Haahr, Joan Name: Joan G. Haahr Institution: Yeshiva University Department: English Title: Professor email: haahr@yu1.yu.edu Phone (212) 960-5215 Address: Yeshiva University 500 W. 185the St. New York, NY 10033 I received my BA summa cum laude from Harpur College, SUNY at Binghamton, in 1961, spent a Fulbright year studying medieval Scandinavian at the University of Copenhagen (where I also met my husband) and received my Ph.D. in 1970 from Harvard, studying under Morton Bloomfield. I began teaching at Yeshiva immediately thereafter, and have spent my entire professional career there (while raising three children). My published work is mostly in medieval studies and is sparser than I would wish (those three children!), consisting entirely of articles (published in Mediaeval Studies, ACTA, Studies in Philology, an anthology The Classics in the Middle Ages, Geolinguistics). Initially I worked on medieval historiography (the subject of my dissertation was William of Malmesbury), but in recent years have published articles on Chaucer and the medieval amatory tradition. Like most of my colleagues, however, I am a generalist in the classroom. While I teach all the medieval courses at Yeshiva College, I also teach other courses (in fact, was originally hired to teach the English novel courses), several of which include works by Shakespeare (of course). A subscriber to several lively medieval discussion groups, I would like to become more informed about current issues in renaissance studies. Hence, I have just joined FICINO, and would like to join Shaksper as well. Professional Associations: Medieval Academy of America, Modern Language AssociAtion, Northeast MLA, Medieval Club of New York, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. I am currently working on a long-term project on the medieval amatory (Ovidian) tradition. =============================================================================== *Haas, Bob My name is Bob Haas. I'm a Ph.D. student in the department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro currently working on my dissertation. I'm a native North Carolinian from Boone. I received my B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill and my M.A. from Appalachian State University. I sort of fell into teaching when I began work on my master's at ASU; I wanted to become a better writer so that I could become a newspaper film critic. I've taught composition and literature at the college level for about twelve years, and I began my doctorate studies here at Greensboro five years ago. This semester I'm teaching a basic freshman comp class at High Point University in the nearby furniture capital of the world-that would be High Point, NC, of course-as well as a theme-directed composition and research course at UNCG based upon the looming millennium and titled "Chasing the Millennium: Angels, Aliens, and the Apocalypse." My dissertation is an in-depth study of the major motion picture releases of Shakespeare's comedies, particularly aimed at the production histories of these films. The focus is upon the BIG films of the comedies, which limits my study to a nice handful of films. I am, however, trying to incorporate a complete-though probably not encyclopedic-discussion of the silent films. I would also like to take a long look at the various adaptations of Shakespeare, but that will have to be another study, I'm afraid. My dissertation chair is the extremely patient Professor Russ McDonald, and our department chair is Professor James Evans. ============================================================= *Haas, Virginia J. Senior Editor, English Department University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Telephone: (414)229-6436 FAX: (414) 229-4380 Interests: stage history of The Winter's Tale, criticism of The Winter's Tale. I am currently working on the appendices for these two areas for the New Variorum edition of The Winter's Tale, ed. by Robert K. Turner. I also assist in the general editing of the MLA New Variorum Shakespeare, under the general editorship of Prof. Turner and Prof. Richard A. Knowles, UW-Madison. ======================================================================== *Habib, Imtiaz I am an Asian American Shakespeare scholar trained in Anglo-American Eurocentric Shakespearean discourse. I am a graduate of New College, Oxford, and I hold a doctorate in British Renaissance literature (particularly Shakespeare) from Indiana University, Bloomington. I have taught Shakespeare in a tenured academic capacity since 1984, when I secured my Ph.D. I have been a member of the English faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, since 1989. My publications include-SHAKESPEARE'S PLURALISTIC CONCEPTS OF CHARACTER: A STUDY IN DRAMATIC ANAMORPHISM ( N.J.:Susquehanna/Associated University Presses, 1993), TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY (Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Ltd., 1986), and about a dozen articles on Shakespeare, Milton, and modern British, Irish and American drama, including most recently, two articles on Shakespeare.I also reviewed James Calderwood's THE PROPERTIES OF OTHELLO for SHAKESPEARE YEARBOOK in 1992. Except for the book on Skespeare, the last two articles and the book-review, my publications are not available in this country. Besides, Shakespeare and the English Renaissance I am also actively interested in post-colonial studies and literatures in English and generally, in discourses of marginality. My E-mail address on the Internet is ihabib@Nevada.edu and my phone number is (702)0434-0596. =============================================================================== *Habicht, Werner Werner Habicht, Professor emeritus, Department of English, University of Wuerzburg. - Postal address: Institut fuer Englische Philologie, Universität Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, Wuerzburg, Germany. Born in Schweinfurt, Germany. Educated at the University of Munich, the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), the University of Paris, and the University of Bristol (UK). Obtained degrees from the University of Munich (Dr.phil.; Dr.phil.habil.). Teaching positions at the Free University of Berlin (1957-60), the University of Munich (1960-65), and, as full professor of English, at the Universities of Heidelberg (1965-70), Bonn (1970-78), and Wuerzburg (1978-95). Visiting professorships: University of Texas at Austin (1981); University of Colorado, Boulder (1987); Ohio State University, Columbus (1988); University of Cyprus, Nicosia (1995-96). - President, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft West (1976-88). Elected member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (1982-), and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (1994-). Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Latin, some Spanish and Modern Greek. Publications include books on mediaeval English Literature, pre-Shakespearean drama, and Shakespeare (in German), c.100 articles (half of them in English) in professional journals and collections, particularly on Shakespeare, Shakespeare reception, and modern drama, c.100 reviews and review articles, and some 350 contributions to literary encyclopedias. Founding editor of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES IN GERMAN (1968-82); editor of SHAKESPEARE JAHRBUCH (West) (1980-95); co-editor of a bilingual study edition of Shakespeare's plays, several volumes of essays, and an encyclopedia of world literature (LITERATUR BROCKHAUS, 1988, rev. edn. in 8 vols. 1995). Among my relatively recent publications are SHAKESPEARE AND THE GERMAN IMAGINATION (Hertford, 1994); "Shakespeare in Divided Germany", in SHAKESPEARE IN SOUTH AFRICA, 8 (1995); TEXTE UND KONTEXTE DER ENGLISCHEN LITERATUR IM JAHR 1595 (Munich, 1995); "My tongue-tied Muse: Inexpressibility in Shakespeare's Sonnets", in SHAKESPEARE'S UNIVERSE, ed. J.M.Mucciolo (Scolar Press, 1996); "Happy Lines: Petrarchism and Marvell's Geometry of Love", in UEBER TEXTE, ed. Knabe/Thiele (Tübingen, 1997). I mention these because they may reflect my current research interests: the history of Shakespeare reception, translation and performance, especially in Germany; Elizabethan contexts; Renaissance poetry - and I might add: Shakespeare in fiction. To illustrate the latter subject, I submit an extract from an unpublished longish essay entitled "Fictional Revivals of Shakespeare."\ ============================================================= *Hadley, David I am just an ordinary person, with no formal qualifications, who is interested in learning as much about Shakespeare as I can, just out of curiosity really. I expect to be more of a spectator than a contributor. =============================================================================== *Hadley, David I am not a Shakespeare scholar. I am a writer who is very interested in Shakespeare and in all aspects of Shakespearean study. ============================================================= *Hadley, David David Hadley: I am just an ordinary person, with no formal qualifications, who is interested in learning as much about Shakespeare as I can, just out of curiosity really. Consequently, I am not sure if I am the kind of person for whom Shaksper is intended, hence my reluctance to make an attempt to join. =============================================================================== *Hadorn, Peter Peter T. Hadorn teaches as an Instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. His specialization is Renaissance drama on which he has written several articles. He has recently completed a book manuscript, *Chivalry on the English Renaissance Stage.* He is currently working on an article about the selling in print of a chivalric image of Henry VII and a book-length study on Renaissance tragedy. The impetus for this study is a course he is teaching (Spring 1997), "Early English Tragedy: Theories and Contexts," which employs the computer as a significant aspect of the course. You may visit his site at . Like many others, he is perpetually on the job market, so if you are interested in a creative, dedicated, and effective teacher, give him a call. ============================================================= *Haffa, Alan J. M. Although I am not an expert in Shakespeare studies, I do have a long and continuing interest in Shakespeare and Shakespeare criticism. I am dissertating here at UW-Madison in Comparative Literature, and my areas of special interest are the Classical and Renaissance periods. =============================================================================== *Haigh, Anthony Anthony (Tony) R. Haigh (PhD. Michigan State '86) Chair - Drama Program Centre College Danville, KY 40422 USA office phone: 606 238 5428 fax 606 238 5448 I was born and raised in the north of England and trained as an actor in London, graduating in 1969. I worked for several years as an actor before moving into teaching. I taught for two years in high school and eight years in teacher education. I took a Master's degree at the University of Lancaster under Keith Sturgess ("Jacobean Private Playhouses") before moving to the US in 1980. I taught at Ferris State University and Mighigan State University while doing a PhD. in Theatre at MSU. In 1983 I moved to Colorado to teach at Fort Lewis College (Colorado State University) and in 1991 I came to Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. My teaching and directing interests are eclectic but I have directed "A Midsummer Night's Dream," (four times) "As You Like It," "The Tempest," "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Twelfth Night," and acted in "Julius Ceasar," "Richard III" and "Romeo and Juliet." I teach Acting, Period Style, Stage Combat, Dramatic Literature and Theatre History. I am particulary interested in the ways in which Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic texts were conditioned by acting style and theatre space as well as by the social and political realities of the day. =============================================================================== *Hailey, R. Carter I am a doctoral candidate at UVa and am currently working on my dissertation, a bibliographical and editorial study of Robert Crowley's three editions of Piers Plowman, all printed in 1550. My dissertation director is Prof. David Vander Meulen. I studied Shakespeare under Arthur Kirsch, and, as a TA, conducted weekly discussion sections for his undergraduate Shakespeare survey. I also taught an independent undergrad course of my own devising, a survey of Shakespeare's comedic carreer called "From Comedy to Romance." In terms of research, my Shakepearean interests are primarily textual and bibliographic. Post-doc, I plan to complete a study of the collaboration between George Steevens and Dr. Johnson on the revisions to the Dictionary and to Johnson's Shakespeare edition. Of particular interest are a number of previously unnoted corrections to Shakespeare quotations in late editions of the Dictionary which I believe to have been the work of Steevens. Once that' s finished, I plan a new study of the paper and watermarks in the Pavier quartos that will build on the discoveries of Greg and Stevenson. I expect to finish my degree next spring, and hope (as so many do) to find a teaching position in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, preferrably in the central Virginia area. =============================================================================== *Halbrooks, John I am a graduate student in English Medieval literature and early drama at Tulane University in New Orleans. I received my BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my MA from the College of William and Mary. Although I am primarily a medievalist, I am interested in Shakespeare's medieval connections, especially his treatments of Chaucer. My current research involves examining Shakespeare's idea of kingship in relation to medieval models of power. I am a neophyte when it comes to the Renaissance, but I hope to learn from SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Hale, David David G. Hale: I teach Shakespeare, Chaucer, Bibliography, and a range of lower-division courses. My publications include a book--The Body Politic: A Political Metaphor in Renaissance English Literature (1971)--and a variety of articles on Shakespeare and others. Most recently I've done a note on echoes in [DHurston's "Spunk" of "Hamlet," and an essay in Shakespeare and the Classroom on three film and video versions of Henry V 5.2. Generally I'm working on film and television performances of the plays, especially the presentation of political issues in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III. My most recent conference paper (at SUNY Cortland) was on Shakespeare's losers in love, the nearly two dozen men who wish to marry, but whose women marry someone else, leaving the men with no one. =============================================================================== *Hale, Melinda M. I am 23 years old and I live in Boston, having moved here from Washington, D.C., where I attended and graduated from The American University. Though not *officially* a Shakespeare scholar, I took 4 Shakespeare classes in college, have read nearly all of the plays, and my well-loved (beat-up) Riverside is full of underlines and marginal notes. I have a degree in Medieval/Renaissance History, especially Elizabethan England, but I have not published any papers (yet). As far as my take on Shakespeare, what can I tell you? I believe he was a real person who did write those plays and poems. I believe the plays work best when read as a whole, in the order he meant them to be read. I believe recategorizing some of the comedies and tragedies as "Romances" misses the point. I believe his collaboration with John Fletcher on _Two Noble Kinsmen_ strengthens, not weakens, some of Shakespeare's "themes", namely fellowship and torch-passing. I believe much more can be learned from Shakespeare's text than simply literary or dramatic form. I'm sure I could ramble on, but I'm beginning to sound like a catechism. If you need more information, please let me know. =============================================================================== *Halgas, Pauline I am an undergraduate student at Northeastern Illinois University. I'm enrolled in an Honors Seminar on Shakespeare and would like to converse with others who are interested in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Halio, Jay L. *Halio, Marcia P. Jay L. Halio has taught at the University of Delaware since 1968. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1956 and has written or edited many books on Shakespeare and lectured abroad extensively. He has led several seminars for NEH on Understanding Shakespeare in Performance and has published a book by that name to be released in paperback soon by St. Martin's. He has just finished editing *King Lear* for Cambridge University and is now doing *The Merchant* for Oxford. Marcia P. Halio is, alas, not a Shakespearean primarily, but is rather interested in joining your conference because she wants to develop an interactive videodisc with Jay based largely on his book (Understanding Shakespeare). We feel that such a tool would be helpful to students and teachers and we would be excited to produce it. By joining your conference we hope to keep current with what's happening in videodisk production and computer-aided instruction. Both Marcia and Jay can be reached by surface mail at the English Department University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. Our telephone number at home is 302-456-0283. That's the best place to reach us... and a answering machine will take messages. =========================================================================== *Hall, David (David Hall) My name is David Hall and I am currently enrolled at The Univ. of The South, a small liberal arts university in Sewanee, Tennessee. I am an English major here in the second semester of my junior year. I am currently in a Shakespeare class this semester and have enrolled in the second half of this class for next semester. I would like to be a part of your discussion group. =============================================================================== *Hall, Emily My name is Emily Hall and I graduated in June from Carleton College in Northfield, MN. My major at Carleton was history and my focus within the department was Early Modern History. Each student at Carleton is required to write a senior thesis. Mine was entitled "Her Infinite Variety? Gender culture in Elizabethan Theatre." While I have never formally published anything, I have studied Shakespeare for several years. I have also been involved with Shakespeare as an actor and director. =============================================================================== *Hall, Margaret Helen I live in Wales and I am currently an undergraduate (mature student) studying for a BA with the Open University (United Kingdom). My degree courses are mainly literature and history, but I have taken two courses on Religious Studies. I also have a particular interest in Women's Studies. This year I am taking the OU third level course on Shakespeare and I would like to extend my knowledge of the plays beyond the boundaries of the course. I am already a qualified teacher of adults (at present I teach on courses for the unemployed run by our local Further Education college). When my degree is completed, I would like to teach literature and history to adults. =============================================================================== *Hall, Stephanie Robin My name is Stephanie R. Hall and I am currently-and fearfully-embarking on my M.A. thesis, "The Catholic Pantheon: Mythologizing Catholicism in the English Renaissance", at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am working closely with Davies' _Hymnes to Astrea_ and the works of Campion in an effort to lay the groundwork for my potential Ph.D thesis, which shall examine the "construction" of Elizabeth I. I have published nothing, nothing at all. ============================================================= *Hall, Thomas I am an undergrad honors student at Northeastern Illinois University. I am currently taking a class studying women and outsiders in Shakespeare. I would like to subscribe to SHAHSPER to take advantage of the vast array of sources you have on file. =============================================================================== *Hamana, Emi Title: Professor of English Department: Department of English Institution: Rikkyo Women's College, Tokyo Publications: Contributions to books: Shakespeare's History plays, ed. Shakespeare Society of Japan, Kenkyusha Publications Company, 1992 (In Japanese); Re-Reading Shakespeare, Kenkyusha Publications Company, 1992 (In Japanese) ; "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?: A Re-Reading of Ophelia," in Hamlet Collection, ed. Yoshiko Ueno (New York: AMS Press, forthcoming). Memberships: English Literary Society of Japan; Shakespeare Society of Japan; International Association of Shakespeare; Women's Society of Japan. Current interests and research projects: cultural studies in sexuality; queer culture; pop culture; postmodernism; post-feminism, etc. =============================================================================== *Hamas, Christopher Hello! My name is Christopher Hamas. I am eighteen years old and a freshman at Trenton State College in New Jersey. I am currently an English education major and I also plan to attend graduate school to study law. My knowledge of Shakespeare is limited. I've only read Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Macbeth. But my interest in Shakespeare's life and works is enormous. I visited England during my junior year of high school and I saw Stratford-on-Avon. I also was fortunate enough to see Hamlet performed by Kenneth Branock while I was there. I am fascinated by Shakespeare and I would enjoy learning more about him from others who also share this interest. =============================================================================== *Hamilton, Carole L. My name is Carole Hamilton. I teach 9th and 10th grade English at St. Anne's-Belfield, a college-prep private school in Charlottesville, Va. I recently completed an M.A. in English at the University of Virginia, and I received my A.B. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. I will teach Shakespeare in both grades this year; A Midsummer Night's Dream ain 9th and Macbeth in 10th. I would love to interact with scholars and teachers who want to make Shakespeare "come alive" for their students. Prior to completing my degrees, I enjoyed a successful career in information systems (computers) and business consulting. I got bored in middle management and decided to pursue my dream of teaching. After five years of re-schooling, here I am! =============================================================================== *Hamilton, Derek Derek Hamilton: I am Head of English at Saint John High School, a school of about 1100 students. I also offer courses from time to time at The University of New Brunswick in Saint John, in the Department of Humanities and Languages. At present I am offering a survey course in drama, but every year about this time I swear that I will never give night courses again. As time marches on, the flesh gets weaker and weaker! Academic Information: BA (University of New Brunswick, 1966); DipEd (University of London, 1977); PhD (University of New Brunswick, 1993). I did my PhD under the supervision of my very old friend Don Rowan of UNB. His, and my interest in staging on Shakespeare's stage led me to the dissertation topic "Shakespeare's Use of Doors on the Elizabethan Stage." Publications: My most recent publication (and the one of which I am most proud) is "Imagination and the Location of 'Here' on Shakespeare's Stage," in *Shakespeare Bulletin,* Fall, 1995, Vol 13, No. 4, 5-9. Field of Interest: I continue to nurse an interest in staging problems on Shakespeare's stage. I am undertaking a study of trap doors on the Shakespearean stage, and I would greatly appreciate any information that the membership of SHAKSPER can offer. =============================================================================== *Hamilton, Jim I'm a software engineer whose interest in Shakespeare has grown out of my involvement in my local community theatre here in Panama City, Florida. I started by providing technical assistance for productions and subsequently moved into other areas. I'm now on the board of directors and will be directing my first production in March. (_I_Hate_Hamlet_ -- I'm not ready to undertake the Bard directly just yet, thank you.) My wife and I make a couple of trips each year to Montgomery, Alabama for incendiary Thai meals at Lek's and superb theatre at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. (We had our reservations for _Othello_ BEFORE the O.J. thing, so don't look at me like that.) =============================================================================== *Hamilton, Lucy I am a senior secondary teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Currently, I am not working; my two toddlers keep me occupied. I am enrolled as a Masters student for this year and the first of my coursework options relates to Shakespeare (in particular relation to the translation of his, and Austen's, works into film). =============================================================================== *Hamilton, Robert A former recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, Robin Hamilton was born in Ayrshire in 1947 and moved to Glasgow at an early age, where he later became one of a powerful group of writers, including Liz Lochead, Tom Leonard, Angus Nicolson, and Stephen Mulrine, who emerged there in the early sixties. He currently teaches at Loughborough University [he retired this year]. Widely published in magazines and small press pamphlets in Britain and the US . . . he emerges as a vital and distrubing love poet, a bitter analyst of the human condition, but at the same time one of the funniest and wittiest poets writing today. Other poems in this volume manifest a subtle and acute intelligence applied to the whole range of western culture and history. At once accessible and demanding, Robin Hamilton is one of the most individual voices in present-day English poetry. He also edited the second edition of Patrides' Complete English Poems of John Donne after Dinos passed away, and has done an anthology of 16th century poetry. He has a wealth of knowledge to contribute to our discussions on this List, and will be an invaluable asset to the group. ============================================================= *Hamlin, Hannibal I was born 1962 in New Haven, CT, but moved to Toronto in 1970 with my family, where I spent most of my life. Shifting to academic history, I began studies at the University of Toronto in music but then transferred to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and finished a B.A. in English and Literary Studies (an undergraduate program emphasizing Comp.Lit. and Theory). Shakespeare highlights include a lecture course with Northrop Frye and Alexander Leggatt. After graduation (1986), I worked in the Toronto area for a number of years as a singer, specializing in Early Music. I returned to the University of Toronto in 1989-90 for an M.A. in English, working on Shakespeare (with Jill Levenson) and Thomas Campion among other things. I then took a degree in Education and taught English