La Tour, Jean-Sebastien My name is Jean-Sebastien La Tour. I am French and I study at the William Paterson College until May 1996 as an exchaange student. I am 23 and I major in English Literature. Next year I will attend the same major at the Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier (France). I was once a student in Foreign Applied Language (English and Spanish) but I decided to concentrate on one language. Partly because I was (eventually) not at ease with two languages, but mainly because I want to become a teacher (at the university) and take part in the education of the future generation. I mean education in the broadest sense possible of the term. I think that literature is a subject in wich one can find keys to understand the world (and possibly its degeneration) and the people. LIterature leads us towards ourself and towards each other when it is well used. I have the impression that this is my vocation. My interest in Shakespeare proceeds from the understanding he can provide me with about time the world was on the verge to enter in its modern age. =============================================================================== *La Tour, Jean-Sébastien My name is Jean-Sébastien La Tour, I am a french student in English Literature and I intend to become a teacher. I already have been a member of the SHAKSPER list when I was a student in the US, and I enjoyed it a lot. Now that I have a new email address I would like to join it again. Shakespeare being a key author in English literature I hope to benefit of the discussion to increase my knowledge in it. Moreover he is one of those authors whose works are filters through which you can understand your world. The fact that he passed long ago is not essential if he (as I believe he did) dealt with the "unmovable" thing of our world. ============================================================= *Lacchia, Gilberto I practice as a family physician since 1993 in a little city near Turin. I read Shakespeare since the College times, at the beginning Italian translations, then I began to read the original texts. ============================================================= *Lacy, Beth Ann I am a thirty-six year old married female with two children, currently attending Marymount College part-time in the pursuit of a degree in English. I work part-time as well. As to what I am going to do with my degree (I am a first semester junior) when I receive, I am not sure, however, I am reasonably sure that I will not continue in my present occupation of legal secretary which I have been employed at since I was 19 years old. I am currently taking a course in Shakespeare. I have studied Shakespeare in the past, but only in some general studies courses. I am deeply interested in Shakespeare's use of metaphor as well as the possible influence of the medieval mystery plays in Shakespeare's works. =============================================================================== *Laing, Dave My name is David Laing and I am currently in my final year of an undergraduate degree at McGill Universtiy in Montreal, Canada. My hope is to continue on to graduate studies with a specialization in Shakespeare studies. I am interested in all fields of Shakespearean scholarship and so I think I will enjoy searching through much of the material that is posted to the conference. I find this type of interaction exciting because of its immediacy and its worldwide scope. While I have not published any articles on Shakespeare, I have started a small drama group here at school whose aim is to perform scenes from the plays and try to make the language work for Needless to say it is a rewarding but challenging experience. =============================================================================== *Lake, James H. James H. Lake, born in South Carolina, was reared in New Orleans, received his B.A. (English) and M.A. (English) from Tulane University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. He has taught at the University of North Texas, at Blackburn College, and since 1973, at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS), where he was the University's first Director of graduate studies in Liberal Arts. He is currently Acting MLA Director and a Professor in English; he regularly teaches two Shakespeare survey courses, plus occasionally a Shakespeare on Film film course and Shakespeare and Renaissance Ideas, a graduate course in the College's MLA Program. He has published articles in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, AMERICAN IMAGO, EXPLICATOR, and other journals. He is married with two children, ages ten and four. For the past several years, Lake has been researching Shakespeare's sequencing strategies and the application/appropriation of these strategies in various film versions of Shakespeare's plays. The following abstract from a 1998 SAA study seminar is suggestive of this research. The Effects of Primacy and Recency Upon Audience Response to Some Film Versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet Memory research supports the theory that first ("prime") and last (most "recent") impressions are the most memorable in a sequential experience and that last impressions are capable of blocking out those immediately prior to them, even those which are contradictory. My paper explores how film auteurs use the interaction of these predictable effects to control audience response. The paper suggests that directors often use strategic primacy-recency sequencings to convey a sense of cinematic coherence, even in films not permitting psychological closure. The present paper-which focuses on the film versions of Hamlet by Olivier, Kozintsev, Lyth, Branagh, and Zefffirelli-is part of a long-range project. ============================================================= *Lakowski, Romuald Ian Romuald Ian Lakowski Ph. D. Candidate Department of English University of British Columbia Vancouver, B. C. Canada Email: Ronnie_I._Lakowski@mtsg.ubc.ca usercong@ubcmtsg Telephone: (604) 224-7965 (home) Professional Associations: Network groups: FICINO, RENAIS-L, MEDIEV-L, ELENCHUS Biography: I am presently finishing a dissertation on "Sir Thomas More and the Art of Dialogue," which deals with four of More's most important works: "The History of Richard III", Book I of "Utopia", "The Dialogue Concerning Heresies", and "A Dialogue Concerning Comfort in Tribulation." My supervisor is Paul G. Stanwood. My interests in English literature cover the whole range of Late Medieval and Early Modern periods from Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton, and beyond. I also have a strong interest in Computer applications in the Humanities. Besides working on my dissertation, I also presently work part-time at the UBC Computing Centre as a front-line consultant dealing with both mainframe and micro questions. I also do some consulting work in various departments on the side. [My first degree (B.Sc.) was in Mathematics, and I also did a year of graduate work in Physics. My other degrees are as follows: B.A. (Medieval History), M.A. (Medieval Studies--Toronto), M.A. (English--U.B.C), Ph.D. in progress.] I also have a minor in Rhetoric, and have studied with Nan Johnson and Andrea Lunsford (when they were at UBC)--both now at Ohio SU. My masters paper (non-thesis) supervised by Nan Johnson was on "Rhetoric and Psychology: Jung and Kenneth Burke--Some Connections." I have one short paper on "More and Milton: Mother Eve and the Daughters of Satan," which has been accepted by subject to revisions (which I am working on just now). I have also had a number of poems published, both locally and in Britain, including some free-verse translations of Thomas More's Latin Epigrams. ============================================================================== *Lancashire, Ian Professor of English Department of English, New College, University of Toronto My professional interests centre on drama to 1642, Chaucer, Renaissance bibliography and literature, and computing in the humanities. My main books have been a Revels edition, "Two Tudor Interludes" ("Hick Scorner" and "Youth") for Manchester University Press (1980), "Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain" for University of Toronto and Cambridge University Press (UK; 1984), and recently "The Humanities Computing Yearbook" for Clarendon Press (1989, 1991). My articles appear in various journals. I have served on the editorial board of the Records of Early English Drama project since 1976 and was its bibliographer until 1984. I am founding director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto (1986-). Here I have enjoyed co-developing "Micro-Text-Analysis System" (an MS-DOS program) with Lidio Presutti and have overseen the making of "TACT," an interactive text-retrieval program designed and programmed by John Bradley, Lidio Presutti and recently Michael Stairs. I serve on the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies, and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton-Rutgers). My research is about computerized content analysis, especially of phrasal repetends in medieval and Renaissance works, including a number of bilingual dictionaries by Palsgrave, Elyot, Thomas, Cotgrave and Florio. I am working to make available a Renaissance text database for literary and historical study. Some years ago I spoke on a panel at the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) on computing applications; recently Kenneth Steele and I co-authored a paper for its Theatre History seminar. Anne Lancashire, to whom I am married, served as SAA President in 1988-1989 and knows a lot more on things Shakespearean than myself. ==================================================================== *Lander, Jesse M. Jesse M. Lander, B.A. Columbia 1988; B.A. University College, Oxford 1991; M.A. Columbia 1992. I am currently preparing for orals at the Columbia University department of English and Comparative Literature. Interests include early modern historiography, coinage, nationalism and domesticity. Jesse M. Lander 524 W. 122, 6A N.Y., NY 10027 tel.-(212) 749-2426 =============================================================================== *Lane, William <75540.653@CompuServe.COM> WILLIAM LANE Born in Ottawa in 1951, he attended Carleton University, where he received an Honours degree in English. During this time, he was Artistic Director of Sock 'n' Buskin theatre group, and also founded a semi-professional theatre company, Space Tool Co, which brought the work of new Canadian authors like Lawrence Russell and Bryan Wade to Ottawa for the first time. He also helped to design the first practical theatre course to be offered at Carleton, as well as teaching the "laboratory" section of this new course. During a year spent in London, England, he taught a terrifying variety of subjects in an inner-city comprehensive school, while pursuing a career as a theatre critic. He then returned to Toronto to take up the position of Dramaturge, and later Associate Director, and finally Acting Artistic Director at Toronto Free Theatre. During the next ten years, he directed premiere productions of a number of important new Canadian plays, including Zastrozzi, Filthy Rich, and Science and Madness by George F Walker, Automatic Pilot and The Passing Scene by Erika Ritter, The Jones Boy by Tom Walmsley, Trans World by Michael Hollingsworth, and many others. He also directed Canadian premieres of important new foreign plays like Buried Child by Sam Shepard, Loose Ends by Michael Weller, and Strawberry Fields by Stephen Poliakoff. In 1982, he joined CBC Radio as an Executive Producer of Radio Drama. In this position, he conceived the series Vanishing Point, and its successor Studio '94, and has directed literally hundreds of radio plays, while continuing to work occasionally in the live theatre. Theatres where he has worked include Tarragon, Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre Lab, New Theatre, Young People's Theatre, The Young Company, The Bayview Playhouse, Toronto Truck Theatre, Theatre Direct, Arbor Theatre, Theatre Calgary, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Belfry Theatre, and Playwrights Workshop (Montreal). He has been Associate Director of the Playwrights' Colony at the Banff Centre. He taught the first Directing Workshop to be offered at the Maggie Bassett Studio of Tarragon Theatre. He was the first director to earn the Pauline McGibbon Award. He has taught radio skills in a variety of likely and unlikely venues, including the National Theatre School and the Banff Centre for the Arts. As a writer, his first play LifeStyle was produced in the Studio of the National Arts Centre in 1969. The Brides of Dracula was produced at Toronto Free Theatre in 1978. His first encounter with CBC Radio was as a writer for the Nightfall series. His most recent writing project is a translation/adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan. Although he has not yet had the chance to direct Shakespeare -- at least professionally -- he feels he has learned a great deal from the many productions of these plays which he has seen over the years. His appetite for Shakespearean text was further whetted in 1992, when he directed Anne-Marie MacDonald's play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) for the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He feels that Hamlet is much over-rated, and has seen a lot of bad productions of Macbeth, but he has a special fondness for Measure for Measure, and is learning to love King Lear with an ever-growing sense of abandon as the years go by. ============================================================================== *Cohen, Robert Robert Cohen, Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine. Address: Department of Drama, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717; telephone 714/856-7282. Fax 714/725-3475. DFA Yale University (School of Drama), 1965. B.A. UC Berkeley 1961. Shakespeare and related studies with Alois Nagler, John Gassner, Jonas Barish, Travis Bogard. Major publications on Shakespeare and related subjects include ACTING IN SHAKESPEARE (Mayfield, 1991), "Shakespeare's Sixteen Year-Old Hamlet" in EDUCATIONAL THEATRE JOURNAL, "Coming of Age in Elsinore" in ON-STAGE STUDIES, "Golden Opinions, Sound and Fury" in ON-STAGE STUDIES, "Spoken Dialogue in Written Drama" in ESSAYS IN THEATRE, and "Hamlet as Edwin Booth" in THEATRE SURVEY. Also three textbooks in acting, including ACTING POWER with substantial material on acting in Shakespeare; plus books on directing, on Jean Giraudoux, a general introduction to theatre, and two play anthologies. National reviewer (the annual "Year in Drama") for CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM and Los Angeles reviewer for PLAYS INTERNATIONAL (London). As a Shakespearean director: TIMON OF ATHENS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE WINTER'S TALE, and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA for the Utah Shakespearean Festival; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, MACBETH, KING LEAR for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; HAMLET, KING LEAR, RICHARD III, ROMEO AND JULIET, OTHELLO, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE TEMPEST, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA for college theatres. Director/text editor for THE PLAIE CALLED CORPUS CHRISTI; a compilation of 27 medieval mysteries presented in three three-hour productions and one hourlong video over three years, partly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. As acting