Aaron, Melissa D. Melissa D. Aaron Teaching Assistant/Doctoral Student, Dept. of English, U-Wisconsin Madison I have studied at the Cambridge University and at Indiana University (Opera Direction). After a brief career in professional stage management, I am now pursuing a doctorate at UW-Madison in Renaissance Literature. I am a member of the Shakespeare Association of America. I attended the 1993 convention in Atlanta, where I participated in the seminar "Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of His Contemporaries." I presented a paper entitled "Enter the Bear: The Intertextual Stage Direction in Mucedorus, Oberon and the Winter's Tale." My interests include theater history and archeology, various poststructural theoretical modes (especially cultural studies and cultural materialism) and computer methodologies and applications. I am also keenly interested in history and theology. I am currently researching the flow between court and playhouse of material objects, focusing on the Caroline masque. I look forward to becoming a SHAKSPERian and intend to attend the 1994 SSA meeting as well. =============================================================================== *Aasand, Hardin I am assistant professor of English, researching, writing, and publishing on Shakespeare, Jonson, and court entertainments. My M.A. and Ph.D. are from the Univ. of Toronto. At the moment, I am finishing a paper on James's patronage for a spring conference in Florida, revising one essay on Queen Anne for a journal, and collaborating on an essay on history and deconstruction. Teaching, however, is my priority here at Dickinson. I teach History of English, with thanks to Roberta Frank and UofT's Old English program, as well as period literature classes, and computerized composition. My colleague Ray Wheeler joined your list earlier this summer. ======================================================================== *Abartis, Ceasarea Professor, English Department, St. Cloud State University 720 4TH AVE SOUTH R-106, ST CLOUD MN 56301-4498 (612)255-3061 Ph.D. 1976, Southern Illinois University. My dissertation was published as THE TRAGICOMIC CONSTRUCTION OF cymbeline AND The Winter's Tale in JACOBEAN DRAMA STUDIES, No. 73 (Salzburg: Institut fur Englishe Sprache und Literatur, 1977). More recently, I have published short fiction, the last title being "Is This a Stupid Question?", published in the BELOIT FICTION JOURNAL (Spring 1991), 44-47. ============================================================================= *Abbott, Michael Assistant Professor of Theatre Wabash College B.A. Wabash College, 1985 M.F.A Columbia University, 1989 Recent relevant coursework includes Acting for Shakespeare, Gender in Shakespeare (Performance Studies), and Acting Period Styles. Director: Twelfth Night, Wabash College, 1985 As You Like It, Columbia University, 1988 Two Gentlemen of Verona, Marquette University, 1989 Macbeth, Marquette University, 1992 As You Like It, Wabash College, 1995 Research interests: Shakespeare in performance Gender-related performance studies of Royal Shakespeare Company Dramaturg-Director collaborative process =============================================================================== *Abbott, Natalie Marina As a practitioner and a student of the theatre, as a feminist, and as a lifelong lover of Shakespearean drama, I continually encounter the prolific body of feminist criticism written about his works and his world. I must admit, I occasionally find myself mentally and ideologically exhausted by the intricate historical analyses and the detailed proclamations (or refutations) of his insight into women's minds and lives. Recently, I have taken a deep mental breath and decided to start anew, for the questions I really need answered are not addressed by criticism and theory. They are pragmatic questions. HOW does a feminist performer DO Shakespeare? What makes the difference, in rehearsal and performance, between a passive and unquestioning interpretation of say, Cressida, and one that is active and assertive-one that does something to churn up the unmovable earth and portray females as bursting with as much yang as they have yin? HOW do distinguished feminist actors destroy and depart from the obstacles they find in portraying Shakespearean women today? In other words, I am interested in praxis as opposed to intellectualization, and I am joining the discussion list with the hope of connecting with more resources based in this type of approach. I am a graduate student earning my MFA in Design for the Theatre at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, in Honolulu. After completing my BA in Theatre Arts at Concordia College of Moorhead, Minnesota, where I studied Shakespeare with the wonderfully energetic and enthusiastic Gordon Lell, I aspent a year in Tianjin, China, studying the language and culture there. Ultimately, my interest in Asia and Asian theatre brought me to UH, yet I will always maintain a special passion for Shakespeare. I look forward to keeping in touch with current topics of Shakespearean study as a member of the SHAKSPER LISTSERV. ============================================================= *Abe, Kaoru Kaoru Abe Assistant Professor of Hokuriku Gakuin Junior College (English Department) Member of The Shakespeare Society of Japan My current interest is the structure and dramaturgy of Shakespeare's early comedies. =============================================================================== *Abel, Arthur Arthur R. Abel: College: Harvard '50 Major: English (American Lit). Took Shakespeare course under F. O. Matthiesen in Junior Year. M.A. University of Rochester '56 English Master's Thesis on Emerson under Arthur Gilman Shakespeare Interest: Over years taught Shakespeare at every level of high school. Took students several times to Stratford, Ont. Since retirement have traveled to England twice, visting Stratford-on-Avon (saw "Julius Caesar" at Swan there) and in 1995 the nearly rebuilt Globe in London where I purchased a couple of bricks toward the completion of the complex of buildings there. Would love to attend formal opening in '97. General Comment: My interest in Shakespeare is more in the performance area that in the deeply scholarly areas. I continue to read the plays and to see performances whenever possible in various places and media. =============================================================================== *Abel, Douglas Douglas Abel is a playwright, director, stage and television actor, theatre historian and theatre teacher. He is currently a drama instructor in the Visual and Performing Arts department at Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Before returning full-time to the classroom, he was Chairperson of the Department for three years. He came to Alberta after nine years as an assistant professor in, and four years as the Chairperson of the Drama Department at the University of Waterloo. He also taught speech for one year in the Theatre School at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. Douglas made an interesting but false start with a degree in political science and mathematics, then trained as an actor at Queen's University, The Drama Studio, London, and the Royal Academy of Music. After several years as a professional actor and director, he moved on to the University of Toronto, receiving his Ph.D. in 1985. Douglas' acting experience is wide-ranging, from the Shaw Festival to children's theatre tours in England and from CBC television drama to a highly successful beer commercial. He created the role of Detective Sergeant Trotter in the very first Toronto production of The Mousetrap. His most recent acting roles include both Dukes in As You Like It, Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, Teiresias in The Bacchae and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. At Keyano he has directed The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for Godot, Nicholas Nickleby and Oedipus the King. Douglas' play, The Cattle Pen, had its world premiere at the Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo, N.Y. in April, 1990. He first presented his one-person play about Christopher Marlowe, To Ride in Triumph at the University of Waterloo Centre for the Arts in January, 1988, and subsequently performed it in Vancouver, Toronto, Kingston and at the Stephenville Festival in Newfoundland. To Ride in Triumph recently had its American premier at the Alleyway Theatre as part of the 1993 World University Games Cultural celebrations. PUBLICATIONS "All Passion, All Energy: Edmund Kean's Othello 'Contests'," New England Theatre Journal, 6, 1995. "Beyond Damascus: An Examination of Strindberg's The Great Highway as a Last Play," Modern Drama 34, No. 3, 1991. "An Interview with Martha Henry," Canadian Drama January, 1990. "Drawing Strength from Within: An Interview with R. H. Thomson," Canadian Theatre Review 62, Spring 1990. "Edmund Kean's Masonic Career," Theatre Notebook 43, No. 2, 1989. "'Alexander the Little': The Question of Stature in Edmund Kean's Othello," Theatre History Studies 9, 1989. "A Stage History of a Tragicall History: Directing Dr. Faustus" Elizabethan Studies 11. Dissertation: "The Acting of Edmund Kean, Tragedian," Toronto, 1985. =============================================================================== *Abele, Elizabeth Elizabeth Abele. Currently a doctoral candidate at Temple University; received Master's from Ohio University. Before graduate studies, worked for 12 years as an arts administrator in New York, San Diego, and London. Work on Shakespeare has centered on construction of family roles and images in popular culture. Has presented papers for conferences of the Ohio Shakespeare Association, WV Shakespeare and Renaissance Association, and the Shakespeare Association of American. Area chair 1996 and 1997 for "Shakespeare IN Popular Culture" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association. Non-Shakespeare work has focused on images of masculinity in late twentieth century film; articles published in Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Images, and Sycamore. ============================================================= *Abraham, Peter Peter Abraham: I am a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. My interest in the list is to learn more about Shakespeare criticism and performance, and about how Shakespeare is perceive today around the world. ============================================================= *Abraham, Zoltan I am an aspiring author, majoring in English and Philosophy at Seattle University, with less than a year to go. I am studying Shakespeare now and am planning to study him in the fall as well, and ultimately I plan to read all his works. My chief interest in Shakespeare is his language, the power of the verbal universe he creates. As a member of this mailing list, I would mostly read, asking occasional questions, mostly ones relating to linguistic matters regarding Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Abrams, Ira I am a graduate student in English at SUNY/Stony Brook, nearing completion of my dissertation on modes of representing political legitimacy in Shakespeare's plays. Right now I am in Chicago-hence the Compuserve address-where I have learned from a super-scholar of the next generation, Heidi Sue Webb, that I can get myself added to your list by submitting a brief bio and a polite request to this address. ============================================================= *Abrams, Melanie J. I am currently working towards my MFA in Creative Writing, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I earned my undergraduate degree in theatre from the University of California at Irvine, and have been involved in theatre for fifteen years. Currently, I am assisting an undergraduate class on Shakespeare's Later Plays. I have spent one summer at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and am returning this coming summer, hoping to participate in a dramaturg internship. ============================================================= *Abrams, Richard My degrees are from McGill (B.A.), U. Penna. (M.A.) and State University of New York at Buffalo, (PhD); I've taught at University of Texas, Austin, and University of Southern Maine, Portland, where I am an Associate Professor of English; I am an SAA member. I have directed several Shakespearean plays, though haven't done much in theater lately. My work-in-progress is a book to be