Gadd, Ian My name is Ian Gadd. I am a second-year postgraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford studying in the Faculty of English Literature. I am in the first year of a D.Phil. working on the Stationers' Company of London between 1557 and 1660. As an undergraduate I studied with Margreta de Grazia at the University of Pennsylvania on the three texts of Hamlet and their literary/ bibliographical consequences, producing a short study of the three versions of the "to be or not to be..." speech; and with Ian Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh on the Jonson-Shakespeare relationship, in texts, in myth and in real-life. For Professor Donaldson's course, I studied John Benson's 1640 editions of Shakespeare's poems and Jonson's epigrams. I have an obvious interest in the printing/publishing side of Shakespeare's texts (and especially in the consequent villification of Benson by every Shakespeare critic since Malone); I also have a particular and long-standing interest in Hamlet. A short piece on a previously unnoted Hamlet allusion should be forthcoming in the March 1997 edition of Notes and Queries. My undergraduate degree was also in history and so I am also interested in the historical reception and cultural assimilation of Shakespeare since the seventeenth century, particularly during the Enlightenment. Currently a student of the London livery companies I also hope to look at the structure of the theatrical companies of the period to see whether they may have drawn their organisational model from the livery companies. =============================================================================== *Gaddis, Gwenette I'm planning to apply for PhD work here in Indiana. Shakespeare has been my chief literary interest since I was 14, but my PhD work will probably focus on rhetoric and composition. I'm happy in my editorial work, and I feel that a degree in composition will benefit me more now than another degree in literature. But Willie will always be my "main man." One of my current interests is Shakespeare's continuing influence on current literature. In grad school, I made a comparison of _Macbeth_ and Richard Marius' _The Coming of Rain_. I'm also interested in the use of Shakespeare's image, name, and quotations in advertising. =============================================================================== *Gaecke, Hope My name is Hope Gaecke and I was enrolled in Dr. John Boni's seminar course in Shakespearean plays at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois. I am an undergraduate student, who is returning to school in pursuit of my bachelor degree in Elementary Education. =============================================================================== *Gaffar, Leanna Lyn So you want my biography. Well, I am from Singapore and am 18 years old. I am studying Shakespeare for my English Literature paper. Now I am in JC2 which means that I am taking my A-levels this year. I am studying in Temasek Junior College in the Arts Department. If I get to the University of Singapore, I plan to study either English or Sociology. =============================================================================== *Gagen, Steve I was born in 1950 and attended school and university in England before migrating to Australia in 1977. I have always had a strong interest in drama, theatre and literature, and a love of Shakespeare - in spite of the fact that I am by training a Biochemist and Entomologist, and now work in computing. I was fortunate that both my school and the university I attended as an undergraduate saw the virtue in educating scientists in arts and literature, and that there was also ample opportunity to explore these non-scientific interests during my post-graduate studies too, through campus drama and literature societies. I was equally fortunate to be brought up in England, where there is so much opportunity to see good theatre. I have spent the last ten years working with The Hartwell Players, a long-established community theatre group in Melbourne. Our group has staged many Shakespearian plays over the years, and I have co- directed a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, designed a production of THE TEMPEST, and am about to co-direct a production of MACBETH. We also hold regular play-readings, and Shakespeare is always popular at these. My wife is a drama educator, and I have assisted her on many occasions with productions of plays, including several Shakespeares. I also review plays for local magazines and newspapers. I hope to gain, though membership of this group, a more thorough understanding of Shakespeare and his work, and to bring this to bear in the making of productions of his works and in my reviews. =============================================================================== *Gager, Valerie Dr. Valerie L. Gager, Director, Honors Scholars Program, Carroll College, Helena, MT 59625 (1992-present). Outstanding Faculty Award, Carroll College (1995). PhD, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, England (1991). BA in English with highest honors, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT (1989). Author of `Dickens' Dreams', a play produced in Helena and New York City (1995) and `Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence' (forthcoming, Cambridge U.P., 1995). =============================================================================== *Gair, Eve 212 St. John St. Fredericton, N.B. E3B 4B2 B.A. (Hons. English), U.B.C., 1965 Cert. Ed., University of Cambridge, 1966 M.A. (English Lang. & Literature) University of Wales, 1969 Ph.D (English Lang. & Literature), University of New Brunswick, 1974 Throughout my academic career, my interest lay in the Seventeenth Century, and, in particular, with Milton. My doctoral thesis is a study of Book Six of Paradise Lost, the War in Heaven, and commentaries on The Book of Revelation. I later presented a paper at the Conferences of the Learned Societies, in Laval, about the influence of one particular commentator, Bullinger. I afterwards left the academic world, and worked as an Investment Advisor for twelve years. I am now working independently as a Free-Lance Commercial writer. Naturally, through all this time, I have maintained a strong interest in Shakespeare. It is, however, primarily on behalf of my husband, David R. Galloway (see Directory of American Scholars), that I wish to join Shaksper. David has been retired for some years now, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick. His many contributions to the study of Shakespeare, and Elizabethan drama, are recognized throughout the scholarly world. Unfortunately, he is now too ill to participate directly in the Shaksper network. I think, however, that it would provide a great interest to him, and that he will have much to offer other members, through me. =============================================================================== *Gaither, Michael I learned of the SHAKSPER database through an e-mail inquiry on a dramaturg newsgroup. Im researching a paper on Touchstone (always been fond of jesters), so research on a university computer (Univ. of Toronto) seems appropriate. My name is Michael Gaither, and I am a graduating senior at San Jose State University (SJSU) in San Jose, California. I actually live in Watsonville, which is just below Santa Cruz, in the Monterey Bay Area. I commute to school on a rough route thats known as over the hill. This drive to school is on highway 17, which one might call the Disney Space Mountain of Freeways. I am completing a B.A. in Radio/TV/Film at SJSU, with a minor in drama--hence my interest in SHAKSPER. Vocationally, I worked as a hardware technician with Tandem Computers from 1983-1993. Away from my day job however, I discovered writing. I wrote comedy and performed in open mike nights. Eventually I sold several jokes to Jay Leno that were used on The Tonight Show. Aside from that, I wrote copy for radio commercials, some song parodies, and my interest in film led me to sell articles to Palmer Video Magazine and Film Threat magazine. Currently, I write a TV/video column for a local newspaper. I also occasionally review CD-ROM computer games. Besides my education at SJSU, I took a few technical writing classes at a local community college. My aim was to combine my writing skills with my computer background and interest in film and television. That landed me a writing internship with a small multimedia startup company last summer. Its turned into indefinite contract work. =============================================================================== *Gajowski, Evelyn Evelyn Gajowski, Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Author, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies, University of Delaware Press, 1992 Author, Consuming Bodies and Female Space in Shakespeare's Texts and Culture (in progress) Vice President/Incoming President, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Member, Shakespeare Association of America, International Shakespeare Association, Modern Language Association, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Renaissance Conference of Southern California PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 1987 Address: Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011 Telephone: 702-895-3795 Fax: 702-895-4801 email: shakespe@pioneer.nevada.edu =============================================================================== *Galbraith, Peggy Jo Greetings! My name is Peggy Galbraith, and I am a freshman Medieval and Rennaissance Studies major at Duke Universtiy. As such, I really am just begining my study of Shakespeare. I am enrolled, for the spring semester, in a writing-intensive course on Shakespeare after 1600, so that will be my main scholarly interest in the immediate future. =============================================================================== *Gale, Richard Dr. Richard Gale, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. I received my doctorate in Theatre from the University of Minnesota in 1996, and my dissertation was titled "The American West as Playing Space: Theatrical Constructions of Landscape and Meaning." I received an MFA in Playwriting from UCSD in 1988 and both an MA in Drama (1985) and a BA in Liberal Studies (1984) from San Jose State University. Current research interests include constructions of national identity, the performance of science, and the adaptation of classical and Shakespearean drama for cultural and political purposes. Previous publications have been in the area of Scottish theatre. I have also done work in the field of teacher training and critical pedagogy. ============================================================= *Gale, Richard A. Doctoral Student, Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota 4339 Cedar Avenue South #4, Minneapolis MN 55407 (612) 729-3909 [eve] / (612) 625-2839 [day] As a graduate student in theatre arts and a practicing dramaturg my interest in Shakespeare is something more than academic. My interest in the SHAKSPER list will most likely be in the area of production alternatives and dramaturgical interpretations, although I am becoming more interested in current scolarship as I work more with the area and the period. I have recently been researching the life and works of Barnabe Barnes and the production history (such as it is) of "The Devil's Charter." I am a member of the Dramatists Guild and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America. I received my Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from San Jose State University in 1984 and my Masters in Drama from the same institution a year later. In 1988 I completed my Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting at the University of California, San Diego and am currently at work on my doctoral program in theatre history and criticism. My dissertation topic is under advisement and my projected date of graduation is 1995. ============================================================================== *Gallagher, Patricia E. PATRICIA E. GALLAGHER Senior Librarian Graduate Student - PhD Program Phillips Library CUNY Graduate Center Beth Israel Medical Center Department of English 16th Street & First Avenue 33 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10003 New York, NY 10036 In 1976, I received my BA in English literature from Lehman College, CUNY. The following year, I graduated from Queens College, CUNY with a Masters in Library Science. I received my MA in English literature from Hunter College, CUNY in June of 1989, and began work on my PhD in September of the same year. I am currently enrolled in the PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center. My most recent paper was entitled "'Tiger's Heart Wrapp'd in a Woman's Hide': Margaret of Anjou as Monster in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy", and was delivered at the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies Meeting, 8 October 1990. I am a member of the Medical Library Association, the NY/NJ Chapter of the Medical Library Association, The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, The Archivist's Roundtable, and The Shakespeare Association of America. I intend to center future research on the history plays of Shakespeare, with an emphasis on the First Tetralogy. I am particularly interested in an feminist analysis of those plays. ============================================================================== *Gallant, Matthew My name is Matt Gallant. I am 21 years old and I am from Auburn, Maine. I'm currently attending West Point. I plan to major in philosophy and studies in literature and I would be very grateful if I could be put on your mailing list. =============================================================================== *Gallerano, Victor Victor Gallerano Lecturer Department of English George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 I am an MFA candidate (fiction) at George Mason University. My previous graduate work was in Politics and Literature. For the past three years I have taught writing (usually linked to courses in philosophy) and literature (ranging from Homer to Auden, but especially Shakespeare). My long-term interest in Shakespeare is compounded of several parts. I want to continue to explore those political issues best characterized as Platonic/Machiavellian which recur in Shakespeare. I also want to use Shakespeare as the occassion for working through some of the questions raised by the "new historicism". Moreover the approach of a writer like Stephen Greenblatt has been suggestive for another area that I have been working in, namely autobiography. =============================================================================== *Gamez, Luis R. or Department of English, Fordham University, New York City I am primarily interested in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, but I find myself interested in research in other areas of 17th-century (esp. early Stuart) drama. Also my colleague Charles Hallett (a "legitimate" Shakespearean) seems interested in SHAKSPER but shy of the VAX, and would like to see how it works for me. =========================================================================== *Gandy, Thomas Thomas J. Gandy: My current project is the Folger Institute's "Shakespeare Through Performance" program, which continues through May, 1996. I have been actively involved in teacher education programs at ETSU-Texarkana since 1974. As a young, small institution, we have been able to construct a strong curriculum for prospective teachers, one which includes a required Shakespeare course for all elementary and secondary language arts or English teachers. I have conducted workshops at more than fourteeen independent school districts in Texas. My major area of interest is the use of technology--video and computer--in teaching, and especially in teaching Shakespeare. I also sponsor the university's Omicron Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. =============================================================================== *Gannon, Sarah Sarah K. Gannon Student William Smith College I am a student of Libby Smigel's and I am currently in her Shakesperean Acting class. I am interested in in directing, specifically Shakespeare. I am an undergraduate working towards my degree in psychology. =============================================================================== *Gao, Jie Name: Jie Gao PhD candidate English Department, The Australian National Univeristy Canberra 0200 Australia Ph. +61 6 249 3376 (O); +61 6 247 1522 (H); fax: +61 6 247 1522 Thesis topic: New Historicism in Shakespeare Studies =============================================================================== *Garay, Michael J. My name is Michael J. Garay and I am an undergraduate English/Physics/Philosophy major (yes that's a TRIPLE major) in my third year at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. I have taken two classes focussing directly on Shakespeare's life and works (Shakespeare I and Shakespeare II) - the second class was a 400 (senior) level class taught concurrently with the graduate Shakespeare class. Of course, I have written numerous papers at the undergraduate level on Shakespeare's works, but that goes without saying. My current interests are in the area of literary theory - applying chaos theory to literature, to be precise. However, I still maintain a strong interest in Shakespeare and I'd love to take part in some discussions. =============================================================================== *Garbowski, Charles My name is Charles R. Garbowski Jr. but Charlie will work just as well. I am currently a Junior in the BFA Acting program at SUNY Fredonia in New York State. I also have a second major in Communications with an audio/radio specialty and I should be graduating on time due to all of the credits that transferred over from high school. (I currently have enough credits to graduate, just not enough in either of the majors.) I have a 3.75 cum. GPA and am a hard worker. For example last semester I pulled off 22.5 credit hours, the 2 majors, 2 theatre shows (minor part and lead), 2 radio shows, an improv troupe, and a job for the first half of the semester. I still came out right at my GPA. My current interest in Shakespeare, besides my general interest as an actor, is in any and all information about the origins of the "curse" of the play Macbeth. ============================================================= *Gardiner, David Marsh My name is David Gardiner. I am currently an Assistant Prof. at the University of Florida. I teach Shakespeare and Period Styles (among other things) and Direct. Before coming here three years ago, I had worked for many years in Europe as a freelance Director/Teacher. I was 4 years in Norway (Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger) working primarily for the Norwegian Film Centre. I was 8 years or so in Denmark where I directed and taught at the official State Drama Schools in Odense and Aarhus as well as in Copenhagen. Before that, I spent many years in England where I taught and directed at Guildford, East 15, The Drama Studio, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London Studio Centre, ARTTS International and other places . I also worked in the theatre at the Oxford Playhouse, Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, Piccadilly theatre, Victoria Theatre, Prince of Wales, and Young Vic in London. I have worked in British and American Television. I was a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Long Wharf Theatre, the Arizona Theatre Co. and other US theatres. I have been a guest Director at Iowa State, New Mexico State, Willamette U. and other schools. I am a member of both British and American Equity. I have directed only 12 Shakespeare productions, but he is my favorite playwright and I always am eager to learn more about him and his theatre. I was the only American to participate in the marathon Shakespeare Workshop held in Copenhagen in 1996. It was given by John Barton, Cicely Berry, Jane LaPotaire, Brian Cox, and others for ten intense days. I am always keen to improve my teaching and directing skills with Shakespeare. I am sure there is much to share and learn from a group such as yours. ============================================================= *Gardiner, John I am an actor and director here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have acted in productions of Shakespeare's works both here and in the Boston area. =============================================================================== *Garloch, Gail Twenty years ago at the University of Tennessee I wrote a PhD dissertation on Ben Jonson's comedies, and I remain interested in classical comedy, comical satire, and images of theatricality and role-playing in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. At Oklahoma City University I teach our Shakespeare and Renaissance literature courses as well as Chaucer and some introduction to literature courses of my own devising such as "Poetry as a species of play" and "Biblical motifs in literature." My main interest is in teaching. I am Gail Garloch, Associate professor of English at Oklahoma City University, 2501 N Blackwelder, Oklahoma City, OK 73106. 