teacher: Shakespearean performance specialist with graduate students at UCI and at international workshops in Finland, Sweden and Hungary. Current interests: Shakespearean acting theory and practice; special emphasis on characters (and actors?) crying in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Langhammer, Eva My name is Eva Langhammer. I am a student of English literature at Bayreuth University in Germany since November 1993. Part of my oral intermediate exam was on Shakespeare's comedies and in my studies I am still concerning myself with Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre. ============================================================= *Langhofer, Kathy My name is Kathy Langhofer. I am currently enrolled in a Shakespeare course at Medicine Hat College. I am studying 7 plays: Julius Caesar, Henry V, (theme is Leadership); Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew (theme is Men & Women: Gender, Family, and Society); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. It also covers all of the dramatic modes--history, tragedy, comedy, and romance. I am just discovering Shakespeare and I am looking forward to learning as much as I can. =============================================================================== *Langland-Schula, Chris Chris Langland-Shula 3/22/94 University California, Los Angeles Theatre Major: Comprehensive Emphasis Sophmore Currently, I am still learning my trade. I am interested in theatrical direction, focusing away from realism and more into stylistic and lyrical viens. I have always had an appreciation for Shakespeare, however, and have even given a great deal of thought to production concepts for various works, especially "Midsummer Night's Dream". Currently, that is where my primary work lies, in the theoritical. I fully intend to be practicing my art in the near future. As for practical experience, I have very little, the most major being work as assistant director for UCLA Theatre Dept production of "Titus Andronicus", an MFA Directing Project. I have directed a few other peices, and have written a few class papers on Shakespeare, but that is all. As I said, I am learning. =============================================================================== *Lanier, Douglas Department of English University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 My name is Douglas Lanier, Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. I've published on Ben Jonson, John Marston, John Milton, and Shakespeare in various scholarly journals, and I've also written on using literary theory in introductory literature courses and on the politics of jargon. I am currently finishing a book-length study of Ben Jonson and the institution of authorship in early modern England. I am particularly interested in the socio-psychology of print culture in Renaissance England, as well as ceremonial texts and contexts for literary works of the period. I have also become interested recently in discussions of "delight" in the period (aesthetic, sexual, sensual, poetic, performative, religious, etc.) with an eye toward their affiliations and contradictions. =============================================================================== *Lanier, Gregory Greg Lanier is the Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at The University of West Florida. When not shuffling administrivia or churning out long and meaningless reports for the Florida Board of Regents, Lanier teaches the Honors sections of the Great Books sequrence along with courses in Shakespeare (graduate and undergraduate), Renaissance Drama, American Drama, and Literary Theory. An eight-time teaching award winner, Lanier has also developed an array of computer-aided composition materials designed to improve students' grammar skills, and he has pioneered UWF's efforts in computer-aided composition instruction. Lanier is primarily interested in Shakespeare on Film, but has also published studies of the plays of Sam Shepard. He is currently working on the popular music in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet and the images of violence in Kurosawa's Ran. ============================================================= *Lappalainen, Sami Sami Lappalainen: I'm an International Baccalaurate student at Oulun Lyseo high school, Finland. As a member of our English A2 class I'm currently working on my English dossier, and looking for articles concerning topics we have discussed in class. Since our program has included some Shakespeare (Macbeth mostly), this list attracted my interested, as I believe I could include some of the discussion and/or articles to my dossier. Who knows, it might also be possible for the discussion to help me in my literature essays! I have an essay on Macbeth, and another on literature in general, but using evidence also from Macbeth. Both were evaluated to around 60%, so they're not anything extra-special. Anyway, if you want to have these, I'll be more than willing to supply them (I don't have them with me right now, but they're on computer, so it won't be a problem). =============================================================================== *Lares, Jameela Ann Jameela Lares, Asst. Professor of English at University of Southern Mississippi. Ph.D. 1994, University of Southern California. As an early British literature specialist I am called upon to teach Shakespeare's plays fairly often, and I try to do so in terms of their historical, linguistic and cultural background. My primary interests, however, are seventeenth century literature, Milton, the history of rhetoric, and theology. I have done extensive archival work in the past at the Huntington and Clark libraries in Los Angeles, and hope to extend my researches to other libraries (Folger, Newberry, British, etc.) in the future. =============================================================================== *Larner, Daniel M. I am interested in subscribing to SHAKESPER. My latest publication regarding Shakespeare is "The Image and the Thing Itself: Reflections on Musical Form in King Lear," Jahrbuch, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1991. =============================================================================== *Laroque, François I am Professor of English at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle and a Shakespeare specialist. ============================================================= *Larque, Thomas I am a committed bardophile, and have been privately studying both Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama for a number of years. I am currently working on a range of research projects at Lancaster University, covering issues in the development and performance of Renaissance plays (concentrating mainly upon changes in the production and interpretation of Shakespeare's plays through the centuries). Although persistent ill health has forced me to suspend my studies for the moment, I am hoping to return when my health improves. In addition, I was a founding member of the Medway Shakespeare Society, and have worked in the past as researcher and production assistant for a local theatre company. I have also acted in a number of semi-professional productions, and performed for a small Theatre-in-Education company for a couple of years. I am an occasional theatre reviewer for the Shakespeare Bulletin. My interests include: The Victorian Performance and Criticism of Shakespeare's Plays. The Rewriting and Adaptation of Shakespeare's Plays by Later Playwrights. Shakespeare's Portrayal of Women. The conflict between "historically accurate" and "modernising" approaches to the performance and study of Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *Larsen, Todd I am currently a M.A. candidate at Case Western Reserve University. Having completed a B.A. in English and a minor in Italian at University of California Santa Barbara, I took a year hiatus from the university setting. I traveled to Italy, worked various jobs (ranging from construction to education), and performed on the Flyin' Lindy Hoppers. After regaining some small sense of perspective on life, I returned to my studies in English. I am concentrating primarily on Renaissance and Victorian studies (as much as it is feasible). Currently I am taking a graduate seminar on 'Shakespeare and his Theatre' with Prof. Tom Bishop. As part of the graduate seminar I will be auditing the SAA seminar 'Convention and Invention,' and hope to use SHAKSPER as a resource to make myself more familiar with the topic. ============================================================= *Larson, Kenneth E. I am an Associate Professor of German at Wells College, a small liberal arts college for women in Aurora, NY. My background is in Comparative Literature (Ph.D. Yale, 1983); my main scholarly interest is the German reception of Shakespeare from the 18th century to the present. In that area I have co-edited a collection of essays, _The Reception of Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century France and Germany_, published as a special issue of _Michigan Germanic Studies_ (15.2, 1989), and published several essays including "The Origins of the 'Schlegel-Tieck' Shakespeare in the 1820s," _The German Quarterly_ 60 (1987), "Wieland's Shakespeare: A Reappraisal," _The Lessing Yearbook_ 16 (1984), and "Pro und contra Schlegel," 1989 _Jahrbuch_ of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West. I've given papers on German Shakespeare reception at several recent MLAs (1987, 1988, 1991). I would view my work as along the lines of British cultural materialism; I am interested in investigating how Germany, in various periods, "appropriated" and made use of Shakespeare for its purposes and needs. My interest in the history of Shakespeare translation has had the happy effect of giving me a chance to explore the connections of literature to society and politics, on the one hand, and at the same time to work very Aclosely with the text itself. My large project at the moment is a book-length history of German Shakespeare translation. I am also working on a long article on German Shakespeare criticism in the late 19th century. My professional memberships are: MLA, NEMLA, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft West, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft (the two are still separate, but will merge next year), Goethe Society of North America, Lessing Society. Home address: P. O. Box 104, Aurora, NY 13026 (315-364-8484) ============================================================================ *Latourette, Ryan Hello, my name is Ryan J. Latourette. I am a Senior English major at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. My e-mail address is latouret@student.msu.edu. Currently I am enrolled in a 400 level Shakespeare class here at the University, and have taken several semesters of Shakespearian studies. I believe my goal is to better understand the writings and language of W. Shakespeare and use his texts to identify a past culture (I do not buy the theory that his texts are timeless masters that comment on our society).A three hundred year old language leaves more ambiguities than does poetry in general, and I felt that by joining in this discussion group that we might all benefit by sharing thoughts. Explicating "the Bard's" playtexts is an ultime goal for any scholar, and the more thoughtfulness given by a larger group, the better meaning and understanding. But my interests also lie in the desire to seek scholars who aptly critique and comment on Shakespeare. I like to discuss theories on the playtexts and their merit over that of another playtext. We have many discussions in our class concerning these and other topics, and my interest is to extend those discussions to other interested scholars and students. I hope that is the intent of this discussion list, and I hope to be included on it. =============================================================================== *Lavender, Valerie I am Valerie Lavender, an undergraduate student at Smith College - in my senior year. As an English literature major, I am concentrating in Shakespeare studies. My poetry has been published by THE GRECOURT REVIEW (two consecutive years) and THE SIREN, two literary reviews at Smith College. Also, I have been awarded the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize for the best group of poems by an undergraduate student at Smith. =============================================================================== *Lawhorn, Mark Mark H. Lawhorn: I am a Ph.D. candidate in English. (general) Topic: Uses of the "under age" on Early Modern Stage in England. Advisor: Val Wayne. I am a member of MLA, SAA, and Dramatists Guild. =============================================================================== *Lawlor, Patrick J. Patrick J. Lawlor BS Engineering (University of Dublin, Ire) I'm afraid that I'm not an academic scholar - I just like Shakespeare; I especially collect video/film versions of the plays; I recently read the Ted Hughes opus "S and the Goddess of Complete Being." I like Shakespeare; that's all I can say really. =============================================================================== *Lawrence, Judiana Name: Judiana Lawrence, PhD Title: Associate Professor of English Department: English Institution: St. John Fisher College 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14618 Publications: "Natural Bonds and Artistic Coherence in the Ending of *Cymbeline*." *Shakespeare Quarterly* 35, Winter 1984: 440-460. Professional memberships: The Shakespeare Association of America, The Modern Language Association, The Sixteenth Century Society. Projects, interests, research topics: I have recently completed an article on *Hamlet* and have written conference papers for SAA, NYCEA, Central NY conf. on Lang. & Lit., and 16th Century Soc. meetings on *Twelfth Night*, *King Lear*, *Hamlet* and *Titus Andronicus*. My most recent conference paper was titled "Madness and Mistaken Fictions" for the seminar, "Perturbations of the Mind" chaired by Carol Thomas Neely and Michael McDonald at the 1994 annual SAA meeting in Albuquerque, NM. I am working on an article on sacrifice, cannibalism, and rape in *Titus Andronicus.* In October, I shall chair a session on "Shakespeare and Others: Representations of Racial, Gender, and/or Class Difference in Early Modern Drama" at the fourth annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 16-18, 1994, at SUNY Cortland. My second teaching and research interest is Postcolonial literature and theory. I shall be teaching two courses in this area next fall, one in postcolonial literature, and one in Apartheid in the honors program at St. John Fisher College. I am especially interested in the role of the Market Theater in Johannesburg as an instrument of social change, and in new writing by women in South Africa. I received the BA degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and both MA and PhD from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. My surface mail address is 119 Village Lane, Rochester, New York 14610. I should be happy to provide an electronic copy of my most recent conference paper to your archives as soon as I have discovered how to do it (and have returned from a trip to South Africa in July and August).