Maas, Jan I was an English major at Brooklyn College, attended the Neighborhood Playhouse in N.Y.C., directed "I Am a Camera" for local community theatre; also I take Creative Writing classes and playwriting classes. =============================================================================== *Mabitad, Mida My name is Mida Mabitad. I am an instructor of English Studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. I have also been a member of the New Voice Company for two years. Lately, I have been busy securing funding and a place at several UK universities to do my postgraduate studies in Shakespeare, which is precisely why I think this discussion group will certainly be useful to my work. I'm looking forward to many exciting and fruitful discussions in the future. ============================================================= *MacDonald, Paul <901606M@axe.acadiau.ca> I am presently doing research at Acadia on Victorian art work that takes the Play-Within-the-Play scene from "Hamlet" as its subject and would like to hear from others working in the same area. =============================================================================== *MacDonald, Tim I teach English at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. I am also very much involved with the Midsummer Players, a free Shakespeare theater group associated with the University of Virginia. I have been a MSP member since 1987 and have worked in virtually every capacity on one show or another. I have been director, assistant director, set designer, lighting designer, technical director, and actor. As an English teacher I have also been very interested in Shakespeare, directing a number of shortened versions of the plays with my A.P. class. In 1990 I took a one-act version of Taming of the Shrew to the Virginia Theater Association competition, and we placed third out of about 30 schools. In 1985 I spent six weeks studying at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon on an English Speaking Union fellowship. My biggest upcoming project will probably be as director for the Midsummer Players' 1994 production of The Comedy of Errors. Other Info: Degrees: B.A. UC Santa Cruz 1974 M.A./M.Ed. Univ. of Virginia 1976 Surface Address: 827B St. Clair Ave. Charlottesville, VA 22902 (804) 293-4764 =============================================================================== *MacGowan, Douglas I am a playwright and member of the Dramatists' Guild. I hold a Bachelor' degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco, and currently work at SRI International as a consultant/registrar of several international computer networks. I am currently toying with the idea of obtaining a Master's degree in English Literature, with an emphasis on Renaissance Drama in specific. I am very fond of almost all Shakespeare's works, although I must admit that Christopher Marlowe is my personal favorite of that time period. I look forward to many interesting and creative discussions on the Shakespeare mailing list. ========================================================= *MacInnes, Ian F. English Department, 115 Wilson Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22901 B.A. Swarthmore College, 1987 M.A. University of Virginia, 1989 I am presently working on a dissertation in Renaissance literature under Katherine Maus and Alastair Fowler, and teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates. I have not yet published any papers, and I have delivered only one conference paper entitled Women and Providence in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy. This particular piece, however, is not closely related to my dissertation, which is on wounds in Renaissance Romance. I am interested primarily in long verse or prose Romances, and so I am considering Ariosto, Tasso, Sidney, and Spenser. I may also add a chapter on Shakespeare if I can justify the genre jump to Drama, but my most immediate contact with Shakespeare at the moment is in the undergraduate course I am teaching. As for my dissertation, I became interested in wounds in Renaissance literature when I noticed peculiar similarities in depictions of wounds throughout a number of works. I decided to explore the extent to which depictions of individual wounds in these works mirror the texts larger views of the social body, including tensions and ambiguities between the categories of sacred/profane and Epic/Romance. I suppose that my methodology is essentially that of a cultural materialist, but as I am not working toward a mostly political or ideological conception of Renaissance depictions of wounds, I do not consider myself a New Historicist. ====================================================================== *MacKenzie, Julia My name is Julia MacKenzie. I am currently a Master of Letters (postgraduate) student studying externally through the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. I have a BA, with majors in English Literature and History. My thesis topic for my MLitt, and my main area of interest, is in the absence of mothers and father/daughter relationships in Shakespeare's plays. My (unfinished) thesis is focusing on some feminist viewpoints, but with an emphasis on Elizabethan thought on the family, marriage and filial obedience, with reference to the influence of Puritan doctrine over Pauline orthodoxies. ============================================================= *MacLellan, Janet C. Janet C. MacLellan Graduate Student Department of English University of Toronto Professional Memberships: MLA, ACCUTE Research Interests in Renaissance Drama: Theatre History, Performance, Rhetoric Focus of Dissertation: Dramatic Functions of Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures in Performance =============================================================================== *MacNeil, Anne Anne MacNeil: A musicologist by training, my specialities are late Renaissance music and theater, commedia dell'arte, and women's music. I received my doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1994, with a dissertation entitled 'Music and the Life and Work of Isabella Andreini: Humanistic Attitudes toward Music, Poetry, and Theater during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries,' 3 vols (UMI order number: 9419848). Recent bibliography includes various entries for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and 'The Divine Madness of Isabella Andreini,' _Journal of the Royal Musical Association_ 120/2 (1995). Upcoming publication: 'Music as Dramatic Formula in Giovan Battista Andreini's _La Centaura_ (1622),' _Cambridge Opera Journal_. =============================================================================== *Macdonald, Ronald R. ("Ron Macdonald") Prof. of English Language and Literature Smith College, Dept. of English Northampton, MA 01063 USA Phone: (413) 585-3318 I received at B.A. from Yale College in 1966, then, after much neurotic delay, a Ph.D. from the Yale University Graduate School in 1983. Meanwhile, I was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in English at Yale, then, for much longer, Lecturer in English at Smith. I have recently, rather late on (see "neurotic delay," above), been promoted to full professor. I have regularly taught an upper level Shakespeare course (required of Smith English majors) for going on twenty years now, and a great deal of my thinking about Shakespeare has evolved from the give-and-take of that course. I am currently interested in Shakespearean theater as an art of incarnation, as a medium which thematizes the tricky passage from the playwright's words to the actor's flesh. This interest may or may not result in a book. I contributed a short paper on more or less this subject to a seminar at the March 1991 meeting of the Shakespeare Association in Vancouver, and my latest article in print is related: "*Measure for Measure* The Flesh Made Word," *SEL* 30 (Spring 1990). I also teach American Literature in a modest way, and Faulkner is a special interest. I recently published the volume in the Twayne's English Authors Series devoted to Shakespearean comedy exclusive of the problem plays (TEAS 489). My first book was about epic: *The Burial- Places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton* (Amherst, MA: UMass Press, 1987). I have some other articles about Shakespeare as well as others. I'm currently working on a piece for the Theory in Practice series to be published by the Open University Press in England. It's on the Second Tetralogy and Voloshinov's (that is, probably, Bakhtin's) *Marxism and the Philosophy of Language*. I'm a member of the International Committee for the World Shakespeare Bibliography, an active editorial board member for *ELR*, a member of the Shakespeare Association of America, and of the Renaissance Society of America. I'll mention membership in the AAUP as well, with pride. ====================================================================== *Mace-Tessler, Eric <100524.470@compuserve.com> Ph.D. (English Language & Literature), Boston University, 1981 International Baccalaureate Assistant Examiner (English A) since 1988 Member, European Council of International Schools Shakespeare