405-521-5178 ggarloch@frodo.okcu.edu =============================================================================== *Garnett, Thomas Thomas Garnett, Librarian, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Washington, D.C. 20560 BA University of Colorado in Comparative Religion MLS Catholic University layperson Shakespeare reader =============================================================================== *Garrou, Amy Y. Amy Y. GARROU Graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in 1983 and an M.A. in 1993, both in English. As a student in the M.A. program, I concentrated in Renaissance literature and studied with Alastair Fowler, Arthur Kirsch, and Anthony Spearing. In April 1993, I participated on a panel at the SAA convention in Atlanta. My paper was entitled "Words, Words, Mere Words: Inglorious Language in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA", and the panel was chaired by Ann Thompson. I was, and still am, interested in studying Shakespeare at the microlevel (the topic of this panel). Currently, I am an Assistant Dean of Admission at the University of Virginia. I have much less time for the formal study of Shakespeare, but I'm a regular playgoer to Shakespeare productions and particularly relish trips to DC for the Shakespeare Theatre's productions at the Landsburgh. In addition, I have been music director for two amateur summer Shakespeare productions in Charlottesville. Several topics interest me: study of the fool and his language in Shakespeare, the music in the plays, and Shakespeare as popular culture are among my interests. =============================================================================== *Gaskill, Gayle Gayle Gaskill: since 1987 assoc/asst prof of English at the College of St. Catherine, a Catholic liberal arts women's college in St. Paul: regularly teaches Shakespeare, Brit Writers I (Beowulf to Dr. Johnson), Intro lit crit, t freshman lit survey. Ed. MINNESOTA ENGLISH JOURNAL. Ph.D. 1986 Univ. of Minnesota; Diss. "The Temple and the Liturgy: The Poetry of George Herbert and the Book of Common Prayer" dir. Thomas Clayton. Article on MACBETH, TWELFTH NIGHT, and literary genres incorporated into Shakespeare's plays. NEH summer institute "Society and Religion in Early Modern England" with David Cressy, 1993, and NEH summer seminar "Theory and Practice of Cultural History as Applicable to Shakespeare" with Annabel Patterson, 1990. SAA, MLA and Midwest MLA, NCTE and Minn. CTE. Current research: Shakespeare's HENRY VIII, Donne's Somerset Epithalamion, and the politics of Frances Howard's second wedding; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Queen Elizabeth's allegorical portraits; strategies for teaching Shakespeare's sonnets. address: #4139 College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul MN 55105. Tel. (612) 690-6857 =============================================================================== *Gates, Joanne I teach and do research in Shakespeare and graduate Shakespeare. Some of my production reviews have appeared in THEATRE JOURNAL. I delivered a paper on LEAR at Florida's Comp Lit conference, and have presented at several conferences in the area of Pedagogy. Most recently, I presented a talk to Alabama College English Teachers Conference (Feb. 97) on Teaching Shakespeare through film. Interests: Shakespeare sources, including a well-organized set of the most usable sources on the Internet. The JSU English Department Web page has a few pointers to the ones I find most useful in class at http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/engother.htm#Shakes ============================================================= *Gau, Tracey I am currently a second year Ph. D. student at Texas Christian University and I plan to specialize in the Renaissance. I would like to become involved in the discussions and debates circulating on Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Gauntlett, Deanie Lynn My name is Deanie Lynn Gauntlett. I graduated with my English degree last May. I am currently taking a break before going back to graduate school, either to law school or further study in literature. My favorite Shakespeare play is King Lear, which I have seen by the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. =============================================================================== *Gauntt, Christopher I've been exposed to Shakespeare since I was 4, started reading it by the age of 7 and performing it by the age of 10. It's one of my passions and I am definitely interest in being added to the subscription. ============================================================= *Gay, Penny I'm the Secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (conference coming up in Jan 96), and editor of The Brief Abstract and Record, our newsletter. I'd like to be able to pass on news from SHAKSPER in the newsletter. I'm the author of As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (Routledge, 1994), about performances of the major female characters in the comedies, and an edition of The Merchant of Venice (Sydney, 1995) which is the first to discuss Australian stage history. I'm also involved in research about the dramaturgy of the use of the doors on the Globe stage, and hope to present a paper on that at Andrew Gurr's seminar at ISA/LA. I've just been to the 'Within this wooden O' conference at the Globe Bankside, and meeting scholars there realised how much we Aussies don't know about what's going on, particularly in America. Hopefully SHAKSPER can help with that. =============================================================================== *Gaydosik, Victoria Victoria Gaydosik currently holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Languages at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. She completed the Ph.D. degree in English at the University of Rochester and also holds M.A. degrees in English from Rochester and Portland State University, and B.A. degrees in philosophy and environmental science from Portland State and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, respectively. Her dissertation was titled "Ben Jonson's Rhetoric and Poetry: Invention and Imitation in the Margins," but it DID mention Shakespeare numerous times. She has presented papers at the South Central Modern Language Association convention and the Sixteenth Century Studies Association convention. Currently, she is continuing her dissertation project by extending it to examine Jonson's influence in the six decades following his death and also revising chapters for publication. ============================================================= *Geary, Marlene Hello! My name is Marlene J. Geary, and I'm studying English with a Playwriting concentration at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. I was referred to the Shakespearean Listserv, actually. A current member of the list, a professor of mine at Trinity College, Milla Riggio, mentioned the list as an interesting source of information and reference for our studies in Shakespeare. We're currently comparing different editions of several of the plays, in several different media. My special interests include adapting the plays for both stage and film production. I'd like to specialize in adapting the plays to current issues, while keeping their central theme and focus. I'm currently putting together a research project comparing different film productions, however I have not decided on which plays I will concentrate. I'm especially interested in studying more of Peter Brook's directing work on both film and stage. I'd like to tap this resources of this list and it's file archives. I believe that with my research I will able to contribute to the information available. =============================================================================== *Gebhard, Caroline I am a Ph.D. and an assistant professor of English at Tuskegee University teaching a course in Shakespeare for the first time, and I would very much appreciate the chance to "listen in" on the discussion as well as pose some questions. For example, one of my students asked how black characters would appear on stage: in blackface? a mask? or would the language alone convey that the character was supposed to be "coal-black." =============================================================================== *Geiger, Barbara My name is Barbara M. Geiger, and I am a doctoral student and a teaching assistant in the English department at Texas Tech University. I am focusing my studies on the Renaissance, with a secondary interest in medieval studies and the Anglo-Saxon period. Here at Tech, I am involved with the Graduate English Society, which hosted our first annual conference in the spring of 1996. I acted as chair for the Renaissance session, and I was also a member of the funding committee. This year I am acting as treasurer for the organization, and I will be helping to organize our second conference next spring. I presented my first paper at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last February. The paper was entitled "Mary McCarthy and the Making of a Romantic Desperado." I also co-authored an instructor's manual for the freshman composition program here at Tech. My current interests in research are varied. Shakespeare is my passion, and I am currently most interested in issues of law and justice in Shakespeare's histories and tragedies. I am also branching out to a study of film representations of Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Geisey, Babbara I am a PhD student at Kent State University currently taking a class on King Lear and other plays from Professor Sidney Reid. One of the requirements for the course is that we participate in this discussion group. In the workaday world I am the library director at a branch campus of the University of Akron. My study of English literature is a personal interest. =============================================================================== *Geisey, Barbara My interest in Shakespeare is that of a dilettante, a personal fulfillment not a possible career. I am a PhD candidate at Kent State University. My advisor is Sid Reid. I'm still mulling over possibilities for a dissertation topic. I'm interested in women playwrights of the early Renaissance, but every possible obscure person I find has been snapped up recently. The field seems to be HOT! I may end up doing a textual study of something Shakespearean under Dr. Reid's direction. Right now I'm preparing a proposal for Shakespeare at Kalamazoo in 1999 about clothing in King Lear as a revealer/concealer of the body. ============================================================= *Gelber, Bill I have belonged to the Shaksper Listserv before, but finished my course work at UT Austin and no longer had a computer account there. At any rate, my name is Bill Gelber. I have just joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Pan American in Edinburg, Texas in the Theatre Arts Department. I am finishing my dissertation on Ben Iden Payne and his approach to Shakespeare including his "Modified Elizabethan Staging." I also have an interest in production and direction of the plays and in the teaching of verse speaking. I have directed a number of the plays including Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Henry V, and most recently, The Tempest. I am looking forward to the discussions and to contributing wherever I can. ============================================================= *Gelber, William I am a theatre history student at the University of Texas currently working on my doctoral degree. (I have a MEd. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University and a MFA in Directing from UT.) I am also a theatre director and have concentrated quite a bit on the Bard's corpus, including Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, and All's Well That Ends Well. My current subject is B. Iden Payne, who, as you may know, was the founder of the English repertory movement and a disciple of William Poel. (Payne was also the head of the Stratford Festival for eight years.) B. Iden Payne was a proponent of Modified Elizabethan Staging and left many notes behind concerning this practice. I am hoping to research his work at greater length. In the meantime, I am an anglophile and a bardolator and am also extremely interested in production histories of the plays as well as techniques for the teaching and practice of verse speaking. In other words, there are many facets of William Shakespeare which interest me in relation to the theatre, and it strikes me that this forum-which I hope to be a part of-will be an invaluable resource to me. =============================================================================== *Gelber, William I am currently a doctoral student in Theatre History at the University of Texas at Austin. My doctoral dissertation concerns B. Iden Payne and his work with Modified Elizabethan Staging, in particular during his eight years at the Stratford Festival in England in the late 1930's and early '40's. I have a Masters in Education from Texas A&M University and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from U.T. Austin. I am also interested in Shakespeare in Performance and verse speaking techniques as practiced by students of Sir Peter Hall, John Barton, Trevor Nunn, et.al. I have directed several Shakespeare plays either in community, university, or high school theatres including The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost (my thesis production), All's Well that Ends Well, and Hamlet. I have also acted in many productions (Hamlet on three different occasions, Henry V, Two Gents, The Taming of the Shrew (twice as Petruchio), etc. =============================================================================== *Geller, Lila B. Gary Genard is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Drama at Tufts University, currently working on his dissertation. He holds a B.A. in Speech in Theater, an M.A. in Theater, and studied in the M.F.A. in Acting program at the University of Illinois before completing his professional training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has performed professionally in London and New York, as well as on national tours, on television, in film, and in summer stock. His professional and educational acting credits include a number of Shakespearean roles, including Macbeth, Richard III, Angelo in "Measure for Measure," and Poins in both parts of "Henry IV" in the Off-Broadway "Hollow Crown Trilogy" featuring those two plays and "Richard II." His most recent role was Polonius/Gravedigger in the February-March 1997 production of "Hamlet" at the Tufts Arena Stage. Mr. Genard currently holds a teaching assistantship in acting at Tufts University, as well as adjunct positions in theater and voice at Boston College and Bridgewater State College. His dissertation topic concerns "Hamlet" in audio performances. ============================================================= *Genn, Stephan Stephan Genn is currently an MFA canditate in the Directing Department at the Yale School of Drama. Prior to matriculating at Yale, he directed in the Boston area. Plays directed include _The_Police_ by Slovomir Mrozek; _Play_, _Catastrophe_, _Not_I_, and _Krapp's_Last_Tape_ by Samual Beckett; and _The_Ruffian_On_The_Stair_ by Joe Orton. He has also worked extensively in the theatre as an actor. Of particular interest to members of this list would be his involvement as a principle actor in 12 productions of Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *George, Robert Robert A. George was born approximately three decades ago on the Caribbean island-country of Trinidad and Tobago. A year later, his family moved to Great Britain where they remained for seven years. In England, under the watchful tutelage of a number of nuns and clergymen, his love for literature was first nurtured. Moved to the United States at the age of eight and proceeded to live in various locales, attending both private and public schools. "Home" would come to include New York, (the big city as well as suburbia), Connecticut, California, New Jersey and, most recently, the Maryland/Washington, D.C. area. A collegeiate career began in 1981 with the fortunate discovery of a small, liberal arts college in Annapolis, Maryland. For the historical trivia fan, Annapolis has two major claims to fame: It was America's first capital city and has been, for nearly two centuries, home to the U.S. Naval Academy, training ground to the country's future Navy officers. For the purposes of the student in question, however, Annapolis' somewhat lesser known, yet ultimately far more important, treasure was the academic institution known as St. John's College. I found the St. John's "Great Books Program" emphasis on discussion and written papers partucularly appealing. The curriculum is the same for all students, with Math and Languague tutorials and a Laboratory class. The centerpiece is Seminar, a two-hour discussion period which meets every Monday and Thursday. The readings for Seminar follow a relatively chronological order, from Homer and Plato in the freshman year through Tolstoy and Faulkner four years later. The focus of my annual essays were Aescylus' *Oresteia*, Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, Racine's *Phedre* and a senior thesis expoloring Man's evolving relationship with divinity--as examined from the aforementioned Aeschylus and Racine works, with the Gospel of John thrown in for good measure. This would not be the first (or, alas, the last) time I would be admonished for, in the vernacular, biting off more than I could chew. Since commencement, I've pursued varied interests. For five years, I worked in the fundraising office of one of America's political parties. Since January 1994, I have worked for a U.S. Congressman. Sideline careers: Disk jockey (for radio, social establishments and private events) and writer (published in several newspapers and magazines of the popular culture sort). As a writer, I strive to ascertain if the promise of a concept can ever truly square with the reality. This usually entails finding hidden similarities and connections between seemingly-unrelated topics. By no means a Shakespeare *expert*, I consider myself more a student who enjoys hearing and sharing views regarding timeless tales. The richest education is derived from being exposed to the personal insights and experiences of others. Favorite Bard works: *Macbeth,* *Hamlet,* *As You Like It,* *The Tempest,* and *King Lear.* Aside from reading and conversing, I notoriously enjoy the *art* of the pun, rarely avoiding an opportunity to express one and even more rarely apologizing for the act. Correspondence of whatever content can be addressed to: Robert A. George (no relation to the Princeton U. professor of a similar name) P.O. Box 2211 Annapolis, MD 21404 or: rgeorge@hr.house.gov =============================================================================== *Gerlier, Valentin Hello, my name is Valentin, I came across this address and I would like to find out more about what you are doing. I am a student in Modern Music, Drama and Writing and I am currently doing research for a thesis I want to write about Shakespeare, and his... if I may call it, philosophy or religiousness (sorry, delicate words). I am studying at an alternative school in England, founded by philosopher J.Krishnamurti, where the students (such as me) are given the opportunity to studyy what they are interested in as well as their relationship to life and others. I am in love with the works of Shakespeare and I would love to communicate with anyone who is passionate about them or who has views about them and the topics previously mentioned. Please put me on your mailing list or whatever it is you're doing (just exactly what is it you are doing ?) ============================================================= *Gerlier, Valentin I studied for five years at the Brockwood Park Krishnamurti Educational Centre in Hampshire England. During that time I worked on end of studies projects in theatre studies, literature and music. Music has now become my main interest and I work as a singer/songwriter, arranger for other bands and artists, writing both in modern and classical styles. I am also a trained actor and after having acted lead parts in many Shakespeare plays, became interested in the many facets of his work. For my end of studies thesis in Literature I wrote a paper called "Shakespeare and Nothing" in which I explored "mystical" facets of his work, such as a possible relationship with alchemists and neoplatonists of the time, or the profound philosophy and understanding of Life which is contained within his work. This paper is available to any member of SHAKSPER upon request. I now live and work in London, working part time at the Royal Albert Hall. In June I finished a promotional CD of my music - I am now looking to record a new one and start touring around the country. I am passionate about Shakespeare's works and would love to learn more about it with the SHAKSPER community. ============================================================= *German, Daniel Institution: University of Akron, Akron, Ohio Status: undergraduate student English Major I am currently enrolled in a class on Shakespeare's mature plays and our teacher, Dr. Forster, is a member of this list and suggested it, as pertinent and insightful to the class. =============================================================================== *Germann, Brian Brian Germann, currently faculty adjunct at Augusta Technical Institute, received a Bachelors Degree in English from Augusta College in Spring 1994. For the time-being, he is teaching remedial reading for the Developmental Studies Department of Augusta Tech. Some day in the future he hopes to be in grad. school studying rhetoric, though the focus of what he wants to study changes quite often. Out of necessity he is now interested in ways to teach Shakespeare and is always interested in techniques to help high school students become interested in Shakespeare. He is also enrolled in a post-bacculate program at Augusta College, studying the teaching of literature to high school students. =============================================================================== *Gero, Edward I am interested in joining your list. I am a professional actor and hve been involved in Shakespearean production in Washington, DC for 11 years now. Last week I was awarded the Helen Hayes for my performance of Bollingbrook in Richard II with Richard Thomas. Currently I am in rehearsal for Comedy of Errors that opens next week here in DC. I am new to the Internet and am excited to take advantage to all it has to offer including this service. =============================================================================== *Gerstel, Jena I am a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Toronto and I would like to become involved in the global electronic Shakespeare conference on e-mail. =============================================================================== *Gertsch, Christian Dr.phil. Institut f=FCr englische Sprachen und Literaturen Universit=E4t Bern L=E4ngasssr. 49 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland Tel 0041.31.631 82 45 Publication: Shakespeare, William, All's Well That Ends Well - Ende gut, alles gut. =DCbersetzung, Einleitung und Kommentar von Christian A.Gertsch. (=3D Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe der Dramen Shakespeares, Francke Verlag, T=FCbingen 1988). Current interests: 16th and 17th century love poetry; Teaching Shakespeare; Major project: metaphor, power and gender in 16th and 17th century love poetry; =============================================================================== *Gerull, Alexandra Current Interests in Shakespeare: Post World War II productions in Germany, translation, relation of theatrical space to the actor's body/acting style( possibly the subject of my M.A. thesis), Shakespeare's language and voice training Productions: Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost (directing) ============================================================= *Getto, Wolf Since the beginning of the last academic year I have continued to work in the field of electronic communications but on a part-time basis. For the remainder of the time, I have commenced studies towards a BA at Flinders University. Last year I studied sociology and english, and this year I am studying philosophy with english topics on Shakespeare and Mediaeval english. I am thirty years of age, have two children (ten month old twins) and live in a quiet leafy suburb on the southern edge of Adelaide. I am by no means a scholar of Shakespeare and find myself somewhat daunted by the company that I shall find myself in. Nonetheless, I love Elizabethan literature and can't seem to stop reading Shakespeare over and over again (in fact, there'll be no avoiding it this year). I look forward to joining the dicussion group and doing my studies a service. Here are some more particulars: name: Wolf GETTO title: BA student / engineer department: School of Humanities / Communications Division institution: Flinders University of South Australia / Defence Science & Technology Organisation professional memberships: IEEE, ACM current interests: the philosophy of language, ideology, the interpretation of texts surface mail address: 18 Mason Ave. Happy Valley 5159 SA Australia degrees: BEng, University of South Australia, 1983 telephone: +61 8 259 7020 (work) +61 8 381 4685 (home) ============================================================================== *Ghezzi, Mario Mario Ghezzi: I have been an English teacher since 1979 and have taught senior students (16-18 year olds) in Catholic High Schools in all this time. Currently I am head of department(English Co-ordinator) at St. Columba's High School, a co-educational Catholic high school in Springwood a suburb of Sydney, Australia. I am keenly interested in all aspects of Shakespeare study. I have recently (last two years) produced and directed successful school productions of MACBETH and HAMLET. The study of Shakespeare is a compulsory element of the English courses I teach to seniors. I am also interested in films of the plays, live productions as well as the developments with the reconstruction of The Globe Theatre in London. (Would love to go and see it!) The plays I am teaching in my course at the moment are HAMLET as tragedy and TWELFTH NIGHT and THE TEMPEST as two plays studied in a unit called "Further study of Shakespearean Comedy." =============================================================================== *Ghormley, Bess I am an undergraduate (Sophomore) at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, Illinois. I am double-majoring in literature and history, and am especially interested in the Medieval and Rennaisance literary/historical period. I do not plan to contribute much to this group, but would be very interested in evesdropping on an informed discussion on Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Ghormley, Keith My interest in the Shakespeare list is as an enthusiastic amateur and sometime actor at the community theatre level. Recent production: Taming of the Shrew set in 1957 Padua (the most successful run for a non-musical at our playhouse in two seasons.) I also have a work of fiction under way which supposes that a recently discovered Italian ms "The Tragic History of King Saul" c. 1610 betrays the unknown playwright's familiarity with the work of his contemporary Shakespeare. Which will take some doing ... =============================================================================== Pyle, Wayne I recently graduated from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program (P.T.T.P.) with an MFA in Acting. The focus of my education was the performance of the great classic plays with particular emphasis on Shakespeare. My most recent Shakespearean role was that of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in _King Richard the