Daigle, Christopher <866141@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> Name - Christopher Charles Daigle Bachelor of Arts (Major subjects: English and Political Science) St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Education: I am currently a student at St. Thomas University trying to obtain my first undergraduate degree, reading for my Honours in English. Major Projects: My major projects at the present deal mainly with the theatre. I am directing a small show entitled "Masque" as a warm up to my large production....one of Shakespeare's comedies which will open in November of 1994. I am also a writer and I constantly work on short stories and poetry in hopes to have them published. These projects also have another competitor...My Thesis. Although the subject is not Shakespeare it is an interesting topic. I am making comparisons between African writers and writers outside of Africa who write about Africa. My main focuses are Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad and Gabriel Okara. Interests: Obviously, my interest lies in literature and I plan to pursue my future studies in that area. I am applying for admission into the Directing Residency at National Theatre School of Canada with hopes of furthering my directing experience and if that doesn't work out I will try to gain admission into a graduate school to continue my study of African literature. However, my interest in theatre is Shakespeare. I attempt to take in as many Shakespeare productions that I can...the last being over a year ago when Theatre New Brunswick did an excellent job of "A Winter's Tale." I would like to, hopefully one day, direct or perform one of the great bard's takes at the new Globe Theatre once it is open. The idea of re-creating the original environment that Shakespeare's plays were first done is both amazing and stimulating. For now though, I plan to find one of Shakespeare's comedies that I like and have it ready to open in November of this year. That is my goal and I hope the path to my future. =============================================================================== *Daily-Herrman, Kathleen P. I am a librarian in Tucson, AZ with an interest in learning more about Shakespeare. I work for a law firm as the Director of Library Research/Technical Services. The only possible qualification I have to join this list is an interest in learning...to expand my knowledge base. If I am permitted to join the list if there is occasion to help someone with my skills as a librarian I will be happy to do so. =============================================================================== *Dalglish, Darren I am the editor of "THE LONDON THEATRE GUIDE - ONLINE" web pages and the editor of "LONDON THEATRE NEWS" a weekly newsletter by email. I hope sometime in the near future to create a section on the theatre pages dedicated to William Shakespeare.I am hoping that this list will help with my research. My knowledge of Shakespeare is limited. I only became interested in theatre just over 2 years ago at the age of 35.I have seen over 200 West End shows in this time including all Shakepeare productions. =============================================================================== *Dalton, Mike I graduated from Mankato State University in Minnesota, and had a wonderful Shakespeare instructor there, Bill Dyer. That piqued my interest in Shakespeare, an interest that continues to this day. =============================================================================== *Daly, Charlie I am a 33 year old Irish male. I lecture in computer applications at Dublin City University (which tragically lacks a humanities area). My Shakespearian interests are 1. Hamlet and 2. Seeing interesting versions of the comedies and tragedies. I have no interest in the histories. =============================================================================== *Damatopoulos, Sotirios Sotirios Damatopoulos: I am a student at Stage Design in the School of Fine Arts, in Greece. Also involved in some theatre productions here.. =============================================================================== *Damp, Katie My name is Katie Damp and I am a full-time faculty member in the Theatre Program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. I have been teaching since I was a graduate student in 1989. To date I have no publications, except for my MFA thesis (on "The Multiple Characters in Eugene Ionesco's KILLING GAME), and several plays which haven't left my computer. I have been acting professionally since 1987 (summers - various regional theatres), and prefer performing in Shakespeare. I have been directing professionally on a somewhat regular basis since 1992, but unfortunately haven't had the opportunity to direct Shakespeare yet. Next semester I will directing a new play entitled THORNWOOD by Tony Howarth. This play, set in an inner city classroom, has an English teacher struggling to teach an uninterested and angry group of seniors about HAMLET. As the play progresses, the teacher (Thornwood) starts to actually believe he IS Hamlet. From there on, the tragic fate of "Hamlet" parallels that of "Thornwood." Unfortunately, the students also suffer from Thornwood's disillusion. When I was actively applying for Ph.D. programs my three possible areas of dissertation research were: 1) African-American Drama From A Caucasion's Point of View 2) Shakespeare's Women 3) Using Theatre As A Rehabilitative Process In Correctional Settings. I received my BA in Drama/Dance from State University of NY at Potsdam in May, 1989; and my MFA in Theatre (Acting) from West Virginia University in May 1991. My email address is: kdamp@mail.uccs.edu and my phone number is (719) 593-3015. I look forward to hearing from you, and am eager to become a part of the Shakespeare Discussion group. =============================================================================== *Danet, Brenda I'm a sociologist and communications researcher doing some research on a group called the "Hamnet Players" who are developing scripted performance on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). I have scripts and performances of extremely funny parodies of Hamlet and Macbeth (called "Hamnet" and PCbeth" respectively). I'd like to subscribe to Shakesper to be able to be in touch with people who are knowledgeable about the literature on parodies of Shakespeare (my B.A. is in English literature; took a course with Harry Levin at Radcliffe in the late 1950's). =============================================================================== *Daniel, Ginger R. I am a senior English Major at Morehead State University in Kentucky. All my life I have had a facination for Shapespeare. I read at the 'Coffee Houses' they have here in the true spirit of the Coffee houses of England of the past. I am also a Theatre minor and have cultivated my love for Shakespeare there as well. I presently am enrolled in a class totally devoted to the study and appreciation of William Shakespeare. ============================================================================== *Danzik, Jeanita I'm basically a lurker and a neophyte Bard enthusiast. I can't imagine that I'll have much to contribute to your conference, but I look forward to doing a great deal of learning. ============================================================= *Darlington, Mary Madge My name is Mary Madge Darlington. For four years, I've been Dr. James Ayres' assistant for the SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE program at The University of Texas at Austin. For four years before that, I was a student in the program. SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE is an academic course for 6 hours of English credit in the College of Liberal Arts at U.T. Students in the course study Shakespeare through performance. For nine and a half weeks each summer, Dr. Ayres and I take a group of about 15 students to Winedale, TX to study and perform Shakespeare's plays. The students live in a dorm at Winedale Historical Center and work for 15-18 hours a day for 5 weeks preparing 3 plays for public performance. Performances take place in a 19th Century hay barn which has been converted into a theatre. The program is now in it's 27th year. I've performed in 15 different plays and assisted with 11 other plays. Roles that I've played include Falstaff in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, Lucetta in THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, Kate in KING HENRY IV, PT. 1., Horatio in HAMLET, Morocco in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and Jaques in AS YOU LIKE IT. During the year, I do administrative work for the program. In the spring and summer, I help students work on scenes, design props and costumes, help build additions to the stage, advertise the plays, pass out lemonade to our audiences, and do anything that needs doing. ============================================================= *Darrow, Kathy Kathy.Darrow@Gale.com Hello. My name is Kathy Darrow, and I am employed by the Gale Group, a reference book publisher headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan. I work as an assistant editor on the Pre-20th Century Authors team, and am currently assigned to the Shakespearean Criticism series, a position I treasure. This past spring I received my B.A. in English from the University of Detroit Mercy. I also made my first trip to London, England, and of course visited the Globe Theatre in all its recreated glory. I love the theater and travel to Ontario, Canada at least once a month to enjoy (for the most part) the offerings of the Stratford Festival. ============================================================= *Daugherty, Leo Leo Daugherty has taught literature and linguistics since 1971 at The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington), where he is currently Director of the Center for Science and Values. In 1978, he and historian Nancy Taylor originated the SHAKESPEARE AND THE AGE OF ELIZABETH program at Evergreen: this is a full-time (i.e., 16 quarter hours per quarter) year-long interdisciplinary program for undergraduates on the English Renaissance and its fifteenth- and sixteenth-century continental back- grounds. He holds the Ph.D. in American Literature and did postdoctoral study in linguistics. He has published on Shakespeare in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY and NOTES AND QUERIES, as well as a feature story on computer- aided Shakespeare studies for the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. He has also published fiction in such places as OMNI and Andrei Codrescu's EXQUISITE CORPSE, along with monographs and articles on the teaching of writing in college. He is primarily interested in the nondramatic poetry, in which his most recent work was a paper for SAA at Vancouver in 1991. A forthcoming article in SOUTHERN QUARTERLY makes some connections between Shakespeare and the American novelist Cormac McCarthy as tragedians in a special issue of that journal devoted to McCarthy. He is currently working on a reinterpretation of Sonnets 144-152, and is interested as well in Donald Foster's near-attribution of W.S.'s A FUNERAL ELEGY to Shakespeare and in Foster's other claims of a relationship between Shakespeare and William Peter. ======================================================================== *Davey, Sara My name is Sara Davey. I am a graduate student at Utah State University in\ Logan, Utah. This is my first year as a graduate student. I recently graduated from the University of California, Riverside. My goals are to become qualified for dramaturgy, perhaps eventually leading to a position as an artistic director at a theatre. I am currently doing a thesis paper on Shakespeare Tempest in relation to imperialism at the turn of the seventeenth century. If you could verify for me if I am now a subscriber to your discussion group I would greatly appreciate it. =============================================================================== *Davey, Tom Tom Davey graduate student/teaching associate Department of English UC Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90024 Internet: izzyom8@orion.mvs.ucla.edu Surface address: 1651 Veteran Ave. #6 Los Angeles CA 90024 310-478-4423 I'm a graduate student and my biography is correspondingly rather brief. I received my B.A. in English from UC Irvine in 1989, spent two years in the M.A. program at UC Davis, and in 1992 began the Ph.D. program in English at UCLA. As of this date (September 14, 1993) I'm about to commence my second year at UCLA. My current research activity centers on the transmission of classical (primarily Latin) texts in 16th- and 17th-century En- gland and their uses in the imaginative literature of the time. Shakespeare's Roman plays are an especial area of interest. =============================================================================== *Davies, Liza My name is Liza Davies. I am enrolled in the theatre depeartment of Towson University, Towson, MD as a 2nd bachelor's degree candidate with a concentration in acting. I received my first undergraduate degree from Kutztown University in Art Education. I am writing a paper for theatre history on the audience members of Shakespeare's Globe then and now. I had the opportunity to visit the Globe in London this summer. Unfortunately, it was dark on the evenings I was there. I was able to see a portion of "The Honest Whore" in rehearsal; it was very interesting-but a poor substitute for the experience I had hoped to have while at the "wooden O." My professor, Robyn Quick, recommended your electronic conference and shared some of the correspondence she has received recently-particularly as it relates to the behaviour of the groundlings. This information is exciting and current and would aide my paper topic tremendously. I look forward to participating as a new but very enthusiastic Shakespearian student. ============================================================= *Davies, Richard Richard Davies English Teacher Strathcona High School 10450-72 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6E-0Z6 B.A. and two Graduate Diplomas, University of Alberta Teacher for 23 years; member A.T.A., E.L.A.C., O.C.T.E. Longtime textbook author: Choices (Harcourt Brace), Inside Stories series (HB), Inside Poetry (HB), Dimensions 1 & 2 (Gage), Connections series (Gage). Currently working on multi-media Shakespeare Hamlet and Macbeth for major multi-national publisher. Interested in TrelevanceU news stories, comics, sequels, humor, video versions, paintings, etc. relevant to these two plays. Copyright/ source info appreciated on anything forwarded. For documents, work FAX is 403-432-0583. =============================================================================== *Davis, Gary My name is Gary Davis. I am an associate professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, P.O. Box 5050, Saint John, N.B., Canada, E2L 4L5. My telephone is (506)648-5537. I have an answering machine there at all times. My interest in Shakespeare is not from a professional point of view, although I am sure a connection could be found between my field of study and Shakespeare, because EVERYTHING is somehow related to Shakespeare. My interest has been increased somewhat because my three children are getting to an age where Shakespeare, drama, and in fact the study of literature are becoming more important to them in their school and university work. This has increased my own motivation to pay attention to this important aspect of life. As an aside (not meant to be a dramatic allusion, but I supose it is affecting my thinking), a former roommate of mine is now doing his PhD on an aspect of Shakespeare's work. He is in Saint John, where he teaches high school, and I will tell him about SHAKSPER. Also, you may be interested to know that I am developing comuter aids to education. I have nearly completed a simulator of small business management. The user interface can be adapted to other purposes, including the learning (as opposed to "teaching") of Shakespeare. I have a PhD from the University of Bath, England. I have spend a great deal of time in the UK and other countries, and I this may have added to my interest in theatre. I hope this satisfies your requirements. -- Gary Davis ============================================================================== *Davis, Heather I am an alumnus of Cornell University, having studied Shakespeare in my undergraduate program in the College of Arts and Sciences. (Also a lifelong enthusiast of his staged