and History for three years at a public high school in Toronto. For one year I sat on the Executive Committee of the Toronto Council of Teachers of English. Deciding that I wanted to pursue both teaching and study at a higher level, I returned to school to take a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies at Yale. I am currently in my third year of the program, gearing up for orals and working as a T.A. in the undergraduate Shakespeare course. My current interests, in addition to Shakespeare, include metrical psalms, emblems, martyrs, Donne, Religious History, and Renaissance Music. Returning to the personal, I am married to Cori Martin, a Canadian (I am still a U.S. citizen), and we live in New Haven. My life seems, therefore, to have come back to where it began, geographically at least. =============================================================================== *Hamm, Robert My name is Robert Hamm, and I would like to subscribe to SHAKSPER. Robert Hamm: Following the completion of two degrees at Centenary College of Louisiana, in English, with an emphasis on Medieval and Renaissance literatures, and in French, I spent the 1994-1995 academic year in Paris, France, as a student at the Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques (CPEC). My association with CPEC gave me access to other French Universities in Paris, such as the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; there, I was accepted into the seminar of the French cultural historian, Roger Chartier. Frequented by many visiting lecturers, Professor Chartier's seminar--"Texte, Performance, Public"--proved an active, international forum addressing the onset of print culture and the history of the book. I am currently applying to domestic graduate programs in Early Modern Studies; I hope to combine my interests in critical theory, history, language, and literature. My research interests are sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature--specifically, John Donne and the Metaphysical poets--as well as theories of cultural formation and change. I have a strong command of idiomatic French and a reading knowledge of classical Latin. =============================================================================== *Hammer, Larry My name is Larry Hammer, and I am interested in joining the Shaksper list -- purely as an amateur, not a professional, for my academic degrees are in math and physics and not literature. I am a free-lance technical writer living in Tucson, Arizona, who also turns his hand to fiction, occasional book reviews, and light verse. I have a continuing interest in literature both as a reader and as a part-time practitioner of the craft of writing, one of my favorite periods being Tudor and Stuart England, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights. =============================================================================== *Hammill, Graham I am a new assistant professor in English at the University of Notre Dame; my primary area of teaching and research is the early modern English literature, and I also do a fair amount of work in psychoanalytic theory. I have written various works on Spenser, Marlowe, Crashaw, Bacon, and Lacan, and I am currently defining the parameters of a project on subjectivity and technology in the early modern period. =============================================================================== *Hammock, Earlene Earlene Hammock, Ph D candidate, Dept. of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. At the present time, I'm finishing my dissertation, "Madness, Misogyny, and Religion in Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Study of Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth" under the direction of Prof. David McPherson. During the fall '96 semester, I taught classes in literature, reading, and writing (ESL) at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, and before that I was a teaching assistant at UNM. Completion of the dissertation is my primary interest right now; however, I've discovered several intriguing and tangential topics that I plan to pursue after the dissertation is finished. I am particularly interested in these three plays. I attended the 97 SAA meeting in Washington, but did not contribute a paper. At the Los Angeles meeting of the ISAA, I participated in a seminar on women's history led by Prof. Linda Woodbridge. I'll submit a copy of that paper for the SHAKESPER archive. ============================================================= *Hammond, Antony Antony Hammond (Chair of the Drama Department, and also Professor of English, at McMaster University). My chief specializations are in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially John Webster, with particular reference to bibliography and textual criticism. Major publications include: King Richard the Third (New Arden Shakespeare), London, Methuen, 1981. (Reprinted, with corrections, 1985 etc); "John Webster," in Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 58: Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit: Gale, 1987), pp. 284-302; "The Noisy Comma: Searching for the Signal in Renaissance Dramatic Texts," In Proceedings of the Toronto Editorial Conference, November 1988, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming; "Webster's The White Devil in Nicholas Okes's Shop," in Studies in Bibliography, XXXIX (1986), pp. 135-176; "The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript," (with Doreen DelVecchio) in Studies in Bibliography, XLI (1988), pp. 1-32. Work in progress: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of John Webster, ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, Antony Hammond (Textual Editor) and Doreen DelVecchio (Associate Textual Editor). A three-volume old-spelling critical edition. Volume I to go to press in 1990; the edition to be complete by 1995. I am now also working on producing computer-readable texts of the Webster works, in part for the proposed Renaissance Textbase, and am engaged in computer-assisted stylistic studies of these texts. At McMaster, I have taught Shakespeare, bibliography, and the history of English drama. ======================================================================== *Hampton-Reeves, R. I am currently undertaking doctoral research at the University of Warwick (England) - Department of English and Comparative Literarture under the supervision of Dr. Carol Rutter. The title of my thesis is 'Henry VI in Performance: Culture, History and Shakespeare Reproduced', a critical production history which deals with the themes of representations of 'history', of 'war' and Shakespeare's presence - invention/absence - in contemporary theatre/social culture. To date, my cv is not large. I have not had anything published yet - I am currently writing and researching entries on Theatre History and Marlowe for the 1993 and 1994 editions of Years Work in English Studies (Blackwell) a review journal. (If anyone has any suggestions of works for inclusion in this review journal please let me know. Some American journals in particular escape the notice of YWES. I will also be happy to include any significant research that emerges through the internet.) I have spoken at a conference on Henry VIII and I am provisionally pencilled in for a conference on Representations of War in Contemporary Theatre this autumn. My qualifications are BA(Hons), MA (Un.Warwick); my current work will lead to a Phd sometime around '96/'97. As well as contemporary performance and performance theory I am interested in all aspects of English Renaissance Theatre History, Dramatists, Culture, Politics and so on. =============================================================================== *Hancher, Michael Professor of English, University of Minnesota. Member: MLA, Linguistic Society of America, Dictionary Society of North America, American Society for Aesthetics. Major interests: theory of meaning and interpretation; pragmatics, including speech-act theory; interrelations of language, literature, and the law; literary illustration. Occasional teacher of introductory Shakespeare course. Only relevant publications: "Understanding Poetic Speech Acts." _College English_ 36 (1975): 632-39. Reprinted in _Linguistic Perspectives on Literature_. Ed. M. K. L. Ching, M. C. Haley, and R. F. Lunsford. London: Routledge, 1980. 295-304. (Includes a discussion of Sonnet 19.) "Signs of Madness: Shakespeare to Tenniel." Ch. 5 in _The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books_. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1985. 48-57. (Discusses Tenniel's adaptations of Shakespearean iconography.) Selected other publications: "What Kind of Speech Act is Interpretation?" _Poetics_ 10 (1981): 263-82. "Dead Letters: Wills and Poems." _Texas Law Review_ 60 (1982): 507-25. Reprinted in _Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader_. Ed. Sanford Levinson and Steven Mailloux. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1989. 101-114, 429-33. "Performative Utterance, the Word of God, and the Death of the Author." _Semeia_ 43 (1988): 27-40. "_Billy Budd_: Famous Last Words." _Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature_ 1 (1989): 109-21. "Judging Law and Literature" (review essay). _University of Cincinnati Law Review_ 58 (1990): 989-1001. ========================================================= *Handzsuj, Stephan Stephan Handzsuj: Meeting Prof. Engler from Basel, Switzerland, at the executive committee of the German Shakespeare Society he has informed me about the Shakespeare Electronic Conference. As I am writing my Ph D about Shakespeare at the Ruhr-University Bochum and because I work with the German Shakespeare Society I would be very much interested in joining this Conference. =============================================================================== *Hanenberg, Robert I have a B.A. in economics from Grinnell College, Iowa and an MA and Ph.d in Sociology from the University of Chicago. I served in the Peace Corps in Thailand from 1968-71 in malaria eradication. In 1974-1976 I worked as a demographer in the National Statistical Office in Thailand on labour force statistics, which was the subject of my dissertation. In 1977 I joined the staff of the Center for Population and Family Health at Colombia University, and worked on a family planning project in Haiti for two years. This is where I learned French. In 1979 I joined the staff of the International Statistical Institute in London, where my principle job was to conduct two demographic surveys, one in Senegal and the other in Mauritania. In 1981 I went to Geneva to analyze demographic data from Europe at the Economic Commission for Europe . In 1982 I took a job with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. I worked there for nine years, mainly on family planning and demographic analysis. I travelled to almost all the Asian countries many times, including 29 trips to Vietnam, where in 1988 I conducted the first national sample survey. In 1991 I took a job with Family Health International, a non-governmental organization based in North Carolina, to work on AIDS research in Asia. Recently I published an article in The Lancet on the AIDS situation in Thailand. I am presently working on clinical trials for a new method of contraception in Vietnam, and on AIDS vaccine trials in Thailand and India. My knowledge of Shakespeare is not professional, but it is extensive. I have read all the plays many times, and studied the major commentaries. As with many people, Shakespeare is a passion. =============================================================================== *Hanham, Jacquie I am currently employed in the drama department at Hull University where I am teaching part-time while researching my PhD. My research areas include translations/adaptations of canonical texts, especially Greek Tragedies and plays by Shakespeare, within a post-colonial context. I am also researching the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker. I completed an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 where I wrote my dissertation on the 20th century performance history of 'The Spanish Tragedy'. I received my first degree from Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. I am very interested in performance studies and theatre practice. ============================================================= *Hanna, Kim I am the Artistic Director of the Melbourne University Student Union Theatre Department. I took up the position in March 1995. Kim comes to Melbourne from Adelaide where he has been the Artistic Director of Unley Youth Theatre for the past four years. Productions directed there include: Antigone, Romeo and Juliet Toxic Girls (performing at the 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference and the Come Out Festival) and Teen Sex Scandal. The later two productions were both invited to perform at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras theatre festival. In 1993 Kim directed Michael Gurr's Sex Diary of an Infidel for the State Theatre of South Australia. Kim's production of Shakespeare's The Two Gentleman of Verona for Big Ensemble won the Adelaide Festival Fringe Award for Excellence in 1990. Other productions for Big Ensemble include: A Doll's House, Ghosts and Julius Caesar. For the M.U.S.U. Theatre Department he has directed Scenes of Harassment and the The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other by Peter Handke. Other Skakespeare productions include: The Comedy of Errors, Loves Labour's Lost and The Shrew (Marowitz) My interest lies in gaining information on Shakespeare that will benefit my future productions. =============================================================================== *Hanna, Sara Teaching: Associate Professor, New Mexico Highlands University (1990-present); Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University (1985-90); Associate Instructor, Indiana University (1980-85). Principal Courses: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Arthurian Literature, Classical Mythology, Celtic Mythology, Norse Mythology, The Bible as Literature, Early British Masterworks, World Literature to 1700. Publications: Articles in The Upstart Crow, Shakespeare Yearbook, Classical and Modern Literature Quarterly, and forthcoming, an anthology, Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama. Presentations: SAA and RMMLA for several years Current Interests: Shakespeare's Classicism, Renaissance Iconography, Web Possibilities for Teaching =============================================================================== *Hannah, Kathleen Jo Powell I'm a grad. student working on Shakespeare for children. My dissertation is an annotated bibliography of same. I am specializing in both Renaissance lit. and children's lit. I'm interested in children's lit. for cultural reasons; the books we want our children to read in any given era says a great deal about what we think is important, moral, etc. Why did the Lambs want to introduce Shakespeare to children? This became a huge market in the nineteenth century, an age of nationalism in England. By association, I'm interested in cultural studies of Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Hansen, John John Hansen: I'm 24 years of age and have always enjoyed Shakespeare not only for its beautiful writing but also for the reason that it is hard to understand literature without understanding Shakespeare. I'm am not a professional academic, merely a student. I just wish to join to broaden my perspective. =============================================================================== *Hansen, Matthew Matthew C. Hansen: I am a first year graduate student in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Oxford. I completed my Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in English (Concentration in pre-restoration British literature) at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in June 1994. Following graduation I spent a year and half in New York avoiding being 'burned alive in my innocent flannel suit on Madison Avenue' (working in Account Management for an international advertising agency). I continued dreaming in iambic pentameter, however, and couldn't get the Bard or dreams of academia out of my brain. I made application to Oxford and was lucky enough to get in. =============================================================================== *Hapgood, Robert D. Robert Hapgood, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824, (603)862-1313. BA (50), MA (51), PhD (55), UC Berkeley. SAA, ISA, MLA. Book: SHAKESPEARE THE THEATRE-POET (Oxford UP, 1988) and several dozen articles, mostly concerning Shakespeare in performance. Articles forthcoming in Cambridge UP anthologies concerning "Kurosawa's Shakespeare Films" and "A Playgoer's Journey: From Shakespeare to Japanese Classical Theatre and Back". A theatrical-variorum edition of HAMLET is under contract for Cambridge UP's plays-in-performance series. =============================================================================== *Harbison, Kim My name is Kim Harbison. I am a 32 year old graduate student in English. I have always been interested in Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Period. I hope to spend the better part of my academic life studying and teaching Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Hardie, Yvette I am a Speech and Drama teacher at the National School of the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa (where activities apart from teaching include directing productions for the school; running workshops in directing for teachers and pupils and voice-coaching on productions). I also teach voice at the South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Art. Other activities include being a Practical Examiner for Speech and Drama Matriculation exams; a Moderator for the condoning of Learning Support Materials in the area of Arts and Culture and giving Voice classes and workshops for various groups, including Sibikwe Theatre and the Market Theatre Laboratory (teaching post-matric theatre students). I am busy with my second year of study for a Magister Technologiae (Drama) in Voice and Speech through TECHNICON PRETORIA and have an Honours degree in English from the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA; a Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) from the UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN and a Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama. I recently attended the VOICE FOUNDATION'S 27th Annual Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice (1-6 June, Philadelphia) and the 1st Lessac Conference. I am about to direct a high school production of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream". Other productions I have directed include: 1789: The French revolution: Year One; TOP GIRLS; BLOOD FOR BLOOD (an adaptation of five Greek tragedies); ANNIE WARBUCKS; THE WAKEFIELD MYSTERY CYCLE; THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME by Ola Rotimi; CRIMES OF THE HEART; ANNIE. ============================================================= *Hardman, Katherine I am interseted in subscribing to the Shakespeare list which you moderate. I am a sophomore at the Univ of Wash where I plan (hope) to major in English. The first Engl dept class I took was my first quarter freshman year and it was Intro to Shakspeare. I have been to Ashland, OR to see the Shakespeare festival several times and also enjoy watching performances of his work around the Washington DC area, where I live during part of the year. Academically I plan on taking the two higher level classes on Shakespeare which my university offers, but other than that mid 19th century American lit. is really my favorite. I am on several lists for subjects that cater to that interest, but am interested in learning more about Shakespeare in whatever form or fashion THIS list might provide. =============================================================================== *Hargreaves, Geoffrey 1962 BA (English) Oxford, England 1968 Dip. Ed. U of North Wales (Bangor) 1972 Ph. D. (English) U of Victoria Membership: North American Nietzsche Society Articles on archetypal psychology (Falstaff and Hamlet as archetypes) Spring 1976 1982; Numerous translations of Bolivian and Mexican authors. =============================================================================== *Harner, James L. or James L. Harner, Professor of English as Texas A&M University, received his Ph.D. from the U. of Illinois in 1972. He is currently one of the editors of the World Shakespeare Bibliography (published in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY), Chair of the MLA Advisory Committee to the MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, and Medieval and Renaissance advisory editor for G.K. Hall's Reference Guide series. He is the author of LITERARY RESEARCH GUIDE (MLA, 1989), ON COMPILING AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (MLA, 1985), and bibliographies of English Renaissance Prose Fiction (1978, 1985) and Daniel and Drayton. ======================================================================== *Harrawood, Michael I am a doctoral candidate at Berkeley, working on Shakespeare as a dissertation topic. Perhaps I will expand this when I am more familiar with Shaksper, and have a better idea of what I've gotten into. =============================================================================== *Harrington, Elaine I recently completed my M.A. in English at the University of Vermont, where I also work as a writer, covering the humanities. I enjoy reading and watching Shakespeare's plays, of course, and exploring new criticism, especially that dealing with the role of women and colonialism in the plays. One research project led me to investigate how women serve as a medium of exchange in The Merchant of Venice; I like looking at the pro and con arguments of Shakespeare as a feminist or sexist. The connection between English imperialism and a play such as The Tempest -- anything that looks at colonization of people -- is also of interest. Elaine Harrington University of Vermont =============================================================================== *Harrington, Mary Mary E. Harrington: I am a devoted fan of all of Shakespeare's work. I graduated from Stonehill College in May of 1994 with a Bachelor's Degree in English. During my four years in college, I took every Shakespeare course that was offered because I thoroughly enjoyed reading and discussing Shakespeare's works. Currently, I am working as an Editorial Assistant in the Computer Books department at Addison- Wesley. I enjoy my job, but one day I'm planning to open my own bookstore, which will without a doubt have all of Shakespeare's works on the shelves. =============================================================================== *Harris, Gil Institution: Ithaca College Biographical Sketch: BA, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1984 MA (hons), University of Auckland, NZ, 1986 DPhil, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 1990 Professor of English, Ithaca College, 1990-present Recent Publications: "This Is Not A Pipe: Water Supply, Incontinent Sources, and the Leaky Body Politic," in _Enclosure Acts_, ed. Richard Burt and John Michael Archer (Cornell UP, 1994) "'Narcissus in Thy Face': Roman Desire and the Difference It Fakes in _Antony and Cleopatra_," _Shakespeare Quarterly_, vol 45 (1994) _Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England_ (Cambridge University Press, 1997) Research Interests: History of Medicine and Body Image Material and discursive vectors of social change Props in early modern drama ============================================================= *Harris, Kenneth Kenneth Harris, Professor & Chair VOICE: (412) 738-2336 Department of Theatre FAX: (412) 738-2098 Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 BA, English, Bates College MA, PhD, Theatre, University of Iowa Director/producer/teacher in academic theatre since 1963. I've directed ROMEO A ND JULIET and MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. I regularly teach theatre history (with considerable attention t o Shakespeare and his contemporaries) and occasionally dramatic literature courses with Shakespeare te xts (including one memorable semester some time ago in an undergraduate course devoted entirely to HAMLET). A current project involves producing a year-long 16mm film series of Shakespeare movies. This first year we're going for accessibility to our general undergraduate population: the Branagh MUC H ADO and HENRY V, for example, and Polanski's MACBETH. Next year, if we are funded, who knows? If I can find a print of RAN, of the recent Gielgud TEMPEST, etc. I'm also in the thick of planning (with my colleagues David Skeele and Hassell S ledd) a conference set for April 29-30 in Slippery Rock on the plays in what we are calling the "dark corners" of the canon: TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, PERICLES, the Apocrypha, etc. We have commitments to speak from Dennis Kennedy, Terry Hands, Herbert Coursen, and Phyllis Rackin. =============================================================================== *Harris, Leslie D. Leslie D. Harris Assistant Professor Department of English Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, PA 17870 e-mail: lharris@einstein.susqu.edu I received my B.A. in English in 1983 from Yale University (graduated _summa cum laude_; elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1982) and my Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. My dissertation (directed by Jonas A. Barish) discussed transformations of character in "The Ecstasy" by John Donne and in six Shakespeare plays. I argued that such transformations involved an identification between a current, actual state and a desired, possible state. The characters envision the new state as a hypothetical possibility, and that act of creating a possible world (through the use of a subjunctive conditional sentence) helps bring that world into actuality. For example, Henry IV expresses the wish that "some night-tripping fairy had exchang'd / In cradle-clothes our children [that is, Prince Hal and Hotspur] where they lay" (1HIV I.i.85-87). Through this wish, he imagines a world in which "I have his [Northumberland's] Harry, and he mineJ.J.J." (_1HIV_ I.i.89), creating an identification between the two Harrys (Hotspur and Hal). The play brings about this child-swapping when Hotspur and Hal switch roles. Hal assumes the ideal pole that Hotspur had occupied, while Hotspur falls into the role of the rebellious, unruly child, opposing the wishes of the king. In general, the characters imagine a possible world, and that identification between states helps bring that world into reality, sometimes at the expense of other characters. I presented a revised chapter of my dissertation at the 1993 Modern Language Association Convention in Toronto, Canada ("'If I Were King': Possible-Worlds Counterpart as Scapegoat in _Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2_"). Other presentations on the material of my dissertation include "Transformation Through Virtual Play: Coming of Age in _As You Like It_" at the University of Wyoming Conference on English in June 1993; "Moving Beyond the 'Mirror Stage': Dramatic Violations in Donne's _The Ecstasy_" at the Object Relations Psychoanalysis and Literature Workshop, U. C. Berkeley, 24 April 1993; and "The 'Will' and