III_. I would like to play him in the Henry's next. Last summer I performed at the Utah Shakespearean Festival as Firk in Thomas Dekker's _The Shoemaker's Holiday_ and as Baptistin in Feydeau' s _A Flea in Her Ear_. The summer before that I played Quince, Dr. Caius and Lavatch in _Midsummer_, _Merry Wives_ and _All's Well_ at the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival. Other roles have included, Touchstone, Oliver Martext and Adam in _As You Like It_, and Nym and MacMorris in _Henry V_. I recently returned from Germany where I was playing Eilif in _Mother Courage and Her Children_ for the International Classical Theatre. We played the show in an abandoned U.S. nuclear missile base, in English for German audiences. It went very well and the missile bunkers, concertina wire and machine gun turrets added a depth to the show that I couldn't believe. =============================================================================== *Gibbons, Thomas I am a Presbyterian minister who, while serving churches in Pennsylvania and Texas for 20 years, has never lost my undergraduate interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. I was educated in the public schools of Tulsa, Oklahoma and received my under- graduate degree from Grinnell College (in Iowa) where I majored in English with a concentration in the Shakespearian corpus. From college, I went to seminary at Princeton Theological Seminary in the New Jersey town of the same name and graduated with a master of divinity (M.Div.) with a major concentration in systematic theology and New Testament. I have nine credit hours in graduate history which I obtained at University of Houston (and filled every spare hour of time during a pastorate in that city). My publications have been in journals of popular theology and house organs of my denomination and therefore offer little in common with academic discourse. However, I do bring a lively interest in the subject and will certainly be a good "listener" if not a prolux contributor to this list. =============================================================================== *Gibson, Lee I write to subscribe to SHAKSPER. I am currently a faculty member in the English Dept. at SMU in Dallas and a member of the SAA. My first SAA conference was 1993 in Atlanta; I have attended all since then. I began to attend while a graduate student at SMU and worked w/Nancy Hodge on the conference staff. This past conference (LA) was the first at which I participated in a seminar (Shakespeare & Rhetoric) organized by Russ McDonald. This tells you in what direction my general interest lies. I am currently at work on a rather large-scale study of strategies of simile and comparison in the Sonnets. To my knowledge, no such large scale examination on this aspect of the Sonnets exists. This is a long-term sort of project; however, as I have now finished my degree (and got a job, too) I hope to be able to carry it through. More generally, I am interested in the whole range of Renaissance poetics and rhetoric. Access to the SHAKSPER list will be of great aid to me in my pursuit of these, as well as more specifically Shakesperean, interests. =============================================================================== *Gieskes, Edward Name: Edward Gieskes Institution: Boston University Rank: Doctoral Candidate/Dept. of English Degrees: BA UC Berkeley 1990 (English and History) MA Boston University (English) 1991 Publications/Conferences: "The Logic of Form in Adorno's Aesthetic Thought: Towards a Critical Theory of Art" presented at the Sixth Annual Conference in Graduate Research in Marxism SUNY Buffalo 1991. Paper subsequently published in _Research and Society_4(1991) "'No End is Limited to Damned Souls': _Dr. Faustus_ and the Dialectic of Enlightenment" presented at the Marlowe Society's International Conference, Cambridge (UK) 1993 "Honesty and Vulgar Praise: Poetaster, Satiromastix, and the Literary Market" presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America's 1994 meeting in Albuquerque. Memberships: Shakespeare Association of America, Modern Language Association, Marlowe Society of America Research Interests: My current interests include the development of "literature" as a profession in early modern England, the English history play, law, and sociological theory. Address: Edward Gieskes 236 Bay State Road Boston MA 02215 617/353-2506 egieskes@acs.bu.edu =============================================================================== *Gift, Jonathan I was born in the U.S., but moved with my parents to Paris, France, at the age of five. I then went to British Boarding school at thirteen (which is where I developed a fondness for Shakespeare-especially "Coriolanus"). I've since returned to the U.S., settling down to a career in the film business with two feature film credits to date. =============================================================================== *Gilboy, Tom My name is Tom Gilboy. No title, department, institution. I'm a writer living in Louisville, Colorado, working on a second novel. I've published two children's books, which I wrote and illustrated, and I make a living as a graphic designer for a big company. I had my head turned toward Shakespeare while reading Northrop Frye -- almost everything by Northrop Frye. My wife and I go out of our way to attend nearly every performance of Shakespeare we can find. Likely it will be some time before I have anything to contribute to the list, if ever, but my interest is keen and I'll be careful not intrude on threads of discussion. =============================================================================== *Gillespie, Patrick Patrick Gillespie: I am not a scholar. I have always wanted to write. For a time I also studied composition. My first love, however, is poetry and to that end I have been an avid and relentless student of Shakespeare. According to my own interest in language and style, I have explored Shakespeare's. I have read and re-read the works of Armstrong "Shakespeare's Imagination", Spurgeon, Houston "Shakespearean Sentences", Wright "Shakespeare's Metrical Art", Sister Miriam Joseph "Shakespeare & the Arts of Language", Abbott "Shakespearian Grammar", Vickers "Shakespeare's Prose", "Shakespeare's Word Play", Tuve and so forth. My effort, in short, has been to improve my own understanding of language and style by thoroughly studying Shakespeare, his rivals, and his time. I am also a writer of fiction for adults and children. For children, I write original fables and fairy tales. To that end I am pursuing a Masters in Children's Literature at Simmons College, Boston. *From my own poetry: "The Middle Hour"* "...In love alone imagination lives And loves and may percieve the world. Then it Can inch the various wing of nature. Outfly A leap of the universe; it can child The infinite in a sprinkling of seconds - So much the wonder of imagination..." =============================================================================== *Gillett, Jason Jason Gillett: I am an Undergrad at Washington State University (Vancouver Campus) and am currently employed in completeing an assingment for American Lit. The assingment required that I browse the Internet and while I was doings so I ran across some information on your SHAKESPER E conference. I am an English Major with a healthy appitite for canon and Shakespeare is one of my favorite dishes (or some of my favorite ammo- sometimes I just have to mix a metaphor). I know very little about wandering about in this machine, but I would like to explore your site. Please let me know how I can begin talking with other enthuastic Shakespeare fans. I am afraid I tend to bother my own professors- so please send more fast! =============================================================================== *Gillett, Jason My name is Jason Gillett and I am an Undergraduate Student at Washington State University. I attended the branch campus of WSU in Vancouver, Washington until I was able to finish my degree requirements via correspondence. I was a member of this listserve at my alternative WSU Email address (gillett@vancouver.wsu.edu) but I am now at jgillett@gvtc.com. I have relocated to the Texas Hill Country in the Canyon Lake area. I am by profession a simple Heating and Air Conditioning Service Tech. who is currently actively seeking employment. I hope to one day become a teacher but money will keep me otherwise employed I am sure. I have in the past enjoyed eavesdropping on the conversation and hope to begin again soon. ============================================================= *Gillies, John D. NAME: Dr. John Douglas Gillies NATIONALITY: Australian CURRENT POSITION Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Drama, School of Arts and Media, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083. Phone:- 03.479-2398 (or 2342). Fax:- 03.479-3037 INTERESTS * Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre * Renaissance historical and cultural poetics * Performance making and performance criticism (especially Shakespeare) * Shakespeare in "foreign" performance idioms * Creation and electronic publication of multimedia documents devoted to performance analysis (performance citations to be represented by video extract) ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS * B.A. Hons 1, (English) University of New England, NSW, 1968. * M.A. Hons, by thesis (subject: George Eliot) University of New England, 1972. * M.Phil. by coursework ("Shakespeare and the Drama to 1640"), University of Oxford, 1978. * Winner of the Charles Oldham annual Shakespeare prize, University of Oxford, 1977. * Ph.D. Thesis: "Shakespeare and the geography of difference", The Australian National University, 1993. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE * Sometime lecturer at The Shakespeare Institute of The University of Birmingham (UK), at Macquarie University Sydney, Australia, and at The Australian National University, Canberra. * Reader of numerous conference papers at these and other institutions, both British and Australian. * Director and dramaturg of various university productions of Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama. * Dramaturg for the Bell Shakespeare Company's "The Merchant of Venice" (1992). * Past member of the Drama Accreditation Panel of the ACT Schools Authority. * Current member of the governing committee of the Australasian Shakespeare Association. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS * Shakespeare And The Geography of Difference, Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture, 4, (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1994) 255pages, 20 Plates, 150,000 words, hardback & softcover. * "The Problem of Style in Cymbeline," Southern Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, November, 1982. * "After the Shakespeare Revolution," Southern Review, Vol. 7, No 1, March, 1984. * "Shakespeare's Virginian Masque," English Literary History, Winter, 1986. FORTHCOMING * (1994) "Elizabethan Theatre and the Geographic Muse", in A.M. Gibbs, ed., Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts, (Australian Academy of the Humanities: Canberra, 1994). * (1995) '"Extensive View": Framing the sixteenth century world picture', in Paul Duro, ed., The Rhetoric of the Frame (Cambridge University Press). =============================================================================== *Gilmore, Christine Christine Gilmore, MFA, MA, PhC Sixth Year University of Washington English Department GN-30 Seattle WA 98195 Home Address: PO Box 19683 Seattle WA 98109-6683 Phone: 206/283-2408 I am currently working on my dissertation (on sovereignty and tyranny in the Renaissance), which I expect to finish August 1995. My areas of interest are Renaissance and Medieval Literature, while particular areas of interest include issues of subjectivity in the writers of the Renaissance and subjectivity's more foundational relationship to tyranny and sovereignty from the reign of Elizabeth to the articulation of the citizen subject in the writing of Milton. Particular writers I focus on are Sir Philip Sidney, Lady Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanier, the Venetian courtesan poet Veronica Franco, Milton, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Lyly. In addition, my work has led me to investigate the presence of the sublime in the period. As well, my work in Medieval Literature has focussed on paraphrases of Genesis 1-4 and the philosophical and the sociopolitical (that is, theological or religious) implications of the creation story. =============================================================================== *Gilmore, Matthew B. or Librarian Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King Public Library, District of Columbia Public Libraries Bio: Librarian, historian manque of 16th/17th C England, bibliographer, information scientist Editor, Newsletter of the Special Interest Group on Arts and Humanities, American Society for Information Science MLS, UCLA BA, Bethel College ASIS, AHA, OAH, ABH, SLA, ACH ========================================================= *Gincel, Heidi My name is Heidi Gincel and I am a Senior English major at Trenton State College in Trenton, New Jersey. I have been interested in Shakespeare's work for many years and I am always on the lookout for others who can help me learn more and share information and insights on his work. I have recently been introduced to the Internet and I was thrilled to learn of the SHAKSPER discussion group. I can give no stronger argument for my acceptance than the fact that I am eager to learn as much as possible from other Shakespeare lovers. I hope, if included in the group, to gain some insight into the popular opinion of "Edmund Ironside," as I have recently been introduced to the play and am eager to get some other people's thoughts on it. =============================================================================== *Gingher, Bob Bob Gingher is editor of a recent short story collection, The Rough Road Home (UNC Press 1993), a former book review editor (Greensboro News & Record), former editorial writer and columnist, and former editor of The Carolina Quarterly. He is recent recipient of an NEH summer seminar grant (1994) for work in the Ezra Pound archives in Dorf Tirol, Italy. His essays and reviews have apeared in the DHLR, The Greensboro Review, Leader, Modern Fiction Studies, Thoth, and The World & I. He is a former director of the Liberal Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he teaches in the English department. =============================================================================== *Ginsborg, Michael Michael Ginsborg Librarian - no academic afiliation I am interested in this forum less as a participant than as an observer. I am hoping that an informed discussion will enrich my understanding of Shakespeare's plays. One theme that engages me is this: how do our moral values conflict with other values when we judge the motives of characters in Shakespeare's tragedies, and is this tension resolved in the comedies? =============================================================================== *Gladis, Chris I am a freshman at Siena College and have always had an interest in Shakespeare, having read his works in various high school English classes, including Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello. I have yet to actually PEto do so eventually. I have seen movie adaptations of King Lear and Hamlet, and I'm pretty good with Shakespeare quotes in general. I came across the good fortune to find a hardcover anthology of all of Shakespeare's works, indexed and well put together. This is now one of the few books that I have kept at school, considering my workload. All in all, I consider myself a fan of Shakespeare's works and am always trying to gain more insight into them, be it through reading, performing, or watching. =============================================================================== *Glaser, Bill Bill Glaser: I discovered Shakespeare at the age of twenty while working as a bank clerk. My passion motivated me to go to college in order to maximize my understanding of Shakespeare with a further view to being able to communicate my passion to others as a teacher. From 1965 to 1970 I taught ninth grade English with a one-month unit devoted to Shakespeare. It was my specialty. Unfortunately, I was not as successful teaching the several other topics required by the curriculum. In 1968 I directed a ninth grade production of my adaptation of "Twelfth Night." In 1971-72 I taught a twelfth grade elective course on Shakespeare. Since I failed to get the necessary graduate credits, I never earned permanent certification for teaching and had to leave the profession. However, I continued to teach informally to individuals and small groups, and I once produced two evenings of "Scenes from Shakespeare" for a community arts center. In addition, I received payment for teaching a "Hamlet" workshop and for serving as mentor to an individual studying Shakespeare through an off-campus university. I have recently begun to design a site on the World Wide Web. It has a Shakespearean theme. My intent is to emphasize the entertainment aspect, and much of the material will be directed toward people who have not yet discovered the "fun" of Shakespeare. To be honest, my interest in Shakespeare is not that of a scholar. I would rather classify myself as a modern groundling. Specifically, my focus has always been the plays and what happens on stage. =============================================================================== *Glassco, David David Glassco Associate Professor Dept of Eng Lit Trent University Peterborough, Ontario I have taught English Literature at Trent for the past twenty five years. I have written on the literature of the Great War, on L and Ford Madox Ford, and film and literature, and I have taught Shakespear for a nummber of those years I am currently trying to persuade some beni--any--benighted publisher to publish a decent edition of Ford's wonderful "Parade's End". =============================================================================== *Glover, Kerry I've been "into" Shakespeare since I was thirteen and read R&J...and discovered that I understood it pretty well due to having been given a King James bible at an early age. I've worked at the Renaissance Faire, been a subscriber to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, done some Shakespeare in community theatre and seen plays in such places as the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon, NY's Central Park and, yep, Winnipeg. =============================================================================== *Godridge, Ann I am a mature undergraduate student on the UK Open University Shakespeare course, one credit away from (finally) achieving my honours degree. I first studied Shakespeare at Liverpool University in 1978. So I am looking forward to discovering more about new approaches, particularly in the areas of Gender Studies and Performance. =============================================================================== *Godshalk, William Leigh GODSHALK, William Leigh (Professor). Department of English, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069. Phones: 513-281-5927 and 556-0155. Born July 12/13, 1937, in Pen Argyl, PA. I grew up in Bangor, PA, and got my BA at Ursinus College (1959), my MA (1960 espeare and Sidney, Herschel was in Europe, and he handed me over to Douglas Bush and Alfred Harbage -- a most unlikely pair. Jake Mills, Elihu Pearlman, and David Evett, among others, were my fellow students. Eleanor Nichols, the curator of the Widener R James Branch Cabell's "Beyond Life," and collected my Cabell essays into a little book, "In Quest of Cabell" (1975). I've also written on 20th century novelists, e.g., Kurt Vonnegut, Walker Percy, Lawrence Durrell, John Barth, Alfred Bester. I've also do are certainly had a hand in; I'm reading George Lakoff on metaphor, categories, and Idealized Cognitive Models -- all of which fits into Norman Holland's work; and Don Foster has got me interested in SHAXICON. =============================================================================== *Goeglein, Tamara I teach courses on Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, including a Shakespeare course, at F & M. I've published on _The Faerie Queene_, _The Owl and the Nightingale_, on Peter Ramus' language theory, and on early modern English publishers. I'm currently working on a project that examines the print culture of early modern England. ============================================================= *Golby, Elly My name is Elly Golby and I am a 4th year english student at Trent University in Peterborough. Prof. Glassco asked our class to write you and let you know a little about ourselves. I'm taking my final four english credits this year: Shakespeare, Milton, American Lit.-Faulkner and Toni Morrison and a cultural studies course-History of Theatre. I am interested in learning about the Shakespeare network. I think it will prove to be both fun and helpful for essays. =============================================================================== *Goldberg, Jacob I am 84 years old, and for most of that 84 years have been, in the literal sense of the word, an amateur of Shakespeare. My professional life has been in another world; I am a C.P.A. (I must say that when Hamlet expresses his misgivings about "how his audit stands, only Heaven knows", I acknowledge my professional colleague). Although I have no academic credentials (I have taught, part-time, at Roosevelt University and at Northeastern Illinois University, both in Chicago, but that was in Accounting), I would very much like to join your "exciting international community". =============================================================================== *Golden, Bruce Bruce Golden I've been teaching Shakespeare for 30 years, but I've written only a couple of articles. These compare Shakespeare to Calderon, while another is on Lope de Vega. Each examines certain plays from the perspective of the Renaissance concept of honor, utilizing historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical contexts. At present I'm working on _Othello_, especially contrasting characterological traits among Cassio, Iago and Othello. Focusing on honor draws me, naturally, to problems and issues in characterization; here rhetoric and style in dialogue has begun to interest me deeply. I'm examining dialogue using what I've learned from speech-act theory, philosophy of language, pragmatics, and rhetoric. While not being very interested in performance issues, I do like examining some Shakespearean cinema, Orson Welles, especially. =============================================================================== *Goldman, Mark I am not a Shakespeare scholar, simply a fan. I graduated from Haverford College with a History degree in 1986. Aside from college English courses, my study of Shakespeare is currently limited to seeing the plays. However, whenever I happen to find an article about either a play or a particular production of a play, the "bug" bites me, and I feel the urge to drop my current career (in feature film editing) and devote my years to Shakespeare study. This probably won't happen soon. But I'm hoping to use those who spend their lives re-reading the plays to stretch my mind and send me back to the plays. =============================================================================== *Goldmane, Ilona My name is Ms Ilona Goldmane. Last year I graduated from the University of Latvia with Master's Degree in English Philology. The title of my paper is "The Image of God Pan in XX Century Literature". Currently I am teaching the English language and British literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at same university (the University of Latvia), as well I am working on my Doctor`s paper entitled "Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedies in Modern Literature". Unfortunately, I am lack of information on the modern authors who used Shakespeare's plots or motifs in their works, and I will appreciate your kind assistance in this matter. I am a 28 year old inquisitive, ambitious and hard-working person, who is really dreaming of making some investment in this exciting world called "The World of William Shakespeare". ============================================================= *Goldsmith, Jason In 1991 I received my B.