works..) After receiving my MBA from Cornell in Finance, I have spent the last ten years making commercial real estate investments for a large institutional investor, and am in the process of moving to a very large pension fund to continue this work. I live in New York City, where I continue to see as much Shakespeare as possible, including some excellent productions staged in the open-air theater in Central Park which are (believe it or not) free to the general public. I recently saw Ralph Fiennes as Hamlet here in NYC (most definitely not free), which was superb. =============================================================================== *Davis, Hugh My name is Hugh Howard Davis, and I am a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill, currently applying to graduate school. (Therefore I have no title, although I have been known to create some on occasion and whim.) I am the son of two English professors (at Chowan College in Murfreesboro, NC), and I have lived in North Carolina since 1981. I plan on pursuing my interest in Shakespeare in graduate school. While taking my undergraduate Shakespeare course at UNC (under Dr. Megan Matchinske), I wrote a paper evaluating the two film versions of _Henry V_. I then presented an expanded version of my paper, "Once More Unto the Theaters: An Analysis of Differing Storytelling Techniques in Laurence Olivier's and Kenneth Branagh's _Henry V_," at the 1995 Annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South. I am currently working on an Honors Thesis on the use of the Falstaff character in Orson Welles' _Chimes at Midnight_ and Gus Van Sant's _My Own Private Idaho_, examining the importance of the character as he evolves and changes with adaptations. I am interested in film and television adaptations of Shakespeare and the uses filmmakers make of the Bard in their works (including full scale versions and appropriations of scenes/lines). =============================================================================== *Davis, Nathan My full name is Nathan Davis. I am a 3rd year undergrad, in English (as a major) and History (as a minor). I am currently involved in a Shakespeare course. This is my first year in Artds, as I switched my degree from Physical Education to Arts. I have had but one previous English course, that being an introductory drama course. I am interested in your group for a number of reasons, which include: (a) I love gettting mail, (b) needing all of the help and extra advice I can get with the course (I like Shakespeare, but have a few problems with it's analysis), and (c) I enjoy hearing other people's ideas and don't mind taking "constructive" criticism. That's all I can think of at the moment. I am not sure if this what you wanted, and I can give you more if you so desire. Please give me any advice/ criticism you feel necessary. That's All From The Home Front From The Studious Student =============================================================================== *Davis, Nick I am a first year student at the University of Sydney, Australia. I am currently enrolled in a combined Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws degree. Previously educated at Knox Grammar School, I am planning to major in English and German for my Arts component. This year I am studying English, German and Legal Institutions and am also taking a one year course in Medieval History, which I find combines well with my other three subjects. I plan to complete my Law degree in 2001 and enter the profession as a barrister. I currently live at St Paul's College, which is the oldest college of the University of Sydney, situated on campus. I have a wide range of interests, from touch football and scuba diving to singing and playing the cello, and am heavily involved in university life. I am also a Christian, attending Christ Church St Ives, an Anglican Church in the north of Sydney. I have been interested in literature all my life, especially Shakespeare's work. I am currently writing an essay on Richard III, and last semester completed work on The Tempest. I am also involved in a production of Macbeth, to be staged in November of 1997 here at college. I wish to join the SHAKSPER listserv so that I might both utilise the Shakespearean resources available as well as in the future contribute my own work. ============================================================= *Davis, Tad Programmer/Analyst University of Pennsylvania While I've been making my living for the last 12 years as a programmer, my first love and chief interest remains playwriting. Shakespeare, as the consummate master of the craft, has been a constant companion during my apprenticeship. My first encounter with Shakespeare was in high school, trying to read "The Tempest" in an old, densely-printed copy of the Globe text, entirely without annotation. I didn't follow much more than the broad outlines of the story, but when we turned to "Julius Caesar" the following year, I was ready for it. I turned to theater first, and then playwriting, partly in response to that experience. I have a BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1974) and an MFA in playwriting from Temple University (1978). My thesis play was an adaptation of "The Iliad" -- following a different line than "Troilus and Cressida" but very much in the "extensive mode." I have a long one-act, "SwordPlay," which attempts to capture some of that fluid motion, with sword fights, soliloquies and occasional rhymed couplets, disguises, mummings, and reversals, and even a comic constable. This play had a script-in-hand reading at Hedgerow Theatre. I'm currently working on a companion piece using the same cast, trying to dramatize in small compass a small corner of Shakespeare's life. (There is also a full-length play, an unexpectedly timely treatment of sexual harassment, waiting in the wings.) Because of my background in the theater, I'm more inclined to performance-oriented criticism, or discussions of structure and mechanics, than to thematic analysis. Mark Rose's "Shakespearean Design" and the Halletts' "Analyzing Shakespeare's Action" are two of my favorites in this area. I'm interested in Shakespeare's life as much as his art. I first encountered the subject in Anthony Burgess's biography, which I found on the coffee table at a friend's house about 18 years ago. Not long afterwards, in digging through the library for more on the subject, I came across "Shakespeare's Lives" by Samuel Schoenbaum -- and at that point I can safely say that I was hooked. (Schoenbaum's work, more than anything else, is responsible for my addiction to the "facts and problems" of the life, and helped bring an element of rigor to my own amateur scholarship.) I've written a few papers about various aspects of Shakespeare's life and times: about the use of rapiers in Elizabethan society (the original inspiration for "SwordPlay"); about William Kempe on the continent in 1586; and about the application of Adlerian psychology to Shakespeare's life. These papers are engaging and (I think) illuminate some dark corners of the time, but they are admittedly limited by my amateur status. Nevertheless, I remain an ardent and committed admirer, better versed in the life and times than most non-professionals, delighted by textual apparatus and conundrums, and a fellow-practitioner of the mystery. I look forward to pursuing the subject on a still-deeper level. ======================================================================= *Davis, Todd I'm a student at California State University Northridge , and I'm currently studying with Dr. Suzanne Collier, a PhD scholar in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Daw, Kurt My name is Kurt Daw. I am currently an associate professor of theater at Kennesaw State Colege in suburban Atlanta, where I head the theater program and serve as artistic director of the collegeUs resident theater ensemble, Classic TheaterWorks, a company dedicated to presenting contemporary interpretations of classic (pre-Ibsen) literature. For Classic TheaterWorks I have acted and directed extensively, including a number of Shakespeare titles, most recently *A Midsummer NightUs Dream*, *The Tempest* and *Romeo and Juliet*. My production of *R&J* has been invited to participate in the Shanghai International Shakespeare Festival next December. I teach in the acting/directing portion of our academic training program, where I teach *Performing Shakespear*e and *Directing Shakespeare & his Contemporaries*, as well as more standard beginning acting, directing and introduction to theater courses. My academic training was from the Univeristy of Idaho as an undergraduate. I received my B.A. there in Dec. 1977. My graduate directing degree is from the conservatory for professional theater training at Southern Methodist University, which I attended from 1979-81. I am currently pursuing a PhD in higher education administration with the Union Institute. In 1992-93 I was a participant in the Folger InstituteUs RShakespeare and the Languages of PerformanceS NEH seminar, directed by SHAKSPERean Lois Potter, which focused on a variety of ways that Shakespeare could be taught through performance-related techniques. A short piece of my writing is on file with SHAKSPER in a package developed by this seminar, called (I think) PERFORM PACKAGE. My primary research interests are related to performance of early modern texts, especially ShakespeareUs. I am especially interested in teaching non-actor and non-directors how to use performance techniques in classroom situations. I have done a good deal of work with students using folio and quarto texts (both in facsimile and modern typeface), exploring the variants in performance to help both acting and literature students understand what this kind of scholarly debate is all about. Outside of the world of Shakespeare I have done a good deal of research on the cognitive processes that underlie acting. I am particularly intrigued with the new information coming out of artificial intelligence studies and what it is revealing about human creativity. I hold memberships in a variety of theatrical organizations, including the Association for Theater in Higher Education, where I am an officer in the Theater as a Liberal Art forum. I can be reached by snail mail at: Kennesaw State College P O Box 444 Marietta, GA 30061 My telphone is: (404) 423-6151 =============================================================================== *Day, Bill My interest in Shakespeare is avocational rather than professional, and I play my part in the theater as a spectator rather than a performer. My last academic brush with Shakespeare came at the University of Chicago, where I earned an M.A. in English literature. A plurality of my work, at least, was devoted to Elizabethan literature, and I wrote my thesis on Richard Hooker and Thomas Nashe. Since 1981, I've missed only three seasons at the Stratford Festival in Ontario (one of which I made up for in England), and I freqently attend performances at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., where I am now a second year law student. =============================================================================== *Day, Gill I am currently a lecturer in English at the University of Central England, in Birmingham, U.K. with a specialist interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies generally. ============================================================= *De Gooyer, Alan I am still interested in joining the Shaksper list. After study at the University of Denver, I took my Ph.D this past spring from the University of Virginia--my dissertation "Selves by way of essay": Studies in the Early English Essay" --did not, obviously, deal with Shakespeare, but with broader cultural issues in the Renaissance. This fall, however, I accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, where more than half of my teaching responsibilities are Shakespeare courses. Mostly I'd like to use the list as a means of keeping up with current directions in Shakespeare scholarship. =============================================================================== *DeCoursey, Matthew My name is Matthew DeCoursey, and I am a "faculty associate" (read postdoc) at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. I received my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto last year. My dissertation was on "Rhetoric and Sign Theory in Erasmus and Tyndale." My postdoc project involves a selection from the William Tyndale / Thomas More polemic, and analytical work on both writers in relation to Erasmus and Erasmianism. My advisor in my postdoctoral endeavours is Sister Anne O'Donnell of the Catholic University of America. That same institution has hired me to teach Shakespeare to its undergraduates. This is the most immediate reason for my current preoccupation with Shakespeare, but, like many others in any area of the English Renaissance, I was drawn to the field by Shakespeare, and have continued to work on his plays. Though my doctorate is in Comparative Literature, my long-run interests will involve English literature primarily, and I am currently at the English department of CUA. =============================================================================== *DeRoche, William I am a computer specialist for the federal government and have an amateur interest in Shakespearian Studies. I have a Masters Degree in Mathematics with a minor in English Literature. My interests include performances, gender studies, and computer analysis. I have over 20 years experience in various aspects of data processing including information retrieval and computerized =============================================================================== *DeWindt, Edwin B. I am a Professor of History at the University of Detroit Mercy, where I offer courses in medieval history, the history of England, and medieval English social history. I am also director the Liberal Studies Master's program, in which I regularly teach courses on Shakespeare's plays. This term, for example, I am giving a graduate course entitled HAMLETS, an attempt to come to grips with the play primarily through the viewing and analysis of several productions available on video tape. Next year I will be team-teaching a special multi-media course on Romeo and Juliet, in which the play, in several productions, will be examined, followed by studies of the impact of that work on other types of literature, music, art, advertising, and its reworking in our own and other cultures. The holder of a PhD from the University of Toronto's Medieval Centre and a Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [Toronto], I have published books on medieval English social/legal history and am currently completing a book on the town of Ramsey, 1260-1600. As a specialist in late medieval English social history, I find the works of Shakespeare not only landmarks of world literature and culture but also invaluable documents of their time. The discussions on the List-to which I have a subscription via another provider which is currently going haywire and is therefore unavailable to me-have been most enlightening. ============================================================= *DeWindt, Edwin Brezette I am a Professor of History at the University of Detroit Mercy, with my primary area of specialization being England in the Middle Ages. A social historian, I hold graduate degrees from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [Toronto] (LMS, or Licentiate of Mediaeval Studies) and the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (PhD). My publications include: LAND AND PEOPLE IN HOLYWELL-CUM-NEEDINGWORTH (Toronto, 1970), THE LIBER GERSUMARUM OF RAMSEY ABBEY (Toronto, 1973), ROYAL JUSTICE AND THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE (Toronto, 1981--2 vols, with Anne Reiber DeWindt), THE COURT ROLLS OF RAMSEY, HEMPMANGROVE AND BURY, 1268-1600 (Toronto, 1990), THE SALT OF COMMON LIFE (Kalamazoo, 1996), and A SLICE OF LIFE: DOCUMENTS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH PEASANT EXPERIENCE (Kalamazoo--in press). With my wife, I am currently working on an extended study of the society of the medieval market town of Ramsey (co. Hunts) from the 13th through the 16th centuries. Because of my work in 16th-century society, I am interested in Shakespearean scholarship and in the dramatic works themselves. As Director of the Graduate Program in Liberal Studies at my university, I also teach courses on Shakespearean drama and themes. I would find the discussions in