Shakespeare Newsletter articles from December 2007

Shakespeare Newsletter archives from December 2007

Patrick Stewart's Macbeth: two views.(Theater review)
December 22, 2007... Arrestingly Contemporary Marguerite A. Tassi (U of Nebraska-Kearney) British director Rupert Goold's acclaimed production of Macbeth at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway (hailing from BAM's Harvey Theatre via the Gielgud Theatre in...

Shakespeare by ear: what can intuition tell us about what he wrote?(William Shakespeare)(Report)
December 22, 2007... Abstract: In July 2007 we tested 80 members of the SHAKSPER World Shakespeare Newsgroup for accuracy in distinguishing sonnet-length passages by Shakespeare from passages by others: As individuals, on average, the whole tested SHAKSPER group...

Margreta de Grazia's Hamlet without Hamlet.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Margreta de Grazia. Hamlet without Hamlet. Cambridge: 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] De Grazia's is an elegant study: deeply researched, beautifully written, and (it follows) a joy to read. She places Hamlet in history: history as an...

Notes on Shakespeare's sources for four plays.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Even the least prominent of source questions can throw light on the creative process. An examination of passages in Julius Caesar, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline in relation, proximate or ultimate, to passages in North's...

Falstaff's anti-honor catechism and Sheridan's The Rivals.(Richard Brinsley Sheridan)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... In the preface to The Rivals (1775), Richard Brinsley Sheridan claims that he has not drawn upon past texts to create this work, but, as James Morwood has pointed out, the play is filled with allusions to Twelfth Night, I Henry IV, Hamlet, As...

Talking books with Michael Hattaway.(Interview)
December 22, 2007... Michael Hattaway wears so many scholarly hats that he needs two hat racks. As a textual editor, his books include the three Henry V/plays and As You Like It (Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1991, 1993, and 2000). His edition of Francis...

Elliott Simon's The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Elliott M. Simon. The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility. Madison, N J: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007. 614 pp. $75. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Renaissance scholars in all fields will heartily welcome this...

Columbia Shakespeare Seminar.(William Shakespeare)(Discussion)
December 22, 2007... Meeting Date: 11 May 2007 Chairs: Katharine Goodland and William B. Long Speaker: Patti Werstine, King's University College U of Western Ontario Respondent: William B. Long Topic: "The New Bibliographical Discovery of...

Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Jennifer Lee Carrell. Interred with Their Bones. Dutton: New York, 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Something strange seems to be happening at Harvard. In 2003 Sarah Smith, a recent Harvard Ph.D. in English, wrote Chasing Shakespeares,...

Gabriel Egan's Shakespeare and Marx.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Gabriel Egan. Shakespeare and Marx. Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford University Press, 2004. 168 pages, including bibliographical references and index, plus prefatory notes and acknowledgments. ISBN 0-19-924993-8. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Shakespeare's carnival.(William Shakespearen)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Focusing both on Shakespeare's comedies and his tragedies, Kristen McDermott discusses different facets of what Victor Turner has called "the liminal": those transformational states and phases, described in myth and drama, whereby opposite...

Lower-class upstarts in the Elizabethan history play.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Maya Mathur's "An Attack of the Clowns" has a good title and makes interesting reading, though it's finally only partly persuasive, in its argument that clownish lower-class upstarts in Elizabethan history plays were taken quite seriously by...

Geolinguistic theatergrams of early modern poverty.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... The vagrant is the rage in early-modern cultural studies. Robert Henke takes his study across the borders, comparing both the cultural conditions and the stage representations of vagabonds in Italian and English Renaissance comedy, and posing...

Menus, ten minutes' twitter, and American Shakespeare Societies.(William Shakespeare)
December 22, 2007... Christy Desmet provides an amusing account of North American Shakespeare societies in the late 1800s, finding much evidence of their doings in the journal Shakespeariana, which she calls "the most prominent clearing house for information...

Columbia Shakespeare seminar.(William Shakespeare)(Discussion)
December 22, 2007... 12 October 2007 Chairs: William B. Long and Irene Dash Speaker: Richard Strier, University of Chicago Respondent: Richard C. McCoy, Queens College (CUNY) Topic: "Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy...

Eric Scott Mallin's Godless Shakespeare.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mallin, Eric Scott. Godless Shakespeare. Eds. Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie.Shakespeare Now! London: Continuum, 2007. viii + 132 pp. $90.00 (el), $16.95 (pbk). ISBN 13: 978-0-8264-9041-4 (cl), 978-0-8264-9042-1 (pbk). [ILLUSTRATION...

Hamlet at the Pearl.(Theater review)
December 22, 2007... The Pearl Theatre Company, a repertory group in New York City's East Village, recently staged its production of Hamlet, an interpretation that was direct and relatively untouched by the psychological complexities that inform so many...