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. I speant the 1989/1990 term studying at the University of London. In 1993 I enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Theatre History & Criticism at the Graduate School and University Centre of The City University of New York's (CUNY). I withdrew after one year to continue working. While at CUNY, I contributed to critical reviews to Peter Brook Case Study which as I understand it is awaiting publication. I have just recently reapplied to graduate programs in English Literature, and received my first acceptance on Feb 03rd. I will be returning to school full time in Sep. 1997. Current research has included a comparison of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and William Congreve's The Way of The World. I hope to further develop this idea and its relation to the reception of the novel as an acceptable genre of literary expression. I have also just completed a line by line textual comparison of the Second Quarto and the First Folio editions of Hamlet. Results have been catalouged and amount to some 22 pages of differences between the two texts. This is in MS word format and I can email or fax it to anyone who wishes to view it. Living in New York City affords me the opportunity to attend a large number of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays in performance. Most recently I have seen Mark Rylance as Proteus in The New Globe Company's Two Gentlemen of Verona (I remember him in Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Company some seven or eight years ago now). =============================================================================== *Goldstein, Dana Leslie I am currently an On Campus Scholar in the Theatre Arts department at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, where I recently completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting. I also hold a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Virginia. Although I don't consider myself to be a scholar, I have achieved some level of recognition as a writer. While in residence at Brandeis, I was the recipient of a two-year academic scholarship, and several of my plays received full productions. Untruths, a psychological comedy about a young man's perspective on women and intimacy, was produced in the Spingold Theatre in the fall of 1991. Strangers on a Plane, which addresses an Orthodox Jewish woman's struggle to incorporate a rigid faith into a secular lifestyle, was staged in the Merrick Theatre in April of 1992 and in the Spingold the following October. Miles and Miles, a dark but comic look at a relationship in decline, was produced in the Laurie Theatre in May of 1992. Courting, an intellectual farce about two depressed and bumbling academics who eventually reject the worship of angst in favor of actually living their lives, has been selected for production at The Different Voices Theatre in Atlanta, GA this coming year. It has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1992 Different Voices New Play Award, 2nd prize in the Delauney New Playwrights Competition, a 1993 American College Theatre Festival Award, the 1993 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Playwriting and finalist status in the Wichita State University National Playwriting Competition. Courting also received a very successful staged reading at The Nora Theatre in Cambridge, MA, last summer. One of my current projects, Lab Rat, which is in its third draft, explores the inherent tension between scientific technology and spirituality. Work on this play has been supported by a grant from the Sachar Foundation at Brandeis. Although I consider myself to be primarily a playwright, I take my work as a poet and a teacher of poetry very seriously. I am also presently at work on the first draft of "Antique Women," a full-length play written entirely in verse. My poetry has appeared in The New England Review, The Apalachee Quarterly and The Virginia Literary Review, among other journals. I have also been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Associated Writing Programs' 1991 Intro Award for Poetry, the 1991 Academy of American Poets Student Prize and a 1989 Henry Hoyns Fellowship in poetry from the University of Virginia. My surface mail address is 94 School Street, Waltham, MA, 02154. =============================================================================== *Goldstein, Lisa I have to admit that I am not an academic, just an amateur who likes Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and has read a great deal in this subject. In addition, I have written a historical novel, _Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon_, published by St. Martin's/Tor in 1993. The title is from Thomas Nashe. =============================================================================== *Goldstein, Philip I am not a Shakespearean, but I teach some of the plays in various courses. Currently I am working on an essay on Hamlet, and it might help me to see what people are saying about various Shakespeare plays. My main area of interest is literary theory. I published THe Politics of Literary Theory with Florida in 1990, and I have also published on Austen, Hardy, and, of course, Hamlet. =============================================================================== *Golman, Walter Despite the earnest efforts of some of my early teachers to wipe out any chance that their students would learn to appreciate Shakespeare, I attended performances of several of the plays when I was quite young and acquired a love for the plays that continues to this day. I have studied the plays and sonnets under some fine teachers at the City College of New York and the University of Maryland, have participated in at least one national conference on the subject, and attend as many performances of Shakespeare's plays as I can, both here in Maryland and out of state. I am a long-time subscriber to the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, dip into the Shakespeare Quarterly from time to time, and have read a number of books that center on Shakespeare's work, ranging from Maurice Schwartz's Jessica, My Daughter to William Freeman's analysis of cryptographic factors in the continuing debate over the authorship of the plays and sonnets. ============================================================= *Golomb, Liorah Anne Liorah Anne Golomb: I'm ABD at Univ. of Toronto, but I live in my home town of New York City. I am attempting, usually without success, to complete the writing of a doctoral thesis entitled 'Peter Barnes and the Nature of Authority' (A.M. Leggatt, supervisor), which I began work on in the Spring of '92 or thereabouts. I also work full-time in a completely unrelated bread-and-butter job. My MA in Drama (1990) is from Washington University in St. Louis, and I hold a BA in English (1987) from Hofstra University. Barnes is a living English playwright best known, I think, for _The Ruling Class_ (1968). He has strong self-acknowledged ties to Elizabethan/Jacobean drama which often show in the scope of his work, 'casts of thousands,' historical settings, and rich, alliterative, excessive and sometimes creatively vulgar language; however, my focus is on the influence on Barnes's work of Early Modern English mindset, values, theories on hierarchy, authority, and power relationships, etc. Barnes professes to be a Jonson man and have little interest in Shakespeare, but I've found that, in scope and focus, his work far more closely resembles that of Marston, Middleton, Webster, and Shakespeare, the Histories in particular. My research consists of about equal parts of Barnes's work and Barnes criticism; influential Renaissance texts and criticism on them; and EME drama. I expect to be more of a lurker on the list than a contributor to it, as my primary field is post-war British drama. =============================================================================== *Gondris, Joanna Joanna Gondris finished a PhD at Columbia University last spring on eighteenth-century Shakespeare editing. She is now editing a volume of papers that is growing out of a seminar (called "Editing Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century: Territoriality, Anonymity and Erasure") that was part of the last SAA meeting. =============================================================================== *Gonzalez, Maria I am a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in English with a historical concentration, specifically Renaissance Drama, and minoring in Spanish. My involvement at the University includes being a Fellow of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program, an Aetna Scholar, a Member of the Nominations and Elections Committee, a Sister of Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Sen~oritas Latinas Unidas Sorority Inc., a Member of the Asociacion Cultural de Estudiantes Latino Americanos and a Mentor for the Office of Student Transitional Programs' Mentor Program. Being a Latina involved in the community and simultaneously passionate about an area of study such as Renaissance Drama has instilled a desire to connect my culture and modern thought to the social criticism and literary genius of literature in this genre. My career goals are to persue a PhD and teach at the collegiate level and with this, contribute both critically and creatively to the layers of analysis, cultural critique, moral codes, philosophies and historical references that surround Renaissance Drama. As an educator, I hope to reinvigorate undergraduates in their study of literature and assist in the elimination of the feeling of hopelessness among them. On the academic level, I hope to incorporate culture and heritage into interpretations of literature, forcing my students and colleagues to look at literature through eyes other than their own. Currently, I am familiarizing myself with the more popular plays of the Spanish Golden Age to provide background for my study comparing the roles of sexuality and gender in certain Spanish plays with that of Shakespearian plays. This independent study will be supervised by a professor in the Romance Languages Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This study will be an introduction to more elaborate projects I hope to undertake which may analyze the similarities and differences in theme, content, morality, or language within these works. =============================================================================== *Goode, Jeff JEFF GOODE (director / playwright / fight choreographer) is currently the Festival Playwright for the Renaissance Festival of Kansas City, Resident Playwright with Pantechnicon Artworks (Chicago), Resident Director/Playwright with Kaleidoscope Children's Theatre (Chicago) and Playwright/Instructor for the Summer Festival of the Arts (Mount Desert, Maine). He is also a co-founder (est.1986) of No Shame Theatre (Iowa City, et.al.) and a founding company member (est.1990) and playwright-in-residence (1990-1994) of The Unusual Cabaret (Bar Harbor, Maine). William Shakespeare may have been the greatest playwright of all time, but his plays were probably MOST effective when they were performed during his day by his actors on his stage for his audience. And we should consider that before we try to perform one of the plays in our day on our stage for our audience. Shakespeare was not a filmmaker, nor he did he have any knowledge of standard American realism, or the well-made play. And it is absurd to pretend that he did. I am not an advocate of creating museum pieces (except for research and other purposes appropriate to a museum), but you will probably make a much better film, when you understand how a script worked on a stage. (Much of my thesis dealt with discovering modern parallels for Elizabethan/Jacobean stage conventions.) The moral of the story: If you want to perform a French play, you probably have to understand French. And if you want to perform it in America, you probably have to translate it into American. =============================================================================== *Goodling, Erik My name is Erik Goodling. I am currently a student in the Upper Valley Teacher Training Program, an alternative teacher certification program based in Lebanon, NH, working on becoming a secondary English teacher. I am also currently completing a practicum at Hanover High School in Hanover, NH, teaching 9th through 12th grades. I hold a B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from Bennington College; my thesis dealt with the ethics and craft of L.N. Tolstoy, specifically his latter short works. I have a great personal love for Shakespeare, and, in my teaching, I need to cover several of his plays. For these and other reasons, I would be interested in "listening" to as many conversations as possible and asking questions whenever possible and relevant. I am particularly fascinated with his use of language, and approaches to the plays that make learning them, for students, as interesting as possible. ============================================================= *Goodman, Anna Joell A recent cum laude graduate of Centre College with a B.A. in Theatre and History, I plan to pursue graduate work in the area of text to performance Shakespeare. My most recent article on the subject, "The Play's the Thing", was researched during a semester in London. Published in the 1994 John C. Young Scholars' Journal, the article looks through a semiotician's glass at Shakespeare on the stage. The translation of any piece of dramatic literature into a performance state is difficult enough; however, when working with a piece that is already nearly four hundred years old and has been performed an innumerable times, making it seem "fresh" while striking a balance with the playwright's intent is a daunting task, indeed. I am personally fascinated by the different scenarios that emerge in such situations--ranging from extreme "designer's theatre" to near-stagnation. I hope to pursue this study in my graduate work. I am currently taking a year off from school, although not from study. I am researching various areas for my graduate work, and I feel that subscribing to SHAKSPER will help me to filter my ideas. I appreciate your time. =============================================================================== *Goodman, Randi My name is Randi Goodman and I am an actress, currently living in New York City. I have studied classical theatre at New York University, of which I am an alum, as well as at Stella Adler Conservatory and Michael Howard Studios. My interest in your mailing list is an effort to further supplement my knowledge of Shakespeare's work. I wish to become more intimate with his plays, to correspond with others about their ideas, and to think about alternative interpretations of his folio. I believe all of these purposes will be most helpful in approaching my next production of a Shakespeare text. ============================================================= *Goodrich, Jean N I am a first-year graduate student at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Literature Masters Program. My undergraduate institution was Bryn Mawr, class of '88. My interest is in Renaissance Literature, though my undergraduate literature courses concentrated on the classics as well as Renaissance. I'm also interested in Medieval texts, as the foundation for the English Renaissance, and in critical theory. =============================================================================== *Goodwin, Nancy Nancy Goodwin 2200 Custer Avenue, Clinton, OK, 73601 teacher, Clinton High School; adjunct faculty, Oklahoma City Community College; curriculum editor, Shakespeare Set Free (the Folger Shakespeare Library series on teaching Shakespeare); faculty teacher, Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute I am based in Clinton, a town of 10,000 in the short grass country of Western Oklahoma. Picture me sitting at my computer looking out to red dirt, wheat fields, horses and cattle, and wild geese on a farm pond. Currently I am interested in helping my high school go into the business of internet providership. The nearest provider is 80 miles away, so this e-mail, as well as all internet communication in Clinton, is at the expense of a long distance phone call. I oversee a service learning class of 9 young men who have just won a large grant from Southwestern Bell to start up an internet operation at a local number. I am also interested in researching the production history of four plays we will study in the 1996 Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute: AYLI, R2, Macbeth, and Tempest. With Peggy O'Brien, I co-authored the teachers guide to the Sunburst CD-rom program "Center Stage Romeo and Juliet." You can read about my teaching methods in Russ McDonald's article in the recent education issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, and you can read my essays in volumes two and three of Shakespeare Set Free. =============================================================================== *Googoo, Katani My name is Ms. Katani Marie Googoo, from the Eskasoni First Nation in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I'm a first year B.Ed.Student at St.Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., majoring in Secondary English. I have an honors B.A. in English from the University College of Cape Breton in Sydney, N.S. I've always loved Shakespeare, and recently taught Macbeth in my practicum to a class of grade 12's. I thought it was a challenge getting them interested, but I succeeded. My future plans include getting an M.A. in English and eventually teaching English in University. I'm also interested in Arthurian literature, which I did my senior thesis on last year, and am also interested in Native American Literature. I'm also in the early stages of a novel (fiction) which I've outlined. I hope to publish poetry and short stories in the St.F.X. University newspaper. I love writing! I'm 32 years old, and a Mi'kmaq Native. My mother is a designer of curriculum in the Mi'kmaq language in Eskasoni, and I will be working with her in my April practicum for three weeks. =============================================================================== *Gordon, Andy I am a research student working in the early modern period and teaching Shakepseare at Queen Mary and Westfield College. =============================================================================== *Gordon, Catherine Catherine Gordon: BA (English & History),Victoria University of Wellington; MA (English 1st Class Hons), Victoria University of Wellington; MA (History of European Art), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Position: Deputy Witt Librarian & Project Director Witt Computer Index, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Publications: various articles & exhibition catalogues on paintings based on literary themes, including Sir Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne and Boccaccio. Also various articles on computer indexing, subject classification of works of art, and patterns of user query in visual archives. Doctoral thesis published Garland Press 1988 `British Paintings of Subjects from the English Novel 1740-1870'. Specific Shakespeare Interest: Illustration. My department is a partner in an EU Libraries Programme project called VAN EYCK (Visual Art Network for the Exchange of Cultural Knowledge) and part of our responsibility is to build a text and image database of Shakespearean paintings, drawings, etc.The Witt Computer Index is a growing database (currently approx 100,000 records) of information about the holdings of the Witt Library- an archive of photographs of works of Western art. The database can be queried for example by artist, date, ownership, exhibition or sale history and particularly by subject matter, both traditional iconography as well as natural objects, identified landscapes, sitters, racehorses, ships, literary scenes and characters, etc. =============================================================================== *Gordon, Christine Mack Christine Mack Gordon Assistant to the Director, Program in Creative Writing; Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Studies; and Instructor Department of English University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall 207 Church Street SE Minneapolis MN 55455-0134 (612) 625-6366 gordo003@maroon.tc.umn.edu I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota (B.E.S. 1975, MA 1978, candidate in philosophy 1979), where my primary interests at the graduate level were 19th and 20th century fiction, especially by women. But I have been passionate about Shakespeare since our first encounter when I was a sophomore in high school, and I remain happily eclectic in my position in our department, where I teach one course or so annually (usually on Shakespeare) along with my advising and administrative duties. Among other informal activities, I coordinate our Renaissance subfield, which meets bi-weekly to discuss topics of mutual interest. While my graduate training incorporated contemporary critical developments (especially a feminist critical perspective), I have found most recent theoretical work less than engaging. I did present one paper during my graduate studies, at a Midwest Modern Language Association meeting in Minneapolis: it was on the ostensibly happy endings of several Shakespearean comedies, especially Twelfth Night. My only academic publication is as co-editor (with Robin Riley Fast) of the MLA publication, Approaches to Teaching DickinsonUs Poetry. I have published a great many book reviews and occasional essays locally. My most recent work has been along different lines: I have begun a sequence of stories that are spun off from Shakespearean characters. Although this is an idea I first had as a senior in high school in 1965, it has borne fruit only this fall in the first story, RBrave Punishments.S I am delighted to live in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, which have an extremely active theater community in which I have seen some wonderful productions of ShakespeareUs plays. I am very interested in the plays as plays, and when I teach I try to encourage students to see any local productions and to take advantage of the ever-expanding world of videotape versions of the plays. Both the University and the local library systems have a strong collection of plays on tape. My most recent enthusiasms related to Shakespeare are the film version of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenneth Branagh (my family and I were lucky enough to see BranaghUs Renaissance Theatre Company in Chicago in 1990; they performed A Midsummer NightUs Dream and King Lear), Gus Van SantUs film My Own Private Idaho, and Stephanie CowellUs wonderful Elizabethan novel, Nicholas Cooke. =============================================================================== *Gorfain, Phyllis I teach Shakespeare courses here at Oberlin, including a feminist criticism of Shakespeare course; I am also a folklorist and publish and teach in that area. I belong to the SAA, MLA, AFS (American folklore society), and TASP (the assn for the study of play). I am fairly active in SAA, and have participated in at least 8 seminars over the years, having chaired two. Another Shakespeare connection is my participation in Murph Swander's A.C.T.E.R. as a research associate. I have reviewed Shax MSS. for SQ and for UNC press; and I also do a lot of such reviewing for the Journal of American Folklore and presses interested in folklore publications (my specialties there center on folklore and literature; folk drama; riddling; play and games). You'll see the carryover in the other direction, back to Shakespeare studies where my major interests are: performance, teaching, feminist criticism, ritual, play, and textual issues as related to performance. Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 6/73 M.A. University of California, Berkeley 3/73 B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Butler University 6/65 Indianapolis, Indiana Professional Experience: 1988-present Professor, Department of English, Oberlin College 1985-86 Director, GLCA/ACM Humanities Program at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois 1978-88 Associate Professor, Department of English, Oberlin College 1973-78 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Oberlin College 1971-73 Instructor, Department of English, Oberlin College 1975-76 Study Fellow, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania 1969-70 Folklore field researcher, Mbeere, Kenya 1967-68 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Publications: "Ambiguity and Exchange: The Double Dimension of Mbeere Riddles," with Jack Glazier. Journal of American Folklore, 89 (1976), 189-238. "Puzzle and Artifice: The Riddle as Metapoetry in Pericles." Shakespeare Survey, 29 (1976), 11-20. "Riddles and Reconiliation: Formal Unity in All's Well That Ends Well." Journal of the Folklore Institute, 13 (1976), 263-81. "Contest, Riddle, and Prophecy: Reflexivity through Folklore in King Lear." Southern Folklore Quarterly, 40 (1977), 239-54. "Riddles and Tragic Structure in Macbeth." Mississippi Folklore Register, special issue on folklore and Shakespeare, 1977, 27-40. "Toward a Folkloristic Approach to Literature: Riddles in Shakespearean Drama." Southern Folklore Quarterly, 40 (1977), 143-157. "Sexual Symbols, Origins, and the Ogre in Mbeere, Kenya," with Jack Glazier. Journal of American Folklore 91 (1978), 925-946. "Hamlet and the Tragedy of Ludic Revenge." The World of Play: Proceedings of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, 1981. Ed. Frank Manning. Westport: Leisure Press. 