Cacicedo, Al My name is Al Cacicedo, Associate Professor of English at Albright College. My publications in Shakespeare are limited to an essay on Errors in Upstart Crow. I have presented papers on Othello and Much Ado at Shakespeare Association seminars, and both are under consideration for publication. My degrees are from Penn State (B. A. U74) and Harvard (M. A. U75; Ph. D. U82). I participated in the 1985 NEH-sponsored summer seminar on Shakespeare and the Problem of Genre, directed by Marjorie Garber. I am also interested in 17th- century literature, and have published on Milton and Dryden. My work on Shakespeare has focused on masculine identity. I have begun doing preliminary work for a longish essay on the subject, which I tentatively call "Public Privates." =============================================================================== *Cadden, Jennifer I am a twenty-five year old graduate student at San Francisco State University. I am working on my Master's thesis, which is on Shakespeare's Henriad. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss my project with fellow scholars, find out about conferences and calls for papers, and add to my critical bibliography. =============================================================================== *Cain, Michael My profession is international education, ranging from teaching English as a second (or foreign language) to foreign student advising and administration. My university education includes a BA in Far Eastern and Slavic Studies from the University of Washington and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. My career began with two years in Ankara, Turkey as a Peace Corps Volunteer working at Middle East Technical University. I returned for four more years at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey. I later spent a year at the Dalien Foreign Languages Institute in Dalien, China, and six years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia working for the Institute of Public Administration. The last five years I have been working at the Kobe branch campus of Edmonds Community College of Lynnwood, Washington. I was first an instructor, but was promoted to registrar before the end of my first year. To get to the intangibles, my profession is language and my primary interests are error and confusion. As for literature in general, and Shakespeare in particular, I am a reader and a student. Occasionally I teach literature, but I do not write or do research in the usual academic sense. (My one publication, a paper about Edward Sapir, I will let stand as the exception which proves the rule.) The recent technological expansions in computers and telecommunications have been liberating for me. I am able to pursue my interests in many different areas and in may different ways. My intent is to participate in the SHAKSPER list as a reader and a student. =============================================================================== *Cain, William E. My name is William E. Cain, and I am the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. My books include: The Crisis in Criticism (1984) and F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism (1988). I have also edited a number of books on literature, literary criticism, and theory, and have done texts & contexts editions of writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne and other authors. I teach Shakespeare frequently. And I also have done research on Shakespeare plays and films, as part of my work for Literature textbooks that I have done for Longman. Most of my publications have been in American literature, American Studies, and literary theory and criticism (I am now helping to edit the forthcoming Norton anthology of Literary Theory), but Shakespeare is what I have always enjoyed teaching the most. ============================================================= *Caisley, Robert NAME: Robert Caisley PROFESSION: Playwright & Actor SECONDARY PROFESSION: College Prof. COURSES TAUGHT: Classical Acting Styles, Dramatic Literature, Playwriting, Movement for the Actor DEGREES HELD: MFA from Illinois State University, BA from Eastern Illinois University =============================================================================== *Calahan, James My name is James Calahan. I am currently attending Hope College in Holland, Michigan. I am in my third year here, where I am a candidate for a Bachelors of Arts in both Psychology and Chemistry. I am also very involved in the theatre program here from a technical aspect. I am an avid fan of Shakespeare and have been for quite some time. Although I have no formal qualifications in shakespearean study, I find it fascinating none the less. =============================================================================== *Calarco, Paola My name is Paola Calarco. I am an English major at York University. I am currently taking a Shakespeare course with Peter Paolucci as my instructor. He first introduced me to the Shakespeare Conference and has strongly recommended it as a course requirement. I have always enjoyed studying Shakespeare and would be interested in learning what others think about him and various issues raised in his works. For this reason, I would like to join the Shakespeare Conference so that I may have an opportunity to go beyond what I study at university. (My E-mail address is Yku02888@YorkU.ca) =============================================================================== *Caldwell, Kate My name is Kate Caldwell and I have been a drama reviewer for 25 years, since my father first allowed me to tag along and write junior reviews to his reviews for The Detroit News. I have written advances and reviews for theatre in Detroit, New Orleans, Denver, Boston and now Fort Collins, Colorado (my adopted home town). As a long-time devotee of Shakespeare--my name Kate comes from the "Taming of the Shrew," naturally--I thought this subscription might help me expand my knowledge and improve the quality of my reviews. =============================================================================== *Caldwell, Kelly My name is Kelly Caldwell. I am currently a graduate student in English at the University of Guelph. My undergraduate years were spent at The University of Western Ontario, where I graduated with an Honours B.A. in English. I am now in the process of obtaining my Master's Degree. My primary focus of interest is in Victorian women's poetry, with particular emphasis on the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. As a secondary focus, the poetry of the Romantic and Modern periods which frame the Victorian era are a part of my curriculum. As for Shakespeare and his age, truly it is one of my passions. I had the pleasure of taking 3 undergraduate courses at U.W.O. which focused upon Shakespeare. Unfortunately, the University of Guelph does not offer graduate courses devoted to Shakespeare, yet "Shaksper" appears to offer the discussion, analysis, and appreciation of Shakespeare which I now find myself sadly lacking. =============================================================================== *Califf, Mary Elaine Programmer/Analyst, Admin Center for Computing and Information Systems Baylor University My surface mail address is 2600 Colcord Waco, TX 76707 BA 1985 Baylor University MA 1989 Baylor University Although I am currently working as a computer programmer, both of my college degrees are in English. I discovered Shakespeare at the age of nine when I ran out of Lamb's Tales and pulled the real thing off the shelf. Shakespeare has remained my favorite playwright (and quite possibly my favorite author) ever since. I wrote my master's thesis on _The Merry Wives of Windsor_. As the working mother of an 8-month-old, I have little time for research projects these days, but I am planning to pull an article out of my thesis as soon as I find the time. (I'm also currently working on a master's in computer science.) My other interests include all other drama, 18th and 19th century novels, medieval literature, and artificial intelligence (esp. natural language processing). ======================================================================== *Callahan, Frank This is the biography of 2 people, a student & her dad. The student, Caitlyn Callahan, is a 7th grader in Bowie, Md. who has shown a great deal of interest for the past year in the works of Shakespeare. I, Frank Callahan, am her dad. My most important interst is in encouraging her continued interest and education. Caitlyn is an excellent student at Tasker Intermediate School. She is also an excellent musician and runner (often working out on the Bowie State track). All of her accomplishments in her young life in school, music, & athletics are because she is disciplined & self motivated. When my wife and I have given her the tools she needs, she takes advantage of them. My education includes an MBA in finance and an MA in History. Over the past 10 years I have tried to find time to pursue a PhD in history, however, family & profession take priority. I work as director of finance & HR for an east coast transportation & logistics firm. Neither of us have scholarly papers to contribute, but we do take every opportunity to read plays or go to the theaters. I happened upon this list by accident while looking through "the roots" other lists that I subscribe to. ============================================================= *Callahan, James I am a senior at Illinois State University, majoring in English and minoring in computer programming and writing. My present interests in Shakespeare critique include: gender issues, minority representation and historical criticism. Additionally, my critical interests range into the other authors writing at the time and I am currently involved in a research project which will attempt to unify a pre-colonial ideology which I feel is present in much of Shakespeare's work. I have also researched the authorship question and as yet have come to no conclusion to the debate. I can think of no better medium to explore current theoretical and historical issues than conferenced mail. Considering the styles and language of well- educated adults conferring on specific topics using a computer and conference system seem to be (perhaps) an area of study all itself. =============================================================================== *Callahan, Peter My name is Peter J. Callahan, I am a Non-traditional student at Shepherd College in West Virginia. I am married and have one son. My wife and I are expecting our second child in about a month. My planned graduation date, at this point, is August 1995. At that date I hope to obtain an R.B.A. with a focus of studies in English Literature. I then plan to continue with my Education and obtain a Teaching certificate in English. I think my real plan is to become a professional student. I have already taken classes on Shakespeare, Chaucer, Renissance History, History of the English Language, and other courses in the interest of that time period. My Shakespeare course at Shepherd was tied in with a "Gateway" course, that is, the class had spent much of the time in Washington, D.C. viewing art, and performances of the Bard's time period. My love of literature came from my father, who teaches at Rutgers as an adjunct. My father also write, at his own expense, for the "Shakesperian Bulletin." =============================================================================== *Callum, Robert Hi. My name is Robert Callum, and although I may not have the most impressive academic credentials (yet), I'm very much interested in joining the SHAKSPER community. I am presently on leave from Yale University. When I return in September, I'll be a second semester junior. I graduated from Phillips Andover in 1990, which was where my interest in Shakespeare was first nutured. At Yale, I major in political science, concentrating in Soviet and Post-Soviet affairs and military history. However, for my first two years there, I was an English major concentrating on Shakespeare and Joyce. My Shakespearian studies have run the gamut from the Bard's relationship with his contemporaries, to the plays' relationships to modern screen adaptations. While the plays' interpretation is in some ways a product of the time in which they are studied, my bias is to try and look at the way the play was interpretated at the time of original production. As a result, my criticism is uaually firmly grounded in the texts themselves, and not a product of later intellectual approaches. Finally, my most important bias is that I view Hamlet as the finest play ever written, and I constantly have to work against viewing the rest of the canon in relation to Denmark, and not as works in their own right. Robert Callum 78 Frederick St. PO Box 6251 Yale Station Dracut, MA 01826 New Haven, CT 06520 callum@minerva.cis.yale.edu =============================================================================== *Calvert, Michael My name is Michael T. Calvert, and I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut's Stamford Campus. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 1991. My main interest within the field of Shakespeare studies is historical/historicist scholarship and criticism. My dissertation was a historicist study (though I would hesitate to call it a "New Historicist" study) of the public execution as a social phenomenon in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the way in which the ideas of "good dying" that informed executions often surface in the period's plays. My other scholarly interests include the English Renaissance generally, archetypal and myth criticism, rhetoric and composition theory, computer- aided instruction, and information technology. During the past few months this latter interest has gotten a major boost as I have logged on to the Internet and have skimmed the surface of it myriad offerings. I feel a bit like Keats's Cortez--not, I imagine, an uncommon reaction. I have long had a mild interest in computers and information technology; in my youth I worked for a time on an early library automated circulation conversion project and saw how computers were about the revolutionize the world of information. But that interest lay dormant during my years in graduate school, especially during the latter years of the eighties, when I was writing my dissertation. Of course, that was when events really began to move a a breakneak pace and the Internet started to take off. Now, as a novice electronic networker, I find myself amazed at what's already available online and dazzled by the prospects of things to come. But, back to Shakespeare. As a teacher and scholar, I am rather conservative in my approach. (Keeping in mind that within the confines of the academy, "conservative" is a highly relative term.) I mentioned that my main interest is in historical--as opposed to historicist--criticism. I am not entirely averse to New Historicist practice, and I think that it has offered some interesting insights. But I do not share its generally Marxist bias, and I feel scholarship is best conducted without an overt political agenda. (Yes, I know, everything is ideological and we all have an agenda. Unfortunately, I feel the political agenda has taken over for far too many literary scholars today.) It took many years of struggling with myself to admit it, but I finally decided that I am fundamentally a liberal humanist with a positivist bias toward learning: that is, I believe that we should strive to know what we can know with reasonable certainty, to transmit that knowledge to our students, and let them make of it what they will. This positivist bent increasingly informs my scholarly practices--I like facts. At the same time, I have more than a bit of the transcendentalist in me. Do I contradict myself? Well, then, I contradict myself. My academic career has been as much a search for spiritual truth as a search for knowledge. This is another part of Shakespeare's appeal. More than any poet, his writings embody timeless truths about the human condition; he was both of an age--a fascinating age, one well worth studying--and for all time. So that's where I'm coming from. I'm very happy to join the other SHAKSPEReans and exchange ideas, papers, gossip, recipes, job-hunting tips, whatever. =============================================================================== *Camin, Robert My name is Robert Camin and I am currently a student at NC. State University. I am 34 years old. I am enrolled in English Literature I under Dr. Lucindy Willis. We are about to begin our study of William Shakespeare and I thought it would be good to subscribe to a discussion list on Shakespeare. In the last five years I have begun to read and enjoy some of Shakespeare's plays and am looking forward to joining the group. =============================================================================== *Campbell, Colin Colin P. Campbell, Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Co-founder and artistic director of the Refinery Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA 1991-1993. Currently a second year graduate student in Columbia University's MFA program in theatre directing, under the tutelage of Andrei Serban and Anne Bogart. I have directed or acted in productions at: The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinbugh; The IV Annual Malta Festival, Poznan Poland; Oscar Hammerstein Center, New York; Annenberg Center, Philadelphia; Shubin Theatre, Philadelphia; Women's Theatre Festival, Philadelphia; Community Education Center, Philadelphia; Climax Theatre, Philadelphia. I am currently working on staging Shakespeare scenes with Anne Bogart at Columbia. Any contributions I make to SHAKSPER are understood to be within my copyright and available to the internet. =============================================================================== *Campbell, Diane My name is Diane Campbell and I am a professional photographer. I have enjoyed Shakespeare since I was a child and continue to view and read his plays. I volunteer with A Noise Within Theatre company in Glendale CA as a house manager, so I get to see quite a bit of live Shakespeare. I am not a Shakespeare scholar by any means, but I wish to read the list for my own information and enjoyment. =============================================================================== *Campbell, Gardner Name: Gardner Campbell Institution: University of San Diego Department: English Title: Assistant Professor Email: Campbell@acusd.bitnet Campbell@usdcsv.acusd.edu (Internet) Phone: (619) 260-4600 x2505 Address: 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92117 USA Professional Associations: Modern Language Association, Milton Society. Biographical Sketch: I'm a Miltonist by training, a Shakespearean by association and pedagogical exigency. My work these days is centered around the idea of the subject as essentially *provocative*, constituting itself as a provocative agent or an object of provocation. I draw on Bakhtin for my work, as well some of Paolo Valesio's and Francis Jacques' recent writings. Lately I'm finding myself more and more interested in Nicolas of Cusa, the Cambridge Platonists, and existential phenomenology, a potent cocktail. I continue to work on issues of voice and performance in poetry generally, and now Shakespeare specifically. Besides Renaissance studies, film studies and writing instruction (especially computer-mediated conversation and instruction) are my secondary areas of interest. My tastes are all over the map: I include writers from C. S. Lewis to William Kerrigan (my Milton teacher) to Oliver Sacks to Diane McColley to Lester Bangs on my shelf of honor. I'm a computer nerd, an amateur (and occasionally semi-pro) musician and chorister, a former disc jockey, and the doting father of two-year-old Ian. ============================================================================== *Campbell, Hugh P. While I work full-time as a research administrator at the University of Delaware, I am also adjunct faculty at Widener University, where I teach writing and literature courses to returning undergradute adult students. I usually teach Chaucer, but recently taught a "16th Century Eng. Lit." course and am currently teaching a "Shakespeare" course. It's my first time teaching a course exclusively on the Bard, and I'm having a wonderful time. I've temporarily unsubscribed from MEDTEXTL and would very much like to find out what folk are discussing via e-mail on Shakespearean topics. ============================================================= *Campbell, J. Kenneth My name is J. Kenneth Campbell. It frightens me a little joining this server for I am not an scholar in the institutional sense of the word. I left college after only a year to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York. I lost my student deferment and so spent the next two years with the United States Marine Corps in Viet Nam. After my wounds healed, I returned to school and graduated with a Certificate in Acting. That and $2.50 will get you a cup of coffee almost anywhere. For the past 32 years I have been very fortunate to earn my living working as a professional actor . I began my career with a season of Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival in Connecticut. For the next five years, I learned my craft at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada where, during Robin Phillips' tenure, I studied with John Barton. I returned to New York and played a season with Julliard's The Acting Company while John Houseman was the artistic director. I spent three seasons at the San Diego Old Globe Theater acting forJack O'Brian and studying with Diana Maddox. Over the years I have worked in most of the regional theaters in the United States including Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Huntington in Boston, Center Stage in Baltimore, The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and The Ahmanson and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. I have acted in 28 of Shakespeare's plays-some of them three and four times. I currently live in Los Angeles with my wife, Janey (formally of the Joffery Ballet) and our three children. I mostly work in film now, as the financial burden of raising and educating children limits the amount of time I can devote to my first love. I try to get out of town every year or so to keep active in the theater. Last year I ventured out to Baltimore to do a new translation of Moliere's "Don Juan". I am currently looking to do Coriolanus before age limits me to a staged reading. My favorite production was a Celtic-Christian MacBeth I conceived after extensive research in Scotland. It was based on a Celtic Hero Cycle that incorporated the Druid Holiday of Samhain for the banquet scene. It was performed at the York Theater in New York City. I have taught a scansion classes both privately and as a guest instructor at the University of California at San Diego. I am currently researching for a screenplay of "The Tempest" based on the shipwreck of the second Jamestown Expedition on the island of Bermuda. ============================================================= *Campbell, Kathleen Kathlen Campbell Dept. of Communication Arts Austin College I am a theater director (and occasinally designer and actor) with a long- standing interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. I have worked in both professional and educational theatre, spending about 15 years as a member of the resident professional company of the Dallas Theater Center, under Paul Baker, and teaching with the Grduate Program in Drama for Trinity University at the Dallas Theater Center, in the English department at Central State University in Oklahoma, and in the theater department at Georgre Mason University. Prior to coming to Austin College this fall, I was Director of Theatre at Penn State- Erie, The Behrend College. Over the years I've worked in various capacities on productions of Shakespeare, including Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, Julius Casesar, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. For the last two, I edited my own production scripts from the quarto and folio texts. In addition to theatrical work, I've published occasionally on Shakespearean topics, including articles on Hamlet (I am especially interested in the 1st Quarto) and The Winter's Tale. My most recent piece is an essay on Two Gentlemen of Verona to appear in a collection edited by June Schluetter. The essay explores Will Kemp's possible collaboration on the role of Launce. I participate regularly in SAA, leading a workshop in Atlanta on acting/vocal approaches to text called "Sensing Shakespeare's Language." I am also a member of AThe, ASTR, MLA, and other professional theatre organizations. I have for some time been working on material on Shakespeare's theatrical strategies, particularly in the late plays, and am generally interested in performance issues. Most recently I have begun looking closely at the editing of scripts for performance as a key to interpretive choices. My most immediate project, growing from this interest, is the development of a course on performace texts (and adaptations) of Romeo and Juliet for our Jan term. I am also involved in pre-production work for a spring production of Aphra Behn's The Rover. My next Shakespearean project as a director will be next fall, probably eiher Measure for Measure or Cymbeline. Degrees: MA, PhD in Literature University of Dallas 1980 MA in Drama Trinity University (San Antonio) 1971 BS in Drama Northwesern University 1965 Surface mail: Dept. of Communication Arts Austin College 900 N. Grand Sherman, TX 75090 =============================================================================== *Campbell, Liz At any rate, I do consider my interest in Shakespeare scholarly, and though I am relatively new to his works (as of right this second I have only read Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, I am in the middle of Twelfth Night and I have read a few random sonnets...) I do wish to continue and gain the knowledge that others have gained from his writings. As for works I have written on Shakespeare, all I have is a half-completed character analysis of Claudio from Much Ado About Nothing and an, as-of-yet ungraded and unreturned, comparison essay between the play Much Ado About Nothing and Branagh's film version. ============================================================= *Campbell, Melissa MCAMPB@ACD.MHC.AB.CA My name is Melissa Campbell and I am enrolled in a Shakespere class at the Medicine Hat College. I have been studying him for awhile and am truly interested in his work. I am also interested in finding more out about this great man and this is a great way for me to do just that. =============================================================================== *Campbell, Paul Academic qualifications: BA hons.(1st class)from the Department of English at the Australian National University. (My sub-thesis is titled "Enter Ariel with Music and Song: The Politics of Music in Shakespeare's The Tempest"). Interests: I am interested in the political and cultural conditions which surrounded Shakespeare, and in their effects on his plays. Particularly, I wish to further explore: the nature of the theatre (in both its public and private forms), court performance (including masques, procession etc.), the role of music/ song/ and dance in the plays, and the influence of royal patronage upon the theatre companies. Whilst I would not necessarily label myself either a new historicist or a cultural materialist, my approach is primarily one of 'contextualizing' the texts. At this point of time, my research is focused upon the Jacobean plays and especially upon the comedies and romances. I intend to begin study toward a Doctorate in 1998. =============================================================================== *Campion, Jeremiah I am a senior majoring in English at the University of Minnesota-Morris. I have a strong interest in Shakespeare and English literature. I hope to obtain my Master's in English and am in the process of applying to graduate programs at the Univ. of Arizona, Univ. of Alabama, and the summer Bread Loaf program through Middlebury College in Vermont. The Bread Loaf program would allow me to study Shakespeare at Lincoln College, Oxford. I travelled to England three years ago and attended three superb performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company (King Lear, Coriolanus, and Troilus & Cressida). Since then I have hoped to return to England as a student. For an Advanced Shakespeare class I wrote a paper on Isabella's adherence to her chastity over the life of her brother in "Measure for Measure." Currently I am working on a directed study of "Henry V," particularly the film versions by Olivier and Branaugh. I am employing a deconstructionist approach and writing a paper on my analysis of the play and the two film versions concerned. =============================================================================== *Canevit, Craig My name is Craig E. Canevit, and I'm an MA student in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After taking too many classes solely to cover myself for the comprehensive exams, I've managed to get several Renaissance classes under my belt, and I have decided to specialize in Renaissance literature when I pursue my Ph.D. My current Shakespearean class is concerned with how the Bard has been appropriated and revised over the centuries; largely, we've been seeing movie versions of the plays and discussing the tensions between the two mediums. My paper in this class will examine how Shakespeare has been used in the medium of comic books (from _Classics Illustrated_ to Neil Gaiman). Other projects I am interested in are the role of the writer/artist in Shakespeare, and the question of just how much did Shakespeare consider himself an historiographer (not just with the histories, per se, but particularly with _Lear_). =============================================================================== *Cannon, Walter W. Walter W. Cannon Professor of English Central College Pella, Iowa 50219 515-628-5107 M.A (70), Ph.D.