the 'Fault': Tragi-comic Identification in _Measure for Measure_" at the Works in Progress Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, October 1992. My publications include "The Psychodynamic Effects of Virtual Reality," _The Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture_. Volume 2, Issue 1 (28 February 1994); a review of _Getting It Right: Language, Literature and Ethics_, by Geoffrey Galt Harpham, _Philosophy and Literature_ (October 1993); and "The Return of the Repressed, or, The Case of the Fragmented Cousin," published in _Qui Parle_ 2 (SpringJ1988), 77-97. These presentations and publications reflect my interests in English Renaissance literature, possible-worlds semantics, psychoanalysis, and virtual reality. Current research work involves computer-mediated communication, especially the use of Internet lists and MOO spaces to improve the teaching of writing. Part of that research will be presented at the 1994 Computers and Writing Conference in Columbia, Missouri. Future computer-related work will involve hypertext annotation (by students) of passages from Shakespeare plays. I am currently a member of the Modern Language Association, The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, and the Alliance for Computers and Writing. =============================================================================== *Harris, Narrelle My name is Narrelle and I learned to love Shakespeare through a particularly enthusiastic and wonderful high school English teacher who introduced us through 'Hamlet' and the Derek Jacobi production. I have done some acting myself, and still hope one day to perform in a Shakespearean production... one of the witches, perhaps, or Kate. I am a budding writer as well, with two manuscripts currently on the market but, alas, no sales as yet. I look forward to discussing Things Shakespearean on the mailing list and carrying out a little research for a story I would like to write. ============================================================= *Harris, Susan Susan C. Harris Department of English UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 27599-3520 I am a first-year PhD student in the English program at UNC Chapel Hill and am interested in subscribing to your network. My professional area of interest is 20th Century literature, especially contemporary Irish poetry and drama, but the Renaissance has always been an area of personal interest for me, and I want to keep myself up to date on what is going on in the field. =============================================================================== *Harrison, Jane Shakespeare was my major author as an English Literature undergrad at The Catholic University of America. Character development was always a favorite area of study as were the roles of fools/clowns and 'lower' characters. By profession I am a law librarian and my other interests include sailing, golf, and travel. =============================================================================== *Harrison, John C. JOHN HARRISON Senior Theatre Arts Major Department of Theatre Arts University of Oregon jch@oregon.uoregon.edu 779 E. 16th Street #4 Eugene, OR 97401 (503) 687-5625 MY EXPERIENCE WITH SHAKESPEARE: Performances: King Lear - Albany As you Like It (2) - Duke Frederick, Duke Senior A Midsummer Night's Dream - Quince Showcases: Othello - Othello Richard II - King Richard A Midsummer Night's Dream (2) - Bottom, Oberon Macbeth - Macbeth Twelfth Night - Sir Andrew Aguecheek Measure for Measure - Angelo Classes: English Shakespeare (1 year) Acting Styles (1 term) Acting Shakespeare (2 terms) History of Theatre (1 year -- in progress) Lyric Performance (1 term) Shakespearean Skills: Stage Combat, Iambic Pentameter Dramaturgical Research: A Midsummer Night's Dream Career Plans: Graduate School at a major university or college. Emphasizing in Theatre education. Current Interests: Dramaturgy of various Shakespeare plays, current play Titus Andronicus =============================================================================== *Hart, Michael S. or Director, Project Gutenberg 405 WEST ELM ST. URBANA, IL 61801 Project Gutenberg is not officially connected with the University of Illinois, at which the server resides, nor with any other institution, though we do have a working unofficial relationship with many. Most recent publication is in hands of editor, deadline approaching. Will advise when it has a title. Besides the information included below, Project Gutenberg has expressed a great interest in the creation and distribution of electronic texts - etexts, especially of Shakespeare. We currently have been involved for several years in the creation and distribution of several editions, and are working on several more. By the time this gets posted, we hope and pray to have donated copies of the complete works FOR EVERY STUDENT AND THEATER GROUP MEMBER EVER TO ATTEND THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [For complete description of Project Gutenberg, please refer to the SHAKSPER mailing of July 30, 1990 -- KS.] ========================================================= *Hartley, Dominic Currently preparing post graduate thesis on the dramatic symbiosis of Shakespeare and Marlowe (London University). Interests: The obvious subjects which can be inferred from the above The Sonnets and Computer applications and Shakespearean studies. ============================================================= *Hartsough, Eevin My name is Eevin Hartsough. I'm a freshman at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie N.Y. and, after I declare my major in the spring, I will be a double major in drama and history. I'm afraid I don't have any publications or professional memberships yet, but I've been acting professionally since the age of four and would like nothing better than to spend a good deal of the rest of my life acting Shakespeare. Of course, one of the things that facilitates the performance of Shakespeare is the study of the history and the language of Shakespeare's time, which is part of what I hope to learn while at Vassar. In the summer of '93 I spent an intense month studying Shakespeare at the Oxford School of Drama and learned more than I ever thought possible and since then, I have been even more convinced of the importance of such studies as a means of making myself a better actress. Since tenth grade I've been studying the history of Shakespeare, his plays, and his theaters via research papers for history and english classes. At present, I am actively searching out summer stock opportunities (there's not much acting for freshmen at Vassar) for myself and, of course, would most like to spend my summer performing Shakespeare (though, to be quite honest, at this point I'll take what I can get ;-) ). My address here at home is Hartsough@aol.com but I'll be going back to school on January 22 and my address there is eehartsough@vassar.edu =============================================================================== *Hartwig, Joan I have been a Shakespeare scholar since 1967 (when I received my PhD from Washington University in St. Louis) and have published two books and numerous articles on Shakespeare (see c.v.). I have read many papers at different conferences including SAA, Southeastern Renaissance Conference, SAMLA, MLA, Kalamazoo Medieval Congress, the John Donne Conference, Pacific Coast conference, etc. (see c.v.). I have been a member of the SAA since its rebirth in 1972-3 and have attended several of the World Congresses including the first one in Vancouver in 1971. My teaching includes both undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare and in other areas of the English Renaissance (esp. Donne and Marvell). Currently I am working on a book, "The Significance of the Horse in English Renaissance Literature" which includes a section on Shakespeare. I am a full professor at the University of Kentucky where I have been since 1972. One of my special areas of interest is the use of the emblem in English Renaissance literature. My approach to Shakespeare involves awareness of all aspects of the plays as performance scripts. I have directed a number of graduate students in various areas both at the MA and PhD levels. I have only recently learned to use E-mail and would like to be in touch with others who have similar interests. =============================================================================== *Harvey, Elizabeth Elizabeth M. Harvey: I am a teacher of English at a very large high school here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I am just completing my thirty-first year in the classroom and I must admit that teaching is still my favourite pursuit. I teach senior students and Shakespeare is, of course, a mainstay on our very traditional curriculum. I have been a keen student of literature all of my life and I feel very fortunate to have been able to earn my living doing something I love! I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in English and History and Latin; a Bachelor of Education Degree, specializing in secondary education (senior high school); and a Master of Education Degree specializing in English Curriculum design. Our high school curriculum features a Shakespearean play at each grade level. We reserve the tragedies for the senior grade and do comedies and histories at the freshman and junior levels. We always are seeking innovative methods and materials to use with our students. While studying "Hamlet" for example, I show my students a Derek Jacobi version, a Kevin Kline version and even the Mel Gibson film. This year our own drama club will be presenting a shortened version of the play. No matter how many times I teach this material, I find there is always something new to see and experience in the timeless lines of the text.... =============================================================================== *Harvey, Sean E. I am an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota-Morris. I am a theatre arts major and am interested in Shakespeare as a student, actor, and director. As a student of theatre arts I have already encountered numerous Shakespearian plays in a classroom situation and I will doubtless encounter numerous more. As an actor, I have only recently had experience in a Shakespearian play. I have been cast in the role of Cominius in Coriolanus (forgive the grammatical error, if my e-mail editor contains a way to underline or italicize I am unaware of it), a role that fills me with as much anticipation as dread. As a director of Shakespearian theatre, I am also wetting my teeth for the first time. ============================================================= *Hasell, Duncan I am currently a graduate student in the University of Houston - Clear Lake Literature progam. I recieved my BA from New York University in English Literature. I am returning to my first love, literature, after an absence of some years, to paraphrase Milton - after long choosing and beginning late. I am a now a part-time "non-traditional" student nearly finished with my Masters and hope to go on to a Phd full time shortly (within a year). My goal is to eventually write and teach at the university level. One of the areas of Shakespeare studies that has especially interested me is the development of the Elizabethan World view with an eye towards the represenation and metaphors of the New World in the Shakespeare's plays. Other areas that interest me are gender and genre studies and other new historicist approaches to the plays. Although I am not sure I would identify myself with any particular school of criticism I favor anything that is based on a "close" reading of the text but not necessarily limited to it. =============================================================================== *Haslem, Michelle I graduated from the Univ of Nottingham in 1992, and went on to pursue a research degree at the University of Liverpool and University College Chester. The topic of my doctoral project is the Stuart royal family and their masques (1603-25), and I expect to submit my thesis by the end of the year. My approach is a broadly New Historicist one, although my interest in the other members of the royal family beside King James complicates the model of the masque proposed by Stephen Orgel. I am particularly interested in the masques of Queen Anne, and have a paper going to press in the UK as part of an essay collection entitled 'The Body of Truth' - my essay is called 'Making a spectacle of herself:Queen Anne and the Stuart Court Masque'. My work on masques has also resulted in my working on Shakespeare - especially the Late Plays. At Kalamazoo 1998 I gave a paper on the '(De)Mystification of monarchical power: (Anti)Masque in the Tempest', and will be giving a paper there in 1999 on 'Women's Bodies in Shakesperean Drama: Images and Iconoclasm' ============================================================= *Haslem, Michelle I am a full time research student at University College Chester and the University of Liverpool, (U.K) and am in my second year of research for a PhD on court masques and entertainments in the early Stuart court. I am particularly interested in the role of noble women in court performances. I have a general research interest in early modern drama, and the use of masques, dumb shows and plays within plays in the public drama of the period. =============================================================================== *Hatch, Anthony Korotko I graduated with a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1990. My senior thesis film received the distinction of Magna cum Laude and awarded the John Gunn Scholar- ship for excellent academic acheivement. At Harvard I also received the Thomas Levy Prize for outstanding work in the theater, and acted in over 20 theater productions including (at the Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge) MACBETH, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, and IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM. Classical and modern acting and directing classes were taken under the direction of the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge. Since graduating, I have lived in the Boston area working primarily in the performing arts. I have been a member of the Common/wealth Theater Collaborative since 1990 (working as actor and writer in collaboration with other members of the company). Common/wealth's productions have included historical reworkings of Hawthorne's YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, EVERYMAN, DREAMWORK, and HAMLET. Other acting work has included The Vermont Actors Theater and In-House Productions (Boston). In addition to my work in the theater, I have written and directed several short films. The films have been screened in festivals in the United States and Europe, including Santa Fe Film Festival, NM, and Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany. I have been the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Office for the Arts, and of a New England Film and Video Fellowship from the Boston Film and Video Foundation. =============================================================================== *Hatch, Robert Robert G. Hatch; M.A. student, department of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada My interests relevant to Shakespeare are diverse, but I am presently looking at the relationship between language, referentiality, agency and responsibility in Shakespeare's texts. This would include the problem of reading others by what they say or play (Macbeth and Hamlet), and the danger's of attenuated referentiality if one's language is circumscribed by narrow ideals (Hotspur on honour) or is rendered seductively delusary and self-generating by it very richness (Falstaff's danger to himself and Hal when they are called upon to function in historical time responsibly, with lives and the crown at stake). Essentially, I'm exploring through Shakespeare, Heidegger and Derrida language's capacity to disclose, forclose and delude both oneself and others. But send anything my way, for my interests are not circumscribed by this description of my present research. ;-) =============================================================================== *Hatcher, Judy I am a graduate student at the University of Houston at Clear Lake. I am working on my MA in literature. Hopefuly, I will finish in December and get a job teaching at a community college. My greatest desire is to teach literature and writing. =============================================================================== *Hatchuel, Sarah My name is Sarah Hatchuel and I'm a Shakespearean student at the Sorbonne University in Paris. I have been studying the work of Kenneth Branagh for some time now. I am doing a Ph.D. on "Shakespeare and the movies: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet, creation and reception". I've already studied the changes needed for this democratisation in terms of text adaptation, acting, directing, and music. I also interviewed Mr. Branagh's composer, Patrick Doyle, and his textual adviser, Dr. Russell Jackson from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. I also teach English/French translation to first-year students at the Sorbonne. Looking forward to participate to SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Haugaard, Søs I am a 34-year-old graduate in English and Drama and the president of the Danish Shakespeare Society. I am a lecturer at Frederiksberg College of Education, Copenhagen. My degree thesis, "Life's Victory over Death" deals with the thematic and structural elements of Shakespearean comedy and romance relating to folk rituals and seasonal festivals. Northrop Frye's theories of myth and genre were important sources of inspiration for this study. The plays primarily dealt with in the thesis are "Twelfth Night", "As You Like It", "The Tempest" and "The Winter's Tale". Earlier this year an article of mine, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light - An essay on 'King Lear'" appeared in "Angles", a periodical published by the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen. Currently I am working on a paper dealing with the theme of defamation and notoriety in "Antony and Cleopatra". I am particularly interested in a possible change in the presentation of female power on the English stage after the accession to the throne of James I in 1603. I would be interested in hearing from anybody with views, comments or ideas - including recommended reading - - on the portrayal of power in Shakespeare's plays seen in the context of the contemporary power structure in England under Elizabeth I and James I respectively. I would of course also be happy to supply views, comments, ideas etc in any context where I may be able to help. This biography should give you an idea of what areas of the field I have dealt with in the past. Further, I should be happy to hear from any other shakespeare societies around the world with a view to exchanging ideas and information. Any readers of this living in or near Copenhagen should of course join at once! ============================================================= *Hauser, Heidi My name is Heidi Hauser and I am interested in joining the Shaksper mailing list. Presently, I am a senior at Niagara University (Niagara Falls, NY). I will be graduating with a B.A., English in May and plan to continue on to graduate school in September. I am currently enrolled in the senior seminar here, a class focused this term upon Chaucer's *Troilus & Criseyde* and Shakespeare's *Troilus & Cressida*. My main research project is presently focused on Shakespeare's *T&C* - The parallels that can be found between the Greek-Trojan conflict and the Troilus- Cressida relationship. One of my primary reasons for joining the Shaksper list is to pick the brains of Shaksper's scholars ... I am looking forward to the challenge this project will present, but at the same time I am more than willing to accept any clues about where I should look for resources, different aspects of the play I may be overlooking, etc. =============================================================================== *Hawkes, David TERENCE HAWKES. Professor of English, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff. PO Box 94, CARDIFF CF1 3XE, BRITAIN. Publications include SHAKESPEARE AND THE REASON (1964); SHAKESPEARE'S TALKING ANIMALS(1973); THAT SHAKESPEHEREAN RAG (1986); MEANING BY SHAKESPEARE (1992). General Editor, NEW ACCENTS series (Routledge); Editor of the journal TEXTUAL PRACTICE. =============================================================================== *Hawkins, Paul I am interested in becoming a member of SHAKSPER. My interest in Shakespeare is as an actor, director, and student and teacher of literature. I am currentlycompleting my M.A. at Concordia University, Montreal, where I finished my B.A. in l990. My master's thesis is a prosodic analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets focusing particularly on their line endings. I have taught within the English departments of Concordia University, Marianopolis College and Dawson College. As an actor, I trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, and have playedDon Pedro in *Much Ado About Nothing* and Oberon in *A Midsummer Night's Dream*,and have dubbed the role of Hamlet (some major soliloquies only) from French into English in *A Touch of Genius* for Cinelume, Montreal. I directed *The Attempted Assassination of the Queen* (an evening of Scottish poetry and music) at the World Scottish Festival in l992, and was the assistant director of *The Importance of Being Earnest* at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, in l993. =============================================================================== Patterson, Daniel My name is Daniel L. Patterson and I am an associate professor of Theatre at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. I am not a Shakespearean scholar, at least in my opinion. I am, however, an actor who to date has played in 14 of the Bard's works. Some of my work was done while an undergraduate at The University of Texas in Austin where I earned both my BFA and MFA in 1973 and 1975, respectively. The major body of the work that I have done as an actor, however, has been with the THEATREWORKS Shakespeare Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The highlight of my career thus far has been to play the title role in MACBETH. I have also worked at several smaller Shakespeare Festivals including the now defunct Champlain Shakespeare Festival in Burlington, Vermont.Two years ago I summoned up the courage to direct my first Shakespearean production: ROMEO AND JULIET, at KSC where I currently teach acting and directing. My major interest in joining the SHAKESPER list is to learn more about this fascinating man. My surface mail address is: Daniel L. Patterson Department of Theatre Keene State College Keene, NH 03435-2402 Phone: (603)358-2198 e-mail: dpatters@keene.edu =============================================================================== *Hawkins, Paul My interest in Shakespeare is as an actor, director, and student and teacher of literature. I currently teach English at Marianopolis College and Dawson College in Montreal. Previously, I have taught in the English Department at Concordia University, where I completed my M.A. (1995) and my B.A. (1990). My master's thesis is a study of prosody using the line-endings of Shakespeare's sonnets as its primary case study. As an actor, I trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, and have played Don Pedro in *Much Ado About Nothing* and Oberon in *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and have dubbed the role of Hamlet for Cinelume, Montreal. I directed *The Attempted Assassination of the Queen* (an evening of Scottish poetry and music) at the World Scottish Festival in Montreal (1992) and was Assistant Director of *The Importance of Being Earnest* at Canada's Stratford Festival (1993). =============================================================================== Burdman, Stephen In the last few years, I have directed a mixture of the classics and contemporary productions including: Hamlet, Three Sisters, "What You Will" or Twelfth Night, On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, Alice in Wonderland, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, Women and Wallace, No Exit, The Bear, Come Blow Your Horn, Dutchman, Pitz & Joe and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. I have also worked as an Assistant Director for South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger (Merchant of Venice directed by Michael Langham, with Brian Bedford and Kelly McGillis), and San Diego Repertory Theatre. I recently completed my Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Irvine. I am also an alumni of the National Theater Institute (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center). In 1989 I took part in the first young theatre artist exchange with the (former) Soviet Union and was selected this year as a national finalist for the 1995 Director's Project Fellowship through The Drama League of New York. I am a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the artistic director of Brave New Repertory in Los Angeles. My next major project will be a production of Cymbeline with Brave New Repertory. My interests lie primarily in the production of Shakespeare's plays for contemporary audiences and the future of theatrical production. =============================================================================== *Haworth, Nicholas My full name is Nicholas Mark Haworth. I am a 17 year old student currently studying 'Hamlet' at A-level. I am attending Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, England. My current interests would basically be based on 'Hamlet'. I am interested in any aspect of the play, but partly the meanings of the various soliloquys. Currently, we are studying 'Hamlet' in depth, analysing it line by line. =============================================================================== *Hawthorne, Mark D. Bitnet Internet I am interested in Shakespeare and Shakespeare studies, but only from the sidelines. I am teaching a course (experimentally now) at James Madison University at Harrisonburg, VA, in the uses of computers for English majors. To work with text, I have provided the students with copies of the first Quarto, second Quarto, and first Folio of Hamlet; the students must create a workable text, defend their choices, and justify their final readings. Later we will tag the edition of Hamlet that they have produced so that it can be analysized using TACT. We will also study liguistic variations using MTAS. Obviously, my interest in Shakespeare has to do with text, not production. My full name is Mark D. Hawthorne. I am a professor of English at JMU, where I have taught for 17 years. I hold the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where I earned them in the very early '60s. My publications have been entirely in nineteenth-century British and Anglo-Irish literature, though lately I have been working in Spanish with CAI to teach business correspondance and advanced grammar. I will continue using Shakespearean plays in my Computers in English course, largely because the texts offer many interesting and challenging problems and partly because the students like to work with them as they are learning techniques that can be used elsewhere. ======================================================================== *Hayashi, Yoshiya Biographical sketch : an undergraduate student of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. a student of Oxford Univ. Department Of Continuing Education Corrent Interest : Possibility of dictionaries "Standard English" =============================================================================== *Haynal, Richard I am an English major (undergraduate) at the University of Hawaii and have chosen Shakespeare as my major author to study. As such I have not really published or attended any conferences although would consider if close enough. I became hooked on Shakespeare after reading Hamlet in one of my earlier literature classes. I am fascinated with how Shakespeare developes both the characters and the plot. My surface mail & phone: Richard Haynal 3030 Pualei Circle Apt 111 Honolulu, HI 96815 Phone: (808) 926-6800 I am a student and an aspiring Shakespearean, I would appreciate it it I could be entered into this conference. =============================================================================== *Haynes, Robert Ph.D. University of Georgia 1991. Dissertation: The Dramaturgy of Early Tudor Dialogue, directed by Walter M. Gordon. Have taught at UGA, at Georgia Tech, and at Georgia Southern University. Currently teaching Medieval/Renaissance literature at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Attended NEH Summer Institute "Culture in Crisis: Italy 1494-1527" this summer at Northwestern University. =============================================================================== *Hays, Diann I am a member of NCTE and wish to subscribe to the Shakespeare discussion list recently published in the December edition of English Journal. My interest in Shakespeare began in high school with Macbeth and developed later in college during a lit class. I am in awe of the bard's knowledge of and understanding about human nature and that is an area about which I would like to learn more. A paper I wrote in college explored the dark psychological duo of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from the Jungian perspective of the introvert/extrovert union. My reference wrote that Shakespeare apprehended that about such a combination and therefore the play Macbeth was born. Although my knowledge about Shakespearean theory, critical analysis, etc. is small, my curiosity and desire to learn more about Shakespeare is vast. This semester I will be teaching Shakespeare for the first time to high school students. My goal is to turn them on to the bard. =============================================================================== *Hayward, Steven 1970s: taught Shakespeare (amongst other things) at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in N. London. 