1983. Pp. 111-124. "Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada," with Edward M. Bruner. Text, Play, and Story: The Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Ed., Edward M. Bruner. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association. 1984. Pp. 56-80. "Hamlet and the Play of Knowing: An Excursion into Interpretative Anthropology." The Anthropology of Experience. Eds. Victor Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1986. Pp. 207-238. "Craft against Vice: Riddling as Ritual in Measure for Measure," Assaph: Studies in Theatre, 5 (1989): 91-107. "Toward a Theory of the Carnivalesque and Play in Hamlet," Hamlet Studies 12 (1991): 25-49. "Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada," with Edward M. Bruner. Reprint in Anthropological Poetics, ed. Ivan Brady. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 1991. "Riddling and Ritual Initiation in Measure for Measure." Forthcoming in collection on ritual in Shakespearean drama ed. by Linda Woodbridge and Edward Berry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Publication date expected: Summer 1992. "When Nothing Really Matters: Body Puns in Hamlet," forthcoming in Bodylore, ed. Katharine Young. Co-published by University of Tennessee Prss and Philadelphia: Publications of the American Folklore Society. Publication date Spring 1993. Work in Progress: "Game and Mockery in the Mehendi Party: A Response to Wedding Song: Henna Art Among Pakistani Women in New York City," submitted as part of a co-written article with Katharine Young and Deborah Kapchan for Special Issue on Bodylore, ed. Katharine Young and Barbara Babcock, for the Journal of American Folklore. "Ritual Mourning and Transformation in Much Ado," an essay invited for a collection of essays on the work of A.C.T.E.R., co-edited Lorelle Browning and Homer Swander. =============================================================================== *Gottsleben, Cherrie Cherrie Gottsleben: I am a graduate student in English Literature at Northeastern Illinois University. I will be doing a private study on Shakespeare's historical plays along with his comedies next semester. The Dean (Dr. J. Boni) with whom I would be doing this study, suggested I subscribe to your list. I am extremely enthusiastic about this and would like information on recent criticism and recent bibliographies on criticism with respect to these aforementioned plays. =============================================================================== *Gough, Tanya I did my master's at the University of Toronto, with a specialization in Shakespeare theatre history, and I have been doing a fair bit of proofreading for the Internet Shakespeare Editions (c/o Michael Best at U. Victoria). ============================================================= *Hannigan, Paul Education: BA English, Poltical History, Trinity College, Dublin Majoring in Writing & Cultural Theory. BA (Hons) Communication, University of Technology, Sydney Majoring in Journalism, Film & Performance Theory. Career: 1985-1990 Journalist, 1990-1995 Sub-Editor/Graphic Designer 1995-Present, Editor. Interests: Performance, History of Theatre and Cinema, Literature, Cultural Theory. ============================================================= *Goulem, Antoine My name is Antoine Goulem. I'm a grad student in philosophy at Concordia University in Mtl, Que. My immediate reason for joining is that I'm looking for some commentary on a line from Hamlet, by Hamlet, O god I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space- were it not that I have dreams." Beyond that rather specific question, I have been actively involved in theatrefor years, althoughless actively since I started grad school. I was the assistantdirector on a production of Hamlet a few years ago, and have helped out in many productions over the years. =============================================================================== *Gourlay, Patricia Southard Patricia Southard Gourlay/Professor of English/SUNY at Oneonta,N.Y./36 Monroe Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820. Degrees: AB Wellesley '45/AM Stanford"47 /PH.D Columbia. Haven't written much for publication on Shakespeare lately, last major article way back in Autumn '75 in ELR. Still playing around with Shakespeare ideas, just not sending out anything. Currently writing on entirely different stuff. Still teaching Shakespeare every semester,though. Am currently interested in romances especially . =============================================================================== *Gouws, John John Stephen Gouws, Professor, Department of English, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. BA (Hons), MA (Rhodes), DPhil (Oxon). Editor, _The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). Member MLA, Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Presently engaged in preparing an edition of the poems of Nicholas Oldisworth (1612-1645). Surface mail: Department of English, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Internet address: enjg@hippo.ru.ac.za =============================================================================== *Gowdea, David My name is David C. Gowdey. I am a freelance writer and editor- my books on hockey and sailing, Riding On The Roar Of The Crowd and Before The Wind, were published by Macmillan of Canada in 1990 and 1992. I graduated with a BA in English and Film from University of Western Ontario in 1977 and a Master of Arts from San Francisco State University in 1985. I am currently working on two screenplays here in California. I studied Shakespeare at UWO and have recently become fascinated by the Oxfordian hypothesis, which I find extremely compelling. =============================================================================== *Graber, Audra Graduate Student, Queens College, CUNY Although my field of study is history, I have always had an interest in literature and Shakespeare's work in particular. I am just starting my first year as a graduate student and at present am working as a tutor in writing classes for CESL students. I plan on getting a PhD and eventually teaching on the university level. ========================================================= *Graca, Jean My name is Jean Graca. In 1981, I started my study of "pure English" at State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA). Previous to that, I had studied Biological Technology and Liberal Arts at SUNY at Farmingdale, on Long Island in New York State. I changed curriculums because I chose to lean toward my natural aptitude and academic strength in the humanities. The curriculum I pursued at SUNYA was with a Major in English and a Minor in Education. At the end of my four years, I'd be certified temporarily to be a high-school teacher in New York State. Addenda to above paragraph: I did indeed work as a substitute teacher in various high schools in the Capital District of Upstate New York from 1984 to 1991. I enjoyed teaching and miss it sorely. While I attended SUNYA, I discovered a fascination for Shakespeare's works, for the time in which he lived, and for the monarchy in England at or about that time. Studying the First Elizabeth gave way to studying Henry the Eighth and other Tudors and their ancestors. While in atten- dance for my B.A. at SUNYA, I had both the Honor and the Pleasure of studying Shakespeare survey courses under the tutelage of Professors David Redding and Sandra Fisher. Mr. Redding, in particular, will always remain my most vivid and inspiring teacher of Shakespeare's works. -What a voice! I found myself enthralled by his readings in class: a deep, resonant and NOBLE voice. Of note, I also studied Milton at SUNYA, with Professor Hugh MacLean, a Milton scholar and Distinguished Teaching Professor at Albany. Mr. MacLean is probably best-known as having edited the Norton Anthologies dealing with the Cavalier poets, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, et al. I was encouraged at SUNYA to seek a Master's discipline in Renaissance Studies/Literature. It may happen yet. Presently, I'm employed as a Library Technical Assistant at Schaffer Library on the Union College campus in Schenectady, New York. The Bard still fascinates me, I still re-read him, and presume myself perennial student of his works. I'm hoping that by subscribing to this SHAKSPER Listserve list, I'll be motivated to start scribbling critical essays once again, and that I'll have access to other scholarly works relating to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. ============================================================================== *Grady, Hugh Hugh Grady is currently Associate Professor of English at Beaver College, Glenside, PA 19038. Born in Savannah Ga. in 1947, he received his BA from Fordham University (Bronx NY) in 1969, having studied at the Cours pour Etrangers at the Sorbonne in Paris, France his junior year. He served as a VISTA volunteer and a high school teacher before entering graduate school at the University of Texas, where he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with an English concentration, in 1978. His dissertation, co-directed by Wayne Rebhorn and Robert Hill, was a preliminary theory of lyric poetry based on themes from the Frankfurt School and Raymond Williams, structured around a critical investigation of T. S. Eliot's claims for a shared "unification of sensibility" in English Metaphysical and French Symbolist poetry. After graduate school he shared an odyssey in search of two academic jobs for himself and his wife Susan Wells, teaching part-time and in a business school and working a year as senior assistant editor for Vol. I of the Gale Press anthology SHAKESPEAREAN CRITICISM. Eventually reaching the elusive Nirvana of two tenure -track jobs in one metro area in Philadelphia, Pa., he began teaching at Beaver College in 1987. After early articles in MLQ, Telos, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Advanced Composition, and Assays, he published the book The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World for the Clarendon Press in 1991. Drawing on his editorial experience in Shakespeare criticism, the book attempted to define the underlying social, economic, and aesthetic forms which produced the vast archive of 20th-century critical writings on Shakespeare. Allying itself critically with a then emerging new historicism and cultural materialism, the book argued for much greater theoretical attention to the Frankfurt School idea of the aesthetic-as an enclave in capitalist societies with critical as well as ideological potentials-than had hitherto been accorded it in Shakespeare studies and hence theorized the notion of an aesthetic paradigm as one of the crucial determinants of the twentieth century Shakespeare. The book's last chapter argued that since about 1980 Shakespeare studies had, at least in its most innovative areas, undergone a paradigm shift to Postmodernist rather than Modernist aesthetics. From this starting point Grady's second book, SHAKESPEARE'S UNIVERSAL WOLF: STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN REIFICATION (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), attempted an intervention within the emerging Postmodernist Shakespeare by arguing that both Modernist and Postmodernist aesthetics operated within a broader socio-economic-cultural modernity which can be traced back in some crucial ways to Shakespeare's era. In studies of four central plays (Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It), the book argues that Shakespeare was himself a critic of one of the key features of emerging modernity, the reification-that is, the property of certain social systems to operate autonomously from the human societies which created them-characteristic of mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian politics, and instrumental rationality itself. At present he is at work on a third book with the working title PRINCES DISCOURSE IN SHAKESPEARE, a study of the intersections of subjectivity and Machiavellian power in the Henriad and Hamlet. This work develops the idea, sketched briefly in SHAKESPEARE'S UNIVERSAL WOLF, of a relatively new form of subjectivity emerging in the early modern period dialectically related to the impersonal reifications which were the chief theme of the earlier book, and it attempts to ground these themes more directly in early modern thought, primarily in the overlapping but distinctive discourses of Machiavelli's THE PRINCE and Montaigne's ESSAYS. Chapters have been drafted on Richard II, 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V, and a chapter on Hamlet is in the planning stages. ============================================================= *Graham, Kenneth J.E. Kenneth J.E. Graham is Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University. He has previously taught at Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta, the University of Wyoming, and the University of California at Berkeley, and has degrees from Alberta (B.A.), Berkeley (Ph.D.), and the University of Toronto (M.A.). He is currently a member of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. His publications include "'Without the form of justice': Plainness and the Performance of Love in King Lear" and The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance (Cornell, 1994). Graham's research interests include Shakespeare, rhetoric, character, and the Reformation. He is currently working on the place of discipline in early modern literature and culture, and specifically on its relation to the formation of masculine identity and a masculine poetics. =============================================================================== Garner, Edward and Patricia My wife and I are not professionial scholars, however we have a keen interest in Shakespeare and the theatre. We live in the Washington D.C. area and have been season subscribers to the Shakespeare Theater for more than 11 years. When we started it was located in the Folger Library and more recently relocated to the Landsburgh. Over the years we have introduced our friends to the experience and we now have a devoted group of 24 season ticket holders attending in a group. I plan to share SHAKSPER experience with them also, some are just getting introduced to the Internet (again more of my proslytizing). In addition to "Shakespeare at the Landsburgh" we still attend occasionial productions of "Shakespeare at the Folger". The Folger is a much more intimate environment (a reproduction of an Elizibethean theatre) and of course an added advantage is to wander through the Folger Museum during intermissions. We are also season subscribers to the Washington Opera (the only way you can get to see it) and season subscribers to the Arena Stage. I am a telecomunication consultant and my wife is a docent at two of the Smithsonian Museums (Air and Space and Natural History). We look forward to joining your group. Edward Garner Patricia Garner =============================================================================== *Grainger, Greg This is an application for admission to your Shakespeare listserver. I was first introduced to it by M. J. Miller of Brock University. My first exposure to Shakespeare was a production of 'Julius Caesar' at Stratford, Ontario in the summer of 1963 (I was 12 and extremely unsophisticated). My father was concerned that I not miss the point of the production and get too involved in trivialities; he warned me that the actors in the passion of their performances would occasionally be seen to spit on each other. This was perhaps one of the most important pieces of advice on understanding performance that I have ever recieved, since it allowed me to follow the story (as well as I could at that age and with very little knowlege of the world) and not to get side-tracked into meaningless issues. (There's probably an analogy here having to do with ignoring the 'drivel' and 'drool' but I don't have time to explore it.) I did my first stint as an undergraduate at Brock University from 1972-76 where I graduated with an Honours Degree in Drama. I have worked as a technician in the theatre and film industries ever since, all across Canada, in Australia and on tour in Europe. After a few years of this rewarding but demanding lifestyle I returned to Toronto (for the third or fourth time) and decided to stay. Eventually, I began to realize that the work I was doing did little to enhance (or even acknowlege) whatever mental faculites I might posess. In 1986 I started taking undergraduate courses (part-time) at the University of Toronto. After a few years I thought that perhaps a more demanding set of academic criteria might give greater rewards. I am currently a graduate student at the Drama Center, University of Toronto. Publications: none so far. Dreams: many and various. Current reading material: Karl Marx, George MacDonald Fraser, John le Carre. Favourite radio stations: CBC-FM and CFMX. =============================================================================== *Gramling, Valerie I am a Performance Studies graduate student at Northwestern University. I am greatly interested in Shakespeare, having both studied and performed a number of his plays, and I hope to have the opportunity to direct most of his work throughout my career (thus far I have staged *A Midsummer Night's Dream*). =============================================================================== *Gramm, Jefferson My full name is Jefferson Philip Gramm and I am a freshman at the University of Chicago. While I was born in Texas, I grew up in Washington D.C. I graduated from the Georgetown Day High School in June. That is as much of an autobiography that I can give you: no degrees (as of yet) no teaching posts, and no publications. You are probably wondering how an 18 year old kid could possibly contribute to your list. Frankly, I am not really sure. =============================================================================== *Grant, Alyson Thank-you for sending me a second message of encouragement. Unfortunately, my PC was having personal problems, so I wasn't able to send off my subscription any earlier. Things seem fine now, so here's my subscription by way of a bio: My name is Alyson Grant and I am a graduate student. I belong to the English Department at Concordia University in Montreal, and am currently taking a course in the history plays, but my interests are open to anything, really. I'll keep my list of publications short because there are none to speak of, and as for professional memberships, the last professional group I belonged to was the Girl Guides of Canada. Finally, my last major project was a root canal. So, from this you can probably tell that I will be an active eavesdropper in SHAKSPER. Despite my slim credentials, I am looking forward to hearing the news. =============================================================================== *Grantham, Bill I'm not a professional Shakspearean -- not any more, at least. I was "raised" by distinguished Shakespeareans, though: as an undergraduate at Liverpool University in the 1970s, by Kenneth Muir and Philip Edwards, and as a graduate student at Oxford by an extraordinary band including Emrys Jones, Barbara Everett, Anne Barton, John Bayley, John Carey, David Norbrook, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Christopher Hill and John Wilders. I wrote a thesis on the relationship of the emerging reputations of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to 17th century dramatic practice, notably Dryden. Since then, I've been a journalist in England and France, and am now, at an advanced age (37), rebuilding myself by studying law at Berkeley. I'm keen on keeping in touch with the world of Shakespeare, however. I'm a native of Ireland, from the same little town as another distinguished Elizabethan, John Dowland. =============================================================================== *Gras, Robert I am a teacher of English at Eaton Rapids High School, Eaton Rapids, MI, a small community just south of Lansing. I hold a BS in Speech/Theatre from Western Michigan University and an MA in theatre from Michigan State University. I have been at my present position for 25 years. Previously I taught theatre at the Interlochen Arts Academy and National Music Camp; Morton College in Cicero, Illinois; and Glenn Oaks Community College in Centerville, Michigan. In addition to teaching, I am an actor, director, and designer and am very active in local community theatre. I have served on several boards of directors and am currently Administrative Vice President for Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, Mi. I also do an occasional role at the BoarsHead, Lansing's Equity theatre. My interest in Shakespeare is primarily that of a teacher, director, and actor. In recent years I have directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night. I am hoping to find backing for a production of The Tempest in the near future. I have been active in the newsgroup and from that source was directed to SHAKSPER. ============================================================= Marti, Markus I have been teaching at several Swiss high schools since 1984 and at the moment I am also teaching a first-year=8Cs student course at the University of Basel. Publication: Shakespeare: Timon of Athens / Timon von Athen, Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe, Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Markus Marti. Tuebingen; Basel: Francke/Stauffenberg 1995 (ISBN 3-7720-2352-5) Currently I am working on a bilingual edition of Titus Andronicus. ============================================================= *Graser, Laura I am not a "Shakespere professional," just a fan, a groupie of Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company in Portland. I volunteer for them, e.g. help with prompting at rehersals. In real life I do criminal defense at the fairly nitty-gritty level, so I have some experience with real people who do the kind of damage that Iago or Richard III do, but Shakespeare's murderers think about it a good deal more than mine do, and they certainly are more articulate. =============================================================================== *Gray, Ann My reason for wanting to join the SHAKSPER listserv was to do some research. I am presently pursuing my MLS at Syracuse University. The reference course that I am taking requires that we either write an original InfoGuide for ERIC or update one. My subject is on teaching Shakespeare. One of the things that we had to include was a list of appropriate listservs that any interested teachers may find useful and we were supposed to subscribe to the listserv for awhile to follow the "conversation" and make a good judgment about whether to include it or not. Of course, your listserv sounds like it should definitely be included. When I first got the message back about the autobiographical information, it sounded like the listserv was aimed more at professors than to teachers of high school but since then, I have read many favorable things about your listserv from various places on the WWW and have decided to include it in my InfoGuide. =============================================================================== *Gray, Christine I have _just- received te Ph.D. in English. (I graduate on May 19.) My area is African American drama before 1930--the nonmusical stage. I have done extensive primary research into Black little theater groups and have focused mainly on Willis Richardson (1889-1977). Richardson wrote 46 plays and I am attempting to recover his work. I teach an honors seminar entitled "The Black Experience in American Drama" at the University of Maryland at College Park. I was hired full time by a community college outside Baltimore