entitled something like "Strange Art: The Problem of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_" Recent Shakespearean articles include: "The Two Noble Kinsmen as Bourgeois Drama," in Shakespeare, Fletcher and "The Two Noble Kinsmen," ed., Charles Frey (Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 1989), 145-62. "Rumor's Reign in 2 Henry IV: The Scope of a Personification," English Literary Renaissance, 16 (1986), pp. 467-95. "The Double Casting of Cordelia and Lear's Fool: A Theatrical View," Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 27 (1985), pp. 354-68. "Gender Confusion and Sexual Politics in The Two Noble Kinsmen," in Themes in Drama Annual, VII: Drama, Sex and Politics, ed. James Redmond (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 69-76. I also publish on Dante: "Against the Contrapasso: Dante's Heretics, Schismatics and Others," Italian Quarterly, XXVII (1986), 5-19. "Illicit Pleasures: Dante Among the Sensualists (Purgatorio XXVI)," MLN, Italian Issue, 100 (1985), pp. 1-41. "Inspiration and Gluttony: Dante's Poetics of the `Sweet New Style' (Purgatorio XXIV)," MLN, Italian Issue, 91 (1976), pp. 30-59. Theoretical commitments include psychoanalytic and gender criticism, new historicism. Apart from Shakespeare, my most extensive work in the early modern period has been on Renaissance lyric, particularly Wyatt, Sidney, Donne; lately, I've been interested in Renaissance portraiture and Jacobean furniture. Temperamentally I'm a hobbyist-type infinitely given to distraction, in which spirit: hello E-world! ======================================================================== *Abuisba, Layla I am a graduate student at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. My BA is in General Studies, which includes coursework in history and the social sciences. I hope to pursue an MFA in creative writing. I am currently enrolled in a course on Shakespeare, which I hope will improve my understanding of not only Shakespearean literature but Elizabethan society as well. ============================================================= *Acheson, Katherine I teach principally seventeenth century prose and poetry but do get to do Shakespeare undergrad sometimes, and am teaching a grad course in 17th century drama by women in summer 1997. Publications include the first scholarly edition of *The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619* (Garland, 1995) and articles on Clifford, on Milton, and on Michael Ondaatje. Projects underway related to your list include a long and unwieldy paper on the representation of the English play-text as a body (1570-1623), which is part of a project on authorship, sex and gender in the 17th century, and aristocratic adultery and Othello (just begun). I recently did a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University under the direction of Stephen Orgel. ============================================================ *Acuna, Rafael A. I'm a junior faculty member with an MA in Literature and Cultural Studies. I took survey courses on First World literature and Genre Studies (focusing on Greek and Roman literature) and specialized courses on Critical Theory (focusing on poststructuralism). For my thesis, I focused on Philippine literary theory of the (Philippine) Commonwealth period using Said's secular criticism for the framework. Current Interests and Research Topics: I felt my formal education in First World literature (especially on Shakespeare) is lacking. This is critical, since a number of secondary school students are required to take at least four Shakespeare plays, and when they do reach the tertiary level, I'm expected to provide them with commentaries more substantial than close reading. This issue is even more relevant for literature and humanities majors who have to take several terms of 'Great Books.' Next, there is the added dimension of reception and translation of Shakespeare's plays in the Philippine setting. A number of theater groups here have presented them translated into Filipino, often with unusual (and often radical) translations of certain Renaissance ideologies, English idioms, and with very different expressions of certain scenes. I am intrigued by the complex ways in which people from different dominant ideologies receive, translate, and perform Shakespeare's plays. Perhaps other subscribers from different countries have similar experiences. Basically, given the breadth of research already achieved with regards to First World literature ranging from the Archaic periods down to Modernism, I'd like to take a look at (and perhaps share) the reception of such texts in a postcolonial light. Hopefully, anything I discover I can share with my students. =============================================================================== *Adair, Jerry "Whither wander you?" -- this line seems somewhat appropriate to me when I think of the Internet, Cyberspace, The Web, The Information Superhighway, and all of those buzzwords that have come to exist solely for the purpose of describing a "different" method of communication and those who use it: a certain life form generally known as a computer geek. Having been traveling down the road of the Internet for some years now, I've finally come across this Shakespearean mailing list and being the avid fan that I have come to be over the last...oh, I can't recall how long, I wanted to join. To meet the requirements, I suppose some background information is in order: Name: Jerry R. Adair Title: Computer Engineer by day, glad-I-don't-have-to-struggle-like-this-all-the-time actor by night Dept: Internet user, oh and I work for NASA; although they have NOTHING to do with my involvement here; I'm using my personal ISP for that Inst: hmmm...well, I am not affiliated with a university, so it's just me I'm afraid! :) Degree: I have a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering (not too terribly Shakespearean, but it's still a degree:)) Interests/Research Projects: This is actually a good question. If it's not clear already, I am not a Shakespearean scholar by any stretch of the imagination so why would I want to join this list? It's simple: I love to read and act in a production (even more than read) of one of his plays. Indeed, I also enjoy the poems and sonnets, although I must admit to using the sonnets to strengthen my acting technique. Basically, I am an actor who would very much like to be included in more detailed, in-depth conversations about Shakespeare and his works. I hope to learn a great deal about both from the brilliant minds of scholars, who I am sure could teach me a great deal. :) My only formal training in Shakespeare has been at the hands of John Barton of the RSC with his book and video series entitled "Playing Shakespeare." However, I will enroll for a Shakespearean class (acting) this fall at a local university. Misc: Currently, I am performing in a summer Shakespearean festival. We are producing A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and HAMLET; I have been cast in both. In addition, I have portrayed the role of Petruchio in a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW earlier this year. My desire and thirst for Shakespeare grows each time I "do a show" and I've come to believe the ol' saying: there are actors, and then there are those truly gifted, marvels of human beings who can do Shakespeare...and do it right. =============================================================================== *Adams, Brandi Kristine My name is Brandi Adams and I am a first-year Graduate Student at the University of Maryland at College Park. I graduated with a BA in both English and Classical Studies from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia in June of 1998. Currently, I am studying Renaissance Literature and Drama, and I would like to gain some more information concerning the latest discussions and debates surrounding Shakespeare as well as his contemporaries. Eventually, I would like to focus most of my studies on analytical bibliography/print culture. ============================================================= *Addison, Michael MICHAEL ADDISON, Artistic Director of the California Shakespeare Festival. (B.A. Pomona College; M.F.A. Tulane University; Ph.D. Stanford University) Since my first summer as a young actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1958, I have been deeply involved in Shakespearean theatre as actor, stagemanager, director, and producer. I have directed Shakespeare for the Utah, Colorado, and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals, as well as for the Festival of Perth, Australia, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Bathhouse Theatre of Seattle. For the past eight years I have been Artistic Director of the California (formerly Berkeley) Shakespeare Festival, a professioal company which mounts a four-play, 100 performance season each year between May and November. By now I have directed over fifty Shakespearean productions, ranging from a Comdey of Errors I set in 1994 Venice Beach, California and a Much Ado that I set in contemporary Miami (Leonato et al being emigre Cubans), to a King Lear set in the Great Plains in the 1860. From this it will be evident that I seek to create productions that conncect with our own contemporary realities and myths. I have also been active in academia, and have been Chair of graduate Professional Theatre Training Programs at the University of California, San Diego and the California Insitute of the Arts. At present I am President of the Shakespearean Theatre Association of America. =============================================================================== *Adelman, Kenneth Kenneth L. Adelman was Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for nearly five years, accompanying President Reagan on summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, until leaving in December 1987. He had been Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1981 to 1983) with the rank of Ambassador. He now writes a nationally-syndicated columnist and is national editor of Washingtonian magazine, for which he does a monthly interview entitled "What I've Learned." He has published four books -- Getting the Job Done (1992); co-authoring The Defense Revolution with Norman Augustine 1990); The Great Universal Embrace (1989); and African Realities (1980), which drew upon his two-and-a-half years living in Africa. Since 1977, with time off for government, he has taught a course on Shakespeare at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Education. He also teaches a graduate course on national security studies at Georgetown. Adelman received his B.A. from Grinnell College and both his Masters and Doctorate from Georgetown University. He now serves on the boards of The Princeton Review, IPAC, Newmyer Associates, Freedom House, and the American Refugee Committee. Last year he discussed Shakespeare before the Arthur Page Society, the organization of vice-presidents for public affairs of the top 250 corporations and organized a show on "Shakespeare and Lying." Immediately after the 1996 election, he developed and moderated a program on the Washington Shakespeare Theater stage entitled "Truth, Lies, and Political Persuasion in Shakespeare." The program featured four television and print journalists, three professional actors, and three political types, with a lively discussion afterwards. In November 1996, also for the Washington Shakespeare Theater, he organized and moderated a program on "Women in Shakespeare" with Lynn Redgrave and Michael Kahn. Actors including Kelly McGillis and Helen Carey read a dozen passages, followed by an animated audience discussion. For the Chicago Humanities Festival, he built upon the theme "Crime and Punishment" in 1994 and "Love and Marriage" for a standing-room-only audience in 1995 with leading actors from the Chicago Shakespeare Repertory Theater. =============================================================================== *Adler, Charles D. My name is Charles D. Adler and I come to this list not as a scholar but a student. I am an attorney by profession. My recent Shakespearean activity includes a course at the New School for Social Research in New York and the video course by Prof. Peter Saccio of Dartmouth in the Great Teachers series of the Learning Co. I have just seen the 25th production (having missed none) in the marathon of the Public Theater in New York begun by the late Joseph Papp. This