your list most interesting and informative. =============================================================================== *Dean, Ann C. Ann C. Dean Graduate English Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ I am a graduate student, still in coursework. I am interested in performance history, especially 19th century drama in England and America. I graduated from Harvard in 1989 with an AB in American History and Literature. =============================================================================== *Dean, Stephanie current interests: I am currently interested in Shax's historical/tragic plays. I am primarily interested in historical accuracy/inaccuracy. In a general sense I am interested in the settings as a reflection of how things were in the period in which the action of the play happened. ============================================================= *Dechert, April Marie My name is April M. Dechert, and I am currently a graduate student in English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. I have currently been researching Shakespeare for one of my Methods of Research classes trying to find sources and ideas that have not been overused. I hope that by sharing ideas and hearing new ones, my studies will be improved. ============================================================= *Deck, Jean My name is Jean Deck. I am a student at UTM and enrolled in Shakespeare486 this semester. I am interested in learning more about Shakespeare'splays as my knowledge of his work is very limited. =============================================================================== *Deckler, Joyce I submitted a biographical file once in the past when I first got on the internet. I have an BA in English and French with departmental honors in English from TCU. I have taken 6 hours of graduate courses in English. I would like to read the shaksper list. I am interested in operas based on Shakespeare's plays and religious themes in English literature. I read an article recently suggesting that Shakespeare was a Catholic. I also read in the NY Times that Shakespeare was more popular in Germany than in the English speaking world which piqued my curiosity a little. I don't have as great an interest in German theater as I do in English or French theater but I would like to find out more about German productions of Shakespeare. ============================================================ *Deckler, Joyce Joyce P. Deckler: BA degree '67 TCU English,departmental honors in English 6 hrs grauduate courses in English incl. intro. to linguistics 12 hrs. postgraduate courses in education I have studied Latin, Spanish, French, German I am interested in the opera and related Shakespeare plays, also in 17th, 18th century French drama and German romantic drama. I have some interest in Shakespeare in translation. For instance, I read that Verdi kept a copy of Shakespeare close at hand and wondered what language that was in. What's this about Shakespeare in Klingon?! =============================================================================== *Dees, Steven My name is Steven Neil Dees. I am a graduate of Apollo High School, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. I am a Thesbian and a student of Shakespearean theatre. I came into contact with SHAKSPER while searching the internet for information on an essay about Shakespeare. While I am not as well versed in this subject as other members might be, I would consider the wealth of knowledge accesible by SHAKSPER invaluable to my studies. I am an avid fan of the works of Shakespeare, and I am in a constant search for new points of view on the characters and the different methods of interpreting his works. Currently I am majoring in Theater Education with a minor in either English or Music Education at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona. I hope one day to teach Shakspeare in the classroom and expose my students to the excitement I find in his works, both reading and performing. =============================================================================== *Delaney, Ian I am a teacher in Further Education, working at Bexley College, London. I teach English Language and Literature and Media Studies. I am beginning work towards a PhD on the subject of Victorian Women's Poetry at present (and for the foreseeable future). I teach Shakespeare as part of my job and am also the author of a putative Internet web site on the subject of Hamlet. ============================================================= *Demarco, Daniel Anthony Presently, I am a first year MFA candidate at the University of California - Irvine's three - year graduate acting program. I received my BA in Theatre Arts from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1994. My research interests at the moment are on gaining an knowledge of how to approach Shakespeare as an actor. The students at this institution are taught by Dr. Robert Cohen, a SHAKSPER member. It was his mentin of the group that first peaked my interest. As for present research, the only Shakespearean study I am pursuing are with a production of Merchant of Venice here at UCI. In it I am playing Solanio. As a side venture I began noticing how often mercy appears as a concept in this play. I have begun a small project in exploring the origin of the words merchant, mercy and curiously enough mercury. Perhaps when I finsh, I can share the results. Although I do not expect anything extremely Earth shattering. I hope that I can become a part of SHAKSPER and find out what others have to say not only about this production, but others as well. Earlier this year I was in a production of As You Like It. SHAKSPER would have been valuable. =============================================================================== *Demorest, Margaret My name is Margaret Demorest and I have emeritus status at Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, where, for the last twenty-three of my twenty-five years in the Division of Language and Literature, I was in charge of honors classes in English. I am still in touch with my college through honorary membership on a humanities festival committee. I'm a native of Kansas, have lived most of my life in the West, and I have one husband, two children, and four grandchildren. My degrees are from the Universities of Montana and of Wyoming, with additional studies at the University of Idaho and of Utah as well as having held NEH fellowships at Boston University and Princeton. I spent a sabbatical at Folger Shakespeare Library and returned a number of times; I also studied briefly one summer at Huntington. I've been active in RMLMLA. For the past twenty-four years I've been involved in exciting research that began with an idea about a single sonnet by Shakespeare; that study produced a new reading that required inclusion of three of the plays as well as the sonnet sequences of Daniel and Donne, and eventually led to startling evidence not only about Shakespeare's Sonnets but also about the writer. My recently published book, Name in the Window, presents a brief version of those findings. ============================================================= *Dennaoui, Nael I'm a grad student at Humboldt State University and I'm interested in joining your listserve. I'm taking a Grad seminar in Shakespeare's heroins and I'm looking for a medium to share ideas; and hopefully getting an idea for writing my term paper on As You Like It. Nael \Dennaoui =============================================================================== *Denning, Bill South Coast Consulting Service 315 West 34th Street Houston, Texas 77018 U.S.A. (713) 869-1675 Bill Denning is a computer consultant in Houston, Texas, specializing in VAX/VMS and UNIX training. Prior to his career in the computer field he spent many years working in skilled trades, primarily as an auto mechanic and longshoreman. His interest in Shakespeare stems in part from the influence of his mother, who was a English instructor at Michigan Technological University and other institutions. He took an intensive course in Shakespeare while earning his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Houston, and has attended Shakespearean plays in both Stratford, Ontario, and Stratford, England. Bill's interest in Shakespeare is summarized by his feeling that Shakespeare had a universal understanding of human behavior, one that transcends differences in lifestyle and language between his time and the current age. In spite of our great technological progress, people today act exactly the same as depicted by Shakespeare nearly 400 years ago. When he is not busy working, Bill enjoys travel, studying foreign cultures, photography, and gardening. His current leisure project is the restoration of a 1967 VW Karmann Ghia. =============================================================================== *Dennis, Richard I am an oceanographer and computer scientist with interests in Shakespeare (and other literature), early English languages and English history. My background includes a B.S. in physics from Eckerd College (then (1960-64) called Florida Presbyterian College) and a Master's in Physical Oceanography from The Johns Hopkins University. I studied toward a doctorate in computer science in the graduate department of Electrical Engineering at The George Washington University part-time, but dropped out in conflicts between the selection of dissertation research topics and demands of work. My present job is Chief, Computer Systems Project, Office of Research and Applications, in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Address: WWB-701, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746) My small group supports the computing environment for advanced satellite research and development for about 160 persons. Before this position, I worked for the same folks developing oceanographic satellite algorithms and products. I have always been interested in literature. In college I founded and edited the college literary magazine, then ridiculously named with the pun, In4cite, now called _Insight/Graphis_, I believe. The professor with whom I worked most closely was Albert Howard Carter, Jr., who now is deceased. His son, also Albert Howard Carter, III (?) is Professor of Comparative Literature there now. I was in undergraduate class with him if you need a literary referral. I have continued to pursue my interest non-professionally, but very seriously. I read Shakespeare and related criticism regularly, most recently having reread the tragedies. Whie at Hopkins, I explored sitting in on the famous seminar they had then (late 60s), but apparently the inter- departmental warfare at Hopkins was at some sort of relative maximum during those years. When they heard I was in the Oceanography Department, they refused to even consider it. I talked over changing into literature at that time with the senior Howard Carter. To my lifelong pleasing, he said "glad to recommend," but then suggested since I "could do physics and math and all that" I should stay in the technical field and pursue the literature independently ... and so I have done. Do you think there is hope for a very senior serious student????? I write poetry (without attempting to publish); I study languages (presently Anglo-Saxon; earlier, German and Russian of which I can claim only a reading knowledge; Spanish and French which I can read and speak ot some degree; and _koine_ Greek, again only reading.) The problem with foreign languages is they disappear, except for the reading, if you cannot speak with a native or other scholar regularly. My favorite writing (should one say reading???) includes diversely Homer ... and Elmore Leonard | Shakespeare ... and Ronald H. Spector | Beowulf ... and Baroness P. D. James | C. S. Lewis ... and Optics textbooks. You get the idea. I read A LOT and in a lot of fields. I play violin and guitar. I have taken an irrational dislike of professional (and quasi-professional, otherwise known as collegiate) athetics, believing strongly that they have distorted the entire U.S. economy and values system. I love most music, cats, and my wife of thirty years who is a potter, plus anything to do with being on a beach or on the ocean. Just how detailed would you want this stuff? =============================================================================== *Derezinski, Stacy Stacy Derezinski--Fourth Year English Major with concentration in Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Montreal. Currently researching Rosalind in productions from the turn of the century with a focus on her appearance. Particular interests include costume, puppetry, and feminism. =============================================================================== *Desch, Jessica Hello. My name is Jessica Desch and I am a student at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. I am currently taking a Shakespeare class and was encouraged by my professor to get in touch with you about a Shakespeare discussion group that he thought I would be interested in. He said to mention that what I was interested in was subcribing to Shakesper, and that I am in the class of a list subscriber, Dr. Brooks. =============================================================================== *Desmet, Christy Christy Desmet is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Her education was at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1976, M.A. 1978) and at UCLA (Ph.D. 1984). She is the author of READING SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: RHETORIC, ETHICS, AND IDENTITY (U. Mass. Press, 1992). Her research interests are the rhetoric of feminist jurisprudence and the writing of English history as it relates to Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Dessen, Alan Alan Dessen is Peter Phialas Professor of English at U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he teaches Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama. At the moment he is wearing many, perhaps too many, hats including Director of ACTER (A Center for Theatre, Education, and Research) and Editor of the "Shakespeare Performed" section of *Shakespeare Quarterly*. He is the author of six books on the drama of this period, most recently *Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary* (Cambridge U.P., 1995). His current project (along with Professor Leslie Thomson) is a dictionary of English Renaissance stage vocabulary (to be published by Cambridge U.P.) which will gloss the terms found in the stage directions of roughly 500 plays of the period (drawing upon a database of 22,000 s.d.s compiled by Professor Thomson). =============================================================================== *Dessner, Lawrence I have been teaching our basic undergraduate Shakespeare course here at the University of Toledo for several years, enjoying it, mostly, and very much enjoying rereading the plays and some old and new criticism. My real field is Victorian, and I have publications in Creative Writing also. and in various others fields, like American fiction of this century. I have had essays in PMLA, NCL, SAF, and perhaps twenty other journals. An old book on Charlotte Bronte, through Mouton. I am not working on a Shakespearean topic or project at the moment, but I have a few ideas perculating (sp?) and even two old unpublished essays waiting for revision. education: BA Yale, MA, Ph.D, New York University. Ph.D was 1969, Yale degree was 1955. The gap was my ten years in the advertising business. Is this bio full enough? If not, please advise. thanks. Lawrence Jay Dessner, Professor English, University of Toledo, ldessne@uoft02.utoledo.edu (419)535-7028 (voice) =============================================================================== *Devereaux, Robert Robert Devereaux bobdev@hprpcd.rose.hp.com Roseville, CA (916) 785-5487 My name is Robert Devereaux. I have a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa (1981), where I specialized in drama, both classical and English Renaissance. My dissertation's title: *The Shattered Hearth: The Dramatic Use of Family Relationships in English Renaissance Tragedy.