1982-85: Head of English at Middlesex1985-93: Deputy Principal, Central School of Speech and Drama, London (taught and directed Shakespeare) 1991-92: spent a year at Horace Mann School, Bronx 1993: moved to Singapore, as above, where I teach Shakespeare within the Literature curriculum and use Shakespeare in acting classes. Essays on 'King Lear' and on 'Richard II' have been published in the Longman Critical essays series (London 1988 and 1989). Conference papers include the postcolonial treatment of Shakespeare in Singapore, given in Hong Kong - a variation on this will be given at the Brisbane 'Material Shakespeare' conference in July 1998. My main productions have been a collage piece on women in Shakespeare ('Passion lends them Power') at Central School, and a professional production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in Singapore. My Shakespeare research interest focuses on cross-cultural adaptations and directorial practice. ============================================================= *Heil, Darren It was in my 12th grade honors English class that I first: 1.) learned to appreciate, and 2.) fall in love with Shakespeare's writing - especially Hamlet, which (alongside Crime & Punishment) literally *changed* my life. It's 10 years later & my passion has been renewed as of late, largely due to Branagh's full version Hamlet movie. I am a writer currently putting together a reference book of pseudonyms, ghostwriters, anonymous works - everything in which the *actual* author (or artist - as I include artists and those involved in movies/tv) goes uncredited. It's been fun corresponding & talking with several of my favorite writers - hundreds of them. In attempting to be as thorough as possible - not to mention accurate - I've not placed any limits on time or location of authors. This would benefit readers, book collectors, students, scholars, and teachers. After 5-6 years, this book is very near completion & it should be no surprise that I'm extremely interested in the various views & opinions concerning the authorship of WS's works.I'm 28, have been married 9 years (this Nov 3rd), have two daughters (Lynne, 6 & Nicole, 4) & 1 son (Tristan, 2). Born & raised in Nebraska. My wife joined the Navy (after *I* backed out) & we moved to San Diego in 1992 (just reenlisted for 4 more years). I worked in a San Diego bookstore for about six months but have now got the best job in the world: write all day & be a "housedad." And, of course, study Shakespeare. My schooling: only one semester years ago, but I've already plans to attend a school in CA full time (Aug 1999) once this book has been finished. =========================================================== *Heinrich, Alexandra Alexandra Heinrich, student of English and Russian Studies and East European History at Cologne University. I have been to Stratford-upon-Avon twice where groups from our English department attended seminars at the Shakespeare Center and watched the performances of the RSC. Since then I am most interested in the realisation of the plays on stage or in film. Another older field of interest is gender studies, namely relationships and the`personification' of good and evil in women characters. =============================================================================== *Helfers, James Dr. James P. Helfers Assistant Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ. M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Member: MLA, NCTE. While at the University of Michigan, I focused on the English Renaissance and on genre studies. My dissertation, FROM PILGRIMAGE TO EXPLORATION: THE IMAGE OF THE JOURNEY IN NON-FICTIONAL TRAVEL NARRATIVES OF THE ENGLISH TRADITION, A.D. 1000-1625, uses representative texts to explore the changes in the struc- tural motif of the journey in non-fictional English travel narratives from the medieval period through the Renaissance. My teaching specialty at G.C.U. is English literature (all periods), though I also teach a number of writing courses. In addition, I teach the only Shakespeare course in our literature offerings. My first article, THE MYSTIC AS PILGRIM: MARGERY KEMPE AND THE TRADITION OF NON-FICTIONAL TRAVEL NARRATIVE, was published in the JOURNAL OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SOCIETY 13 (1992). At the moment, I am slated to present a conference session on Shakespeare and computers for the 1994 Arizona Shakespeare Festival (this session meets in Flagstaff August 7- 13). Addresses and Phone Number: Department of Humanities/Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University, 3300 West Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85017-1097. (602) 589-2467. E-Mail: ATJPH@ASUACAD.EDU =============================================================================== *Heller, Scott I am a reporter for The Chronicle who writes about scholarly issues in the humanities, as well as about scholarly publishing for our weekly Hot Type column. Most immediately I am doing a lengthy piece about Shakespeare anthologies for classroom use, prompted by the introduction of the NNorton volume based on the Oxford edition. I would like to get ideas for sources for that piece, as well as ideas about future stories on Shakespeare, early modern studies, new historicism, and so on. I have gained greatly from similar participation in lists on American literature, film, American studies, Yiddish, and art history. =============================================================================== *Helphinstine, Frances Frances L. Helphinstine is Professor of English at Morehead State University Morehead, KY 40351 (606) 783-2778; home 311 Sun Street, Morehead, KY 40351 (606) 783-1588. e-mail f.helphi@msuacad.morehead-st.edu I have a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature and drama genre from Indiana University (Bloomington) l978 having several seminars with Roy Battenhouse, Charles Forker, and Albert Wertheim, my dissertation director, among others. I regularly teach a course in modern drama, the bibliography course required for our MA in English, World Literature to l650, and general education composition. I have had NEH's on 5th century B.C. Greek drama with Marsh McCall at Stanford and on Renaissance Neoplatonism with Michael Allen at UCLA. I annually contribute a paper to one of the SAA seminars, prepare papers on modern drama for groups such as the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, and take non-English major student groups to the Stratford Ontario Festival (where productions are influenced by contemporary trends in theatre). Summer l993 I was lucky enough to have a grant to study at the Folger Library (which fed my SAA paper comparing Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida). I have worked on issues such as how production of Shakespeare is influenced by the cultural events of the time of the production, etc. (Maybe because that I am part of the general education reform on our campus that is hooked into the national trend to emphasize cultural diversity). I participated in a NEH at Williams College on Boundaries and Borderlands in summer l994. I have published a feminist Shakespeare paper "Volumnia the Life of Rome." I am past president of the Kentucky Philological Association and the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts. I work with campus Phi Kappa Phi multidisciplinary honor organization and with Kappa Delta Pi education honorary at the state level in Delta Kappa Gamma International Women Teachers Honorary. Need I say more to explain why I have an average of two to four paper presentations per year but only an average of one publication every two or three years. =============================================================================== *Helsinger, Jim Name: JIM HELSINGER e-mail: JHelsinger@aol.com Snail-mail: 417 W. 50th #1B, New York, NY 10019 Voice-mail: (212) 496-3051 Profession: Professional Actor, Director, Playwright B.A. in Theatre Miami University, Ohio M.F.A. in Acting, Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama Unions: AEA, AFTRA, SAG I am a classical actor and have performed in about 30 or so productions of Shakespeare at the Alabama, Utah, Orlando, Hudson Valley, Riverside, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals and elswhere. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Petruchio, Mercutio, Malvolio, Bassanio, Orlando, both Antipholii, and others. I've also done TV (One Life to Live, Loving, and All My Children) and the lead in the feature film, Liability Crisis, which just played the Independent Film Festival in NY. I will be directing Taming of the Shrew at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Spring 1995, and am currently performing my own one-man show "Dracula: The Journal of Jonathon Harker" in NJ. Look forward to discussing approaches to Shakespeare, performance techniques, concepts, dramaturgy, and management ideas for professional shakespeare companies. =============================================================================== *Hendershott-Kraetzer, Kirk Kirk L. Hendershott-Kraetzer 907 Fourth Street Jackson, MI 49203 (517) 787-5693 doctoral candidate Department of English Michigan State University adjunct faculty Department of Language and Literature Jackson Community College A.B. Hope College, English, 1987. M.F.A. Western Michigan University, English/Creative Writing, 1990. Ph.D. Michigan State University, English, expected 1995. Member Shakespeare Association of America Major projects: Dissertation: "Radical Re-visions of Shakespeare on Film and Television." Chapters concern Olivier's Lear v. the BBC Lear; Branagh's Ado; Zeffirelli's Hamlet and multiple quotations/ appropriations/adaptations of and from Hamlet in several popular films; Forbidden Planet, Jarman's and Mazursky's Tempests; Men of Respect, Castle of the Spider's Web, and Polanski's Macbeth; China Girl; Shakespeare: The Animated Tales; Prospero's Books; and My Own Private Idaho. The Introduction and Conclusion will concern multivalent views of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's plays, including multimedia applications of the plays and mediated versions of them, and what these mean for Shakespeare studies, studies of Shakespeare films, teaching of Shakespeare and how culture constructs ideas of Shakespeare. I am working on essays which will eventually become dissertation chapters. These concern China Girl and how it deals with ideas of family via Romeo and Juliet ("O Romeo! Shakespeare, the Mafia, the Triads and Ferrara's China Girl," presented at SAA 1994); the dialogic visuals and narratives in Prospero's Books ("Simultaneous/Demolished/Shakespeare's/ Books/Greenaway's/Prospero," to be presented at SAA 1995); and how visual structures influence meaning in the Olivier and BBC versions of King Lear ("Embossed Carbuncles and Unnatural Hags: (Dis)similar Views of a Shakespearean Play"). Other projects are, in collaboration with my teaching partners at JCC, an essay on teaching Shakespeare and Taming of the Shrew as part of an interdisciplinary Humanities course at a small community college ("Sixty Minute Shakespeare," currently under submission to Shakespeare Quarterly); I'm holding fire on essays concerning feast and community in Shakespeare, presentations of androgynous, threatening women in Jacobean and Caroline tragedy, and Spenser's "Muiopotmos." Current interests include any of the above, plus hypermedia, film and television theory, and how these things can be incorporated into effective teaching. I am also interested in sleep deficit-related psychoses. =============================================================================== *Henderson, Dianah E. Diana E. Henderson; Asst. Prof. Eng.,Middlebury College, Midd.VT 05753; Co- Chair Women's Studies 1991-3; Ph.D. Columbia U. '89; B.A. Wm. & Mary '79; MLA,Women's Caucus, AAUW, PBK; Editorial Board, Bread Loaf WRiters' Conf., '89-91; articles on Heywood (SEL) Joyce (MFS) forthcoming on Spenser (MLA) Ren. Women Lyricists; book on Eliz. lyric, gender, performance, forthcoming. =============================================================================== *Henderson, Kathy I am a high school English teacher at Geneva High School in New York. I heard about the list from Skip Nicholson who is a member of the AP English list. He mentioned that Norm Holland belongs and I wondered if he was the same man who taught English at UB 20 years ago. I have not published at all but I love Shakespeare and just wanted to listen in on some scholarly discussions. ============================================================= *Henderson, Paul Robert Currently seeking M.A. in English at Youngstown State University Teach a variety of Shakespeare's works in regular and advanced grades 9-12. I have been teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Midsummer Night's Dream. I will be adding Henry V and Taming of the Shrew next year. I have been incorporating ideas gained from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute as a guide to teaching through performance. Recently I have been tracing words as they develop in the plays, ie, the deterioration of the connotative meaning of "blood" in Macbeth as it relates to the decomposition of Macbeth's personality. =============================================================================== *Henderson, Ty Hi, my name is Ty Henderson. I am a 21 year old junior at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio. I am dual majoring in Liberal Studies and English. I have just completed a Shakespearean Drama course and found I can't get enough of the Bard. I look forward to having many discussions with other members about the meanings and techniques used by Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Hendricks, Margo Margo Hendricks Assistant Professor, Literature University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (408) 459-2258 Current Interests: Gender studies, Colonialism, Early Modern Lexicons, Race, non-dramatic literature. Professional membership: Shakespeare Assn of America, MLA, Philological Assn of Pacific Coast, Marlowe Society Current Projects: A study of possessive individualism and Aphra Behn; a manuscript on "Race" and Renaissance Lexicons Publications: co-editor (with Patricia Parker), Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period (Routledge, 1993); "Managing the Barbarian: The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage," Renaissance Drama (1993); "Feminism, The Roaring Girls, and Me" Changing Subjects, eds. Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn (Routledge, 1992); "A Painter's Eye: Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl," Women's Studies 1990. =============================================================================== *Henerson, Matthew My name is Matthew Henerson. I am twenty-seven years old. I have been a professional actor for the last four years and an amateur for some years before that. I am currently enrolled in the MFA acting program at UC San Diego, and I graduate in March 1995. I have done many things--most young actors have to--including building bookshelves for Texaco, inventorying adult video tapes for Tower Records, and teaching at an all-girls high school in my native Los Angeles. My interest in Shakespeare is personal as well as professional. I am an amateur production historian and archivist. My personal library includes hundreds of programs, more than four hundred long-playing records (recordings of everything from complete performances of the plays to critical discussions), and close to one hundred video tapes. I have acted in fourteen productions of nine plays (including *Timon of Athens*) and directed two others. I have carried a spear. I have played leading roles. I haven't made much money at it, although I have seen a lot of the country while I was doing it. I am joining this service because I like to talk about Shakespeare, and to track down a friend of mine from college, Gavin Witt, who I believe subscribes to this service. I hope this is enough. If you need more, please let me know. If not, I look foreward to hearing from you and from others subscribing to the service. =============================================================================== *Henke,Robert Robert Henke Assistant Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature Performing Arts Department and Committee on Comparative Literature Washington University (St Louis) Publications:"The Winter's Tale and Guarinian Dramaturgy," Comparative Drama 27 (1993)197-217 Memberships: MLA, SAA, Renaissance Society of America, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, American Society for Theatre Research Major Projects: A book-length study on Shakespeare's late plays and Italian tragicomedy Current Interests and Research Topics: Shakespeare and Italian drama, the commedia dell'arte, Popular entertainment in early modern Italy and England (e.g., mountebank performances), carnival, ritual, anthropological approaches to early modern drama, genre theory Surface mail address: Robert Henke Performing Arts Department Box 1108 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Degrees Held Ph.D.in Comparative Literature, Univeristy of California, Berkeley, 1991 M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 B.A. in Philosophy, Yale University, 1977 Telephone: Work (314) 935-5858 Home (314) 721-2204 =============================================================================== *Henley, Dennis E. I am systems manager for a color prepress house in the Chicago suburbs. I received my BA in the Teaching of English in 1975 and have worked on my graduate degree in Computer Science in the 1980s when employers were still receptive to the idea of continuing education and were willing to allow employees time of for such endeavors. Although I enjoy my job, I miss the intellectual stimulation that was available at the university level. Sadly my co-workers' response to any mention of Shakespeare is "Ugh! How can you be interested in that?" To get back into the academic swing, I have enrolled in a distance learning course at Berkeley which covers five of Shakespeare's plays. (I am fairly curious about distance learning and want to see how a course like this works compared to a computer language course in which I am also enrolled.) Publication Projects: I am working on an electronic version of A Midsummer Night's Dream that presents the original play and allows the reader to switch to a modern English version at the click of a mouse. There will be the usual hypertext links and some critical material. Just trying to "translate" this play into modern English has forced me to think about it in new ways. I don't have a publication date scheduled yet (due to a heavy work schedule and the distance learning classes), but I feel I would be wasting everybody's time if I couldn't produce a final version within two years. ============================================================= *Henley, T. F. I am an undergraduate student of critical theory and have had an interest in Shakespeare and his sensibilities since my high school days. Please consider this an earnest request for membership to the list. =============================================================================== *Henly, Carolyn Carolyn P. Henly is currently in her third year at Meadowbrook H.S. in Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches A.P. English, English 12 Honors, 9th and 11th grade English, and Theatre Production. Mrs. Henly is the coordinator of the MBK gifted program, and has recently been made a representative to the district advisory committee for the gifted program. Prior to moving to the Richmond area, Mrs. Henly taught for seven years in a suburban St. Louis high school where she taught Continents & Cultures, a tenth grade integrated-interdisciplinary course which she helped to develop, and Drama. She also sponsored the Orienteering club and the Thespians Club, as well as overseas travel programs for students. She was the past Assistant Debate Coach. Before moving to the St. Louis area, Mrs. Henly taught for one year at New Trier Township H.S. in Winnetka, Illinois, and for three years in the Rhetoric department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Mrs. Henly has won several awards during her career, including a 1992 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study Shakespeare in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, a 1996 NEH grant to study Oscar Wilde and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in London, a 1995 Missouri Endowment for the Humanities grant to study Shakespeare at UMKC, the 1991 Renaissance Travel Grant from Webster Groves H. S., and a national award for lesson design from the Arts & Entertainment Network in 1991. She was a member of the Webster Groves Writing Project team which won a national award for Action Research in 1990, and which has also recently published a book detailing the study. Mrs. Henly enjoys writing in her spare time, and has published a number of papers in professional journals, including a paper in English Journal on teaching Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye. This was Mrs. Henly's first publication in that national journal, and it was awarded the 1993 Paul and Kate Farmer Award for Excellence in Writing from the National Council of Teachers of English. She has a new paper, on Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, in Statement, the journal of the Colorado Language Arts association. Mrs. Henly is Playwright-in-Residence for StageCraft Productions in Chicago, which produced one of her plays in the fall of 1991; the show was revived in the fall of 1992. She is currently working on a second play commissioned by that company. She has completed, but not yet sold, a novel and an original children's fairy tale. She also writes poetry and creative nonfiction. Mrs. Henly was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended the University of California at San Diego, earned a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Secondary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) from the University of Illinois. She plans to pursue a PhD in English-studying the "problem plays" of Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Hennignfeld, Diane A. <0006355739@mcimail.com> Diane Andrews Henningfeld dhenningfeld@MCIMail.com Assistant Professor Department of English Adrian College Adrian, Michigan I have been a full-time, tenure track faculty member at Adrian College for the past three years. During this time, I have also been completing doctoral studies at Michigan State University with concentrations in Old English, Middle English, and 16th Century literature. My dissertation (which I will defend on 3/17/94) is entitled "Contextualizing Rape: Sexual Violence in Middle English LIterature." I am a member of the Medieval Academy and the Modern Language Association. Although my publication record is limited to a short book review in the _Yearbook of Langland Studies_, I will be actively trying to publish portions of my dissertation once the defense is out of the way. I regularly give papers at conferences including the Medieval Institute at Kalamazoo, the MSU Chaucer Colloquium, Chaucer at Grand Valley, and the CAES Conference at Ball State (where I have twice been awarded prizes in the Novus Competition for Emerging Scholars). Although I have obviously spent most of my academic career in medieval studies, my teaching load rarely includes classes in this area. I do, however, regularly teach Shakespeare, and I feel the need to be in conversation with others who are actively researching, studying, and teaching. Not only will my students benefit from a more alert teacher, I will also be able to talk about issues not generally discussed on Adrian's campus. We are such a small community that it becomes quite easy to isolate ourselves from the larger academic community. I expect to continue my writing and researching in both medieval and 16th century topics, particularly in gender studies and new historical criticism. =============================================================================== *Henningfeld, Diane A 1974 graduate of Adrian College, I am very happy to have returned to my alma mater to teach classes including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Brit Lit I, and History of the English Language, among others. I finished my Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Michigan State University in May, 1994. Currently, I am team teaching a class called Shakespeare in Performance with the chair of our theatre department. It is so gratifying to see students who are not English major dive into Shakespeare with such relish. I will also be developing a new class on 16th Century literature for our department. In addition to my English classes, I