latest offering, by the way, is the Merry Wives of Windsor and is, in my opinion, among the best of the series so far. This play was a discovery for me. I know it is frequently disparaged but I thought it was great. In fact, the immediate incentive to join this list is to see what others think of this play and, in time perhaps, to venture my own thoughts. Naturally, my interest extends to the rest of the cannon as well. Perhaps I should admit here a curiosity about the Oxfordian thesis. I read the Thomas Looney book and was impressed. It reiminded me of a well written legal brief. Of course, I was not able to assess the accuracy of the factual assertions and, therefore, must reserve judgement until I know more. =============================================================================== *Adler, Elhanan Actually, I am not a Shakespearean but a librarian, specializing in computer applications to libraries and information retrieval. My interest in SHAKSPER is due to an interdepartmental graduate course which I teach entitled: "The computer as a research tool in the humanities". This year I decided to include a discussion of listservers and electronic discussion groups in the course. In order to illustrate the possibilities inherent in this technology I am trying to subscribe for a short period of time to several potentially interesting lists, in various disciplines. I would greatly appreciate if you would be good enough to add my name to the list for a week or so, or alternately, to send me some samples of the current "traffic". ============================================================================== *Adler, Wendy My full name is Wendy Adler. I have a BA summa cum laude in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was included in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. I continued there with graduate work in Dramatic Literature and Criticism, not completing my MA thesis, a structural (in opposition to Aristotelian) analysis of Aristophanes' "The Acharnians". I was previously educated at Denison University (Granville OH) and Yale College as a Religious Studies major. I attended the Northwestern University National High School Institute in Speech and Drama. I began acting at the age of ten and have continued through to the present at all levels of community, educational, semi-professional, and professional theater. I have participated in all levels of theater administration, including community theater board member, co-founder and production manager of both a touring and a resident semi-professional company, staff (Business Manager at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco), and senior professional staff (Director of Finances and Operations at Shakespeare Santa Cruz at the University of California at Santa Cruz). My current major project is developing a consulting practice in all aspects of payroll and/or Financial and Operations Management of non-profit institutions, specifically for theaters. I am also looking into opening a small retail store. I was amazed and disturbed to discover, at UC Santa Barbara, that my graduation with a BA in theater was imminently possible, even though I had taken NO Shakespeare courses. I began packing my courseload with Shakespeare classes, offered both by Theater Arts and English. I didn't feel that one should present oneself as educated in the field without such effort, even though apparently the faculty did. An appreciation of Shakespeare in both performance and lit/crit is important for the furtherance of our culture. Now that I'm no longer involved with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, I want to stay in touch via this list. =============================================================================== *Afonso, Wilson Roberto Computer Science undergraduate student Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Instituto de Informatica R. Ramiro Barcelos, 2111 - apt. 13 - CEP 90210 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil The only reason for me to join this list is that I really like Shakespeare, and I try to read it in English as much as I can (sometimes it's hard for me to understand, since my first language is not English but Portuguese, but I try). ============================================================================ *Ahern, Richard Born San Francisco, CA 1952 Raised in Chicago and Los Angeles Jesuit High School BA in Business from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. JD from Georgetown Law Center Lawyer for United States Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. specializing in complex economic litigation Long interest in staging and dramatization of the Plays, particularly the tragedies. Other interests: Sailboat Racing, Flyfishing, Gardening =============================================================================== *Ahern, Susan My name is Susan Ahern. I am a fourth year graduate student in the Ph.D. program in English Literature at Yale University, where I am also a teaching assistant for Lawrence Manley in his lecture course on Shakespeare's histories and tragedies. In addition to my M.A.'93 and M.Phil'95 from Yale, I hold a B.A. from Wellesley College '75. I am a member of the MLA. My current interest is in medieval and Renaissance literature. My dissertation on the image of the captive woman in works by Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton explores the implications of that image as an emblem of poetic imagery and examines the role of three Renaissance discourses - NeoPlatonism, iconoclasm and the paragone - in supporting the authors'arguments in favor of protecting verbal imagery. =============================================================================== *Akey, Mark I have been involved in a couple of Shakespeare Plays here at the college. I was the stage manager for the EOSC production of Julius Caeser, set in 1940 faciast Italy. I have also been in the production of A Midsummer Nights Dream just this last year of 1995. I am a junior at EOSC and I am a Theatre Arts major, without a minor as of yet. =============================================================================== *Akin, David DAVID AKIN Staff Reporter Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal Thomson Newspaper Company Ltd. Member: Canadian Association of Theatre Critics Akin has been reporting about theatre in Toronto and southern Ontario since graduating from the University of Guelph with an undergraduate history degree in 1991. For the last four years, Akin has been reviewing the seasons at The Stratford (Ontario) Festival, The Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake), the fall and winter seasons in Toronto, Ontario, as well as covering the summer theatre circuit in southern Ontario, all for the Thomson News Service, a Canadian news co-operative which distributes articles to the Thomson Newspaper-owned publications in Canada. In 1992, Akin became critic for CBC Radio's Ontario Morning, a post he held until accepting a new position with Thomson in Thunder Bay, Ontario. In 1994, Akin received an Ontario Arts Council Writing grant for a project on Ontario's summer theatres. Akin continues to cover The Stratford and Shaw Festivals as well as theatre events in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Akin believes a critic's job is what Stratford Festival Publications Manager and Literary Consultant David Prosser refers to as the maintenance of an audience. Rather than being an arbiter of taste or quality, a critic working in a popular medium must prepare an audience for the work of theatre professionals, interpret the environment in which new work is created, and, through articles about a particular work, help ensure that theatre professionals are performing for audiences who have the same commitment to the stage. To that end, Akin believes it is vital for critics to keep abreast of current research developments and to contribute to that debate when appropriate. =============================================================================== *Alden, Frederick My name is Frederick Alden III, and I am a life-long lover of literature in general, and Shakespeare in particular. I hold an English Literature degree from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and am currently finishing my Teacher Certifification Program in Secondary English and Social Studies. One of my future goals is to obtain my Master's degree in English Literature at Rutgers University. As I am actually doing my student teaching this Spring '97 semester, one of the works I will be teaching is "Taming of the Shrew" (along with "To Kill a Mockingbird" and an extensive research project.) This I feel is a great challenge for me as I feel Shakespeare is stationed at a much higher level than most of the other works which are read in high school. In discussing Shakespeare with the students, I am finding that they are making great connections with the newer crop of Shakespearean movies which are popping up each year. The students are also interested in the modern dramatic interpretations which have been shown around the Philadelphia area. In applying to the mailing list, I look forward to enjoying some stimulating dialogue with other Shakespeareans as myself. I am a neophyte to the World Wide Web and the Internet, and I am finding the whole experience quite rewarding and enriching. =============================================================================== *Alexander, Gregory T. I am a third year musical theatre major at SUNY Fredonia. My foolish dreams include starring on Broadway and winning a Tony Award. I sang in school choruses throughout my education and in the summers, since the age of 8, I studied at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake with such professionals as Gregg Smith, Dale Jerganson, George Bragg(of the Texas Boy's Choir), Barbara Tagg(of the Syracuse Children's Choir), Dave Brubeck, and various members of the Gregg Smith Singers. In high school I found theatre, starring in such school and community musicals as: ANYTHING GOES, 42ND STREET, BRIGADOON, PETER PAN, and SOUTH PACIFIC. Interests: My interest in Shakespeare is rooted in both my academic background, probably strengthened and encouraged by my English professor father, and my theatre background. Research: I am currently involved with my college's production of OTHELLO. It is going to be a very experimental production. The director is fusing western-style theatre with Japanese Noh-style theatre. Our department is even going to the extent of bringing in fifth National Treasure of Japan: Akira Matsui, a Japanese Noh master. Each member of the cast is asked to bring something into the rehearsal process and I have been asked to research themes of jealousy in Shakespeare's Canon. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. ============================================================= *Alexander, Thad Q. I have friends who do not like literature and I can't even understand that. I am interested in all things literature and most of all, critical, analytical approaches to any and all literature. I love literature, really! I love Falstaff! Like Falstaff, I love wine! I love wine and literature and talking like Falstaff. ============================================================= *Alibozek, Alan Alan G. Alibozek Department of English West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26505 I am currently a graduate teaching assistant in the MA program here at WVU. I am originally from Massachusetts, where I lived for the 30 years before I came to West Virginia. I have an AA from Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA, and a BA in English from Framingham State College, also in MA. I will receive my MA from WVU this semester, and I plan to go on and earn a PhD in English Renaissance Literature. Most of the graduate work that I have done has been in Renaissance, Restoration, and literary theory. My primary interest is in English Renaissance drama. I have worked extensively in Shakespeare, Ford and Marston. Recently, I have been attempting to reconcile metatheater and aesthetic theory with the post-modern criticism that often ignores or subverts aesthetic judgment. I think that aesthetics and cultural theory need not be in opposition, but can work well together. I also have an interest in drama on film (for reasons that may be obvious.) I look forward to joining the list! =============================================================================== *Allard, William I am a first year graduate student in English at Cal State-Hayward, in, of all places, Hayward, California. My bachelor's degree in English was also earned there as well. I consider myself a member of the ever growing group of non-traditional students, because I am in my mid thirties, married with two kids, and working 40 hours a week, and have just left the trucking industry for the teaching profession. My current academic and scholarly interests are mainly directed towards my English 6001 "Introduction to Graduate Studies" class. Our first five weeks were spent in search of bibliographical source material, what to do with that material, and what is its significance, if any. Our second five weeks will be spent on an introduction to critical theory, past and present, and our final paper topic is 8 to 10 pages on a Shakesperean critic representative of one of the critical schools. I have been assigned John Dover Wilson, and his book "What Happens in Hamlet." We are also allowed/encouraged to include responses from other critics about our assigned works. I shall include, in the least, A.C. Bradley and W.W. Greg. Another personal project I'm working on is a paper re: John Donne and Renaissance humanism. Unfortunately, I'm still unable to remember where I saw, exactly, the specific call for this paper (It was in an MLA or PMLA issue of the last few months). The conference is in March. In terms of career, my goal is to be a community college teacher (well, that's THIS week's goal!), who writes regularly, publishes regularly, thinks constantly, and teaches daily. I feel compelled, for some reason, to state my case about a "favorite" or "preferred" school of literary criticism. Well, I think some critical approaches have ceased to be instructive and illuminating, either for the critic or the text, and these approaches have increasingly become political and agenda driven. I seem to be in the minority in my following statement, but what is labeled as "current" in criticism seems to stem from the right critic, at the right time, saying the right thing, in the right way, to the right audience. What do I want to want to specialize in, or what will I write my thesis about? I have no idea, but I'm leaning towards Shakespeare and things Elizabethan. There you have it; thank you for the resources in your welcoming letter, and I look forward to reasoned and COURTEOUS discussions! ============================================================= Allaria, Todd My name is Todd Prometheus Allaria. I am an undergrad at Calif State University Long Beach working on my History/Asian Studies degree. I am not doing any degree related work dealing with Shakespeare or the study thereof, but enjoy his work and discussions about it. I am interested in joining this group, but will be the first to admit it will most likely be as a lurker. If I feel I can contribute, I most assuredly will do so. ============================================================================ *Allen, Ray I am a 47-year old, white male residing in Memphis, Tennessee. At present I earn my living as senior systems analyst for the city's board of education. I've been doing this for 13 years. Before this I was a bartender; previous to that I was a land surveyor, jeweler, forklift operator, die maker and so on. In the early seventies I supported myself by gambling for almost two years. I am married to a school teacher; we have no childeren. I have always been a reader, a reader of everything. In the late winter of 1992, I determined to see what all the fuss about Shakespeare was, why had his canor endured for so long. I read Hamlet, along with the Cliff notes and some other criticism. Then I read it again. I followed up with Henry V, Lear, The Tempest and A Mid-summer Nights Dream. I was hooked. I am now amid _The Merry Wives of Windsor_--it represents the thirty-first of his works that I've read (counting the narrative poems as one volume). I will probably have finished them all by this coming october. I have been dazzled by the power and beauty in his use of language, and often read him for inspiration in my own writing. I am, you see, a failed novelist, but I currently have a work-in-progress.. I am familiar with SHAKSPER as I have sometimes downloaded your archives from your FTP site. The first time I read through it I was excited to find others with as much interest in Shakespeare as myself. I'm not sure how much I can contribute--some of you are scholars in the classic sense of the word I think. However, I did recently discover a transcription error in the Cliffs notes for _Richard III_ that had been possibly changing the way a particular quote could be interpret since 1965. For this, I was rewarded with more Cliffs notes. If nothing else, I am an analytical reader. Degrees, honors, titles: These, I'm afraid, are meager. I spent 4 years at Mississippi State, majoring in Psychology and Political Science, minoring in English Lit, but never graduating--done in by a foolish refusal to study Spainish verb conjugations. Later on I earned an Associate of Science in Business Data Processing Technology from the State Techincal Institute at Memphis. I am also a former member of MENSA. =============================================================================== *Alphin, Elaine Marie Over 100 published magazine stories, articles, activities for young readers in such magazines as Highlights, Cricket, Child Life, Children's Digest, Hopscotch, Disney Adventures, Orbit (Australia), School Mates, Writers' Journal, Writing, etc.. Books: The Ghost Cadet, Henry Holt (1991), Scholastic (1991). The Proving Ground, Henry Holt (1992), Bluegrass (1996). Tournament of Time, Bluegrass (1994). A Bear For Miguel, HarperCollins (1996). Forthcoming books: Vacuum Cleaners, Carolrhoda (1997). Toasters, Carolrhoda (1998). Irons, Carolrhoda (1998). Awards: Society of Children's Book Writers Works-in-Progress Grant for The Ghost Cadet, 1989. Society of Children's Book Writers Magazine Merit Award in the Fiction Category for "A Song in the Dark", 1989. State Young Readers Award Listings for The Ghost Cadet in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming. 1992-1996. American Library Association Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for The Proving Ground, 1993. Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award in the Nonfiction Category for "Cornflower's Test", 1994. Virginia State Reading Association Young Reader's Award for The Ghost Cadet, 1995. =============================================================================== *Altom, Brian My name is Brian Altom. I am a senior in the undergraduate English department of the University of Georgia. I have been studying Shakespeare for some time now, beginning with the sonnets in Elizabethan Literature and continuing in bith early and late Shakespeare courses. I enjoy seeing the plays performed, and I am finally starting to get a feel for them as dramatic peices when I read them. My first experience with Shakespeare on stage was a community theatre performance of _Macbeth_ which I attended while in high school in southeast Georgia. Since then I have seen amateur performances of _Much Ado_, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, and _The Taming of the Shrew_, and I have enjoyed taped performances and motion picture adaptations of many other of the plays. I am looking forwarto seeing a truly large-scale professional performance, but in the meantime I enjoy amateur productions immensely. The class I am currently enrolled in is Late Shakespeare. This week we are dealing with _Antony and Cleopatra_. This will be my first time reading many of the tragedies, such as _Coriolanus_ and _King Lear_. Luckily we will be spending two weeks on Lear. I seriously hope to make a more indepth study of Shakespeare in graduate school, and I feel that SHAKSPER would be very helpful to me in future studies. =============================================================================== *Altom, Brian I recently graduated from the undergraduate program at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia with a degree in English. During my undergraduate studies, one of the most enjoyable or related activities for me was checking my email every day and reading what the thousands of members of the SHAKSPER electronic conference had to say. Now that I have renewed my email account as an employee of the university, I would like to also resume my attention to the scholarly and sometimes off-the-wall discussions presented in SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Ames, Lex I am very interested in joining the SHAKSPER discussion list because I hope to make the study of Shakespeare's work my academic area of specialty. While I'm currently working for a small computer firm, providing Macintosh support to a group of graphic designers and editors at a large technology corporation, I'm actually an aspiring academic. After completing a BA in fine art and another in English Literature at the University of Missouri, I spent last year pursuing an MA in English Literature at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. It is my intention to transfer those credits towards the completion of an MA at another university, beginning next fall. In the meantime, I have an essay to write to complete the requirements of one of the courses I took last year at Virginia Tech. My argument is that King Lear is ultimately to blame for the demise of the kingship and thus the turmoil within his former kingdom. Shakespeare has given us other examples of poor kings, but never one who subverts the authority of the office as severely as does Lear. It is my position that comparisons of Lear to other, more successful, Shakespearean kings, such as Henry V, significantly illuminate the definition of Shakespearean kingship. Moreover, such definition(s) can, perhaps, serve as gloss(es) to interpretations of Shakespeare's commentary on the institution of kingship in the world he wrote about. y, I feel that taking part in SHAKSPER will be extremely beneficial to my Shakespearean research. In the past, I've found other such listservs, namely Chaucernet and Arthurnet, to very helpful in my studies of their respective authors and genres. Moreover, I intend to write my MA thesis, for whatever institution will grant me admission, on a Shakespearean topic; in fact, I am very interested in expanding the scope of the queries I make in the essay at hand. Therefore, I hope that you will accept my very serious interest in SHAKSPER and approve me for inclusion in the discussion. ============================================================= *Ames, Lex I am currently between graduate programs in English literature. After spending a year studying towards an MA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, I left the programs for curricular reasons. I am currently shopping around for another graduate school at which I can finish my MA while working as a graduate teaching assistant. I am leaning towards focusing my studies upon Shakespeare and to that end I am currently writing an essay dealing with Lear's failure in his duty as sovereign. ============================================================= *Amin, Khalilah Fadzilah I am now an Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Malaya but will be retiring in early October (we have to retire at 55 in this country and I've already had a 2-year extension). I would like, however, to go on reading Shakespeare and keeping up with Shakespearean criticism as well as finding out about interesting productions of his plays, on stage and as films. I studied at this university for my first degree and then went on to Leeds University, England, where I obtained an MA in 1970. I am currently trying to translate Measure for Measure into Malay and will continue doing it after retirement. I am interested in political and satirical elements in Shakespeare and also feminist approaches to his work. I go to Shakespeare plays when I can and am very interested in following the progress of the Globe rebuilding project, having recently visited the site in London. I am a member of the International Shakespeare Association and have attended two of its World Congresses, in Berlin (1986) and in Tokyo (1991). Among my publications is an article on Jonson's Everyman Out of His Humour and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, published in SARE (Southeast Asia Review of English) in 