is studied at all levels of our English programme (grades 9-13). At the upper level, International Baccalaureate offerings are equivalent to introductory college courses. For this reason, it is particularly important to me that teachers at this level (myself included) maintain an awareness of recent developments in Shakespeare studies. This is somewhat difficult for us, given the limited availability of scholarly materials in English here in Dusseldorf, and our limited budget for scholarly publications. I am hoping that we may be able to benefit from resources made available through SHAKSPER. In addition, I would be interested in hearing of ideas for incorporating other Renaissance dramatic works in Shakespeare studies at the advanced secondary/introductory tertiary levels. =============================================================================== *Machado, Josue Figueira Born into a family of intense religious fervor, I spent the first years of my life accompanying my parents in their church ministry in the south of Brazil. After graduating from high school, I followed my father's steps into the Christian ministry and entered a Baptist seminary in my hometown. In 1985, I was granted a scholarship to pursue further theological studies at an international Baptist seminary in R=FCschlikon, Switzerland. Although= I had studied English in secondary and high schools, the opportunity of going to Europe posed my first actual contact with the English language. In order to prepare myself, I spent six months in England studying the language and residing with an English family in the West Midland countryside. After four intense but exciting years in Europe, I returned to Brazil. Upon returning to Brazil, I faced the frightening reality of not having any qualifications to pursue a job. Because of my aptness to communicate in English, I obtained a job in a language school teaching English as a foreign language. That same year, I took the Certificate of Proficiency in English examination offered by the University of Cambridge. The next step I pursued was admission into the Rio de Janeiro State University for a special program designed for holders of a foreign language proficiency certificate. The program consisted of classes in the education department leading to certification as a teacher of a foreign language in Brazilian schools. As soon as I obtained certification, I was given a teaching position in a British language and culture center sponsored by the British Council in Rio de Janeiro. In the fall of 1993, I was admitted to the University of Georgia to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in English. From the very beginning of my studies in English literature, I took a particular interest in the Renaissance. However, it was through reading Shakespeare that I discovered what I see today as one of the most artistically and intellectually fruitful periods of human history. About six years ago, my first efforts to read and understand Shakespeare were filled with frustration. I spent hours reading only to discover at the end that I had not really understood anything. I believe that part of my enjoyment of Shakespeare today can be explained by the challenge it represented in my earlier years. As I became increasingly more interested in Shakespeare, I was also attracted by the stage. Even though, I still prefer to read a play than watch (or hear) one, I always try to use the opportunities to see Shakespearean plays staged. I have been to several productions ranging from the Shenandoah=92s visits to Athens to the UGA theatrical company and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company productions in the Shakespeare Tavern. =============================================================================== *Mackenzie, John The works of Shakespeare were drummed into me at an early age and through the years I have benefited from the wisdom contained in them. Now,as a retired physician, I have the time and the inclination to revive my interest in these Works. At present I am compiling an electronic book of Shakespearean quotations to run as a Windows program which will show a small window with a brief quote on computer startup. Also, as a separate project, I am currently researching the Arthurian legend from the point of view of Celtic and Roman influences. =============================================================================== *Maczewski, Anne-Mirjam I was born in 1974 in Hildesheim, Germany, where I lived until finishing school in 1993. After spending a month as volunteer at the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches near Geneva, Switzerland, I entered Goettingen University in October 1993 in the subjects English and geography. I changed geography for mathematics after a year, and mathematics for a bit of Scandinavian studies after another 1,5 years. Having completed my third year of English Studies now, I am going to finish them at the School of English of the University of Kent at Canterbury the coming academic year (1996/7) taking an "MA in Modern Literature". My research topics include modern literature (roughly 1890-1950) and writer-response criticism (I wrote one of my term papers on Shakespearean material from _Romeo and Juliet_ and _Antony and Cleopatra_ resurfacing in Eugene O'Neill's _Long Day's Journey Into Night_). My current interests include drama and the theatre in general, where Shakespeare looms large as one of the giants of the genre, throwing a huge powerful and influential shadow on later writers. =============================================================================== *Maczewski, Jan-Mirko Maczewski, Jan-Mirko: In 1995, I completed the MA in the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation at Essex University. My thesis was on the French and German translations of Virginia Woolf's *The Waves* and on new perspectives in translation research by using the latest computer linguistic and scientific resources, including an experimental Windows application of my own. Now, I am working on a PhD at Goettingen University. The thesis continues to investigate issues of Computer Assisted Literary Translation Studies (CoALiTS), this time with reference to poetry, in particular to the German translations of Shakespeare's *Sonnets*. Obviously, my major interests are literary translation and humanities computing, and Shakespeare's works seem particularly apt for a combination of both. Other current interests include the works of Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language. =============================================================================== *Maddox, Patricia C. My name is Patricia Maddox, and I am interested in subscribing to the SHAKSPER list. I am not a scholar, but I am interested in listening in on this list. I am the English Writing Lab Supervisor at Amarillo College, Amarillo, Tx. =============================================================================== *Mader, Rodney R. Rodney R. Mader BA cum laude in English Literature, Temple, 1988 MA in English Literature, Temple, 1993 I am currently enrolled in the PhD program in English Literature at Temple. My interests are mostly in the 18th century in America, and in contemporary popular culture or cultural studies. My most recent Shakespeare course was with Professor Larry Venuti in the Spring of '92, and it dealt with Cultural Appropriations in and of Shakespeare. For that course I wrote a seminar length paper on the appropriation of Shakespeare's sonnets in Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." and Derek Jarman's "The Angelic Conversation." Besides that, I had a few undergraduate courses in Shakespeare. I would say I'm reasonably familiar with a few of his works, and comfortable with the sonnets. =============================================================================== *Magaldi-Unger, Karin Karin Magaldi-Unger is the Education and Outreach/Special Projects Manager at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. While at the festival she has worn many administrative hats including coordination of the intern program and Shakespeare To Go a touring troupe that performs in high schools and colleges. In an artistic capacity with SSC, she wrote an American English version of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" in 1992 and assistant directed "Waiting for Godot" in 1991. (She recently completed an American English version of Hedda Gabler for a UCSC production). This past winter she directed two plays (one of the Valina Hasu Houston's TEA) locally. Ms. Magaldi-Unger is a produced playwright, has directed and taught theater in both the U.S. and Canada. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA, and an MA in Dramatic Arts from UC Berkeley. She is a lecturer at Porter College, UCSC, and is the director of music in a local church. =============================================================================== *Magary, Al I am a serious but non-academic Shakespearean--and I hope this statement is not internally contradictory. I am researching a historical novel set in England 1154-1502 in which Shakespeare's English history plays (excluding _Henry VIII_) serve as story material for a semi-fictional late 15th-century narrator. My research ranges from details of everyday life in Plantagenet England, such as personal names and occupations, to texts of other English medieval-history plays and other dramatic writings or productions--e.g., Addison's _Rosamond_, Thomas Francklin's _Earl of Warwick_, Blake's _Edward III_, William Kenrick's _Falstaff's Wedding_, the anonymous _Jack Straw_, and "J.W., Gent.'s" _The Valiant Scot_. I was an honors graduate from Middlebury College in--alas--American history, and have been a newspaper reporter, Peace Corps volunteer in India, bootblack at a Swiss ski resort, war correspondent in Vietnam, author (with my wife) of four travel guidebooks (including _East Africa_, published by Harper & Row), editor of the California Coastal Plan and other environmental documents, book publisher, computer consultant... =============================================================================== *Magnusson, A. Lynne A. Lynne Magnusson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1), where she teaches Shakespeare, rhetoric, and discourse studies. She is currently serving as Associate Chair and Graduate Officer. She has published on Shakespeare's language, on women's writing in Elizabethan times (Jane Anger) and in the present day, and on discourse pragmatics. As associate director of the Waterloo International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre, she co-edits The Elizabethan Theatre series with C.E. McGee. She is a member of the Shakespeare Association of America, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, the Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric, and the MLA. Her current project now nearing completion is a book on the rhetoric of social interaction in Elizabethan letters and Shakespeare's plays. "The Rhetoric of Politeness and Henry VIII," in Shakespeare Quarterly, 43 (1992), 391-409, is indicative of the direction of this research. The book makes use of discourse pragmatics, especially politeness theory, to look at dialogic relations and social invention in the language of letters and plays. =============================================================================== *Maguin, Jean-Marie "MAGUIN, Jean-Marie (Male, French) born 1943. Professor of English, Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier III Codirector (with Charles Whitworth) of Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise, Unite associee 2004 au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Doctoral dissertation on Night in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Predecessors 1977, Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier III. Articles and notes on Elizabethan drama and poetry. Research interests: Semiotics of theatre. Rhetoric and prosody. Biography of Shakespeare. Emblems." =============================================================================== *Mahon, John W. John W. Mahon is co-editor of THE SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER and Professor of English at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. He recently completed a six-year term as chairman of the English Department and is enjoying a sabbatical year before returning to full-time teaching in the fall. He and his wife Ellen will spend ten days in London in March and hope to catch up with the latest developments at the Shakespeare Globe Centre. =============================================================================== *Maier, David *Powell, Jan I am a co-founder and the Board Chair for the Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company in Portland, Oregon. We have been in existence for five years (concluding our fourth year of production.) Our mission is to perform "ferociously good Shakespeare in an intimate setting." We have a core acting company which is auditioned annually. They go through a training workshop in the summer and all casting is done from the company. The training is based upon British verse disciplines of scanning for metre and beats for use in interpreting and delivering the text. The result is Shakespeare as poetry married with the American acting tradition of emotional immediacy. The performances are set in an intimate theatre (no more than 250 seats) which results in theatre of great power and beauty. Tygres Heart is the hosting company for the 1995 STAA conference which will take place here in Portland. The other person who is interested in and will be contributing to the list is Jan Powell, the founding artistic director of Tygres Heart. Ms. Powell holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Reed College. Her dissertation was on the Dryden/Davenant adaptation of *The Tempest*. She was trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. =============================================================================== *Maier, John I'm currently an undergraduate at Harvard College. I'm majoring in Comparative Literature, with a specialization in French and English Renaissance texts. I also have a strong, albeit still developing, interest in theory, ranging from deconstruction to New Historicism. The genre that interests me most is lyric poetry, and so the Shakespearean text of primary interest for me is his sonnet sequence, but I am, of course, interested in the plays, particularly in later works such as Antony & Cleopatra and The Tempest. ============================================================= *Maillet, Gregory <057295@acadvm1.uottawa.ca> Title: Ph.D. student Institution: University of Ottawa Research Interests: Shakespeare's Romances, all forms of Shakespeare criticism, Shakespeareana, Medieval literature, the Theory and History of Criticism. Mailing Address: U of Ottawa Dept. of English 175 Waller Ottawa, ON K1N-6N5 =============================================================================== *Malborn, Peter Peter J.E. Malborn, student at the English Seminar of the University of Cologne, Germany. Several classes on Shakespeare attended, several homeworks, but no official publications yet. E-Mail: a2013568@hpw1.rrz.uni-koeln.de Fax: Mo-Fr, 9am-6pm CET +49-221-599 4680, or 24h/7days +44-71-405 1656 831 9489 =============================================================================== *Maley, Saundra Ph.D in English--University of Maryland, 1994 M.A. in English-- " " 1979 B.A. in English-- " " 1973 I have been an adjunct lecturer at The George Washington University since 1989, where I teach, Freshman Composition and Research, Business Writing, and Introduction to English Literature. I previously taught at Hood College for one year and was a Teaching Assistant at the University of Maryland, 1979-84. Currently, I am in the process of sending out my manuscript, "Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry," and am working on a small book on citation with Francis A. Young. =============================================================================== *Malloch, Simon In my course I am currently studying Shakespeare's Romances and Tragedies, having studied the Histories and Comedies in first semester. Moreover, I am also taking a course in Arthurian Literature and, for Ancient History, the Late Roman Republic (60 B.C-14 A.D) Of the plays I have studied thus far, the Histories and the Tragedies have evoked the most interest, the latter genre fuelled by reading the essays of George Wilson Knight. Aside from the work I am undertaking for my Shakespeare course, I have become immensely interested in the biographical picture of Shakespeare, ultimately deriving from a biography I have read, and am reading, concerning his life. Of his background I would really like to follow up the connection between Shakespeare and "Shakeshafte", as well the possible links Shakespeare might have had with Ralegh's "School of Atheism". The latter, I would especially like to form the basis of some post-graduate work, my current schedule being to committed for deep research into either area. Coupled with this is an interest in Harold Bloom's theory, recently expounded in _The Western Canon_, of Shakespeare as the centre of the Western literary canon. I also find his theory of the anxiety very interesting. Lastly, I have an interest in the themes of paganism and nature evident in Shakespeare's work. Both are useful to follow up in relation to the theories of Camille Paglia. Ultimately I plan to complete a PhD, preferrably in relation to Shakespeare and/or his contemporary history and literay peers. I would also like to studying overseas, in England or America, at some stage. =============================================================================== *Malone, Kelly A My name is Kelly Malone, and I am currently completing my doctorate in eighteenth-century British literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My dissertation explores the relationship between Daniel Defoe's novels and popular fiction ephemera--ballads and chapbooks--of the period. My minor concentration is Renaissance literature, so I have studied Shakespeare with some intensity. I have also had occasion to teach Shakespeare in survey courses.This semester, I am working at Princeton University as a "preceptor" for Larry Danson's "The Plays of Shakespeare." The course is run by a web page called "The Electric Shakespeare," which includes the syllabus, essay assignments, searchable text of the plays, a discussion group for students, and even a few scenes from productions. I meet with small groups of students twice a week for discussion. It is my hope that the Conference will help me to teach my students and learn more about the plays--and I also have a fond wish of persuading some of my students to subscribe so that they can get a taste of what the larger scholarly community talks about. =============================================================================== *Mangan, Michael NAME: Michael Mangan TITLE: Dr. DEPT: English & Drama INSTITUTION: Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies (Longman, 1991) Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus: A critical study (Penguin 1987) 'Threads' and other plays (Sheffield Academic Press, 1990) 'Theory, Practice, Theatre Praxis: Shakespeare and Practical Drama Work' (in 'Studies in Theatre Production 1994:9) In press (1994): A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies (Longman, forthcoming) CURRENT INTERESTS: Renaissance drama; contemporary British drama; radio drama (I write a bi-monthly column in a British national magazine); Shakespeare and dramatherapy. I am also a published playwright and have worked professionally as a theatre director: I continue to direct university drama. SURFACE MAIL ADDRESS: Dept of English and Drama, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK DEGREES AWARDED: MA, PhD (Cambridge) =============================================================================== *Manger, Stuart Particular interests: Shakespeare in performance. The Late Plays (particularly The Tempest) Development of imagery, and how it translates to stage The villain / the Machiavel / the victim BUT I am interested in almost any aspect of Shakespeare >except< the almost endless debate about authorship. ============================================================= I'm a graduating senior at Western Washington University. I am an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. I am currently in a Shakespeare class (and love it), found your list address on the web and thought I'd tune in. I have various interests and tastes, and am ready to add my opinions where I feel they are appropriate. Having said that however, I will most likely sit back, watch you all chat, and learn from your expertise. ============================================================= *Manley Lawrence Lawrence Manley Professor of English Yale University Chairman, Renaissance Studies Program manley@minerva.cis.yale.edu I teach subjects in European literature 1350-1750, including, frequently, Shakespeare. Most of my research and publication has been on Tudor-Stuart literature, though not primarily Shakespeare. I am the ditor of London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology (1986) and the author of Convention, 1500-1750 (1980) and Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (forthcoming). I do a good deal of interdisciplinary and team teaching, and in recent years I have been chairing the program in Renaissance Studies, which offers both BA and PhD degrees. I am just now beginning to scout out a topic having to do the acting in Elizabethan-Jacobean theater and its possible role in the composition of plays. I am also particularly interested in the Shaksper group because I hope to obtain information about ways in which people incorporate performance issues in the classroom. =============================================================================== *Manley, D.K. I have worked for 18 years in tec theatre in England and now work in the Drama dept of a College giving combined subject degrees. I work as a sound and lighting engineer within the dept and due to the nature of the work have become more interested in the academic side of theatre to the point were I am now a mature student within the dept. This explains my interest in the news group as a large section of the course is the study and comparison of Shakespear's plays I hope as my studies develop I will be able to contribute, though at present I suspect to gain more than I am able to give. =============================================================================== *Mann, Kirsten M My name is Kirsten Mann, and I am in my second year of work on my MA with the English Department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. I am currently teaching a sophomore-level composition & modes of literature course, trying to finish my Thesis, which focuses on parenting types in Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_, and working with one of our professors on a Shakespearean Independent Study, for which I'm sitting in on and assisting with a senior-level Shakespeare class and creating an annotated bibliography of works dealing with the Sonnets in our library. My favorite and latest experience with Shakespeare actually had to do with Ann Radcliffe's epigrams with which she headed her chapters in _The Mysteries of Udolpho_, several of which were from Shakespeare's plays. In a "non-research" paper I explored the relationships between the themes in the referred-to plays and those in the corresponding chapters of Radcliffe's novel. Assuming I live through the Thesis Defense process, I will be moving to Central Texas in the fall; my husband flies helicopters for the Army and will be stationed at Fort Hood, which is about 50 miles north of Austin. I hope to pursue my PhD at UT Austin and realize my dream of having my beloved better half refer to me as "My wife, the doctor," and to be able to awaken others to my love of literature -- including my two wonderful (and genius!) girls, who are 1 and 3-1/2, respectively. =============================================================================== *Mann, Mark Mark Mann: Artistic director of The Arden Shakespeare Company in Columbus, Ohio a classical theatre specializing in Shakespeare and classically themed plays. I graduated from Ohio University with a degree in English/Creative Writing, and have published poetry and fiction in several small literary and university publications. Theatrically... I have played Richard III, Hamlet, Iago, Berowne, Worcester, P rospero, Claudius, Antonio ( 12th Night), Father Capulet, Escalus, Laertes, Kent, Petruchio, as well as Dr. Faustus, Henry II ( Lion in Winter), John Barrymore ( I hate hamlet), and Lord Byron ( Childe Byron)...all for numerous professional and semi-professional companies. I have directed 12th Night twice, The Winter's Tale, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and am currently directing Macbeth. My interests lie in most things Shakespearen, except authorship questions, which I consider moot and pointless, and especially interested in Shakespearean performance and Elizabethan theatre in general. =============================================================================== *Manning, John or Reader, School of English The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. Born 18 June, 1948. Graduated B.A. (hons) University of Sydney, 1970; M.A. University of Sydney, 1974; Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1978. Major Publications: The Emblems of Thomas Palmer: Sloane MS 3794, ed. with introduction and notes (AMS Press, 1988); Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes (Scolar Press, 1990); Abraham Fraunce, ~Symbolicae philosophiae liber, ed. with introduction and notes, and and English translation by Estelle Haan (AMS Press, 1991). "A bibliographical approach to the illustrations in sixteenth century editions of Alciato's Emblemata" in Andrea Alciato and the Emblem Tradition, ed. Peter M. Daly (AMS Press, 1989), pp. 127-78; "Geffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes: A Reassessment", Renaissance Studies 4 (1990), 155-200; "Rule and order strange: A Reading of Sir John Davies Orchestra", ELR, 15 (1985), 175-94; "Deuicefull sights: Spenser's Emblematic Practice in Faerie Queene V, i-iii", Spenser Studies, 5 (1984), 65-89. Other articles in Notes and Queries, Emblematica, and the Spenser Encyclopedia. At press: Certaine signes: The Iconography of the Faerie Queene (Scolar Press). Major Project: The Hamlet Collection. An investigation into the ways in which Shakespeare's text has continued to exert fascination for writers, artists, and readers for four hundred years. I am general editor of the series. The first volume of essays, co-edited by Mark Burnett and myself, will be published by AMS press. =========================================================================== *Manning, Sam I would very much like to be included in this list, but for the sole reason That the writings of this genius are of great pleasure to read and not that I Have some profound insight into his work. I have never formed a troupe to Roam the city parks in order to gain more followers ( though if given the Chance to I wouldn't hesitate), nor have I formally acted out a scene in Front of an audience. I have, however, delivered many of Shakespeare's Sonnets, poetry, and prose in a