> =============================================================================== *Lawrence, Sean Kevin 208 Angel's Roost, University of King's College Halifax, N.S. Canada B3H 2A1 I am an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, enrolled in a programme of combined honours in English and history. I have taken an undergraduate course in Shakespeare, and fared reasonably well therein, but I would hardly call myself a scholar, or anything more grandiose than an aficionado. Your publication seems to find its main focus in graduate students and fellows, but, if you are not exclusive, I would be very happy to join and partake in the services and discussions offered. ========================================================================= *Lawson, Josie Burgin I am an actor (SAG, EMC)currently living in the Atlanta Georgia area. I attended Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, as a "Drama" major from 1968 to 1970, then returned to college in 1983 and received my theatre arts degree from Loretto Heights College, Denver CO. in 1985. I played Viola in _Twelfth Night_ my sophomore year at Lynchburg College, and Lady Mortimer in _Henry IV, part one_ with "The Upstart Crow" in Boulder CO in 1994. Not exactly scads of experience with The Bard; still, I read, check out audio and video tapes from the library and have a few videos of the plays in my home library. My application to this list is due to my interest in learning more about all aspects of Shakespeare. ============================================================= *LePage, Richard My name is Richard R. LePage and I'm 48 years old. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota --- a life-long resident. Currently, I'm working toward a Masters degree in Human Resource Development at the University of St.Thomas in St.Paul. My wife's is named Annabella and is a citizen of Venezuela. =============================================================================== *Lea, Tony My name is Tony Lea and I live in the small town of Whitby, approximately 30 miles east of Toronto. I would like to enroll in a university-level English or English Literature course (or both) and feel that a knowledge of Shakespeare's works is indispensable in the study of these subjects. I would like to receive interpretations of his work that are outside the strictly traditional ones and feel that this list would be the best source of contemporary criticism. ============================================================= *Leary, Penn I believe Dr. Cook knows who I am. I am the author of _The Second Cryptographic Shakespeare_ and some time ago I sent him a pamphlet summary and a disk, but received no reply. My autobiography? During WWII I was a test pilot assigned to Wright Field and later to O.S.S. I have practiced as a trial lawyer since 1947. I have a library of Baconian books and a file of the English journal, Baconiana back to 1953. I was asked to write a paper for Cryptologia (a high tech journal of Cryptography) on "Cryptography in the 15th and 16th Centuries." It will be published this fall. I am not at all in sympathy with Stratfordians and Oxfordians, and I have found that they are definitely uninterested in Francis Bacon; this may limit my usefulness to your members. For your information, I am helping Paul Dupuy, a graduate student at the Univ. of Alabama, begin a Baconian internet page. He is partly finished with putting my book on it as a link. The address is: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/contents.html =============================================================================== *Lee, Bruce As publications director for the Utah Shakespearean Festival, I am always looking for new slants and articles on Shakespeare and his plays. I hold a B.A. and M.A. in American literature from Brigham Young University, have worked as a teacher, editor, and writer, including publishing magazines of my own. I have been the publications director here at the Utah Shakespearean Festival for five years. =============================================================================== *Lee, Cleveland I am an attorney with the California Public Utilities Commission. I graduated from the Boalt School of Law, U.C. Berkeley; Reed College, Portland OR; and I have an LLM in tax from Golden Gate University. I am interested in Shakespeare because of my experience at Reed in an English literature class and have retained an abiding interest in his works. =============================================================================== *Lee, Hyun Jung I am a junior at college, taking my undergraduate courses in English literature. I have been deeply interested in the subject for many years, especially in the plays of William Shakespeare, and came to college in the hope that this would sufficiently enlighten me on the subject and direct the course of my further studies in this field. But unfortunately the academic environment in Korea surrounding the study of literature from regions outside the Asian continent is insufficient at best , and despite my efforts I have not been able to procure any means of pursuing the subjects I wish to study - i.e. Shakespearean drama, D.H.Lawrence, etc. - other than the kindly advice some of my professors have been able to offer me. This leaves me in great need of guidance on what kinds of material I should read, which critics are to be referred to in my studies, and other such information regarding Shakespeare and English literature. I stumbled upon Shakspar listserv while searching for literary criticism on Shakespeare in the Internet. I would greatly appreciate it if you could inform me on some of the details of how this conference works, whether it conforms with my object of study, whether or not it is appropriate for me to become a member, and other such information you might consider relevant in light of my current situation. I hope that you will not find this letter unpleasant or presumptuous. Thank you for taking the time to read it. =============================================================================== *Lee, Hyun Seok My full name is Hyun Seok, Lee. I am teaching Shakespeare at Kyungsung University (English Dept.) in Pusan, Korea as an associate professor. I got M.A. from Seoul National University in 1983 and now I'm preparing my doctoral dissertation (which, I hope, will be awarded by same institution). My "title" here in Indiana University is what you call a "visiting scholar". I will stay here until Feb.1994. I've never heard about "e-mail',"INTERNET"...in Korea, so I am writing this letter ON-LINE hoping you will understand my clumsy style and scanty description. My current interest lies mainly in Shakespeare's relationship with contemporary politics. =============================================================================== *Lee, Jay M. Having read the introductory letter on the network, I would like to join by sending a brief biography. My name is Jay Lee, and I work for the Indiana University library as an acquisition coordinator. I have neither an MA nor a PhD. I have published fiction, but as of yet no scholarly works. I am interested in the list because I enjoy the poems and plays of Shakespeare and his use of the language. =============================================================================== *Lee, Jin-Ah I got my BA and MA in English in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. I got my Ph D in English in the University of South Carolina in May, 1997. My dissertation is about the close relationship between rhetoric and ethics in Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," using Giovani Pontano's "De Sermone" as an interpretative tool. I am interested in all aspects in Renaissance, English as well as Continental. ============================================================= *Lee, John John Lee, Temporary Lecturer in the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle, England. (Lecturing at University of Bristol from October 95.) Encyclopaedia articles on Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus, Longinus' On Sublimity, Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'They flee from me', The Poetry of Tony Harrison -- St James Press. Forthcoming 95 -- article on New Historicism in Essays in Criticism. At present completing PhD thesis on Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self at the University of Bristol. Areas of particular interest: rhetoric & notions of the self. =============================================================================== *Lee, Jongsook Associate Professor of English Seoul National University Department of English, College of Humanities Seoul National University Seoul 151-742, SOUTH KOREA. B.A., English, Seoul National University, 1974. M.A., English, Seoul National University, 1977. Ph.D., English, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1985. Published work includes essays on Jonson, More, Shakespeare, and literary theory, and a book, *Ben Jonson's Poesis: A Literary Dialectic of Ideal and History* (UP of Virginia, 1989). Currently working on the reception of Shakespeare in Korea, and Shakespeare's contemporary audiences and their possible contribution to the shaping and reshaping of Shakespearean texts. ========================================================= *Lee, Kenneth name: kenneth w. lee email: kelee@er6.rutgers.edu location: rutgers university, new brunswick, new jersey, usa occupation: student; majoring in english and molecular biology/biochemistry publications: none. personal statement: i see Shakespeare as a literary phenomena and wish to learn more about this man who has spurned almost four centuries of hot-fueled debate. =============================================================================== *Lee, Michelle I graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Communication in 1993 and have worked at Gale Research, a publishing company of mostly reference books, for the past two years. Although I am not a Shakespearean scholar, I am very interested in Shakespeare and his works. I am especially interested in gender studies. ============================================================= *Lee, Wayne My name is Wayne, and I am presently attending York University majoring in English Honours. Right now, I am in a fourth year Shakespeare Honours seminar discussing his sources, re-readings, and interpretations of his plays. Should be an interesting year! =) Also, a challenging one! =============================================================================== *Lee, Wayne Hello. My name is Wayne Lee. I am a third year York student double majoring in the English and History Honours Program. I was informed by my Shakespeare tutorial leader of the Shakespeare Discussion Group, and I would be like to be included if it is possible. I have studied many of William Shakespeare's plays in this course and also in many others. I wish to pursue a teaching career, and I strongly believe that by having a background in Shakespeare, it will be extremely beneficial for me. =============================================================================== *Lehman, Gretchen I am doing a project for a computer applications class, in which I must first choose a topic, then construct five questions, then ask people, already with your service to answer them. It's a cool way to learn about my favorite 15th century author, and learn about computers too. I hope to join soon, and get started on my project. ============================================================= *Lehn, Mathias Born on the 29th March 1969 in Strasbourg, France Science A-Level in Strasbourg in 1988 Master's Degree in Musicology at Paris-IV Sorbonne University with subjet : "Finnish Opera History from 1852 to today" , 1994. Then "Looking for operas composed after Shakespeare's *Midsummer Night's Dream* ", 1995. From 1995, I am working on my doctorate in musicology, entitled: "Dramatic study of the Puck character in the four operas composed after Shakespeare's MND by Benjamin Britten, Marcel Delannoy, René Gerber and Victor Vreuls". I have written five texts for Philips Classics cds : Arriaga Three strings quartets Bach Musical Offering and The Art of Fugue Britten Midsummer Night's Dream Mozart Symphonies 29, 31, 33 (Bruggen) Mozart Symphonies 40, 41 (Bruggen) and one for BMG, to be published in november : von Weber Oberon ============================================================= *Lehn, Mathias I am working on the Puck character in four operas composed after Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream". And I am already looking for all information about operas after all Shakespearean work. I published my results in Strasbourg opera program dedicated to Britten's MND in June 1998. ============================================================= *Leigh, Robin Robin Leigh, Youth Services Librarian =============================================================================== *Leland, John Name: Leland, John Institution: Virginia Military Institute Department: English and Fine Arts Title: Associate Professor email: FENLELAND%Faculty%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU phone: 703 464 7240 address: Lexington, VA 24450 USA biography: I obtained my ph.d. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. My dissertation was on Renaissance literature. I have taught college in North & South Carolina, Virginia, and France. My interests are less scholarly than pedagogical and personal. I'm especially interested in critical reassessments of the canon, multi-cultural approaches to Renaissance and Reformation literatures, links between science, technology and literature. Basically, i'd like to use FICINO as a sort of continuing education project for myself. I'd appreciate advice on strategies for inciting student research; successful programs for broadening student knowledge of general cultural conditions of the period would be most welcome. =============================================================================== *Lemonnier, Delphine Miss Delphine LEMONNIER Phd student and English Literature teacher at the university of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle Member of the Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) Phd research field : Shakespeare and emblem books : a study of emblematical imagery and strucutures in 6 plays supervised by Monsieur le Professeur François LAROQUE research field : emblems, rhetoric, visual arts, imagery, semiotics, performance interests : Renaissance gardens, architecture, screen adaptations of Shakespearean plays. ============================================================= *Lennox, Duncan Name: Duncan Lennox Title: Graduate student Department: Computer Science Institution: University College Dublin Address: G12, Computer Science Dept, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Degrees held: B.Sc. (Hons.) (Univeristy College Dublin, 1992) Biography: Having completed a 4 year degree in Computer Science, I am currently researching the area of softwre engineering (analysis and design) leading to an M.Sc. My Shakespearean interests are purely for my own personal enjoyment. =============================================================================== *Leonard, John I am primarily a Miltonist, but I am interested in all renaissance/early modern writers. I have published a book on Milton (1990), and I have edited Milton's complete poems for Penguin (1998). My most recent article is on Marlowe's *Hero and Leander.