1988. =============================================================================== *Amit, Florence Florence Amit (Snitzer) a second daughter, was born during the great depression in Buffalo, New York to a religiously orthodox, socialist, immigrant father and a mother whose Jewish family had been many generations in the United States. Elizabeth Bear was steeped in the Yankee virtues of neighbourliness, the love of nature and poetical introspection. However since she, herself had been denied an appropriate education, the liberal university education that Florence sought was considered extravagant and the privilege of becoming an art teacher, very advantageous. However this did not satisfy Florence's intellectual curiosity so she made her way to New York City, hopefully to take advantage of that citie's many educational facilities. This scenario becomes familiar dear reader: so many dangers and temptations for an inexperienced girl! You can imagine the torture of those left at home. It is all too true except that Florence was taken into a girls' hostel where immigrant and homeless girls coming from all over the world stayed and where a social worker of profound sensitivity directed her thoughts to Israel. The Holocost left no Jewish person of sensitivity unaffected and the Jewish State had just been declared. So that the need to know oneself as a thinking person and to know oneself as a Jew became united. And throughout the following period of anguish and deep psychological reorientation in Buffalo a firmness took hold that has become as enduring as granite. But as she grew strong her mother weakened and died. Florence joined a group of Zionist youth who were training in Canada for a life on a kibbutz. And with them in 1952, she came to Israel and Kibbutz Urim. Collective life did not suit her so she left for Tel Aviv. After learning Hebrew and trying out various occupations Florence became an architectural draftswoman. In this as through out her life, she practised an aspect of the plastic arts. It was by pure mischance that she did not discover her aptitude for sculpture. In 1956 she married an army officer, Uri Amit and while he was in service had four children. The family was sent to Beer Sheba in 1967 and it has become their home. During most of Uri's army career Florence had passed lonely hours reading Shakespeare, writing poetry and attending various art classes. Finally, with most of the children in their teens she felt that she might at last begin her university studies. She studied English Literature at Ben Gurion University which was then under the sponsorship of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem . Prof. Alice Shalvi headed the department and she encouraged Florence to become the editor of the department's literary magazine "Echoes," for two years. (The magazine ceased after that.) Because of this activity her degree was put off and some of her teachers became impatient. Other teachers complained that Florence reached too far, that she needed to be curbed. Yet despite Florences's unorthodoxy she was warmly encouraged by her Shakespeare professor, Prof. Normand Berlin, who was on Sabbatical from the University of Massachusettes, to go on with her researches in the framework of post graduate studies which he personally would sponsor. But Florence had to accept the hard reality that Shakespeare research from Beer Sheba was for her an impossibility. So into a drawer went all her papers and an alternate means of expression was sought. Florence joined a ceramic instructors course at the Beer Sheba Visual Arts Center. and though she formally did complete this course she had finally come to realize through it, that sculpture was her proper vocation. She has indeed become proficent in Ceramic sculpture and other modeling and is gaining proficentcy in wood carving,. Yet Florence's predilection for literature, her informality of instruction and he maturity has resulted in a style that is not main stream .It is a kind of energetic, figuration that has the angle and thrust of the body parts describe emotion. The subjects are from folk lore, the Bible, the Tarot arcana. Since she had become convinced that the Tarot are woven into " Romeo and Juliet" one might say that Shakespeare has influenced her sculpture. Gady is the son of Florence who plans computer soft- ware and linked her to the Internet. And lo, that drawer that she had entirely forgotten has sprung open and her papers are floating around every where! What a mess! She has been answering questions like mad on the Shakespeare Web. She is sending a document to all and sundry about the necessity of incorporating Hebrew scholarship in any evaluation of "The Merchant of Venice" she is giving away her paper on the prefigurations of Hamlet, in bits and pieces, without it attracting any attention and despite her fear of academics she feels that she had better get herself under control. Therefore she would very much like to join Shaksper. =============================================================================== *Amman, Sarah <00SMAMMA@alma.edu> Hello, my name is Sarah Amman and I am a freshman at Alma College in Michigan. For my freshman rehtoric class I am supposed to sign up for a list serve on the internet. I choose the Shaksper list serve. I would really appreciate it if I was able to sign up. =============================================================================== *Ammerman, John My name is John H. Ammerman and I am a senior at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. Currently I am enrolled in a year long program entitled SHAKESPEARE'S AMERICA in preparation for graduate school and an eventual career as a high school English teacher. My interests in Shakespeare, like many of my fellow students, extends beyond simply fulfilling the requirements for the course. My personal interest include the role of antiquity in Shakespeare, especially in regard to his wordplay (Ovidian influence). I am deeply interested in subscribing to, and participating in, this electronic conference. In particular I look forward to the opportunity to join in on-line collaboration and peer review. =============================================================================== *Ammerman, John My name is John H. Ammerman and I am a 26 year old senior at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. Currently I am enrolled in a year long program entitled SHAKESPEARE'S AMERICA in preparation for graduate school and an eventual career as a high school English teacher. My interests in Shakespeare, like many of my fellow students, extends beyond simply fulfilling the requirements for the course that we are presently enrolled. My personal interest include the role of antiquity in Shakespeare, especially in regard to his wordplay (Ovidian influence). We are deeply interested in subscribing to, and participating in, this electronic conference. Of particular interest is the opportunity to participate in on-line collaboration and peer review. We eagerly await approval of this subscription request. Sincerely, John H. Ammerman, 2400, 20th Ave. N.W. Olympia WA, 98502 ammermaj@elwha.evergreen.edu =============================================================================== *Amos, John I have been a high school English teacher for the last eighteen years at a private school in Charlottesville, Virginia. For the past eight years or so, I have been teaching high school seniors. I have always included Shakespeare plays as part of the curriculum, but just this year, I decided to teach an elective course in Shakespeare. I just recently returned from a course at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, where I saw productions of Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen..., and Merchant of Venice. The productions and the discussions that accompanied them gave me an entirely new appreciation of the comedies. In fact, one of my main interests is in the idea that a comic view of the world is as powerful and valid as a tragic one. As soon as I can figure out how to use the scanner, I'll forward an article I wrote a few years ago about reading PG Wodehouse alongside Hamlet. A friend of mine has been forwarding parts of discussions from the Electronic Conference to me, and I have found them very helpful in my preparation for teaching...so that's why I'd like to sign up myself. ============================================================= *Amtower, Laurel My name is Laurel Amtower, and I am an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where I specialize in medieval literature. I primarily teach courses on Chaucer and other fourteenth-century authors, Arthurian Literature, and Anglo-Saxon literature, but as well I regularly teach a course on early British literature through Shakespeare. At the moment my research interests focus on the reading practices of late medieval culture. ============================================================= *Anbinder, Jeffrey T. Communications Systems Specialist Cornell Information Technologies (Dept. of Network Resources) Cornell University 934 Stewart Avenue, Apt. 31 B06 Caldwell Hall Ithaca, NY 14850 Cornell University 607-257-5890 Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8634 B.A. in English (Cornell University) intended 5/91 Leave of absence 1/91-8/92 Expected degree date 5/94 (one course per semester 8/92-5/94) I am an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing, with the intention of becoming a novelist. Along the way, I've taken English 327 (Shakespeare's Tragedies) and English 427 (Shakespeare's Histories from a Historical Perspective), both upper-level four-credit courses. Along the way, I ran out of money, and so I am currently working for Cornell, in charge of "quality control" for the several dozen Megabytes of information on CUINFO, Cornell's Campus-Wide Information System. Beginning in August of this year, I will be registering extramurally (thus technically remaining on leave of absence) for one course per semester, paying by the credit. The four courses I have left to complete should allow me to graduate with the Class of 1994. I have retained my ties with the Class of 1991, however, by becoming one of three Class Correspondents. The three of us alternate monthly to write the Class of 1991 column for the Cornell Alumni News. Currently, I am also a "jok" for 93.5 FM WVBR, Ithaca's Album-Oriented Rock radio station. We're number 2 in the area, and in addition to hosting a regular four-hour shift now and then, I produce and host my own show on Saturday afternoons called "Rock and Roll Family Tree," wherein I trace an individual artist from the beginning of his career to the end, highlighting songs from each band he's played with (e.g. Steven Stills: From Buffalo Springfield to Supersession to CSN to CSNY to Solo to Manassas and back to CSN/CSNY occasionally). My "master plan" is to make a living (however small) in radio while I work on my writing, until the possible day arrives when I can make a living from my writing. I am one of the few people I know who kept their copy of the Riverside Complete Works of Shakespeare after English 427 was over. I occasionally read one or two plays just for the simple pleasure of it, and I never miss an opportunity to see one of them performed. I don't have any legitimate "research" projects going, and I don't intend to become a Shakespearean scholar, but I'm interested enough in what other people have to say about him and his plays that I'm willing to spend time listening to (or, in this case, reading) others and adding my two cents where necessary, as well. =========================================================================== *Anderson, Allison My biography is fairly short. My name is Allison Anderson, and I am a member of the Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company in Portland, Oregon. I am an actor with a passion for Shakespeare. This is the third (non-consecutive) season I've been with the company, and have had various roles in the following productions: As You Like It King John Love's Labours Lost Taming of the Shrew Much Ado about Nothing While the company is about to open Henry V, I am currently gearing up to begin work on The Tempest. =============================================================================== *Anderson, Cameron I am an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and I am writing a senior honors thesis on representations of the closet on the early modern English stage. ============================================================= *Anderson, Christy