series of "one-acts", both in dramatics Classes, and for the public. I'm seeking an even better understanding of his work-which I'm hoping to Gain here. If I'm being unreasonable in my request then please inform me, Other wise i would greatly appreciate being placed on the list. ============================================================= *Manz, Miassa Student of English Language and Literature and of History (as a minor) at the University of Berne, Switzerland. special interest: Shakespeare's comedies (esp. Romeo and Juliet), gender issues, historical questions (in context with my research in history on women in renaissance Europe) ============================================================= *Maratouk, Housen Currently enrolled in the MA program in English Literature at Rutgers University, Graduate School-Newark. =============================================================================== *Marcus, Magen Dror As an undergraudate, I studied English literature at Yale College, and I am now a graduate student at Columbia University. I am interested in Shakespeare's influence on the English Romantics, particularly Keats, as well as his widespread influence in continental Europe in the late eighteenth century. I am also studying Shakespeare's images of the sea and how they differ from Shelley's and Byron's. Any studies of Shakespearean rhetoric, or the Shakespearean mode of persuasion would also interest me. =============================================================================== *Marcy, Miranda My name is Miranda Marcy. I am a student at Medicine Hat College. I am in a Shakespeare class here and would really like to join in this electronic forum. ============================================================= *Marecki, Elizabeth A. My name is Elizabeth Marecki and I am a third year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland-College Park. I hold a BFA from Wesleyan College for Women in Macon GA (1986), and an MA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA (1988). My Master's thesis was a critical analysis of the criticism surrounding Joe Orton from 1960-1990. My area of interest is early-20th Century American Theatre and Material Culture. The subject of my dissertation is the writings and the life of Clara Lipman, a early 20th Century American actress/playwright. I am also an active director and theatrical designer (sets and costumes). My latest project was _God of Vengeance_ by Sholem Asch. My address is Theatre Department, 0202 Tawes Fine Arts Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. My email addresses are: em69@umail.umd.edu oremarecki@umdacc.umd.edu. Elizabeth Marecki Graduate Student - Department of Theatre University of Maryland - College Park emarecki@umdacc.umd.edu or em69@umail.umd.edu =============================================================================== *Marino, Gabriella My name is Gabriella Clare Marino and I am a third-year student of English and French Literature at the second university of Rome, "Tor Vergata". I am an Italian-English bilingual who lives in Italy but was born in Coventry, Great Britain. My English Literature course is currently studying Shakespeare, and in particular two of his comedies, _The Winter's Tale_ and _The Tempest_, obviously in English. We are very interested in the passages dealing with the world of actors, the world of the supernatural, the world of the court and the world of the common people, as well as in the comparison between Shakespeare's comedies and the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. We are also preparing our own literal translations of the aforementioned plays and comparing them with the ones written by famous Italian writers and poets such as Montale. We have a mid-term paper coming up (April 1st) on the 16th and 17th century, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the main historical events of the period. I visited the Globe Museum in London during the Christmas holidays and was fascinated by the reconstruction of the original theatre. As well as being a student I am also a professional translator and interpreter, having obtained a BA from "the Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori" of Rome, and work mainly from Italian into English and vice versa, although my third language is French. =============================================================================== *Marino, James James A. G. Marino. Associate Professor. Department of English. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. e-mail: james.marino@ualberta.ca Office: (403) 492-7829 FAX (403) 492-8142 http//www.ualberta.ca/~enghome1.htm Degrees: B.A., M.A., PhD University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: Game and Romance: Fifteenth Century English Metrical Romance as Game. Teaching: I have taught the senior Shakespeare course more or less continuously for 25 years, in addition to courses, graduate and undergraduate in Renaissance poetry, prose and drama, the history of rhetoric, the English language and linguistic topics in literature. Research: My interests are in Shakespeare's plays as scripts then and now, in performance on stage, film and television, and in the use of electronic means for teaching Shakespeare in performance in the classroom. To the latter end I will be soon online with a page supporting teachers of Shakespeare in the Alberta high schools. Our present plan is to launch the site by April 1997. It should be obvious that I come to Shakespeare studies rather fortuitously, having prepared to teach the later middle ages. I was fortunate to have been instructed by L.C. Knights and Allardyce Nicoll years ago and to have found myself amongst a group of five new medievalists hired in the same two years at Alberta. As a result of this conjunction of events, I had no medieval courses available and was offered, as something of a remedy, the senior Shakespeare course. I have not looked back. ============================================================= *Marinov, Sam I'm not a Shakespeare scholar by any stretch of imagination. My background is in theatre and film: I hold a Ph.D in Theatre and Film from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. A couple of years ago, I became interested in perfomances of Shakespeare's plays, in particular vocal delivery of long speech and soliloques. With my collegues, James Hartman and Kim Wilcox I invesigated pauses in Hamlet's soliloquies. The full results of our studies will be published in Poetics (Holland). I'm currently working on the invesigation of pauses in other Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *Markley, Liana Nothing fancy-I am a new-found amateur student of Shakespeare, though perhaps new-found student of Hamlet would be more accurate. About a month ago, after a lifetime spent seeing different productions and film versions of the play, I finally got around to the business of actually sitting down and reading it, footnotes included. I was stunned. Since then I've been attempting to 1) pull together for myself a selective critical bibliography for Hamlet, and 2) hack my way through the bracken of criticism that has been written on the subject. You'd think a person in my situation would be content with the Shakespeare newsgroup on Usenet. Alas, I've already tried it and it isn't worthwhile-either a stupid flame war on authorship (I don't care by whom the plays were written, the point is that they were), and all the requests for instant essays, it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. So here I am, pursuing what I am really interested in: a serious, committed discussion of Shakespeare's plays, life and approach to writing. I am a graduate library student currently attending the University of South Florida (hence my passion for selective bibliography), with a bachelor's degree in Theatre from Colorado State University. Altogether, that should put me in fairly good stead. The two ideas that interest me the most at the moment: 1) the extent to which Shakespeare was writing extemporaneously, almost an improvisation, turning out these plays as quickly as he could, leaving them full of historical and logistical errors, and even coining words as he went along. I like this sloppiness, very anti-academic. That's what makes the Baconian theory so amusing-no self-respecting scholar would have made the factual errors he did. 2) One theme I've noticed in Hamlet, but haven't seen written about much, is that of promiscuous, disparate growth, creation gone wild, the "unweeded garden,"in which "things rank and gross in nature possess it merely." Hamlet seems to be disgusted with nature, sensing that there is nothing sacred about nature's easy, blind propagation of itself: things grow because they grow. I feel that his wariness about sexuality is partly explained by this perception. Also, to what extent does this allow some insight into the meaning of Ophelia's flowers, all of which are wild. The interpretations I've read about the meaning of Ophelia's flowers get too specific for my taste, dwelling on the meanings of specific flowers or their uses, instead of taking them as a whole and examining what meaning these flowers together might