last fall and am currently teaching literature surveys and comp courses there. (Although I taught a literature survey this past spring, I nearly made it into a Hamlet course, for we spent one month on that play.) I have had four graduate courses in Shakespeare, and I have sworn to myself that I will never teach _King Lear_ because I am so in awe of the play. While I was studying under Sam Schoenbaum at College Park, I spent the good part of a semester at the Folger writing a seminar paper on 19th c. parodies of Hamlet. I also spent a year working at the Folger for Joseph Wittreich as his RA for his book on _Samson Agonistes_. =============================================================================== *Gray, Kate I am a lowly graduate student for the next two years, completing my doctorate at George Washington University. I took all of the Shakespeare anyone would need at UVA for my master's degree 10 years ago, and since then, have been teaching in Lynchburg,Virginia, first at a secondary school as the chair of the department and then at Lynchburg College. In both places, I've kept as much Shakespeare in the curriculum as possible--I was able to do more at the secondary level than at the collegiate ! My dissertation plan is to address contemporary Irish plays written by women from a feminist perspective, perhaps. I have been away from Shakespeare studies for a decade so I'm eager to see how things have changed. Following the discussions here would be enormously interesting for me. ============================================================================== *Gray, Susan I'm not a Shakespeare or Renaissance scholar, just a long time fan. I grew up just down the road from Stratford, Ontario, and my Dad, who is a Shakespearean scholar now retired, started taking me to everything, to my complete delight, when I turned six. Now, I'm a graduate student at the University of Iowa, doing a creative dissertation (that is, the usual English Ph.D. program, except the dissertation is a book of creative writing-in my case creative nonfiction). Alongside the dissertation, which will include material about theatre, I'm also working on a novel whose roots are planted in some of Shakespeare's plays. So, I'm curious to hear what the current batch of scholars has to say about the plays, and I'd love the possibility of being able to ask the experts about things that will help me in my work. ============================================================= *Gray, Terry I hold a BA from San Diego State U. in both anthropology and literature. I have worked as a systems analyst and programmer in various places. I am currently employed in managing the library computer lab at Palomar College, where I am also responsible for programming both tutorial and business type applications. We are in the midst of library automation, so my computing skills are useful there too. I have had a life long interest in Shakespeare and the Renaissance drama, especially in questions of disputed or unattributed authorship and in the archetecture of Renaissance playhouses. =============================================================================== *Green, Amy S. I am interested in joining your list. As the author of "The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics" (Cambridge University Press, 1994), I have written about contemporary Shakespeare production in this country and am currently working on a study of Shakespeare parodies. My interest is in Shakespeare on the stage and as a cultural icon. I have found almost a hundred parodic scripts and I suspect to find quite a few more. Those I have already found suggest that Shakespeare's plays are not actually the satirical target in these stage works, but rather that they stand as ideals against which contemporary fashions, attitudes, politics, etc., can be (unfavorably) compared I imagine that the members of your list will be aware of examples or sources I have not yet found and that they will also have ideas and insights from which I might well benefit. I hold a Ph.D. in Theatre from the City University of New York Graduate School (1991), and my most recent publication responded to a wildly funny and completely accurate production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by The Ridiculous Theatrial Company here in New York ("A Thoroughly Ridiculous Midsummer," ONSTAGE STUDIES 18 (1995)). I am Assistant Professor of Speech, Theatre, and Media Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). =============================================================================== *Green, Douglas Douglas E. Green Associate Professor of English Campus Box 13 Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN 55057 green@augsburg.edu (612) 330-1187 SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Staging the Evidence: Shakespeare's Theatrical Revengers." 12 (1992): 29-40. "Shakespeare's Violation: 'One Face, One Voice, One Habit, and Two Persons." Ed. Mario di Cesare. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992. 327-38. "Chimes from Noon to Midnight: Shakespeare's Henriad at the Guthrie." 42 (1991): 71-74. "Newton's Seneca: From Latin Fragments to Elizabethan Drama." 26 (1990): 87-95. "Interpreting 'Her Martyred Signs': Notes on Gender & Tragedy in ." 40 (1989): 317-26. "The 'Unexpressive She': Is There Really a Rosalind?" 2.2 (1988): 41-52. DISSERTATION: "Seneca's Tragedies: The Elizabethan Translations" (Brown 1984) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: SAA, MLA, M/MLA, NCTE, AAUP INTERESTS & PROJECTS: Shakespeare & Theory (especially cultural materialist, feminist, and psychoanalytic), Senecan tragedy (in Latin and Elizabethan translation: soon to return to work on particular translators), Shakespeare pedagogy =============================================================================== *Green, Jospeh I am a graduate student at the University of Minnesota and will write my thesis on Shakespeare. Right now I am interested in the intersection of politics and theology in the plays and hope that I can do something that does more than provide background and then make arbitrary assertions. =============================================================================== *Green, Martin I am an independent researcher, unaffiliated with any institution. Briefly: I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, and from 1934 to 1946 attended elementary and secondary schools in Akron Ohio; from 1946 to 1951 attended Temple University in Philadelphia, receiving an A. B. degree in 1951; from 1951 to 1953 served in the U.S. Army, in Japan; from 1953 to 1956 attended Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, receiving an LL. B. in 1956; from 1957 to 1962 worked for the Department of the Interior, in Washington D.C., where I specialized in matters relating to the public land laws of the United States; from 1962 to 1983 worked for the Department of Justice, in Washington D.C., where I represented the U. S. government in litigation involving the public land laws, water rights, pollution abatement, etc., etc., and from 1983 until the present have been retired. My interest is in matters relating the the life and times of Shakespeare. I have no project under way at the moment, but wish to keep abreast of current Shakespearean scholarship. Author of _The Labyrinth of Shakespeare's Sonnets_ (London: Charles Skilton, 1974) and _Wriothesley's Roses in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Poems and Plays_ (Baltimore: Clevedon Books, 1993). =============================================================================== *Green, Richard T. I am a novelist and essayist, however, my schooling has been in music. I studied at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon and California State University at Fresno. My studies were in Vocal performance techniques and from the very beginning I focused myself on early music. After graduating, I spent four years trying to find work as a singer. During this time I performed with the Seattle Opera, the National Symphony, and was a full-time member of the Washington Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys in Washington, DC. I also formed and directed various early music ensembles which have performed at rennaisance festivals, Shakespearian productions, and at the Ashland Shakespeare festival in Ashland, Oregon. Unfortunately, most of the work I could find as a singer was in opera and theatrical productions (for which I am not well suited). Recently, I have turned my attention to essay and fiction writing. My specific interests are in Shakespearian dramatic structures, and 17th century rhetorical methods. =============================================================================== *Green, Robert Born: Jewish Montreal middle-class. Education: Literature, Philosophy, Pure Science, Computer Science Professions: Technical Writer, Lan Administrator, Communication Manager presently Environment Canada. Interests:Meditation, Indian Philosophy, Global Village Culture Publications: Local poetry,short essays I've read the full works of Shakespeare but I'm not familiar with any of the traditional scholarly commentaries. My interest in his works is both literary and philosophical. =============================================================================== *Greenberg, Harvey Harvey Roy Greenberg MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, where teach adolescent psychiatry and medical humanities Parallel career in film and media scholarship, numerous articles and reviews have appeared in FILM QUARTERLY, CAMERA OBSCURA, JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION, PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW, TIKKUN, NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY ARTS AND LEISURE SECTION, MOVIELINE etc etc Author of MOVIES ON YOUR MIND: FILM CLASSICS ON THE COUCH FROM FELLINI TO FRANKENSTEIN, groundbreaking study of psychoanalysis and cinema, l975, Saturday Review Press/EP Dutton. Most recent scholarly book SCREEN MEMORIES: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA ON THE PSYCHOANALYTIC COUCH, Columbia University Press l993. On editorial boards of JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TV and PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW. Film critic, Psychiatric Times, Projections Magazine. Lifelong interest in Shakespeare and studies thereof.. Currently writing a study of DYSTHYMIC DICKS: THE MELANCHOLY SHAMUS IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA in which I would like to cite relevant research on Hamlet as amateur sleuth, which is what lead me to ask Norm if he knew lit and lead him to refer me to your list. =============================================================================== *Greenberg, Hope Office Systems Specialist (802) 656-1176 University Computing University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 B.A. from State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York and some undergraduate credit from C.W. Post College of Long Island University areas of study include: music, performance--flute, voice music, history - English Renaissance education history - English Yorkist and Tudor 19th cent. American Work history includes 8 yrs. administrative/finance responsibil- ities for Stony Brook School of Medicine, with an increasing interest in computer support -- and a desire to relocate to Vermont -- that has lead the position listed above. Soon to be pursuing a M.A. in History here at UVM. ========================================================= *Greene, John C. I am an assoc. prof. of English at the U of Southwestern Louisiana and have taught Shakespeare at the grad and undergrad levels for the past six years. =============================================================================== *Greene, Sally I'm Sally Greene, a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in English. My current research interest is in Virginia Woolf and the Renaissance. My dissertation-in-progress, "Reading Woolf Reading the Renaissance," first explores how Woolf's attitudes toward reading itself are conditioned by her understanding of the Renaissance, then turns to several of her major works to consider ways in which she transformed Renaissance texts and tropes into new creations. At the 1994 MLA conference, I chaired a special session on Woolf and the Renaissance. My essays have appeared in *Mosaic,* *Studies in the Novel,* *Studies in American Fiction,* *Southern Quarterly,* and elsewhere. In a previous life I was a Washington lawyer, but I am happy to have given up litigation for literature. =============================================================================== *Greenfield, Peter Peter H. Greenfield Associate Professor of English English Department University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA 98416 E-mail: greenfield@ups.edu Publications: RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA: GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ed. (pub. with Cumberland and Westmorland, ed. Audrey Douglas). University of Toronto Press, 1986. "'But Herefordshire for a Morris-daunce': Dramatic Records and the New Historicism" (review article), ENVOI 3:1 (Spring 1991), 14-23. "Faith and Prosperity: Cultural Values in Medieval Drama," in APPROACHES TO TEACHING MEDIEVAL DRAMA, ed. Richard Emmerson (NY: Modern Language Assoc., 1990), 101-105. "Professional Players at Gloucester: Conditions of Provincial Performing," in ELIZABETHAN THEATRE X, ed. C.E. McGee (P.D. Meany, 1988), 73-92. "'All for your delight/we are not here': Amateur Players and the Nobility," RORD 28 (1985), 173-181. "Entertainments of Henry, Lord Berkeley, 1593-4 and 1600-05," RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA NEWSLETTER 8:1 (1983), 12-24. Reviews of books on medieval and Renaissance drama in SHAKESPEARE YEARBOOK, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, and THE EARLY DRAMA, ART, AND MUSIC REVIEW. For the past two years I have been editor of the Medieval Supplement section of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, and especially encourage SHAKSPER subscribers to e-mail brief notices of medieval and (non-Shakespearean) Renaissance drama productions to me for inclusion in RORD (greenfield@ups.edu). My current research includes editing the records of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Hampshire for the Records of Early English Drama project. My work on these counties, as well as Gloucestershire, has led me to explore various aspects of provincial touring, incl. motives for touring (financial and political), and the reception of itinerant players in provincial towns and households. I am currently at work on a chapter on touring for a new reference work on early drama, as well as a conference paper on the carnivalesque in parish drama. =============================================================================== *Greer, David C. David Greer MA (Oxon), FRSA. Born London 1937, studied Music at Oxford, obtaining First Class Honours. Appointments: Lecturer in Music, University of Birmingham, 1963-72; Hamilton Harty Professor of Music and Head of Department, The Queen's University, Belfast, 1972-84; Professor and Head of Department, Newcastle University, 1984-86; Professor of Music and Head of Department, Durham University, since 1986-. My main research interests are in English song in the 16th and early 17th centuries, including its use in drama. I have held visiting fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Huntington Library. I am currently working on bibliographical aspects of printed songbooks 1550-1650. The following list of publications omits those dealing with exclusively musical matters and ones falling outside the period. PUBLICATIONS IN FIELD OF ELIZABETHAN SONG AND DRAMA What if a day, Music and Letters, 43 (1962), 304-19 An early setting of lines from "Venus and Adonis", Music and Letters, 45 (1964), 126-29 Thomas Heywood's parody of a lyric by Campion, Notes and Queries, ns, 12 (1965), 333-4 English Madrigal Verse, 3rd edn. (1967) (with F. W. Sternfeld) English Lute Songs 1597-1632, facsimile series, 9 vols (1967-71) Music for Shakespeare's "Samingo", Shakespeare Quarterly, 23 (1972), 113-16 A Spanish Song in King Lear, English Studies, 58 (1977) 186-7 Collected English Lutenist Partsongs (Musica Britannica 53-54) (1987-89) Five variations on "Farewell, dear love", Essays in Honour of Frederick W. Sternfeld (1990), 213-29 ======================================================================== 32 *Palmer, Heidi or Computing Advisor / Conseillure en informatique Ottawa University, Ottawa, Ont. I have recently finished my BSC(hons) in mathematics and am currently working at the computing help centre at Ottawa University. My interest in Shakespeare comes from an enjoyment of his plays. ======================================================================== 35 *Wolman, Kenneth T. , , or I am an amateur who started out to become a professional. That is, I have a B.A. (1966) and M.A. (1969) in English Literature from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. (1976) in English Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. My area of specialization was Renaissance Poetry and Drama from 1558-1642; my dissertation was entitled "The Humanization of Falstaff: Audience Experience and Response in `Henry IV, Parts I and II.'" When I came out in 1976, the job market had collapsed around me, so I opted first for academic administration, then for private business. I am currently employed at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Short Hills, New Jersey, as an Associate Editor of the AT&T Technical Journal. In addition, I am teaching composition in the Continuing Education program at Lehman College/CUNY, and have published some of my own poetry. ======================================================================== 45 *Corbett, Deirdre M. Office of Admissions Lawrence Technological University Having only recently been introduced to BITNET, I am overwhelmed and amazed at the wealth of information and opportunities for discussion that are available. To begin with, my desire to become part of this network and more particularly the Shakespeare discussion group, is motivated by my sincere love for the subject! My educational background includes a B.A. in English from Alma College (Alma, MI - May 1982) and an M.A. in English from the University of Detroit (Detroit, MI - May 1990). I recently submitted my application for admission to the Ph.D. program in Literature at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and I hope to begin studies there this Fall 1991. I have worked as an admissions counselor for both Alma College and U of D and am presently employed with the admissions office here at Lawrence Tech University in Southfield, MI. I consider myself rather fortunate to have found a satisfying profession that allows me the freedom to study what I prefer. I am familiar with a majority of Shakespeare's plays and poetry having taken several courses in the subject on both a graduate and undergraduate level. I also have a keen interest in film adaptations of his work as well theatrical productions (like those at Stratford). Because I am well aware that I have only scratched the surface and am far from being a "Shakesperian scholar", my studies and my current knowledge can only be enhanced by the opportunity to interact with members of the discussion group. I hope that you will not consider my limited background a detriment. It is my intention to be able to contribute to the group in a thoughtful, relevant manner. ======================================================================== 45 *Lavagnino, John Graduate student, English and American Literature Brandeis University, PO Box 9110, Waltham, MA 02254-9110 USA (617) 736-2080. Professional Associations: MLA, Society for Textual Studies, American Physical Society, American Comparative Literature Association I am currently serving as ``electronics editor'' of an edition of Thomas Middleton's complete works, to be published by the Oxford University Press in 1994 or thereabouts; Gary Taylor is the general editor. I also designed, typeset, and indexed *Shakespeare's Othello: A Bibliography* by John Hazel Smith (AMS Press, 1988). Before switching to English, I was the systems programmer in the computer center here, from 1985 through 1987; I kept in touch with the humanities by teaching people to use our Kurzweil scanner and by starting the Bialik poetry server, which I still run. B.A., Physics, Harvard, 1981; M.A., English, Brandeis, 1989 ======================================================================== 42 *Gants, David L. David L. Gants 104-B Sunset Avenue Department of English Charlottesville, VA 22903 Wilson Hall (804) 296-4947 University of Virginia BA, U of WA, 1989 Charlottesville, VA 22903 MA, U of VA, 1991 I am presently (as of Spring 1991) working toward my Ph.D at the University of Virginia. My studies and my interests so far have taken two distinct tracks, both of which concern the English drama of the seventeenth century. In one direction, I've been exploring the work of writers who composed civic pageantry and entertainments for royal progresses and entries during the Jacobean, Caroline and Restoration periods. This includes well- known playwrights such as Middleton and Dekker along with minor poet-playwrights such as John Tatham and Matthew Taubman. In another direction, my interests take me into the fields of analytic bibliography and textual criticism. My current projects involve examining the compositorial process behind the 1623 quarto of Webster's _Duchess of Malfi_, and a textual study of the civic pageants of Thomas Jordan. ======================================================================== 44 *Reid, S.W. or Inst. for Bibliography & Editing Kent State University Kent, OHio 44242 Although interested in many facets of Shakespeare, I view the SHAKESPER electronic conference chiefly as a means of keeping abreast of the work of my more gifted colleagues and advancing my research on Shakespeare's texts and their printing in the first Folio. Once upon a time that research surfaced in several articles on Folio texts typeset by the "notorious" Compositor B. But the last group of these was published in the early and mid '80s, and since then work as General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad has combined with administrative duties to suspend research on Shakespeare. Now the hope (perhaps fond) is that lessons learned in computerizing the Conrad edition can be applied to renewed work on Shakespeare's texts. ======================================================================== 48 *Brochet, Madge Grant Although my work probably differs from that of many participating in the list discussions, it would be valuable for me to be a member. My undergraduate work at the University of Bristol and at Marymount College in New York centered on Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre -- Immediately after finishing my B.A. at Marymount, I returned to England to participate in a theatre arts program at the East 15 Acting School -- the school had been started with the leadership of Joan Littlewood -- I spent two years there and returned to the States, where I worked in classical theatre -- did a lot of Shakespeare on tour, spent a couple of seasons at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, CONN (did you ever hear about the CONN festival ;) ). Moved to Canada, got involved accidentally with computing, have worked at the University of Guelph for twelve years, specializing in teaching/helping people who are new to computing -- am currently finishing a MSc in Adult Education -- working on how computer mediated communication is used in project management -- MOST IMPORTANTLY, for the purpose of my requesting membership in SHAKSPER, I now support humanities computing at Guelph and seek to discover ways to acquaint researchers here with new possibilities that may be of help to them. The more I know about interesting discipline specific discussions on the networks, the more I can introduce to humanities faculty on campus. Obviously, there are are already Guelph humanities faculty who know about Shaksper and are members of the list, but I can increase awareness of what it offers. ======================================================================== 36 *Novelli, Cornelius Professor, Dept of English Le Moyne College, Syracuse NY 13214 Office Phone - 315-445-4100 Home - 315-637-8252. FAX 315-445-4540. My interest in Shakespeare centers on production, and on scholarship and criticism especially as they relate to production. I also teach a lot of Shakespeare, three