(78) Marquette University. I have been at Central College for fourteen years including a brief stint of three years in London where I directed Central's London Program. I have been chair of the English department for the past four years. I belong to the SAA and NCTE. My current interests include Milton, Ben Jonson, and Shakespeare's history plays. I will send a copy of my recent SAA seminar paper on Servants and Service in Shakespeare ("The King's Three Bodies: The Textual King and the Logic of Obedience in Henry V") as soon as I figure out how to transfer a word perfect file. =============================================================================== *Cappuzzo, Marcello Institution: Faculty of Letters - University of Palermo, Italy Department: Modern Languages and Literatures Title: Professor of English (full professor) b. 20 June 1938; married, two daughters. *Education, titles, professional/university related activities (selected): degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, 1960 (U. of Messina); Fulbright participant, Seminar in Linguistics, Georgetown U., Summer 1966 (three months); PhD (English), 1969; assistant professor, English Lit., 1960-1972 (U. of Messina); lecturer, English Lit., 1972-1981 (U. of Palermo); professor of English, 1981-present (U. of Palermo); inter-university research program on 'Ideologies and Literary Techniques in England and in the U.S.A. 1875-1930,' Program Chair, 1982-1986; Doctorate in Modern Literatures (inter-university courses), senior tutor, member of the Executive Board, 1982-present; research program on 'Sicily in the English literary culture of the Renaissance,' Program Chair, 1982-present; courses in African Literatures in English, 1994-present. *Publications (selected): - books: _Il Paradise Lost di John Milton_, Messina: Peloritana Editrice, 1969; repr. Bari: Adriatica Editrice (Biblioteca di Studi Inglesi, 23), 1972; _Da Duncan a Malcolm. La tragedia di Macbeth_, Messina: Peloritana Editrice, 1972; _La vera liberta' repubblicana. Saggio su Gerrard Winstanley_, Palermo: S.F. Flaccovio, 1979, repr.1985, 1993; _Milton e la Sicilia_, Palermo: Libreria Dante, 1987; _Shakespeare's Italy. Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama_ (M. Marrapodi, M. Cappuzzo et al., eds), Manchester and New York: Manchester U.P., 1993; - articles: "Thomas Traherne (Poems and Centuries of Meditation)," 1964; "Milton e la Sicilia," 1984; "Shakespeare e la Sicilia," 1992. =============================================================================== *Carillo, Jimmy My name is Jimmy Carrillo and I'm from New Mexico, USA. Currently I'm a graduate student of Social Work at New Mexico State University. I hold a baccalaureate degree in journal ism. I love Shakespeare! Just last year I was in the University of Texas at E l Paso's production of Hamlet. I played a very vain, manipulative, evil Poloni us. Prior to that I played Shylock in El Paso Community College's production o f the Merchant of Venice -- a contemporized version. And, I've been in Midsumm er Night's Dream as Bottom also in Texas in an outdoors theatre called the Mcka lligan. I've taken courses in Shakespeare, but most of my reading I do on my o wn. (Not much lately unfortunately because of grad school). And I try to get my hands on as many recordings and films of Shakespearean plays as I possible c an. I have not published any articles, but I hope my experience as an actor gi ves me some substance (I wish I could send you critics' reviews!). There isn't much Shakespeare done or talked about in the states of Texas or New Mexico. I wish there were. Thank goodness for E-mail! Now all I have to do is spend a few days or so figuring out this computer. =============================================================================== *Carlson, David Aaron My name is David A. Carlson and I am a graduate student at CSU Fresno in the English Literature program. Because I am still working on my master's degree, my class schedule reflects a wide range of literary studies; yet, my first literary (and theatrical) love is Shakespeare. I also am continuing to study literature in Latin (last semester I read and studied Vergil's _Eclogves_ and this coming semester I'll be taking a class in medieval Latin). As well, I enjoy reading Victorian literature, although it took me awhile to warm-up to it inasmuch as it's the most modern of all genres I've studied since my undergrad freshman year. For my upcoming thesis I'm considering two possible still-broad topics: Medieval and Renaissance literary influences on _The Merchant of Venice_ with the goal of identifying which works reflect anti-Semitic values and which works tend towards Semitic-sympathy (_Merchant_, in my opinion, falling in the latter category); however, should I decide to write on a less-thouroughly examined topic I'm also interested in examining the influence of Shakespeare's plays on selected Victorian novels. This past semester I wrote a paper on imagery and themes of _Hamlet_ in _Great Expectations_ and _The Mill on the Floss_; I have Stanley Friedman, Marianne Novy, and William A. Wilson primarily to thank for their research on various aspects of this topic. Particularly fascinating to me is how Victorian novelists such as Dickens and Eliot vary in their interpretations and adaptations of Shakespearean plays well-known to the Victorians. It seems that whatever the genre of literature I am studying in a given semester I am unable to resist relating the literature and the genre to Shakespeare. Given the consistency of Shakespeare as the mainstay of the western literary canon and the works of scholars such as Gary Taylor and Marianne Novy (identifying the influence of Shakespeare on literary eras since the Renaissance), I suppose this most be true for other students and scholars as well. When I'm not studying or writing I work as a supervisor and tutor in the CSU Fresno Writing Center. My studies and my work are carefully balanced with my family time--I have a wife of two-and-a-half years and a fourteen month old son. I am fortunate to be supported in my studies by my family as we all look forward to my entering a doctoral program in a couple of years. =============================================================================== *Carlson, Jerry I am currently a PhD candidate in English. My interests are in Renaissance England (drama+poetry, in particular) and late Medieval England. ============================================================= *Carnegie, David DAVID CARNEGIE Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Film, Victoria University of Wellington, Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. Email: from 24 June 1993. Previously at universities of McGill, Otago, Guelph; also professional theatre. Forthcoming publications: (co-editor) Cambridge edition of the Works of John Webster, and (ed.) 'The Part of Poore' in Collections XV (Malone Society). Executive member of Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, and of Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand. Current interests: in addition to stage history and stagecraft of Webster, I am editing Twelfth Night for the Bell Shakespeare (Sydney), and working on the dramaturgy of Elizabethan stage hangings and curtains, and practical Shakespearean dramaturgy with professional companies. =============================================================================== *Carpenter, Bradford My name is Bradford Carpenter and I am on the English Faculty at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private secondary school in Wallingford CT. I earned my B.A. in English from Connecticut College and I am currently a candidate for and M.A., Humanities from Wesleyan University. I have studied Shakespeare extensively in both my undergraduate work and now in my graduate studies. My main area of interest lies in performance interpretation. I am also interested in the use of technology in the classroom which has lead me, and a partner (a computer science teacher at St. Alban's School, Washington D.C.) to design and develop a Macintosh based CD-ROM for teaching "Hamlet." So far the program has been a great success, as it offers my students an opportunity to see four different versions of the major scenes, quick access to secondary source materials, maps, note-taking tools, text browsing tools, and the like. A colleague of mine, David Loeb (also a member of the "Shaksper List" group) also uses the CD-ROM in his classes. I would be interested in conversations with others who are developing or interested in hypermedia productions of Shakespeare's work. I can be reached at , or at P.O. Box 788, Wallingford, CT 06492. =============================================================================== *Carr, John B. John B. Carr Unix Consultant Academic Computing University of Virginia Managing Board Midsummer Players Charlottesville, Virginia 401 Altamont Circle Charlottesville, VA 22902 I have been on the Managing Board of the Midsummer Players for 4 years and served as Assistant Director and Stage Manager on several of our productions. The Midsummer Players is an amateur group whose mission is to provide free outdoor Shakespeare to the public in the Charlottesville Virginia area. A list of our productions in reverse chronological order follows. 1993 _The Merry Wives of Windsor_ 1992 _All's Well That Ends Well_ 1991 _As You Like It_ 1990 _The Taming of the Shrew_ 1989 _Twelfth Night_ 1988 _Much Ado About Nothing_ 1987 _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ 1986 _The Winter's Tale_ 1985 _Julias Caesar_ =============================================================================== *Carr, Melissa My name is Melissa Carr. I am a junior at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and I am enrolled in English 486 Shakespeare. I am very much looking forward to participating in this activity. I am an English major, and I am glad to have this chance to interact with other lovers of literature. =============================================================================== *Carraher, Julia JuliaCarr@aol.com I am an English teacher at Carondelet High School (a small Catholic girls' school) in Northern California. I received my BA at San Francisco State University and my teaching credential at Saint Mary's College. This will be my second year of teaching. My hope is that your forum will provide an opportunity for me to keep my own education alive so that I may bring new insights to my students. =============================================================================== *Carrigan, Tom Tom Carrigan: I am writing from Wilton (Connecticut) High School, where I began working as a Librarian at the start of the current school year. The use of any kind of online searching for research is somewhat new here and I am sampling databases and lists that correspond to areas of special emphasis in the curriculum, as well as to the professional and personal interests of the English faculty- to whom I serve as liaison- and of my own interests. I would like the opportunity to receive SHAKESPER Global Electronic Conference and to share it with colleagues and staff; I do not see students directly interacting with the list, at least not unsupervised. I worked as a librarian at Johnstown (New York) High School for five years, where online database searching- primarily through DIALOG- was very helpful to me in designing a Library/Media program from the ground up. Before that I was a reference librarian at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York, both in the undergraduate college and on the Albany Campus in the evening and graduate divisions. For a few years, I also taught writing courses there, and designed a course curriculum following a single topic/multi-discipline model. =============================================================================== *Carrigan, Tom I would be most interested in resuming membership in SHAKSPER. In a previous position, as Librarian at Wilton High School in Wilton, Connecticut, the messages on the list were invaluable in exciting the interest of teachers of AP English in the possibilities for accessing scholarly research over the internet. I have changed employment and am now at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, NewYork, and would like to provide this opportunity to the English teachers here. I have no doubt that many of our teachers and students would benefit immensely from being privy to the discussions that SHAKSPER regularly hosts. My own background has prepared me, hopefully, to be a liaison between the higher level work that is being done in secondary school AP classes, and literary scholarship. I worked for several years as a college reference librarian: at College of St. Rose in Albany, New York; and at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. In addition, I was an adjunct writing instructor at Russell Sage for several years. On the high school level, I have worked with teachers to develop curricula for literature-based upper-level Spanish classes, and have used online database searching and interlibrary loan to provide access to scholarly journals in a broad range of classes. At Bedford, we would certainly see ourselves primarily in the role of eavesdroppers on discussions, and examining scholarly papers. Any questions or comments, if any, would of course be mediated through a teacher and myself. ============================================================= *Carrington, Eddie Eddie Carrington 1318 Berkeley #6 Santa Monica, CA 90404 I would like to join your group in learning and researching more about William Shakespeare. I am currently a first year English major at Santa Monica College. I will continue my studies with an emphasis on poetry at UCLA in 2 years. Your group would offer much insight and interest to me in the areas of Shakespeare's sonnets. =============================================================================== *Carroll, Carole L. Carole L. Carroll: I am currently a first semester PhD candidate at Texas Tech University and a Teaching Assistant in the departments of English and Classical and Modern Languages and Literature. I received my undergraduate degree from Tech in 1990 in the area of General Studies and completed my M.A. in English--British and American Literature--in May of 1995. My area of emphasis for the PhD is in Ancient and Medieval Literature with a minor in Latin. I adore the works of Shakespeare and refuse to give him up completely. His works have a timeless quality and his mastery of the English language is, in my opinion, second to none. At the regional Popular Culture Conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma in February of 1995, I presented a paper entitled "Zefirelli's _Hamlet_: A note on Structure" in the film and literature session. The paper from which I derived my presentation is entitled "_Hamlet_: Structure and Meaning" and was published on CD Rom with the proceedings of the conference. I have other conference presentations to date, but none are in the area of Shakespeare studies. I am currently a member of the South Central MLA, the Popular Culture Association, and the Classics Society of Texas Tech. My interest in Shakespeare lies mainly in film and the adaptation of play text into the medium of film. =============================================================================== *Carroll, James I am not a Shakespearean academic or any kind of academic. My interest in Shakespeare is due only to the fact that I've been reading him for 25 years (since high school). I have a B.S. and M.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire. I am not going to post to this newsgroup, I just want to read the latest in Shakespeare studies, and I am more interested in Shakespeare the poet rather than Shakespeare the dramatist, but lately, because of the latest film versions of his works, I have become more interested in the drama. I am also very interested in the use of computers as an aid to the analysis of his work. ============================================================= *Carson, Neil I am a professor of English at the University of Guelph where I have been teaching Elizabethan and modern drama for twenty years. My publications in the field of Elizabethan drama include several articles on stage management at the Rose theatre in Theatre Research International and "A Companion to Henslowe's Diary" published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. I am currently engaged in research on the production of Shakespeare on open stages such as those at Stratford, Ontario, and in Minneapolis. I am sure that I would find access to SHAKESPER an invaluable aid in this research. My surface mail address is: Neil Carson, Department of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada, N1G 2W1 (telephone 519-824-4120 x3230) ============================================================================ *Carter, Mack I have been suggested to join you by my Professor D. Wall. I am a English major at Eastern Washington University in my junior year. My background in English Lit is limited I'll admit, but I have had the privlege of being educated in a wide background. The largest is the theatre as a technician for the past five years. I've even worked on a set for the Tempest. The only other things that bring me closer to Shakespear is a current course in his works. For English works, I've studied the Arthurian liturature from Celtic myths with Linda Leeds department head of Bellevue Community College English Department. =============================================================================== *Cartwright, Kent I writing to request that I might be added to the Shaksper network. I am an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of "Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response" (Penn State, 1991). I am particularly interested in performance-oriented and phenomenological approaches to Shakespeare and early drama. At present, I am working on a book project on drama before Shakespeare, tentatively entitled "Tudor Drama and Learning," and concerned about the relationship between theatrical and didactic values (that is, instruction and delight) in drama from the Tudor interludes through Marlowe. =============================================================================== *Caruana, Stephanie or Stephanie Caruana. Playwright, Author, Editor. Publications: Spearshaker: A play about William Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford. (First staged reading to be given October 1, 1995, in Cambridge, Mass. First production scheduled for Fall 1995). Spearshaker Review: Editor and publisher. 5 issues available. Oxford's "Revenge": Shakespeare's Dramatic Development from Agamemnon to Hamlet. Co-author, with Elisabeth Sears. Current major project: completing a novel on the subject of William Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford. Address: 594 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Degree: A.B, U. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, m.c.l. =============================================================================== *Castaldo, Annalisa My name is Annalisa Castaldo and I am a graduate student in English literature at Temple University. I have a BA from Wellesley College (88) and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University (90). I am currently in my first year at Temple. Consequently, my list of papers, conferences, etc. is nonexistant. However, I am more than happy to contribute a list of interests and current projects. I specialize in early Renaissance literature, up to and including Shakespeare. My current interests involve the ways in which Shakespeare continues to be used and reinvented to discuss issues in modern culture. I am especially interested in the current editing debate (what is this thing called Shakespeare and what principles are we using to create modern texts?) as well as the ways Shakespeare is interpreted on film. I am currently working on a paper for the 2nd annual conference of SHARP. Other than this, I am not currently engaged in any specifically Shakespearean reseach. I can be reached through the English Dept. of Temple University Anderson Hall Philadelphia PA 19122 I do not have an office phone there, but messages can be left at my home (2 15)-829-4320. =============================================================================== *Casteel, Dee Dee Ann Casteel specialties in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, natural products, and antimalarial agents. Although I am not professionally involved as a Shakespeare scholar, I do cultivate an interest in Shakespeare, especially performances on stage and film. My first exposures to Shakespeare were as a junior high student. The Zeferelli film of Romeo and Juliet was released to the great delight of many 7th and 8th grade girls. At the same time, my high school produced Romeo and Juliet on stage. When I reached high school, I played the second weird sister and designed costumes for a production of Macbeth; my brother played Macbeth. We also did a musical version of Two Gentlemen. The high school thespians took a trip to the Guthrie Theatre for a production of Hamlet with Randall Duk Kim. On that trip we also saw a version of Much Ado in a small experimental theatre. In college I took a semester of Shakespeare (Comedies and Romances). Since then, I have attempted to see staged productions whenever I could. I have seen the complete seasons at the Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival for the last ten years. I've seen shows at Ashland OR, Normal IL, Spring Green WI, The Public Theatre, and many University theaters. I have seen all the plays on stage except for Troilus and Cressida, Winters Tale, Coriolanus, 1 Henry VI, Henry VIII, Richard II. I am presently sitting in on Jean Peterson's Cultural Shakespeare seminar. ============================================================= *Castillo, Paul Performer of Morris Dancing, Sunset Morris Side, Santa Monica, California. Performer of English Country Dancing, Newcastle Country Dancers, Los Angeles, Renaissance Pleasure Faire. Member of the National Trust Junior Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA Topics interested in: 1. Textual studies 2. Rhetoric 3. Performances 4. Globe Theatre research 5. Life and Times of W. Shakespeare =============================================================================== *Casto, Pamelyn I am interested in mostly eavesdropping on the Shakespeare discussion list because Shakespeare is not my area of concentration but I love his work. My name is Pamelyn Casto and I am a grad. student in Humanities at the University of Texas-Arlington. My area of concentration is ancient Greek philosophy, drama, and women in ancient Greece. I received my bachelor's degree at UT-Arlington in 1989 in philosophy. As a grad student I took a class in Shakespeare from one of the best professors at UTA and have been in love with Shakespeare ever since. =============================================================================== *Caulfield, Michael Name: Michael Caulfield Address: 7 Ministerial Dr. Merrimack, NH 03054 Phone: (603)424-8084 I am a recent college graduate (B.A. English) hoping to pursue a master's degree at the University of Northern Illinois in the fall. My particular approach to Shakespeare has been highly influenced by such critics and theorists as LaDriere, Shklovsky, Ingarden, Halliday, and (of course) Jakobson. Current projects include an attempt to redefine imagery in terms of semantic entries (rather than mental visualization). However, as my linguistic knowledge is limited, I would appreciate any help members could provide. =============================================================================== *Caulfield, Michael Michael Caulfield Suite 405 West Neptune Hall DeKalb, IL 60115 815-752-4187 I am currently a graduate student at Northern Illinois Univerisity. My primary interest is textual analysis, trying to figure out what makes a text "work" as a piece of literature. I have a strong interest Shakespeare, as well as a variety of Elizabethan lyricists. My current interests are in applications of schema and prototype theories to works of drama and poetry. I am particularly interested in applying script theory to dramatic comedy. KEYWORDS: JAKOBSON, SHKLOVSKY, MUKAROVSKY, INGARDEN, GRAHAM BRADSHAW, COGNITIVE THEORY, TROPES, VICTOR RASKIN, RACHEL GIORA, STRUCTURALISM, FORMALISM, HUMOR RESEARCH, SITCOMS AS LITERATURE, J. C. LADRIERE, PROSODY. =============================================================================== *Cave, Sarah Lancaster SARAH LANCASTER CAVE Acting Director of the Annual Fund AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 141 East College Avenue Decatur, GA 30030 404-638-6303 BA in English & Theatre, Wake Forest University Cum Laude May 1989 I am an actress working in the Atlanta area. I have performed in and created music for several Shakespearean productions, including: *A Midsummer Night's Dream*; *Henry IV, Part One*; *Macbeth*; *Richard III*; *Titus Andronicus*; and *Much Ado About Nothing*. Most of my work here has been with the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, but I am currently working with the Soul-Stice Repertory Company. I am very interested in character and music research, current theatrical productions, and the exchange of performance techniques and theory. I studied in London (Jan - May 1988) with WFU and the National Theatre of Great Britain. I sing on the CD "Lend Me Your Ears" (Songs from Shakespeare composed by Bo Ketchin). =============================================================================== *Celebi, Elif Elif Celebi: I am a student in the B.F.A. Theatre-Performance program at the University of MIchigan. I mostrecently served as dramaturg for the university production of TWELFTH NIGHT. I intend to pursue a career in performance as well as dramaturgy. =============================================================================== *Cerasano, Susan I've written two books so far: 1) edited with Marion Wynne-Davies, Gloriana's Face: Women, public and private in the english renaissance (London: Harvester, 1992), and 2) also with the same editor, Renaissance Theatre by Women: Texts and Contexts (Routledge, London, forthcoming November, 1995). The latter is a collection of plays and documents written by, performed by, and framing the historical context of women and theatrical affairs in the renaissance. Lest you think that my major area of specialty is women's studies, however, really I am a theatre historianworking on a biography of Edward Alleyn, which has been in progress for almost ten years, and which is almost completed. I curated an exhibition on Alleyn for the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, London, which opened on November 28th, 1994, and which will close on the 28th of this month. I also wrote a catalogue, entitled as the exhibition: "Edward Alleyn: Elizabethan Actor, Jacobean Genleman" (1994). My research concerns Renaissance theatre history in England in all of its areas: playing companies, playhouse structure, actors, theatre as an enterprise, the social and political contexts of theatre, theatrical entrepreneurs. I hold a PhD (1981) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. i currently have two