have. Are they not all essentially blooming weeds, all commonplace and wildly prolific, and is there not an implication that Ophelia is akin to them, beautiful but expendable? ============================================================= *Marks, Bob I have an MA from the Sydney University in English Lit. I work for the church, but have a deep interest in Shakespeare, particularly King Lear, on which I have written a book setting forth my belief that Cordelia never went to France but served her father as his Fool in place of Oswald. I realize that this may seem strange to you, but I have worked on it for ============================================================= *Marrapodi, Michele I am an Associate Professor of English language and literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Palermo, Italy. My special interests are Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. I am associate editor of "Cahiers Elisab=E9thains" and assistant editor of "Seventeenth-Century News". I have heard about "SHAKSPER" and I would like to subscribe to it. My own publications and others I have edited include: "The Great Image: figure e immagini della regalit=E0 nel teatro di Shakespeare" (Rome: Herder, 1984); "La Sicilia nella drammaturgia giacomiana e carolina" (Rome: Herder, 1989); "Shakespeare's Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993); "Il mondo italiano nel teatro inglese del Rinascimento: relazioni culturali e intertestualit=E0" (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1995). =============================================================================== *Marshall, Carol My name is Carol Marshall, I live in the east bay area of San Francisco. I have my BA in psychology from Cal. State U Hayward in California. I first discovered Shakespeare at the age of 10 when I saw Henry IV pt.2 in Ashland Oregon and truly loved it. Since then I have taken courses about Shakespeare from a man who so love him that he named his son William. He showed me more facets to Shakespeare than I thought possible, awakening me to the almost super human insights that his writing has about the human condition, ( which still has not changed after how many hundreds of years) I attend the Oregon Shakespeare festival religiously every year, I am also a regular at the California Shakespeare festival here in Orinda. I also read and study Shakespeare on my own, I have many books and tapes on different subjects and plays. Last year I devoted quite a bit of time to studying Hamlet. I have seen 29 of his plays in all. I have also studied acting, and have taken acting classes at the college level, along with a class at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) here in San Francisco. Presently I run a large school-age child after school program, and I enjoy working with children very much. I have always lived in California, in both the east bay and Sacramento. I am an avid reader of all subjects and belong to a local book group. I love to travel and do so whenever time and money allow. I went to Stratford in 1989 when I was in England. I also enjoy creative writing , all theater, cooking, bicycling and movies. =============================================================================== *Marshall, Cynthia Cynthia Marshall, Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College. Publications include _Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology_ (1991) and articles in _Shakespeare Quarterly_, _English Literary Renaissance_, _Studies in English Literature 1500-1900_,_Literature and Psychology_. Member of SAA, MLA, SAMLA. Currently in connections between development of character and performance of violence in Shakespearean drama. =============================================================================== *Marshall, Karen Kates Instructional Services Librarian University Of Virginia surface mail: Charlottesville, VA 22903 professional associations: American Library Association Virginia Library Association I am a reference librarian in UVA's main research library. My specialty is humanities and electronic services. My area of collection development is English language and literature. My life interest is Shakespeare. I look forward to joining SHAKSPER and will let our faculty know of its existence. ========================================================= *Marshall, Shane My name is Shane Marshall. I am writing to apply for membership to the Shakespeare listserv. I have been a member of the NCTE-talk listserv for approximately one year. Several members of that list have suggested I join your list to find out more about teaching Shakespeare. I am currently a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. I work at the Reading Center, which offers assistance to local schoolchildren who have difficulties with the language arts. The Reading Center is part of the Educational Curriculum and Instruction Department. I am intersted in this list because of one of my research topics for this semester: teaching Shakespeare to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. There do not seem to be many books on the subject; I am hoping some of thee members on the list could provide me with methods of instruction. My other main area of interest is language arts portfolios. Of course, I also have an interest in Shakespeare. I have chosen this research topic to attempt to create a "bridge" between my current degree in Secondary English Education and the Master's degree in Reading I am pursuing. I am most interested in _Hamlet and the tetralogy of _Richard II--_Henry V. I have written papers studying the relationship of Hal and Hotspur in _1 Henry IV and Elizabethan belief in the Chain of Being and Divine Right as illustrated by the Duke of York in _Richard II. My involvement with NCTE-talk has been highly positive. I was initially offered this position through that list. Also, I am co-presenting a session on using NCTE-talk at the NCTE National Conference in Chicago in November. I have much experience with e-mail and listservs and know the proper etiquette. I should also inform you that I was once accused by another NCTE-talk list member of not existing! (One reason he believed I didn't was my frequent use of Shakespearian quotations.) However, I assure you that I do exist. =============================================================================== *Marshall, Thomas My name is Thomas A. Marshall II, Professor of Communications at Robert Morris College in Coraopolis, PA, which is in suburban Pittsburgh. Educated at West Virginia University (BA and MA) and the University of Pittsburgh (ABD), I have taught writing, speaking, and literature for 30 years. I am Coordinator of the Communications Skills Program, Courses I-V, a program that attempts to integrate speaking, reading, writing, listening, and presenting with computers in five courses taken in the first two-years of college. Also, I teach speech and theater methods to students seeking English and Communications teaching certification. For many years, I have acted in local community theaters, including the role of Bottom in MND (typecasting, my wife claims). I am a member of MLA (including Shakespeare section), NCTE, CCCC, and the Hemingway society. I developed and teach EN 342 The Dramatic Art of Shakespeare. My current interests include developing strategies to teach Shakespeare to undergraduates and secondary school students, strategies that I can pass on to my English Ed students. Another major interest is Hemingway. I have just published a book review in the Fall 1995 Issue of _The Hemingway Review_. =============================================================================== *Marten, William William C. Marten, Associate Editor, Wisconsin Magazine of History, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. I am interested in Shaksper as an eavesdropper. My wife and I have been supporters of American Players Theatre (started by Randall Duk Kim and his associates strictly to perform Shakespeare but subsequently expanded to classical plays) in Spring Green, Wisconsin, since its inception thirteen or fourteen years ago, annual subscribers to the season at Stratford, Ontario, since 1987, and in the audience at productions of Shakespeare at Milwaukee Repertory, the Guthrie, and in Chicago as often as our schedule and finances permit. B.A., University of Nebraska, 1958 M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1960 Home address: 214 Green Lake Pass Madison WI 53705-4757 =============================================================================== *Martin, Anthony I studied at University College London and at Oxford, where I took a D.Phil., my thesis being on George Herbert and Sacred Parody. At the moment I am writing up various aspects of my thesis and related topics. I've been teaching for some years now, and have been here in Japan for just under one year. This year I will teach classes in English Renaissance Poetry, English and American Poetry (like a survey course), and Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I am also supervising a graduation dissertation on the relation of Mary Wroth's poetry to Sir Philip Sidney. My principal research concern at