to five sections per year, having students do a lot of in-class performance. Each year from 1971-77 I produced a Shakespeare play performed at Le Moyne and in the upstate area. I presently do some drama criticism for the Syracuse Post-Standard, including productions at the Ontario Stratford Festival. Member American Theatre in Higher Education, NEMLA, Classical and Modern Literature, NCCRDS, Medieval-Renaissance Drama Society, Poculi Ludique Societas, AAUP. ======================================================================== 44 *Peacock, Kenneth J. Dept. of Music NYU 777 Education Bldg. Washington Square New York, NY 10003 tel: (212) 998-5431 Kenneth J. Peacock, Ph.D in Musicology, University of Michigan Currently professor in the music dept. of New York University, tenured, full-time. I direct the program in computer music technology which has ca. 150 students in BA & MM-Technology degree programs. Other duties include the usual academic assignments including directing doctoral dissertations. Have published & participated in many professional conferences at national, & international meetings including program committee chair etc. While most of my work involves music, I have maintained a strong interest in Shakespeare for many years -- having seen ca. 20 of the plays, often several times. I am VERY interested in such topics as the role of music (& musical puns etc.) in Shakespeare's work. ======================================================================== 37 *Stanwood, Paul G. Professor of English and English Graduate Programme Department of English University of British Columbia Vancouver V6T 1Z1 Memberships: MLA, ACUTE, Renaissance Soc. of America, John Donne Society, Milton Society, Can.Soc. of Ren. Studies, International Assn. of Univ. Prof. of English, etc. Not principally a "Shakespearean," but obviously interested in Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, the English Renaissance generally. Published 50 + articles, reviews, bibliographies, etc., editor of 7 books, incl. Richard Hooker, Lawes, Books VI-VIII (Harvard UP), Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living and Holy Dying (Clarendon P), etc. Taught at Michigan, Tufts Univ., Cambridge Univ., Mainz, UBC (since 1965, professor since 1975). Currently organizing the Fourth International Milton Symposium, to be held 4-10 August 1991 at UBC. ======================================================================== 29 *Stockholder, Kay My name is Kay Stockholder, Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. My work has been primarily in Shakespeare and psychoanalytic critical theory. My book, *Dream Works: Lovers and Families in Shakespeare's Plays*, uses a modified model of dream theory (Freudian, that is) to get at the way the entire configuration of a fictional work, as well as small details, signify for the protagonist. Right now I'm working in a similar way, but on the intersection of social conflict with erotic forms in non- Shakespearean drama of the time. ======================================================================== 48 *Drga, Todd Department of Theatre and Dance University of Texas at Austin I'm Todd Drga, a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, studying Stage Management and Lighting Design in the Dept. of Theatre and Dance. I have no papers or scholarly articles dealing with Shakespeare to my credit, but I am fascinated by his works and would enjoy taking part in discussions when I can. I am by no means a 'heavyweight' at Shakespeare, so I may have to resign myself to playing the part of the naive questioner. Shakespeare's plays are always being produced here at UT, and I could contribute some of my observations on the productions. Current projects of mine: Designing lights for _Romeo & Juliet_ as a class exercise and being the assistant stage manager for _Baby Grand_, an original script written by one of our playwrights-in-residence. ======================================================================== 34 *Crupi, Charles Department of English Albion College Albion, Michigan 49224 BA Harvard 1961, MA Berkeley 1963, PhD Princeton 1967. Currently Professor and Chair, Albion College, teaching Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and Greek and Roman literature in translation. Author of miscellaneous articles and papers and of Robert Greene (G. K. Hall, 1986). Currently working on Thomas Heywood. I also do some directing and an planning to direct MUCH ADO in February 1991. ======================================================================== 35 *Dugdale, Timothy D. List of Degrees: B.A in Language and Literature B.A in Humanities from the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth MN 5/20/90 Degree Presently Seeking: M.A in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin -- Madison Future Aspiration: Ph.D. in Literature Focus of literary interest: Gay/Lesbian literature Area of Relevance: Particularly in the Shakespeare sonnets # 20, 29, 35, 36, 53, 55, 57, 60, 67, 87, 94, 104, 110, 116, & 144. ======================================================================== 45 *Bishop, Thomas G. Assistant Professor Department of English Case Western Reserve University Post: c/o Eng;lish, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA. Australian native, doctorate in USA, teaching 2 years. Currently at work on book MS tentatively entitled "Shakespeare and the Life of the Past" on history, narrative and audience experience in the theater. Interested in performance, issues of historical context, currently esp. in Shakespeare's response to Biblical narrative as pre-text for certain story-designs. ======================================================================== 37 *Funston, Jay Born: June 12, 1928 in Bronx, New York AB--Rutgers University, 1949: English MA--Columbia University, 1954: Comp. Lit., Drama Ph.D. Univ. of Arizona, 1969: English Relevant Employment: Instructor, U. of Arizona, 1954-1965 (one year gap) Assist Prof., North Texas State Univ., 1965-1969 Asssoc. Prof., Professor, James Madison Univ., 1970-present Coordinator of Freshman English Courses taught: Arizona--Freshman English (several varieties), soph. surveys, Graduate Restoration and 18th Century Drama North Texas--Freshman Composition, Business Writing, soph. surveys. James Madison--Freshman English and "Seminar," undergrad. and grad. Shakespeare, Modern Drama. Grad. Non-Dramatic 16th Century Lit., Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (other than Shakespeare). Although the University of Salzburg published my dissertation, A Critical Edition of "Love's Hospital" [by George Wilde, 1636], most of my work has been in composition, as have my presentations. I'd like to join SHAKSPER because nearing retirement, I wish to catch and keep up with work in my areas of interest. ======================================================================== 96 *Knapp, Robert Professor, Department of English, Reed College Reed College/3203 S. E. Woodstock Blvd./Portland, OR 97202, USA (503) 771-1112 X312 Professional Associations: MLA, Shakespeare Association of America I came to Reed College in 1974, after a stint of teaching at Princeton and a doctorate in English (1968) from Cornell. At the first two institutions, I learned something about formal and historicist approaches to the discipline of English studies; at Reed I learned how necessary and how complicated it is to take an interdisciplinary approach to texts and cultures. I've published articles on minor Elizabethans (John Grange, John Pickering), on Lyly's Endimion, on Chaucer and Beckett as well as Foucault. My one book is Shakespeare--The Theater and the Book (Princeton, 1989). I'm currently at work on another monograph on Shakespeare, which tries to situate the plays between historicist and philosophical approaches, with particular attention to early modern and postmodern notions of ethics. ============================================================================= *Greer, Robert Robert Greer: I have studied at MIT (undergraduate -- computers and music) and at Emerson College, Boston, and CUNY Graduate Center (graduate study in drama and theatre, respectively) and Columbia University (Swedish, the better to read Strindberg; I've studied in Sweden every other summer for the past five years.) My mentor at CUNY was (and is) Prof. William Elton; at Columbia, Prof. Verne Moberg. Before moving to New York City I sang eleven seasons for the Boston Symphony Orchestra both at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. I am a tenured member of the faculty at (Borough of) Manhattan Community College, another campus of CUNY; in the theatre we refer to this as my day job. My actual profession is that of director and sometime producer, lately of Scandinavian plays in their English language premiers: Nordic Theatre Festival NY 1995 at Barnard College, September; Viveca Lindfors' IN SEARCH OF STRINDBERG, Actors Studio, NY, April, and Stockholm, August 1995; and Kristina Lugn's THE HOUR OF THE DOG, New York City and Edinborough Festival, 1993. My interest in SHAKSPER primarily stems from my studies with Professor Elton, with whom I do have some experience editing (as well as translating with Profess or Moberg). I have had Greek and Russian as well as Swedish and can make my way through Danish, Norwegian and Old English if need be. I forgot to mention earlier that I served as tech. director for several operas in Boston before learning to direct, which has more than a little to do with my interest in SHAKSPER or at least with my interest in Shakespeare. I have received a travel grant from the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies and a summer Carnegie Fellowship to work in computer- aided instruction at Carnegie-Mellon University, as well a grant from the Nordic Council, Copenhagen, for the Nordic Theatre Festival. =============================================================================== *Gregg, Deanna Thanks for your positive response to my request to join the list. I am the department secretary for the English Department at Santa Barbara City College. My degree is in English, begun at San Francisco State University in the 60's, worked on at the Univ =============================================================================== *Gregory, Jennifer A. Jennifer A. Gregory: I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at New York University. I concentrate on medieval and Renaissance literature and have been studying medieval literature with Professor Mary Carruthers and Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, with Professor Leonard Barkan. (I am also currently doing administrative work part-time at NYU's Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.) =============================================================================== *Gregory, Sam Hi, my name is Sam Gregory and I am a professional actor. I am 32 years old and live in San Francisco, California with my wife Megan and my dog Spenser. I am a member of Actor's Equity Association and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. I graduated with a BA from UC Berkeley in 1987 and have been working as an actor ever since. This year will mark my seventh season with the California Shakespeare Festival. I have performed in 25 of Shakespeare's plays. I have performed many of his plays more than once (for example, I have done A Midsummer Night's Dream five times!) Although I don't consider myself a Shakespearean expert, I do think of myself as a fairly able Shakespearean practioner. I have worked in regional theatres all accross the country. I am currently performing Moliere's Imaginary Invalid at the Denver Center Theatre Company until April 15th, 1995. =============================================================================== *Gregory, Wayne I am responding with my request for full membership and bio. My name is Wayne Gregory and I am currently a Masters Student in literature at the U niversity of Connecticut. I am currently taking a course in Shakespeare, which prompted me to join this list in the first place. I wanted to get a handle on the current and more casual stream of thought on the subject, and could see nothing more current than the Internet. Professionally, I plan to attend Law school upon completion of my Degree. One of the things I would like to do is to use this forum to help develop my seminar papers, contribute to the list by sharing the results of my research, and in general to share in the general conversation on Shaksper. =============================================================================== *Gretzinger, Matthew" My name is Matthew Gretzinger. I am a twenty-six year old recent graduate of the University of Toledo with a BA in Theatre (Performance) and a BA in English (Literature) with a concentration on Shakespeare. I'm currently in the process of applying (& searching for) graduate schools. At this point I'm not certain whether I'll want an MFA in Directing, or whether I'll prefer the PhD track so that I can one day teach. "The end crowns all..." This summer I directed King Lear at the Centre Theatre at the University of Toledo. My previous directing credits include Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, & Richard III in the Studio Theatre, and Oleanna for the Toledo Experimental Shakespeare Company, which I co-founded with Roark Littlefield. I'm also an actor, and have appeared as Banquo in Macbeth, as Claudius in Hamlet, as Higgins in Pymalion and as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. I have a dedicated and disciplined interest in learning anything and everything about William Shakespeare, from reading the apocrypha to conflating Quarto & Folio texts into potential playscripts. My long-term goal is to direct Shakespeare professionally. ============================================================= *Grewar, Andy Name: Andrew Jonathan Grewar Title: Mr Dept: Academic Development Centre Inst: University of Fort Hare, P.O. Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Professional membership: Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa South African Association for Academic Development Publications: "Teaching Western Literature: Cross-cultural problem and challenge." _Matlhasedi: Education Bulletin of the Institute of Education, University of Bophuthatswana_, 7 1/2 (Aug/Sept 1988): 13. "Teaching students to think, read and write." _Progressio: Journal of the Bureau for Teaching Development, University of South Africa_, 10, 1 (1988): 56-64. "The Clowning Zanies: Shakespeare and the Actors of the Commedia dell'Arte." _Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa_, 3 (1989): 9-32. "Shakespeare and the actors of the commedia dell'arte." In _Studies in the Commedia dell'Arte_, edited by David George and Christopher Gossip. Swansea: University of Wales Press, 1993. "The Old Man's Spectacles and Other Traces of the Commedia dell'Arte in Early Shakespearean Comedy." In _Staging, Set and Scenery in the Renaissance: Proceedings of the Conference held at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, March 1993_, edited by Christopher Cairns. Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming. Research interests: I am presently engaged in researching and writing a doctoral thesis on the possible influence of the commedia dell'arte on Shakespeare's plays, through the English Department at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. I am interested in finding out as much as possible about possible contacts between the professional Italian and Elizabethan actors, their methods of working and stagecraft. My long-standing interest in the commedia dell'arte has also led me to attempt an amateur "reconstruction" of this form of theatre with friends and colleagues, to which end I have devised and directed five plays for improvisation with masks. I have made a number of "commedia dell'arte" half-masks of papier-mache for these plays, and recently also a collection of glove puppets. =============================================================================== *Grice, Gerda Since 1983, I have taught as a sessional or part-time instructor in the English Department at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. As a sessional or part-time faculty member, I have had to teach whatever courses happened to be available in a given semester, and this has frequently meant that I had to spend every spare moment preparing myself to teach courses whose subject matter bore little relation to my areas of interest and (very modest) expertise. As a result, I have been unable to pursue my research in my own areas--English Renaissance Drama (especially Shakespeare) and Feminist Drama. I have, however, retained a keen interest in them, and in theatre and drama in general. (I'm afraid I have no publications to my name.) My two and a half degrees are all from the University of Toronto. I received a general B.A. through the Extension programme (now located in Woodsworth College) in 1970, and then enrolled in the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama (U. of T.), from which I received my M.A. in 1972. I then returned to the Drama Centre to begin studying for my doctorate. I completed my course work, successfully passed my generals, and wrote several chapters of my Ph.D. thesis (_Like Man New Made: Resurrection Motifs in Shakespeare_) before quitting the programme for personal reasons. My thesis directors were, first, Alexander Leggatt, and then Jill Levenson. Incidentally, I don't know whether this is of any interest to you, but before I enrolled in U. of T. as a mature student in 1964, I had been working for some years as a professional actress, and once played Cordelia in _King Lear_, and Phoebe in _As You Like It_ on tour in the Maritime provinces. (Years before that, I had played Mariana in _Measure for Measure_ as a student at McGill, where I spent a couple of years in the early 1950s. =============================================================================== *Griffin, Bill C. W. (Bill) Griffin: Soon after coming to VCU in 1969, I became involved in composition studies, first directing our composition program for a number of years and then later directing our WAC program. Over a twenty-year period, I published a collection of essays on writing across the curriculum, a textbook on business and professional writing, and a number of articles on composition and WAC. After growing a little tired of working in composition sometime during the late 1980's, I gradually shifted my interests back to my graduate specialty, Renaissance studies, particularly to Shakespeare. Since 1988, I've published articles in Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, English Journal, and Shakespeare Bulletin. Currently, I have an article forthcoming in Literature Film Quarterly and one under consideration at Shakespeare Bulletin. I'm especially interested in the teaching of Shakespeare, particularly in ways to combine script, film, and performance in the classroom. I've just surveyed the members of SAA on teaching Shakespeare (have received over 80 responses) and hope to have the results available next summer. I also hope to extend this survey through SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Griffin, Ronald Work History: 35 years with Boeing as Engineer and Manager. Primary activities - Engineering Design and Analysis, Computer product development, Computer-Aided Design and Sales and Marketing Present Interest: Spend much of my free time reading and studying Shakespeare. Recently,I was asked to speak to a group of young people to prepare them to see their first Shakespeare play. I enjoyed this activity and would like to promote the study of Shakespeare in our local schools. I am interested in the authorship question and would like to better understand the pros and cons. =============================================================================== *Griffin, Sean My name is Sean Griffin. I am 26 years old and reside in Columbia, SC, home of the only professional Shakespeare Company from North Carolina to Alabama. (PS - If anyone can correct me on this please do!) I am the Company/Stage Manager and occasional peformer for the South Carolina Shakespeare Co. My two most recent Shakespeare pieces were Much Ado About Nothing which we took to the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC; and The Commedy of Errors. =============================================================================== *Griffy, Henry I am a master's student (medieval/renaissance concentration) at the University of Oklahoma. I have focussed primarily on Chaucer, but am currently enrolled in a Shakespeare seminar with Dr. James Yoch and generally interested in the plays and poems. There's not much else to say about my academic life: I have not published. ============================================================= *Grill, Hayley My name is Hayley Grill and I am an aspiring writer with a passion for Shakespeare. I received my BA in writing from SUNY Potsdam. In order to complete this degree, I wrote an undergraduate thesis. My thesis focised on women in Shakespeare in relation to the times in which Shakespeare wrote. Many poeple assume that he was sexist and his female characters were weak. My paper discussed this issue and disputed it. I focused on Kate, Juliet, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Anne. I focused on their strength and survival skills. I would be happy to post it and am seeking to submit it for publication. The lenght is approximately 35 typed pages. I hope that this mailing list will give me new ideas, engage me in interesting conversation, and present me with further writing opportunities. ============================================================= *Grim, Jonathan My name is Jonathan Grim and I am a second year MD/PhD student at the university of Alabama at Birmingham. I completed a combined degree in Molecular and Cell Biology and English at UC Berkeley in December of 1992 and have had a layman's interest in Shakespeare ever since. My interests are pretty broad where the Bard is concerned. Jon Grim 1318 11th Ave. S, Apt 2 Birmingham, AL 35205-3415 (205)-933-0970 =============================================================================== *Grim, William I would like to be added to the SHAKSPER mailing list. I am a professor of Humanities at Worcester State College in Massachusetts and am currently on a book about the American Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky. Zukofsky had a life-long interest in Shakespeare and wrote a very original critical work on Shakespeare with the title of Bottom: On Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Grimes, Heilan Yvette I am not an academic, but a writer and publisher. I have always had a general interest in Shakespeare, but my present interest derives from my thoughts and initial exploration into publishing a Shakespeare CD-ROM. I have been the managing editor of a magazine as well as writer and contributor to many books (on computer topics). I have published newsletters and founded magazines. I also have written, and continue to write, several works on Scandinavian Saga Literature including works on The Norse Myths, The Legend of the Niebelungenlied, and The Laxdaela Saga, amongst others. =============================================================================== *Grinnell, Richard I am the Marist College Shakespearean and am particularly interested in the relationship between Renaissance Drama and social and cultural history (both our own and Shakespeare's). I am interested in issues of gender and otherness as they are worked out through literature, particularly as they are represented in witchcraft and the supernatural. My recent work has focused on the use to which dramatists put the language of witchcraft, and the relationship between witchcraft and the theater. I am interested in Shakespeare and popular culture, particularly film, and have a love of Spenser. I was trained at the University of Minnesota. =============================================================================== *Grischkat, Eric I am an instructor at University of San Diego, where I teach acting, and introduction to the Theatre. I also an a Adjunct faculty member of Southwestern College,where I teach acting for the camera and Mesa College, where I teach Acting. I have a BSc. in Chemistry from McGill University, A BFA in Theatre Performance from Concordia University and an MFA in Performance from University of California, San Diego. I have performed at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Repertory theatre and Utah Shakespeare festival. I've performed in eleven Shakespeares and directed another five at local Highschools in the San Diego area. I have no published papaers but an currently working on an Acting text which will include a large section on Acting Shakespeare. I am particularly interested in the list for a better understanding of shakespeare world; keys to performance. I am binational- a Canadian and American citizen. =============================================================================== *Grischkat, Eric Eric Grischkat Assistant Professor in Theatre American University of Cairo Received MFA in Theatre Performance from UCSD BFA in Theatre Performance from Concordia University in Montreal and BS in Chemistry from McGill University Member of AEA Professional Acting experience at The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Gaslamp Quarter Theatre in San Diego Former Adjunct Faculty memeber of University of San Diego and San Diego State University. Next Shakepeare Production - Planning to Direct 12th Night at AUC in spring of 91996 =============================================================================== *Grooms, Lawrence I am a proven Shakespeareholic, and I would like so much to be a part of this information network. My e-mail address is grooms1@netpci.com, and my mailing address is 1526B Marianas Blvd. Yigo, GU 96929. ============================================================= *Gross, Roger D. I'm currently a Professor of Drama at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. 