* My faculty advisor and mentor was Dr. Miriam Gilbert, a specialist in Shakespeare, both from a literary and a performance view. During my university years, I acted the roles of Orsino in TN, Autolycus in WT, Malcolm in Macbeth, and Duke/Dr. Pinch in CofE, as well as other roles in non-Shakespearean plays and musicals. I chose not to pursue an academic career but took a second degree in computer science and have worked for Hewlett-Packard for nine years as a software engineer. I am also a published fiction writer, with stories in PULPHOUSE, INIQUITIES, and a forthcoming issue of WEIRD TALES as well as Dennis Etchison's new anthology METAHORROR (Dell Abyss, July 1992). My first novel, DEADWEIGHT, will be published Fall 1993 by Dell as a mass market paperback in their Dell Abyss horror line. I'm a member of the Horror Writers of America and sometimes review books for the New York Review of Science Fiction. Shakespeare remains, as you might expect, one of my many avocations, and I look forward eagerly to listening in--and on occasion chiming in--on the discussion. I can be reached at 2700 Bonanza Street, Rocklin, CA 95677. Home phone is (916) 624-4050; office phone is (916) 785-5487. ========================================================================= *Dey, Angela My name is Angela K. Dey; I am a student at Columbus College in Columbus, Georgia. I am studying English Literature and will possibly change my course of study to a writing degree that has just opened up to English majors here. I love the study of all literature, but Shakespeare's work in particular seems to have more of my attention. I feel as though I can talk about it more without fully analyzing it but appreciating Shakespeare's understanding of human psychology. I have never had any works of mine published. Most of my writing is for school submission. I write mostly poetry in my free time. I am also tasked with writing critical papers on all kinds of literature. I have recently written a paper on *Hamlet, Prince of Denmark* of which I discussed Hamlet's madness which is cured in the end. Right now I am writing a paper on *Othello, Moor of Venice* of which I will discuss the comic side of the play. =============================================================================== *Di Biase, Carmine I'm interested mainly in early English fiction, but this interest has led me, recently, and entirely by chance, into Shakespeare source study. Last June a note of mine appeared in Notes & Queries, "Another Ovidian Source for Pettie's Cephalus and Procris." This little study was preliminary to a longer study of Cymbeline, which will appear this October in Cahiers Elisabethains: "Ovid, Pettie, and the Mythic Foundation of Cymbeline." I am also working on a critical edition of Robert Greene's Gwydonius, for Dovehouse (Ottawa) and MRTS. I finished the Ph.D. in 1988 at Ohio State (dissertation: Elisabethan Framed Tales and the Italian Novella), then worked for two years at Iowa State, two years at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), and now, finally, I have a more stable position here at Jacksonville State University (Jacksonville, AL), where I am an assistant professor. =============================================================================== *DiBiase, Carmine 2019 Highland Ave., #1, Knoxville, TN 37916. (615) 525-2122. B.A. Youngstown State Univ. (Youngstown, Ohio), M.A. Wright State Univ. (Dayton, Ohio), Ph.D. Ohio State Univ. The grad dates are, respectively, 1981, 83, & 88. I'm an instructor at UT (Knoxville), still looking for a tenurable position. Finished the Ph.D. at Ohio State in '88, then taught at Iowa State for two years, then came here. Dissertation: Elizabethan Framed Tales and the Italian Novella. I'll give a fuller bio on the application form. I only have one publication: "Another Ovidian Source for George Pettie's Cephalus and Procris," in Notes & Queries (June, 1993). =============================================================================== *Diamond, Michael Michael Diamond: Currently working as a management consultant based in the London I am a graduate of Oxford University where I read English Literature. At Oxford my academic work included a focus on Post War British Theatre, in addition to a special interest more generally in plays in performance. I took a graduate degree at the Yale School of Drama, where I focused on theatre management and administration. Subsequently I worked as a fundraiser and administrator for professional non-profit theatres in the United States and United Kingdom. My interests are specifically in Shakespeare in performance, and modern productions and interpretations of Shakespeare and his contemporaries' work. =============================================================================== *Dick, Alex Alex Dick: I am currently in the second year of my PhD in the department of English at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. My dissertation topic is "Performative Language and Romantic Theatre" -- a combined theoretical and historical reappraisal of the English theatre from 1775 to 1825 using primarily speech act theory, but also its conjunction with deconstruction, gender/social studies, and performance criticism, to offer a new way of reading the private/public, subjectivity/theatricality debate in Romanticism and Romantic theatre. The study will focus on the plays of R. B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie and Lord Byron. My supervisors are Angela Esterhammer (author of _Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake_) and Allan Gedalof. The project also exposes my concurrent interest in the 18th century: I wrote my Master's thesis (at McMaster University 19993-94) on the question of theatricality in Sterne's _Tristram Shandy_ in which I argued (as I will in my dissertation) that the theatre itself as a site of performance had much more influence than perhaps has formerly been believed. Obviously, Shakespeare plays a crucial role in this influence and in the debate over performance (noting Hazlitt and Coleridge and all the rest) in the Romantic period. For one of my three comprehensive exams I have therefore chosen to write on early drama (including Shakespeare) not only to solidify my understanding of his influence to later drama but to take advantage of the heated debates over the nature of performance (is it subversive or not? what were its audiences? what political/ideological positions did it hold? does performance always make ideology a problem?). I have not written on Shakespeare as such ie for a conference or journal -- I am only beginning this particular academic biway. I have just published my first critical review (on a new book about Paul de Man and Romanticism) and am working up a paper on Byron's _Manfred_, speech-act theory, and the performance issue in Romantic drama criticism to send around. I have written a paper on the "publication" of _The Booke of Sir Thomas More_ in which I argue against recent editorial decisions to remove the stage direction "manet clowne" from the body of the text: my feeling is that because the booke is a notoriously unstable text, that it is actually about instability and that it therefore resists all and any claims to "original authorship' collaberative or otherwise (including and perhaps especially the flimsy arguments in favour of Shakespeare's "hand D") that the improvisations of the clown (to which this sd most likely refers) are an important component of the "play text." At some point soon I hope to put the final polish on this paper -- perhaps at that point I will consider contributing it to your electronic forum. =============================================================================== *Dietz, Elizabeth Elizabeth A Dietz: I am completing a PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Iowa, with a focus in the English Renaissance, 1500-1660. The last paper I presented at a conference was entitled "Re-Gendering the King in Edward II and the Duchess of Malfi," presented at the Sixteenth-Century Conference in St Louis, December 1993. I am a member of both the MLA and M/MLA, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop from which I hold a Master of Fine Arts. Currently, my research is centered around issues of gender/identity, language, and performance. I am currently working on two projects, one of which involves reading Descartes' texts through the paradigm of the new-world discovery narrative. The second works with Foxe's Acts and Monuments and the epistemology of absence in the Protestant martyrdom. =============================================================================== *Dietz, Elizabeth I am currently an ABD Candidate and an Instructor in English at the University of Iowa. My dissertation, "Partiality: Fragments, Love and the Other in Early Modern England" explores a peculiar amorous discourse in non-dramatic English poetry from about 1590 to 1660. In this discourse, verbal and visual aesthetic practices produce an integrated, interrelated self-and-other, self-and-world, through the realization of an a priori extension of the self in love toward objects and others. I have received two grants from the Renaisance Consortium and have been named the Freda Dixon Malone scholar for 1996-7. Last spring, I attended "Shakespeare and Film," a seminar offered at the Folger Shakespeare Institute, directed by Peter Holland. This spring I will teach a collaborative course of the same title, but with an emphasis on performance strategies rather than (as in the Folger seminar) film direction and culture. In April, I joined the SAA seminar "Mourning and Memory," directed by Lynn Enterline. This spring I will be participating in "Writing for the Private Theatre: Shakespeare's Non-Dramatic Poems," to be directed by Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones. ============================================================= *Diez, George I am George Diez, a native of Los Angeles, California. I am 35 and am widowed with a 6 year old son named Jorel. I received a BS degree from UCLA in 1981 in Chemistry. I currently work as an air pollution control analyst (laboratory) for the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Diamond Bar CA. I have many interests outside science, and have been a Shakespeare enthusiast since high school. =============================================================================== *Dill, Christopher T. My name is Christopher T. Dill. I am presently a graduate student at the University of Binghamton in New York. I have been at the University for two years now and am presently taking a Shakespeare class with Prof. Gayle Whittier. I am also assisting in her under- graduate lecture/discussion course. My address at the school is Box 16 English Department Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902. As to my literary interests, I have to say that Medieval and Renaissance literature has always been my greatest joy. My primary interest is in Anglo-Saxon elegies and homilies. Shakespeare, however, is a very close second. Actually I've been doing quite a bit of intensive study, and I've discovered that the pleasure and intensity of my studies have been steadily increasing. My main interests in Shakespearean studies revolve around gender studies, Feminist theory, and Cultural Studies, basically the components of New Historicism. I'm very much interested in what is being published in the journal Representations. Presently, I am looking into the desires and anxieties (to use Valerie Traub's title) revolving around the use of boy actors and circulating throughout Elizabethan drama. Specifically, I'm interested in how homo-erotic desire is created and contained by the theatre audience and manipulated by the actors and Shakespeare himself. =============================================================================== *Diller, Hans-Jurgen Professor of English language and literature: Giessen 1969, Bochum 1973. Main scholarly interest: medieval and early modern English drama and theatre. Books published: Redeformen des englischen Misterienspiels (Munich: Fink, 1973), updated English translation: The Middle English Mystery Play. A Study in Dramatic Speech and Form (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Most recent Shakespearean publication (accepted): review of *Shakespeare in the New Europe*, edd. by Michael Hattaway, Derek Roper and Boika Sokolova (Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), to appear in: *Comparative Drama*. Current main interest: violence, especially suicide, in Tudor drama and on the Tudor stage. =============================================================================== *Dillon, Mari S. Mari S. Dillon English Teaching Major Eastern KY University Richmond KY USA surface mail address: 535 Mahaffey Drive, Apt B4 Richmond KY 40475-2434 telephone: 606/624-5927 I am currently a student here at EKU working toward a double major in English teaching and Journalism. This is my fifth nonconsecutive year at the university. Shakespeare first caught my attention as a junior high school student, though it wasn't until much later that I was able to appreciate what the man had to say in his writings. I used to act with the community theatre back home; sadly, there was no market for Shakespearean plays =============================================================================== *Dines, Cheryl My interest in Shakespeare started when I read "Romeo and Juliet" in high school (many years ago), and I have had a keen interest in drama since that time, also. These interests came together when I started attending the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR. (I have only missed one year in the last 12, and am pleased to see that Utah and Idaho have Shakespearean Festivals that I hope to check out in the future.) Being close to Tacoma, WA, I was glad to see that Pat Patton from Ashland is now with the Tacoma Actor's Guild, and I saw one of his interpretations of a Shakespeare play last year. It was almost as enjoyable as Ashland, but I prefer the outdoor theatre. I have been to London, toured the "new" globe theatre, spent numerous hours in Stratford-upon-Avon, and just generally, love Shakespeare "culture". I enjoy spending time with the 6th grade gifted students in the school district for which I work. They study one of the Ashland Shakespeare productions per year, and then put the play on themselves before visiting Ashland, seeing the play done, and taking classes at SOSC about the festival and Shakespeare. I have chaperoned these groups more than one time. I don't have any scholarly background in Shakespeare, and I was thinking that this conference might give me some additional background in an area for which I have an affinity. ============================================================= *Diong, Chae Lian My name is Diong Chae Lian and I am a Junior Acting student at Carnegie Mellon University. I will be obtaining my BFA in May 1997. My interest in Shakespeare was honed while I was in secondary school and it continues to grow in my education and training as an actor. I have performed & studied numerous plays and have always found that doing research helps me to have a greater understanding of my role and the play. I have also been educated in Malaysia and Singapore, and have found Shakespeare to be very accesible, when performed right. Also, having seen the "Ninagawa Company" from Japan perform Macbeth in Kabuki tradition, I am curious to know if there are others who might be interested in such cultural interpretations. I am interested in the opinions and discoveries of other Shakespearean scholars & non-scholars alike. Similarly, I believe that I will be able to provide insight from my own point of view as a performer of Shakespearean works. =============================================================================== *Dixon, Meredith Meredith Dixon p00256@psilink.com CLASSICIST@delphi.com Thobby on ISCA (whip.isca.uiowa.edu) M.DIXON3 on GEnie uunet!m0112@tnc.uucp I have enjoyed reading Shakespeare's plays all my life; my mother, a high- school English teacher with a master's in English, introduced me to *Macbeth* when I was in preschool and I've never looked back. :) I grew up to double- major in Latin and English (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1984); my primary concentration in English was actually the Late Victorians, but I did take and enjoy some Shakespeare courses. I also did backstage work at my college theater, and so learned a little about analyzing plays from an actor's perspective. After graduating from Macon, I took a M.S. in Library and Information Science (Catholic University of America, 1987), with a concentration in cataloging. Regrettably, I fell prey to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), commonly known as "the yuppie flu," in 1988, and that and an auto accident the next year have effectively ended my career in librarianship. At present, I'm a housewife; most of my intellectual and social