Shakespeare Newsletter articles from September 2011

Shakespeare Newsletter archives from September 2011

Shakespeare in New York's Central Park: Margaret Mikesell (John Jay College CUNY)
September 22, 2011... New York City's Shakespeare in the Park 2011 offered two plays written back to back: All's Well That Ends Well (1603), directed by Daniel Sullivan, and Measure for Measure (1604), directed by David Esbjornson. The summer's theme was "Shakespeare...

Roland Emmerich's Anonymous: T.A.P
September 22, 2011... Oxford didn't write Shakespeare; Shakespeare did. I've written about this a number of times in these pages, and you probably knew it anyhow, so there's no need to make the argument again. The Oxfordian hypothesis, however, invites some comment...

Marvin Spevack's Sidney Lee: Biographer-Shakespearian-Comparatist-Educator
September 22, 2011... Dr. Johnson once famously declared that he could "write the Life of a Broomstick": and the subject of Marvin Spevack's book, longtime editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee, might justifiably have made the same claim (New...

Stanley Wells' Shakespeare, Sex, and Love
September 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A perennially fascinating subject, sex has become the focus of many recent studies of Shakespeare as well as other authors. Several recently published dictionaries of sexual puns highlight this interest, making...

Sarah Munson Deats' Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide
September 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Marlowe's Dr Faustus is a gift for teachers, providing countless areas for fruitful discussion. Faustus is the first tragic protagonist to be developed from the inside, and his powerful language sometimes creates...

Books for Review
September 22, 2011... We're always seeking reviewers for the review copies of works that we receive. If you are interested, contact us. Bayer, Mark. Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. Bell,...

Interview with Dominic Dromgoole
September 22, 2011... Late in September 20091 interviewed Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, regarding his production of Love's Labour's Lost, which played at the Globe that Fall as part of the 2009 season, and as a revival...

Brian Walsh's Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History
September 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When, from 1642 onward, the Interregnum Parliaments attempted to eradicate the professional theater, an attempt which was largely successful; they brought about the destruction not only of playing companies and theater...

The 1910 Thanhouser Winter's Tale
September 22, 2011... [Our friend Herb Coursen passed away on December 3, 2011. We will remember him properly in the Winter 2011-2012 issue.--Eds.] The recent availability of the 1910 Thanhouser Winter "s Tale adds to the slender store of productions of this...

To Sing or to Say: Dirges, Cymbeline, and the Reformers
September 22, 2011... Editors have understandably puzzled over the moments preceding the dirge, "Fear no more the heat o' th' sun," in Cymbeline (4.2.258ff). (1) First "solemn music" is heard offstage (Hinman, 897, TLN 2482). As Pitcher notes, this seems strange in...

Shakespeare's King-Commoner Encounters
September 22, 2011... Rochelle Smith casts light on some of Shakespeare's encounters between rulers and common folk, by contextualizing these with reference to similar encounters in sixteenth-century ballads. Her argument is that ballads, not plays, first presented...

RSC in Stratford, Summer 2011
September 22, 2011... Macbeth at RSC Theatre What is it about children that makes them so terrifying in horror films? Whatever it is, Michael Boyd tapped into it for his electrifying, utterly original take on the Scottish play. Radical cuts to the text, conflation...

From the Editors
September 22, 2011... The Shakespeare Newsletter continues to face financial challenges: our income, and thus our ability to publish, depends on subscription fees, in addition to significant support from Iona College. We need your help in four ways: 1) Many of our...

Talking Books Update
September 22, 2011... The next interviews are not ready, alas, but this gives me a chance to clear some of the backlog of books received for "Talking Books Update." Guest Peter Holland (53:1, 2003) has edited two books that I have wanted to mention. The first is...

Bernice Kliman, RIP
September 22, 2011... Bernice Kliman died on November 29, 2011 after a wonderfully productive life in Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, and of course Hamlet. She was also a most alive, vibrant human being, creative and willing to take chances in following through her...