books in progress: one is the Alleyn biography, which I hope to complete this autumn, and a second, on the First Fortune Playhouse, which I also hope to complete shortly. =============================================================================== *Cerf, Vinton G. <0003786240@mcimail.com> Vinton Gray Cerf was born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics at Stanford University in 1965 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He was a programming staff member at UCLA from 1967 to 1972 while carrying out his research. As a staff member, he participated in the design and development of host communication protocols for the ARPANET and operated the Network Measurement Center under the direction of Prof. L. Kleinrock. In 1972, Dr. Cerf joined Stanford University in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments where he taught operating systems and related computing courses. He led a research effort, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which developed the Transmission Control and Internet Protocols (TCP/IP). In 1976, Dr. Cerf joined DARPA as a program manager in the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) where he managed the Internetting, Packet Communications and Network Security efforts. Dr. Cerf served as principal scientist in the office during the last two years of his tenure at DARPA. In 1982, he joined the MCI Digital Information Systems Company as its vice president of engineering where he led the development of the MCI Mail electronic messaging service. In 1986, Dr. Cerf joined the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as a vice president where he currently manages Internet, Digital Library and electronic messaging research programs. Dr. Cerf is the author or co-author of several books on computer networking and many articles in journals, conference proceedings and trade publications. He was elected a fellow of the IEEE in 1988 for his computer networking contributions. Dr. Cerf is an active participant in various National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine studies and serves on the Federal Network Advisory Council. He is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery and served as chairman of the Special Interest Group on Communication (SIGCOMM) from 1987-1991. He was a member of the Internet Activities Board from 1986-1992 and served as its chairman from 1989-1992. Dr. Cerf was elected to the Datamation Hall of Fame in 1990. Dr. Cerf is married to Sigrid Thorstenberg Cerf; they have two children, David and Bennett. His outside interests include science fiction, Shakespeare and a variety of community services. ============================================================================ *Cerrato, Laura My name is Laura Cerrato Juarroz. I am full professor of English Lit. at the University of Buenos Aires. My main teaching interests are drama and poetry. My PhD thesis was about forms of "unnaming" in modern poetry ( in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese languages). I am currently doing research on Samuel Beckett, mainly centred on textual genetics and study of his manuscripts. I have also done genetic critique on the work of one of our greatest aphorists, Antonio Porchia. I am also working on Beckettian intertextualities, some of them Shakespearean. Obviously Shakespearean studies are not alien to all this, and I expect to learn a lot from the wide gamut of interests that you tell me supports the list. I am editor of two of the literary reviews published at our University: INTER LITTERAS, dealing with literatures in languages other than Spanish, and BECKETTIANA, devoted to Beckett. I am sometimes required as advisor for staging Beckett in Buenos Aires. Other interests: Shakespearean intertextualities, especially modern and postmodern. Books published: OTREDADES (poems). Buenos Aires: Botella al mar, 1980. Transl.into French. ENSAYOS SOBRE POESIA COMPARADA (essays in modern poetry). Buenos Aires: Botella al Mar, 1985. PALABRAS EN EL ESPEJO (poems). Buenos Aires: Botella al Mar, 1987. Translated into French. DOCE VUELTAS A LA LITERATURA (essays). Buenos Aires: Botella al Mar, 1992. I am a member of the BECKETT INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION and the C.I.R.E.T (Centre International de Recherches et Etudes Transdisciplinaires - Paris, UNESCO). =============================================================================== *Cevik, Adnan My name is Adnan Cevik, 28 year-old Turkish male. I have been studing English Language and Literature at The University of Ankara for two years. Altough i haven't studied Shakespeare, i am intersted in his works. But on the other hand, being frank, i have serious doubts about whether i have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to join SHAKESPER or not. But your second E-Mail encouraged me to write this mail. In my opinion, maybe i won't participate in the discussions in SHAKESPER actively, yet i would be a promissing subscriber. =============================================================================== *Chakov, Denise I am a senior majoring in English/Secondary Education at Rowan University in New Jersey. I am looking forward to student teaching next fall. I love Shakespeare, and I am really interested in joining SHAKSPER. As a full-time student, I don't always have a lot of time to "hang-out," so I would really benefit from some intellectual conversation on my favorite subject, literature, and my favorite author, Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Chambers, David I am a professional stage director and teaching of acting and directing at the Yale School of Drama. I have directed roughly half the canon professionally and worked on all the plays in some way, shape, or form with my students. I teach Shakespeare in performance for actors and advise directors on Shakespeare verse projects. Most of my productions, while (hopefully) resonant with contemporary analogues, are very text-driven and frequently uncut. I want to stress that I am not a scholar, but a practicing director and teacher and therefore would probably never contribute a written article--my publications are my productions. However, I rely strongly on dramaturgical influences and that would, I assume, be my main connection to the list. =============================================================================== *Chance, Ann Margaret I hold a BA (Hons 1) from the University of Western Australia, majoring in English, with cognate studies in history. My Honours thesis was on the function of direct address in the context of open staging, particularly in regard to the University's own New Fortune Theatre - a reconstruction of the orginal Fortune. At present, I am working towards a PhD, and am jointly enrolled in the departments of English and History at UWA. The current working title of my thesis is 'In Despite of Death: Paranoia, Possession and Symbolic Survival in Early Modern England'. It is intended as a study of the ways in which male members of the landed classes attempted to extend their presence and power through space and time, possible psychological and cultural motives for these strategies, and the interpersonal effects of this endeavour. Upon occasion, I also tutor and lecture for the Department of English, usually on Shakespeare studies. Publications in this area include 'Shakespeare's Widow,' in Robin Eden, Heather Kerr and Madge Mitton, eds, Shakespeare and the World Elsewhere, Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (Adelaide: Flinders Press, 1993), pp. 23-35; and 'Black Widow: Death and the Woman in Early Modern English Texts,'in Constructing Gender: Feminism and Literary Studies, ed. Hilary Fraser and Bob White, (Perth, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1994), pp. 55-72. I am also a committee member of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group: a group composed of both academics and non-academics who have an interest in the history and cultures of the period. I can be contacted by mail at the Department of English, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, AUSTRALIA; by email at achance@uniwa.uwa.edu.au; and (at home) by telephone - Australia (09) 380 9527. =============================================================================== *Chandler, Wayne I am a Ph.D. student in The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. My primary research interest is Shakespeare, although I have presented papers on Chaucer, Mary Shelley, and misogyny in western religion. I have three forthcoming publications, including a reader-response treatment of Shelley's _Frankenstein_, a critical discussion of the works of contemporary fantasy writer Steven Brust, and a fiction piece in Marion Zimmer Bradley's _Fantasy_ magazine. =============================================================================== *Chandler, Wayne I am a Ph.D. student in The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. My concentration in the Renaissance is Shakespeare, and I would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER file server. =============================================================================== *Chapman, Alison Alison Chapman 2629 Brown St, #301 Philadelphia, PA 19130 Or University of Pennsylvania Bennett Hall 34th and Walnut Philadelphia, PA, 19104 I am a third-year graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. I am working on a dissertation in English almanacs, and my academic interests also embrace related issues of prophecy, astrology, calendars, and other ephemeral texts of the seventeenth century. I am also teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates this year, and my most pressing Shakespeare questions are pedagogical ones. =============================================================================== *Chapot, John I have played Snout in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Valentine in 'Twelfth Night' and Morocco in 'The Merchant of Venice'. I seem to be a character-actor. Lighting Designer and T.D. for Magic Theatre 1977-80 and George Coates Perf Works 1980-85. Two-time Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award winner. I lit 'Measure for Measure' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Professional stagehand, member IATSE Local #16, San Francisco. Employers include A.C.T., SF Shakespeare Festival, LucasFilm. Most impressive Shakespeare productions I've ever seen: Peter Brooks' 'Midsummer Night's Dream', US tour 1971, Reimann's opera 'Lear' at SF Opera, 1981, Jonathan Miller's 'Taming of the Shrew', Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1987, and, of course, Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood'. I'm looking forward to the National Theatre's 'Dream' tour which will debut at SF's Golden Gate Theatre in January 1996. Favorite Shakespearean books: Anthony Burgess's 'Nothing Like the Sun', 'Enderby's Dark Lady' and 'A Dead Man in Deptford'. =============================================================================== *Charlton, Nancy At present I am a self-employed writer and editor, working chiefly in marketing and advertising. My biggest client is a Spanish-language directory, where I am in charge of English materials, proofreading, and some special projects. I also have several internet businesses, the aim of which is to make it possible to work anywhere and become an independent scholar. I should make a bumper sticker: "I had as lief be reading Shakespeare"; but then I'd need a series of them to include Milton, Spenser, Vergil, Homer, Donne, Chaucer, Cervantes, Moliere, Pope, Austen and a slew of moderns. My whole car would be plastered! Had my life's pilgrimage not forked into the road less travelled by, I would have been in academe. I finished some graduate study at Western Washington University in the late '60's, just when legislatures were blaming the humanities disciplines for the anarchy of that decade and cutting them off at the pockets. Like many others, I recycled myself into business, but never let go of my special study of Renaissance literature. I majored in English at Beloit College, with strong history and speech concentrations. I also study (present tense intended) music and classical languages including Hebrew and Old English. The internet is making it easier to keep up with what's new in the 17th century, though I still visit college libraries as much as I can. I have been enjoying the Milton, Vergil, and Spenser lists for the past year or so. Shakespeare is central and indispensable, and I have been overwhelmed by the volume of internet material. I have a strong interest also in religion. I am now administrator of the CSList (discussion of world affairs in light of Christianity and Christian Science) and contribute to Bonastra, a discussion of the works of Madeleine l'Engle. (I also love kid lit.) I am considering putting up web pages for Richard Brinsley Sheridan and for John Webster, as texts of both seem to be lacking on the WWW. ============================================================= *Cheadle, Allen and Mary We would like to apply for an account on the shaksper network. Although neither of us is primarily a Shakespeare researcher, we are both interested in aspects of Shakespeare studies. Mary is a literature PhD from Berkeley who has just completed a manuscript on Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations. Allen has a PhD in Economics from Berkeley, does most of his research in community health studies, and has a general, amateur interest in social and literary history. Our interest in communicating with other Shakespeare researchers arose from discussions with friends and relatives who have been active in the "authorship" controversy--particularly the claim of DeVere, Earl of Oxford. If it were true that DeVere were the author of the Shakespeare plays, new light could be shed on them as information about DeVere's life is brought to bear, and we wonder how other Shakespeare scholars in the network regard the DeVere hypothesis. =============================================================================== *Chedgzoy, Kate I am a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. My first book, _Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture_ (Manchester University Press, 1996), is a study of appropriations of Shakespeare, including work by Angela Carter, Derek Jarman, H.D., and Oscar Wilde, among many others. It focusses on the way that Shakespeare's works and cultural authority have been seized on to give voice to alternative/oppositional positions. Currently, I have two Shakespearean projects in preparation: a short critical study of_ Measure for Measure_ for the British Council/Northcote Press Writers and their Work series (due out winter 1998-99), and a volume selecting some of the most significant and interesting recent critical work on _Shakespeare, Feminism, and Gender_ for the Macmillan New Casebook series. I've also published a number of articles on Shakespearean topics, namely 'The (pregnant) prince and the showgirl: Cultural legitimacy and the reproduction of Hamlet', in Burnett and Manning, eds,_ New Essays on 'Hamlet'_ (AMS Press, 1994); ' "Two loves I have": Shakespeare and bisexuality', in Bi-Academic Intervention, eds,_ The Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, Desire_ (Cassell, 1997); ' "Blackness yields to beauty": the desirability of difference in early modern culture', in Gordon McMullan, ed.,_ Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1590-1690_ (Macmillan, summer 1998). I continue to work on the sexual politics of Shakespeare's cultural significance, and have two essays in hand: one on Clemence Dane's play_ Will Shakespeare_ (1921), the other exploring the figuring of Shakespearean sexualities in the elegiac mode. I have a second major area of research interest, early modern women's writing; in this area I have published two co-edited volumes with Suzanne Trill and Melanie Hansen: a collection of critical essays,_ Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing_ (paperback edition copublished by Edinburgh University Press and Duquesne University Press, June 1998); and an anthology of extracts from primary texts,_ Lay by Your Needles, Ladies, Take the Pen: English Women's Writing, 1500-1700_ (Edward Arnold, 1997). I've also published two articles on female prophecy in the seventeenth century. Currently, I'm working on retrieving from the archives writing by women in early modern Wales. ============================================================= *Cherne, Margaret B I am interested in subscribing to the Shakespeare list. I am ABD in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the university of Minnesota. Although my dissertation topic is radical theatre of the 1930s in the U.S., I also team-teach a Shakespeare course with another list-member, Chris Gordon, an English Department colleague here at the U of MN. I plan to research some highly "politicized" productions from Shakespeare's canon in the future (notably, of course, Orson Welle's Julius Caesar and Scottish play). As a future college theatre professor and director, questions of production, actor training, "authenticity" ("that isn't SHAKESPEARE") are of great interest to me. I've studied the bard with James Norwood of our department, and wish to continue that study with others of simlar interest/expertise. My snail mail address is 1081 23rd Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Phone (612)331-6529 or Office number: (612) 627-1891. I earned my Master's in theatre here at the U of MN in 1991, my bachelor's in theatre from the U of Wisconsin, Superior in 1977. I spent the years between BA and MA working a "day job" and directing in the Twin Cities community. I look forward to listening in to the list-talk. =============================================================================== *Chesser, Courtney I am a first year graduate student at the University of Washington and am working on my MA/PhD in Shakesperean Performance. I worked with Dr. Jim Ayres' Shakespeare at Winedale program while completing my undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, which involved performing in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, _Pericles_, _Much Ado About Nothing_, _Tempest_, and Beaumont's _Knight of the Burning Pestle_. My interests lie in studying audience response to these texts, both in Renaissance and modern contexts, in order to help understand their resounding impact as drama. I also hope to work with teaching practices in relation to the canon, specifically the role of performance. I am currently working on preparing my undergraduate thesis, "The Triple Crown of Femininity: A cultural analysis of [Marlowe's] _Dido, Queen of Carthage_ and _Antony and Cleopatra_" for publication. ============================================================= *Cheung, Chiu-yee I was born in 1954 in Hong Kong. In 1982, I graduated from the Department of Chinese Language & Literature at Jinan University, Guangzhou, PRC. Between 1986-1993, I read my PhD in Department of Asian Studies, University of Sydney. In 1995, I was appointed lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages & Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. In the last ten years, I have been publishing on comparative literature (mainly Nietzsche's influence in China) and the studies on a modern Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936). I have also contributed in establishing the first WWW for the humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993-94. Currently I am involved in a teaching program of Chinese<->English translation and I wish to keep in touch with the latest development of English literature studies. =============================================================================== *Chevalier, Noel Noel Chevalier Dept. of English University of Regina Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Canada email address: chevalie@max.cc.uregina.ca Education: MA (Carleton) 1988/PhD (Queen's) 1992 Research interests: Eighteenth-century theatre; David Garrick; Adaptatiions of Shakespeare; Cross-cultural studies; Gender studies (particularly studies of cross-dressing); Performance theory I am also teaching a summer course in Shakespeare's Histories and Tragedies, and hope to generate some research ideas from this. Relevant articles: "A Bourgeois Pastoral: Politcs and Landscape in Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage" North West Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of British Columbia, February 1994 An Evening's Entertainment: Mainpieces and Afterpieces from the Garrick Stage Broadview Press, forthcoming 1994 or early 1995 =============================================================================== *Chew, Gregory Please enroll me as a member of the Shakesper list. I am a secondary English and Theater teacher and am interested particularly in expanding our theater program to include Shakespearean production. As an undergraduate and graduate student I was active in a group called the Revels Players at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where we did a number of plays ranging from Beaumont and Fletcher to Moliere, the focus being non-Shakespearean Renaissance theatre. Since then I have directed over 30 plays at Urbana High School and regularly teach a British Literature survey course. Among other groups, I am a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Educational Theatre Association, and a lifetime member of the Illinois Theater Association. My current interests extend also to traditional Japanese theatre; our last play was Roshomon, and I joined a group of educators last year on an extended tour of Japan. My B.A. in English and M.A. in Education were earned at the University of Illinois, where I continue to work with student teachers. Mailing address is 1002 S. Race Street, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone (w)217-384-3505, (h)217-384-0815. =============================================================================== *Chickering, Howell D. Professor English Department Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 542-2140 Howell Chickering, interloping medievalist. Editor of Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition (1977); The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches (1988); The Medieval Lyric [4 vols., 5 tape cassettes] (1989-90). Representative articles: "The Literary Magic of 'Wid Faersticce,'" Viator 1971; "Some Contexts for Bede's 'Death-Song,'" PMLA 1976; "Unpunctuating Chaucer," Chaucer Review 1990; "Lyric Time in 'Beowulf,'" JEGP 1991. I teach the big lecture course on Shakespeare at Amherst College, and am currently working on an interdisciplinary article about the full aesthetic effects (musical AND dramatic) of the two known Robert Johnson ayres in THE TEMPEST, to be called "Hearing Ariel's Songs." Other current work: a monograph on Chaucer's poetry appreciated as poetry, instead of as narrative or as expressive of character or thematically. My interest in Shakespeare is that of an amateur, though I hope in both senses. ================================================================= *Chin, Kung-yu Kung-yu Chin institution: MA student, Dept. of Theatre and Film, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044 interest: Comparison between Shakespearean Theatre and medieval Chinese Theatre in terms of style, language and performance ========================================================================= *Ching, Lim Wee My name is Lim Wee Ching and I'm an enlisted personnel doing my compulsary service in the Singapore Armed Forces; I'm currently doing the foundation year in my B.A. English (external) from U. of London, part-time, after having spent 2 years in academic wilderness.I do not have any research topics to speak of as the course is purely assessed by exams (only). However, Shakespeare is the centre of UOL's prescribed 'canon'. The libraries here in Singapore are totally hopeless where reference materials are concerned, so I have to rely on cyber-help. So here I am. And I hope to be able to draw on everybody's expertise as much as possible and thank everybody in advance for whatever help I can get; and hopefully make some contributions myself. =============================================================================== *Chisholm, Sandye S.A.Chisholm sac116@psu.edu *(preferred address) s.chisholm@genie.geis.com surface address: 331 Toftrees Avenue #321 State College, Pa 16803 I am very interested in participating in your Shaksper list, and as per your instructions am submitting a brief biographical sketch. I am currently attending The Pennsylvania State University, as a undergraduate with a double major in History and English. I will be recieving my degree in August, and will continue on in the graduate history program, concentrating in British History. My areas of specialization are as follows: Tudor/Stuart England, Renaissance Drama, and Medieval English History. I am particularly interested in Jacobean/Revenge tragedy. I am currently working on a project that looks at the various concepts of justice expressed in Revenge tragedy, and how those concepts reflect contemporary social attitudes and the institutions that maintained accepted codes of behavoir. I hope to have this completed and ready to submit for possible publication sometime in late May. I am working very hard on this project, as I intend to develop it into my masters thesis. My interests extends into the modern period as well. I have studied Irish and British drama from 1890-to the present, and have begun a related project concerning expressions in twentieth century British popular culture of historical self-perceptions. The comparison of the two Elizabethan periods of drama is something I find fascinating. Both involve an examination of the general spiritual malaise and universal disillusionment characteristic of the revenge drama, and I look forward to delving into this topic further during my graduate work. =============================================================================== *Chisman, Amy I hold an MFA from CalArts in Performing Arts Design and Technology. I have been active in Theatre Production/ Design as well as Performance for the last 12 years. During the past 2 years I was the visiting professor of Lighting Design at The University of Florida. I am currently on break from educational work for the next year and am working on a series of paintings based on Poems that I have writen over the past 2 years. My interest in Shakespeare is lifelong. Shakespeare was the only literature that I connected with while I was in Jr and Sr High.... This love is what finally thrust me into a life of Theatre. Some of my professional experiences are working with Stellar-X-Productions in LA...Billboard Music Awards... ELO world tour..., A Contemporary Theatre (Seattle), Free Lance work with Music Theatre of Wichita, Renton Civic Theatre, Wichita Center for the Arts, Head of Design for the Stephan Orth Dance Company. Author of "From Where They Fall". My educational experience is that of Assistant Professor at U of Florida , Theatre Department. Assistant Professor at U of South Florida, School of Fine Arts, Faculty at Washington State University, School of music. ============================================================= *Chlorakos, Zoe My name is Zoe Chlorakos and I go to York University. I am in Peter Paolucci's 3rd year Shakespeare course and I am interested in hooking up to the Sakespearian Discussion Group. I am presently in my 3rd year and I am majoring in English and Mass Communications and I have always enjoyed studying Shakespeare. It would be interesting to see the opinions and theories presented by experts, and even students like myself, on Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Cho, Kyu-hyung Even though my major interest lies in theoretical and postcolonial issues in literary studies, I understand the discussion of Shakespeare should be a great help to see the hottest issues in literary studies. As of now, I will be mainly a kind of observer in your list, but I hope I can contribute to the list near soon in some matters such as Shakespeare and the Third World. Your consideration will be appreciated. Fields: Literary & Cultural Theories; Post-Colonial Novels Written in English; American & British Novels; Comparative Literature. Current Projects: Global Cultures; Postcolonialism; New Historicism. ============================================================= *Christian, Margaret I graduated from UCLA in 1988 with a dissertation about Elizabethan accession-day and court sermons to see what they contribute to a reading of _The Faerie Queene_ and have been at Penn State's Allentown Campus