also team teach History 216: Medieval Europe with one of my friends in the History Department. My current research interests include new historical and feminist readings of Shakespeare. In addition, I am interested in pedagogical issues surrounding the teaching of Shakespeare to young students. ============================================================= *Henry, Gregg Gregg Henry Associate Professor/Director of Theatre at Iowa State University. Vice Chair- Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival-Region 5 (Iowa,Missouri,Kansas,Nebraska,North and South Dakota,Colorado,Minnesota) BA in Theatre Arts from Glassboro State College (now Rowan College of New Jersey)1980, MFA in acting, University of Michigan, 1984. My interests are principally in the contemporary production of Shakespeare with a particular interest in the reasons theatres and universities are producing the plays. Why this play now? I have no active publication record. Gregg Henry ISU Theatre,210 Pearson Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 (515)294-7611, FAX (515)294-2652 =============================================================================== *Henry, Karen S. At Bedford Books, I manage the development of the English list and I serve as the sponsoring editor for the Bedford Shakespeare Series. I quote from Jean E. Howard, our Series Editor, to give you an idea of the aims of the Bedford Shakespeare Series: "The Bedford Shakespeare Series resituates Shakespeare within the sometimes alien context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while inviting students to explore ways in which Shakespeare, as text and cultural icon, continues to be part of contemporary life. Each volume frames a Shakespearean play with a wide range of written and visual material from the early modern period, such as homilies, polemical literature, emblem books, facsimiles of early modern documents, maps, woodcut prints, court records, other plays, medical tracts, ballads, chronicle histories, and travel narratives. Selected to reveal the many ways in which Shakespeare's plays were connected to the events, discourses, and social structures of his time, these documents and illustrations also show the contradictions and the social divisions in Shakespeare's culture and in the plays he wrote." The first play in the Bedford Shakespeare Series was Fran Dolan's edition of "The Taming of the Shrew" (1996). In December 1996 we will publish Barbara Hodgdon's edition of "The First Part of King Henry the Fourth." In addition to these plays, we also include Russ McDonald's "Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents" (1996) as part of the series. Forthcoming volumes include Bill Carroll's "Macbeth," Kim Hall's "Othello," Dympna Callaghan's "Romeo and Juliet," Gail Paster and Skiles Howard's "A Midsummer Night's Eve," Valerie Wayne's "The Winter's Tale," and Jean Howard's "As You Like It," among others. I am very interested in the teaching of Shakespeare at the college level and in publishing books that support this teaching. =============================================================================== *Hensley, Jennifer My name is Jennifer Hensley and I'm a 17 year old from Ankeny, IA. I'm a senior in high school. I am going to be an English teacher when I grow up. I like Shakespeare but I do not know a lot about him. ============================================================= *Hepps, Marcia OK, here goes. I did my undergrad at Columbia Univ., studied acting at RADA and with Herbert Berghoff, got my Equity card and acted in NYC for a number of years, went to Utah and worked at Sundance and taught High School, came to Boston to act and got my MFA at Brandeis. I acted, directed and taught full time at UMASS Boston for 4 yrs. and this spring was offered a tenured position as head of acting and directing at Indiana/Purdue Fort WAyne Where I am directing U.S.A. in the fall and Romeo & Juliet in the Spring. =============================================================================== *Herman, Fred Graduate Student, Queens College, CUNY I have a BA in English from Queens College, and I am about to start work on an MA here. I plan to go on for a PhD, and a career as a Professor of English. My personal feelings regarding Shylock notwithstanding, I have always been something of a Shakespeare enthusiast, and would like to be more heavily exposed to and involved in Shakespeare criticism. If any other information is needed, I'll be happy to provide it. ========================================================= *Herman, Peter My name is Peter C. Herman. I received my doctorate from Columbia University in 1990. I am the editor of _Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts_, and the author of articles in SEL, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Renaissance and Reformation, and Criticism. My essay, "Shakespeare's _Henry V_ and the Crisis of the 1590s_," can be found in _Tudor Political Culture_, ed. Dale Hoak (Cambridge UP, 1995). My fbook, _Squitter-Wits and Muse-Haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment_, is forthcoming in June 1996 from Wayne State University Press. My current research interests include renaissance historiography (my article on Hall and More is forthcoming in Texas Studies) and the relations between Shakespeare's plays and the crisis of authority permeating the 1590s. =============================================================================== *Herman, Peter After a summer and a semester recess from SHAKESPER, during which I moved from Georgia State U to a tenure-track position in the Dept. of English at San Diego State University, I would like to rejoin this list. I am currently working on an essay on the problem of usury in Shakespeare's Sonnets, and I've written on Henry V and the crisis of the 1590s, a topic that I will be returning to next fall when I teach a graduate class on the 1590s and the literature of crisis. Previous publications include _Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment (Wayne State UP, 1996) and _Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts (U of Illinois P, 1994). =============================================================================== *Hersey, Glen A. <73632.1117@compuserve.com> I am part of the 108 year old Shakespeare Club of Worcester Mass. Would love to join you =============================================================================== *Herskovic, David I am David Herskovic from London UK. I am interested in this list because I enjoy reading Shakespeare and I hope this list will help me understand the great man's works. ============================================================= *Herzfeld, Perry My name is Perry Herzfeld and I am currently in year 10 at Melbourne Grammar, Melbourne, Australia. Your Shakespeare list was recommended to me by my English teacher, who continually raves about it in class. My first experience of Shakespeare was seeing 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' performed in the botanical gardens, and from then, I was hooked. Earlier this year, I performed in the school's production of the Dream, playing the part of the fairy 'Moth'. I enjoyed this immensely, and it ignited my wish to gain more experience in Shakespeare. This term we are studying Romeo and Juliet in English, and I have taken it upon myself to read other plays by the Bard in conjunction with this. When I spoke to my English teacher about broadening my Shakespearean knowledge, he suggested joining this list. I hope to be able to make contributions to the site, although my knowledge of Shakespeare may not be as great as other members of the list, and I look forward to broadening both my insight and my knowledge. ============================================================= *Hess, Ron I'm a believer in the Oxfordian hypothesis about the authorship of Shakespeare's works. On the other hand, I'm not entirely convinced that Oxford did it all (I think there's an excellent chance that the 6th Earl of Derby had something to do with the works, and I've not given up all hope for William Shakspere of S-upon-A). Therefore, I think my most correct descriptive would be "agnostic" on the authorship question (although, of all the leading Elizabethans, I think Sir F. Bacon was one of the least likely candidates for being the Bard, based on the extreme non-similarity of his prolific writings with those of the Bard). =============================================================================== *Hettinger, Jack I have been teaching our biennial one-semester Shakespeare course since 1993, having taught certain plays and poems in different courses since 1969. Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and their age and stage, always an interest, now engross my pedagogy. I do not publish or present conference papers on Shakespeare, though I extensively survey past and current scholarship. My published writing is short fiction. Yet, in another sense, I do considerable writing about Shakespeare-for my students: for each of the nine plays in our semester course, I compose a gazette which, scene by scene, discusses topics and cruxes of interpretation according to current and traditional scholarship. These gazettes run to 15,000+ words each. My chief interests and research concerns are the religious and social views expressed in the plays, Renaissance staging and acting, the plays' intellectual and moral crises as reflections of those in Shakespeare's culture, the relationship of playwright and audience as it affected the structure and content of the plays, censorship. I share with my students the variety of current and traditional critical perspectives, but I would class myself as an old-fashioned humanist. My fundamental orientation to literature nests the moral and psychological within the historical. Alas, I see today's fashions as, with the rare exception, tendentious, fractious fragments. Other courses I teach include our freshman writing and speaking courses, advanced prose writing, philosophical views in literature, honors literature, 19th-century British literature, and the British novel. My doctorate is in English from the University of Louisville (1973); my dissertation studied the thematic patterns in Thomas Hardy's lyric poetry. Since 1969 I have taught at U of L, Northern Kentucky University, Wilmington College, and the College of Mount St. Joseph, and have otherwise worked in non-academic areas, most notably race relations for the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission. ============================================================= Holcomb-Hockin, Melody Currently I am in limbo, but I have undergraduate degrees in Theatre and Humanities. (My darker side spent one year in law school). I have taken several undergraduate classes, but Shakespeare is a constant interest in my life. My love began in youth going to plays at San Diego¹s Old Globe, and going on vacation to see S¹s home. I have even named one of my children after a character. Living in the Eastern part of Washington state, today I do not have much local access to seeing live plays. Most of my experience is from movie and video. Any contact, I use it to research characters and meanings at the local library. ============================================================= Hwang, Andrew I am currently a first year undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Intending to major in English literature at UBC, I seek for inspiring discussions and rapid, intriguing thoughts. And SHASPER where I finally decided to explore. Since I am still wandering outside the Academic "Arch" of English literature with very little concrete knowledge about it, I wish to inspect many areas of SHASPER so it can be my guide in present and future. I am a first year undergraduate at UBC. I intend to major in English. I wish to enter the honours program, but due to my present knowledge of the English language, I see how would I do in my second year course in order to determine my capability to study English intensively. Apparently, I do not speak English as my first and only language. Apart from English, I speak Mandarin well and scarcely some Japanese. I have taken Latin and French in first year, and I will continue with my Latin. For leisure, I read mostly prose and Buddhist scriptures in both Modern and Classical Chinese. I also read foreign novels (i.e. French, Spanish, Japanese, and so on) in translation, in English. I wish to pursue comparative literature or English in graduate school. I am still very far from any "research topics." I am interested in most aspects of the SHAKSPERean : textual studies, rhetoric, translation, and etc., but I must say, as a very beginner, I would more likely to be a greedy student than a regular "contributor" right now. ============================================================= *Hew, Merina My name is Merina Hew and I am a third year honours undergrad. at Dalhousie uni., Halifax. I was born in Malaysia where I received my primary and secondary education. I did my "A" levels in England and came here to Halifax for my undergraduate degree. No, I haven't written anything particularly profound or insightful on Shakespeare but yes, I LOVE literature. =============================================================================== *Hibbard, Jack H. Associate Professor, English Department, St. Cloud State University 720 4TH AVE SOUTH R-106, ST CLOUD MN 56301-4498 (612)255-3061 Jack Hibbard received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Purdue; the special field examination area was Shakespeare, and his dissertation was on the establishment and repetition of structural elements in *The Winter's Tale*. He has taught Shakespeare at the junior/senior level for three years and will teach at the 400/500 level this spring. His dominant interest is in methods of teaching Shakespeare to upper-level undergraduates training to become secondary teachers. ============================================================================= *Hickman, Lindsay My name is Lindsay Hickman. I am a student at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, LA. My main interest is English literature, especially Shakespeare. I also enjoy theater. I have acted in Shakespearean plays such as "Taming of the Shrew," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Much Ado about Nothing." Over the summer I am participating in a Shakespeare class, and during the next school year I will be doing an independent study on Shakespeare. In college I plan to major in English Literature, centering on Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Hicks, Kasey I am a doctoral candidate in English at Stanford University, specializing in Renaissance poetry and rhetoric. My dissertation in progress, "'Fantasticall Errours': Policing the Poetic Imagination in Elizabethan England," is a study of linguistic decorum as a system of strictures on fiction-making in that period, and includes chapters on Roger Ascham, Gabriel Harvey, quantitative experimentation in poetry, antipoetic tracts, and hack sonneteering. As for Shakespeare, I am interested in his adaptation of poetical and oratorical techniques to dramatic composition, and in the ways in which his plots and characters comment on such formal concerns. In addition to early modern studies, my professional interests include contemporary pop culture and classical literature. In 1991 I delivered a paper on Sophocles' %Trachiniae% at the PAPC conference in Las Vegas, and in 1995 I delivered a paper on the musical group They Might Be Giants at the Patheticism Conference in Dublin, Ireland. =============================================================================== *Hieatt, A. Kent I taught in varying capacities at Columbia University, 1944-1968, emerging from there with tenure to teach at The University of Western Ontario, 1968 to retirement in 1986. I am listed in _Who's Who in America(r)MDIT¯(r)MDNM¯_ and am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. I received the MLA's William Riley Parker Prize for 'The Genesis of Shakespeare's Sonnets,' listed below. What I consider my more important works are: (books)_Short Time's Endless Monument, the Symbolism of the Numbers in Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion"_ (1960); _Chaucer, Spenser, Milton: Mythopoeic Continuities and Transformations_ Montreal 1975; _Lorenzo Valla. On Pleasure; De Voluptate_, translated by A. Kent Hieatt and Maristella Lorch, 1979 (under imprint of 1977); Editorial consultant, -Spenser Encyclopedia~_, Toronto, 1990; (With W. Park) The College Anthology of British and American Verse, 1964; Edmund Spenser, Selected Poetry xvii+155 pp. New York 1970. 11 Chapters in Books and Symposia. Many unrefereed articles in encyclopedias, etc. More important Articles in Referred Journals: '_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_: Pentangle, Luf-Lace, Numerical Structure' _Papers on Language & Literature_ 4 (1968) 339-59; 'Milton's _Comus_ and Spenser's False Genius' _University of Toronto Quarterly_ 38 (1969) 313-18; *'Symbolic and Narrative Patterns in _Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Gawain_' _English Studies in Canada_ 2 (1976 125-43; "Eve as Reason in a Tradition of Allegorical Interpretation of the Fall", _Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes_, 43 (1980) 221-6; "Hans Baldung Grien's Ottawa _Eve_ and Its Context", _Art Bulletin_, 65 (1983) 290-304; "The Genesis of Shakespeare's _Sonnets_: Spenser's _Ruines of Rome: by Bellay_", _PMLA_, 98 (1983) 800-14; "Shakespeare's _Sonnets_", _PMLA_, 99 (1984) 244-5; With T.G. Bishop and E.A. Nicholson: "Shakespeare's Rare Words: 'Lover's Complaint', _Cymbeline_, and _Sonnets_," _Notes and Queries_, N.S. 34 (1987), 219-24; With Charles W. Hieatt and Anne Lake Prescott: "When Did Shakespeare Write _Sonnets_ 1609?" _Studies in Philology_, 88 (1991), 69-109; "The Projected Continuation of _The Faerie Queene_: Rome Delivered?" in _Spenser Studies_ VIII (1990), 335-42; "The Early Modern Origin of the Self and History: Terminate or Regroup?" _Spenser Studies_ X (1992), 1-35; (With Anne Lake Prescott) "Contemporizing Antiquity: The _Hypnerotomachia_ and Its Afterlife in France," _Word and Image_, 8 (1992), 291-321. 20 book reviews. About 50 extramural papers. Current interests and research topics: dating composition and revision of individual sonnets of Shakespeare by a new method (See my 'Once Upon a Time a Sonnet, but WHAT Time?' a seminar paper in seminar led by Katherine Duncan-Jones att SAA in March 1998 in Cleveland); intertextuality with other poems of _Sonnets_ 1609; 'A Lover's Complaint' and the funeral elegy for Wm Peter; all aspects of Edmund Spenser (essay in press on Chaucer and Spenser, in collection edited by Theresa Krier from U. of Florida Press). ============================================================= *Hieatt, Charles I am a US citizen, born Louisville, Ky., 10 September 1930. I was in the US Air Force 1951-55. I received my Ph.D. in English Literature from UCLA in 1967, taught at Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison from 1967-73, came to England to teach at Anglia University, Cambridge, in 1973, and retired from full-time teaching there in 1988. I taught for several more years at Anglia on a part-time basis and for six years, part-time, at the University of Cambridge, but have now retired from teaching altogether. My teaching and publication have been primarily in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. My current interests are in early Renaissance drama and Shakespeare, in particular the Sonnets. A long-term project, in association with others and the focus of my attention at the moment, has been to date certain of Shakespeare's sonnets. The technique for dating involves the identification of relatively rare words (rare as employed by Shakespeare) used in the sonnets in question and the subsequent location of the same words in Shakespeare's plays and poems. The major portion of my time during the period of this project has been devoted to refining various techniques based on this fairly simple principle. My primary tools are a machine-readable database of Shakespeare's works and Bernard Spevack's Harvard Concordance. ============================================================= *Higginbotham, Rodney G I teach in a liberal arts based theatre program for a commuter school of 12,000 students who reside in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. My primary areas of interest are in directing and theatre history. My previous experience has included directing for college, community and off loop professional theatre. In conjunction with teaching I collect theatre history artifacts. As a collector, I am most interested in artifacts related to American theatre of the nineteenth century as well general items related to Chicago theatre history. I'm currently involved in learning new multimedia technology and in developing multimedia based instructional materials for use in such courses as introduction to the theatre and theatre history. I'm also involved in directing for a summer stock theatre program that blends professional off-loop Chicago actors with students on the campus of Northeastern Illinois University. ============================================================= *Hildy, Franklin J. Franklin J. Hildy, Graduate Coordinator, Department of Dramaq and Theatre, University of Georgia and Regional Director for The Shakespeare Globe Center(USA)- Southeast. Holds the Ph.D from Northwestern University and is a specialist in theatre architecture, theatre archaeology, historic stage technology and the use of computers in teaching theatre history. Since 1984 he has been an academic advisor to the International Shakespeare Globe Center in London where Shakespeare's theatre is currently being reconstructed. During the 1994-95 academic year Dr. Hildy served as a Humanities Administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington D.C. Dr. Hildy is the author of Shakespeare at the Maddermarket: Nugent Monck and the Norwich Players (1986), and New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Theatre(1990). He will be co-author (25%) with Oscar Brockett of the 8th edition of History of the Theatre (1998) He has published a variety of articles on theatre space, Shakespearean staging techniques, and the theatre architecture of the Spanish Golden Age and is currently working on Theatre Archaeology: A Reconsideration of Theatre Architecture From the Greeks to the Romantics. Dr. Hildy has presented papers at international conferences in Canada, the Czech Republic, England and Japan, and has given numerous papers at national conferences including The Association for Theatre In Higher Education (ATHE), The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), The Modern Language Association (MLA), The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). =============================================================================== *Hill, Cindy My name is Cindy Hill, and I am currently a graduate student in English literature at Florida State University. My area of interest is in the Renaissance. As an undergraduate, I majored in Medieval/Renaissance Studies at New College of the University of South Florida. For my undergraduate thesis, I studied the poetry of John Donne. I am currently only in my first year of graduate studies, so unfortunatly, I am yet to consider publishing work. I have attended two of the Medieval/Renaissance conferences run by Dr. Snyder at New College, but I did not present anything. I do want to become involved in the world of conferences and publications, and that is one reason that I want to become a part of this discussion list. =============================================================================== *Hill, Harry I am an Associate Professor of ENGLISH AT CONCORDIA in Montreal. Author of A VOICE FOR THE THEATRE (New York, HRW 1985) and am interested in texture and colouring of the verse not to mention the prose and how Shakespearew is his own director as far as the actor is concerned. At present I am appearing in Frank McGuinness' SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME at the Centaur Theatre, Montreal, did Brian Friel's DANCING AT LUGHNASA in Ocrtboer there, and long professional resume before that. M.A.Aberdeenb 1963. So: interesetd in what work is being done (little, I suspect) in rhythm etc. in Shakespeare. Would dearly love to join such an interchange as yours. Harry Hill TEL:514-931-7743 545 Grosvenor Avenue Westmount, Que, H3Y 2S5 =============================================================================== *Hill, James J. biographical sketch of potential member as you requested: James J. Hill, Jr., associate professor of English Towson State University, Towson, Maryland 21204-7097 (office: Li 201B; office phone: 830-2856) Ph. D., The University of Texas, 1966 dissertation: Critical Study of Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II" publications: articles/notes on W. H. Hudson, Wilfred Owen, Alex Katz public lecture: Maryland Arts Festival, Summer 1991, Olivier & Othello current interest: impact of "newer" forms of criticism upon the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays (currently, I share the opinion of Richard Levin and Brian Vickers that such criticism better describes the critic than the play) research projects: (1) performance criticism and new historicism as the generators of alternative world Shakespeares, and (2) audience expectation (delayed, satisfied, thwarted) as a director of understanding and value in the plays, (3) E. E. Stoll--where are you now that we need you? professional memberships: MLA, AAUP, SAMLA, Wilfred Owen Association =============================================================================== *Hill, Mark My full name is Mark B. Hill and I currently reside in San Diego, California. I am a student at the University of San Diego, doing my graduate work towards a Masters of Fine Arts degree with the Old Globe Theatre. This work will be completed in the Fall of 1995. I completed my undergraduate work at Santa Clara University, and before that attended the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California. I was born and raised in Fresno, California, and am 25 years old. During my career as a student/actor I have performed in _As You Like It_ (Le Beau and Silvius), _The Tempest_ (Ferdinand), _Hamlet_ (Player King), and _Macbeth_ (Banquo). I find that I enjoy the Tragedies, Romances, and Histories much more than the Comedies, but so be it...to each his own I suppose. My current interests are simply to gain as much experience as possible with the work in as many facets as possible. In a more specific aspect, I am interested in the differences that crop up between editors/folios/quartos. =============================================================================== *Hill, Robert I am a tax lawyer and lobbyist and have been employed by the Chemical Manufacturing Association in Washington, DC. since 1981. From 1968 through 1980, I served as senior majority tax counsel to the House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to 1968, I was employed by the Internal Revenue Service (three years), a private law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas (four years), and the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas (two years). I have enjoyed the works of William Shakespeare for most of my 59 and 1/2 years. Although I may find some of the material on SHAKSPER, beyond my understanding and interest, I