interaction is through various online services. I've only just discovered the Internet in the past few months; I've been having an exciting time exploring it. =============================================================================== *Dobson, Michael Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Department of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. (708) 491-7187. Born Bournemouth, Dorset, England, Sep 28 1960 Lecturer in English, Christ Church, Oxford (1986-87) Visiting Scholar at Harvard (1987-89), D.Phil (Oxford, 1989), Educ. local grammar school (1971-78), Christ Church, Oxford (1979-82: awarded Oxford University Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize, 1981); graduate work in Oxford under supervision of Prof. Stanley Wells, 1983-87; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1987-89; submitted Oxford D.Phil thesis, "Authorizing Shakespeare: Adaptation and Canonization, 1660-1769" August 1989 (soon to be a fat book from OUP - order now!). Publications include a whopping section of the 'Bibliotheca Shakespeareana' microfiche anthology (the section on 'Adaptations and Acting Versions, 1660-1980'), a piece on the 18th century 'Tempest' in the current Shakespeare Survey, a piece on the canonization of "Julius Caesar" forthcoming in Jean Marsden's anthology "The Appropriation of Shakespeare" (Harvester Press) and an edition of "Wit at Several Weapons" in progress for the Complete Oxford Middleton. I've also worked as an academic consultant to Barry Kyle of the RSC and knew Imogen Stubbs before she was famous. ============================================================================= Cheney, Margaret E. Assistant Editor, *Milton Quarterly* English Department, Ellis Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701 I am currently a graduate student in the English Department at Ohio University working on a Ph.D. which I hope to finish by August of 1992. My area of concentration is American literature, but I am both interested and involved in Renaissance studies through the work I do for my teaching associateship assignment as assistant editor of Roy Flannagan's *Milton Quarterly*. Originally from Augusta, GA, I have a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in education from Augusta College. My scholarly publication credits include abstracts of work in Milton anthologies and a Renaissance bibliography (forthcoming in the *Milton Quarterly*). My areas of interest are multiple and include Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Melville, Steinbeck, female American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, feminist criticism, and computers and their use in the humanities. From some combination of these interests will come a dissertation topic. =============================================================================== *Dodd, William William Dodd, Professor of English, Dipartimento di Letterature Moderne ( University of Siena), Piazza del Praticino 7, Arezzo, 52100 ITALY.Home address: Via Campo Rosso 4, Ortignano (Arezzo), 52010 Italy. Home phone: 575-514283. I am a member of A.I.A. (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) and the Stratford International Shakespeare Conference. Main Shakespearean publications: 1979 - Misura per Misura: la trasparenza della Commedia, Milano, Formichiere ( Book) 1984 - "Shakespeare's Control of Audience Reaction," in K. Elam (ed.), Shakespeare Today: Directions and Methods of Research, Firenze, Usher. 1992 - "Richard II, i critici, Nahum Tate e la resistenza del testo," in A. Marzola (ed.), L'altro Shakespeare, Milano, Guerrini. 1993 - "Measure for Measure: autorit` ed emozioni" in M. Tempera (ed.), Measure for Measure: Dal testo alla scena, Bologna, CLUEB. 1993 - "'So full of shapes is fancy.' Gender and point of view in Twelfth Night , in R. Clark and P. Boitani (eds), English Studies in Transition, London, Routledge. 1993 - "The power of the storm: King Lear, Arcadia and the Apocalypse, in G. Caliumi (ed.), Shakespeare e la sua eredit`, Parma, Zara. Publications on theory of dramatic texts: 1979 - "Metalanguage and Character in Drama," Lingua e Stile 14, 1. 1981 - "Aspects of the relationship between episode and fabula in dramatic texts," Lingua e Stile 16, 3. 1981 - "Conversation, dialogue and exposition," Strumenti Critici 44. 1983 - "parametri per l'analisi del dialogo nel testo drammatico" e "Incipit ed esposizione" in G. Aston et al., Interazione, dialogo, convenzione, Bologna, CLUEB. Currently interested in nature of character and subjectivity effects in drama; just copmpleted article "Power and Performance: Measure for Measure in the Public Theatre of 1604-1605." In progress essay on King Lear. Main Renaissance/Shakespeare interests: politics, gender, audience/reception; emotions (within play/induced in audience). Non-Shakespearean publications on Donne, 20th century poetry. =============================================================================== *Doerr, Christopher Freshman Undergraduate Student Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana I plan to major in theater secondary education. I plan to be president of the United States. Once I wrote a book report on Hamlet. This summer I attended excellent performances of _Measure_for_Measure, _As_You_Like_It_, and _Hamlet_ at the annual shakespeare festival in Platteville, Wisconsin. Currently I am involved in a production of Oedipus Rex (obviously not Shakespeare) here at Wabash. There's a lot more to me, but if you want to hear about chocolate pudding, russian ballet, wax paper, mostaciolli, green underwear, or any other of my little-to-do-w/-Shakespeare secrets you'll have to ask me yourself. ============================================================================= *Doersen, Karla My name is Karla Doerksen, and I am a second year student at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. I am studying computer science but taking a year long Shakespeare course as a humanities option. My interest in Shakespeare began in high school (I am 19 years old) and I was glad that thiscourse was available for me to continue my learning. So far I have developed an interest in Shakespeare's view towards and use of women in his plays (and also his villains). I look forward to the information and experience my membership will bring me and hope that I may make a useful contribution for someone else. =============================================================================== *Doescher, Ian I am currently a high school senior. In June, I will graduate as the only male valedictorian from my school. I was accepted under the Early Action program to Yale University in Connecticut, where I hope to pursue a major in theatre. Shakespeare's life and works have been a constant interest in my life for many years, and after college I hope to move on to the stage and bring Shakespeare to many people. It is my belief that Shakespeare has become, wrongfully, an asset only for the high class. "Ordinary" people feel Shakespeare is too advanced for them, when actually Shakespeare wrote his plays for everyone: the rich and the poor. =============================================================================== *Doetzer, Geraldine I am a 14-year old student at a public Maryland High School, where, although I am enrolled in the so-called "Gifted and talented" English program, very few people are even remotely interested in Shakespeare, much less a Shakespeare devotee as I am. I was first introduced to Shakespeare when I was 11, and played Nick Bottom in my middle school production of Midsummer, and the next year when I was cast as Flute/Thisbe in the same play, and in the eighth grade as Juliet's Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. When, in the 8th grade English program, we were supposed to study MSND, I was thrilled, and then very disappointed when the "study" really meant listening to a twenty year old, scratchy record of a play reading and following along in tattered copies of the play. I would really, really, like to get to know more about Shakespeare-even though I love his works, and I know he is a figure mainly swathed in myth , I am not comfortable even with the brief facts of his life, much less the plays, sonnets, etc. that have made him so famous. I very much appreciate your consideration. ============================================================= *Dohaney, Linda My full name is Linda Anne Dohaney; although, I use "Lyn" in my everyday communications. I am a graduate student in the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University in Medford, MA. The department offers a Ph.D. in theatre history, dramatic literature, theory, and criticism. I am ABD as of Fall 1994. My dissertation will focus on Dublin actors and the repertory of the Smock Alley Theatre during the Restoration. In my previous life I was an actor; I have a B.F.A. in performance from Boston University (Magna cum laude, 1983). I have worked at the Cincinnati Playhouse, as well as at several small theatres in Chicago and the San Francisco area. My love of Shakespeare remains constant regardless of the hat I'm wearing (theatre historian, performer, critic, or audience member). =============================================================================== *Doherty, Nancy Nancy N. Doherty is the Producing Director of Shakespeare in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The Festival was founded in 1976 and is the second largest free Shakespeare Festival in the U.S. in terms of audience according to figures from the Institute of Outdoor Drama. Ms. Doherty has been with the festival for 15 years. Serving in various capacites, she began as a dramaturg and production stage manager. In 1991 when the Festival seperated from the State University of New York at Buffalo she became the Associate Artistic Director, and was named Producing Director in 1993. An accomplished director, she has assisted or directed over 20 plays from the cannon, the major focus being the tragedies and histories. Current projects include a production of "Romeo & Juliet" and "Richard II". She is also establishing a pilot program for the third and fourth grades based on the "Shakespeare Can be Fun" books developed by Lois Burdett of Stratford, Ontario. This program is comprehensive, using a single play per year to cover the text, reading and writing skills, history, geography, and math. Company members work with instructors in a team teaching method. The Festival and Ms. Doherty are members of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. =============================================================================== *Dolan, Patrick I'm Patrick A. Dolan Jr. a December 1994 Ph.D. from the U of Iowa. I did my dissertation, "Execution and the Body in the Works of Thomas More" with co-chairs Alan Nagel and Dennis Moore. I teach composition and literature at the University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Iowa. I'm struggling to write while working the visiting professor/adjunct route. The dissertation started as "Literary Representations of Execution in the Sixteenth Century," until the first chapter sprawled. Instead of writing the dissertation, I think I outlined what I'd be interested in over my scholarly career. I'm interested in literary representations of pain and pleasure from More to Shakespeare, sixteenth century non-dramatic literature and Shakespeare. I'm currently trying to rework the dissertation into a more concise and manageable piece of prose. I also have an interest in twentieth century American conservation/environmental literature. ============================================================= *Dolan, Patrick T. A mere schoolmaster with no significant research in the field of Shakespeare Studies, I am a Full Member of my department and teach one Introduction to Shakespeare section annually. It would be interesting to follow your discussions; I hardly think I shall contribute. =============================================================================== *Dolan, Patrick T. I am a 26-year member of the English Department at Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO, and routinely teach Intro to Shakespeare as well as Intro to CS Lewis, World Lit (2 semesters), Intro to Lit, and Bible as Lit. I do not believe that literary scholarship is analogous to "research" as it occurs in the industrially-driven sector of academia, and do believe that the insistence upon such a doubtful and innovative metaphor as "literary research" has done much to degrade the profession of English and literacy itself. ============================================================= *Dolphin, Joan I have been a sessional lecturer at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario for several years. My interest in Skakespeare comes from teaching different plays in the first year survey course and noting student reactions. My MA thesis was on the Australian Patrick White; further postgraduate work lies in the field of the contemporary Canadian novel--especially post-colonialism. This interest ties in with some recent successes in teaching The Tempest. I belong to ACUTE and have recently published a paper on White in ARIEL (University of Calgary). I have guest lectured on White and Canadian literature in Finland and Switzerland. This year I teach two sections of the survey and plan to do different Shakespeare in each. I frequently teach off campus and look forward to doing a Shakespeare course soon. =============================================================================== *Don Diego, Catherine Catherine Don Diego Teaching Assistant, Department of English Michigan State University Bio. sketch: teach undergraduate classes in early British and world literature. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Three-year fellowship recipient at MSU. Current research: opera production and consumption in contemporary US and Britain; Calvinism and politics in late sixteenth-century English poets; political polemic in Spenser's FQ. Surface mail address: 2900 Northwind Dr. #525-B East Lansing, Mi. 48823 (517) 333-8458 Degrees: B.A. Hofstra University, 1990 M.A. MSU, 1992 Expected PhD: June 1995 =============================================================================== *Don, Leen My name Leen Don. I am Dutch and work at the Department of Education of Utrecht University, one of its sub-divisions: the Modern Languages (German, French, Spanish and English) teacher education department. In the team of colleagues, I am one of two people responsible for the English students, but in fact we run heterogeneous groups comprising of students of at least two languages. We are concerned with the why and how of pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. In other words: we help graduates become certified secondary school teachers in either one of these languages. This includes learning how to teach literature. For the students of English a.o. how to bring Shakespeare into the classroom. That explains my interest in your Listserv: to lurk and listen and if possible take part in the discussion. =============================================================================== *Donaldson, Kevin My name is Kevin Donaldson and Im a senior student at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently Im finishing my undergraduate studies in English Literature with a concentration in Shakespeare. Im looking for intellegent discussion so that I may apply it further to my Shakespeareian studies. =============================================================================== *Donaldson, Peter S. Professor of Literature and Chair Literature Faculty MIT Cambridge MA 02140 Degrees from Cambridge U. (Clare), BA, MA 1970 Columbia, BA 1964, PHD 1974 Author: *Machiavelli and Mystery of State*, Cambridge U Press, 1988. *Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors*, Unwin Hyman, 1990, distributed by Harper Collins, NY and London. Editor and translator, *A Machiavellian Treatise by Stephen Gardiner*, Cambridge U. Press, 1976. Currently working on computer assisted retrieval of video disk versions of Shakespeare plays, on several articles on Shakespeare films, and on the interplay of sacral and Machiavellian conceptions of kingship in H5. =============================================================================== *Donovan, Kevin J. Kevin J. Donovan: I've been teaching Shakespeare at MTSU for six years; before that I taught Shakespeare for two years at the University of New Hampshire following my completion of a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My special interests include Ben Jonson, bibliographical and textual studies, and Irish studies. I've published articles and presented papers on bibliographical and textual topics related to Ben Jonson as well as surveys of scholarship in ELR's "Recent Studies In" series on Greene, Peele, Lyly, and Lodge. I'm currently working on co-editing a collection of fairly obscure Anglo-Irish plays of the 17th and 18th centuries (with Christopher Wheatley of CUA). I've also agreed to write the survey of scholarship on King Lear for Richard Knowles' Variorum edition in progress. I also help to run the Conference on John Milton hosted by MTSU every two years (we just held our third conference in October; papers from the first conference have been published as a collection "Spokesperson Milton," while papers from the second conference are forthcoming on Susquehanna UP). I'm looking forward to listening and contributing to lively, informed discussion of issues in Shakespeare studies. =============================================================================== *Donow, Herbert S. Professor of English Coordinator, Aging Studies Minor Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-4503 USA Phone: 618-453-6829 I. EDUCATION Cornell University BA 1958 University of Iowa Ph.D. 1966 Dissertation: "Thomas Deloney and Thomas Heywood: Two Views of the Elizabethan Merchant." Director: Rhodes Dunlap II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Colorado State University 1963-66 Southern Illinois University 1966-- III. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Modern Language Association, 1961-73, 1983- Shakespeare Association of America, 1983- Gerontological Society of America, 1985- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, 1986- American Society on Aging, 1987- International Shakespeare Association, 1987- IV. PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Since 1985) "Images of Ambivalence: The Aged Lover in Literature." Humanistic Perspectives on the Aging Enterprise in America, Kansas City, Missouri, March 7-9, 1985. "Places as Conceits: Two Rooms in Hamlet." Seminar on Places and Spaces in Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America, Nashville, TN, March 21-23, 1985. "The War for Independence: A Literary View of Retirement," Third National Forum on Research in Aging, Lincoln, NE, March 12-14, 1986. "Disposing of a Superannuated King: Lear's Forced Retirement," World Shakespeare Congress, West Berlin, April 1-6, 1986. "Old Age in Fiction: An Eriksonian View," Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, November 19-23, 1986. "The Birth of Geriatrics: A Literary Context," Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Boston, March 5-8, 1987. "Religion and Science: The Wandering Jew and Methuselah," Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C., November 18-22, 1987. "A Literary Introduction to Gerontology," Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Chicago, March 4, 1988. "Literature and the Elderly: An Educational Program for Senior Centers," American Society on Aging, San Diego, March 20, 1988. "Old Jack Falstaff's Fall from Grace," Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, November 18-22, 1988. "Two Approaches to the Care of an Elder Parent: A Study of Robert Anderson's 'I Never Sang for My Father' and 'The Twilight Years,'" Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Tampa, FL, March 2-5, 1989. "Normative and Unique Agers in Shakespeare," Gerontological Society of America, Minneapolis, November 17-21, 1989. "Commanding the Sun Halt: Abnormal Aging in Literature," Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Kansas City, MO, March 1-4, 1990. "To Do Or Not To Do: Implicit Stage Directions With No Mandate for Action." Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, April 12-14, 1990. V. PUBLICATIONS Books: A Concordance to the Sonnet Sequences of Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. A Concordance to the Poems of Sir Philip Sidney. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975. The Sonnet in England and America: A Bibliography of Criticism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Faculty Handbook. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984; 2nd ed. 1987; 3rd ed. 1989. Articles in Professional Journals (since 1985): "Human Obsolescence and Rejuvenescence: Some Literary Treatments." Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 8.ii (1987-88):113-22. "Religion and Science: The Wandering Jew and Methuselah." Journal of Aging Studies, 3.i (1989):67-73. "Sexuality in Chaucer." *letter* The Gerontologist, 29 (1989): 416-17. "Two Approaches to the Care of an Elder Parent: A Study of Robert Anderson's 'I Never Sang for My Father' and Sawako Ariyoshi's Kokotsu no hito *The Twilight Years*. The Gerontologist, 30 (1990): 486-90. Research Interests I'm not sure how much I can add to what may already appear obvious from the papers I have presented and published during the last 5 years. Twenty-five years ago, I became interested in computers and some of what I did in the late 1960s and early 1970s involved making concordances and developing machine- assisted attempts at stylistic analysis. In time I turned my hand to bibliography. During my career, I have never quite gotten with the program, and I have found the turgid, jargon-ridden outpourings of many of our colleagues cause for despair. I won't read it, and I can't (thank God) write it. In 1983, shortly after completing a book, I developed a new focus. Partly driven by a desire to find an audience who wanted to hear about literature without being abused by dense, unreadable prose and partly by a desire to write lucidly and entertainingly, I turned gerontologist. I am willing to risk the accusation of dilettantism if occasionally I hear how elegantly I do it. My 81-year-old mother likes reading my papers, and she passes them around to her friends--none of whom have college educations. I wonder how many young post-modernist sorts provide relaxing reading for their octogenarian parents. ========================================================= *Dooling, Thomas My name is Thomas Dooling; I have a BS in Business from Arizona State University, and for the past several semesters I have been taking classes in the English department at UNLV simply for the enjoyment of studying literature. This semester I am enrolled in a " Shakespear's Comedies" class and would like to join this list as a way to augment my Shakespearean studies. =============================================================================== *Dorenkamp, John H. BA, MA (1957)--St. Louis University MA Thesis: Rhetorical Analysis of a Sermon by Lancelot Andrewes. PhD--University of Illinois (1982) Dissertation: Fletcher and Massinger's "Beggars Bush": A Critical Edition (Director, G. Blakemore Evans) Currently Professor of English and Chairman of the English Department at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts teaching courses in Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Contemporary Fiction. Publications include articles on Contemporary Fiction, bibliographical articles on the Compositors of the Cambridge Platform, the relationship between the Ainsworth Psalter and the Bay Psalm Book, and pedagogical articles. Current project: Developing a hypertext database (using Guide on Renaissance (16th century) literature for classroom and independent study applications. I am especially interested in technological applications for text retrieval. ========================================================= *Doria, Pedro I'm brazilian, was born in Rio de Janeiro on 5 November '74. I study engineering at the Federal University in Rio. I'm an actor, and have lived for a couple of years on the US. (Rochester, NY [the early 80s] and Palo Alto, CA [the early 90s]). There, at m It is true I won't be able - as yet - to contribute with great new ideas on his work. I want to hear about them, that's all. Learn as much as I can! And share with contributors some reviews on brazilian presentations of plays besides discussing some of th Also, I am editor to a magazine on drama. I'm not sure you know, Brazil is larger then continental United States. And even though, there's no publication on theatre. I'm working hard with a couple of friends on it and find extremely necessary to be in tou I'm sure this list will help me quite a lot on my acting and teaching. Oh, by the way, I love Shakespeare... Pedro Rubim de Pinho Accioli Doria Rua Miguel Lemos 51/403 Copacabana Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil =============================================================================== *Dota, Gabrielle Lynne <94DOTA@CUA.EDU> Gabrielle Lynne Dota, graduate student Department of Drama at Catholic University of America no publications (yet). I'm working towards my MFA in acting, although I also am a playwright, poet and director (not to mention being the properties master here at CUA). I'm interested in all aspects of Wm Shakespeare's work: acting, research and criticism, analysis, etc. I can be reached at 94dota@4700.cua.edu or 2719 Nicholson St. apt. 203 W. Hyattsville, MD 20782 I have a BA in theatrical performance from Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA 1993. =============================================================================== *Dotson, Edward <0003963467@mcimail.com> Edward Dotson 202 Drive Cleburne Texas 76031 (817) 558 9338 MCI MAIL ID: 396-3467 Email: 3963467@mcimail.com I possess no academic qualifications in the field of Shakespeare study. I do not have even an undergraduate degree. I learned of your conference while I was teaching myself about the use of electronic mail and the Internet. The lack of formal education has never hampered my desire to read the work of Shakespeare, to see the plays performed or just try to broaden my understanding of the work of this great man. While I can not submit any scholarly works, it would be a God send for me to be able to read other's interpretations and criticisms of the plays and sonnets. I haunt second hand book stores and library sales for old copies of the Bard's work to add to my collection. A few personal facts about myself. I am a 38 year old public servant living in a small town in north central Texas just thirty miles south of Fort Worth Texas. I do have three years of undergraduate study in English drama. These classes are where I learned to love the work of Shakespeare. In the year 1985 I travelled to Britain and visited the birthplace and home of Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. =============================================================================== *Dotson, Mark My name is Mark Dotson. I am a freshman at Wright State University, where I am presently taking an honors English class. We are studying five of WS's most famous plays. I want to learn more about Shakespeare because of papers I must write about the plays, and for my personal edification. My personal interests are mainly in psychology, philosophy, and religion. I am a student of human nature, and I consider WS to be a great teacher of that subject. I plan to write religious philosophy someday, but my main goal is to become a psychologist who places an emphasis on the human being. I consider myself an existentialist, similar to a Kierkegaard or a Beryaev. I am interested in how this relates to WS's characters. =============================================================================== *Douglass, Rebecca <6500rebe@UCSBUXA.BITNET> I am a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, currently working to develop my dissertation topic (i.e., in the stage where not much happens because I'm not sure what I'm doing). My main field is actually Medieval, but I have a strong interest in Renaissance and especially in Shakespeare. I am planning to make this my second field for job-market appeal, so have done some study and scholarship in the area. ======================================================================= *Downs, Gerald E. My name is Gerald E. Downs. I am an unaffiliated graduate of San Jose State University (BS, chemistry). I am a member of the SAA and have maintained an interest in a wide range of Shakespearean matters for many years. Most recently I contributed photographs of the original sketch of Shakespeare's monument to the article appearing in the Review of English Studies, May 97. I have also finished an article on that examines some overlooked questions of the provenance of the Hand D addition. My primary interests are in textual matters. I have held reader's cards at the Huntington Library, the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. My particular field of interest is in differentiating good argument from bad. My current project is a critical overview of the theories surrounding the first printings of . I am a locomotive engineer by profession. My wife is an airline employee. I am enabled by the perks of these occupations to pursue my interests with less restriction than most. ============================================================= *Drakakis, John Dr. John Drakakis Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland. Telephone: (0786) 67501 Published work: British Radio Drama, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1981 Alternative Shakespeares ed., London, Methuen, 1985 Shakespearean Tragedy ed., London, Longmans, 1991. Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, New Casebooks series, London, Macmillan, 1993 (in press). I have contributed articles to Shakespeare Survey, and to Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and I have published individual chapters on Shakespearean topics in books edited by others. I have reviewed regularly for Notes and Queries, Modern Language Review, in addition to Shakespeare Quarterly, and Renaissance Studies. I am currently engaged on a book on Shakespeare which will be entitled Shakespearean Discourses, and will be published by Routledge in due course. I am also about to begin work on the Arden edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, also for Routledge. I am also engaged in an edited book in collaboration with Professor Naomi Liebler on the subject of "Tragedy" for the Longman Critical Reader series. I am the General Editor of the Routledge English Texts Series and the General Editor of the Routledge New Critical Idiom Series. I teach Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at undergraduate level in Stirling and I supervise postgraduates in this area as well as in the area of Critical Theory. I am also the Director Designate of the Stirling/Dundee Centre For Modern Critical Theory. =============================================================================== *Drewry, Andy I am a graduate student at North Carolina State University completing a Masters of Arts degree in Literature. However, before I ever had the desire to go on for post-graduate study I have enjoyed Shakespeare's works. I was lucky to have very passionate and skilled instructors at an independent secondary-boarding school who instilled in me the ability to read and analyse Shakespeare independently, and who also gave me the desire to research deeper in the field of Shakespeare studies. I am currently working on my thesis which is concentrating on the study of paternity in Hamlet, and am currently working on the state of primogeniture during Shakespeare's life and the effects it may have produced on his writing. Please subscribe me to your listserv so that I can have the ability to communicate with other Shakespeare scholars and enthusiast concerning both my thesis and more generally my teaching of the subject in the future when I return to a boarding school to teach English and Theatre. ============================================================= *Dreyer, Tracy Philip As a teacher of English as a Foreign Language at the Centroamericana University in El Salvador, I work with young people and adults in the process of language acquisition and development. I have found the inclusion of Shakespeare's writings especially productive and enjoyable for my students, particularly in the upper levels, such as reading and conversation for advanced students. I am discovering the delight of sharing such works as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with my students, and seeing them discover new depths of meaning in their second language. I would very much appreciate being included in SHAKSPER as a learner, as the more I understand them, I will be able to better present Shakespeare's works to my students. ============================================================= *Driver, Elizabeth SHAKESPER biography for Elizabeth Driver: I am currently a part-time, non-degree student in the English department at the University of Maryland at College Park. I plan to enter an MA/PhD program this fall and am waiting application responses from UMCP as well as UNC-Chapel Hill. In the current semester (spring 1994), I am enrolled in a graduate seminar concerning strategies for teaching Shakespeare at the secondary and undergraduate levels. My major projects for the term will concern the Winter's Tale, with specific focus yet to be determined. I have a BA in English/secondary ed.