since 1989. At this two-year feeder campus, I teach a sophomore-level Shakespeare course and "honors seminar"-type courses in Elizabethan sonnets and _The Faerie Queene_. Our campus mission also involves me in a variety of courses that fall outside SHAKSPER's time limits and concerns, notably our freshman composition requirement and other "general education" literature classes: British literature survey, fiction in English, the Bible as literature. I've continued my interest in Elizabethan sermons and analyzed their contribution to our understanding of contemporary poetry in articles in _Spenser Studies_, _Christianity and Literature_, _Explorations in Renaissance Culture_, and _Sixteenth Century Journal_. I'm currently at work on "a larger project," as we say, in which I hope to trace the development of the role of preacher in early modern England. I'm also haunted by a stubbornly anonymous and tantalizingly idiosyncratic 1594 sonnet sequence, _Zepheria_. =============================================================================== *Christianson, Beth My name is Beth Christianson. I am a student at Medicine Hat College in Alberta. I am currently taking a class called Shakespeare On-Line and would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER Electronic Forum. ============================================================= *Christianson, Janet I am sending information requested for the Shaksper mailing list. I have a Master's degree in English. I am currently doing research on Chaucerian references in Shakespeare's comedies, as well as Celtic references in both Chaucer and Shakespeare. I am also interested in the portrayal of women in Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *Christopher, Chael My name is Chael Christopher and I am interested in joining the Shakespeare community. I was referred to your bulletin by my professor Helen Whall, who teaches, among other classes, the Shakespeare Survey class at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachussets. I am a Junior English major who is interested in using the discussions provided in this cyberspace to enlighten and perhaps heighten the class discussions. Like most college students, I have had some exposure to Shakespeare. Beginning my freshman year at York Catholic High School in York, Pennsylvania, I was introduced to the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet. From there we studied the basics: Hamlet, Othello, and MSND. I enjoyed reading the plays, acting them out in class, and watching the cinematic productions on TV. When I came to Holy Cross, I was introduced to the Historical plays, and I enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the other works. Now in the Survey class we are reading a wide variety of Shakespeare's plays, and to supplement the class lectures and the _Riverside Shakespeare's_ discussions, I would like to read what the experts have to say today about Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Chronister, Elaine DeRosa I am beginning my first year as a doctoral fellow at Kent State University. My fellowship includes teaching freshman composition and serving as a research assistant in the university's new Center for Research in Workplace Literacy. I have a master's degree in English literature from New Mexico State University, which I earned in 1979. During the intervening years, I was a reporter and associate editor for newspapers throughout the Southwest and a stringer for Time magazine. I also taught freshman composition classes at New Mexico State University as a graduate assistant and following graduation, and I taught composition at California State College (now University) in Bakersfield. Most recently, I was a media specialist at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and a news writing instructor at KSU. I have returned to college to earn my Ph.D., with the intent of teaching English courses at the university level. My interests are in Renaissance literature, particularly Shakespeare, and rhetoric. =============================================================================== *Church, Pam Hi, my name is Pam Church. I am a second year education student majoring in English. I feel that a membership to your organization would provide me with a great deal of information that I can put to use in my future career. I am also currently enrolled in a Shakespeare course here at the Medicine Hat College. Reading the works of Shakespeare has always been one of my favorite pastimes, and I have been known to read these plays and poems religiously. I would love to see the different takes that others have on the works of such a wonderful poet and playwright. ============================================================= *Cimitile, Anna Maria My name is Anna Maria Cimitile, and I am a PhD student at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff College. This is my second year of PhD, and I am working on "Figures of Excess in Shakespeare", under the supervision of Catherine Belsey. In 1991 I got my first degree in "Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures" at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy, where I studied with Lidia Curti and Iain Chambers. I have published three articles in Italian journals, all of them on contemporary fiction (Alasdair Gray, Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter). I have not published any articles on Shakespeare. I am generally interested in poststructuralism, the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard (especially his notions of the "differend" and the "unpresentable"). I am also interested in psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory (I wrote my MA dissertation on it), gender studies and cultural studies. In 1992/93 I got a studentship from the Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy, to pursue a Master of Arts in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff, and the following year I started my PhD with the renewed grant. =============================================================================== *Cinnamon, Sharon I am an actor and director who lives in the Boston area. After receiving my BA in Drama from Tufts University, I spent two years training with a theater in Boston. Recently I spent the summer working with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. where I performed in Midsummer and the Henry VI Chronicles. Currently I am working on a production of Twelfth Night in Cambridge/Boston. =============================================================================== *Cioni, Fernando I am post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Florence. I would like to become a member of the Shakespeare Electronic Conference. My publications on Shakespeare are the following: 1) "'The fancy outwork nature'. Enobarbo e la sua descrizione di Cleopatra" in ANALYSIS 4 (1985) 2) "Shakespeare e i romantici: atti, effetti, affetti" in QUADERNI DI VARIA (1993) 3) "The Troublesome Raigne e King John. Dalla fonte al dramma" in King John dal testo alla scena edited by Mariangela Tempera, Bologna, Clueb 1993 4) "I contratti di Wesker: Shylock, Shylock e The Merchant of Venice" in The Merchant of Venice dal testo alla scena edited by Mariangela Tempera, Bologna, Clueb 1994 5) "Shakespeare e la teatralizzazione delle passioni in MEROPE 13 (1994) 6) Le Maschere di Amleto, Modena 1995 Moreover I translated into Italian The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam and the reader La grande festa del linguaggio. Shakespeare e la lingua inglese edited by Keir Elam. Other publications include articles on Pinter, Hampton, Stoppard, Friel, Churchill, Carter and a book-lenght study on Christopher Hampton. I am currently conducting research on The Taming of the Shrew (textual study, tranlation, stage history, adaptations). =============================================================================== *Cisneros, Samuel samuel cisneros--i am a 27 year old physical therapist in the san fransisco bay area. i have been interested in shakespeare ever since i saw a production of titus andronicus in santa cruz in 1988 (which is my favorite play to date.) my studies have mostly been in the early works--enjoying in particular titus and the three parts of henry vi (a rare bird, indeed!) i guess i would call myself an onlooker--not into "serious" study, but i take my reading seriously and am always looking for information to expand my knowledge. =============================================================================== *Clapp, T. Scott My name is T. Scott Clapp and I am currently the Program Coordinator for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. I have held this position for the last four years. My interest in the Renaissance is wide-spread and I have a strong interest in Shakespeare. I have a BA in history from Arizona State University and I am currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Administration. =============================================================================== *Clark, Ann Ann Clark: I am currently a tenured full-time professor of English in the Humanities Department at Jefferson Community College in Watertown, NY. I received my B.A. in English from the University of Dallas in 1985 and my M.A. in English from Wake Forest University in 1987. I am currently A.B.D in American Literature at Syracuse University. My publications include "What My Students Know is Hurting Them" in TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE TWO YEAR COLLEGE (essay), "The Old Whore and the Laughing Man" (short fiction) in JUST A MOMENT, "Black Barbie's First Christmas" (short fiction) and "Small Packages" (short fiction) in BLUFF CITY, and a variety of poems in small press anthologies and scattered periodicals. "Blackberry Summer" (creative non-fiction) has been accepted for publication in the July 1996 issue of ADIRONDACK LIFE. I am currently working on a collection of short stories (TIRESIAS IN DRAG AND OTHER FICTIONS). It may seem curious that with a pending degree in American literature and an obvious interest in fiction, rather than scholarly writing, I would want to subscribe to the Shakespeare Electronic Conference. However, my current employment obligations and a long-standing, if guilty, passion for Shakespeare are my strongest motivations. As a professor in a community college, I am required to teach a variety of courses (from Remedial Composition to Modern Novel to Drama). During the Spring 1996 semester I will be teaching a series of Drama Modules, including one entitled Shakespeare's Tragedies. Additionally, I will be co-presenting a Community Education Seminar on Macbeth (designed to coincide with a professional performance of the play). I facilitated a similar presentation on The Tempest three years ago. My Introduction to Literature classes will also be reading Macbeth during the Spring semester. Although I have taught at least one Shakespeare play every semester for the six years that I have been teaching, I welcome the opportunity to exchange ideas with others who share an interest in Shakespeare, instruction, and drama. =============================================================================== *Clark, Anna H. Anna H. Clark I am an instructor of English at The University of Tennessee at Martin, a college with approximately 5,000 students which is located in the northwestern corner of Tennessee and only a few miles from the Mississippi River. I teach composition and literature courses, and my responsibilities also include co-coordinating our writing center and teaching honors composition. I received the M. A. in English from The University of Missouri, and I have done additional graduate work at The University of Mississippi. While a student at The University of Missouri, I studied Shakespeare under the instruction of Dr. Robert Bender, and I delighted in the "Shakespeare excitement" created by Dr. William Jones. I was also one of a special group of students involved in an honors class entitled Oral Interpretation of Shakespeare; we practiced and performed on a replica of the Globe Theatre. Since I have been at UTM, I have given presentations about creative expression, and my poetry has appeared in a number of state and regional publications. Although I have special research interests in modern Southern literature, I am involved each semester in teaching Shakespeare, and I never forget how enriched I felt as a college student first encountering and discussing the plays. My address is Anna Clark/ Department of English/131 Humanities/The University of Tennessee at Martin/Martin, TN 38238. My phone is (901)587-7300. =============================================================================== *Clark, Chris I'm 17, English, and studying English at A-Level at Maidstone Grammar School. I intend to study English Literature at university. My specific Shakespeare interests are (at the moment) the implications of King Lear, which I have to do an exam on in just over a week's time. I have also read and liked Macbeth, read and not particularly liked A Midsummer Night's Dream, and am in the process of reading and analysing Hamlet. I do want to be an English teacher, and possibly progress into politics. I have a varied literary interest besides Shakespeare, mostly English ( well, in English) novels, notably those of (note the weird differences in style) Disraeli, Piers Anthony, Douglas Adams. There is no relevance in my musical or sporting interests, so I won't go into those here. ============================================================= *Clark, Dave Although not currently an academic, I am one of those "persons interested in Shakespeare". =============================================================================== *Clark, Jodi I have just attained my BA in Athropology and Theatre at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont. My project was a study of contemporary Renaissance Faires in the United States. This project had two major componants: the first was an ethnography of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, in Cornwall, PA, the second was the production of my own Renaissance Faire based on the format of the Pennsylvania faire. In both componants, I was concerned with issues of authenticity, community(interaction between actors and patrons), and fantasy. The other parts of my project included two examinations: one in anthropological theory, the other in theatre, focusing on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. I have done extensive reading about Early Modern European popular culture, focusing on Elizabethan England and the correlations and influences of popular culture in theatre, especially in Shakespeare's plays. I am most interested in the festive comedies, Twelfth Night being my personal favorite. I am currently taking a year off before endeavoring to continue my studies in graduate school. I would like to attain an MFA in Theatre. The schools that I am currently considering are Brandeis University and Emerson College. And as far as a thesis project proposal goes, I'm still a little uncertain. The occurance of cross-dressing in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, especially in leading female characters, is something that I have a particular interest in. But I haven't developed a standpoint on it yet. I think I have rambled on long enough. I will say that I have also had extensive acting experience, epecially at Marlboro College. And I recently went to London on a trip that the theatre department takes each winter, lead by Paul Nelsen (one of our local Shakespeare experts). =============================================================================== *Clark, Marlene I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY and teach at CCNY, CUNY. I am currently writing a dissertation on Shakespeare's drama. =============================================================================== *Clark, Matthew J. My name is Matthew J. Clark, and I am a student at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am in my third year of a four year Honours B.A. in English. ============================================================= *Clark, Michael Name: Michael Clark Memberships: MLA Title: Professor of English and Head of the Humanities Division (Associate Dean as of July 1) Humanities Division, Widener University, Chester, PA 19013 Published in American Literature, American Transcendental Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, etc. Author of Dos Passos' Early Fiction (Susquehanna University Press) and editor of John Dos Passos' Streets of Night. Also, I am the author of numerous short stories, poems, etc. Other interests: book collecting and the Internet. =============================================================================== *Clark, Paul E. Paul E. Clark 18547 South Street Springdale, AR 72764 501/751-1815 I am a high school English teacher in Springdale, AR where I have taught for the last 9 years. I have taught a number of Shakespeare's plays, and quickly realized my background in Shakespearian scholarship was weak, to say the least, despite the obligatory Shakespear survey course in college. Consequently, my reading has been sporadic and eclectic. I simply wish to improve my knowledge of Shakespearian scholarship and general knowledge of his works. I hold a BS in English from the U of Tulsa granted in 1974, a BA in Education from the U of New Orleans granted in 1981, and an MA in English from the U of New Orleans granted in 1987. =============================================================================== *Clark, Walter I am a student at Allegheny college. I'm afraid that my only degree, which I am just about to finish, is a bachelors of arts concentrating on theatre. My interest in Shakespeare started as only an actors interest. During my studies here at Allegheny I registered for a class on Shakespeare with Prof. James C Bulman. He has had some works published and has acted in a few Shakespeare productions. While taking the class I grew to understand that Shakespeare was not a stuffy 16th century writer, but a voice of the people, whose message can still be applied today. Prof. Bulman has helped me to see much of the hidden context of Shakespeare. That is why I wish to subscribe to this group. The different ideas people have about the Bard are staggering, and as an actor and a student, I wish to know as many of these ideas as possible. I realize that this is not an impressive list of publishings or accomplishments. This is only a request from someone who wishes to learn more about Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Clauser, John B. Name: John B. Clauser, 401 100th Ave N.E., #324, Bellevue, WA, 98004-5457 Prof. degrees: M.D. Interest in the author: 1948 paper as a high school student. I am of the Oxfordian group. But interested in other opinions. I hope I can join your group join your group for disscussion. =============================================================================== *Claussen, Elizabeth K. I am one of that ubiquitous category of PhD graduate students: an A.B.D. in British Literature, majoring particularly in 19th century literature, but-because of the nature of my interests in and particular focus on doppelgangers in literature cross-linearly (historically speaking), which forms the overarching theme of my dissertation-more than "minoring" in the medieval, renaissance, and restoration periods and literature. I have done a lot of work on Spenser and Sidney as well as Shakespeare, Coleridge (on whose Biographia Literaria I wrote my Master's Thesis in 1989), Scott, Hogg, Stevenson, Wilde, Atwood-and so on. I am also one of those students who, because of various and sundry reasons, dropped out of college during my Junior year at Pomona and only returned to my first love of literature years later, in the mid 80's, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. At the present time, while working on my dissertation (book as it looks!), I have been teaching English Comp. and Lit., as well as courses in Survey of British Literature, which I have done for 6-7 years now. I was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944 of the unlikely union of a British mother and a Hungarian father, married just before Britain and Hungary were declared aliens. We "escaped" to the U.S. in 1949, my father (who worked for Radio Free Europe as well as translator for the American embassy) having been tipped off about his precarious position vis-a-vis the new Hungarian-communist gov't. We had a hard time, as did most immigrants, for most of my growing up years in southern California-but survived somewhat intact (not completely) various family crises. I am still married to my zoologist husband, whom I met at Pomona, and we have two children, now in their twenties, each of whom is on the brink of getting their PhD's (one in English/Comp. Lit, the other in Anthropology). I read a lot, but also have branched out in numerous directions, including having done a lot of metal-enameling/cloisonne work, drawing and sculptury, embroidery, writing, hiking, camping, gardening, cooking..... by nature very much a Renaissance woman. The five major focii of my dissertation (which may or may not actually come to fruition AS a dissertation, but certainly will do so in one form or another eventually), revolving around the general theme of doubles and doppelgangers, focuses on six works: Spenser's FAERIE QUEENE, Hoggs' PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER, Scott's REDGAUNTLET, Stevenson's DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, and Atwood's CAT'S EYE.These are being considered in terms of five aspects of doubles literature that particularly intrigue me: Time and Space, Perception, Androgyny, Art and Language, and, finally, Shamanism. That, in an economical nutshell, gives as good an idea as any of the extent and range of my research interests. Inasmuch as I am not a Shakespeare scholar in any narrowly specialized way, I hope that, nevertheless, I can become one of the members of SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Clayton, Joanna <9164931c@arts.gla.ac.uk> I am a final year student at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, studying for a theatre, film and television Masters degree. My interest in Shakespeare stems mainly from performance, and I have taken part in many productions, including an East/West European University production of Cymbeline, in five languages, which took place in the Summer of 1993 and toured to France, Italy, Romania and Lithuania and ended up here in Scotland. At the moment I am concerned with Shakespeare and secondary education, having just completed my final year dissertation on Shakespeare; British Culture and Educational Drama. I have been taking Shakespeare workshops in local schools, using performance and educational drama as a way of communicating Shakespeare to young people of the ages 15-18. Through my studies I have had the opportunity of taking part in many productions on and off campus and of seeing some truly fantastic international theatre groups perform in and around Glasgow. Last year I wrote and directed a play about women, religion and the issues and myths surrounding femininity, for which I drew on a number of texts from the Bible, popular literature and the plays of William Shakespeare. My view of "Shakespeare" was changed irrevocably after reading the storm scene from King Lear,(esp.'behold yon simpering dame... &c) and I am interested in the social and cultural relevance of Shakespeare as icon of greatness, opposed to Shakespeare controversial playwright of the 16th and 17th century, and Shakespeare; National Poet of the twentieth Century, opposed to "Shakespeare" set text on the Higher Exam. I have secured a postgraduate performance place at the Central School of Speech and Drama in October, where I hope to be able to examine these juxtapositions further, through performance and study, and still to have access to e-mail and the internet, so I would welcome the input of the SHAKSPER group in my work. =============================================================================== *Clayton, Thomas or Professor of English and of Classical Studies University of Minnesota, Department of English Mail: 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN U.S.A. 55455 Telephone (612) 647-9079; machine, (612) 625-7565 I was born on 15 December 1932, spent two years in the army in Germany before going back to take my D.Phil. at Oxford with (later Dame) Helen Gardner in 1960, and taught at Yale and UCLA (where I was tenured) before returning to Minnesota--where I was born and at the University of which I took my B.A. in 1954 after two years at Chicago and two at Minnesota--in 1968. (Such matter and more is set out succinctly in the *Directory of American Scholars*, 1982, which obviously grows more dated by the year, however.) I am interested in Shakespeare's plays as dramatic and literary works, and also as scripts for performance; and in their mimetic, expressive, sociopolitical, and philosophical dimensions on somewhat the same wave-length as that on which they were con- ceived and written, that is to say in substantially pre- poststructuralist and perhaps post-poststructuralist terms (time will tell). I have an approximately equal as well as abiding interest in reading, hearing, and seeing the plays; in writing about them; and in teaching them. As a reader, scholar-critic, and teacher, I am interested first, last, and always in dramatic and literary criticism, and my work in textual criticism is a product of that interest that is constantly reinforced and I hope improved by it. I have published *The "Shakespearean" Addition in "The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore": Some Aids to Scholarly and Critical Shakespearean Studies* (1969), and (in my 17th-century connec- tion) the **Oxford English Text of *The Non-Dramatic Works of Sir John Suckling* (1971) and the Oxford Standard Authors edition of *Cavalier Poets* (1978). I have in press at the University of Delaware Press *The "Hamlet" First Published (Q1, 1603): Origins, Form, Intertextualities*, a collection of essays by various hands including mine; and I am working with David George on the New Variorum edition of *Coriolanus*, of which my sometime research assistant and associate Lois Norem co-edited with Alexander Leggatt the *Garland Bibliography*(1990). I have also published a number of essays, performance reviews, and notes on various Shakespearean and other literary and non-literary subjects--and I confess that I refer freely to Shakespeare and literature as Shakespeare and literature, and not as "Shakespeare" and "litera- ture," by design and not by default. I would of course be glad to know of any of the minority of other academic (and non-academic) persons at all so minded. ========================================================= *Cleary, Kathleen Kathleen Colligan Cleary: I will be directing _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ in May, 1996 at Clark State. =============================================================================== *Clifford, Cal I was born 3 Sep 1933 in Wadsworth, Ohio. I graduated from Ohio State University in 1956 with a BS in physiologic optics, served in the USAF for 3 years as an optometry officer, returned to Wadsworth to private practice. I have been in the filmmaking business, engaged in community theatre, served on the board of directors of a non-existent college, and been, among other things, a volunteer probation officer, scoutmaster, and instrumentalist in a variety of musical aggregations. I am retired, have no projects underway, no higher academic degrees or honors, and no plans to acquire same. I have been casually interested in Shakespeare since the Eisenhower administration, and occasionally attended performances. I am presently disabled with multiple sclerosis, and spend my time in non-athletic pursuits. I've written an unpublished novel and a variety of short essays equally unpublished. My life in a nutshell. ============================================================= *Cochran, Charles Cochran I am a brand-new student in the graduate English program at the University of Georgia. I'm also a long-time newspaperman, currently holding down a copy editor's position on the local daily. On the academic side, I'm enrolled in a course in 16th century English literature. Of course, we're touching on a great many of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Our dealings with The Man himself are limited to a discussion of the sonnets. (The plays, of course, are covered in one or two other courses which I haven't taken yet, though I _did_ take two or three such classes as an undergraduate 10 or 15 years ago.) I'm afraid I won't have much, at least at first, to add to the discussion. However, I'd appreciate the opportunity to listen and perhaps contribute occasionally. ============================================================================== *Coggin, Bruce Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages University of Monterrey Garza Garcia, N.L. 66250 Mexico B.A. Romance Languages, The University of Texas, 1962 M.A. Romance Philology, Columbia University, 1964 Ph.D. English Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982 Dissertation: Studies in Shakespeare's Treatment of Old Age Member: Phi Beta Kappa, The Philadelphia Society Previous life: priest in The Episcopal Church, 1966 - present Present life: Professor and Chairman, Dept of Foreign Languages The Universit of Monterrey, Mexico 1991 - present Publications: none in Shakespeariana; one piece on Sir John Fortescue in Modern Age some years ago =============================================================================== *Cohen, Derek I have written a number of articles and three short books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare's Culture of Violence and The Politics of Shakespeare. My most recent publication is "Tragedy and the Nation: Othello" which appeared in the University of Toronto Quarterly last year. ============================================================= *Cohen, Lance Surface Address: Lance Cohen, Ph.D. 29 Stevenson Road Hewlett, NY 11557 Phone: 516-374-3016 Evenings only. 516-877-3999 box 15145 voice mail anytime Undergraduate: B.A. with honors in English, Bucknell University, 1969 Graduate: Ph.D. in English, Columbia University, 1975 Major Field: Drama to 1750 Major Author: Shakespeare Shakespeare professors: S. F. "Fred" Johnson, Michael P. Goldman Academic Affiliation: Adelphi University, Garden City, New York The theme of my professional career has been "high tech/ high touch." I have worked in management and sales in the automotive aftermarket for almost twenty years. Currently I own two businesses, one in the aftermarket and the other in publishing. While working in these businesses, I have taught English and Business Communications part time at local colleges. As an instructor of English, I have taught Shakespearean comedy and tragedy. As an instructor of Business Communications, I have used the Internet to enable students to practice e-mail and other electronic systems found in their textbooks. An instructor trained in early drama, as well as the Internet, I am confident I can learn from and contribute to your electronic bulletin board. =============================================================================== *Cohen, Michael E. NAME: Michael E. Cohen TITLE: Producer/Programmer INSTITUTION/COMPANY: The Voyager Company I am a producer and programmer at a well-known publisher of electronic books and multimedia (the Voyager Company), where, for the past two years, I have been working with David Rodes and A.R. Braunmuller of UCLA on a CD-ROM edition of _Macbeth_. Also during that time, I co-developed Voyager's Expanded Book interface. Previously, I was a senior staff member and co-founder of UCLA's Humanities Computing Facility. I am particularly interested in all issues related to the use of computer-based text for research, instruction, and entertainment. =============================================================================== *Cohen, Ralph Alan Ralph Alan Cohen was born in Columbia, S.C., and raised in Montgomery, Ala. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and earned his doctorate in 1973 at Duke University. His dissertation on Jonson's use of the London setting had the advantage of the supervision of George Walton Williams. At James Madison University he teaches courses on Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights and, occasionally, courses on the movies. As a guest director for the theater department at JMU, he has staged productions of TAMING OF THE SHREW ('83), ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ('85), HENRY V ('88), and ALL'S WELL ('88). In 1979 he founded JMU's Studies Abroad program with semesters in London, Paris, Florence, and Salamanca. In 1984 he received JMU's Teacher of the Year Award, and in 1986 he was one of the first recipients of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Awards. A frequent reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, he was a participant in 1987 Folger Institute's seminar on Shakespeare in Performance, led by Michael Goldman. In 1988 he and Jim Warren, a former student, founded the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, a traveling, non-profit (talk abut litotes!) Shakespeare company of which he is now Executive Director and for which he has directed productions of JULIUS CAESAR ('90), MEASURE FOR MEASURE ('91), MERCHANT OF VENICE ('92), and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ('93). Using the company as a tool to help develop classroom skills, he directs (summer '92 and '93) a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities workshop called "Bringing Shakespeare Home" for the state's high school teachers. He recently led (March '93) a Folger Institute NEH workshop, "From Critic to Director," for college teachers. He was guest editor of the Summer 1990 SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY devoted to teach- ing Shakespeare, and he editing another issue on that subject in 1995. He is completing an edition of Middleton's YOUR FIVE GALLANTS for Oxford's complete works under the general editorship of Gary Taylor, and in '91 he directed a production of that play for JMU's Experimental Theater. He has published articles on Jonson and Shakespeare, and he is presently trying to finish his pet project, a book on teaching Shakespeare. He co-directed (with Tom Berger) CITIZEN COHEN ('69), an 8 mm film classic utterly without redeeming social value. Abandoned by his two older daughters, Amy and Kate, for their own selfish lives, he lives in Broadway, Virginia, with his wife Judy and clings to his 17-year-old Cordel...uh...Sady. Department of English James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 or (when you're interested in a highly acclaimed Shakespeare troupe) Shenandoah Shakespeare Express Box 1485 Harrisonburg, VA 22801 =============================================================================== *Cohen, Stephen A. Stephen Cohen: I am a first-year assistant professor of English at the University of South Alabama; my fields are Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, and I've published articles on _The Merchant of Venice_ and Renaissance New Historicism. Right now I'm working on a project for the Shakespeare in the Age of the Electronic Text panel at the Shakespeare Assoc. meeting, so I'd love to join the community of electronic Shakespeareans. =============================================================================== *Colcord, Mimi I am an undergraduate linguistics student interested in the development of languages (particularly English, since it is my native tongue) over time. Apart from the relationship between Early Modern English and the rest of the language's history, the study of Shakespeare is almost entirely outside my academic focus. I doubt that I would have anything to contribute to the list, unless somebody asked a question in my area. However, I do read Shakespeare for my own enjoyment and unofficial education. When I saw the name of this list in a post on ANSAXNET, I thought it would be profitable to join up and listen to the discussions. If you would permit a "lurker" on your list, I would be happy to join. If not, I would appreciate any information you could give me on other Shakespearean lists that would be more appropriate. =============================================================================== *Coldiron, A. E. B. A. Coldiron: I'm just now (Spring 96) finishing a PhD in English from the University of Virginia, where I've enjoyed teaching Shakespeare, lit surveys, composition, etc. Main publications in Renaissance poetry (Milton; Donne; Ren translation) with a few rogue notes on Victorian lyric; Hawthorne; rhetoric. I enjoy lyric poetry most of all--was especially pleased with Susan Stewart's call for new ways of studying and teaching lyric (in _Profession_ 93)--and have interest in linguistics/languages. Thus I probably won't be able to contribute much but will be most grateful to lurk and learn. Outside life includes family (snowed in at the moment as there's no school), skiing, music, francophilia, more. =============================================================================== *Cole, Anna I am currently taking a third level course at the Open University on Shakespeare. I have a BA degree, also with the OU, received in 1983 which covered psychology, philosophy and literature subjects. At present I am also taking a part-time course with the Oxford University Continuing Education on Philosophy: Mind and Brain. I write fiction and poetry as a hobby and tutor from home in English. I am interested in politics and am a member of the Bruges group. I have been married for 39 years and have two grown-up children. Whilst I consider my life to have been particularly eventful, not very much of it seems relevant here. =============================================================================== *Cole, Carol A. My name is Carol Cole, and I am an editorial assistant at Michigan State University for The Historian, a quarterly professional historical journal. I recently finished a B.A. in English, 21 years after earning my first degree in social work. I am just beginning work on a master's in English here at MSU. I am primarily interested in medieval studies, but I also like Shakespeare very much. The medieval academic discussion lists I subscribe to have been very informative; I look forward to learning as much from SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Cole, Denise My name is Denise Cole, and I am currently a graduate student at Tufts University. I have finished my course work and will be taking my comprehensive exams this fall as part of my requirements for a Ph.D. in theatre. I also have a Master's degree from New York University and the Department of Performance Studies. Prior to my graduate studies, I lived in New York City, trying to break into the theatre. So my interest in Shakespeare is not only studying the cultural forces of the Renaissance which helped to shape English theater, but also studying his plays as they might have been performed at that time. =============================================================================== *Cole, Rosalind No scholar I. Just one more dilettante, or innocent bystander. But, I know what I like, and that includes a little Shakespeare. My favorite is Richard III. The comedies leave me cold. =============================================================================== *Coley, Karen I am Karen Coley, and I am in the first year of doctoral studies in literature at Loyola University of Chicago. Among my interests are Renaissance drama, colonialism and postcolonialism, and rhetoric of political power in non-political discourse. Presently I am studying Elizabethan comedies including *Love's Labours Lost* and *Merry Wives of Windsor*. I have not yet published in the field. I would like to subscribe to this Shakespearean electronic conference in order to keep my finger on the pulse of Shakespearean studies, to be aware of the recent topics in the field and the wide range of theoretical perspectives on Shakespearean studies. =============================================================================== *Coley, Karen My name is Karen Coley, and I am a lecturer for the English department at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California. Last June I received my master's degree in English from the same institution. Presently, I am researching graduate schools to continue my education. One of my areas of interest is Shakespearean studies. I am especially interested in historical, social, political, and religious approaches to understanding the works of the bard. Allusions to Shakespearean works in later fiction and poetry also attract me. Another area of Shakespearean studies which attracts me is performance and film production. I have performed in several school sponsered Shakespearean productions and find the possibilities of scholarly criticism from the perspective of performance very broad. I am a member of MLA, and although I am developing an essay on a particular Shakespearean film, I have not yet published. As yet I am open to any other areas of Shakespearean study and hope that this electronic conference can update me on the latest trends in the subject. I also hope that (eventually at least) I can also contribute to the conference and make it even more valuable to its other members. =============================================================================== *Colley, Nat My name is Nat Colley, and this year I was one of six playwrights selected for the Mt. Sequoyah New Play Retreat. It was there that I met Roger Gross, Prof. of Theater at U. Arkansas and coordinator of Mt. Sequoyah. When I told him about my sequel to The Merchant of Venice, he told me about this group online. =============================================================================== Grice Dermot My name is Dermot Grice. I have just retired from the English Department at Ryerson Polytechnic University (Toronto) where I had been teaching for 25 years. I taught mainly survey courses in drama--Aeschylus to Sheridan and Ibsen to Stoppard--to Radio and Television Arts and Journalism students. I did my graduate work first at Catholic University in Washington D.C (M.F.A. in Drama) and later at the University of Toronto (M.A. in English, Yeats; Ph.D. in English, Webster and Jacobean Drama). I have worked professionally as an actor, and my approach to the reading and teaching of plays was always influenced by my theatrical experience. =============================================================================== *Collick, John My name's John Collick, I'm a professor of English Literature at Waseda University and the author of Shakespeare, Cinema and Society (Manchester 1989). I've just joined the Net and I'm very interested in taking part in the Global Electronic Shakespeare Co =============================================================================== *Collier, Susanne Susanne Collier. PhD 1986. Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, England. 1990 to present - Assistant Professor California State Univ. Northridge. 1987-1990 Assistant Professor, Faculty in Residence, Univ. of New Hampshire. Publications include articles and reviews in 17th Century News (in progress), Shakespearean Power and Punishment (forthcoming), English Literary Renaissance (1994), Etudes Theatricales/Studies in Theatre (1993). Interests: Jacobean romances, Shakespearean biography. =============================================================================== *Collington, Philip Full Name: Philip Collington, B.A., M.A. (McMaster University) Current Title: PhD Student, U of Toronto, year II (not quite ABD) Department: English Institution: University of Toronto, CANADA Publications: None so far Professional Memberships: ACCUTE, CCLA, MLA Major Project: Dissertation on cuckoldry in Shakespeare Other research interests: 1. cuckoldry 2. food in Shakespeare (banqueting; psychology and physiology of eating; renaissance recipes, etc) 3. food in plays of Thomas Middleton 4. cuckoldry in plays of Middleton 5. psychological criticism, especially self-psychology (Heinz Kohut) 6. any combination of 1-5 above. Currently working on papers on: 1. Shame in Troilus and Cressida: Ajax and Menelaus 2. Food in Pericles: a culinary/political tour of Shakespeare's Mediterranean 3. Shame in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (not a Renaissance project, but using same critical framework as project 1 on T&C.) Home address: 98 Madison Ave Toronto, Canada M5R 2S4. =============================================================================== *Collins, Anna I am a student from Wellington, New Zealand, currently studying for an MA in Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. I completed my undergraduate degree at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in Theatre Studies and English Literature. I am particularly interested in Shakespeare in stage and film performance, and in practical theatre work, both acting and direction. I also have some teaching experience (primary and pre-school) and am interested in developing ways of practically bringing Shakespeare's works to younger children. My current research interest for this year is Shakespeare in the Victorian theatre. ============================================================= *Collins, Dan I'd like to join your electronic Shakespeare forum. I'm an ABD English grad at the University of Iowa. The centerpiece of my dissertation is an analysis of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra as a diptych that elaborates a Shakespearean metapoetic. My work draws on semiotics, Jakobsonian linguistics, microstylistics, and historicism. I've delivered several papers on Shakespeare's work, most recently on orthographic puns in the sonnets. I'm interested in how Shakespeare exploits the peculiar properties and relative licence in terms of spelling and pronunciation of Renaissance English to produce meanings athwart of the apparent syntactical drift of his lines. Clearly, then, one aspect of the Shakespeare business of particular concern to me is editorial practice. =============================================================================== *Collins, David G. I currently hold the rank of Professor of English, Westminster College (Fulton, MO 65251) where I have taught for twenty years and currently serve as chair of the department. I hold a Ph.D. in English granted by the University of Wisconsin~Madison (1973); my dissertation was entitled The Effect of Appearance and Reality in Selected Plays of Shakespeare: A Reading and was prepared under the direction of Mark Eccles. Publications include a dozen articles on medieval and Renaissance literature, mostly Shakespeare, dealing MND, RII, I&II HIV, HV, Ham, Tro, WT. More than twenty-five conference papers deal with those and other plays. My publications and conference papers stem from a variety of orientations, but in recent years I have been increasingly drawn to stage history, Shakespearean films, projects involving a continuing tradition of one sort or another, and Shakespeare's female characters. Current projects include work on the stage history of Troilus, particularly the reception of Cressida by male reviewers; work on the villain as "other" in MV and Oth; and the Lear tradition from Shakespeare to Jane Smiley. On the "front burner" at the moment is an article in which I hope to demonstrate that Jane Smiley's Ginny/Rose/Caroline and not so far removed from their Shakespearean sisters as one might at first imagine. My current memberships number only two: MLA and the Missouri Philological Association (of which I am a past president). Though my primary academic interest is Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the size of Westminster College (750 students/six full-time faculty members in English) requires that we teach regularly outside the areas of our primary interest. In addition to a composition course each year and survey courses in English and world literature, I regularly offer courses in medieval literature. Two of the three NEH seminars in which I've participated have focused on medieval literature (one with E. Talbot Donaldson on "Chaucer and Shakespeare," Indiana, 1981; a second with Donald Howard on "Chaucer and Boccaccio," Stanford, 1984). =============================================================================== *Collins, Greg I am a student in Peter Paolucci's Shakespeare tutorial at York University. My name is Greg Collins. I am currently pursuing a Specialised Honours Degree in English as well as a Bachelor of Education degree. I am currently completing my third year of my required five (slowly but surely!). I am quite interested in this conference and eagerly await your reply. Thank you once again for your invitation, =============================================================================== *Colston, Ken I am an English/Latin/French teacher at Thomas Jefferson School, a small college-prep boarding school in St. Louis, MO. Shakespeare has an unusually important place in our curriculum: all students in grades 7-12 read at least two plays a year and memorize big chunks of the Bard. (Our founding and retired headmaster, Robin McCoy, studied with George Kittredge at Harvard, whose Shakespeare exam consisted of knowing 800 or so lines by heart.) I have an M.A. in Eng/Comp Lit from Columbia University (1981); an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University (1985); and an MA in Liberal Arts from the Graduate Institute at St. John's College (1989). I have taught English on all levels at many places: from the 8th/10th grade here at Thom.Jeff. (1981-84) and again the 10th grade starting in1993; as a teaching assistant/adjunct professor at JHU in Baltimore (1984-85); Anne Arundel Community College (1985); St. John's College (1989-92); Northern Kentucky University (1993). I wrote one Master's essay at Col. U. on Shakespeare ("Ministers of Grace," a study of the dramatic use of the theological concept of Grace in RomJul/Tempest/MNDream) and am particular interested in Shakespeare's use of Christianity. However, I am subscribing to SHAKSPER for our Eng.Dept. here at TJSchool. Shakespeare is our one common author. =============================================================================== *Colvard, James I have some experience with Shakespeare scholarship through undergraduate classes in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama and performances at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Statford-upon Avon and at the Barbican Center in London.I have worked at a bank since graduation and have discovered the computer and the Internet as a research tool during this time. =============================================================================== From: MX%"shanna@venus.nmhu.edu" 18-DEC-1996 09:53:12.44 To: HMCOOK CC: Subj: Re: How to Subscribe to SHAKSPER Return-Path: Received: from ws.bowiestate.edu by boe00.minc.umd.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:53:07 EST Received: from ws by ws.bowiestate.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA15730; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:01:21 -0500 Received: from venus.nmhu.edu by ws.bowiestate.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA15723; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:01:18 -0500 From: shanna@venus.nmhu.edu Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:39:59 -0700 Message-ID: <96121806395970@venus.nmhu.edu> To: SHAKSPER-Request@ws.BowieState.edu Subject: Re: How to Subscribe to SHAKSPER X-VMS-To: SMTP%"SHAKSPER-Request@ws.bowiestate.edu" Sara Hanna, Department of English, New Mexico Highlands University. M.Phil. Yale University (Comparative Literature) Ph.D. Indiana University (English) I have been teaching Shakespeare and Renaissance literature for eleven years, first at New Mexico State University, currently at New Mexico Highlands University. My area of specialization is Shakespeare's classicism, especially the Greek works, and I have long been working on a monograph on this subject. I'm also interested in Renaissance art, iconography, music, and religion. From: MX%"reperlof@sloc001.cds.sloc.net" 18-DEC-1996 19:11:35.04 To: HMCOOK CC: Subj: SHAKSPER Return-Path: Received: from sloc001.cds.sloc.net by boe00.minc.umd.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:11:31 EST Received: from p12-as1.lonbea1.csu.sloc.net by sloc001.cds.sloc.net; Wed, 18 Dec 96 09:49:52 -0600 X-Sender: reperlof@mail.cds.sloc.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:47:46 -0800 To: HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu From: reperlof@sloc001.cds.sloc.net (Richard E. Perloff) Subject: SHAKSPER Message-ID: <32b812a1409e002@sloc001.cds.sloc.net> Dear Professor Cook: This morning, I received information regarding sign-up procedures for the SHAKSPER list. Actually, I was already subscribed to the list. What happened was that I had to change e-mail providers, and, since I didn't know how to send a "change-of-address" command, I merely sent a SUB SHAKSPER command (using the new address). Nevertheless, I welcome the opportunity to tell you a little about myself. My name is Richard Perloff, and I am currently a part-time Lecturer in Theatre Arts at California State University, San Bernardino. Prior to that, I taught in the Theatre Arts department at California State University, Long Beach, for two years. I hold an MFA in Theatre (Acting emphasis) from Long Beach State. I teach Acting (all levels, with an emphasis on Shakespeare), Theatre Appreciation, and Oral Interpretatino of Literature. I am essentially a professional actor and director who is only now in the process of transitioning into academia. I have performed in over 30 productions of Shakespeare's works, and have either directed, assistant directed, or acted as voice/text coach on numerous others. As a teacher, too, Shakespeare is my main area of specialization. My own training as a theatre artist came from individuals who believed that the classical repertoire came first, and that, once a student had mastered the funamental performance skills required to play Shakespeare, he/she could adapt those skill to anything. I believe in that philosophy, and I teach from that same perspective. I have enjoyed my participation on the SHAKSPER list up to this point, and look forward to more of the same. Very truly yours, Richard Perloff From: MX%"Jenifer_Morgan@mfi.com" 18-DEC-1996 20:52:44.97 To: HMCOOK CC: Subj: Re: SHAKSPER Awaits YOU! Return-Path: Received: from whiz.mfi.com by boe00.minc.umd.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:52:37 EST Received: from ccmail2.mfi.com by whiz.mfi.