501-575-2953. I've also taught at Bowling Green State U., U. of Oregon, Santa Clara U. -- BA and PhD from U. of Oregon; MA from U. of Minnesota. From 1962-1970, Artistic Director and Producer of the California Shakespeare Festival, Los Gatos, CA, a professional company. Main research interests: Shakespeare's Verse (book forthcoming: Speaking Shakespeare's Verse) and Theory and Technique of Text Interpretation (Book: Understanding Playscripts, Bowling Green University Press, 1974. Have published many articles and reviews dealing with aspects of Shakespearean verse and stage production and read many convention papers on these topics. Spoke on the verse to the scholars of the Folger Library. I'm a reader at the Folger, the British Museum Library, and the Shakespeare Center in Stratford. Teach Acting Shakespeare, Directing Shakespeare, Stage Combat, Theory and Criticism, Dramatic Literature. Acting: have played several of the major roles professionally, the plums being Falstaff and Lear (twice). Created a show, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, for schools and have toured it for four years in Arkansas and Tennessee. Composer of musical scores for a dozen Shakespeare plays. Editor of Acting Editions of seven of his scripts. These are unique in the presentation of information needed to speak the verse correctly. Currently (Oct.,'94) directing Much Ado, my 36th Shakespeare production. =============================================================================== *Grouse, Reginald Reginald Grouse: I was born at Sydney in 1922. When I was 12 years old, I heard a radio production of 'Julius Caesar'. I thought that it was the greatest thing that I had ever heard. I was spellbound. I have been fascinated by Shakespeare's tragedies ever since. There were very few performances of Shakespeare in Australia in those days. (There are not many more now). One had to be satisfied with amateur productions or with reading the plays oneself. I had no trouble imagining the characters when I read a play. The characters became real to me. My interest in Shakespeare did not wane when I bacame an architect and practiced for the term of my professional life. In association with my practice, I taught architecture at the University of Melbourne for many years. When I travelled overseas, I was able to see productions of Shakespeare in England and USA. Teaching- After I retired from practice and teaching of architecture in 1989, I was asked to give courses in Shakespeare at The University of the Third Age. I have been offering courses at Prahran and Hawthorn campuses for five years. Learning- Each year, since I retired, I have taken a summer course in Shakespeare at a tertiary institution including: University of New South Wales- Shakespeare for Stage and Screen. Victorian College of the Arts- Shakespeare. Artts International, North Yorkshire, England.- Theatre, Film and Television. University of Cambridge- Shakespeare Summer School- Shakespeare and Tragedy Shakespeare andRevenge. University of Southern Utah- Camp Shakespeare. My main study is King Lear. I have written a screenplay for King Lear set in the Kimberley district of Western Australia in the 1860s. =============================================================================== *Groves, Michael I am a high school teacher--sophomores and seniors--at West Linn High School in West Linn, Oregon. I have been teaching for thirteen years. My special interest is Shakespeare, thus the request for a subscription. I have a BA from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a MAT from Lewis and Clark College in Portland. Presently, I am working on a MA in English from Portland State University. I intend to write my thesis on Shakespeare. I have received two National Endowment for the Hunmanities fellowships: to study Milton's "Paradise Lost" at Duquesne University and to study "Writing by and about Women in the English Renaissance" at Virgina Commonwealth University. Presently, I am on the summer teaching staff of the Oregon Shakspeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. I teach in a program called "Summer Seminar for High School Juniors," which attracts talented and gifted high school drama students from all over the United States. I am a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and the Oregon Council of Teachers of English. =============================================================================== *Groves, Michael I am currently a high school student working on a literary anaylsis of one of Shakespeare's plays. I was interested in joining your list because of the opportunitys presented in it to augment my work. To be able to get opinions from a conglomeration of Shakespeare experts would make my the project much more interesting. I also enjoy reading the plays of Shakespeare, and would find it interesting to hear what other people have to say about them. I would appreciate it if you would subscribe me to this list. As for a biography, I am a junior in high school at Lanier Academic Motivational Program in Montgomery, Alabama. I enjoy writing, and plan on majoring in computer science in college with a minor in music. I excell in a majority of my subjects, and am ranked near the top of my class. =============================================================================== *Groves, Peter Dr Peter Lewis GROVES. Degrees: first-class honours in English, University of Exeter, U.K. (1975); Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University (1979). Title of thesis: _Shakespeare's prosody: a new approach to an old problem_. Since 1980 I have been lecturing in the Department of English, Monash University, Clayton, Australia 3168, where I teach mainly in the areas of stylistics and Renaissance and Augustan literature. Departmental telephone +61 39905 2148, fax +61 39905 2135; home telephone/fax +61 5968 3879. My major research interests are in metrics and versification. I have completed, and am currently seeking to publish, a theoretical work (called _Strange music: the structure of the English heroic line_) whose purpose is to provide a post-generative (i.e. post-Chomskyan) analysis of the English heroic line; it deals at the same time with the nature of metre and what might be called the meta-theory of metrical discourse, considered in the light of recent developments in linguistics. Most recent papers: *What Shakespeare's editors don t know about his verse*; staff seminar paper, Department of English, Monash University, June, 1994; *Spenser's secret syncretism: the hidden theology of Book 1 of _The Faerie Queene_; Fourth Annual Conference of the Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, Melbourne University, July 1994; *Language in Literary Texts*; invited lecture/seminar, Australian Catholic University, August 1994 =============================================================================== *Grundy, Timothy I was born and bred in the outskirts of Basle. After passing through high school I entered the English Department of Basle University in 1993. At the moment I am a medium level student majoring in English Literature and Linguistics and History of Art as minor subject. My main interest in English literature sway back and forth between Renaissance Drama and Literature and Postmodernism. At the moment I am writing a research paper on Milton's Paradise Lost using post-structuralist literary criticism. Past papers include Ben Jonson's use of Docere et Delectare and reducing the theatrical experience to an `Act of Theatre' in analogy to the Speech Act Theory. =============================================================================== *Gruszka, Maryellen I'm a graduate student at Brown University and saw the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference listed in the files on World Wide Web. I'd like to subscribe to the network if possible to see if anyone can give me ideas for a project I'm working on combining Shakespeare, Hypertext, and Literary Theory. =============================================================================== *Gruver, Beth Beth Gruver: I am a graduate student at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. I am studing English Literature. I was also a Thespean in high school and came close to a drama minor as an undergraduate. I would like to be a part of Shaksper because I am very interested in the Stratfordian/Oxfordian debate. =============================================================================== *Gudbrandsson, Jon Emil Ab ovo. It was in Iceland on the sixth of February in the year 1971 that I was born into this world. Son of Gupbrandur Stein~srsson and Asta J. Claessen. For the next twenty years nothing of consequence happened. In 1991, on the occasion , I graduated from Menntaskslinn Reykjavmk ( a secondary grammar school) that I decided to take leave from my studies and acquaint myself with the world of the working man. I eventually got a job on a building site where I worke Let me still give further account of myself. Currently I hold the position of secretary for the English student's union. This winter I was the editor of a collection of short stories and poems written by my fellow students. Finally I am a member of I should give furhermore an account my interests in everyday life. I am devoted to the works of existentialist writers, especially Camus and Sartre, the writing upon "new criticism", particularly the writings of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. I am also ver There is also one more reason I would like to join SHAKSPER . I may just as well do my B.A. on grandmaster William Shakespeare and I am going to need some research material. Unfortunately the University of Iceland has the worst library in the history Having given account of myself and the reason why I want to join SHAKSPER I hope you find it in your conscience to admitt me to this fine group of scholars. =============================================================================== *Gudbrandsson, Jon Emil Claessen My name is Jon Emil Claessen Gudbrandsson and I am a student at the English dpt. at the University of Iceland. I hereby apply to the SHAKSPER mailing list. Here is a short autobiography. Ab ovo. It was in Iceland on the sixth of February in the year 1971 that I was born into this world. Son of Gupbrandur Stein~srsson and Asta J. Claessen. For the next twenty years nothing of consequence happened. In 1991, on the occasion , I graduated from Menntaskslinn Reykjavmk ( a secondary grammar school) that I decided to take leave from my studies and acquaint myself with the world of the working man. I eventually got a job on a building site where I worked almost for a year. This one year encouraged me to continue my studies. So it was in the fall of the year 1992 that I resumed my studies, now at the English dept. at the University of Iceland. I found the studies here to be very interesting , furthermore I have taken the odd course in philosophy and art history. I have now finished two years of my studies and after a year I will have earned a BA. degree. Let me still give further account of myself. Currently I hold the position of secretary for the English student's union. This winter I was the editor of a collection of short stories and poems written by my fellow students. Finally I am a member of the Junior Enterprise board here at the university. Just recently I have started to work on a concordance of rhyme in Shakespeare's sonnets, work that I find very interesting. This work has just begun and I really do not know where it will lead to. I should give furthermore an account my interests in everyday life. I am devoted to the works of existentialist writers, especially Camus and Sartre, the writings upon "new criticism", particularly the writings of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. I am also very interested in music, modern and classic. There is also one more reason I would like to join SHAKSPER . I may just as well do my BA. on grand master William Shakespeare and I am going to need some research material. Unfortunately the University of Iceland has the worst library in the history of universities. It is very time consuming and can even be expensive for students to get the minimal amount of material required for a decent BA. essay. =============================================================================== *Guenther,Genevienve Genevieve Guenther: I did my undergraduate work at Columbia University, receiving my BA, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa, in May 1994. At my graduation I was awarded the "John Angus Burell Memorial Prize for the most distinguished major in the department of English and Comparative Literature." Presently, I am a first-year graduate student in English at the University of California, Berkeley. I am also a reader for the English faculty at Berkeley, and a member of the MLA and SAA. My current interests, besides Shakespearean drama, include vagabond literature and Early Modern conceptions of sexuality. At the moment I am researching the question of Shakespeare's creation of the figure of the "wise fool" in connection with the injuction of 1599 forbidding satire. =============================================================================== *Guerber, Susan My name is Susan Guerber and I'm a student of English Lit. at the English Department of the University of Basel in Switzerland. I am currently working on my licentiate thesis (equivalent to M.A. thesis ?) and my topic revolves around the medium of the theatre programme. I mainly concentrate on KING LEAR programmes of the RSC and the National Theatre in London from the 1960s onwards. Questions I intend to deal with include the potential of progr. to shape receptive processes; their role in the consolidation of (literary and theatrical) tradition; the supposed dialogue that takes place between progr. and review,i.e. the discourse that is formed around a particular production; the role/status of the progr. in its situational context, i.e. the theatrical experience. As the subject of the theatre programme has hardly been looked into so far, as far as I know, I am curious whether there are people among the pool of SHAKSPER-Shakespeareans who are well acquainted with this subject and might provide me with helpful suggestions, such as books, articles, thoughts,.. ============================================================= *Guertler, Andrew I am a graduate student at Ashland University, seeking additional certification within comprehensive communications. One of the courses I am required to take is a Shakespeare course. Your conferencing would be helpful in making available information and theory that has been discovered and discussed about the Bard. ============================================================= *Guither, Peter Peter G. Guither Assistant Chair Theatre Department Illinois State University Campus Box 5700 Normal, IL 61790-5700 Phone: (309) 438-7314 Current Assignments: General Manager, Illinois Shakespeare Festival General Manager, Illinois State Theatre Instructor, Theatre Management Concentration at Illinois State University Education: Bachelor of Special Studies in Theatre Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA (1976) Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts Management Brooklyn College (CUNY) (studied Theatre History with Benito Ortolani) Past positions include: Executive Director, The Gregg Smith Singers (NYC); General Manager, Corning Summer Theatre (Corning, NY); Performing Arts Consultant, Opportunity Resources for the Arts (NYC), Theatrical Associate, Katz Productions (NYC). Outside passions include Photography and Desktop Publishing. The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is a professional summer Shakespearean Theatre in its 17th season (1994), located in central Illinois, with performances in an open-air Festival Theatre at Ewing Manor in Bloomington and in an indoor theatre in Normal. Each year, the Festival performs three Shakespeare plays in rotating repertory for a total of 35-40 performances late June through early August. The Festival also holds a Green Show, and a lecture series based on the current year's History Play. There is also a museum exhibit which focuses on one aspect of the History Play. The 1994 season runs July 1 through August 7 with "Romeo and Juliet," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "1 Henry IV." The museum exhibit will focus on the character of Falstaff. =============================================================================== *Gulick, Kirstie Arden Institution: fourth year graduate student Stanford Department of Drama Bio sketch: publications - none prof. memberships - Directors Guild of Great Britain former Associate Director of MITM Theatre in London Most recent directorial project was the Taming of the Shrew at Stanford. Current Interests: I'm working on a dissertation which interlaces a cultural study of witchcraft belief in early modern England with an exploration into Shakespeare's portrayal of images of this belief in the texts of Macbeth, Othello, and the late Romances. I am particularly interested in the alignment of art, sexuality and antitheatricality with witchcraft. =============================================================================== *Gunn, Ernest Sir: I am an unemployed (preservice) teacher of mathematics who lives in Norristown, Pennsylvania. I wish to join your group so that I may pass information to my father, who is a retired teacher of English living in Palmyra New Jersey. His name is Ernest Gunn Jr.; he is president of the Oak Lane (PA) Shakespeare Club, who are a group of fifteen bard lovers with the time to devote to their enthusiasm. These men meet twice monthly and present informal research to one another. My father tells me that there is talk of publication from time to time. So far as I know, my father has never published a thesis concerning Shakespeare. All his aborted efforts were in earlier literature. When I mentioned your service to my father, I heard him use the word "computer" without snarling for the first time ever. =============================================================================== *Gunther, Stefan My name is Stefan Gunther, and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the English Department at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. My proposed dissertation title is "Shakespeare Reception, Scholarship and Production in Nazi Germany," and I am right now sorting out which sources to tap into (most likely archives in Germany) to establish -- if the documentary situation is beneficial at all -- how the Nazis dealt with the ostensibly Pan-Germanic playwright Shakespeare. I am a member of MLA, NEMLA, and the German Shakespeare Society (just slated for "reunification" this April). My methodology is a combination of semiotics/reader resonse/ performance theory. Surface mail address: 35 Park Drive, #6; Boston, MA 02215 (617) 236-4287; 736-2130 (Brandeis) Degrees: M.A. in English Literature, SUNY Oneonta, August 1988 =============================================================================== *Guntner, Lawrence Born 1941, B.A. from St. Olaf, M.A. and PhD. in English from U. of Wisonsin- Madison. Independent study at Universities of Freiburg and G:ttingen. Assista nt Prof. at the Free University of Berlin and now Akad. Oberrat, ca. Ass. Prof. at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Have written articles on Shakesp eare performance, Shakespeare on Film, and Teaching Shakespeare. Most recent lengthy publication is "Brecht and Beyond: Shakespeare on the East German Stage in Dennis Kennedy, ed. LOOKING AT SHAKESPEARE (Cambridge, 1993). I co-chaired seminar on TEaching Shakespeare as a Foreign Language Text at the ISA Meeting i n Tokyo 1991. Collection of Essays and interviews entitled REDEFINING SHAKESPE ARE: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEATRE PRACTICE IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC is now under consideration by U. of Delaware Pr. My interests lie in Shakespea re on Film, International Shakespeare Performance, and Teaching Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Gura, Celine T. Celine T. Gura Media Acquisitions Learning Resource Center Rush University 600 S Paulina Ste 435 Chicago IL 60612 (312)942-6799 (312)942-3143 Fax I hold a BA in English Literature from Knox College and am currently working on an MLA from Rosary College. I have an immense interest in Shakespeare spanning from my youth and feuled by school and a 6 month study in London at University of London. I along with a few Anglophile friends here in Chicago are informally meeting and discussing Shakespeare. I was hoping this would allow us to further our discussions and interact with others interested in Shakespeare. Currently we are comparing performances of Richard II put on at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and in the fall at the Goodman Theater. Along with seeing the performances we are discussing the play and arguing over such topics as how Bolingbrooke was meant to be depicted in relation to Richard's multifaceted character. Working in a medical audio visual library can become trying and Shakespeare is my solace. =============================================================================== *Gurr, Andrew Short biog: Andrew Gurr, Professor of English, University of Reading; Director and chief academic advisor to the Bankside Globe project; Folger Shakespeare Library long-term Fellow, 1986, 1990, 1994; Trustee of the Rose Theatre Trust; member of Advisory Board, Shakespeare Survey. Author of The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642, third edn 1992; Playgoing in Shakespeare's London, 1987; editions of Richard II and Henry V in the New Cambridge series; articles on the archaeology of the Globe and the Rose; articles on staging Shakespeare and other theatre history minutiae, in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Theatre Notebook,The Journal of Cultural Property, Antiquity, etc. =============================================================================== *Gussenhoven, Frances (Sister) Frances Gussenhoven, R.S.H.M. My doctoral dissertation (Stanford 1977) reflects my interests in the Corpus Christi plays, comedy, and medieval iconography: CORPUS CHRISTI DRAMA AS MEDIEVAL COMEDY. But drama of all periods fascinates me, and I customarily teach a lower-division introduction to drama each semester, along with a revolving sequence of upper-division and/or graduate courses in Shakespeare, modern drama, medieval English literature, Chaucer, or Arthurian romance. My present research focusses on Images of Woman in Medieval Iconography and Literature; Scribal Traditions in the Stage Directions of the Towneley Plays; and the "Hatted" (coiffed) Serpent in the Iconography of Eden. =============================================================================== *Guterson, Lewis I would like to be added to the "multiple recipients of list SHAKSPER." I have had a glimpse of a recent exchange on the Conference concerning MV Act V. I believe I could learn from following such dialogue and perhaps, at some future point, make a contribution. =============================================================================== *