* I am currently working on a book on allusion. ============================================================= *Lerch, Maureen I am a graduate student at Kent State University, working toward a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. I recenty received my BA in English, also at Kent State. I plan to take graduate level courses in English, to supplement my Library Science program. I hope that by subscribing to SHAKSPER I will have an opportunity to add to my research alternatives. =============================================================================== *Lerner, Gail My name is Gail Lerner (gl68@columbia.edu) and I am a second-year M.F.A. Theatre Directing candidate at Columbia University, where I am studying under Andrei Serban and Anne Bogart. This coming semester, we are focussing on Shakespeare, and I am preparing for a tremendous Cymbeline project. Despite all of the people and articles that tell me that it's a wretched, confused mess of a play which Shakespeare wrote little if any of, I find it thoroughly compelling, and would like to hear of anyone's experience with, opinions on, or ideas about it. I will be happy to be more forthcoming with my own, but for now I'll try to stick to the autobiographical facts. I did my undergrad. work at Swarthmore, where I held an Honors concentration in Shakespeare, doing extensive seminar work with Abbe Blum and Tom Blackburn. I wrote major papers on Macbeth ('Scotch on the Rocks'), Love's Labors Lost ('Love Means Never Having to Say a Sonnet'), Troilus and Cressida ("Hot Blood, Hot THoughts, Hot Deeds, Bad Boyfriends'), and several other smaller pieces on Ant. and Cleo. and Henry V. I've directed a production of ROmeo and Juliet as well as organizing an annual outdoor Shakespeare festival at Swarthmore. I've spent a summer studying with TIna Packer and Shakespeare and COmpany at the Mount in Lenox, Mass. as well as a summer in the Advanced Shakespeare and CHekhov program at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. I was a member of an Improvisational Hamlet troupe with the Washinton Improv. Theatre in D.C. I am eager to join the Shakespeare list, and look forward to adding myself to the ranks of cyber sonnetry. =============================================================================== *Lesko, Leisha My name is Leisha Lesko. I am twenty-two years old, and only been reading Shakespeare for about seven years, however, I feel that that is a long enough time to form a few opinions and criticisms. I can't say that my "stand" on Shakespeare is of a scholarly nature (if you haven't already guessed), but I feel I am justified like everyone else. Afterall, weren't many of Shakespeare's admirers and patrons - commoners. I love the fact that given any situation, Shakespeare could plunge to the depths of his being, and bring to the surface, emotions submerged inside every human soul. Whether we'd like to admit it or not, most have felt the "doom" of Juliet, or the jealousy of Othello, and there is a little Puck in all of us. Isn't it fun to meddle in other people's business? As I said I am not a scholar but I'd love to be enlightened by one. ============================================================= *Leslie, Robert <8913241l@arts.gla.ac.uk> B.A. Honours, 1st Class, Spanish with Italian Subsidiary, Westfield College, University of London 1989 M.Phil. English and Italian Renaissance Literature, University of Glasgow 1990 Ph.D. University of Glasgow 1995 English & Italian Thesis title: Comedy and the Counter-Reformation. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the evolution of Italian non-tragic drama from the Humanist Renaissance through the Counter-Reformation. I then examine the extent to which the emulation of Italian models by Shakespeare et al. carried over, into a basically Protestant milieu, the attitudes of the Catholic Counter-Reformation along with the blend of romance, novella and high sentiment typical of Italian comedy, pastoral and tragicomedy. Present Research Activity: Article accepted for publication (in Italian) by Biblioteca teatrale, Shakespeare's Italian Dream - an examination of Italian influences on and sources of A Midsummer Night's Dream - since extended and recast for proposed English-language publication; article linking the Jonsonian Fop to an Italian antecedent: re-jigging thesis for publication under the title Shakespeare and Italian Renaissance Comedy. Projected Research Activity: Examination of Two Gentlemen of Verona to determine the use, if any, of commedia dell'arte lazzi (as asserted by Valentina Cappocci); translation of the plays of Sforza Oddi - these largely prefigure the structures and concerns of the Shakespearean mixed comedies and may constitute a source; translation of Giraldi Cinthio's novella collection Hecatommithi - a source-work for 16th/17th century dramatists I am large and Scots and had a happy and completely mis-spent youth and early adulthood working in rock bands until I began to appreciate Tom Lehrer's observations on the genre. I have now calmed down to complete parental and wifely satisfaction and am trying to launch myself as an academic to impress my children. Any jobs for a comparativist new in mind but 44 in body? I speak Spanish and Italian to near-native standard and have a reading knowledge of French. Spare-time interests include: Attending the theatre and concerts; Art, History, Music - particularly Jazz, Opera and Flamenco; Cooking, Swimming and Walking. While at Westfield College I was hopelessly miscast as Humphrey Wasp (I am 6'3") in a production of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair and made a somewhat better hand of the second gracioso's role as Ricardo in Lope de Vega's El castigo sin venganza ("Justice without Revenge") the success of which led to a limited run at the Vanbrugh Theatre, London. My acting specialities include shouting and backslapping. I possess a small collection of commedia dell'arte masks and would dearly love to stage a scenario. =============================================================================== *Lesser, Zachary I am a recent (1994) graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in Renaissance Studies. I plan to attend graduate school in the field in the fall of 1995. In the meantime, I will be living in London for most of the next academic year. (by the way, my e-address will be changing consequently). I have studied with Karin Coddon, Coppelia Kahn, Timothy Harris, and others in the fields of English literature and history. My particular interest is in New Historicism. I am the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Renaissance Studies, an undergraduate premium given to the senior with the best academic record and promise in the field. While I have not published any papers or given any at conferences, my senior thesis was a rather large research under- taking entitled: "'Spectacles to Please my Soul': _The Spanish Tragedy_, Public Theater, and Public Execution." The thesis dealt with Kyd's play in relation to the topography of London (following Mullaney's work), the scaffold drama, and anti-theatrical discourse. =============================================================================== *Lethbridge, J. B. My devouring interest is Spenser; it is too often interrupted by questions of critical theory and philosophy which won't go away, being, in the long term, more important. What aspects of Spenser and Spenser Studies? All of it: -- and therein lies the difficulty. Other interests include the philosophy of history and of language. Theatre. ============================================================= *Leugs, David J. David J. Leugs, Designer Dep't of Communication Arts and Sciences, F120 Calvin College 3201 Burton SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546 (616) 957-6441, fax (616) 957-6601 internet: LEUD@calvin.edu My name is David Leugs. I am a designer at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Calvin is a church-based, liberal arts institution committed to quality, Christian education and academic excellence. As a designer, I am primarily interested in the production aspect of Shakespeare studies. At Calvin, we tend to stick to the classics and will produce a Shakespeare play about once every three years. My interest is somewhat keener at the moment in that we are mounting a production of _The Two Gentlemen Of Verona_ this coming Spring. I hold a Master Of Fine Arts degree from The University of Michigan (1987) and a B.A. in Communications and Theatre from Calvin College (1982.) I am currently a member of both USITT and ATHE. I would like to eavesdrop on the list, mostly, but feel as though I would have something to offer to the list as well. =============================================================================== *Levesque, Mitchell My name is Mitchell Levesque and I am a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. I am enrolled in an upper-division program entitled "Shakespeare's America" and would like to participate in your discussion group, if possible. =============================================================================== *Levine, David I am David M. Levine, and am not, currently, an academic by profession, although I once was. I earned a BA with Honors in English from CCNY, an MA in Creative Writing from same, and pursued a PhD at the CUNY Graduate School, where I minored in Shakespeare and studied with Allen Mandelbaum, John Hollander, and Sam Schoenbaum during his very-brief tenure there. I taught at various units of the City University of New York. In 1986, I became a social worker. I would say that the central point in my life (and not merely my intellectual life, either), consists in my continuing study of Shakespeare, particularly the history and practice of performance. In fact, the last time I contemplated finishing my docorate, it was to combine English and Theatre and do some sort of study of Shakespearean performance. My abiding interest in performance (which manifests itself increasingly in my use of drama in clinical settings) brings me to the UK once or twice a year, during which I spend all of my time attending performances of Shakespeare. Despite my current non-academic status, I remain quite in touch with and aware of current literature relating to Shakespeare, and try my best to stay abreast of the best of it. Most of it remains, as most of us will acknowledge, very poor. But there it is. If anyone has any more questions, I will be glad to answer them. My home address is 83-10 35th Avenue, Apt. 1-I, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. My home phone is (718) 426-4899. I very much look forward to being on this list, since I have spent the last several months searching for something just like it.... =============================================================================== *Levith, Murray My name is Murray Levith and I am Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York 12866. I have been teaching at Skidmore since 1967. I am also an "Honorary Visiting Professor" at Qufu Teachers University in the People's Repbublic of China. Additionally, I am a consultant to the Orlando, Florida Shakespeare Festival (where my program notes on "Shakespeare's Italy" are published this month) and "advisor" to the Zhejiang Province Shakespeare Society (PRC). My Ph.D. is from Syracuse University. I have published two books on Shakespeare: SHAKESPEARE'S ITALIAN SETTINGS AND PLAYS (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's, 1989) and WHAT'S IN SHAKESPEARE'S NAMES (London: Allen and Unwin and Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1978). I have also edited four other books.).>I am a member of the International Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Modern Language Association, and the U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association. I have recently returned from a lecture tour which took me to South Africa and China. I lectured on Shakespeare at the University of Durban-Westville, the University of Natal, Rand Afrikaans University, University of Petroleum (PRC), and Qufu Teachers University. I also gave a lecture to the Shakespeare Society of Durban, S.A. Last year I gave a paper on "Shakespeare in China" at the ANZSA conference in Perth, Australia. My current project is a book (study and anthology) on "Shakespeare in China" which I am doing together with Professor Mason Wang. =============================================================================== *Levy, Charles Charles S. Levy: Trained at Hamilton College and at Oxford and Cornell in the 1950's and early '60's, I've since devoted much of my attention to Philip Sidney, on an edition of whose correspondence I continue to make progress. Very briefly, my other interests lie in the elegiac and lyric traditions from the time of the Roman poets, particularly in the development of the lyric cycle, and in the survival of the Socratic tradition in teaching, particularly in teaching Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Lewin, James A. My interest in Shakespeare grew out of a seminar on the New Historicism given by Clark Hulse at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Having reported on the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon as a free-lance reporter, I became fascinated in comparing the factional infighting in Lebanon and Shakespeare's portrayal of the wars of York and Lancaster. I have also studied with Michael Lieb, Martin Wine and David Bevington. I did my doctoral dissertation "Ghosts of the Body Politic: Shakespeare, Providence and Lewgitimacy" under the supervision of Professor Hulse. I am now an assistant professor at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. I recently submitted a paper, "The Tyrannical Conscience of the Joker King" to a seminar on Richard III for the Shakespeare Association of America. While at the SAA conference in Washington, D.C., I heard about SHAKSPER and am eager to learn more. Thank you for your kind attention and assistance. ============================================================= *Lewis, Piers Professor Metropolitan State University, Department of Humanities 121 Metro Sq. Bldg., St. Paul, Mn. USA 55101 (612) 296-2919 none shakespeare, modernism, criticism, cynicism, politics, poetry I grew up in St. Paul, Mn. and attended Amherst college where I majored in philosophy, with a minor in mathematics. B.A. (magna), 1953. Fulbright Fellow, Cambridge University, 54-55. U.S. Army, 55-57. Ph.D. Harvard, in English, 1964. Dissertation: Sidney's ARCADIA. I have taught at Wellesley College, Bemidji State University and, since 1971, Metropolitan State University in St. Paul & Minneapolis. Metropolitan State University is essentially an upper division business school for working adults; with a liberal arts fringe. Enrollment: 8-9 thousand part-time students, and growing fast. I've taught a lot of stuff over the years but now teach mainly Shakespeare, general humanities, and an introduction to practical criticism. I'm interested in literary criticism, especially the history of Shakespeare criticism, and the history of ideas. I've been particularly interested, of late, and in the rise and fall of deconstruction. Also, the change in the meaning of 'cynic' and 'cynicism' that occurred circa 1800 when these words reentered our vocabulary after a sleep of about 1500 years. Though I distrust literary theories and theorists, I am glad there are people who are willing to think hard about fundamental questions; if only they would write plain English, without cant or jargon. Academic criticism has always been pretty boring but now it's not only boring but unreadable. I do some writing but not, it seems, for publication. In 83-84, I taught at Hebei University, Baoding, People's Republic of China. In 90-91, I served as Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts, MSU. ======================================================================== *Lewis, Robert My name is Bob Lewis, I am a junior at Purdue University, majoring