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15327; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:53:15 -0800 Received: from ccMail by mfi.com (SMTPLINK V2.11) id AA850956733; Wed, 18 Dec 96 16:51:49 PST Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 16:51:49 PST From: "Jenifer Morgan" Encoding: 99 Text Message-ID: <9611188509.AA850956733@mfi.com> To: "Hardy M. Cook" Subject: Re: SHAKSPER Awaits YOU! Hello. I apologize for the delay in my response. I received your request during the most hectic time of the year for me. I am exited to become a part of the SHAKSPER community. I am currently the editor for financial buyer's guides and trade show guides for a publishing/media company called Miller Freeman in San Francisco. I moved to the Bay Area about one year ago after I graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in English. I have been interested in Shakespeare since High School, and was able to study his work extensively in college. I was able to participate in the ACTER program, headed by Homer Swander. I, in fact, played Starveling in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and had a wonderful time of it. I finished my degree through an exchange program in England at the University of Leeds and not only received a more formal education of Shakespeare there than I had received at UCSB, but I was able to visit Stratford on a number of occasions including my birthday. If indeed Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, he and I would, in fact, share a birthdate. It was exiting to be there for all of the celebrations and parades-Prince Charles was even rumored to have been at the RSC Macbeth performance that I saw that day. I liked to pretend that all of the hoopla was actually for me, of course. I have done quite a bit of amature acting and have always been enchanted with the theatre, but I could never resign myself to giving up all else in pursuit of a career in acting. I do, however, take advantage of every opportunity to see a new production and think about every new interpretation. This past summer I learned about the Shakespeare Festival in Orinda and enjoyed three quality productions. I have many other interests, but I promised my drama teachers that I would always keep theatre in my life. I really look forward to discussing theatre, intellectual ideas, and Shakespeare-related information with other members. Thank you for the opportunity and please let me know if you would like any further information. Sincerely, Jenifer ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: SHAKSPER Awaits YOU! Author: "Hardy M. Cook" at Internet Date: 12/18/96 3:29 PM Dear Networker, Some time ago (between a day and a month) you expressed an interest in becoming a member of the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference. You should have received, automatically, a form letter -- How to Subscribe to SHAKSPER -- describing the conference, its aims and resources, and requesting a brief autobiographical note prior to full membership. If that request gave you pause, I'm writing to urge you to reconsider. The orientation of SHAKSPER is scholarly, but discussion focuses on both academic research and theatrical production. Our current membership includes many prominent Shakespearean textual scholars and bibliographers, editors and critics, but it also includes professors and high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, actors, poets, playwrights, theatre professionals, librarians, computer scientists, and interested bystanders. The variety of SHAKSPEReans is a large part of what makes discussion so wide-ranging and interesting to us all. The biographical note is NOT part of an adjudication process; anyone with access to electronic mail and an intelligent interest in Shakespeare or Renaissance Drama is welcome to join the conference. The biographical notes are intended simply to introduce new members, and, when combined, to provide a valuable storehouse of information about the membership. SHAKSPER continues to grow and develop. The conference now includes more than 1250 Shakespeareans from around the world, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belguim, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States. SHAKSPER has been mentioned in *Canadian Humanities Computing*, *REACH*, the *Shakespeare Bulletin*, the *Shakespeare Newsletter*, the *SAA Bulletin*, *Cahiers Elisabethaines*, *Shakespeare Jahrbuch*, a NCTE volume on teaching Shakespeare, *Shakespeare Quarterly*, and many more places. If you are interested in drama, Shakespeare, literature, bibliography, the English Renaissance, or popular culture, I am certain you will find something in SHAKSPER for you. If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Conversely, if you are definitely not interested, or if you have already secured your membership, please accept my apologies for any inconvenience. Thank you again for your interest in SHAKSPER, and I hope you will soon choose to join this exciting international community! Yours, Hardy M. Cook (Editor) or From: MX%"ahk1@st-andrews.ac.uk" 19-DEC-1996 07:58:11.87 To: HMCOOK CC: Subj: Joining SHAKSPER Return-Path: Received: from langs.st-andrews.ac.uk by boe00.minc.umd.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:58:08 EST Received: (from ahk1@localhost) by langs.st-andrews.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA03518; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:59:01 GMT Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:59:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Anders H Klitgaard I'm an M.Litt.(P/G) student in the programme of Shakespeare Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In order to keep up with current research, I would very much like to join SHAKSPER. Please, let me know if this is possible. =============================================================================== *Colvin, Daniel L. Daniel L. Colvin Associate Professor of English Western Illinois University Macomb, IL 61455 mfdlc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Education Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1976 M.A., Northwestern University, 1970 B.A., Wheaton College (IL), 1969 Areas of Teaching and Scholarship Shakespeare Renaissance/17th-century literature The Bible As Literature Professional Memberships Shakespeare Association of America Modern Language Association Conference on Christianity and Literature Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Publications "Francesco Petrarch." Magill's Survey of World Literature. Pasadena: Salem, 1992. "The How-To Guide to Ad Libbing Shakespeare." The Fight Master: Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors, XIII,3 (Fall 1990), 27-29 "That Abler Soule: Donne and the Poetic of Knowledge." Res Publica Litterarum, VI (1983), 123-35. The Renaissance: A Text and Reader. Western Illinois University Press, 1978. "Milton's 'Comus' and the Pattern of Human Temptation." Journal of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, XXVII (Spring 1978), 8-18. Selected Papers "In the (Dis)Guise of Virtue;: Clothing in I Henry IV." Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1993. "The Ties That Bind: Figurative Language and Human Experience." Annual College Lecture, Principia College, 1985. "The Sinister Rhetoric of Herrick's Poetry." Annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, 1977. Theatrical activities Textual consultant, production of Romeo and Juliet, Western Illinois University, 1990. Current activities and interests Preparation for production of Macbeth (Western Ill. U.) Working on a piece on mimetic staging in Hamlet =============================================================================== *Conlon, Joe I am a high school English teacher with 23 years experience. I've loved Shakespeare since my first exposure to Romeo and Juliet as a ninth grader. Shakespeare is my hobby as well as part of my job, and I collect all things related to the man and his plays. I've acted both in civic theater productions and in professional productions. I never let an opportunity to see a Shakespeare play or movie pass. The more I learn about the plays and the time period, the more I want to learn. I participate in a number of Shakespeare newsgroups and correspond with other interested people worldwide. ============================================================= *Conner, Michael I am a 40 year old lover of Shakespeare. I graduated from Western Washington University with over 500 undergraduate hours spread among a history major, a philosophy major, a Greek minor, a classics minor, and an undeclared English minor. Since that time I have had little formal contact with an academic approach to studying Shakespeare, yet I have seen 56 different productions of 35 of the 38 canonical plays. In addition, I host an informal Shakespeare discussion mailing list on Internet. I am currently strongly considering going to graduate school to continue my formal studies. I am interested in studying WS's works, Elizabethan history and drama as well as studies of the sources of WS's plays. =============================================================================== *Connolly, Alicia Thanks for your e-mail. Her'e my background information. I am Alicia Connolly. I am a civilian lawyer for the Navy and am also a Reserve Judge Advocate Officer (JAG). I am currently on assignment for 6 months as a criminal prosecutor in the District of Columbia. Any mail that goes to my Navy office would be forwarded to me. [A-12 Litigation Team, General Counsel, Dept of the Navy, 1111 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Suite 300-W, Arlington, VA 22202-4323] Sounds unrelated perhaps, but I say, all the better. Shakespeare wrote primarily for the common folk. I have had a long standing interest in Shakespeare's works since college -- about twenty years. I have attended many performances and just saw Antony and Cleopatra night before last. Last year I visited Stratford upon Avon and toured the Globe Theatre under construction in London as it originally was. Although, I enjoy Shakespeare's plays a great deal, I am interested in compiling a course that would help introduce Shakespeare to students as common folk so that it can be appreciated by the everyday man and woman, to get past what is often viewed as stilted language and open up the great humor, human psychology and poetry etc. that was Shakespeare's mastery. Therefore, I would like to join SHAKSPER not as a fellow academician but as a person who hopes to bridge the gap between academia and Shakespeare's intended audience. I believe very stongly that if I were able to do this in compiling a course, I would be making a contribution to learning. Not to the institution of learning but to the students who would learn how to appreciate the great writings of Shakespeare and continue to read him for the rest of their lives and pass on their appeciation to others. =============================================================================== *Connolly, Andrew I am a fourth year Journalism/English student at the University of King's College and I am taking an honours class in Shakespeare at Dalhousie University. ============================================================= *Connolly, Jon Jon Connolly-- born 1968, Charlotte NC. BA in English from Furman University (1990), MA in English from U.C. Santa Barbara (1993), currently a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara. I work on Early Modern English literature and culture, especially Jacobean Drama. I'm especially interested in discourses and practices of and about militarism in the period, as well as their representations on the stage. I'm also interested in representations of the city, of Anglo-Dutch relations, and of legal studies and issues. Critical interests include New Historicism, Psycho-Analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari (what a ridiculous combo!). =============================================================================== *Connolly-Lohr, Alicia I qualify as an interested Shakespeare "bystander" I guess by your descriptions. I am interested, however, in creating a college-level course on Shakespeare appreciation. I have been a great fan of Shakespeare for over twenty years and have attended many performances to include at the new Globe Theatre in London, the Guthrie in Minneapolis and the Shakespeare theatre in Washington, D.C. My interest is in making Shakespeare's plays understandable and relevant for people today. My method would be to correlate movies and live performances with reading Shakespeare's plays and adding a smattering of language history, cultural history, literary analysis, philosophy and psychology, etc. The course would be perhaps at the sophomore level and would focus on understanding and enjoying Shakespeare, making it come alive, rather than pursuing the texts from a too esoteric academic point of view. I believe learning some Shakespeare is truly an important building block in the education of all persons in the English speaking world --- and otherwise and that appreciation of it can be learned. I want to make Shakespeare interesting and fun for the "common man" for whom it was originally written, not just for English majors. I have been an attorney for ten years. My bachelor's degree was in psychology (with a minor in English). I served on active duty in the military as a JAG officer and presently am a reserve JAG officer. I have traveled around the U.S., Asia and a little in South American and Europe. I love to write and continuously toy with writing fiction. My favorite sport is watching 20th century American politics. ============================================================= *Connoolly, Thomas I am North American Review Editor of THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL and "The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter." I have contributed articles to The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, The St. James International Dictionary of the Theatre, The BLackwell Companion to 20th Century THeatre and The McGRaw-Hill International Dictionary of Biography. My essay "The PLace, The Thing: Israel Horovitz's Glocester Milieu" appeared in ISRAEL HOROVITZ: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS, ed. Leslie Kane. Greenwood 1994. My essay "The Stork Club and its Night Owls" will appear in this summer's issue of THe Popular Culture Review. My most recent conference paper was entiled "Was Good Old Nathan Reliable?" given at Suffolk University's international academic conference "O'Neill's People" in May, 1995. Prior to that I presented "Academic Theatricality and the Transmission of Form in the Italian Renaissance." It was delivered at the Southeastern Theatre Conference's renaissance theatre history symposium, April 1995. =============================================================================== *Conrad, Theresa M. Theresa M. Conrad 10026 Lake Whippoorwill Court University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32832 Orlando, FL 32816 (407) 249-2805 I am an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando; my degree will be in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing. This is my last semester as an undergrad; I hope to do graduate work next fall at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Five years ago, the University of Central Florida established the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and we have enjoyed performances each spring in the downtown area. Dr. Stuart Omans is the founder and Director; I studied Shakespeare with him last semester, and am working with the Festival (as a mentor for the Young Company, a teen-age component) this semester. My main reason for joining SHAKSPER, other than for the pure pleasure of discussing the literature, is to help Dr. Omans and the Festival. Each year, Orlando borrows costumes and props from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, and this necessitates an enormous amount of communication back and forth. The telephone has been the normal instrument of choice, and the phone bills are enough to make one wince, especially considering the non-profit nature of the organization. Though I have not had much success in getting professors "on-line," I did arouse interest when I suggested using the Internet as an alternate, fast, and FREE communication device between Orlando and Stratford-on-Avon. I also believe that when Dr. Omans sees the quality of the material available through groups such as yours on the net, he will have valuable contributions to make. I am trying to find out whether the Royal Shakespeare has access to the Internet, and to whom I might address queries. I know there is a net at The University of Warwick, but I'm not familiar enough with the area to know if that might be a possible gateway for RS. I intended to post a request for information on the SHAKSPER list, possibly even find someone of that Company who is net literate. I know that this should be information about myself, to help you determine list membership. Though I am not specifically a Shakespeare scholar, I deeply appreciate and enoy his works, and I hope that I might contribute to discussions on the list in an intelligent manner. Mostly, though, I hope to listen and obtain information from those more qualified! =============================================================================== *Conroy, Stephen Although I'm not currently an academic, or even taking literature classes, I've been a Shakespeare fan most of my life. The first memory I have of things Shakespearean seems to be reading "Julius Caesar" my freshman or sophomore year in high-school. I have since studied Shakespeare in high-school, and twice more in college--once as part of my work in a Masters in English program and once a couple of years ago, just for fun. My experience of Shakespeare is mostly more informal rather than academic. My family started going to the summer plays of the Oregon Shakespeare Festical in Ashland, OR, when we moved out here my sophomore year in high-school (1972). I NEVER missed a production of Shakespeare done by any of my local theatre companies when in Tacoma, WA, during college and grad school. I've been to Ashland on my own most summers since I graduated from high-school, and haven't missed any of the Shakespeare productions here in Portland by Tygre's Heart, OSF: Portland, Shakespeare in the Parks, and any other theatre companies doing Shakespeare I find out about. Each time I go see a Shakespeare play, I always refresh my acquaintance with Shakespeare by rereading the play I'm going to see. I find I catch more of the jokes that way--especially the bawdy ones....("Mommy, why is that man laughing? Did somebody say something funny?") And, at present, I've voluntered to help Tygre's Heart with the computer work (database, word processing, mailing, etc) preparatory to their hosting the 1995 annual meeting of the Shakespeare Theatre Association here in Portland in January, 1995. =============================================================================== *Converse, Terry Terry Converse is a Professor of Theatre in the Washington State University School of Music and Theatre Arts, where he teaches all levels of Directing and Script Analysis. He holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to coming to Washington, he taught at Centre College in KY, the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and Livingston University in Alabama. Additionally Dr. Converse has directed works for the Long Beach Grand Opera, the Gutherie Other Place Theatre, The Arkansas Arts Center, Cherry County Players, Peninsula Players and Theatre By The Sea. He has presented papers and all day workshops the National Convention of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and at the Northwest Drama Conference. He has directed twenty eight plays with university students and thirteen plays/musicals/operas in professional settings. Dr. Converse lives in Pullman with his wife, two children, a large dog and a cat. When not teaching or directing, he loves to escape to the water to wind surf. =============================================================================== *Conway, Helen The first thing I feel I should tell you is that I am one of those people who reads magazines from back to front... Rightly or wrongly I'm going to link this urge directly to the urge I have now to write this biography in the same manner. At this moment I am in Singapore. I can hear oriental music, I know to be Chinese... saturate the air. It can't quite seem to make it's mind up as to weather it is: (A) Sounds from the Mongolian mountains. (B) A supermarket version of "The Hills are Alive.." I am here to see my mother but also to make some money!! In October I commence my final year of actor training in the tornado like safety of East 15 Acting School in England. I can not wait to return. Although this long holiday is helping me lay some strong foundations for times to come. My ambition is to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I know I have the strength as an actor and it excites me immensely to imagine myself fulfilling this goal. So this summer I'm doing what I can to paint a "Shakespeare landscape", within my mind. I'm trying to collate information for an essay about Shakespeare's women. Whilst reading all I can.( If you could only here this music now!)Four years ago I had my own theater company. I managed to fund raise and tour a very successful play which I wrote. What else can I say? This doesn't really feel like a biography!! I've always loved to act. When I was a child I used to get quite emotional when I went to see a film. It was as if I was home sick. I got involved in all sorts of things at school. However, for years I lost a whole heep of belief in myself and lost my way. I knew that if I didn't turn it around and follow my dream I'd always have regrets. So after some profound moments of contemplation and a U.F. O. sighting....(Just kidding...About the U.F.O ...I mean...) I got myself to drama school. It's where I am meant to be without a shadow of a doubt.. You know when you meet some one who is doing exactly what they are meant to be doing. How lit up they are...Well finally I am one of those people... I hope I always will be .. ============================================================= *Cook, Hardy M., III Associate Professor of English Bowie State University, Bowie Maryland 20715 7505 Citadel Drive, College Park, MD 20740 (301) 474-9031 RESEARCH INTERESTS: My dissertation, "Readings on Television" [1988], explores both theoretically and critically Shakespearean productions in the television medium. It strives to broaden the awareness of view- ers, students, teachers, and scholars to techniques and strate- gies that will make them better "readers" of Shakespeare on television. The theoretical investigations in my dissertation have led me to read with interest in many areas of the newer critical approaches to Shakespeare. I am particularly interested in new- historicist and feminist criticism of Shakespeare. I, nevertheless, still find validity in some of Pechter's (PMLA 102: 292-303) and Barroll's (SQ 39: 441-464) critiques of new-historicism, but not in Levin's (PMLA 103: 125-138) critique of the feminist's enterprise. From my dissertation, I have developed two essays, which investigate some of my theories. This summer I have been a participant in the N.E.H. Humanities Institute on "Shakespeare and the History of Taste" at the Folger Shakespeare Library. My project has been to examine the transmission and reception of Shakespeare's sonnets, an area that I am continuing to explore. RECENT PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS: "A Shakespearean in the Electronic Study." Seminar paper for research seminar, "Using the Computer in Shakespeare Studies," presented at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Philadelphia and submitted to College English for consideration for publication. [Available on the SHAKSPER Fileserver as "ELECTRON STUDY".] "Jane Howell's BBC First Tetralogy: Theatrical and Televisual Manipulation." Accepted October 19, 1989, for publication in Literature-Film Quarterly. "Two Lears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strate- gies." Literature-Film Quarterly. 14 (1986): 179-186. Reprint- ed in Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews. Eds. James C. Bulman and H. R. Coursen. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1988. 122-129. MEMBERSHIPS: Modern Language Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Shakespeare Association of America International Shakespeare Association The Malone Society The English Renaissance Text Society National Council of Teachers of English Reader Folger Shakespeare Library ========================================================= *Cook, Melissa I am currently a sophomore at Sandy Spring Friends School and have been actively interested in Shakespeare since the first grade. I am an actress and have had experience playing in some of his works. I am also the daughter of the editor of this list. ============================================================= *Cooper, Edris I am Edris Cooper, currently an MFA Fellow (Patricia Roberts Harris) in Directing at the University of Iowa. I am in my 2nd year. I started in theater as a young child with Carpetbag Theater in Knoxville, TN. As an adult I began work on the West Coast with the San Francisco Mime Troupe (1986-1991) - originating the role of Topsy in I AIN'T YO UNCLE by Robert Alexander. I have worked in regional theater at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, the Sacramento theatre Company, San Diego Rep, Baltimore Theater Project and Downstairs Cabaret Theater in Rochester, NY. As a director, I have worked with Theater Rhino in San Francisco and with my own company, Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience. I am also an Artistic Associate of Rhodessa Jones' THE MEDEA PROJECT; THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN. With this group I have gone into San Francisoc county jails (women's prison) with Rhodessa, assisting in the creation of a piece of theater (collaborative) written by the inmates and other women of San Francisco's community that is performed in a professional theater (with much success, I might add). I am new to pedagogical theater and am fascinated by the challenge that it presents to me. I consider Shakespeare a central part of this uncharted (for me) territory and am interested in the list as a medium to bring me (in part) from unclear to clear. =============================================================================== *Cooper, Roberta I hold a PhD in dramatic literature from Northwestern University and my book, The American Shakespeare Theatre; Stratford 1955-1985, was published by the Folger Shakespeare Library (Associated University Press). I was Director of Planning at the American Shakespeare Theatre for five years and was at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University for nine, where I was Director of Alumni Affairs and Recruitment and taught Shakespeare in Performance in the Drama Dept. I am currently working at an organization that focuses on First Amendment issues particularly free expression and censorship - keeping the world safe for Shakespeare and other. ============================================================= *Cooper, Sallie I do want to join the Shakespeare discussion group. I am knee deep in "stuff" at this moment and can't seem to find five minutes to compose a bio-letter. Briefly, I am a graduate student in the MFA Directing Program at Utah State University. I have a Theatre Education BFA with a secondary education teaching certificate and have taught drama for three years on the Utah Navajo Indian reservation. I had tremendous success as a teacher of drama writing grants for Artists in Education teachers, A Mimist/movement coach from American Players Theatre and following that success I wrote a grant for another Artist in Residence Playwright with whom we wrote two award winning contest plays! There is nothing like students writing plays about students and learning the process from the ground up. Anyway, I have extensive acting training through summer repertory theatre groups in Southern Utah as well as guest directing experience. And lastly, I was Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Zion Repertory Theatre Company in beautiful Zion National Park in gorgeous Southern Utah! (Sounds like a post card.) We produced True West and Greater Tuna our first season and The Murder Room and The Foreigner our second season. I wrote a grant for our third season and received funding through the Utah Arts Council but our theatre space was sold and we were unable to continue. Whew! I am currently enrolled in a Research Studies class where I am researching a paper on Dramatic entertainments throughout time and their use in teaching the common man about moral development, I am specifically comparing Shakespeare's The Tempest and Star Trek,TNG. It has been very interesting thus far and I feel the project will be of interest in a variety of areas. =============================================================================== *Cora, Jesus I got a B.A. in English and American Studies at the University of Alcala de Henares (Spain) in 1988. In 1988-1989, I tought Spanish at two schools in England under a joint program of the Spanish and British governments. In 1989 I started my studies leading to my obtaining a Ph.D. In 1990-91 I spent the academic year at Trinity College Dublin with a scholarship of the Irish government and studied Renaissance drama. Now I hold the post of Assistant Lecturer at my alma mater and I teach Renaissance Literature. My field of interest and research is Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, I am engaged on a project on the origins and evolution of the induction convention (1560-1650) which will become my M.A. dissertation and, eventually, my Doctoral thesis. I am deeply interested in the comparison and relationship between English and Spanish drama and poetry of the 1550-1700 period. Recently, I wrote a paper on the comparison of two poems by John Donne and Lope de Vega. I am also preparing an article on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and Lope de Vega La dama boba, which show striking parallelisms as to the use of sonnets within the plays. I belong to the Sociedad Espanola de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses (SEDERI) that organizes an annual conference in Spain, and AEDEAN (Asociacisn Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) and EAAS (European Association of American Studies). I belong to the FICINO discussion group. =============================================================================== *Corbett, D. Craig D. Craig Corbett B.A., B.Ed. English Department University of Guelph Guelph, ON Canada (519)-837-9979 I am a graduate student in the M.A. English program at U of Guelph. I am currently researching a paper on The Tempest and Tamburlaine for a reading course with Dr. Michael Keefer. I am interested in exploring these and other Renaissance texts for evidence or examples of a colonialist or proto-colonialist mindset. My B.A. is in Honours English from U of Guelph and the B.Ed. is from U of Toronto. I am currently teaching part-time while finishing my M. A. I like to give my students the sense that learning does not end at a particular age or level of education. =============================================================================== *Cordell, Albert O. "Tim" I am involved in a project comparing Othello with Verdi's opera Otello. I would be interested in joining your forum. I have a Ph.D. in Musicology from Catholic Univ. and my interest in Shakespeare continues to grow. Albert O. "Tim" Cordell, Professor Edinboro University of PA Cordell@vax.Edinboro.EDU =============================================================================== *Cornell, Christine My name is Christine Cornell and currently I teach in the Department of English at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I am interested in Shakespeare's nondramatic and dramatic works. I've taught the sonnets and other poems in a course in Renaissance Love Poetry at Dalhousie University and the history plays at St. Mary's University. Presently, I am teaching an Honours seminar on Shakespeare and the Drama of His Age. I am also introducing a course in January on Shakespeare and Contemporary Culture which will include recent adaptations and versions of Shakespeare. My research interests include royal mistresses and favourites in early modern representations. I have a long note on "Measure for Measure" forthcoming in ELN. ============================================================= *Cornett, Patricia I'm a semi-retired Shakespeare scholar with a particular interest in Shakespeare and food and cooking of the Elizabethan and early 17th century. Most immeditely, I'd like to post a query about current resources on Shakespeare and food and cooking, such as new Shakespeare cookbooks. I'm familiar with Lowin's "Dining with William Shakespeare" and a couple of others, but I'd like to know of any recent Shakespeare cookbooks or food histories or other resources. I'm doing some research in this area, partly for a holiday dinner I'm in charge of for a group of Culinary Historians I belong to, partly because I'm assembling a bibliography of such Shakespeare and food materials. ============================================================= *Correll, Barbara Barbara Correll teaches in the English Department at Cornell University. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin. She publishes on Renaissance cultural texts, cinema and cultural theory. Her book, The End of Conduct, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She is currently researching issues related to the historical crossing of economic and literary discourses in the Renaissance for a book project with the working title, Divestments: The Language of Character in the Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Correll, James Robert My name is James Robert (Robb) Correll and my current surface mail address is: Badweid 7, 6504 Immensee, SWITZERLAND. I am married to a beautiful and intelligent Swiss woman and have a 14 month old elf of a daughter named Keira. We live on a lake at the foot of the Rigi, just a few meters away from the site where Wilhelm Tell allegedly rid this country of the infamous Austrian despot, Gessler. There is an apple orchard just behind our house. I teach English and Drama at a very progressive Swiss Gymnasium (Junior College) and am working on a doctoral dissertation in English Literature at the University of Fribourg. I have graduate degrees from the same university in Theology (1991), English Literature (1991) and Education (1993). My undergraduate degrees were attained at Oral Roberts University in Vocal Music Performance (BFA 1980) and Music Arts (BA 1984). I survived a normal that is to say mostly harmless American childhood and puberty in and around Charlotte, N. C. After graduating from ORU in 1980, I came to Switzerland as a music teacher and worked for several years at the International School of Berne. At some point around 1984 I realised that I would never be able to leave this country (at least not with the many instalments I had already been made to pay to Swiss Social Security), so I decided to stay. Since none of my American qualifications had ever been recognised by Swiss educational authorities, a continual thorn in my proud flesh, I thought it would be a good idea to get some Swiss papers - hence my first seven years at the University of Fribourg. Writing a dissertation was the idea of my English Professor, Dr. Robert Rehder; since it was the only subject in which we could find an area of common interest, he suggested a study in Shakespeare. At around the same time, my analyst suggested that it might be a good thing for me to work on my sense of humor. As fate would have it, I took the advice of both and the subject of my dissertation reflects this major turning point in my life; it concerns Humor in Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Sense of Humor. What I am actually trying to do is to apply the results of recent humor research as a tool in analysing Shakespeare's Comedies - to have a look at Shakespeare from a humor researcher's point of view. Related themes are: Shakespeare's Favorite Jokes and What They Mean, Shakespeare's Techniques of Humor, Major Contradictions in Elizabethan Society etc. etc. I find the work exciting and fun and look forward to communicating with members of SHAKSPER who may have similar interests, or who may have information which will help me better to pursue my own. =============================================================================== *Corrigan, Brian J. Dr. Corrigan teaches Renaissance literature in the English department of North Georgia College and State University. He earned his doctorate and legal degree from Tulane University, New Orleans. His books and articles cover such topics as Renaissance law and literature, the works of Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, among other Renaissance playwrights, theatre history, and performance criticism. He is author of a text prep/script analysis textbook for actors, directors, and dramaturges. He is also a playwright with international productions to his credit. Dr. Corrigan is the director of the North Georgia Shakespeare Festival as well as the North Georgia College and State University Theatre Project. Dr. Corrigan's current projects include a compendium of Renaissance Drama and a literary biography of Thomas Middleton. ============================================================= *Corrigan, Brian Jay Brian Jay Corrigan, Assistant Professor, Renaissance Literature and Drama. Department of Literature and Drama, North Georgia College. Ph.D. Tulane University, New Orleans (Renaissance Literature/Drama) 1990; J.D. Tulane School of Law (Legal History) 1986; B.A. University of Missouri at Kansas City (English) 1983. Author of: "Redemption: Dramaturgy, Mise en Scene, and Hamlet V.ii" forthcoming in _Hamlet Studies_. _The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition_ (1992, Garland Press); "Mellida at the Grate: A Conjecture Concerning the Stage at St. Paul's in 1600" (31 _Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama_, 1992). "The Louisiana Shakespeare Festival: 1987-1988" (_Shakespeare Quarterly_ 40: 2 1989). Memberships include: SAA, MLA, Society for Theatre Research, Dramatists Guild. Currently working on a book-length examination of the law and literature in English Renaissance Drama as well as several articles on 20th-century Irish Drama, and _The School for Scandal_. Research interests include Theatre History (all facets, all countries); Drama of the Inns of Court; Performance Criticism; Irish Theatre; Renaissance English Drama. As head of our institution's Theatre programme, I direct a play each quarter. Past projects include _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, _Twelfth Night_, _As You Likje It_, and _The Tempest_. Currently mounting a production of _Antony and Cleopatra_. I am a working professional playwright with 6 titles produced and four currently in various competitions. =============================================================================== *Cosdon, Mark Mark Cosdon is a Ph.D. student in the theatre history, literature, and criticism program at Tufts University. Areas of specialization include vaudeville, burlesque, nineteenth century American theatre, clowning, and Chinese theatre. =============================================================================== *Cosmos, Spencer I am dean of University College and associate professor of English at The Catholic University of America. I was educated at Loyola University in Chicago, The University of Illinois at Urbana, and Pembroke College, Oxford. I am a historian of the English language, co-author, with Janet Holmgren McKay, of the Study text for the PBS series _The Story of English_, and author of a dictionary of early English terms for women commissioned by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. I have also published studies on Old English and Latin of the OE period. ======================================================================== *Costa, Kevin My name is Kevin Costa. I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at SUNY-Buffalo. My field of study includes literature of the English Renaissance, psychoanalysis, and film studies. I am beginning a dissertation on English Renaissance comedy and performance. I plan to concentrate on Shakespeare's histories and on the development of urban Jacobean comedy (Jonson, Middleton, et. al.). I look forward to enthusiastic and productive discussions on this listserv. ============================================================= *Costello, Charles Charles Costello. PhD candidate at The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at The University of Toronto, St. George Campus. MA English, University of Toronto; BA Sociology, University of Calgary. I am writing a thesis on the spatiality of performance in late 16th century England. Most recently I have been concentrating on the York Plays and Tamburlaine with respect to the cultural status of the eye, which I take to be a prime indicator of spatiality. =============================================================================== *Costello-Sullivan, Kate Kate Costello-Sullivan: I am finishing an MA in English with a concentration in early modern Irish Lit at Boston College. I intend to pursue a Ph.D. in post-colonial theory/Renassiance studies. =============================================================================== *Costenoble, Nancy Nancy Banks Costenoble: Free-lance writer specializing in theater and dance. BA with Honors in English Literature (specializing in drama of the Tudor-Stuart period) from Swarthmore, 1980. MS in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School, 1982. My chief interest at present is the performance history of Shakespeare's plays. I am currently working on a major paper on character motivation in King Lear. My previous publications, which have all been of a non-academic nature, include chapters on theater and dance for the forthcoming "History of American Entertainment" (Facts on File Books), and articles for a variety of publications, including the Chicago Reader and Facts on File. =============================================================================== *Cotton, Ryan My name is Ryan Cotton, and I am interested in joining the Shakespeare listserv. I am an undergraduate at Princeton University currently studying English and Literature. I have been interested in the study and discussion of Shakespeare for many years, and I am excited about the prospects of participating and observing discussion regarding the subject. My primary area of interest, as well as skill, concerns film adaptations, but I am also interested in criticism. Thank you for providing this service and making it available. Writings available upon request. ============================================================= *Couch, Nena I am curator and assistant professor, Library of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University. Previously I was project archivist for the Francis Robinson Collection of Theatre, Music, and Dance, Vanderbilt University. I am a member of the Theatre Library Association board and have served as a jurist for the annual George Freedley book award. Other professional associations include the American Society for Theatre Research (local arrangements chair for the 1988 annual meeting), Congress on Research in Dance, Society of American Archivists, American Library Association. Publications include The Francis Robinson Collection of Theatre, Music, and Dance: a Manuscripts Collection (1986), The Humanities and the Library (co-ed. and co-author of Performing Arts chapter, forthcoming ALA), articles in Performing Arts Resources and others. Papers include presentations at International Federation for Theatre Research, ASTR, SAA, TLA/ALA and others. Creative work includes dramaturgy, choreography and Baroque and Renaissance dance reconstruction. ============================================================================== *Couche, Christine I am nearing the end of my PhD on *strong* women in Shakespeare looking at Cleopatra, Helena (AWTEW), and Venus (V&A), having been generously supervised by Prof R. S. White at the University of Western Australia. I have had some experience teaching at tertiary level, both Shakespeare and more general first year material. My honours dissertation was on Othello. My only publication thus far is an essay on Venus and Adonis* and *The Rape of Lucrece* in the recently published *Constructing Gender: Feminism and Literary Studies* eds Hilary Fraser and R. S. White (Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1994). =============================================================================== *Coughran, Charles S. Development Engineer Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego I am a research engineer with a degree in philosophy who is interested in theatre. ======================================================================== 37 *Rogers, Mickey I'm a novice to the field and my Shakespearean background on the university level is nil. This past spring I graduated with a degree in Literary and Historical Studies. However, during my time at the university I neglected to take a Shakespearean course. I work at the Academic Computer Center as the deep night Notis operator and take courses during the day. Presently I'm working on being certified in the Teacher Education program. I'm fascinated with the works of Shakespeare and will be taking a Shakespearean course next semester. What really intrigues me about Shakespeare is his ability to create new words and phrases. I hope to be able to contribute to the list but I must admit my background is that of a neanderthal. However, with the sound influence of the participants of this list perhaps I'll become a barbarian. At the university we have an instructor by the name of Fred Curchak. His field is Art and Performance. Fred developed a one man show call "Stuff" that received national acclaim. "Stuff" is a takeoff on The Tempest and it is through Fred's influence that I've developed an interest in Shakespeare. I would classify myself as a traditionalist trying to understand the revisionists of this day. As soon as I complete my certification process I intend to enter Graduate school. My intention is to pursue a Masters in Literary Studies. Mickey Rogers ======================================================================== *Cowell, Philip - Name: Philip Tristan Cowell - Age: 15 - DOB: 7/25/80 - Location: England - Specific Location: Folkestone, Kent - Title: Mr - School: Harvey Grammar - Email address: TheCowells@pcowell.demon.co.uk - Biography: Having patronised the Harvey Grammar school for four years now I have developed a keen interest in Shakesperean publications. My first reading was 'Midsummer Night's Dream' which was soon followed by 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Romeo and Juliet'. At home I have read 'The Taming of the Shrew' and also, though in no great detail, have read 'Henry V' at the battle of Agincourt. Often am I reading summaries of Shakespeares plays so I can at least appreciate its quality. English is my favourite subject at school and so far for my coursework I have achieved A* throughout. I will soon endeavour to publish one of my A* essays with hope that more people can appreciate the true essence of Shakespeare. I have recently been studying with care the similarities between the plays. I wrote, for example in one of my essays, how Shakespeare used alike styles to express the love of Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra using the idea of wealth. This was received well by my English teacher. I am keen in law and hope to pass university with a law degree. Naturally the study of such culture will help me to develop techniques in law - appreciation of text and so on. =============================================================================== *Cowell, Stephanie I'd very much like to subscribe to the Conference. I am a novelist and have published three books set in Shakespeare's time with W.W. Norton, the last one being "The Players: a novel of the young Shakespeare," out last spring. ============================================================= *Cowgill, Marc My name is Marcus Charles Cowgill, I hold a doctorate in psychology, I currently work at Virginia Tech, and I have yet to submit a publication. I am a member of the American Psychological Association. I am currently interested in classic literature, mythology, history, philosophy, rock music, computer programming, world issues, technological issues, multivariate statistics, and industrial psychology. I am currently working on a new approach to cluster analysis, which is a well- known and widely used statistical technique. My job is Research Specialist, Senior, and Departmental Network Manager for the Virginia Tech Animal and Poultry Sciences Dept. My future career is in rock music, and many of my interests are designed to enhance the impact of my songs upon my listenership. I look forward to eavesdropping on your list. address: Marc Cowgill 609 Clay St. Apt. 5 Blacksburg, VA 24060 ph. 703-953-0476 =============================================================================== *Cox, Ann M. Ann M. Cox, B.A., M.L.S. 721 Canning St., Montreal, Quebec H3J 2A3 (514) 935-8337 In 1990 and 1993, respectively, I received a B.A. in Art History and an M.L.S. from McGill University. I will be returning to university in 1994 to continue my education with an M.A. in Art History. I presently hold a part-time position at the Royal Victoria Hospital Medical Library, and am also engaged, in a research capacity, at the McGill Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. In addition, I am compiling a primary source bibliography on a figure from Montreal's past for a well known Montreal author. I am a member of the Special Libraries Association, North American Chapter, a member of the Children's Literature Roundtable of Montreal, and I am also involved with the Council for the Protection of Rural England. With respect to publication, I have not, as of yet, been published. However, I have compiled an 83 page bibliography of Canadian Children's Literature as a source guide for the professor of children's materials at McGill's Library School. In addition, my latest research paper, an odd topic I will admit, concerns the historical manifestation of the European vampire. This paper, providing some new insights into the vampire lore, is presently being reviewed for publication. My interests include both reading and writing poetry, the study of antiques, interior decorating, and collecting books on poetry. I am also preparing to write my next paper, the topic of which will concern Art History. My primary reason for wishing to be placed on this list, is to engage in dialog with others who can truly appreciate the beauty and the majesty of Shakespeare's work. Also, I will no longer have to "draw [my] breath in pain", at the gaping mouths of those who think me odd for noting the ironies of life through the words of HIMSELF. =============================================================================== *Cox, John D. John D. Cox teaches English at Hope College. In addition to numerous articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, he /recently published *Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power* (Princeton, 1989), a new historicist re-examination of Shakespeare's debt to medieval religious drama. He is currently working on another book, tentatively entitled, "Drama of a Childhood: Christopher Marlowe and Punitive Power." He has experimented with using Shakespearean plays in teaching freshman composition and would be interested in exchanging ideas with anyone else who might have a similar interest. His way of doing it is to focus on plays that lend themselves to discussion of potentially troubled relationships--those within families and between the sexes, different races, and different social classes. He is a member of the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Shakespeare Association, the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, the Modern Language Association, the Midwest Modern Language Association, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature. ======================================================================= *Coyle, Dale F. I received my PhD in Linguistics at Princeton in 1979. My special fields of interest are history of the English language, and English and German dialects. My dissertation focused on Standard English for actors and the acquisition of dialects for the stage. I was artistic director of a small theatre in Princeton for two summers, and directed and acted in many plays in the Princeton area. I also studied theatre in Paris and Vienna. For the last 9 years I've worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton under its late president, Ernest Boyer. Here our work involves educational policy studies at all levels. Most recently I've worked with an elementary education reform called "The Basic School," and now am working with a group of colleges in a program called the New American College, which is an attempt to define a new direction for higher education, with emphasis on more connections within the campus community as well as with the outside world. I've recently published an article on Standard American English in American Speech, and now am finishing up an enoromous project-- A Guide to Shakespearean pronunciation. I've conducted a random sample survey of Shakespeare scholars in the US, Canada, and the UK, asking them how they would recommend pronouncing over 300 of the "hard" or disputed words in Shakespeare (words like wassail, Titania, oeillades, quietus, Bollingbrook). The book is a student's/ teacher's/ actor's guide to those foreign phrases, names and literary words which always give readers trouble. It's virtually complete and I hope to find a publisher soon. =============================================================================== *Craft, Samuel G. I'm a 20 yr. old undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas. I'm a literary studies major, and I hope to teach at a university some day. My primary interest is in post-modernist fiction (my favorite book to date is John Barth's *Lost In The Funhouse*) but I enjoy finding the roots of this sort of fiction in the classics, such as Shakespear and Voltaire. In other words, I'll read anything as long as it's good. :) My other interests are primarily creative writing (I was recently published for the first time in the quarterly *Redundancy* with two poems and a story) chess (I have a 1600 USCF rating), running (I recently completed the White Rock Marathon in Dallas), and stimulating conversation (unfortunately, my life is lacking in this area :). I've been engaged since last April to a woman I dearly love, I'm desperately looking for a good graduate school, and I can't cook. I think it's a genetic disorder of a sort. :) As I said, my favorite book is Barth, my favorite musician is Tori Amos, and my favorite artist is Salvador Dali. =============================================================================== *Craig, Judith M. Although I have a Ph.D. in Shakespeare (Rice University, 1977), I have not been active in the field since I left graduate school for teaching in various community colleges around Texas--namely, Houston, Dallas, and Midland. At present I am unemployed and trying to catch up on the last fifteen years of scholarship. For that reason, I have no specialized interests or published papers, although I am considering working up an idea on _MacBeth_ that was suggested to me by my reading in Mark Jay Mirsky's _The Absent Shakespeare_ (Associated University Presses, 1994). As Mirsky suggests, since MacBeth is "unable to summon angels, the Thane is open to the suggestion of witches" (p. 120). Conversely, Lady MacBeth becomes a witch to support MacBeth's diseased imagination which, as Mirsky suggests, requires witches to have a "belief in something" (p. 120). I have also thought about writing a paper on the Renaissance figure of "spirit imprisoned in a tree" (cf _The Tempest_, _FQ_ I, ii, xxvii-xlv, and Francesco Colonna's woodcut _Hypnerotomachia Prolifili_) but have received little critical or professional support from the various sources on whom I tested the idea. In short, I have begun reading and thinking again about my first love, Shakespeare, after a long, dry, and fruitless period of plodding the compositon track; I would certainly welcome any rain of ideas from other Shakespeareans! =============================================================================== *Craig, Martha I am teaching at Purdue and writing my dissertation on "Patterns of Civility: Women in Lit" in the Renaissance, with main focus on Shakespeare's women! I have no publications yet, but many conferences, this year including the "Attending to Early Modern Women" one at the U of Md, Kalamazoo, and the St. Louis Ren. Conf. =============================================================================== *Craig, Marty I am a grad student at Purdue, finishing my dissertation on Feminine Virtue in Shakespeare's Didactic Heroines. =============================================================================== *Craig, Terry Ann Surface Mail: West Virginia Northern Community College 141 Main Street New Martinsville, WV 26155 Phone: (304)-455-4684 My name is Terry Ann Craig, and I'm a Professor of English at West Virginia Northern Community College, Liberal Arts Division. My primary interest is teaching, but I have two minor publications: "Petruchio as Exorcist: Shakespearea and Elizabethan Demonology." Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 2.3(Spring 1978): 1-7. Review of John Cleveland, by Lee A. Jacobus. Seventeenth- Century News 35(Fall 1977): 87. I am a member of NCTE and the Renaissance Society of America. I was until very recently a member of the MLA, but I decided for a variety of reasons to let that membership die. As I mentioned, my primary interest is instruction, and my current interest is teahing Shakespeare at the two-year college. I'm also very interested in the use of film in Shakespeare classes. I hope this biography suffices. I'm very new to Internet and hope that I haven't made many terrible errors. Thanks again for the information; I look forward to hearing from you. =============================================================================== *Crane, Gregory Gregory Crane's interests are twofold. On the one hand, he has published on a wide range of ancient Greek authors (including articles on Greek drama and Hellenistic poetry and a book on the Odyssey). Much of his recent energy has been devoted to Thucydides; his book The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word has just appeared from Rowman and Littlefield; he has a second Thucydides book (The Ancient Simplicity: Thucydides and the Limits of Political Realism) completed and in the final stages of editorial review. He is currently engaged in writing a book on imperialism and the crisis of legitimacy in the fifth century. At the same time, he has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the humanities and rapidly developing digital technology. He began this side of his work as a graduate student at Harvard when the Classics Department purchased its first TLG authors on magnetic tape in the summer of 1982. He developed a Unix-based full text retrieval system for the TLG that was widely used in North America and Europe in the middle 1980s. He also helped establish a typesetting consortium to facilitate scholarly publishing. Since 1985 he has been engaged in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database. ============================================================= *Crane, Mary Thomas Mary Thomas Crane, Associate Professor, Department of English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 Publications include: Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993) "Herrick's Cultural Materialism," George Herbert Journal 14 (1990-91): 21-50. "'His Owne Style': Voice and Writing in Jonson's Poems," Criticism 32 (1990)"31-50. "Video et Taceo: Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel" SEL 28 (1988): 1-15. "Intret Cato: Authority and the Epigram in Sixteenth-Century England," Harvard English Studies 14 (1986): 158-185. "The Shakespearean Tetralogy," SQ 36 (1985): 282-299. Research Interests: Use of professional and institutional words in Shakespeare's plays; use of stage space in Shakespeare's plays. Degrees: A.B. (1979) Radcliffe College A.M. (1982) Harvard University Ph.D. (1986) Harvard University =============================================================================== *Crawford, John W. Dr. John W. Crawford Crawford@holly.HSU. edu Box 7813 Henderson State University Arkadelphia, Ar 7l999-000l Professor of English Degrees in English from Ouachita Baptist University, Drake University, and the Oklahoma State University. Dissertation title: ROMANTIC CRITICISM OF SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA (published in l978 by the University of Salzburg) Read numerous papers on Shakespeare's plays at such conferences as the South Central Modern Language Association, College English Association, Arkansas Philological Association, and Philological Association of Louisiana, as well as at the South Central Renaissance Conference. Published articles on Shakespeare studies in such journals as THE EXPLICATOR, THE SOUTHERN QUARTERLY, THE UPSTART CROW, SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, INC., AND THE COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION FORUM. Published dissertation of l968 in l978 at University of Salzburg (mentioned above); various articles on Shakespeare in DISCOURSE: ESSAYS ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, l978); and EARLY SHAKESPEAREAN ACTRESSES (New York: Peter Lang, l984) Research in recent years on Shakespeare's women as mentors. Papers read on this subject and one article forthcoming in a festschrift at the University of Oklahoma in honor of David S. Berkeley. Continuing research in this area with publication interests for the near future. =============================================================================== *Crawford, Rosemary I teach Shakespeare at The Tatnall School, which is a private prep school in Wilmington, Delaware. Currently, I'm working with a mixed group of juniors and seniors in an elective called Intro to Shakespeare. We're doing IHenryIV, AMSND, and Romeo and Juliet. I also do Macbeth each year with a sophomore group. We'll be getting to that play in the spring. I am interested in snooping around on your site mostly to see what I can learn. I am particularly interested in contemporary critical approaches to Shakespeare, in talk about the Elizabethan theater, and in specific discussion of the individual plays. I have a master's degree in literature and have been teaching for about 17 years. =============================================================================== *Creamer, Kevin J.T. or Mail Systems Manager, University of Richmond. University of Richmond Post Office, University of Richmond, VA 23173-9998 I am currently studying for my Master's in English Literature. I am most interested in English poetry, from Chaucer to Milton (Shakespeare included!). I have not written for any publications. I am a member of the MLA. ========================================================= *Creamer, Kevin J.T. I am a new graduate student in English at Richmond (as well as Assistant University Registrar). I am also the listowner for Milton-L, Milton Review and Scriptorum (a discussion for participants of the Milton Transcription Project). I have developed a few web pages in support of these groups (a good starting point is The Milton-L Home Page ). While my primary interest is in Milton, I am interested in Shakespeare and the Renaissance in general, and believe SHAKSPER to be one of the more useful discussion lists on the Internet. =============================================================================== *Crescenzo, Michele I am an M.A. candidate who plans to go on to a Ph.D. program. I'm taking a Shakespeare course in the fall, so I thought this group would be helpful. =============================================================================== *Creswell, Jeff I am an elementary school teacher who started life as an actor and I heard about your group from a friend of mine who is a member. For six years u took my class of inner city fifth graders to Ashland, Oregon to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I now read at least one play with my class every year and take them to a local production. This year I took 150 fourth and fifth graders and their parents to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Portland Center Stage. It was a great experience. I love to expose children to Shakespeare because I feel that if they have a positive experience with him when they are young, then they will love him for the rest of their lives. This has certainly proven true. I will look forward to hearing from you about becoming a part of your group. =============================================================================== *Crew, Louie Ph.D., Alabama, 1971. Dickens' Use of Language for Protest. M.A., Auburn, 1959. Shakespearean Old Men Associate Professor of English, Rutgers, from 1989.... =============================================================================== *Crewe, Jonathan V. Jonathan V. Crewe, Professor of English, Dartmouth College; b. S. Africa, permanent resident of U.S.; M.A. Natal, Ph.D. Berkeley (1980); previously taught Univ. of Cape Town, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Tulsa; publications include Thomas Nashe and the Scandal of Authorship (Hopkins, 1982); Hidden Designs: The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature (Methuen, 1986); Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (California, 1990); numerous articles on Renaissance Lit., incl. Shakespeare; member Shakespeare Assn. Current interests: Renaissance/postmodern connections; Renaissance culture and/as spectacle. =============================================================================== *Crim, Joyce W. Joyce W. Crim 1033 Seminole Hwy Madison, WI 53711 Southwestern University, Georgetown Texas, BS in Educ. 1969 30 hours grad credit in Dept of Theatre and Drama, Univ. of Wisc., Madison, WI Summer audience at American Players Theatre, Spring Green, WI =============================================================================== *Crispin, Brenda My name is Brenda Crispin. I am a reference librarian at Oxnard (California) Public Library with responsibilities for selecting history materials along with a determination do develop a subject expertise in Renaissance studies. I have begun personal reading and research in that area. I earned a BA degree in the Humanities from California State University at San Bernardino in 1988 and a Master of Library Science degree from UCLA in 1990. I chose to become a reference librarian in a public library rather than in the academic setting because of the variety of ages, interests, and informational needs of patrons who use public libraries. The only papers I have written about Shakespeare were for my Theater Arts 475 and 476 classes at CSUSB, but I have a real and active interest in Mr. Shakespeare's plays as well as in the study of the social and cultural climate of Elizabethan England. I expect this study to be entertaining and educational and although I am engaging in it for personal enlightenment, it will certainly increase my ability to assist students and other library patrons as they pursue know- ledge in Shakespearean and renaissance studies. An interest in renaissance music is also pushing its way to the surface of my consciousness. My husband is a fiddler, and I accompany him on the guitar as he plays Irish and Scottish jigs and reels, many of which date back to renaissance days. And so a study of music will certainly play a large role in my interests. I am looking forward to reading the postings on SHAKSPER and learning more about the literature of this great humanist and his stage, Elizabethan England. =============================================================================== *Crocker, Warner I am a professional director and also a guest instructor/director at the University of Illinois-Chicago. I am currently directing a production of Measure for Measure and would like to subscribe to your mailing list. Please respond to wcrocker@ix.netcom. =============================================================================== *Cronin, Jefferson Jefferson Shaw Cronin, originally from the Washington, D.C. area, is a teacher, actor, producer and director with many years of Shakespeare experience in all of those roles, and on a variety of levels. Jefferson holds a Bachelor's from Davis and Elkins College and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from the Ohio State University. He is currently on the faculty of The University of Maryland/Asian Division, working in Guam. His teaching fields include Theatre (His/Lit/Crit, acting, directing), Communications, Speech, and English (literature and writing). As a director, Jefferson has tackled Midsummer, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, As You Like It, and others. His favorite roles include Falstaff (Henry IV), Sir Toby Belch, Touchstone, The Gravedigger, Bottom, and The Porter from Macbeth. (he even feels nervous about = writing that name!) Jefferson teaches and practices theatre in a place where no tradition for live performance has survived. (Americanization and/or WWII) The need for Shakespeare study and performance is profound in the Western Pacific. He has learned that the complimentary relationship between traditional Asian theatre forms and Shakespeare is startling and can provide some enlightening revelations about both. ============================================================= *Crosby, David L. Professor of Communication Alcorn State University 1000 ASU Drive, #89 Lorman, MS 39096 601-877-3846 Studied English language and literature at Georgetown University (A.B.) and Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D.); Dissertation: The Presenter in Elizabethan Drama, directed by S. Schoenbaum (1972). Current interests include using performance to teach dramatic literature, adaptations of Shakespeare performances to local community circumstances, and Shakespeare's relationship to the popular and civic celebrations of his own day. Attended the Folger Shakespeare Institute's conference on Shakespeare and the Languages of Performance (1994) and plan to attend their conference on Material London, ca. 1600 in March 1995. Last summer saw 6 performances by the RSC, 4 in Stratford and 2 in London, and am a frequent visitor to the Stratford, Ontario festival and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. I appeared as the drug dealer (apothecary) in Cornerstone Theatre's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in Port Gibson, MS in 1989, a production which was written up in American Theatre. Summers (1991-1994) I have served as artistic director and dramaturg for Peanut Butter & Jelly Theater, a troupe of local high school actors, mostly African-American, who perform a new show for children each summer on the theme "Be A Reader." A typical 7-week summer season comprises 40-50 performances in towns and cities all over Mississippi and into Eastern Louisiana, with a total audience of 4,000-5,000 children and adults. Other interests include folklore, oral history, and storytelling. Since 1980 I have served as editorial advisor to *I Ain't Lying,* a magazine of oral history and folklore edited by high school students in Claiborne County, MS, and published by Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, 507 Market Street, Port Gibson, MS 39150, 601-437-8905. I have not taught a class in Shakespeare since 1985, nor published an article on Shakespeare since 1989, but my interest in Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean performances remains strong. I currently teach courses in newswriting, still photography, broadcast journalism, and videomaking, and would be interested in suggestions for how to combine my interests in drama with the teaching of basic newsgathering and newswriting skills. =============================================================================== *Crossman, Alayne ACROSSM@AC.DAL.CA I'm Alayne Crossman, a Dalhousie University English student who is interested in joining your discussion group on Shakespeare. I had never had any particular interest in studying Shakespeare in high school because my classes always discussed him in a really dry manner. But last year I signed up for a Shakespeare class here at Dalhousie and was very impressed with the modern approaches taken in the study. My favorite play is The Taming of the Shrew. I'd be interested in hearing what the latest analysis on Kate's final speech is. =============================================================================== *Crowley, James James P. Crowley Ph.D. Univ of Delaware, 1992. Dissertation topic: Ben Jonson and Religion. I am currently Assistant to the Dean (Arts & Science) and Asst Prof of English at Delaware. My teaching assignments have included the Shakespeare course for majors every semester since 1987; also, the British Lit I survey; Medieval Lit survey; tutorials in Ren Lit. Current research interest in Shakespeare: the role of the coronation ceremonies in the Lancastrian Tetralogy. I look forward to becoming part of the SHAKSPER community--I'm always looking forfresh ideas--especially those that might bear on undergraduate teaching. =============================================================================== *Crowley, Paul I am an author - of a very substantial piece of computer software. My degree is in Business Studies. My passionate interest in Shakespeare developed about ten years ago when I found myself having to spend time in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK) and began attending the theatre regularly. I believe that there is much to be said for coming to Shakespeare later in life when one is able to form judgements based on experience, and my view of him and his works now is very different from that when I studied them at school and college. Paul F. Crowley =============================================================================== *Crownfield, Elizabeth I am writing my dissertation on the _Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke_ (1597) of Thomas Morley. I am attempting to locate Morley's work within several intellectual contexts, musical and otherwise. A hitherto unexplored area is Morley's relationship to other writing of the same period; this has several aspects including (1) Morley's place in a long line of "plain and easy introductions to practically everything"; (2) his use of language and what that reveals about his intellectual and aesthetic outlook; (3) his alignment or lack thereof with the schools and trends of his day; (4) the antecedents or sources of his individual style, including the style of dialogue he employs (a friendly, colloquial, "realistic" portrayal of the teacher/student relationship)--etc., etc. My work does not concern Shakespeare per se, but does employ some of the same kinds of resources. I have no up-to-date advanced background in literary studies, though I have maintained an interest in the literature of the period. I have been searching for resources that can help me find and sort through primary material, and also provide navigational buoys for the vast expanse of recent work. I would also like to have some regular contact with my literary counterparts. =============================================================================== *Crozier, Scott I am a PhD student at Monash University researching the performance history of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Although I am mostly interested in recent English productions, I will be researching the play's productions from the first accounts. My recent productions that I am interested in are Lepage's 1992 production production at the National Theatre, Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl production of 1985, Bill Alexander's RSC production of 1986 and Brook's 1970 production. As well as having an academic interest in Shakespeare I direct his plays as well. This year i am working of on a production of the Dream for Monash students as well as Romeo and Juliet for the students I teach at a Melbourne Grammar School. I hope that this brief biog will actually get to you as all others attempts have failed. =============================================================================== *Cudahy, Michael My name is Michael Cudahy, and I am a Graduate Student in English at the University of California, Berkeley. I am an "ABD" Ph.D. candidate, and am about midway through a dissertation on Shakespeare's dramatic use of narrative speech. My dissertation is an examination of the complex interplay between two ways of representing action on the stage, through direct enactment and verbally, through narration. I hope to demonstrate that Shakespeare's innovative use of narration, and in particular, his exploitation of the interplay between narration and on-stage action, is partly responsible for the remarkable success of his plays in the theater. After Shakespeare, my greatest literary love is the literature of Renaissance Italy, especially the romantic epics of Ariosto and Tasso, and the historical and political works of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. After completing my dissertation, I intend to return to an earlier project, partially completed, on Early Modern theories of genre, focussing on the extent, and the limits, of their influence on the epic poetry of Italy and England. Other favorite topics include Roman literature, lyric poetry, theories of language and meaning, and Early Modern printing practices. =============================================================================== *Culleton, Claire Claire Culleton: an assistant professor of English at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242. I have published widely on topics related to Modern British literature (mainly Joyce) and women's studies (Women and WWI in Britain). My book on Joyce (U of Wisconsin P) will be published this summer--July or August. I hold a Ph.D.(1989) from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL., and belong to an odd assortment of professional groups: MLA, ACIS, ANA, JJF, JJS, CSSN, etc. Though I have no Shakespearean projects to report, I am kept busy with other projects I'm trying to complete (or worse, start)--a familiar scenario, I'm sure. I'll look forward to the Shaksper list. =============================================================================== *Culwell, Lori M <6500lmc1@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> My name is Lori Culwell, and I am a grad student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I'm getting my Masters in Dramatic Art (Literature). Next year, I'll be applying to various programs (including my own) to pursue my PhD. My focus is Shakespeare--especially his clowns. I did my undergraduate degrees at the University of California, Irvine, where I worked with Dr. Robert Weimann, a prominent Shakespearean and literary critic. Having always been interested in the theatre, I found my niche in academia with the help of the excellent department at Irvine. Currently, I am doing the dramaturgy for a production of the Misanthrope here at UCSB. It's good to be applying my training to a practical medium. After getting my PhD, I hope to find a position in a drama department at a university, teaching dramatic literature of all genres. I look forward to interesting discussion on the SHAKSPER list. =============================================================================== *Cummings, Carey My name is Carey Cummings and I am a data processing technical consultant with the Unisys Corporation. I am assigned to the New York State Department of Social Services and while there I assist them in data base and application design and implementation. My undergraduate degree was in English and I began to pursue but never completed a Master's degree in the field. In 1967 I ran out of time (the alloted 5 years). Some 20+ years later, in 1987, I returned (part-time) to the State University of New York at Albany as a doctoral student in English (Renaissance) literature. I received my doctoral degree in May of 1993. My return to school was purely for the love of the subject matter, the period, and the fellowship of like minded scholars. My dissertation, entitled "an ememie in at their mouths: the Discourse of Drunkenness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama," was presented and accepted in April of 1993. To date I have not published anything but this summer I am going to work on my dissertation and submit it for publication somewhere. I have been asked by Aurthur Kinney, one of the co-editors (I believe) of the Tudor Encyclopedia, to provide an article on drinking during the Tudor period. I have not heard anything from them for awhile on when yhey need this by and expect that it will also be a project of this summer. I enjoy Renaissance drama in all of it forms and flavors and have attended the Elizabethan Stage project conference in Waterloo Canada, the MLA conventions in NYC and Toronto, and I went last year. and will go again this year, to London and Stratford to see as many plays as I can. For me Shakespeare and Renaissance drama are an intriguing and rewarding hobby. I continue to read Renaissance drama (my last read was "Miriam: Fair Queen of Jewery") and I attend plays whenever I am able. My address for those interested is 12 Malpass Road, Albany NY 12203. Phone 518 456-5869 (home) or 518 462-3943 or 518 474-9097 (work). =============================================================================== *Cummins, Doug Geetings from deep South Texas! My name is Doug Cummins. I am Professor of Communication and Theatre at The University of Texas - Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. We are only twelve miles from the Mexican border. I wish to join the Shakespeare discussion group. My major interest in Shakespeare is performance, but I am also very interested in recent scholarship, because it directly ffects production. I have directed Twelfth Night, The Tempest, R & J, and begin rehearsals for Hamlet on Monday, March 21. Pray for me! In addition, I tour a one man show which I wrote and compiled called Shakespeare Lives! It consists of songs, sonnets, and scenes from Shakespeare's plays. I've been performing it to high schools, community groups, civic concerts, etc for five years. In November, I went to brazil at the request of the Centro Shakespearianos of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. I stayed two weeks, performed three times, and taught in the university. I've studeied with Kriten Linklater and Tina Packer at Shakepeare &Co. in Massachusetts. Last summer I taught a graudate course on the English and Spanish Golden Ages in which Shakespeare occupied a central positon, of course. I am currently working on a paper studying the grotesque as understood by Meyerhold and Artaud and its comparison to Shakespearian and Jacobean tragedy. This is a very preliminary work. Doug Cummins, Ph.D. The University of Texas - Pan American Communication Department Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 (210) 381-3583 B.M.Ed. Texas Christian University; M.Div. T.C.U.; M.F.A. T.C.U.; Ph.D. Texas Tech University - At this time I teach acting and theatre management on the undergraduate level and performance theor and dramatic lit on the graudate level. =============================================================================== *Cunico, Juliette Full Name: Juliette M. Cunico Address: Department of English Bradley University Peoria. IL 61625 Phone: 309-677-2469 Position: Assistant Professor, Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature Memberships: Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Society of America Publications and Presentations: PLRE, Atkinson and Digby; Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, *Dictionary of British Literary Characters*; numerous SAA papers. Research Interests: Text studies, Shakespeare and friends in performance, audience attitudes and reactions to same, bibliography, history of ideas, continental and folkloric (!) influences on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Shakespeare and friends on film, primary source study PhD, University of New Mexico, 1991 Dissertation: "Audience Attitudes Toward Suicide in Shakespeare's Tragedies" Major Projects in progress: Article on Jonson's *Masque of Blacknesse* and Shakespeare's *Othello*; Monograph, "Moors and Matachines: A Shakespeare Connection." =============================================================================== *Currier, Lou It's with a certain amount of trepidation that I send you this after reading your overview message. I'm a lowly high school English literatrue teacher in a small parochial school in upstate New York. Plattsburgh to be exact. A lovely area some 50 miles from Montreal and a good place to be. I returned to teaching after 20 years as a USAF pilot. I also served in the Peace Corps in Turkey immediately after graduation in 1965. The Kennedy charisma was too much to resist! I'm 50 years old, a single parent of two terrific daughters who are either in college or about to be, and an avid reader. My course load is dedicated to English 12 and I have one group of very talented Advanced Placement candidates. I'm afraid I don't have the gold plated credentials you are looking for. Graduate work, yes. PHD no. Desire, yes. Published papers, no. Curiosity, yes. Access to data to share with my kids, not yet. =============================================================================== *Curtis, Paul Paul M. Curtis, Ph.D. Departement d'Anglais Universite de Moncton (506) 858-4250 I am an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at an undergraduate university in New Brunswick, L'Universite de Moncton. I took up my position in July of 1990 and have been responsible for undergraduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition, Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature in English, and Drama. I hold degrees from various Canadian institutions: BA, McGill, 1977; MA, Carleton, 1980; and Ph.D., York, 1990. My dissertation goes by the title "Rhetorical Indirection in the Poetry of Lord Byron" and was completed under the supervision of Dr. Ian Balfour. My publications include "Rhetoric as Hero: `a voiceless thought'," in The Byron Journal (Vol. 19, 1991), and "The Mystery of Distance: Berkeley and Byron," in The Keats-Shelley Journal (Vol. 41, 1992). Work in progress includes "Byron's Beppo: Digression and Contingency," and "The Bowles-Pope Controversy: Paradox and Ethics." I am a member of the American division of The Byron Society as well as ACCUTE. My motivation for subscribing to the Shakespeare network goes beyond my teaching of Shakespeare. I am writing a book-length study of Byron that examines various techniques of rhetorical indirection. One chapter discusses Byron's indebtedness to Shakespeare -- in particular, Byron's allusions to Shakespeare in his correspondence. Electronic access to contemporary scholarship on Shakespeare would be a valuable part of my research for the project. =============================================================================== *Curtis, Richard Richard Curtis is Assistant Editor at AGNI Magazine, an international journal of Art and Ideas published at Boston University. He is also a freelance screenwriter. He holds degrees from UC Davis (BA in English 1992), and Boston University (MA in Poetry 1995). His interest in Shakespeare is primarily a personal one, although he is currently working on a historical feature set in Elizabethan London. His interests center not so much on Shakespeare himself, but on the hisotrical context and social melieu of the period surrounding him; specifically as pertains to WS's relations to Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. =============================================================================== *