Christy Anderson: I am an Assistant Professor in the History of Art at Yale University. My field of research is British architecture, primarily that of the period 1550 to 1650 -- hence my interest in the Shakespeare list. But more generally my work is on the relationship of architecture and literature. I've published on Inigo Jones, Thomas Tresham and others of this period as well as on country house poems and architecture/philosophy connections during the English Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Anderson, David David G Anderson: My Shakespeare-related interests are, firstly, as a beta-tester for the forthcoming online Oxford English Dictionary I wish to have a ready source of quotation context. Secondly, I am seeking to examine some of the Earl of Oxford hypotheses. I have no current academic affiliation. =============================================================================== *Anderson, James B. Professor, English Department, St. Cloud State University 720 4TH AVE SOUTH R-106, ST CLOUD MN 56301-4498 (612)255-3061 James B. Anderson, Ph.D. ('77, Iowa), has taught Shakespeare courses at the undergraduate and graduate level at SCSU since l966, and has published in Revue de Literature Comparee on comparative Renaissance drama (Spain and England). Recently finished a translation of the poems of St. John of the Cross with a 200 page commentary on mystical aesthetics. =========================================================================== *Anderson, Kathryn Murphy Kathryn Murphy Anderson is a PhD student and lecturer in the English Department at Boston University. She belongs to the Modern Languages Association (MLA) and to the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). Although specializing in Shakespeare/Renaissance Drama, she has also done work in theater history and dramatic literature from other periods; most recently she has written the "Beth Henley" and "Marsha Norman" entries for American Women Writers: Supplement, forthcoming from Crossroads/Continuum. She has also participated in seminars at the Shakespeare Association of America with papers on Thomas Heywood's domestic tragedies and on Thomas Dekker's Honest Whore, Parts I and II. She is currently working on her dissertation, on portrayals of Puritan women onstage from Elizabeth until the closure of the theaters. She is particularly interested in how changes in religious dynamics affected women's lives during the Renaissance, and how theaters portrayed these changes. Her other research and teaching interests include gender studies, historical approaches to drama, and dramatic and theatrical theory and literature. She enjoys reading and writing on non-canonical texts as well as on canonical works: pamphlets, sermons, diaries, obscure plays, and is seeking editing or research projects featuring non-canonical texts. She is also interested in applications of Bakhtinian or other dialogic theories to drama. Kathryn Murphy Anderson's surface mail address is: English Department/ Boston University/236 Bay State Road/Boston, MA 02215. The departmental phone number is (617)-353-2506. =============================================================================== *Anderson, Mark My name is Mark Anderson and I am a journalist and arts reviewer for several weekly newspapers including the Advocate papers in Massachusetts and Connecticut (circ. 200,000). I am interested in joining the SHAKSPER list because I am fascinated with the changing and evolving roles of both the electronic global village as well as Shakespeare research and performance. As someone who writes about the arts, I feel it behooves me to keep up with the discoveries and discussions about the masterpieces of the Western World's greatest artist. =============================================================================== *Anderson, Mark Teach Graduate and Undergraduate courses in Shaksespeare Member: MLA, SAA, etc. Conference papers all over, including recent World Shakespeare Congress in LA Publications in SEL, Ren. and Mod. Studies, etc. =============================================================================== *Anderson, Ryan I am a first year high school English teacher in Verona, Wisconsin. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1996. I am interested in using the resources from this listserv for a high school Shakespeare course I teach. ============================================================= *Andrews, John F. At the moment I'm devoting most of my time to two endeavors. One is a publishing project with J. M. Dent in London, and it's an edition of the complete works of Shakespeare for EVERYMAN PAPERBACKS. The other is a new organization, incorporated as a nonprofit cooperative in 1987 and registered with the IRS as a 501(c)3 in 1992, that is known as THE SHAKESPEARE GUILD. I'm also devoting as much time as I can to a study of Shakespeare's role in the Lincoln assassination; a preview of it appeared in the October 1990 ATLANTIC. The EVERYMAN SHAKESPEARE edition now has 14 plays in print, with a 15th in the pipeline. Its text retains many features of the original printings, and its facing-page notes tend to be more discursive, and more responsive to ambiguities and multiple implications, than those in other editions. Each play is prefaced by comments from a distinguished actor or director and followed by an annotated collection of excerpted criticism. The GUILD is devoting most of its attention at the outset to an annual ceremony at which THE SIR JOHN GIELGUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE DRAMATIC ARTS is bestowed on a leading actor, director, producer, or scriptwriter. The inaugural GOLDEN QUILL trophy went to Sir Ian McKellen at a May 20th benefit for the Folger Shakespeare Library. The second will be presented to Sir Derek Jacobi on April 28th in the same location. =============================================================================== *Aney, John T. 430 S Dunn, #301, Bloomington, IN 47401 (812)336-7786 I am a Continuing Non-Degree Student at Indiana University, Bloomington. Next year I will be applying for admission to a number of Master's programs in Theatre, with a focus in Drama Theory and Criticism. For the past three years, I have been active in the professional theatre community in Portland, Oregon. My most recent, and most rewarding, involvement has been the formation and opening of a new, daring Shakespeare troupe, known as the Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company. I have been involved with them as actor, board member, dramaturg and company manager. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Possible future research topics include: Incorporating Scholarship into Performance, resonances between Shakespeare and Chekhov, and 18th and 19th Century Theatre Biographies. ============================================================================= *Angelini, Sandra I'm a high school English teacher with the Essex County Board of Education. At present, I'm teaching at Kingsville High School in Kingsville, Ontario, but will be located in Belle River High School, Belle River, Ontario, next year. I hold both my B.A.(63) and M.A.(65) in English from the University of Windsor. The study of Shakespeare is my passion. Each year I devote my summer to the in depth study of one of the plays to be presented in Stratford, Ontario in September or October. I teach that play at the beginning of the school term, and culminate the study with a trip to Stratford. It's the highlight of the year, as far as I'm concerned. I'll be most pleased to receive any communications about Shakespeare's plays, theatre, times, or any information having to do with the man himself. =============================================================================== *Anzalone, Brian Brian Anzalone 5010 Indian River Drive Las Vegas, NV 89103 My name is Brian Anzalone and I am a senior at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. I am an English Major with a Film Studies minor. I plan on graduating in the beginning of 1994. It would be hard to outline any specific topics that I wish to research. I have studied independently under the guidance of Dr. Imtiaz Habib. Our research included morality, madness, predestination, and other such topics concerning the greater tragedies and their important predecessors. I have done work on the complete range of Sonnets as well as study on the Elizabethan time period and the historical times important to understanding the majority of Shakespeare's work. My studies are by no means comprehensive - thus my interest in the internet group. My other areas of study include the rise of the English novel, Augustan and Restoration literature of eighteenth century England, (including the work of William Hogarth and his contemporaries) John Milton, Melville, Henry Fielding, poetry of the twentieth century, contemporary fiction, as well as various interests across the board. I enjoy music, I work as a computer assistant and a filing clerk for an autograph dealer here in town, I speak and read fluent conversational Japanese, and I am currently (Spring 1993) making plans for graduate study in English. I consider myself open-minded and fairly well read. I am twenty one years of age and in good health. I would also be interested in any other internet activity concerning my literary interests. =============================================================================== *Apfelbaum, Roger <106156.3611@compuserve.com> Roger Apfelbaum is a PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, UK. His thesis is *Author's Pen or Actor's Voice* A Performance History of Editorial Problems in Shakespeare's *Troilus and Cressida*, supervised by Professor Stanley Wells. He has been teaching American study abroad students in London for the past five years, with courses in Shakespeare, Theatre, and Contemporary British Literature. Research interests include performance history, practice, and theory, Elizabethan stage conventions, and bibliography. His paper contributed to the Performance Practice and Theory seminar at the ISA that reads Angela Carter's novel *Wise Children* as Shakespearean performance theory and postcolonial discourse was chosen for inclusion in the *Selected Papers* of the congress. =============================================================================== *Appelbaum, Robert English Department U.C. Berkeley (415) 626-9521 I am a graduate student currently completing my dissertation under the supervision of Stephen Greenblatt, entitled "The Look of Power: Ideal Politics and Utopian Mastery in Seventeenth-Century English Writing." Publications include: Review of "An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from 'Utopia' to 'The Tempest,'" forthcoming "Utopian Studies." "Utopian Dubrovnik, 1659, An English Fantasy," under second review at "Utopian Studies." "Hope Against Hope: Joseph Hall and the INversion of the World," under review by "ELH." "Hansel and Gretel: A New Version," "Nobodaddies: A JOurnal of Pirated Narratives" (FAll 1994). "CAlifornia Story," forthcoming in "Fiction International" (Fall 1995) "Morte d'auteur," "Fiction International" (FAll 1993). "AIDS, Death, and the Analytic Frame," co-author with Rebecca Bauknight, forthcoming in "Free Associations," (Fall 1996). I am the recipient of a number of writing awards and research grants, including dissertation fellowships from the Bancroft Library, the Mellon foundation, and UC Berkeley Graduate Division. Currently teaching freshman and sophomore reading and composition at Berkeley. I've delivered papers on the seventeenth century at conferences across the country and abroad (Italy), and have participated in a number of public readings. =============================================================================== *Ardemagni, Patrizia I am an Italian final- year student at the State University of Milan (Universita' degli Studi di Milano) and I am writing a thesis supervised by the professors Anzi Anna and Paolo Bosisio about this subject "The shakespearian interpretations of Salvini Tommaso" . Salvini Tommaso was a very important Italian actor of drama who lived in the 19th century (1826 - 1919) and had a big success with his tours of the United States of America. I am looking for all the bibliographic materials , reviews and recordings about him and his shakespearian interpretations abroad of : MACBETH, OTHELLO, KING LEAR, HAMLET, CORIOLANUS. Salvini was also one of the best friend of the great actor