have no doubt that most will prove to be interesting and rewarding. =============================================================================== *Hill, Tom My name is Tom Hill. I did my Ph.D. at the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln in modern British and American lit. with secondary concentrations in medieval and composition theory. I have published on Hemingway, Wharton, Chaucer, and a couple of articles on comp. I am currently working on a couple of papers on Robert Frost and researching the origins of processions in western tradition.At Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), I am teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in American literature. Also, at Keisen Women's College I am teaching American literature and composition. While I am not a Shakespeare scholar, I am a Shakespeare lover and read or seen most of his plays and all of his poetry in the Riverside edition. =============================================================================== *Hills, Mathilda M. Mathilda M. Hills, Associate Professor Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 Tel. 401 792-5931 Ph. D. Duke University, 1970 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1955 Radcliffe College, B.A. 1954 Publication: *Time, Space and Structure in "King Lear"*, Salzburg, 1976. =============================================================================== *Hillyar-Russ, Peter Biography: I am a middle aged, and English. My first degree was in Theology, which I took (aged 33) at the University of Durham, England in 1979. After some years in Christian ministry I moved into teaching. I have spent the last 12 years working with pupils with a variety of special needs, typically involving emotional or behavioural difficulties which have required them to be educated in residential establishments. My professional speciality is in the residential care of my clients. I became interested in the theatre some ten years ago when I was working with a group of teenage boys who were highly intelligent, but severely dyslexic, and I discovered that the theatre provided them with an access to literature from which they would otherwise have been excluded. My interest in Shakespeare developed as I explored the medium of theatre with this group. I cannot claim a formal "professional interest" in Shakespeare, though I am studying for a Masters' degree in English Literature with the UK Open University. I am an enthusiastic amateur reader and viewer of the plays, with a particular interest in the variety of interpretations possible on the stage. My interest extends to other English Renaissance playwrights and the theatre generally. I see most of the major English productions of plays from the Renaissance period (including all such productions by the RSC and RNT since 1990), and my informal reviews, shared with Internet friends, have been well received. ============================================================= *Hilt, Wayne My name is Wayne E. Hilt, Jr., and I am a graduate student in the English program at West Virginia University. I obtained my B.A. in English from the same institution. Currently, I am involved in courses dealing with Shakespeare and with literary research computing. Since this listserver seemed to satisfy my desire to enrich both of my current courses, along with bettering my ability to converse intelligently about Shakespearean studies (which is, admittedly, one of my weaker points), I thought it very appropriate to subscribe. Aside from my current courses, I am also involved in the field of Celtic studies. This is the area of specialization which I intend to pursue in my graduate studies and is the strong focus of my non-coursework studies. I will be presenting a paper entitled "The Implications of Language Subjugation in Brian Friel's _Translations_ at Southeastern Regional Irish Studies conference in March. One other current interest pertains to acquiring a second bachelors degree in computer science in the next couple of years. =============================================================================== *Hinders, Thomas I am asking to subscribe to this discussion group primarily for my daughter, who is taking Shakespeare in her freshman Eng Lit class. I was hoping that I (or she) could use this forum for submission and discussion of questions. Also, I was expecting that the list could point her (and I) to other ftp sites. For example, she is searching for texts that compare or explain passages of Shakespear in more modern prose.....without losing the orginal meaning of course. My own credentials are not in the area of Literature or English....I'm a sales person for an E-mail company....but I do remember how much I enjoyed Shakespeare when I was in school and I am working to foster the same in my daughter..... =============================================================================== *Hink, Wolfgang I studied literature in Berlin/Germany, where I am living now since many years. I wrote books and articles mainly about two german speaking authors (Arno Schmidt & and Karl Kraus) and now I am discovering the benefits of Internet for the field of literature. At the time I am writing an article for a big german newspaper (DIE ZEIT) about mailing lists for literary themes. Over here in Germany the mailing lists are a mostly unknown way to communicate with others about special themes - especially in literature - and as literature is the field I am working in this hurts me a bit. I read that SHAKSPER is one of the famous serious lists with quite a lot of members all over the world and I am just interested to see what is going on here. =============================================================================== *Hinsel, Chris My name is Chris Hinsel. I am a graduate student at the U of Kansas. =============================================================================== *Hinson, Margaret I am a high school English teacher who teaches advanced placement, honors, and regular senior English. I have a BS/MEd in Secondary Education and have been teching for 26 years. I teach in a public high school, John S. Shaw High School, in Mobile, Alabama, and I am always looking for new and interesting literary ideas I can share with my advanced and honors English students. The description of your mailing list indicated it would be of benefit to those interested in English literature and the Renassiance; information concerning these topics would greatly benefit me. =============================================================================== *Hiromoto, Katsuya I am a professor of English at Keio University,Kanagawaken,Japan. My recent publications include essays on Ben Jonson and John Milton. Currently I am interested in Shakespeare and court masques. =============================================================================== *Hirsh, Julian I am a student in our Open University, with which I am sure you are familiar. This year I have been studying a module on Shakespeare, and I am very sorry that I only got my Internet suscription a few weeks ago, as I am sure it would have been extremely useful. We have been studying Eight of the plays, the major ones being Anthony and Cleopatra, Lear, The Tempest and Hamlet. We have also done Twelfht Night, Measure for Measure, and the two Henry IVs. It has been tremendously interesting, and gives one a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the plays and of Shakespeare himself. Although this module is now finishing, (the Exam is still to come!) I want to keep in touch; this discussion group seems to be an ideal way of doing this, and I hope you will agree to enrol me I myself am a retired Physician, having been a hospital consultant in the National Health Service. One of my tutors is Penny Rixon, Gloria@ibmpcug.co.uk, who tells me the discussion is of very high standard. =============================================================================== *Hjelm, Mary I graduated with my Ph.D. in 1996 from Washington State University where my dissertation concentrated on the sociological and anthropological ramifications of games played by the characters in Shakespeare's comedies. I enjoy all aspects of Shakespeare study, but I am primarily interested in performance, feminist, new-historical, psychoanalytical, and game theories. While my faculty/administrative position in a small technical college does not allow me to teach Shakespeare, I do keep abreast of new trends in the field through my reading and look forward to becoming a member of SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Hlavsa, David DAVID HLAVSA heads the drama department at Saint Martin's College in Lacey, WA, USA, where he teaches acting, directing, playwriting and film. He writes frequently for the Seattle Repertory Theatre's publications. Hlavsa is a graduate of Princeton University (BA) and the University of Washington (MFA in Directing). He is particularly interested in anything relating to contemporary approaches to directing and performing in Shakespeare's plays. Landmail address: David Hlavsa, Assistant Professor of Drama Drama Department Saint Martin's College 5300 Pacific Avenue SE Lacey, WA 98503 Tel: 206-491-4700 =============================================================================== *Hobbet, Linda My name is Linda Hobbet. I am not an academic, but hope I may be allowed to join the list in the category of "others who share their academic interests and concerns". I fell in love with Shakespeare's works at the age of 12 when I saw Olivier's films of Hamlet and Richard III. For 35 years since, I have seen his plays on stage, read and reread them, thought about them, and occasionally written about them. I enjoy reading Shakespearean criticism and have been working on an analysis of Horatio in Hamlet (though I can't say it will turn into anything I would want to share). I return to the plays over and over for pleasure, insight, and inspiration. Since 1982 I have been a volunteer with the Berkeley (now California) Shakespeare Festival, including six years on the Board of Directors. I am a computer programmer for Pacific Bell. In my spare time, I am working on the design for a website to celebrate non-profit theater in the SF Bay Area, which I hope to have up later this year. I would be honored to participate in the SHAKSPER list. ============================================================= *Hoblit, Jason B.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1992 Master's Candidate at the University of Washington (Seattle) Research Interests: Undergraduate Honors Thesis on _Coriolanus_ in the Fall of 1992 (_'The Very Age and Body of the Time': John Philip Kemble's _Coriolanus_ at the Theatres-Royal_) Prospective Master's Essay on John Ford's _Perkin Warbeck_ as a 'Chronicle History' and the portrayal of monarchy in Tudor-Stuart drama. I have worked with three of Kemble's revisions of _Cor._, as well as the 1755 and 1757 adaptations (Thomas Sheridan's). I have a facsimile of James Thomson's _Coriolanus_ and am interested in pursuing the development of the hybrid of this play with Shakespeare (through Sheridan and Kemble). My other interests mainly lie in the social and political conventions, assumptions, influences, and critiques in the background (or foreground) of Renaissance drama (and Shakespeare in particular). I have been involved with several productions of Renaissance plays, and consequently I am also interested in the pragmatics of performance and in the passage from script to stage. I see the history of the critical reception of these plays (16th c. to modern - by both theatre critics and literary critics) as a particularly useful way to examine them not only as 'artifacts' but as sites of active social interaction - and forums for debating cultural values and meanings. =============================================================================== *Hoburg, James I am a computer professional living in Columbus, Ohio USA. While I am in no way a formal scholar of things Shakespearean, I have been a devotee since being introduced to Elizabethan Literature during my university days. Good fortune led to my disovery of SHAKSPER, and I would relish the opportunity to eavesdrop and learn. =============================================================================== *Hocking, Thomas W. or Education Coordinator, Morehead Planetarium, UNC - Chapel Hill My name is Tom Hocking. I'm the Education Coordinator of the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My interest in Shakespeare is not so much job-related, but is a natural offshoot of one of my main hobbies--membership in the Society for Creative Anachronism (a non-profit educational organization which studies and re-creates selected aspects of pre-1600 Western Civiliza- tion. It was on that organization's computer digest that I found out about SHAKSPER. I'm not a Shakespeare scholar, although I did oversee the production of THE TEMPEST at the Abrams Planetarium during my graduate school days. I have a B.A. in Telecommunications from Michigan State, and an ABT M.A. in the same subject from the same place. I'll spare you my other academic endeavors. I look forward to hearing back from you with a positive response. ======================================================================== *Hodges, Thomas E. Thomas E. Hodges, Professor of English, Amarillo College, Amarillo, Texas, USA May I take this semi-public forum to thank the teachers who introduced to the abiding pleasure of Shakespearean studies: John R. Griffin, while I was an undergraduate at Southern Colorado State College in the early sixties; and John M. Wasson, while I was a graduate student at Washington State University 1965-1967. My present project focuses on KING LEAR, in particular the stage business in I,iv that can be supported from all three of these perspectives: literary and textual evidence as well as standard Elizabethan theatrical practice. Jay L. Halio's new edition of KING LEAR, with its helpful overview of the play's textual history and its focus on the Folio version, has clarified much for me and helped me sharpen certain questions too. In addition Professor Halio's reminder in his preface that "scholarship at its best is always a collaborative venture" has prompted me to venture out onto this electronic ocean, perhaps to exchange signals with others with similar interests but certainly to listen in on the discussions. Thanks to you all. =============================================================================== *Hodgkinson, Lisa I am a secondary English and Drama teacher currently teaching at Blue Coat CE School, England. I am a main professional grade teacher. I studied for my English Language and Literature degree at Liverpool University from 1990 - 1993 and graduated with a 2:1. I then took a PGCE course (Teacher training) at Warwick University. Since beginning to teach I have found myself teaching an increasing number of 'A' level groups: this means I have to prepare an average of one Shakespeare play in significant detail each year. This may not seem much but with the other pressures of teaching in an impoverished English Comprehensive, such research and study can help keep one's sanity! All of my interest in Shakespeare, at all levels, is reinforced by my love of the theatre and attending as many performances as possible, as well as keeping up to date with the various film versions of Shakespeare's works. I regularly visit The Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford (although I do think they're not as good as they used to be !) as well as other theatres. My main interests are in Shakespeare in performance and Shakespeare's History plays although my 'research' interests are dictated by the plays I am teaching: currently 'The Tempest' and 'Othello'. Another interest that I have as a result of my job is that of helping my pupils appreciate the works of the Shakespeare. I am not a Bardoloter but I do think that he had the ability to tell a good story and raise 'issues' at the same time! ============================================================= *Hoehn, Claudia My name is Claudia Hoehn and I am working as a librarian in the Central Library of the University of Munich in the Cataloging Department. Although I am not professionally involved in Shakespeare studies, I am very much interested in it and would like to be a member of your mailing list. ============================================================= *Hoenselaars, Ton Dr. Ton Hoenselaars is Associate Professor of English at Utrecht University, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has studied at the universities of Leiden (The Netherlands) and Birmingham (UK), and holds a PhD from the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. Hoenselaars specializes in English Renaissance drama and its international relations (characterization, location, language). He is a.o. the author of _Images of Englishmen and Foreigners_ (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1992), and co-editor of _Shakespeare's Italy_ (Manchester UP, 1993). He is the founder of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries, which he also curently chairs. Editor of the bulletin of the Shakespeare Society entitled _Folio_. -EMail: Ton.Hoenselaars@let.ruu.nl -Telephone: The Netherlands (0)30-6753812 -Address: English Department, Utrecht University, Trans 10, 3512JK Utrecht, The Netherlands =============================================================================== *Hoffman, Cynthia [Short] Academic Biography of Cynthia Hoffman A.B. English, U.C. Berkeley, 1982; Senior Thesis on _Hamlet_ Echoes in James Joyce's _Ulysses_ M.A. English, U.C. Berkeley, 1993; Thesis on Monstrosity and the Male Imagination in _King Lear_ and Books II and III of _Paradise Lost_ Currently loosely associated with the English Program at U.C. Berkeley, although not currently matriculating toward any degree. Current interests are mainly feminist, psychoanalytic and spiritual. Newest project is on cross-dressing and the transvestite theater in early Jacobean London, particularly where biographical information is available on either writers, players, or theatergoers. Also developing an interest in 16th century juridical tracts and questions of evidence. =============================================================================== *Holberg, Stanley M. I obtained my PhD from the University of Maryland in 1958. I was a student of Gordon Zeeveld, whom somebody in SHAKSPER may remember. I taught at St. Lawrence University for twenty-seven years and retired in 1985. having offered a two-semester course in Shakespeare for twenty-one years and a one- semester course in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama for a good portion of that time. I have maintained an avid interest in Shakespeare and other Ren- aissance dramatists and have attended the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford Ontario, for thirty years. I have published scholarly\critical articles on Anouilh, Conrad,.D.G.Rossetti, and Yeats and a monograph on Shaw. My only published writing on Shakespeare is "Jaques's *Ducdame*: *As You Like It*, ANQ, May/June 1984, pp.129-130. I look forward to SHAKSPER discussions and hope to contribute to them. =============================================================================== *Holcomb, SJ 1992 Eastern Michigan University grad - BS in Literature with honors in creative writing (double minor in English Language and Writing) I have a lot of interest in the comedies and tragedies of the Bard, but only because I haven't spent an inordinate amount of time reading the histories. I would be interested in joining any discussion groups that are reading and analyzing his work in the classic form. Currently I am working as a communications manager for a national property management firm, writing and proofing all outgoing communications, designing flyers with desktop publishing software, and assisting VP with special projects/contracts. I have felt some void in my life since graduating, as I really enjoyed the give and take of a classroom literary discussion. I am hoping that this list server subscription will fill that place and return me to my literary roots. =============================================================================== *Holland, Norman N. So far as Shakespeare is concerned, Norman N. Holland taught the Bard for eleven years, but that was long ago. He has, however, kept up an interest. He has published two books, The Shakespearean Imagination (1964) and Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (1966), as well as many articles and essays. Recently, he co-edited Shakespeare's Personality (1989). He is Marston-Milbauer Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he holds an Eminent Scholar's Chair funded by the State of Florida. Holland has published over a hundred and fifty articles in popular and professional magazines in America and all over the world. He has held Guggenheim and A.C.L.S. Fellowships. He has, as they say, ``generated'' computer programs and programmed instruction. He moderates five hundred subscribers to his online forum in the psychological study of the arts. He has lectured widely here and abroad, not only in such familiar places as London, Paris, Rome, or Berlin, but in Sapporo, Benares, and even Katmandu. He is best known for his eleven books of criticism. After two purely literary studies (of Restoration comedy and Shakespeare), his next five books concentrated psychoanalytic psychology on literary problems: Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (1966), The Dynamics of Literary Response (1968), Poems in Persons (1973), 5 Readers Reading (1975), and Laughing (1982). The book that followed in 1985, The I, was purely psychological. In it, he drew not only on psychoanalysis, but experimental psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and the philosophy of science. The I provides a model of the human being one can easily and widely use in the humanities and social sciences. In 1988, he applied this combination of psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and recent studies of the brain to literary criticism in a book called The Brain of Robert Frost. In December 1989, he provided a textbook with the authoritative title, Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology. His eleventh book is called The Critical I (1992). It surveys contemporary critical methods in the light of what they say and what psychologists say about the I. His latest book is a novel about a murder in an English Department, Death in a Delphi Seminar. To solve it, the reader has to study a number of student papers. Holland describes this as his revenge for having done forty years of the same. =============================================================================== *Holland, Peter I am currently Judith E Wilson University Reader in Drama and Theatre in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. From September 1997 I will become Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the University of Birmingham, succeeding Stanley Wells in both positions. I have hopes one day of having a job with a short title. I was an undergraduate in Cambridge (graduating in 1972) and then continued there for my graduate work on Restoration Comedy (Ph.D. 1977). Though I still hanker after further time writing on Restoration comedy I am these days a full-time Shakespearean (the nearest I have got recently to a crossover point was writing on Garrick's Shakespeare productions for the OUP volume on *Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History*.) I have held a series of posts in Cambridge: I have been successively a College Teaching Fellow, University Assistant Lecturer, Judith E Wilson University Lecturer before my current hatful of titles. My work in Shakespeare studies has included an edition of *A Midsummer Night's Dream* for the Oxford Shakespeare (paperback World's Classics) and a large number of articles in a variety of scholarly journals. For six years I wrote the annual review of Shakespeare productions in England for *Shakespeare Survey* and a book bringing together that material and other work on recent Shakespeare productions will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year under the title *English Shakespeares*. I In 1994 I made a series of six radio programmes on 'Shakespeare around the Globe' for the BBC World Service, a programme apiece for South Africa, India, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. I am currently editing *Coriolanus* for Arden 3, a volume of Restoration Shakespeare adaptations for Oxford University Press's World's Classics Drama Library, six Shakespeare plays for the revised Pelican Shakespeare (for Viking Penguin) and writing a book on Shakespeare and film for the Oxford Shakespeare Library series for which Stanley Wells and I are General Editors. At the moment I am at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington until May giving a Folger Institute semester seminar on 'Shakespeare and Film'. I regularly review Shakespeare productions on stage and screen for the TLS and, on radio, for the BBC. I am also a Governor and Member of Council for the Royal Shakespeare Company and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. ============================================================= *Hollender, Rasa L. I am an undergraduate student of Theatre and English, receiving my BS in Spring of 1993. I will be furthering my studies in Theatre history, literature, and performance at the graduate level in fall of 1993. I have a great interest in the area of British theatre and intend to make this area my major emphasis in graduate school. Currently, I am working on a research project detailing the excavation of the first Globe theatre and the reconstruction of Wanamaker's Globe in Southwark. I wish to be a part of your network because I feel it would be informative and interesting. To date, I have nothing published in the area of Shakespeare or British Theatre history. ======================================================================== *Holmes, Jennifer My name is Jennifer Holmes. I will be a freshman this fall at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. I have been interested in Shakespeare for several years, particularly The Tempest, on which I did three papers this past year, and King Lear. ============================================================= *Holmes, John R. Scholarly activity: Most recently, I have delivered conference papers on The Jew of Malta and on Edward II, and am currently working on one tentatively entitled "Titus and Tamburlaine: Early Modern Spin Doctors" for a panel I'm chairing for the April Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Convention. ============================================================= *Holmes, Michael M. I am a graduate of the doctoral English programme at McGill University in Montreal. My dissertation addresses early modern metaphysical literature by writers such as John Donne, Edward Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, and Andrew Marvell. In September of 1996 I took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the English Department at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. My research involves an exploration of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century rogues and rogue writings. I am particularly interested in the various manifestations of seduction and anti-communities. Theoretically, I am intrigued most by cultural studies style investigations of gender politics and sexual identification and expression. Issues of "nature" and the definiton of the "natural" figure prominently in my work. =============================================================================== *Holmes< John Randall John Randall Holmes Visiting Assistant Professor Department of English University of New Orleans Review of _Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, 1558-1658_ Ed. Cedric C. Brown. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993. Submitted to _Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews_ "That female wanton boy": Sexual Ambiguity and Marlowe's _Dido Queene of Carthage. Delivered at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 24, 1992. =============================================================================== *Holslin, Jill My name is Jill M. Holslin, and I am a Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. My area of specialization is early modern studies--16th-17th centuries. My primary research interests include historiography, travel literature, and ethnography of early modern England and Spain, feminist and postcolonial theory. Focusing on seventeenth-century English and Spanish drama, the masque, historiography, collecting and museums, my dissertation will examine the function of racial formations that articulate racial discourses of the Ottoman Turks with class and gendered discourses within specific national projects. The internet is my latest passion, and I am very interested in discussing new ways we as scholars and teachers can make use of this resource. I have been pleased this year with the response to my webpage , and I would be interested in learning how other scholars use websites in teaching and research. See my webpage at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9788. ============================================================= *Honaman, Sarah I am a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the University of Miami where I teach freshman level composition and literature classes. My interests in Shakespeare at this point are general because I am preparing for a comprehensive exam in Renasissance literature. =============================================================================== Akio, Hazama Name: HAZAMA Akio Title: Associate Professor Department: English Department, Liberal Arts Education Institution: Kisarazu National College of Technology Degree: M.A. at Waseda University, English Literature Department, '86 March Biographical sketch and my current interests: I've been a member of The English Literary Society of Japan, The Shakespeare Society of Japan, The Renaissance Institute (Sophia Univ.) and The Language Laboratory Association of Japan for about ten years. My works (all in collaboration) include Notes on some 17th c. poetries (Milton and Marvell) and Translations of chapters on Shakespeare from books on the History of English Literature. They appeared on The Bulletin of Kisarazu National College of Technology and Journal of The College of Arts and Sciences (Chiba University). Actually I've not been so active in academic research but still interested in 16 & 17 c. drama, having been a member of a study group in which we have read dozens of plays by Shakespeare's contemporary dramatists such as Beaumont & Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Marston, Middleton, Shirley, Massinger, Brome, Dryden, etc. My current interests are, or going to be, drama in performance, textual criticism and feminism. Now I'm looking forward to joining you and receiving members' exciting mails. =============================================================================== *Hood, Melissa My name is Melissa Hood, and I am an English major at the University of Tennessee at Martin. I am enrolled in English 486 Shakespeare under Dr. Daniel Pigg. My main interest in Shakespeare is the way that his plays are represented in present day performances. =============================================================================== *Hood, Woody Woody Hood University of Missouri--Columbia 3704 Village Park Drive Columbia, MO 65201-7322 tel. #314-442-2897 E-mail: c562611@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Internet) c562611@mizzou1 (Bitnet) My name is Woody Hood and I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Missouri--Columbia, Department of Theatre. Though I have presented several papers at conferences on subjects like performance artist Laurie Anderson and Anouihl's _Antigone_, I do not have yet to publish, though I am on staff of _Theatre Topics_ journal. Which leads me to my reason for subscribing to the Shakespeare discussion list. I have been asked to publish an article on power structures and gender issues in Shakespeare's _Pericles_. I am interested in writing a series of articles on postmodern interpretations of the later plays, and any help I can receive in digging up scholarship would be nice. =============================================================================== *Hope, Jonathan Jonathan Hope Senior lecturer in English and literary studies/Communication studies School of English, Cultural and Communication Studies Middlesex University London United Kingdom PhD: Socio-historical linguistic evidence for the authorship of Renaissance plays: test cases in the Shakespeare, Fletcher and Massinger canons (Cambridge University 1990) Main publications: The politics of tragicomedy: Shakespeare and after, ed. with Gordon McMullan (Routledge:1992) The authorship of Shakespeare's plays (Cambridge:1994) My PhD began as a literary study of Shakespeare and Fletcher, but became more and more linguistic as I tried to work on the authorship issue. My first appointment was as a research fellow in the Department of Speech at Newcastle University, where I worked on the history of the English language. I then moved to the School of English, Leeds University, and taught courses on the history of the language and literary stylistics. I moved to Middlesex in January 1996. My research covers the history of the English language, with special emphasis on early modern English and literary English, as well as linguistic approaches to authorship studies. I am currently working on a history of literary English. =============================================================================== *Hopkins, Lisa I am a lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University, teaching primarily on our final year Shakespeare course and on my own option, Tragedy of Blood. I did my first degree at King's College, Cambridge, and my Ph.D., on John Ford, at the University of Warwick (it has since been published by Manchester University Press as _John Ford's Political Theatre_ ). I continue to be very interested in Ford, but I also work on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Middleton's tragedies. My current project is a book on Shakespeare's representations of marriage, due for completion in October 1996, for Macmillan. I come originally from Wales and am interested in Welsh presences in Renaissance drama. =============================================================================== *Hopkins, Mychelle Please accept my application for membership in SHAKSPER. My name is Mychelle Hopkins and I am a postgraduate student in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. I am a theatre professional with experience in acting, directing, producing and administration. My specific interests include bad quarto texts with a particular emphasis on Q1 Hamlet and A Shrew. Having directed the Institute's production of Q1 Hamlet in 1996, I am anxious to give A Shrew a go. I am a member of the Shakespeare Association of America and a membership candidate for Actors Equity Association. ============================================================= *Hopkins, Yvonne Ykiddo@aol.com I am currently a Non-traditional Secondary Education Communications Major at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, certifications in English, Speech, and Journalism. I will graduate within the year and hopefully offered a position in teaching within the educational system. My interest in the Shakespeare ListServ is personal as well as professional. Personal because, I not only have a love for seventeenth and eighteenth century literature, but also I am interested in the perspective of others in regards to the literature of that era. Professional because, ultimately, as a future educator, it is my responsibility to provide the younger generation with an insight and hopefully an understanding of not only the literary works which they read, but also the innate knowledge that literature is mirror of those acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, social and political, of the era in which they were created. ============================================================= *Horecky-Wells, Rebecca My name is Rebecca Horecky-Wells, I am a Senior at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. I will be graduating in May of 97 with a BA in History and a BA in Literature. I am also currently taking a graduate seminar in Shakepeare. Up until recently I have had very little exposure to Shakespeare, and I feel extremely intimidated by the majority of my class mates who seem to have made the study of Shakespeare their life work. However, I come to enjoy studying and learning as much as I can about Shakespeare, as well as the various theories surronding him. I hope that I will be able to continue to expand my knowledge of his writings by participating in this group. =============================================================================== *Horn, Andrew Chair, Department of Literature and Language The University of the South Pacific Suva, FIJI Ah, now, an autobiography . . .text, counter-text and inter-text: I was born in New York City, attended Dartmouth, Columbia and Indiana and taught for a while at Indiana. In 1969, I joined the newly established University of Zambia, in Central Africa. From there, I went to start up a Department of Music, Dance and Drama at Makerere University in Uganda; thence to the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. I was invited to head the Performing Arts department of the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies at sub-Saharan Africa's largest university, Ahmadu Bello University, in Nigeria, and was subsequently invited to chair the Department of English at the National University of Lesotho. I have been the Professor of English and chair of the Department of Literature and Language at the University of the South Pacific (USP) since 1985. I am also a broadcaster, with 2 stints at the BBC, in London. I have been teaching Shakespeare, on and off, for some 20-odd years, although I haven't published in the field. (My research concerns have centered on African theatre and 19th-century American fiction.) For your interest, the USP is a multi-national university, serving 12 countries (and dependencies) in the South and North Pacific--many of them quite unknown to most folk in industrialised countries (except Australia and New Zealand). This Department offers the BA, Postgraduate Diploma, MA and PhD, and includes the University's programmes in Literature, Linguistics, Journalism, Theatre Arts, Pacific Languages, French, Japanese and Creative Writing. We have some 10,000 students, about 1/3 of whom are studying at our Main Campus in Suva, FIJI, and the rest of whom are studying by extension/distance education through the University Centres which we maintain in each of our member countries. =========================================================================== *Phillips, Dave My name is David Phillips and I am currently a graduate student (MA candidate) at the University of Missouri--Columbia. I have been a member of SAA since 1990 and plan to attend next year's session at Kansas City where (hopefully) I will participate in either Gary Taylor or David Bevington's workshops. My preferred theoretical -isms are New Historicist and Cultural Materialist, but I am rather eclectic in my tastes in theory and try to read whatever appears interesting or helpful. I am not published, but I am submitting an abstract for next year's Midwest Renaissance Conference. Presently, I am working on Catholic and Protestant models of marriage and how Shakespeare appropriates and transforms these models. I took my BA at the University of California--Santa Cruz where I was fortunate to work with Michael Warren and Lynn Gajowski, two scholars who greatly contributed to my interest in Shakespeare studies. ============================================================================ *Horst, Amy My name is Amy Horst; I would like to subscribe to SHAKSPER. I am a costumer and a drone in the regional theater hive (at Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Wisconsin). I've been a fan of Bill's since my last semester in school (bad timing) a few years back. I'm a scholar, but not an academic, a writer, but not a theoretician. But I live in the theater 6 days out of 7 (and on Mondays I rest) -- which is a pretty solid basis for Bardolatry. My interests include gender and sexuality-related topics, political, cultural, and artistic subversion, and the literal nuts and bolts of performance issues (i.e. how do you get from the paper to the boards?). =============================================================================== *Horton, Alison I'm a grad student in the English Dept at U.C. Berkeley studying Renaissance Drama and focusing on contemporary theories of psychology, reception, and theatrical production. I've given no papers and would prefer to discuss these and other issues informally as, believe it or not, there are very few Ren. Lit students at Berkeley. Alison Horton 2545 Dana St. Berkeley Ca. 94704 (510) 704-0585 ahorton@uclink2.berkeley.edu =============================================================================== *Horton, Thomas B. (Tom) or Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33435 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2674 Professionally I'm a computer scientist with a strong interest in literary and linguistic computing, automatic text processing, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. I'm particularly interested in statistical applications in each of these areas. My interests in Shakespeare tend to center on textual questions, including authorship and bibliography. My PhD dissertation (Computer Science, Edinburgh, 1987) centered on seeing if a statistical analysis of high-frequency function words could be successfully used in a Shakespearean authorship problem: the question of collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher in *Henry VIII* and *The Two Noble Kinsmen*. My paper "Frequent Words, Authorship and Characterization in Jacobean Drama" (presented at the ALLC/ACH '89 conference in Toronto and forthcoming in Research in Humanities Computing) is a look at applying the technique that Burrows used in studying characterization in Jane Austen to 8 plays by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Another paper, "Sequence Comparison and Old-Spelling Texts" (presented at the ALLC/ACH '90 conference in Siegen), examines the effectiveness of using pattern matching algorithms to recognize Early Modern English spelling variants and in textual collation of old-spelling texts. Current interests include computer techniques for finding allusions and verbal echos between texts. I'm a member of the ALLC, ACH, and have just started as book reviews editor for the journal *Literary and Linguistic Computing*. I'm also quite involved with Amnesty International at the local and state level. More details on the dissertation: Several stylometric techniques were evaluated using 24 "known" Shakespeare and 8 "known" Fletcher plays before applying the method to the two possible collaborations. The statistical technique that worked best (a multivariate statistical technique called distribution-free discriminant analysis) was successful in assigning 435 of the 459 (95%) scenes of 500 or more words to the correct author. Only 2 scenes were incorrectly assigned, and the rest were considered to be too close to call. When applied to H8 and TNK, the results indicated that both are collaborations, that the usual division is generally correct but that some scenes generally thought to be by Fletcher resemble Shakespeare much more closely than Fletcher in the use of these function words. ======================================================================== *Houck, Billy Shakespeare's plays and poems are the cornerstone of my curricular philosophy. I have never encountered an educational tool as powerful as Shakespeare's work. It is my personal experience that there is something in Shakespeare that can reach almost any high school student: girls, boys, gifted students, special education students, all races, all economic strata, even all languages - everyone. There's an infinity of depth to Shakespeare. No matter how many classes I teach, or how many plays I direct, I keep finding more depth in the work. The more I learn, the more I want to learn. Although I have always known that I was going to spend my life in educational theatre, I was not always a friend of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was never produced, and was either not taught at all or was taught as an afterthought when I was a student in high school and college. Had it not been for one particular transforming experience, I might never have developed a concept for Shakespeare at all. When I was 16 years old, I saw Peter Brook's Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco. Brook's bare-bones staging and acrobatic blocking kindled a spark in my young brain. At the time, I was so completely unexperienced with Shakespeare that I didn't realize that this was an avant-garde production. I thought this was the way Shakespeare was supposed to look. In fact, I pretended to attend a friend's school in order to get a seat in the second balcony to see that amazing play again. When I graduated from high school, the only thing I really cared about was the theatre, so I majored in drama in college. When I graduated from college, I realized I really wasn't an actor- I was an educator, so I headed back to high school where the inspiration began. I have been teaching high school drama constantly since graduating from college in 1978. For the last 15 years, I have been teaching at Arroyo Grande High School, directing 4-7 plays a year and teaching all the school's drama classes. When I started directing Shakespeare, I drew on my memories of the Peter Brook production, not so much trying to make a copy of his work, but in an attempt to catch that energy that had so intrigued me as a boy. I have been teaching and directing Shakespeare for eleven years. In this time I have mounted A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. It's quite a thrill to have students come to my desk demanding "Shakespeare, more Shakespeare!" A few years ago I had the opportunity to teach a high school English class focusing exclusively on Shakespeare's life and works. I decided to fit as many plays and as many approaches to Shakespeare as possible into the semester. I discovered that if you keep up a decent clip of reading aloud, watching videos, lecturing, and seeing live productions whenever possible, you can expose students to 11 or 12 plays in an 80-day semester. This method has proven to be quite popular. There is never enough room for all the students who want to take the class. A central belief of my classroom teaching of Shakespeare is that these are plays. They were written with the sole intent of live performance before a live audience. Any analysis that forgets what the plays are for is bound to hit a dead end. On the other hand, any time the words are treated like a thing of life, a human message, students are able to overcome the ancient vocabulary and tap into the reality of Shakespeare's life. Three years ago I experimented with producing nothing but Shakespeare in the Eagle Theatre (my high school drama department) for a whole year. The only non-Shakespeare play we presented all year was Kiss Me Kate. An amazing thing happened. More students than ever started trying out for the extracurricular drama program. Students who had never done a play of any kind were begging for small roles, just to be a part of the project. The language didn't scare anybody away. It empowered them. An interesting side effect to this Shakespearean immersion was that my daughter Sarah, then four years old, started memorizing passages from plays, almost without trying. She found it especially funny that in Much Ado About Nothing, Hero is described as "Leonato's short daughter." There's something there for everyone. I have also been Theatre Critic for New Times , a weekly news and entertainment magazine in San Luis Obispo County with a Circulation of 100,000 since November, 1992. I have written12 plays. In 1994, Arroyo Grande High School was one of two high schools nationally named an Outstanding Theatre School by the Educational Theatre Association. In the summer of 1987, I received a fellowship to study at Northwestern University. In Summer of 1996, I received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study ShAkespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon with Miriam Gilbert from the University of Iowa and the Royal Shakespeare Company. =============================================================================== *Howard, John My name is John Howard. My E-mail address is JohnSeven@AOL.COM. I am a literature student at CSUN working toward my bachelors in Honors English. I have always enjoyed reading and learning about Shakespeare's life and works and I hope that through the Internet and modern technology I can bring the 16th and 17th centuries closer to me. My life's motto has always been those immortal words of Robert Browning, "The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!" I try and live by those words each and every day of my life. If I am not actively engaged in solving a problem, trying to understand something better, or generally improving myself in some way than I am not satisfied with myself. When I am doing one of those things, then I'm usually too busy to notice. ============================================================ *Howard, Susan I am a teacher in New York City and a graduate of Queens College, currently working on my graduate studies in English Literature. I have not yet narrowed down my field of research, but I am a lifelong Shakespeare lover. This listserve would be of great interest to me. ============================================================= *Hrkach, Jack Please subscribe Jack Hrkach, Ph.d., Department of Theatre Arts, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850. 607/274-3924 I'm an assistant Professor at IC, in my fifth year here, and enjoying it immensely. My major responsibilities are teaching a large Intro to Theatre class (200 students a semester) and a less large but too large still upper level Theatre History class (50 majors, 10 non-majors last semester). Before I came to IC I received my doctorate from CUNY Grad School. For nearly twenty years prior I was a professional actor, performing several Shakespeares along the way, including TWELFTH NIGHT, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, MACBETH, JULIUS CAESAR (that at the Folger in a pretty awful production) and also at the Folger PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE, a successful 50 minute school show geared to students who'd had bad experiences with the Bard. Although my academic focus is NOT Shakespeare, I teach him in both my courses and as he does impact my area (nineteenth century American theatre) I try to focus on him whenever possible. I also have some budding undergraduate dramaturgs who might be helped via this net. Current research? Hippodrama in antebellum circuses, popular entertainment in Ithaca, NY (where a few Shakespeares were performed), and early theatre buildings in the Central NY area. =============================================================================== *Hsiao, Ian I am a senior university student of Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. In this semester, I choose the Shakespeare lesson as my major subject. Shakespeare's works are very fantastic to me, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello all are heros we can easily feel same feelings with them. I hope join this net, getting enough information about Shakespeare and his works. =============================================================================== *Hsu, Chiu-mei institution: u. of kansas, theatre interest: brecht and shakespearean tradition =============================================================================== *Hubbard, Fraser R. I am a teacher of English for 15 plus years high school AP and college, and shakespeare is my true love...i have used him in wondrous ways assoc iated with the connection between verba and res, thought and being, word and action, subject and object, and above all language and consciousness ...my unceasing wonder lies in his capacity for linear control and absol ute freedom of expression as if the planning were a product of organic evolution through the saying/language/ itself and yet as he has said th past is prologue or should we say the prologue is ever-present...? ...anyway i am writing a novel now and am using him as my chief sour ce of inspiration if not sustenance (a fire sustained by the substance o its own consuming...) and would greatly benefit from eavesdropping on y our group's peradventures... ...i have a master's in english from georgetown where i specialized in using poetics like shakespeare in the teaching of composition...i also h have a law degree and poems and lectures galore on shakespeare...willing to share all if some protection can be assumed... =============================================================================== *Hudgens, Michael Thomas August 27, 1993 Michael Hudgens South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Liberal Arts Asst prof <Email> mhudgens@silver.sdsmt.edu <Phone> 605 394 4127 or 605 574 4287 <Address> 501 E St Joseph St <Line> Rapid City <Line> South Dakota <Country> U S A <Postal Code> 57701-3995 <Professional Associations> South Dakota Humanities Council <Interests (key words)> Critical thinking, mass communications in general, media and the message <Biographical sketch (ca. 100-500 words)> HUDGENS, MICHAEL THOMAS, SR., science editor, educator; b. Wichita Falls, Tex., July 9, 1938; m. Cathleen Louise Craig; children: Alexander, Thomas, Pamela, Patric. BA 1977 and MA 1980 Loyola Marymount U., L.A. TV director-producer 1956-1967, newspaper arts editor 1967-1973, theater critic 1967-, science editor 1974-, music critic 1991-, asst. prof. of English at SDSM&T 1991-. Humanities scholar, South Dakota Humanities Council. Have contributed numerous articles to professional journals, magazines and newspapers. =============================================================================== *Hudson, Judy Williamson <IQM150@URIACC.URI.EDU> This is a brief introduction to myself: I am a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island. My MA will be in English, but I'm also getting secondary teaching certification and thus have an assistantship in the education dept. When I finish these two programs, I will go on for my Ph.D. Although I love Shakespeare, I am planning to concentrate in composition studies. Before I returned to school, after a 17 year