in Englih Lit. I am currently taking an intro. course in Shakespeare, and it is my first real exposure to most of his work. My main area of study is the later English writers, ie Keats, both Brownings, the Brontes, etc. So far what interests me most about Shakespeare's writing is his great poetic language. I know that is very surface, but I really haven't much of a chance to delve very much deeper into the work. I am also interested in the historical aspects, such as how his work reflects England in his lifetime, and beyond. What I hope to get from Shaksper is food for deeper thought, such as ideas about the texts that I didn't catch while reading. =============================================================================== *Lewis, Suzanne Suzanne Lewis: I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Pepperdine University. Additionally, I hold an Arizona teaching certificate for theatre, English, and social studies at the Secondary level. Given my love for and education in the arts, specifically theatre, I adore Shakespeare's works. Being a high school teacher, I teach his works. I am interested in Shakespeare trivia and witty banter for leisure purposes, and biographical information and scholarly play analysis (specifically *Romeo & Juliet* and *Julius Caesar* so far) for teaching purposes. =============================================================================== *Liddell, Michelle Currently, I attend San Diego State University. This fall, I will have reached a junior standing, with a major in English, a minor in history. I have been an avid Shakespeare fan since junior high school, when a progressive drama instructor decided his seventh grade class would perform A Midsummer Night's Dream. I was fortunate enough to secure the role of Flute. (An auspicious beginning!) This teacher taught me not only a love for Shakespeare, but of teaching as well. I intend to teach high school english after graduation. I chose to minor in history so that I could more fully understand the times my favorite authors lived in, and in so doing, I could better understand the literature. While my dream of teaching is a few years away, I supplement my desire by volunteering for the San Diego Council on Literacy. My work there for the past two years has been the most enriching of my life. (Due to a rather colorful life, I find myself at the age of 32, milling around campus with teenagers!) I am very lucky to live in San Diego. While many find the West Coast sorely lacking in culture, I am very fortunate to live in a city that supports the Old Globe Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse. Not many Americans have the opportunity to see Shakepeare performed 3 or 4 times a year in their own city. The quality of these productions is stunning. We did, have a small problem last fall with a somewhat apathetic MacBeth. However, His Lady served him well. =============================================================================== *Lidh, Todd M. Assistant to the Associate Dean, School of Business Administration Georgetown University VOICE: (202) 687-3851 / FAX: (202) 687-4031 My name is Todd M. Lidh, and I am currently a master's candidate in English at Georgetown University. I have also just begun working at the School of Business here at Georgetown. However, I have been a fan of Shakespeare (or "SHAKSPER," if you prefer) for much longer than that. I have actually presented a paper in the realm of Shakespearean thought to the 16th Centuries Studies Conference this past year in Philidelphia, entitled "THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and Elizabeth I: The Welsh Connection." Rave reviews from all my fans are still forthcoming. My thesis deals with drama in general, but I am using Shakespeare as one of my main focal points. Currently, the title of my thesis is, "Stage Directions as Narrative Voice in Beckett, Miller and Shakespeare." It certainly sounds much more impressive than it is; just ask my advisor. However, I am enjoying it and eventually hope to earn my Ph.D. and teach English (preferably drama) on the university level. I plan to submit some old papers or perhaps even parts of my thesis for publication, but I have little to no knowledge of how to go about doing so. Any ideas or suggestions? I am also a poet (in my own mind), and I tend to write poems to Shakespeare. If anyone is curious (and I know that I am curious!), I interested in some outside criticism or comments (whichever comes first). ============================================================================ Derrick, Tom J. Associate Professor of English, English Department Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 Tel: 812-237-3138 B.A. University of Michigan, M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University since 1981 on faculty at Indiana State, teaching Shakespeare, literary criticism, survey courses, composition Publications "I.A. Richards' Rhetorical Theory in the Classroom." Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1980): 240-54. Ed., Thomas Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique. New York: Garland, 1982. "Merry Tales in Much Ado About Nothing." Thalia, Studies in Literary Humor (1985): 21-5. "DOSEQUIS: An Interactive Game for Students of Composition." Computers and Composition 3:2 (1986): 49-55. Research Interests emblem books, emblematic imagery in Shakespeare, visual approaches to Shakespeare (staging, tableaux, properties) =========================================================================== *Lieblein, Leanore LEANORE LIEBLEIN Associate Professor Department of English McGill University Montreal, Canada B.A. City College of New York A.M., PhD, University of Rochester (Diss. Thomas Middleton: The Evolution of a Dramatist) Publications include articles on continental renaissance drama, Shakespeare in translation, and ancient and early modern drama in performance, as well as a co-translation of Les Esbahis by Jacques Grevin (1561). Current research interests include performance theory, Shakespeare in twentieth-century performance (especially in French, especially in Quebec), and feminist approaches to Shakespeare. Plays directed or co-directed include Peele's Old Wives Tale, Calderon's Life is A Dream, The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker, and a number of morality and cycles plays. I am currently a member of the McGill Shakespeare in the Theatre Research Team. =============================================================================== *Liebler, Naomi C. Professor of English and Graduate Program Coordinator Montclair State College, New Jersey I am Naomi Conn Liebler, Professor of English and Graduate Program Coordinator at Montclair State College in New Jersey. I received my Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976 with a dissertation on Massinger's "Roman Actor" and the play-within- a-play. I have published a few articles on Shakespeare, including "'Thou Bleeding Piece of Earth': The Ritual Ground of 'Julius Caesar', " Shakespeare Studies 14 (1981):175-196 (reprinted in Modern Critical Interpretations: Julius Caesar, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1988) 61-78;"'Give o'er the Play': Closure in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author," Modern Drama 24 (1981):314-322; "The Mockery King of Snow: Richard II and the Sacrifice of Ritual," in True Rites and Mamed Rites: Ritual and Anti- ritual in Shakespeare's Time, ed. Linda Woodbridge and Edward Berry, Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, forthcoming 1992. I am finishing a book on ritual in Shakespearean tragedy, to be published by Routledge, and am concurrently working on a couple of other projects. ==================================================================== *Liggett, Peter Peter Liggett: 3 years of college, CCNY, no degree. Avid fan of Shakespeare, Blake, and Byron Interests in Ancient History, esp. Thucydides, Herodotus =============================================================================== *Light, Carol I am, plain and simple, a Shakespeare addict. I was infected during the summer of Watergate when I was innocently attending a summer session of Notre Dame Law School held in Uxbridge. This was my Summer Abroad and like any good tourist, I thought I'd go see some Shakespeare. I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company do a production of Richard III that was torn from the headlines -- there being another Richard much in the news. I was hooked -- and my drug of choice is particularly the Royal Shakespeare Company performing Shakespeare. When I don't get my fix (which I must do every couple of years or I truly begin to shake), I settle for the methadone of American productions in and around Washington, DC. I've just returned from an addict's dream -- 6 Count Them 6 RSC Shakespeare productions; 3 in London and 3 in Stratford. I saw Romeo and Juliet; Richard III, Julius Ceasar, Macbeth, Troilus, and As You Like It, all within a two week span. I think this will hold me for a while. My interests tend towards Shakespeare in performance more than the written version. I enjoy the productions and seeing those magnificent characters come alive, the more natural the better as far as I'm concerned. I would like to be part of your list, but I don't expect I'll be doing any intellectual heavy lifting, or at least authoring any thing worthy of being cyber-published. I'm a lawyer with the US State Department, looking toward deciding soon what I want to be when I grow up -- the goal being to have some notion before I retire. Who knows, maybe the musings on this list will help. =============================================================================== *Lightfoot, Mary Anne Hello from New Mexico! My name is Mary Anne Lightfoot, and I would like to subscribe to Shaksper. I am a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and will be receiving my Master's degree in English literature on May sixteenth of this year. My areas of concentration are: 1) Renaissance, 2) 19th century British, 3) 19th century American, and 4) Critical theory. The Renaissance area is of particular interest to me, and -- like so many others! -- I love Shakespeare. Throughout my studies, I have been drawn to both the literature and the art of a period, finding new insights into one through the other; this is especially true about the Renaissance. Last summer I visited England, and the high point of my trip was a visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon, where I was able to attend the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance of Hamlet. Seeing that performance and visiting the places where Shakespeare lived and died provided the renewed energy and determination I needed to propel me through study for comprehensive exams, as well as a burning desire to return to England. ============================================================= *Lim, Chee-Seng My full name is Chee-Seng Lim, title Head of Dept & Assoc Prof in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malaya, 59100 Kuala Lumpur. Currently working on Rhetoric in Shakespeare. Has published in CahiersElisabethains on Emendation(1986), in Notes & Queries on Othello, Macbeth and (review) on Parker's Johnson's Shakespeare, in Southeast Asian Review of English on The Sonnet. Surface address as above. Degrees from University of Malaya B.A.(Hons)(1973), M.A.(1976) and from Oxford University M.Phil. in Renaissance Lit(1983). My tel at home: 603-7332212 and in the office is 603-7595505. Will be going on sabbatical to Jadavpur University as Visiting Professor in October 1995-March 1996 to the Dept of English headed by another Shakespearean, Prof Sukanta Chaudhuri, who is a member of the International Shakespeare Association's Executive Committee. As I mentioned in a brief note to you in an earlier message I have been a member of the International Panel of Correspondents for the Shakespeare Quarterly Annual Bibliography since 1987. I have worked in libraries such as Folger(1984), Beinecke(1984), British Museum besides the Bodley at Oxford. Attended the Berlin World Shakespeare Congress in 1986 and hope to be present in L.A. in 1996. =============================================================================== *Lin, Erika Hello, my name is Erika Lin, and I just received my B.A. from the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley this past May. I am currently working as a Unix computer system administrator while I try and figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I am most interested in the study of Shakespeare through performance, so I'm thinking very seriously about graduate school and about entering the world of professional theatre. I have studied Shakespeare with Professor Stephen Booth at the University of California at Berkeley, and in the Spring of 1994 under his sponsorship I taught an upper division class in the English Department entitled "Shakespeare in the Theatre." The class involved the in-depth study of Shakespeare's CYMBELINE through performance, culminating in a full-length production by the students of the class. I was also a member of the Class of 1993 at Shakespeare at Winedale taught by Professor James Ayres at the University of Texas at Austin. Shakespeare at Winedale is a 9-week intensive course where students study Shakespeare through performance by working 15-18 hours a day, 7 days a week, in the preparation of three plays for performance. I have also studied Shakespeare with Professor Hugh Richmond at the University of California at Berkeley and, to a much lesser extent, with Professor Stephen Greenblatt, also at U.C.