Edwin Booth. In 1886 they played together the drama of Othello. Since Salvini couldn't speak English and acted in Italian, it would be interesting for me to know the kind of fruition of this drama. =============================================================================== *Arevalo, Kristina My name is Kristina Arevalo and I am a third year student at York University. I am enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. My major is English and my minor is Psychology. I regret to inform you that I have not graduated yet and therefore have no degrees to speak of and have no works published. I am enrolled in Peter Paolucci's Shakespeare tutorial and he wanted us to subscribe to the Shakespeare conference in order to assist us in our study of the course material. =============================================================================== *Argroves, Sandy My name is Sandra Argroves. I am a first-year Masters candidate at The University of Georgia in English. I'm now in a Shakespeare II class with Dr. Frances Teague (who is wonderful, by the way). I was lucky enough during my undergraduate years to have a talented professor, Dr. Ray Moye, for another intensive study of the beloved Bard. Lucky because, thanks to Dr. Moye's thorough approach in examining Shakespeare's texts, I'm happily aware of many of the tensions which inform Shakespeare's dramas. One of my particular areas of interest is gender studies (the opportunities are rife in Shakespeare's texts). In fact, now I'm researching the idea of Christ existing in many of Shakespeare's female characters. Also, I'm exploring the ambiguity of the word "kneel" in these plays. Perhaps it is my lifelong interest in the gap which exists between perception and reality that drives me to study the man who penned the phrase, "If truth hold true contents." Anyway, these are some of the reasons I would very much like to join in the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference. ============================================================= *Armitage, Sten-Erik I'm a student/staff here at Concordia University in Chicago, Il, and I have a double major in English and Theatre. =========================================================================== *Armstrong, Eric Eric Armstrong is an actor and voice specialist for actors. A graduate of the York University Graduate Acting Ensemble (M.F.A. Theatre '94), he has worked as an actor of Shakespearean roles and coached young actors on their approach to his plays and the use of his language in their preparation for performance. He has trained in the use of voice with David Smukler at the National Voice Intensive (Simon Fraser University) where he has been a coach each May/June for the past three years. In the summer of '94, Mr. Armstrong assisted Andrew Wade, who is Head of Voice at the Royal Shakepeare Company, at the Banff Advanced Actor's Workshop. In September '94, he travelled to the RSC to continue his work with Mr. Wade. He is presently preparing an article based on interviews done while in Banff and Stratford-upon-Avon. On contract to York University and Sheridan College/University of Toronto (Erindale) as a teacher of voice, text, speech and acting, Eric Armstrong lives and works in Toronto. =============================================================================== *Armstrong, Rebecca L. My name is Rebecca Armstrong, and I'm a graduate student at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Although I'm mainly focusing on Southern literature, I have always loved Shakespeare and am constantly looking for anything about him and his work. SHAKSPER seems to be a very promising source of new information, and I'm looking forward to getting on the list! ============================================================= *Arnold, John Alan <26arnold@cua.edu> My name is John Alan Arnold. I am a graduate student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in pursuance of a PH.D in Renaissance Literature, specializing in the study of Shakespeare. My dissertation that I am presently working on is entitled "We Will Not Trust Our Eyes Without Our Ears: The Role of the Audience in the Writing of the Henriad." My particular interest is in the audience of Shakespeare's own time, the playgoers that he knew so intimately. For this reason, I feel a special sense of excitement in the upcoming opening of the reconstructed Globe theatre on London's South Bank. Though unable to attend this August's premiere "exercises" and "rehearsals," I hope to use the Shakespeare Discussion to communicate with Shakespeareans that +hare in London to see how the new attempts at recovering Shakespearean staging practices proceeds. I spent a summer in London a couple of years ago and met with Professor Andrew Gurr and Sam Wanamaker and Theo Crosby of the Globe project. With them, I analyzed some of the data retrieved from the excavations of the original Globe and Rose theatres and discussed with them the chief challenges facing the reconstructed Globe. Before coming to Washington, I was a scholar and teacher in Oklahoma, earning my B.A. in English and Communication at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma in 1979 and an M.A. from Nohrtheastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1984. I was also an instructor there in the English department from my graduation until 1990, when I resumed my Shakespeare studies at CUA. In addition to my teaching and scholastic experience with Shakespeare, I have also met the Bard on the stage as well, with h performances in "Hamlet," "Richard III," and "Macbeth." In fact, it was the performed Shakespeare that first drew me to his work. At the age of 13, I was assigned what seemed an unpleasant task at the time to a young, callow teenager--see the film version of Shakespeare's "Henry V," which was playing at the local cinema and write a report on it. Having just gone through a rather uninspired classroom treatment of "Romeo and Juliet," the assignment did not seem as important as playing baseball, but being the dutiful student that I was, I went. The experience proved to be one of the seminal events of my life, as I was overwhelmed by the film and I date my love of Shakespeare, and indeed of literature from that date. =============================================================================== *Aronson, Donna B. Director of Theatre Department of Theatre Arts Incarnate Word College 4301 Broadway Box #66 San Antonio, TX 78209-6397 210/829-3805 Member: Association for Theatre in Higher Education Voice and Speech Trainer's Association Actor's Equity Association Texas Educational Theatre Association Southwest Theatre Association Course Taught re: Shakespeare: Acting in Verse Advanced Acting Seminar: Shakespeare in Performance Interests: Shakespeare in Performance Directing Shakespeare Performance Studies Acting/Directing/Voice =============================================================================== *Arthur, Karen I am currently teaching on a two-year full-time contract at the University of Toronto. My doctoral work was on Chaucer and Middle English and my secondary area of specialization is Shakespeare. I am teaching a course this year (which I have taught once before) entitled Shakespeare and After and the concerns of this course - examining works inspired by Shakespeare, interpretations of the plays via film productions and staging, cultural uses of Shakespeare, and responses to Shakespeare from both inside and outside British culture - have become an ongoing focus of interest for me that I hope to say something about before long. My published or soon-to-be published work is all on Chaucer and Middle English literature. (Naturally, I am also interested in looking at a few of Shakespeare's plays that rework elements of Chaucer's poems) ============================================================= *Asarnow, Herman I am a professor of English at University of Portland. I teach Shakespeare each year, as well courses in the Renaissance, the 18th-Century, and poetry. I would like very much to be part of the Shaksper list. Currently, I am on C-18L, which has been a terrific experience. =============================================================================== *Asayama, Yoshihisa I am a Japanese male born in 1970. Not like many other in Japan, I started to listen and say something in English at the age of seven (Most Japanese start learning English when they enter junior high school.) I had my education in Japan, but when I was a senior high school student, I had an opportunity to study in the United States. I spent about one year in Happy, Texas as an exchange student. After graduated from senior high school, I got my BA in 1993 and MA in 1995 at the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University. My major, then, was intercultural communication. under the supervision of Professor Takehide Kawashima, PhD. When I was taking the MA course, I read not only communication-related, but also some British and American novels and poems, such as Bleak House by Charles Dickens, some short-stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne , Power and Glory by Graham Greene, poems by T.S . Eliot, first part of Boethius by Geoffrey Chaucer (mainly to learn Middle English) and some others including, of course, William Shakespeare. While taking MA course, I started teaching English at a senior high school. Currently I work at two high schools as a part-time English teacher. Since I teach English, I wanted to improve my skill of English, not only writing and reading but also exchanging or expressing ideas and thoughts in English. This is the one of the reason why I would like to be a member of this mailing list. Although my major had never been literatures, I would like to know what is going on recently in literatures. Some of my friends from the university are still studying literatures one way or another. It seems to me that what they are doing is quite interesting. It has not become "I want to study". I think it has only reached "I want to know". This is another reason: it might be a good idea to join the mailing list and know the current topics and issues. ============================================================= *Ashby-Flannagan, Charlotte I am currently a graduate student at San Francisco State University inrench. I have received a BA from Berkeley in Art History(l971), a BFA from Art Center in Photography(l974), and a BM from SFSU in Music History(1994). I also have a California Teaching Credential in Elementary Education(1986). Throughout my studies I have continued to take courses in Shakespeare, and for many years I have attended the Shakespeare Festival at Ashland. Because of my interest in music, art and French I approach Shakespeare with special attention to these areas. I am currently looking at the =46rench Renaissance poets, particularly Sc=E8ve and D'Aubign=E9, and their influence on Shakespeare. Also, I have been examining the minor characters in the plays (i.e. Nerissa, Escalus) and trying to determine how Shakespeare weaves them into his major themes. I just recently joined the world of the Internet, and I look foward to participating in this forum. =============================================================================== *Ashton, Paul I'm not a professional academic or a student, which may well put me over the margin of qualification for this mailing list. However, I would very much like to keep up with current debates, which is hard to do if one doesn't have access to the relevant journals. Occasionally, matters reach the general media - recently the newspapers here have been reporting the 'was he Catholic?' issue - but aside from this, and the debate over the authorship of 'A Funeral Elegy' in the TLS, I am left with 20-year-old Arden editions for information. I can't promise I'll submit long responses on textual nicities, but if something interests me I'm sure to respond. I am a journalist by trade, and lucky enough to work in Southwark, close to Paris Garden, and have a view over the new Globe. =============================================================================== *Asmussen, Ryan My name is Ryan Asmussen and I am currently an Administrative Assistant in the Faculty Services department at the Boston University School of Law. I am also a part-time student with BU's Metropolitan College working towards a Bachelor of Liberal Science degree in English. When not spending most of my waking hours on campus, I play the drums in a fairly