present is with depictions of early Britain in the English Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Martin, Anthony Dr Anthony Martin Lecturer in English Literature Department of English Waseda University 1-24-1 Toyama Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162, Japan I studied at University College London and Oxford, where I finished a doctorate last year on George Herbert. I have been teaching, in one capacity or another, for about seven years; mainly on Renaissance literature, including quite a bit of Shakespeare. At the moment I'm interested in 16th- and 17th-century views of Early (pre-Roman) Britain. =============================================================================== *Martin, Bennison I am Professor of Theatre and Director of Graduate Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I have more than 28 years teaching experience at the university level and have been at Miami for 23 years. I hold a Masters Degree in Directing from the University of Iowa and Doctoral degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. I have served on the boards of the American Theatre Association and the University/College THeatre Association. I have been president of the Ohio Theatre Alliance and have served as Regional Chair and member of the National Committee for the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival. I am a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. My teaching includes Theatre History, Theory and Criticism, and Directing. I also teach the Shakespeare component of our Acting Studio. I have directed productions of Loves's Lobours Lost, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet. =============================================================================== *Martin, Charles Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Chicago 1100 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Email: martin@cs.uchicago.edu WWWeb: http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/ My scientific research is in the area of Artificial Intelligence, and is primarily concerned with language understanding in integrated cognitive agents. Please try the Web page referred to above for more information about the Department of Computer Science and our research. My interest in the Shakespeare list is primarily performance-oriented. I have some opera and operetta experience (I am a baritone), and would like to do some Shakespeare roles in the theater. I am also drawn to operatic interpretations; for example, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Verdi's Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff. =============================================================================== *Martin, Christine I am currently a post-graduate student at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham and am doing the MA taught course. I have just completed a Ba(Hons) degree at the University of Liverpool. My interests lie in performance and I am particularly interested in film. ============================================================= *Martin, Gregory K. I am currently working on both Shakespeare and Marlowe. Of particular interest are Edward II, Doctor Faustus, King Lear, the problem comedies, and The Tempest. I am also intersted in Restoration drama and Hemingway. I hope to begin work on my dissertation in the Spring of 1998, thus my interest in your listserv. Outside Interests: Skiing, golf, computers, film =============================================================================== *Martin, Lisa My name is Lisa Martin, and I am a graduate student in the M.A. English program at Western Carolina University. Part of my thesis project will involve collecting electronic information available on Shakespeare's poetry. I am very interested in this conference and would like to subscribe to SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Martin, Lisa B. I am Lisa B. Martin, a graduate student in English at Western Carolina University. I am currently doing research for my thesis--an annotated bibliography of internet resourses for the study of Renaissance poetry, concentrating on the poetry of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser. I am interested in joining SHAKSPER, not only in the hopes of gaining valuable information for my thesis, but to be involved with a community of students, researchers, etc. who are dedicated to lively discussion of various topics concerning Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Martin, Michael Michael Martin Lecturer Georgetown University SSCE, Literature Dept. Currently teaching SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN CONSCIOUSNESS Working on putting together a multimedia introduction to the study of Shakespeare. Interests/Research Topics: Shakespeare and Philosophy--exploring Shakespeare's works in terms of the insights they can provide to many of our current philosophical concerns. Computer Applications and literature, translation, etc. =============================================================================== *Martin, Randall Randall Martin: My main teaching and research fields are Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama, and textual studies, and at the moment I am preparing an edition of *3 Henry VI* for Oxford University Press. I am also interested in feminist criticism and women writers of the period and have recently completed a fully annotated anthology, *Women Writers in Renaissance England*, for Longmans UK which is due to be published this summer. Prior to this in 1991 my edition of the Elizabethan MS history play *Edmond Ironside* and Anthony Brewer's related historical romance *The Love-sick King* was published by Garland Press, NY. This edition was based on the D.Phil. thesis I completed in 1987 at the University of Oxford. I received my MA from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and my BA from the University of Toronto. =============================================================================== *Martin, Terence EDUCATIONAL HISTORY Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL Ph.D. 1972 University of Houston, Houston, TX M.A. 1966 California State College at Los Angeles -- 1966 University of Houston, Houston, TX B.S. 1963 Carre's School, Sleaford, England G.C.E. 1955 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Missouri -- St. Louis 1983- Sierra Nevada College Asst. prof. 1982 Incline Village, NV St. Louis Community College Assoc. prof. 1971-81 at Meramec, St. Louis, MO Southern Illinois University Instructor 1968-70 Carbondale, IL Brazosport High School Teacher 1967-68 Freeport, TX Peace Corps, Dominican Republic Teach. Supervisor 1966-67 University of Houston Teach. Asst. 1964-66 Houston, TX Brazosport High School Teacher 1963-64 Freeport, TX Brigade of Guards Mortar Instructor 1957-58 British Army =============================================================================== *Martin, Thomas L. Thomas L. Martin. TMARTIN@mace.cc.purdue.edu. Candidate for Ph.D. in the Department of English at Purdue University. My interests are in the area of possible worlds and the Renaissance. I am a Novus Competition winner at the Center for Advanced Early Studies' Twenty-Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Ball State University, for my paper "Othello: A Study in Chaos." I have a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Literary Semantics on "Poststructuralism, Zeno's Paradox of Plurality, and Possible-Worlds Semantics." I am a member of the Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Shakespeare Association of America, and Milton Society of America. =============================================================================== *Martinek Jeffrey Edward My name is Jeffrey Martinek and I would like to subscribe to SHAKSPER. I am originally from the New York City area, but I recieved my BA in English from the U. of Pennsylvania in '87 and my MA three years later from Indiana U. I am currently writing my dissertation for a PhD at Indiana. The working title of my dissertation is "The King is Dead, Long Live the King: The Aesthetics of Authority in Early Modern English Drama." I am writing primarily on Shakespeare, especially the histories and Othello, Lear, and Coriolanus, but I also plan to write on Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Ford's Perkin Warbeck. I am using theory, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, to develop a theory of ideology that is less rigid and predictable than the ones I keep encountering in the works of the New Historicists and the Cultural Materialists. My main concern in this is to shift the emphasis from the 'production' side of ideology, to the 'consumption' side. Thus, the chapter I am now writing considers the way that the concept of the 'King's Two Bodies' remained operative even when people didn't actually believe in it. I delivered a paper on Othello last year at the 16th Century Studies Conference and will deliver another one on the second Henriad at the Central Renaissance Conference in a few weeks. I hope to publish both as articles and as part of my dissertation. =============================================================================== *Martorana, Melaine