-Berkeley. In addition to producing and directing CYMBELINE, I have also performed in a number of Shakespeare's plays including TWELFTH NIGHT, HAMLET, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE TEMPEST, and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. My current interests are all related to the performance of Shakespeare but with a strong emphasis on the use of language and the nature of theatre, or, in particular, the study of audience reactions. =============================================================================== *Lindley, David David Lindley, B.A. B.Phil (Oxford) Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Publications include: The Court Masque (Manchester, 1984) including 'Music, Masque and Meaning in "The Tempest". Thomas Campion (Leiden, 1986} 'Shakespeare's Provoking Music', in The Well Enchanting Skill (Oxford, 1990) The Trials of Frances Howard (London, 1993) Annual review of critical studies in Shakespeare Survey, 1993- Forthcoming, edition of Court Masques (OUP) Working on an edition of The Tempest for NCS =============================================================================== *Lindsay, Brian I am interested in subscribing. I presently teach at a junior college and am a graduate student pursuing a masters in English. I am researching the sonnets. My research has included the Yale version of criticism by Stephen Booth. Of interest is a work done in the late 1800's by Barnstorrf who was only recently translated from the German. His interpretation is essentially that the sonnets are written [about] his own genius and drama. Interesting. I find the disunity in them fascinating particularly the vast and conflicting commentary about the sonnets. ============================================================= *Lindsey, Mary-Katie <924LINDSEY@MERLIN.NLU.EDU> My name is Mary-Katie Lindsey, and I am an English teaching assistant at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe. I have been published in our campus literary magazine, The Helicon, where I won two years in a row for poetry. My major project is researching Ruskin's _Queen of the Air_. I have only ever taken one other Shakespeare course, and am looking forward to getting online in order to do some depthy and discovery learning on this list. =============================================================================== *Lindsmyr, Ester My name is Ester Lindsmyr and I'm an eighteen years old girl. I live in Edsbyn, a little village in the middle of Sweden, where I go my last year in senior high school, my major is civics. (You can read more about my school at http://www.voxnadalen.ovanaker.se) One of my main interests is sports, I play soccer, bandy and frisbee Ultimate. I'm very fond of music, besides just listen to it, I play the violin and take song lessons. Literature is also a big interest and I'm planning to take an university graduate in literature after my present studies. I'm doing a work about Shakespeare in my English-class and that's how I found the Shakespearean newsgroup and why I want to join it. My research topic is about the female characters in Shakespeare's plays. My starting-point or main question is; "Is it true that all of Shakespeare's women are either devils or angels?" (as a student in Cologne has claimed). The plays I'm going to read are; "Romeo and Juliet" - Juliet, "Macbeth" - Lady Macbeth, "Hamlet" - Ophelia, and "Anthony and Cleopatra" - Cleopatra. I have no previous experience of Shakespeare or this subject, but that's why I've chosen this subject. I'm looking forward to meaningful discussions with other Shakespeareans and hope that they will be indulgent towards my inexperience in this subject. ============================================================= *Lindzey, Ginny T. As editor for the Texas Classical Association, my scholarly interests are usually focused on Latin and Greek. However, like most people, I have diverse interests, including things Shakespearian. In 1988 & 1989, I spent several months in London doing research for a novel set in 1611 centered around the Middle Temple Inn of Court. By the grace of God, this book was *never* published (though completed). While in England, I met with Andrew Gurr, author of _Playgoing in Shakespeare's London_ (the inspiration for the novel) and did some volunteer computer work at the International Shakespeare Globe Center. I was present at the very first press conference held at the site of the original Globe playhouse. What an exciting time this was for me! Return to real life (when my money ran out) led me to a job at The University of Texas at Austin as a Computer Publishing Specialist (where I still work). Although I should be in a classroom teaching Latin, this job offers several nice perks, including access to UT's rare books library which contains two (?) 1625 editions of Shakespeare's works among other wonderful books from that era. The only article that I have had published has been in two different classical newsletters/journals (non-professional). "The Revival of Ancient Letterforms" was printed first in _Texas Classics in Action_, Summer 1993, and then again this year (1994) in _The New England Classical Journal and Newsletter_. My third love, as demonstrated in this article and in my own publication design (_Texas Classics in Action_), is typography. Ginny Lindzey, Editor Texas Classical Association 2321 Westrock Drive Austin, TX 78704 ginnytca@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ginnyl@mail.utexas.edu (512)445-0803 * (512) 471-7549 fax =============================================================================== *Link, J. L. I have been studying and teaching Shakespeare in for more than twenty years at one of Tokyo's larger universities (Aoyama Gakuin) at under and graduate levels. My specific interests are accurate understanding of Shakespeare's images, his politics and social outlook, his limitations (ignorance of science, for example), and working out a correct chronology of the plays. Establishing texts that are as close as possible to what Shakespeare wrote is also a concern, in particular, the relation of the first Quarto of HAMLET to the other editions. I have written a number of papers but perhaps the most unusual was a comparative study of the Elizabethan soliloquy and the soliloquy [dohaku] in Kabuki plays. =============================================================================== *Linn, Robert I would like to join SHAKSPER. I am chairman of the English Department at Calhoun High School in Calhoun, Georgia. I have a BA from Emory University and an MA and PhD from the University of South Carolina. My dissertation was entitled The Fool in Renaissance Drama and dealt with the history of real and dramatic fools leading up to Shakespeare. My MA thesis was on the boy actors in London. At Calhoun I teach Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth. I am constantly in search of new ideas to help me teach these plays. I found reference to the SHAKSPER group at the Shakespeare Magazine Web Site, and I would very much like to join. =============================================================================== *Lipkin, Adam I am a senior English major at Emory University, who, for reasons beyond my control is taking a hiatus, and not planning to graduate until the end of the year. I have never had a paper published in any English journal, let alone one devoted to Shakespeare, but, throughout my high school and college careers, I have been a Shakespeare devotee. I've read all of the works, taken all of the available courses, and, one day, hope to get a doctorate out of studying him. That's all, I'm afraid. Snail Mail: Box 22849, Emory U Atlanta, GA 30322 =============================================================================== *Lischner, Ray I am Ray Lischner, an instructor at Oregon State University, an amateur actor, and an author. My current work-in-progress is Shakespeare for Dummies, to be published in early 1999 by IDG Books. My co-author on this project is John Doyle. ============================================================= *Litsey, Alan Alan Litsey joined the faculty at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) in 1991. He has also taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Alan's teaching interests at BSC include Acting, Directing, Playwrighting, Theatre History, and Theatre Literature. Professional acting experiences include the California Shakespearean Festival, the Oklahoma Shakespeare Festival, the Alley Theatre in Houston and the Hilberry Repertory Theatre at Wayne State University, Detroit. In 1992, BSC's production of THE IMMIGRANT, which Alan directed, was one of four out of over 850 productions to receive Honorable Mention by the American College Theatre Festival. Recent productions he has directed include Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, Tenneessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Moliere's TARTUFFE, and Robinson Jeffers' translation of Euripides' MEDEA. Alan is very active as a playwright. His one-act play CHINA PIG, was produced by Birmingham's Seasoned Performers in 1989. His most recent play is GIFTS. Member Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild. President, Alabama Conference of Theatre and Speech, 1996-97. ============================================================= *Livaudais, Michael Michael Livaudais: I believe in a theatre program where students and audiences learn about performance, literature, acting, history, styles, etc. Do not believe that educational theatre should be just a play producing machine to generate funds. Try to include all types of drama in a program that includes 4-5 major productions a year. Just finished year 24 of teaching. This year marks one quarter of a century in education. =============================================================================== *Llorens, Miguel Ernesto I was born in Caracas, Venezuela on November 27, 1971. My undergraduate studies in literature were at the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in the same city. After studying philosophy a couple of years at the graduate level back home, I obtained a Master of Arts degree in English at Boston University in 1997 and currently I carry out doctoral studies at N.Y.U. Although not yet at the dissertation level, I am very sure it will be focused on the English Renaissance. My research interests are geared towards the material aspects of culture or, more specifically at the moment, to the relevance of the history of the book and the book industry for literary studies. I am also interested in the evolution of the Shakespearean canon, not only from a textual scholarship angle but also from the viewpoint of stage history and how that evolution influences our current readings of the text. ============================================================= *LoMonico, Maura My name is Maura LoMonico. I am a Freshman at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where I am a member of the Humanities Area Major. I am presently enrolled in "Shakespeare Before 1600," a course taught by Professor Jonathan Goldberg. I plan to continue my Shakespeare studies throughout the rest of my undergraduate, and possibly graduate, studies. =============================================================================== *LoMonico, Mike I have taught Shakespeare at Farmingdale High School on Long Island, NY for 25 years. Since 1986, I have worked with The Folger Shakespeare Library, first as a participant in some of the summer Institutes and later as a Master Teacher and Certified Trainer through the US Dept. of Education. I have done workshops and trainings for teachers throughout the nation based on material developed by the Folger under Peggy O'Brien. I am particularly interested in Shakespeare and Technology, particularly innovative uses of video. I have written a few articles about using WordCruncher, the computerized Riverside Shakespeare with indexing and concordance ability. My high school students have discovered some exciting uses for this program. =============================================================================== *Lochman, Daniel My name is Daniel T. Lochman, and I am a professor of English at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. I have been teaching at SWTSU for thirteen years, after completing my doctorate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. My research interests focus on the early decades of the sixteenth century, with emphasis upon the thought and rhetorical issues revealed in the writings of John Colet and Thomas More. I enjoy taking excursions into other areas, such as the works of Milton and, more recently, the rhetoric and politics of Sidney's and Spenser's writings. I am joining SHAKSPER to help me prepare to teach an undergraduate course on the later Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Lockett, Joseph L. JOSEPH L. LOCKETT is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, TX, USA (English, 1991). While there, he was active in both Rice Players and Baker College Shakespeare Theatre, and was privileged to study Shake- speare under Drs. Meredith Skura and Dennis Huston (1989 Carnegie Foun- dation Professor of the Year) and to act and study under guest-directors Alan David and Geoffrey Church, both of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His other areas of concentrated study included physics and classical languages and literature. Lockett's Shakespeare coursework at Rice included basic study of the canon followed by a graduate-level seminar in Shakespeare's sources, as well as extensive experience in theatrical interpretation, production, and criticism. He wrote frequent reviews for the Rice Thresher campus news- paper, many of local Shakespearean productions. Mr. Lockett currently teaches Latin to eighth- and ninth-grade students at The Kinkaid School, a private institution in Houston, Texas. In the longer term, when time and money coincide he hopes to begin study towards the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (Directing specialization) from the University of Houston, and then to obtain a teaching position in English and/or Theatre from a high-school or university. =============================================================================== *Lockhart, A. R. W. Bob Lockhart is a graduate student at the Fredericton campus of the University of New Brunswick in Canada. As a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces, he served in several capacities, including attachment to the Canadian Airborne Regiment, and retired honourably with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His varied career also includes politics ( Mayor of the City of Saint John, N.B.), broadcasting ( President of the Atlantic Association of Broadcasters), and journalism. He holds the UNFICYP Medal for 1974 service with the United Nations, an award for bravery from the Canadian Humane Society, and the International Medal of Merit from the Lions Club. As a military correspondent he has covered events in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Cyprus; most recently he did a series of photo-stories on military activities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At the age of 56 he enrolled at the University of New Brunswick and successfully completed his BA, with honours in English and History. At the MA level, his thesis contrasted the historical eye-witness account of the Battle of Agincourt with Shakespeare's literary account; the title is: Henry V: the Slaughter of French Prisoners at the Battle of Agincourt. He has just commenced his PhD thesis on 20th century war literature. He also does articles for various magazines and newspaper and has just completed a photo-essay on the new Globe Theatre in Southwark, UK. He is currently working on a similar article on the Inigo Jones Theatre and the new research library, in which he will examine their contributions to the emerging theatrical complex on the south bank. ============================================================= *Lodi, Andrea My brief autobiographical note: 36 years old, born in Bologna ( Italy), living in Modena - degree in Philosophy, but real interest or passion is poetry - librarian at the Faculty of Law of the University of Modena. In your list I hope to find something about Shakespear obviously, but also about Elizabethan poetry, which I like very much (sitting at my office desk now I remember "The Burning Baby", I don't know why). =============================================================================== *Loeb, David I'd like to subscribe. I am David Loeb, and I teach English at Choate Rosemary Hall, an independent boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. I received my BA and MA from Yale, where I studied Shakespeare with Prof's Ferlo and Hunter, and I also studied with Harold Bloom, not that he'd remember me. I teach Shakespeare here at Choate to freshmen (MND, Caesar, or Romeo & Juliet), and also a comedy course to seniors in the spring-how fitting. I also do some freelance writing, mostly smartass political stuff and stories about my kids (I have two). I'm beginning to explore the internet, and also other electronic ways to teach. This winter, I have used a hypertext multimedia Hamlet, and I'm working on using annotated disks for the comedy course in the spring. I'm eager to learn and to share. =============================================================================== *Loeby, James I am a 3rd year MFA Acting student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. =============================================================================== *Lofthouse, Alexander My name is Alexander Lofthouse. I am in my final undergraduate year at Glendon College, York University, Toronto. My major is in Political Science, with a minor in Drama Studies; expected graduation date with my honours B.A. is May 1995. Although many people find my choice of major and minor to be an odd combination of disciplines, I actually find a good deal of connection between Politics and Theatre. This is not only because of the highly theatrical nature of "capital-P" Politics, but also because theatre and drama is inevitably political in the sense that it reflects (either consciously or unconsciously) the power structures and power relations of the society and the age which produced it. Drama is one of a society's key methods of expressing itself, and I believe that one can learn a good deal about how societies--including our own--function by observing how they express themselves through the arts. Having said that, I should say that I'm aware that there probably aren't too many other undergraduate students on this list. I'm really here to watch, listen, and learn. =============================================================================== *Lombardo, Paul Please add me to your list of subscribers. I am a Certified teacher and a lover of the works of Wm.Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Long, Ray I am an independant scholar with a life long interest in the performance area.I have a BS and MS from UCBerkeley. Attendances include Ashland,Stratford and Orinda. jgts55a@prodigy.com Ray Long 100 LaBolsa Walnut Creek,Ca 94598 510 933 1739 =============================================================================== *Longstaffe, Stephen University College of Saint Martin, Lancaster LA1 5DW, U.K. My academic background is a joint English/Theatre degree in the mid 1980s. I have been working in HE since 1991. My first job was to devise and write a distance learning course on Renaissance writing; I am still interested in devising new ways of teaching and learning for this period. My current post involves me in teaching a wide range of courses, but my main research interest is early modern English drama. I have directed and acted in a number of medieval and early modern plays (including some with outdoor pageant wagon stagings ). My current research centres around the late Elizabethan history play, the subject of my DPhil thesis and of various published articles . The thrust of the thesis and my subsequent research is the baleful influence of Shakespeareans on the study of early modern drama, and especially the process whereby the 'Shakespearean stage' comes to stand for 'the early modern stage', so that all we need to know is Shakespeare's plays. This is a kind of ground-clearing exercise for a new look at the genre of the Elizabethan/Stuart history play itself and at Shakespeare's place within it. ============================================================= *Loomis, Jay My name is James E. Loomis (Jay). I am from Richland, WA but I currently reside in Oklahoma City where I am stationed in the U.S. Air Force. My job here is as a computer programmer. My interest in SHAKSPER is mainly as an actor and director, but I am also quite interested in the history surrounding the period. I have no structured educational background, and have not yet attended any university, but have conducted research into the Elizabethan era on my own whenever possible. I am a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, the Society of British Fight Directors, and Fight Directors Canada. It is in the realm of historical swordplay =============================================================================== *Loomis. Meghan Meghan Loomis: I'm writing with a few specs so that I might be included on the SHAKESPER electronic list. I am a high school English teacher, currently teaching grades 8-12, including one Shakespeare elective. I teach at the Rivers School, in Weston, Mass., just outside of Boston. I graduated Kenyon College in 1986 and taught the next year at the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. While at Emma Willard, I taught a Shakespeare elective similar to the one I currently teach. I received an MAT from Tufts Univ. in 1992 and have been teaching since at Rivers, where I have been English Department Chair since my second year. I did more Shakespeare work as an undergraduate than as a graduate student, taking essentially every Shakespeare elective offered and writing my honors thesis on "Language and Reality in King Lear and Paradise Lost." (It was a stretch. ; ) ) I have taught Shakespeare every year of my career and expect no interruption of that trend. We teach "Midsummer" to the 8th grade, "Romeo & Juliet" to the 9th, "Macbeth" to the 10th...standard fare. My elective, this term, will cover sonnets, some biography, "Much Ado" and "Othello." I am currently using the Branagh-Thompson video with "Much Ado" and may be using the film "Othello" when it is showing, depending upon how dismal it actually turns out to be. I'm very interested in talking to other secondary level teachers about incorporating films, finding time for the films and exegesis, etc. I am also working hard to figure out how to break it to my students that Ken & Em' have split. =============================================================================== *Lorenzo, Linda While I am not a Shakespearean scholar, I am a constant reader of Shakespeare. My greatest joy as a teacher is waking my students to the beauty of his language and the enduring quality of his work. I was hoping to join this list so that it could become yet another source of information for me as a teacher. ============================================================= *Louden, Jay Jay Louden: I am a third year MFA director at UC Irvine presently directing The Winter's Tale for my thesis production. I also intend to write my thesis paper on the history on the play in production. After pursuing an acting career out of Los Angeles for twelve years, I decided to return to school in the hopes of teaching in a university setting when I complete my degree in the Spring. I have acted at such regional theatres as: the Mark Taper Forum, the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Arizona Theatre Company, the American Conservatory Theatre, and the Alaska Repertory Theatre. In TV and Film, I have played numerous guest starring roles, perhaps the most notable being Star Trek: The Next Generation. I trained as an actor at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco from 1977-79 after graduating from Indiana University with a BA in theatre in 1977. From 1991-96, I directed and taught for the Young Peoples' Shakespeare Company in Santa Monica. This is a five week, conservatory style training progam for teens which culminates in performances of scenes from Shakespeare's plays. I have an avid interest in Shakespeare from both the academic and performance points of view. I have studied the of text/performance relationship in Shakespeare with the esteemed Robert Weimann here at UCI and also served as his research assistant last year. This list serve would offer me an opportunity to interface with other 'Shakespeareans' as I work on this production and as I continue my academic and artistic life. =============================================================================== *Loughlan, Patricia This is a brief curriculum vitae for the purposes of joining the Shakespeare group: Dr. Patricia Loughlan Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia My teaching work in this Faculty is in the areas of Intellectual Property, Equity and Legal Institutions (Legal History and Legal Theory).My publications are primarily in the area of Equity and wouldn't be of interest to you.My current research interests lie in Intellectual Property and my projects are:(1)"The Ownership and Control of Intellectual Property Within Universities or "Help! They're Taking My Copyright"; (2)"The Patenting of Methods of Medical Treatment"; (3)"Copying Cathedrals: The Politics of Architectural Copyright". The above is my work. Shakespeare is my passion.I even like THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA and I bet there aren't too many on your list who can say that. I hope you let me onto your list. =============================================================================== *Loughlin, Tom W. Dept. of Theatre Arts SUNY College at Fredonia Fredonia NY 14063 I appreciate the opportunity to submit my biography to the SHAKSPER electronic conference. My name is Thomas W. Loughlin. I am currently assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Fredonia. My specialty is acting. I hold the Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Nebraska (1982) and the BA degree in Theatre and English from SUNY College at Oswego. My current duties within my department include the teaching of acting, including Shakespearean acting, and movement for the stage, as well as directing plays for our production season. I am considered for purposes of tenure/promotion a studio artist, and my institution recognizes my creative work as the equivalent of scholarly achievement and publication. My primary interest in Shakespeare is in the performance of his plays. Since 1974 I have had the opportunity to perform a variety of Shakespearean roles in a number of locations both academic and professional. My interests lie in finding ways to better educate and inform myself about Shakespeare and eventually find ever better means to incorporate the body of scholarly work into my performances. Conversely, I am interested in helping scholars to begin to examine more closely and value more fully the work of actors who prepare these roles for the stage and to make such work part of their scholarly inquiry and process. The following is a list of the plays in which I have performed and the roles played (in no particular order or chronology): MEASURE FOR MEASURE - Pompey LOVE'S LABOURS'S LOST - Holofernes A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Oberon, Peter Quince, Lysander AS YOU LIKE IT - Touchstone (twice), Oliver, Amiens, LeBeau THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Baptista, Christopher Sly, Gremio TWELFTH NIGHT - Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Feste, Sebastian, ROMEO AND JULIET - Tybalt MACBETH - Banquo HAMLET - Polonius, Horatio, Laertes, Gravedigger, Marcellus KING LEAR - Edgar, Albany OTHELLO - Brabantio I have also directed productions of DREAM and TWELFTH NIGHT. My most consistent experience had been with the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, a non-Equity summer company located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Now entering its 16th season, the WSF this summer (1992) will be presenting THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, in which I will play the role of Shylock; KING LEAR, in which I will play Gloucester; and PERICLES, in which I have yet to be cast. This will be my fifth season with the WSF. In addition to the above Shakespearean experience, I have a number of contemporary acting credits to my resume. If I have any research interest at all at this point, it would be collaborate with a Shakespearean scholar on the editing of a collection of Shakespeare's play with the actor in mind. All current collections of his plays, to my knowledge, place their emphasis on the reader of Shakespeare's works, not on the actor. A collection of the plays geared primarily for the actor's needs would, I feel, be a significant contribution to the world of Shakespearean research. ==================================================================== *Low, Jennifer <75034.2125@compuserve.com> Jennifer A. Low, ABD in English at the University of Virginia, is working on the concluding chapters of her dissertation on duelling and rhetoric in the drama of the English Renaissance. This project discusses the history of the duel--its origin in the trial by combat, its resurgence in England upon the introduction of the Italian rapier, and its ambiguous legal status, which parallels the status of the theater. Following this history, the dissertation proceeds to read several plays through their portrayal of the duel, focusing on Shakespeare's second tetralogy, _Much Ado about Nothing_, Middleton and Rowley's _A Fair Quarrel_, and Jonson's _Epicoene_, _The Alchemist_, and _Bartholomew Fair_. Jennifer Low received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1984 and her M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1989. She belongs to the MLA, the RSA, and GEMCS. Her interests include Renaissance and modern drama, and Renaissance women writers. Her address is 1215 Fifth Avenue / New York, NY 10029. Her phone number is (212) 831-0386. =============================================================================== *Lowenstein, Daniel Daniel H. Lowenstein Professor, UCLA Law School My primary research interest has been the law of elections. Last year I published the only extant textbook on that subject, and I have published numerous articles. My interest in law and literature in general, and in Shakespeare in particular, is a sideline. My one significant scholarly publication in this field, to date, is a lengthy article entitled "The Failure of the Act: Conceptions of Law in The Merchant of Venice, Bleak House, Les Miserables, and Richard Weisberg's Poethics," Cardozo Law Review (1994), v. 15, 1139-1243. This article contains about 20 pages on The Merchant of Venice, in which I contend that the widely held view that Shylock stands for law and Portia for mercy is mistaken. Shylock and Portia stand for competing conceptions of law, Shylock's crabbed and inadequate, Portia's comprehensive and satisfactory. I hope to write more on literature from time to time, though my ability to do so will depend on my ability to find time to spare from the areas more central to my work. In September I will be giving an informal lecture on Measure for Measure at the California Shakespeare Festival, and the research for that lecture may or may not lead to a paper. =============================================================================== *Lowood-Livingston, Jenny I am an English instructor at a California community college who has a personal love of Shakespeare and who has been teaching Shakespeare in the classroom for the last twenty years in general literature classes. For the last two years, I've taught a Shakespeare class which combines study of Shakespeare with attendance at live performances and guest lectures by Shakespearian actors. I subscribe to the California Shakespeare Festival and over the last ten years, I've been involved in Shakespeare reading groups (groups of adults who get together to read Shakespearean plays aloud). =============================================================================== *Lowry, Marya Marya Lowry, an Artist - in - Residence at Brandeis University in the MFA professional actor training program, has been a teaching artist for the past nineteen years, specializing in voice production and acting Shakespeare. Professional Voice/Text Coaching includes: Broadway (Hamlet with Stephen Lange, Elizabeth McGovern and Michael Cristopher at the Roundabout Theatre), Off-Broadway (Two Gentlemen of Verona at Cucaracha and Romeo & Juliet for The Riverside Shakespeare Co. summer parks tour, produced by Joseph Papp) for the New Jersey Shakespeare and Berkshire Theatre Festivals and the PA. Renaissance Faire. She is currently engaged in the training preparation and voice/text coaching of an international production of The Bacchae which is being developed in France and will tour Europe. She has taught voice and acting at Purdue, Ohio, Duke, and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and the School for the Riverside Shakespeare Co. in New York City. As an actress she has performed in New York City and regional theatres around the country including: the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (Emilia/Othello), the Barter Theatre/Virginia, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Theatre in San Diego, and the Caldwell Playhouse in Florida. Recent Boston area work includes: Man and Superman at the American Repertory Theatre, Bill W. & Dr. Bob at the Hasty Pudding and the Nora Theatre Company in Cambridge, Gertrude in Hamlet at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Medea with Claire Bloom at the Handel & Haydn Society. Marya's original music/theatre/sound art pieces have been performed at the Boston Center for the Arts and Mobius in Boston and the Roy Hart International Voice Centre in France. She has studied extensively with the Roy Hart Theatre in France and is engaged in the research and application of "extended" or non-traditional vocal use in performance. Her most recent work is a highly physical production of Heiner Muller's MedeaMaterial. ============================================================= *Lozynsky, Artem I teach in the English Department at Sogang University (Seoul, S. Korea). ============================================================= *Lucking, David David Lucking Shakespeare, Canadian Literature 1983 The Artifice of Eternity: An Essay on "The Tempest". Lecce: Adriatica Editrice Salentina, 1983. 