up-and-coming acoustic rock band, FATHOUSE, and am attempting to complete the first draft of a novel. My interests I would list as: literature (the works of and scholarship concerning Nabokov, Shakespeare, and Updike, to name a few), writing (poetry and prose), music and film. I have a healthy layman's interest in Shakespeare and hope to join, however rarely, some of the upcoming list discussions, but, mostly, to be educated and provided with a daily share of thought-provoking information. Unfortunately, I do not have any appropriate critical writings to share with you. ============================================================= *Astley, Russell Professor of English at Gallaudet University. I taught Shakespeare and other courses in the English Renaissance period through most of the seventies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1977 I became interested in the special problems the American deaf have in trying to master the English language and pursued this interest to Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where I've been teaching ever since. During the eighties, although I've remained a registered reader at the Folger, my attention and energies have been almost entirely given over to conceptual problems connected with the grammar of English. (I'm afraid my 'most recent' Shakespeare article was published back in April of 1979: "Through a Looking Glass, Darkly: Judging Hazards in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE," which appeared in Ariel 10, pp. 17-34.) In the last year or two, however, I've begun teaching and thinking about Shakespeare again and so am very happy at this time to be able to join this Electronic Conference. ======================================================================== *Atchley, Clinton My name is Clinton Atchley, and I am currently an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. I am a medievalist who finds himself teaching several Shakespeare classes this year, and I'd like to join your list. I teach a sophomore-level Introduction to Shakespeare and two upper-division courses, Shakespeare before 1603 and Shakespeare after 1603. My research interests include, but are not limited to, Middle English vernacular sermons; hagiography; the history of the English language, specifically orthography and the rise of chancery; and apocalyptic literature. I look forward to participating on this list and perhaps bringing an earlier perspective to the discourse. ============================================================= *Athas, Selene A. Hello! My name is Selene Athas and I am highly interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER. I am a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting program at THe State University of New York College at Fredonia, in Fredonia, New York. I am currently taking a course in acting Shakespeare with Tom Loughlin, who told his students of this service. As part of the course requirements, I must write a paper detailing a concept for performing a particular play of Shakespeare's, and picking a character in this play whom we could portray, and analyzing the character. I have not chosen a play or character yet. Also, I am in a production of Macbeth, playing Lady Macduff, so I am also highly interested in finging out as much information as I can on Macbeth. IN general, I have come to find the writing of Shakespeare extremely facinating, especially from an actor's point of view. I love finding out as much as I can about his plays, as well a s contibuting what I know. =============================================================================== *Auchter, Dorothy I am an assistant professor and librarian for Theatre at Ohio State University. My primary interest is in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre history.... mostly from the viewpoint of a librarian: what original texts are available, alterations in subsequent editions, identifying related primary materials, etc. ============================================================= *Austen, Gillian My name is Gillian Austen and I am a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford, currently working for a doctorate. I am now in the third year of my research on George Gascoigne, and am hoping that the Shaksper list will help me to make contact with other scholars working on Elizabethan literature. The direct points of contact between Shakespeare's work and Gascoigne's are limited, but I hope that I will soon have something interesting to post about the relation between The Taming of the Shrew and the source of its subplot (not a new idea, but a new angle on an old idea!). My first academic publication is due out this year, in the form of a conference paper I gave in Salzburg at the end of October, which will appear in one of the Salzburg Studies in Eng Lit series. I hope to complete my thesis by the summer. =============================================================================== *Austin, Andrea <3AJA1@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> I'm a graduate student at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ont., and am just settling down to write my Ph.D. thesis. I'm focussing on female quixotism in women's writing of the 18th and 19th centuries, but am considering adding a lengthy intro. chapter on stirrings of this theme in writings by Renaissance women (maybe Mary Wroth and Elizabeth Cary, who both, it seems, also wrote with a specific female audience in mind) and perhaps also looking briefly at the rogue lit. centring on female characters (like Moll Cutpurse.) =============================================================================== *Austin, Paul Paul Andrew Austin Lakeshore Villas Apt. 10-C Port Ewen NY 12466 USA (914) 339-2084 (I am not a teacher or a student at this time) I majored in writing at the State University of New York College at Oswego. There I took a Shakespeare class and read some works on my own time, as well as in other classes that dealt with Chaucer, British Literature in general, or mythology. My main inspirations there were Brooke Pierce and Tony Annunziata (are you out there?). I am interested in Shakespeare because of his impressive vocabulary - not because of its breadth, but because he used words in a manner that is useful to etymolgy and a greater metaphorical understanding of language (English, specifically). For example, his extensive puns shed light on the meaning and root of related words. Similarly, I am interested in Shakespeare's use of metaphors and other tropes. I studied metaphor extensively in my undergraduate work and consider it to be the essence of language. =============================================================================== *Auyong, Dorothy My name is Dorothy Auyong, I'm a librarian with the Los Angeles Community Colleges, but I hope to move on to rare book cataloging. I was working on my PhD in British History at UCLA with a specialty in 18th C., particularly theater. Academically, I'm especially interested in 18th century interpretations of Shakespeare and as a hobby, I'm interested in current Shakespeare productions (theatrical nuts and bolts as well as criticism). My e-mail address is dauyong@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU. =============================================================================== *Avery, Bruce or PhD Candidate in Renaissance and Modern English Lit. University of California at Santa Cruz. MA in English from the University of Connecticut, 1987. BA in English from San Francisco State, 1984. Publications: "Mapping the Irish Other: Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland" ELH, Summer 1990. "The Dialogics of Satire in 'The Dead' " James Joyce Quarterly, Spring 1991. Dissertation: "The Eye of History: Cartography and Literature in the Colonial Encounter." Completion date: December 1991. Current Shakespeare activities include: Associate Dramaturg, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and an article in progress on Bakhtinian discourse theory and the Fool in the Quarto Text of King Lear. I am interested in both text-oriented readings and stage centered readings of Shakespeare. ============================================================================ *Aycock, Alan My name is Dr. Alan Aycock. I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. My interest in Shakespeare is purely personal, although my work in cultural studies has brought me into cross-disciplinary areas such as literarcy criticism and structural/post-structural thought. I would be very interested in following your list's discussions and broadening my knowledge of Shakespeare and his historical/cultural era. ============================================================================= *Ayers, Peter Name: Peter Ayers Title: Assistant Professor Dept.: English Institution: Memorial University of Newfoundland My major area of research interest in is Renaissance drama (my dissertationj was on the comedies of Marston, Middleton, Chapman, and Jonson); the focus of much of my work has been on the urban context of much of their drama. I have published on morality drama, Middleton, Jonson, and Shakespeare in Essays in Theatre (2, '84), PQ (66, '87), MLQ (47, '86), and CTR (54, '88) respectively. I belong to SAA, ACCUTE, and CSRS. At present I have papers out on Hamlet and Henry V (the latter tentatively accepted by SEL; I am now working on a piece dealing with Chapman and Jonson's handling of the passing of the Golden Age topos. In an earlier existence, while teaching in the Middle East and Africa, I did a substantial amount of work on West Indian and West African writing, co-editing a couple of anthologies and a number of novels. I also wrote an article in WLWE on Ogali A. Ogali, the Onitsha Market novelist. =============================================================================== *Ayoub, Nina In reference to your request for some biographical information before subscribing: My name is Nina Ayoub, I am an assistant editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education, where I compile the New Scholarly Books list and work on other publishing related items. I would like to keep abreast of things in Shakespeare studies. =============================================================================== *Ayres, James B. I teach courses in Shakespeare, comedy, romance, satire, and play. I'm the founder/director of SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE, an academic course in examining Sh's plays in/through performance, which is now recognized as a "festival" by many, supported by two endowments. The setting for that exploration is Winedale, 250 acres of quiet Texas farmland, whereon sit restored 19th century buildings which serve as classroom, dorm and dining hall, and theatre. Sh at W is now 27 years old. I've directed through my own "ensemble" approach some 24 of the canon, many of them 3-4 times. The summer program is open through application to any and all college/university students and also students in post graduate, graduate, and professional (law, medicine, etc) study anywhere. I give preference to students who have none to little experience in performing. Perhaps more about that later. I'm currently working on a book on Sh in performance, using my work at Winedale as research. In August 98 I will be taking a group of students to perform Hamlet Q 1 (yes, the "bad" one) on the new Globe stage, Bankside. Mary Madge tells me how really wonderful are the things you're providing. Many thanks. We'll be sending in announcements about our program and asking for members to recommend candidates for the summer. ============================================================= *Aziz, Afdhel My name is afdhel aziz and I am currently studying in Rhode Island at Brynat College. I am on a semester abroad program ,that ends in December upon which I will return to London to complete my degree in English Literatrue at Kings College, where I am working under the guidance of Professor Richard Proudfoot . I live in Sri Lanka, where I am a contributing journalist to the Sunday Times, writing two weekly columns (on film and music) as well as contributing articles on theatre, books and and current events. I am currently working on a paper about the role of death in Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and I shall try to send you a copy of one of my previous Shakespeare papers asap. looking forward to hearing from you =============================================================================== *