from December 2006

The three-text Hamlet of Arden 3: an edition for our time.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... A little over a century ago, in 1899, Edward Dowden inaugurated the Arden Shakespeare with his edition of Hamlet based on the Folio text. In 1982, nearly a century later and after decades of labor, Harold Jenkins produced his legendary...

The comic book Shakespeare, Part I.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... Shakespeare comics receive increasing scholarly attention, (1) but there is no history to put them into context. This article attempts to create that context so readers may understand how the different series began and what they are like....

Launcelot's and Huck's moral dilemmas.(Launcelot Gobbo , The Adventures of Huckleberry)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Richard Levin (State University of New York at Stony Book) In The Merchant of Venice, 2.2.1-32, the servant Launcelot Gobbo has a debate with himself about whether he should run away from Shylock, his master: The fiend is at mine...

Books for review.(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... Arnold, Oliver. The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Cheney, Patrick, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry. New York:...

"But I have that within which passeth show": Shakespeare's ambivalence toward his profession.
December 22, 2006... Brilliant stage craftsman though he was, there is evidence in the Sonnets to suggest that, paradoxically, Shakespeare disliked, even despised, his profession as actor and playwright. If we do not discount the presence of biographical elements...

Robert N. Watson's Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Robert. N. Watson. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 437 pp. This is a very learned, highly ruminative and allusive book ostensibly on the topic of the...

Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... (Paul Menzer, ed. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2006.) The pun of Paul Menzer's title could not be more apt: Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage is a long-awaited first volume of essays inspired by the indoor...

The Royal Shakespeare Company's "The Complete Works".(Theater review)
December 22, 2006... The Royal Shakespeare Company's "The Complete Works" began with Romeo and Juliet in April 2006 and ends in June 2007 with Ian McKellan in King Lear. (This production can be seen in New York, in September 2007, at the Brooklyn Academy of...

Margaret A. Tassi's The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... (Marguerite A. Tassi, The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2005.) This scholarly book discusses visual art and theater as visual art. One of...

Talking books with Samuel Crowl.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... Samuel Crowl helped me learn a valuable lesson, though he does not realize it. I was in his seminar on filmed Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) conference in Minneapolis, my first SAA seminar. My paper had what I...

Of Playbills and Title Pages.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Tiffany Stem concedes that while we know, from numerous references to playbills in early modern drama and other sources, that playbills were everywhere in Renaissance London, it is difficult to reconstruct what they looked like because they...

Borges and Shakespeare.(Jorge Luis Borges, William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... In an article in Spanish, Shlomy Mualem discusses the representation of Shakespeare in the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges' fiction and poetry and in two of Borges' prose essays. Mualem demonstrates that Borges' fascination with...

No Irishmen in Shakespeare.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Patricia Palmer's essay is less about what is in Shakespeare than about what isn't, and what furthermore isn't in any English Renaissance literature, even in an expanded canon which includes Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland....

Student performances, anti-theatricalism, and Coriolanus.
December 22, 2006... Eve Rachelle Sanders helpfully contextualizes the oft-noted metatheatrical elements of Coriolanus in early modern conversations about plays. She shows how a 1592 debate among Oxford professors regarding the morality of student productions,...

The Theater for a New Audience's Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta.(Theater review)
December 22, 2006... The Theatre for a New Audience presented a wonderful production of The Merchant of Venice under the skillful direction of Darko Tresnjak. From the moment one enters the theatre with its pure uncluttered set, three computer covers seem to hang...

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... (Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2005.) As its title suggests, Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello presents a variety of...

Moeller, Victor. Socrates Does Shakespeare: Seminars and Film.(Table of Contents)
December 22, 2006... Moeller, Victor. Socrates Does Shakespeare: Seminars and Film. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005. Contents: Acknowledgments. Preface. 1 Two Models of Teaching and Learning. 2 Techniques of Active and Close Reading. 3 The...

Trivedi, Poonam, and Dennis Bartholomeusz, eds. India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance.(Table of Contents)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Trivedi, Poonam, and Dennis Bartholomeusz, eds. India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005. Contents: Forward. Acknowledgments. Introduction, by Poonam Trivedi. PART I:...

Fleissner, Robert F. Shakespeare and Africa: The Dark Lady of His Sonnets Revamped and Other Africa-Related Associations.(Table of Contents)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Fleissner, Robert F. Shakespeare and Africa: The Dark Lady of His Sonnets Revamped and Other Africa-Related Associations. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2005. Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1--The Magnetic Moor: An Anti-Racist...

Bertram, Benjamin. The Time Is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England.(Table of Contents)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Bertram, Benjamin. The Time Is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004. Contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction. (Chapter)1: "'The spirit of blindness and error dooth seduce them": The Skepticism...

On Wikipedia.(ELECTRONIC SHAKESPEARES)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... Michael Best (University of Victoria) Coordinating Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editions By the pricking of my Thumbes, Something wicked this way comes: Open Lockes, who euer knockes. (Macbeth, TLN 1573-5) When I recently gave a...

An interview with F. Murray Abraham.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... Earlier this year my wife Kelly and I went to New York to see F. Murray Abraham play Shylock and Barabas in productions staged by Theatre For A New Audience. The next day (February 11) we interviewed him between shows. Watching F. Murray...

Prospero.(Poets' Corner)(Poem)(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... I have reconsidered it all. the shadows and the shattered light, the rust of the moon, penny-ante dread, double whammies, the cross-over point for me twixt revenge and justice-- adrift on the sea I thought them the...

Shakespeare authorship a non-question.(New York Times Survey Reports)(William Shakespeare)(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... In the April 22, 2007 "Education Life" supplement to The New York Times, the results of a survey of 265 college and university teachers of Shakespeare indicated that 61% considered "the Shakespeare authorship question" "A theory without...