hiatus, I was an accredited public relations practitioner and worked with the Rhode Island Historical Society. I've done freelance copywriting and public relations consulting. What else? My first degree was in psychology--believe it or not it comes in handy on occasion. I have three kids, three cats and live in a picturesque little town on the water in Rhode Island. I'd really like to move back to my home state which is New York though. I'd like to be added to the Shakespeare list. =============================================================================== *Hudson, Tamara <Tamhudson@AOL.COM> My name is Tamara Hudson. I have been immersed in Shakespeare's writings since the age of 12. The authorship question is of paramount importance to me. I am interested in all research on this topic, as well as, interpretive opinions of Shakespeare's works. I majored in English and minored in philosophy at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. I am currently employed at the United States Department of Agriculture's Harmon County Farm Service Agency office. Freelance writing is a pasttime of mine. I have written local newspaper columns in the Elk City Daily News and the Hollis News. Though I have never written anything in regard to Shakespeare, I would love to one day do so. As with anyone who loves Shakespeare's writings, repeated reading only adds to new understanding and deeper thought. This is why I wish to subscribe to the SHASPER mailing list. =============================================================================== *Hueting, Maureen <hueting@ihug.co.nz> I am at the moment a relief teacher, teaching ESL and economics at secondary school. I am attending Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand as an undergraduate (second year student). I am studying Shakespeare and his contemporaries - tragedies. In particular Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, Duchess of Malfi (John Webster), Revenger's Tragedy (Tourneur), Arden of Faversham (anonymous), Dr Faustus (Marlowe). I have been involved in producing and directing school drama productions. I have traveled extensively and spent four years in Europe from 1991 - 1995. I also spent two months in New Jewsey, USA whilst my partner was on a training course there. ============================================================= *Huffstickler, Margaret <MHuffstick@aol.com> Attended Smith College as a theatre major, then U. Mass. at Amherst as a music major, finally graduating from U. Mass. magna cum laude with a BDIC (Bachelor's Degree with Individ- ual Concentration) in music, theatre, and dance. I am a singer and actress; among other things I have sung in the Washington Opera, and performed in various theatres around DC. I also enjoy giving solo voice recitals with piano or other instru- ments (In fact, one project I've been turning over in my mind is a series of recitals consisting of music from Shakespeare's plays - both songs from the plays in various settings, and arias from operas based on the plays. Perhaps in conjunction with Shakespeare theatres, to introduce or complement their seasons). I have taught acting at the Studio Theatre Conser- vatory in Washington Dc, as well as voice (speaking voice) for actors. I must confess that one of my main motivations for joining this mailing list is that the title is suggestive of the Oxford vs. Shaksper debate, which I am quite interested in - so I hope that topic is among the ones discussed. At any rate please do add my name to your list of subscribers; I'm really looking for- ward to being part of this group. Thanks again! =============================================================================== *Hughes, Amy <aeh9092@is2.NYU.EDU> I am an NYU Tisch student studying to become a director. My first full-length production is going up this fall, and it is OTHELLO. I am most interested in Shakespeare and Ren. drama and I would really appreciate this list. =============================================================================== *Hughes, June <J0HUGH01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU> Speakers Bureau/Univ. Communications Phone: 588-6170 I wish to apply for membership to the Shakespeare group on Listserv. I am not a professor: I am a student of Shakespeare who wishes to remain current on scholarly opinion about Shakespeare. I took every course offered on Shakespeare and Elizabethan and Jacobean drama at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. I got A's in all of them. I am presently living in Louisville, KY, working at the Univ. of Louisville. I am not enrolled. ============================================================================= *Hughes, Rick M. <rhughes@pen.k12.va.us> Rick Hughes: Besides teaching English at a public school, I act in local productions, such as Sweet Briar College's production of King Lear. I would like to know more about Shakespeare the man. I taught English in Russia this past summer and will be directing a play in Russia this summer. I plan to teach in China for a year in 1997. =============================================================================== *Hughes, Stephanie <paradigm@SpiritOne.com> I am currently working towards my BA at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, in an effort to complete an education interrupted many years ago by the death of my father. I have been researching the biographies and works of 16th and 17th century writers and musicians for ten years or so, focusing primarily on the University Wits for the past five years, and am working on a book about Robert Greene. I would be most interested in communicating with other scholars researching the Wits. Though I have nothing at the moment, I will gladly forward any writing I may do that seems relevant to your purpose. ============================================================= *Hughes, Stephanie <shughes@lynx.dac.neu.edu> I am a lifelong student of Shakespeare and of the English renaissance, and am working on a book about the writers of the period. I would be very interested to get in on the discussions that may be taking place in Shaksper. =============================================================================== *Hugo, Karen <Kjskairos@aol.com> My name is Karen Hugo and I am currently a non-traditional student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. My major is English secondary education and I am about to begin my junior year. I am extremely interested in drama and literature but have always held back from reading Shakespeare-afraid it would be too much to understand the language. I took a Shakespeare class this summer and fell in love with it though! I was introduced to this list by a member of the Madeleine L'Engle discussion group. I am looking forward to learning more about Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature/Drama in general. ============================================================= *Hull, Michael <Bardonia@aol.com> As you can see I am involved in an entirely different field - that of research management in the Pulp and Paper industry. My interest in Shakespeare comes from my high school days in Belfast, N. Ireland where I first developed a keen interest in history, especially that beginning with the Tudor period in England. As a student of history I was intrigued by the parallels, so magnificently presented in Charlton Ogburn's book - The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and The Reality, of events in the plays with events in the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Hence I am primarily interested in the history of Shakespeare and in what modern research is finding out about him. =============================================================================== *Hume, Barbara R. I am currently the owner of a technical and business communications firm called TechVoice, Inc., based in Orem, Utah. I arrived at this point after earning a bachelor's in English from Radford University in 1964, a master's in English literature from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1974, and an ABD Ph.D. in English literature and language from Brigham Young University over the course of what felt like a zillion years of scholarship and poverty. The major figure I concentrated on for my doctoral exams was Dr. Johnson, because I am quite interested in eighteenth-century British history. However, I wrote my dissertation on Shakespeare. Its title is Smiling at Grief: Shakespeare's Use of the Theme of Death in the Comedies. The work is clearly a scholarly one, because the title contains a colon and the text contains many paragraphs that are several pages long. The pedantic and tortuous prose completely obscures the fact that I find it difficult to take anything seriously. After teaching on the university level for eleven years, I became disillusioned with the elitist and reactionary politics of academia and accepted a position with a growing computer company called Novell, Inc. After four years in private industry, I became disillusioned with the inhuman and degrading politics of corporate America. Fortunately, I had also picked up a number of marketable skills. I have since been able to parlay my wide-ranging abilities into a satisfying career as a business owner and professional writer and editor. During these years I have taught ballroom dancing, worked a PBX switchboard, gotten married, borne two children, gotten divorced, lived in Europe, published several books in totally unrelated fields, taught English at two high schools and three universities, served as an editor on a computer trade publication, and become the grandmother of six even though I still feel seventeen if I don't look in the mirror. I've written science fiction and attended several world science fiction conventions. I've written a romance novel and many, many thrilling technical articles with names like "Metadirectories and the Internet" and "Operating System Migration: Preparing Your Company for the Future." I've been away from academia since 1985, but I've never lost my interest in Shakespeare. Every year I attend the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah, whose productions rival those of any professional company. I hope through the SHAKSPER list to bring my knowledge of the scholarship up to date, as well as become acquainted with many interesting minds in the field. Given time, I may even regain the ability to write pompous and stuffy prose for academic journals. My Shakespearian interests remain with the comedies, particularly the problem plays. I hope to familiarize myself with the writings of those scholars currently dealing with Shakespeare's juxtapositions of light and dark elements and the effects of such contrasts on his plays. If you wish, I would be pleased to contribute a chapter or two from my dissertation to the on-line archive. ============================================================= *Humphries, Melissa <humphries@topeka.cjnetworks.com> My name is Melissa Humphries and I was born in a small town called Rio Vista, Texas on December 21, 1976. I grew up there and then moved my junior year in high school to Topeka, Kansas because of my father's job. From there I graduated valedictorian of my senior class, won several scholarships and decided to go to college. I am now an junior at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. I am studying Computer Graphic Design with a minor in Advertising. So what does all that have to do with Shakespeare? Very little, but I have always been interested in his works ever since I read Much Ado About Nothing in the fifth grade. Beatrice, now there was a woman I could relate to! Recently, though, I began developing web pages. First they were for classes but later I did a few for a few non-profit organizations around town. Nothing big, but my friends began to think of me as some kind of computer guru. So a couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked about my web page. It is very trivial indeed. It includes several stories and jokes...I even have a portfolio of my work, yet it failed to impress my friend. She told me that everyone has something like that now. I've thought and thought about it and finally decided that I would design something useful for reference. Something everybody needed to know, but what??? I settled on Shakespeare because I thought that his beautiful works need to be experienced by all. Basically that is why I want to subscribe to your group. It is a hobby or a pet project, I guess you could say. Overall, I thought it would be interesting to read what scholars had to say and fun to interact with such an intellectual crowd. ============================================================= *Hunt, *Shelley <stormy@awinc.com> I have an M.A. (English) from the University of Victoria, British Columbia and have been teaching in one of the very few remaining senior secondary schools in B.C. for 14 years. I teach English Literature, Advanced Placement English Literature, Comparative Civilizations, English 12 and 11, and Film Studies. I would appreciate an academic discussion! Living in the Cariboo-Chilcotin may be relatively peaceful, but we are off the beaten path. It's an eight hour drive to Vancouver. Hope this helps. =============================================================================== *Hunt, H. Clayton <hchunt@infinet.com> I am very interested in being added to the Shakespeare mailing list. I am a recent graduate of Miami University (B.A. Psychology) but still enjoy the study of Shakespeare's plays. During my college career I took a couple courses concerning the plays of Shakespeare and one dealing with his plays in the form of films and television productions. I feel that allowing me to be added to this list would be beneficial to my further studies and perhaps to those of the present subscribers. =============================================================================== *Hunt, Joshua <JHUNT@MUSIC.CC.UGA.EDU> My name is Joshua Hunt. I am an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia. My Shakespeare professor is a member of this list and that is how I learned of it. I enjoy Shakespeare's works and I am interested in conversation about it. Although I am a student I will not ask for help with term papers, etc. . .(I was told that was a problem.) =============================================================================== *Hunt, Ronald <neil@dadden.demon.co.uk> Ronald Hunt. A former Local Government Officer, I am a retired lecturer in General Studies of Mid-Kent College where I formed a friendship with Edward Startup, one time professor of English at Saarbrucken University. Before he died (in 1985) he confided in me that he had a theory that Shakespeare might have had a relationship with William Hole, the engraver, and encouraged me to research this. This I did and published the result in a book, The Startup Papers: On Shakespeares Friend, ISBN 89781 13 4. I have consulted Professor Stanley Wells who kindly advised me that in his book, <The Life and Times of Shakespeare> (1988) Professor Peter Levi had mentioned in passing that Hole was a possible candidate for Mr W.H., but that he had not pursued the matter. I sent Peter Levi a copy of my work and he has commented enthusiastically about my findings. The book (in hardback) is available to anyone interested at a price of 9.95 or $15.50 from my address: 11 Letchworth Avenue, Chatham, Kent ME4 6NP England THE OUTLINE OF THE THEORY The study results from evidence found in the musical work, Parthenia. Parthenia is a unique work since it contains the first music for the virginals engraved in England, and, incidentally, the only extant, complete, copy is in the Huntingdon Library. The work was dedicated in 1612 by the engraver William Hole, to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England on the occasion of her forthcoming marriage. There are, however, two further dedications which may be of great significance; one is by the poet Hugh Holland, who wrote one of the dedicatory verses for the First Folio, addressed , <On his worthy friend WH>, and the other is by George Chapman, the favourite candidate to be the rival poet of the Sonnets. We have, therefore, a Mr. W.H. who not only knew the rival poet well, since he engraved a fine portrait of him, and title pages of his works, but also that that he was someone who knew Shakespeares great friends Ben Jonson, and Michael Drayton. We know this because Hole engraved a portrait of Drayton, and title pages for both these poets. Hole, after being a major engraver in the book trade, was chosen by James I to be the Chief Engraver to the Mint, and he would, therefore, have been known at court. Finally, the fact that Hole engraved music for the virginals makes him an interesting choice as the seducer of the Dark Lady. Of course, the theory can only be accepted if the Sonnets reveal that they are addressed to an engraver, and I believe I have discovered ample evidence of this including what I feel is a naming sonnet. ============================================================= *Hunt, Simon <hunt@humanitas.ucsb.edu> I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. I hold a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in English from UCSB. My current research project, my dissertation, concerns issues of succession, drama, and history in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. In the past I have written on the relationship between carnival, rebellion, theatre, and subversion, and on the tension between royal and bourgeois constructions of domesticity in the English Renaissance, among other topics. My research/teaching interests include all aspects of English Renaissance Literature (especially drama), drama and drama theory, and literary and historical theory. Snailmail address: Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. =============================================================================== *Hunter, C. Stuart <CSHUNTER@vm.uoguelph.ca> or <CSHUNTER@uoguelph> Co-ordinator of Graduate Studies, Department of English, University of Guelph, GUELPH, Ont., N1G 2W1 I am primarily interested in the non-dramatic literature of the English renaissance. I have just finished work on an annotated bibliography of Sir Philip Sidney and have now returned to work on Thomas Traherne. I am currently writing a study of the role of the reader in Traherne's <Centuries.> The study of Traherne's <Centuries> is an outgrowth of an editing project that will finally result in a machine-readable edition of all of Traherne's works. I am interested in the SHAKSPER list because of the light I hope it will throw on the religious and aesthetic outlook of the earlier seventeenth century in England. ======================================================================== *Hurd, David P. <Banquo8584@AOL.COM> I am a Shakespeare lover who would like to join your list. My name is David P. Hurd, I am 47 years young and reside in Toms River NJ. I am by no means a prominent scholar although joining your group may just set me on that path. I have no advanced degrees (yet) and hope this is not a prerequisite to being accepted to the list. I attended the University of Delaware what seems like an eternity ago, in the early 70's. I was too immature to "make it" there at that time and I subsequently joined the US Army. I spent 13 months in South Korea, began a lifelong fascination with this ancient Asian culture, especially the language which I am presently studying with hopes of someday translating Korean poetry to English. Also spent 2 year of Army time in Key West FL, where I kind of emulated Hemingway (not in literary sense certainly) by "wasting away again in Margarittaville" as Jimmy Buffett calls it! I got a 2 year Associate In Science ( Computer Science ) from Ocean County College here in Toms River. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of education offered there. I took a course in Shakespeare there one summer with Dr. Mitchell and she was every bit as good as any Proffesors I had at the Univ. of Del. During this course ( I got an A ) I wrote papers with following titles: (1) "Encrichment and Enlivenment of 'As You Like It' by the Character of Touchstone, (2) "Parents and Parental Figures In 'Romeo and Juliet' ", (3) "The Character of Lady MacBeth", (4) "Egypt, Rome and Brobdingnag" which was an essay on the images of "tremendous size and power" in 'Antony and Cleopatra',and (5) "Measure for Measure vs. As You Like It". I have not yet read all of the plays and I look forward to doing so with pleasant anticipation. Up to the present I have read the following: "MacBeth", "Hamlet", "The Tempest", "As You Like It", "Measure for Measure", "Romeo and Juliet", "Antony and Cleopatra", and I am reading "King Lear" at this writing. My other interests include: running, weight lifting (Nautilus), yoga, photography, coin collecting, reading Sci-Fi, talk radio, movies, music (an eclectic taste), Korean Language and Culture, raising African Violets, computers and programming, Mathematics and Physics (including reading bios of great men of the field, i.e., Richard Feynman, Oppenheimer, Einstein). I am self employed as private Math and Computer Science tutor. Also work part time in early AM in local dept store, cleaning. This I like for it allows me to jump start my days (4 AM) and earn a little money as well. ============================================================= *Hurley-Leslie, Craig <HURL1913@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu> SURFACE: P.O. Box 1695 Plattsburgh, NY 12901 U.S.A. My name is Craig Hurley-Leslie. Last summer I transferred from the University of Idaho to SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York. At this time I anticipate graduating in May of this year with a B.A. in Theatre. I will enroll in law school in the fall of this year. While in college I have been involved with a wide gamut of theatre activities. My interests range from historic scholarship to practical stage-crafts. More recently I have become interested in playwrighting, and I hope to complete my first full-length play this spring. I am also actively pursuing experience in scene design, lighting design, and directing. Although I intend to enter a non-theatre profession, I do intend to continue my theatre scholarship and activities. My current research interests reflect my involvement in theatre, my interest in law, and my interest in computers. I am currently working on an analysis of Shakespeare's _Measure for Measure_, emphasizing its socio- legal relevance to contemporary ethical/legal issues. Additionally, I am attempting to compile an electronic resources guide for use in the SUNY Plattsburgh theatre department. This guide is intended to provide entering theatre students with an introduction to resources available, hopefully allowing such students to immediately begin utilizing these electronic sources. I feel this particular area of resources is grossly neglected at many undergraduate institutions. =============================================================================== *Hurt, Avery <ZU06239@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU> I am a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I am specializing in Renaissance Literature, specifically Shakespeare, although my biggest piece of research so far has been on The Roaring Girl by Dekker and Middleton. However, I am currently working on a project that takes a look at how the early modern conception of time is reflected in the plays of Shakespeare. This project is still in its early stages, but is proving to be very interesting. My sponsor and thesis director is Dr. Rebecca Ann Bach. =============================================================================== *Hutjens, Linda <lhutjens@chass.utoronto.ca> I am a PhD student in Renaissance Drama at the University of Toronto, now in the fourth year of my program. =============================================================================== *Hyatt, Kelly Lynne <khyatt@is.dal.ca> Hello! My name is Kelly Hyatt and I am a student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am interested in joining this Shakespeare discussion group. I am presently enrolled in an honours Shakespeare class as well as a computer research program. I believe my involvement in this discussion group would greatly aid me in both of these areas. I look forward to hearing from. =============================================================================== *Hyatt, Martin <HYATT@duq3.cc.duq.edu> Dr. Martin B. Hyatt Biological Sciences Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA, USA =============================================================================== *Hylton, Jeremy <jeremy@the-tech.mit.edu> Jeremy Hylton: I have written two short conference papers, one refereed, that describe my work on the presentation and use of page images for a digital library.As a graduate student in computer science, my primary research interests are in digital libraries and, broadly speaking, computer systems. I expect to complete and combined bachelors/masters program this December. As an undergraduate, I also completed a minor in literature and created a World-Wide Web server for the works of Shakespeare. Much of my work in computer science has been concerned with the creation, management, and preservation of digital information. I am currently work on a thesis project, titled "Deduplication and the Use of Meta-Information in the Digital Library," that will create an on-line library catalog of computer sciences papers, articles, and technical reports. My interest in Shakespeare stems from coursework with Steven Greenblatt at Harvard Univ. and Pete Donaldson at MIT. (In fact, I began the Shakespeare Web page as a means of procrastination while working on a paper for Greenblatt.) The Web pages has provided me with an opportunity to experiment with electronic presentation and linking and searching. On-the-fly Hyperlink Creation for Page Images. With Eytan Adar. In Proceedings of Digital Libraries '95, Austin, Texas. June 1995. URL <http://ltt-www.lcs.mit.edu/ltt-www/Papers/1995.dl95.html>. Text-Image Maps for Document Delivery on the Web. Position paper for the Workshop on HTML+ at the 1st International Conference on the World-Wide Web. CERN, Geneva. May 1994. URL <http://ltt-www.lcs.mit.edu/ltt-www/Papers/jerhy-www94.html>. =============================================================================== *Hynes, Matthew <ster@camelot.bradley.edu> Hello Everyone! I know that I am probably on the young end of the age spectrum of this listerv, but my excitement for Shakespeare is up to par. I am graduating from Bradley University (Peoria,IL) this December with a degree in Theatre Arts. After that I hope to be able to survive in a world of starving theatre artists, and also direct Shakespeare's works. I don't have much past experience to contribute to this listserv, but I do have a great amount of energy and imagination. =============================================================================== *Hynick, Harold <HHYNICK@charlie.usd.edu> My name is Harold Hynick, and currently I am pursuing an M.F,A. in directing at the University of South Dakota. I have a B.A. in Theatre from Central College in Pella, Iowa. I have worked professionally in Houston at Chocolate Bayou Theater, The Ensemble, Stages Theatre, Strand Street Theatre(Galveston) and in Maine at the Penobscot Theatre Company, and Maine State Music Theatre. My address is: 447 N. Plum #54 Vermillion, SD 57069 =============================================================================== *