1989 "Standing for Sacrifice: The Casket and Trial Scenes in 'The Merchant of Venice'", University of Toronto Quarterly 58:3 (Spring 1989), 355-75. Reprinted in the Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 13, edited by Sandra L. Williamson (Detroit: Gale Rese arch, 1991), pp. 43-52. 1993 "eeDark needs no candles now, for dark is lightAE: Images of light and darkness in Shakespeare", in Bruna Don =============================================================================== *Luckyj, Christina My name is Christina Luckyj (B.A., M.A. Ph.D. Toronto 1987). I am an Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5. My publications include 'A Winter's Snake': Dramatic Form in the Tragedies of John Webster' (Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1989), "Volumnia's Silence" (SEL 1991), "Acting 'The Duchess of Malfi': An Optimist's View" (The Elizabethan Theatre 13). I am currently editing the new New Mermaids edition of Webster's The White Devil, as well as working on a book on gender and silence in Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare. My department telephone number is (902) 494 7004. =============================================================================== *Luckyj, Christina E. Christina Luckyj is an Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has written articles on Webster and Shakespeare in journals such as *Studies in English Literature* and *Renaissance Drama* and is the author of *A Winter's Snake: Dramatic Form in the Tragedies of John Webster.* She recently edited Webster's *The White Devil* for the New Mermaids series, and is currently competing a book on gender and silence in early modern England. An emerging interest is early modern attitudes to dreaming and dream. ============================================================= *Luckyj, Christine Christina Luckyj: I am an Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (on sabbatical until July 1996 at the CRRS, Victoria College, University of Toronto). I published a book on Webster in 1989, have just completed a New Mermaids edition of *The White Devil* and am engaged in a full-length project on gender and silence in early modern England, of which I have just published a part in *Renaissance Drama* 24 (1993). =============================================================================== *Lull, Janis Associate Professor and Chair English Department University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-0640 Publications include articles on revision in Shakespeare and George Herbert and a book on Herbert's revisions, THE POEM IN TIME, Delaware, 1990. An article on Q1 HAMLET is forthcoming in Tom Clayton's THE HAMLET FIRST PUBLISHED, also from Delaware. Current work includes a book for the G. K. Hall Author Chronology series, A METAPHYSICAL POETS CHRONOLOGY and an essay on Q1 MERRY WIVES. With Linda Anderson of Virginia Tech, I am leading an SAA session, "Shakespeare's Quartos: Text, Performance, Memory." Anyone interested in any aspect of Shakespeare in quarto should consider signing up for this session. See SAA bulletin for details. I began to study the "bad" quartos of Shakespeare because, like literary revisions, these texts seemed to hold out hope that we could know not only the written records of long-ago verbal acts, but also the immediate verbal contexts of those acts. If the "bad" quartos were memorial reconstructions, I thought, they showed verbal responses to verbal contexts, just as revisions did. Action is hard to distinguish from context, however, when one doesn't even know for sure which of a pair of texts came first. This uncertainty about origins used to drive me crazy, but it now seems conceptually liberating. A reader who studies both (or all three) versions of a "Shakespearean" text must participate in a complex textual system that may have been "composed" without traditional purpose and without the traditional organizing consciousness of a single author. The problem of how to think and write about such a system is one of the most interesting questions posed by current textual criticism. ========================================================= *Lundbech, P. H. I am a 31-year old student of philosophy at the University of Odense, Denmark, with a special interest in the "weltbild" of the renaissance. Although my interests are broad: philosophy, literature and the arts of the period, they are centered around an all absorbing interest in Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Lupo, Grady Matthew Grady Matthew "Matt" Lupo was born April 20, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia. His interest in the works of William Shakespeare developed gradually during late high school and early college and was enhanced by seeing performances of several of Shakespeare's plays around the Atlanta area, including a performance of Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, and Love's Labors Lost during his sophomore and junior years of college. Further he has seen numerous film and television performances, including Olivier's Hamlet, Richard III, and Henry V, Kevin Kline's Hamlet, and Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V. Matt Lupo's favorite play is Hamlet, which he considers to be the most satisfying of Shakespeare's works, combining both comedy and tragedy while interweaving them into the fabric of the typical Elizabethan revenge tragedy -- while at the same time presenting perhaps one of the most complex characters ever to grace an English stage. Matt Lupo's other interests include history, and historical fiction and genealogy. He has traced his father's family back to Tudor and Elizabethan England to a family of musicians who served the English crown for over 100 years, many of whom probably knew Shakespeare personally. His current projects include building a database of Lupo descendants in America who descend from the original settlers with that name who resided in Virginia as early as 1621, and preparing a contemporary novel with chapters based on different Shakespearan plays. =============================================================================== Bangham, P. Jerald Address: 1209 Market Street Port Gibson, MS 39150 Office Phone: 877-6268 Home Phone: 437-4107 EDUCATION Dates Degree Institution Major 1959-1965 Ph.D. Ohio State University Speech (Theatre History) 1957-1959 M.A. Ohio State University Speech (Theatre) 1953-1957 B.A. Ohio State University Speech (Theatre) EMPLOYMENT Dates Institution Rank 1973- Alcorn State University Associate Professor 1972-1973 Ohio State University Tech. Asst Museum of Zoology 1968-1970 Miss. University for Women Associate Professor 1961-1968 Morehead State University Assistant Professor MISCELLANEOUS Theatre Historian in Residence. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Staten Island, New York. Summer 1980 & 1981. Board of Directors, Mississippi Theatre Association 1979-1983 1988-1990. Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Mississippi Theatre Association 1982-1983. Newsletter Editor, Mississippi Theatre Association. 1985-1986, 1990- Field Bibliographer ASTR-IFTR International Bibliography of Theatre 1983- Directed and Co-Scripted production of I Ain't Lying presented at Mississippi Folklore Society, Jackson, MS, April 1984. Presented the paper "Samuel Phelps's production of Richard III" at the American Society for Theatre Research Convention,Bloomington, IN, November 1984. I Ain't Lying presented at Southern Speech Communication Association Convention, Winston-Salem, NC, April 1985. Scholar in Residence University of Georgia Parma/London Drama Program, Summer 1991. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Association of University Professors, American Drama Society, American Society for Theatre Research, International Shakespeare Society, International Federation for Theatre Research, League of Historic American Theatres, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, Mississippi Theatre Association, National Conference on African American Theatre, Society for Theatre Research (England), Southeastern Theatre Conference (Life Member), Theatre Historical Society, Theatre Library Association, U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS Port Gibson Main Street, Inc. (Design Committee), Claiborne County Preservation Commission, Mississippi Folklore Society, Mississippi Heritage Trust, National Maritime Historical Society, National Trust for Historic Preservation. =============================================================================== *Luxon, Thomas H. Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755 USA. MLA, RSA Research Interests: Reformation and Puritan thought and literature in England, Radical religious sects, John Bunyan, Milton, also teach Shakespeare. PUBS: articles on Bunyan in ELH and ELR, reviews in RQ, MP, and HLQ, article on Chaucer in ChaucR. ========================================================= *Lyles, Daley Dale Lyles has been the artistic director of the Newnan Community Theatre Company, in Newnan, GA, for the past 15 years. This amateur theatre company produces one of Shakespeare's plays every other year, exploring these wonderful scripts and making them live for another generation of audiences. Thus far, Lyles has directed MND, 12N, MAdo, Per, H6-I, and CoE. For each of these, he has enjoyed researching as much as he could for themes, approaches, problems, and solutions in producing Shakespeare's plays. He will direct AYLI this fall. =============================================================================== *Lyman, Huntington I am a private school English teacher in Middleburg, VA. I graduated from Yale in 1983 and received a MALS from Wesleyan in 1992. I am interested in keeping current with issues in Shakespeare criticism, and learning about new articles and approaches. =============================================================================== *Lynch, John Please enter a subscription in the name "Jack Lynch" to the SHAKSPER mailing list. I'm a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where I'm doing eighteenth-century studies. Phyllis Rackin, also at Penn, encouraged me to have a look at this list. =============================================================================== *Lynch, Kathleen I am Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library. As you probably know, the Institute is a consortium supported by the Library and thirty-six member universities. The Institute sponsors an annual slate of semester-length seminars and weekend programs for advanced graduate students and faculty in the humanities. I have been on the staff at the Folger Library for six years. I have my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. I have published on the ecclesiastical politics of George Herbert's poetry and the significance of place and occasion in Ben Jonson's drama. I have an article forthcoming in ELH on an autobiographical narrative by Agnes Beaumont, a member of John Bunyan's congregation. That is part of a larger ongoing study of "The Rhetoric of Publication of Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century England." ============================================================= *Lynch, Mickey Name: Mickey Lynch Profession: Actor, San Francisco Bay Area Interests: Performing and directing =============================================================================== *Lynch, Shaun My primary interest in SHAKSPER is on behalf of my sister, Marianne Lynch, who will be teaching _Macbeth_ and _Twelfth Night_ to a Grade 11 English class this year. I was hoping to be able to gather information that might be of interest and/or use to her. Although she holds an MA in English Literature from McGill University, this will be her first year teaching English. Her undergraduate degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics, and her teaching to date has been entirely in the sciences (and mostly in French). Since she has no Internet access from her school (Beaconsfield High, on Montreal's West Island), I was hoping to use my account to gather some resources for her. My own interest in Shakespeare stems originally from having studied several of the plays in high school (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away). I am not an academician, at least not in the field of English Literature, and would not expect to be contributing to SHAKSPER, but I would nonetheless greatly appreciate the opportunity to "lurk" on the periphery in order to increase my own understanding and appreciation of these plays which I enjoy so much. =============================================================================== *Lyne, Raphael I studied English as both undergraduate and graduate student at St John's College, Cambridge. My M.Phil. thesis on the moralisation of Ovid in Caxton and Golding led me towards my eventual Ph.D. topic, 'English Translation and Imitation of Ovid, 1567-1609', which touched on the Ovidian works of Arthur Golding, Thomas Churchyard, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Thomas Heywood, and Michael Drayton. So far one part of this is published in the new issue of *Translation and Literature*, entitled 'Golding's Englished Metamorphoses'. Currently I am Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, a three year post in which I hope to transform the thesis into a book. This attempt at metamorphosis is proving daunting, and I am currently currently involved in preparing an edition of the Bodleian Library's MS of Heywood's *Ovid's Art of Love*. My current interests, then, are principally in the reception of Ovid, but my teaching has led me, unprotesting, further into the early modern period and often towards Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Lyons, Charles R. or Professor, Department of Drama Stanford University =========================================================================== *