(Eastern Mennonite College, Virginia, 1986) and an MA in linguistics (American University, Washington, DC, 1988). =============================================================================== *Drotleff, Judy I remain eager to be added to the list, although my status is definitely that of interested amateur. I am a freelance writer and former newspaper journalist who lives in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. As one who has always worked with and loved words, my interest in Shakespeare is longstanding and ongoing. I am program annotator for a masterworks choir here, and because the group occasionally performs English madrigals with Shakespearean texts, I am hoping that the other voices on the list could be an occasional aid in my research. ======================================================================== *Drtina, Jon A. Jon A. Drtina Executive Director Givens Performing Arts Center Pembroke State University Pembroke, NC 28372 (910)521-6287 voice (910)521-6552 FAX Profile: Performing Arts Manager -over 15 years experience as a manager and production designer in the theatrical and entertainment industry -arts coordinator and administrator with proven track record of presenting balanced seasons of quality cultural arts programs -leader within the performing arts and academic communities -sense of respect for the artist and responsibility to the audience I am currently employed with Pembroke State University as the Executive Director of the Givens Performing Arts Center, a multi-purpose performing arts center with a 1700 seat proscenium theatre and a flexible black box studio space. We present and produce theatre and the performing arts as part of a teaching institution. The performing arts center should be the hub of interdisciplinary learning in any academic institution. We at the Givens Performing Arts Center are committed to the idea of a liberal arts education and believe that our performing arts programs greatly enrich and enhance the education of our students from within all dissciplines. Cultural and intellectual programs are vital to the development of students from whom we expect critical thinking. In addition to my responsibilities in thperforming arts center which include controlling budgets, box office, marketing, fundraising and audience development, I teach theatre in the Department of Communicative Arts. Prior to my move to Pembroke State University just over a year ago, I had been teaching theatre and fine arts at Elon College for five years. I have had experience with various organizations including The Alamance County Arts Council, Indiana University of PA's Theatre by the Grove, The Alaska Rep Theatre, Adirondack Scenic Studios, Seaside Music Theatre, The Louisianna World Exposition, Pepsico Summerfare, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and The Utah Shakespearean Festival. I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Speech from Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales. I am currently a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, The North Carolina Presenters Consortium, The Southeastern Theatre Conference, The Southern Arts Federation and Alpha Psi Omega, the National Honorary Dramatics Fratenity. =============================================================================== *Drummond, Shelli My name is Shelli Ann Drummond and I am graduate student in English Literature at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois. I obtained my B.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 1992 and came directly to graduate school in the city where I grew up, Springfield. Although I was accepted to other institutions at the graduate level, I received a graduate assistantship from SSU which aided me financially and narrowed my decision on where to attend school. My focus in grad school is mainly the Romantic Poets. However, I also focus on Shakespeare, Literature related to women's studies, Literature and the Bible, and Modern Poetry (Brit and Amer). A broad range of interests, I know, but my goals are to obtain my Ph.D. after graduate school and I want to be able to teach in a number of areas. I would like, at some point in my career, to obtain a second Master's Degree in the area of Women's Studies. Currently, I am writing my graduate thesis on John Keats. The topic involves a progression of thought, as seen in his "great odes," moving from escapism to acceptance. I would like to relate this idea to his biography and attitudes he held about life. I hope to be finished with the manuscript in May of 1993. I am presently a member of the Modern Language Association and The Keats-Shelley Association in addition to recieving publications from both organizations. I am interested in subscribing to the SHAKESPER list because it is one of my major interests and I want to keep abreast of this area while I am devoting most of my time to my thesis. My home address is: Shelli Drummond 21 Guilford Drive Springfield, IL 62707 (217) 546-6214 =============================================================================== *DuBose, Stefanie My name is Stefanie DuBose and I am currently a graduate student in the MA program in pre-1660 British Literature at the University of South Carolina. I have a BA in English (1989) and a Master's in Library and Information Science (1992), both from USC. I am also a part-time reference librarian in the science department of the Thomas Cooper Library at the school. I plan to complete my Ma in May 1995, and eventually pursue a Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama; when, I don't know since my husband is applying to medical schools while I apply to doctoral programs. My research interests fall into the categories of gender/feminist theory, new historicism, and and "queer" and cultural theory. I presented a paper at the 1992 SEWSA conference in Tampa, Fla entitled "A Method in her Madness:" Ophelia and the madness of the patriarchy in Hamlet. My thesis (still in the formative stages) will focus on the transvestite Joan of Arc in 1 Henry IV and the complex relationship between her character and Elizabeth I. I am also examining Elizabeth's use of amphibological rhetor- ical strategies in her Parliamentary addresses, and possibly relating her speech to Joan's transvestite transgressions in 1HVI through Lacanian theory. My preliminary research shows that during the latter part of her reign, Eliza- beth uses a significantly greater number of amphibological strategies during her speeches on personal issues, namely concerning the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Where my work will go, I can't say as of yet. My snail mail address is: Stefanie DuBose, Science, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. My email is: Stefanie.DuBose@scarolina .edu or gpdblf@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu. =============================================================================== *DuFord, Chip My name is Chip DuFord and I am an actor. I have been professionally for about five or six years. I just finished a Master of Fine Arts in Performance Training under the direction of Henson Keys, in the Ohio University Professional Actor Training Program, with graduation in June of 1994. I have performed at The Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival for two seasons (including this past one) performing such roles as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Montjoy in Henry V. Other theaters I have been involved with are The Cleveland Play House in Cleveland, Ohio; The Monomoy Theater in Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and Hope Summer Repertory Theater in Holland, Michigan. Other Shakespearean roles I have performed are Ford and Justice Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Peter in Romeo and Juliet, The Duke of Buckingham in Richard III, and Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Degrees I have are: M.F.A. in Theater at Ohio University (June 1994) B.A. in Theater at Hope College (June 1990) My address is: 4287 E. Mt. Morris rd. Mt. Morris, MI 48458 I am interested in all aspects of Shakespeare study for the moment, although I like to focus on character study. =============================================================================== *DuVall, Ralph My name is Ralph DuVall and my daughter has asked me to subscribe to your discussion group so that she can utilize your material in her classroom curriculum on Shakespeare. She is an English teacher at JJ Pearce high school in Richardson, Texas, a high school which has won several national awards for excellent scholarship. The students have also won several intellectual national marathons. My daughter, Michele DuVall, is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas with a major in English. She has always loved Shakespeare and enjoys teaching it. She would like to always be current in the study of this subject, and has asked me to subscribe to your discussion group so she can use some of your material in her classroom. I am also a lover of Shakespeare. I am an engineering graduate from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. =============================================================================== *Dubiner, Julie My name is Julie Felise Dubiner, and I am currently studying for my MFA in Dramaturgy at Columbia University (NY). While at Tufts University as an undergraduate, I majored in History and Drama and also did a minor in Women's Studies. I was very active in the Drama Department there as a dramaturg, actor and director. After graduating, I lived in Chicago for two years where I studied improv, as well as doing some dramaturgy, and worked at the Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters among others. Since being at Columbia, I have worked exclusively as a dramaturg and a student,and am now in the second year of a three year program. My projects have ranged from working on new plays to Greek tragedy. Last year I was the dramaturg for a production of _Richard II_, and will soon begin work on Schiller's _Robbers_ and _Cymbeline_, all at Columbia. =============================================================================== *Ducheyne, David I have four interests in Shakesperean drama. As a psychologist I tend to explain or compare some psychological phenomena with what Shakespeare writes. I have found Shakesperean drama to be very enlightening and enriching. Second, as a musician I play a lot of Renaissance music on the treble recorder. My interest for Renaissance literature and arts improves m understanding of the context in which certain music was written (e.g. Morley, Byrd, Flemish Polyfonists, ...). Third, as an anglophile I like to read or attend to Shakesperean drama and discussions on the subject (drama, context, ...) would be very fruitful to me. Fourth, as a Flemish person reading Shakespeare in the original version is not at all easy (taking distance of the text as such) Textbooks on Shakespear give somewhat a onesided view on what is or could be meant. I thought joining the list would give me the chance of learning about different views. It sounded exciting. =============================================================================== *Duckor, Jerry My interest in Shakespear is solely that of an audience. I attend as many performances as I can; I see at least three or four shows a year,primarily at the Strarford festival in Canada. Should this interest be enough, I would like to become part of this "Sharespwear community" =============================================================================== *Ducray, Peter I am an MBA student at the University of South Africa. I am currently in my final year of study. I am interested in joining the SHAKSPER listserv as I am currently researching a working paper on strategy. I am exploring what light can be cast on the process of leadership, attainment of goals and creation of a common organisational culture in the works of Shakespeare. My interest in Shakespeare has been dormant since my undergraduate days but I am hoping that this opportunity will lead on to a renewal of discovering the genius of man. In my working life I am involved in religious education with a Roman Catholic parish. My title in this capacity is pastoral assistant. ============================================================= *Duffy-Nova, Karen I am a SF bay area actor and got you address from a fellow actor friend. =============================================================================== *Duggan, E. J. M. Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies School of Humanities Suffolk College, Ipswich UK Publications/Conference Papers: '_Wuthering Heights_: The Dearth of the Critic' Gregynog Critical Theory Conference (University of Wales) 1989. 'A Playwright with a Purpose: William Shakespeare and the Uses of Film' Gregynog Critical Theory Conference (University of Wales) 1990. 'Notes concerning the Lily Crucifixion in the Llanbeblig Hours', _National Library of Wales Journal_ 71 (1991) 31-40. Current Research: Since completing my MA and becoming a full-time lecturer, my research profile has taken a nosedive. I am, however, currently working on a project which will lead to a paper provisionally entitled 'Parentage and Prophecy in _Macbeth_'. Other interests include a desire to maintain the approved _Maltese Falcon_ FAQ, still in the developmental stage, though I am up to version 1.2, which I have put at a couple of ftp sites. I have yet to get the file approved by the News.Answers team. Teaching areas include English literature (C19th novel) at 'A'-level; Media Studies at all levels, and degree classes in Literary, Media and Cultural Studies. =============================================================================== *Dujardin, Gwynn Anne Gwynn Dujardin received her BA in English from Georgetown University (1989) and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Northwestern University. Her dissertation is on the relationship of voice and hearing to "spectacle" and vision in early modern English drama (esp. Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster), and takes as its departure the debate among playwrights as to whether they'd "have you wise . . . by your ears [or] by your eyes" (Jonson, Staple of News). In addition to early modern drama and theater studies, areas of interest include contemporary film theory and feminist and gender studies. ============================================================= *Dumke, Christine My name is Christine Dumke, I am a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington majoring in both Literature and Theater studies. I transfered into Evergreen (winter 1995) after studying for two years at Concordia University in River Forest Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) where my focus had been in music. I'm originally from Denver, Colorado. I really enjoy playing the french horn and rugby in my spare time, although academic work keeps one quite busy. Right now I am Stage Managing for Evergreen's Spring Play Festival as well as carrying a full course load in the Shakespeare program. I'm doing outside research in directing Shakespeare's plays, which I find very stimulating. =============================================================================== *Dunlay, Pat Pat Dunlay: As a teacher of Shakespeare at St. Teresa's Academy, 5600 Main, Kansas City, MO. 64113, I engage 25 young women everyday in a performance based course. We study 6 plays a semesterand use some type of performance exercises with each one. I have been teaching English for 17 years, but have found my great interest in the bard in recent years after attending an NEH institute in Ashland, Oregon in 1993. I attended Oxford University this past summer, studying Shakespeare there. I will assist in a day-long workshop at the NCTE convention in Boston in March. My BA in English is from Carlow College in Pittsburgh, PA. and my MA from University of Missouri at Kansas City. I look forward to the exchange of ideas on the internet. =============================================================================== *Dunne, Bob Director of Administration Department of Computer Science, Yale University I fall decidedly into the category of interested bystander. I have no publications in this area. I may have little to add to discussions but would be extremely grateful for the opportunity of following them. My undergraduate degree is from Fordham University at Lincoln Center where I majored simultaneously in English Literature, and Theatre and Drama. ============================================================================== *Dunston, Krishna Krishna Pryia Dunston was a founder and Artistic Director of the Troubadours Ensemble Inc., which toured Shakespeare to high school audiences across New England and the Mid-Atlantic. In addition to their Shakespeare! In-School program, Krishna directed the Troubadours' A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Richard III. Last April the Troubadours were invited to perform for the gala Shakespeare's birthday celebrations held annually at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Krishna has been certified by five fight masters of the Society of American Fight Directors and has choreographed swordplay for the Troubadours as well as Romeo and Juliet, and I Hate Hamlet for Theater Works of Sarasota, Florida. Her performing credits include The Orestia, Off-Broadway at the Abe Burrows Theater, and The Little Foxes at the Shop Theater. Krishna studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and the Playwrights Horizons Theater in New York City and the Strasberg Institute in London. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with honors and received the NYU President's Award for Community Service in recognition of her work in creating the Troubadours. Krishna Pryia is currently the Assistant to the Artistic Director for the Drama Department of Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and is pursing a self-designed Master's degree in Shakespearean Studies from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. ============================================================= *Dunston, Krishna P. Krishna Pryia was Co-Founder and Director of the Troubadours Ensemble, Inc., an educational touring company dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to first time readers. The company was created during her Senior year while still an undergraduate at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and earned her the NYU President's Award for Community Service in 1992. Under Krishna Pryia's direction, the Ensemble created a wide variety of projects from the "Shakespeare! In-School Program" which included scenes from a variety of Shakespeare's best known and frequently read plays; full-length productions geared towards middle and high school audiences; and week-long "Production Workshops" which would cast "guest" student actors in roles alongside Ensemble members. From its home in Connecticut, the Troubadours toured throughout New England, and as far south as Washington, D.C, where they performed as part of the Shakespeare's birthday celebrations at the Folger Library. By the time the company disbanded in 1996, they had performed for more than 20,000 students, faculty, and parents. In addition to directing for the Troubadours, Krishna has been a drama coach and director for other high school and youth groups. In order to introduce the joys of performing Shakespeare to these younger actors, she has developed edited texts suitable for youth performance groups for a variety of plays: "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Richard III", and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Krishna is currently an Administrative and Faculty Aide for her alma matter in the Department of Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. When not keeping the insanity under control there, she is taking advantage of her tuition remission benefits by pursing a self-designed Master's degree in Shakespearean Studies" at NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study. ============================================================= *Durham, Lonnie J. I'm retired after having taught for nearly 30 yrs in the English Dept. at the University of Minnesota (mostly Renaissance stuff--aside from Shakespeare, other Jocobean, Caroline playwrights and poets, Milton, a bit of critical theory and modern poetry). I took my Ph.D. from Indiana U., the dissertation done on comic structures in Sh's tragedies, under C.L. Barber's direction. My undergrad degree is from the U. of Montana, where Leslie Fiedler was my major advisor. I have published virtually nothing, my chief satisfactions having come from live contact in the classroom, but I have always had a lively interest in the theoretical bases of current critical discussion and would dearly love to listen in on the network give-and-take. =============================================================================== *Duro, Dan <71732.1252@compuserve.com> DAN DURO is an arts manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was most recently the producing director for the Portland (Oregon) Opera, and served as Technical Production Director, and Administrator of the Technical Apprentice Program, for The Santa Fe Opera, 1982-1990. He was the Department Technical Director for the University of California at San Diego; and his previous experience includes theatre consulting, general management and production supervision for regional theatre, ballet, and concert touring. =============================================================================== *Dutta, Tilly I am no Shakespearean scholar, however, I taught English literature for over a decade in a Jesuit missionary college in Calcutta, India. I majored in English from the University of Calcutta and then went on to complete my master's degree in the same subject (1974). Thereafter, I obtained a teaching position in St. Xavier's College in Calcutta and continued to teach there till we came to the United States in 1992. I live in a small town in Connecticut and am currently enrolled in the MLS program (Masters in Library and Information Sciences) at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven. I am sorry to have rushed in ..... I didn't realise that one had to be a scholar to be a member of Shaksper. I am just trying to compile a resource guide -resources on the Internet - for Shakespearean studies. And I came across the Shakespeare fileserver through a veronica search. It brought back memories ... Shakespeare is widely read and appreciated throughout India and I was fortunate enough to have had some excellent Shakespeare scholars as my teachers in Presidency College, Calcutta, from where I graduated. At St. Xavier's College, I taught Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction (Hardy and Dickens) and Philogy, at the undergraduate level. Many of my former students are faculty at different universities in this country. But after fourteen years of teaching, I felt the need to do something different, and as always had a secret fascination with libraries and librarians, here I am, midway through the program and hoping to graduate by the end of the year. =============================================================================== *Dutton, Jeanne I AM AN MFA STUDENT IN FICTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA. I AM TAKING ENGLISH 604 SHAKESPEARE'S SPINOFFS AND AM INTERESTED IN ENTERING INTO MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP. I LOOK FORWARD TO FUTURE CONTACT. JEANNE DUTTON =============================================================================== *Dutton, Richard I am Richard Dutton, and am currently Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, at Lancaster University, where I have taught since 1974. I did my first degree at King's College, Cambridge, and my PhD at Nottingham, under George Parfitt: the external examiner was the late Lionel Knights. Between my PhD and coming to Lancaster I taught for three years at Wroxton College near Banbury, Oxfordshire, an English campus of the Fairleigh Dickinson University of New Jersey. I have published a good deal on (mainly) Renaissance literature, mainly drama. Monographs include: *Ben Jonson: to the First Folio* (Cambridge UP, 1983), *Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition* (Harvester, 1986), *William Shakespeare: A Literary Life* (Macmillan,1989), *Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama* (Macmillan and Iowa UP, 1991) and *Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism* (Macmillan and St Martin's P, 1996). The Shakespeare Literary Life is in a series of literary lives I edit for Macmillan (published by St Martin's in the States). I have also edited selections of Jonson's poetry, and works of Sidney, for Carcanet Press, two volumes of Jacobean masques for Nottingham Drama Texts and (most recently) an edition of *Jacobean Civic Pageants* (Keele UP, 1995). I have also edited two collections of essays: *New Historicism and Renaissance Drama* (with my colleague, Richard Wilson; Longman, 1992), and *A Midsummer Night's Dream: New Casebook* (Macmillan, 1996). Current projects include and edition of Four Middleton Plays for the Worlds Classics series (OUP), a follow-up volume to *Mastering the Revels* (provisionally entitled *Buggeswords: Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England*) and collections of essays on both Jonson and Middleton. I would describe my main on-going research interest as being the implications for our understanding of early modern authorship of the processes of licensing and censorship. I am also centrally involved with my colleagues at Lancaster in pursuing the implications of the possibility that William Shakespeare spent some of his early 'lost years' at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire, about twenty minutes by car from our campus. ============================================================= *Duval, Beth I'm a graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. I've finished my course work in British Literature. I am in the middle stages of a thesis on Shakespeare. I hold of bachelor of science in Radio, Television and Film production from USM. Eventually, I would like to return to school to work on a PhD in Film and Literature Studies. =============================================================================== *Duwaik, Jad Shakespearean interest: I hated Shakespeare in high school, but a survey course at UCLA enlightened me to Will's plays. That summer ('93) I acted for the first time in "Twelfth Night." I became one of the founding members of the UCLA Shakespeare Reading & Performance Group. I went to many, many reading groups (once a week we read one of Will's plays) and had the most incredible fun I could ever imagine. The R&P Group was made up of Shakespearean lovers, not pompous actors, and I was able to direct for the first time. But several members of the reading group were becoming increasingly serious about Shakespeare and so I wrote a 15 minute skit using parts of two scenes from "King Lear" parodying the "classical" approach to Shakespeare. The next summer, I spent in Stratford-Upon-Avon on a UCLA program studying Shakespeare until we got sick and tired of ol' Will. I never did. Currently, I have temporary relocated to Denver, Colorado but I am looking to start up a R&P Group here and hope to direct a play this summer ('95). =============================================================================== *Duy, Nicole I would appreciate being registered as a subscriber on the Shakespeare Electronic Conference (Shaksper). My name is Nicole Duy and I am a doctoral student in English at the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontaio) and my area of concentration is Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. My research interest is textual criticism with a focus on dramatic manuscripts. =============================================================================== *Dwelle, Ronald Associate Professor of English Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401 USA My primary interest is teaching undergraduate Shakespeare courses, particularly an introductory course which is part of the University's general-education requirement for graduation. Normally, I teach a few sonnets and six or seven plays. I always include at least one history, one comedy, one tragedy, and one of the romances, with the remaining plays chosen to provide a balanced introduction to Shakespeare's works. My background: Shakespeare was a minor interest of mine in graduate school (University of Kansas) where the highlight of my study were two seminars with Charlton Hinman. Though my area of academic specialization has not been Shakespeare, I have been fortunate in being able to teach a Shakespeare course almost every semester for the last 20 years. My current interest (besides keeping abreast of current scholarship) is in integrating undergraduate Shakespeare studies into a "writing-across-the-curriculum" program at the University. Writing-about-Shakespeare as a method of learning-to-write is not the normal view of Shakespeare study. ================================================================== *Dwyer, John Academic Training: University of Notre Dame 1962-1966 A.B. English University of Notre Dame 1967-1968 M.A.T. English University of Notre Dame 1987-1991 M.A. English University of Notre Dame 1987-1995 Ph.D. English Area of concentration: eighteenth-century British novel and poetry Specialty areas: nineteenth-century British novel and poetry; literary criticism since 1965. Dissertation Title: Social and Linguistic Masquerade in Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison Qdegree expected 1995. =============================================================================== *Dyal, David My name is David Dyal. I am a graduate student at the University of Florida working with Professor Norman Holland on my dissertation. I am presently finishing my exams and beginning the writing process. A late bloomer, I'll be 49 on May 2. I received my B.A. in Literature with a minor in Theater Arts from the University of North Florida in 1981 and taught high school for several years. My minor allowed me to approach WS from both the theater and the world of lit crit. In fact, my love of WS comes from my experiences in theater. I've both directed and acted in several WS plays. In 1992, I finally earned my M.A. from the University of Florida, where I met Professor Holland. I've been teaching here at U.F. as T.A., mostly composition courses, but a couple of Renaissance survey courses as well-including, of course, WS. In my dissertation, I plan to look at four Renaissance tragedians-WS, Marlowe, Webster, and Ford. Freud, Nancy Chodorow, and, of course, Norm Holland form my critical matrix. I stir in certain ideas used in Alcoholics Anonymous. Basically, I say that tragedy could only end in chaos in the Renaissance, but WS, being WS, found a way out in Romance. I anticipate publishing three papers in the near future-a study of Fielding's "Tom Jones," a study of the Wife of Bath, and a chapter from my upcoming dissertation on "Macbeth." I say "anticipate" because my professors assure me the papers are publishable-I've worked on the first two extensively-but I've been busy with exams and other procrastinative matters. ============================================================= *Dynes, William Dr. William R. Dynes, Assistant Professor of English, University of Indianapolis. EMail = Dynes@Gandlf.uindy.edu I have published RThe Trickster-Figure in Jacobean City ComedyS in *Studies in English Literature,* and am currently at work on an article looking at some of the minor history plays of the late 1580s and early 1590s, such as *Jack Straw* and *Woodstock.* Generally, my interests lie in the drama of contemporary, plebeian life of the Renaissance; IUm interested in the social and artistic forces that were motivating playwrights to turn their eye to the very folk who made up their audiences. This is leading me in a number of directions: gender studies, historiography, economic history, and more. IUm also becoming increasingly interested in the pedagogical issues of teaching Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in the undergraduate, non-major environment. =============================================================================== *