I am a graduate student at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, and am currently taking a research course that requires me and my fellow bibliophiles to join a literary discussion group via e-mail. So, after surfing the web (or whatever it's called), I came across an e-mail address that referred me to you. Shakespeare is one of my all-time favorites, and I would REALLY like to subscribe to your discussion group! May I? A review of what we've read via a discussion group is due in class on October 4, but your group sounds like something I'd like to be part of even when the assignment is over. =============================================================================== *Marx, Stephen I am Steven Marx, Associate Professor of English at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo CA 93407, 805-756-2411. I teach Introduction to Shakespeare, Upper Division Shakespeare and Graduate Shakespeare courses. At all levels I take a triangulated approach incorporating reading, viewing and performing. With my graduate seminar, given every other year, I produce a full length public production. My upper division course focusses on Shakespeare on film, and as part of their course work, students produce video performances of selected scenes. In my General Education Introduction classes, all students take part in one in-classroom performance of a scene. My scholarly interests center around the theme of war and peace, militarism and pacifism, in literature and culture. This interest has lately been focussed on the Bible and biblical interpretation. At SAA 1994 my seminar paper was "Holy War in Henry Fifth," and an essay I wrote last summer, "Moses and Machiavellism," is presently under submission. My article, "Shakespeare's Pacifism," appeared in RQ Spring 1992 and another article, "The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers," appeared in SEL Winter 1992. Earlier scholarly interests in pastoral issued in "'Fortunate Senex':The Pastoral of Old Age," SEL W 1985 and YOUTH AGAINST AGE: GENERATIONAL STRIFE IN RENAISSANCE POETRY (Lang 1985). =============================================================================== *Mason, Drew Alan I am a drama teacher in Guam and teach a great deal regarding Shakespeare. I also have a small community theatre company that produces one outdoor Shakespeare annually. ============================================================= *Mason, Gary F. I have been in the computer business since May of 1963 (having used them for a few years prior to that). I have been employed at a variety of institutions, including NASA, American Management Systems, and now Digital Equipment Corporation. I have visited England only once (April 1989), but will be doing so as often as possible in the future (plans are for next April to start). In fact, Stratford upon Avon is on the agenda for this next trip! I am a member of the ANSAXNET. My friend is the wife of an NHL player (in one of those French speaking cities East of Toronto). She and her husband are also Anglophiles. She has a degree in English Literature from Guelph University in Toronto. Our families are the best of friends, and we plan to travel to England together when the opportunity makes itself available. ========================================================= *Mason, Paul I'm an English and Drama teacher at Lakefield College, a small independent school in rural Ontario. Last year I directed Twelfth Night, and this year I'm directing Hamlet. I'm also a published playwright (The Discipline Committee, Circles of Grace--both published by Dramatic Publishing in the States). =============================================================================== *Massa, John S. or 100 Gilmore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52246 (319) 335-2123 (work) (319) 354-6312 (phone) My knowledge of and love for the works of Shakespeare are based on the following (I am listing these because I got the impression that some sort of "qualifications" had to be demonstrated to be a member of the electronic forum): (1) I have read all of his known sonnets and plays at least once (except for only parts of the supposed Shakespearean passages from "Sir Thomas Moore.") I have read my favorites many times over. (2) I have read all of the Cliff's Notes on same. (I know, "yuck" but they are useful to get started and are good for quick synopsies.) (3) I was an assistant to the director for a production of "Twelfth Night, or What You Will" here at the University of Iowa. I functioned as a dramaturge and "keeper of the words" for the players, pointing out passages from other plays and sonnets that helped explicate difficult passages. Needless to say, I have read "Twelfth Night" at least 20 times and have studied it extensively. (4) In addition to seeing all 10 productions of our own Twelfth Night, I have seen the following Shakespeare productions: Richard III and Coriolanus (Folger), Henry IV parts I & II (Guthrie), Winters Tale and Comedy of Errors (Spring Green), and Midsummer Night's Dream (most recently by the Acting Company in Iowa City). (5) I have read several "biographies" of Shakespeare (such as they are) and other secondary sources (Taylor, "Reinventing Shakespeare", etc.). I am currently reading "The Arte of English Poesie" (1589) by George Puttenham, and a booklet I picked up at the Folger by Peter Blayney on the printing of "The First Folio of Shakespeare." (6) I am very interested the electronic manipulation of Shakespearean texts in conjunction with interactive concordances, dictionaries, and other information to rapidly and interactively help readers answer their own questions while reading Shakespeare. (7) I read at least one hour of Shakespeare or related material each day (except for August, September, and October when I read high school football rules - I'm a football official, but don't hold that against me). (8) I've done children's adaptations of some of Shakespeare's plays (for my kids only, at this point). Very basic stuff. For example: for Richard III, line up stuffed animals, Richard III (e.g. Paddinton Bear) kills them all and gets to be king. They all float back while he sleeps and gives him the old "despair and die!" routine, etc. I called it Richard the Turd (ahem) and they got the idea. My educational background is BA (government & history, 1974, Cornell University), M.A. (anthropology, 1980, University of Arizona), Ph.D. (anatomy, 1986, University of Arizona), 2 years of postdoctoral research in molecular biology (Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of Iowa), 2 years as adjunct professor of physiology in same (teaching and research). I am now the assistant director of Sponsored Programs at the Univ. of Iowa. I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Shakespeare, but go figure... ============================================================================ *Massey, Dawn Title: None (PhD Reader) Dept: School of English Inst: The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham Interests: Seneca, University Drama, Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Reformation Politics, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism (but not a card-carrying mem- ber of any critical perspective) Surface Mail Address: The Shakespeare Institute; Church Street; Stratford- Upon-Avon; Warwickshire; England; CV37 6HP Degrees: BA Philosophy Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT; MA Religion, Lit- erature, and Philosophy St John's College, Santa Fe, NM and Annapolis, MD =============================================================================== *Massi, J. M. I would indeed like to be a part of SHAKSPER; my autobiography follows: JM Massi, asst. professor, English. Interests: Renaissance drama, primarily, with interests also in medieval drama and Arthurian romance. Ph.D. Stanford, 1991 . Currently at Washington State University. Publications out there right now: a n edition of Davenants and Jones masque Luminalia in the Oxford Text Archive. Currently, I am working on a book about women on the stage in the late Renaissance and early Restoration;specifically, I am interested in discussing the use of women on the stage as a stage technology, interactive with other newly-developed technologies for the Renaissance stage. This involves quite a bit of consideration of the court masque and of Continental European predecessors to the English masque, as well as a consideration of the presentation of women in other visual arts of the time. =============================================================================== *Massimiano, Sue I am applying to join your list as a first year graduate student at George Washington University interested in current works and thinking on the works of William Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Mategrano, Theresa Anne My full name is Theresa Anne Mategrano but I go by Terri. I am a graduate student specializing in 16th and 17th century British literature as well as bibliography and textual research in the English Department at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Il. My advisors are Dr. William P. Williams and Dr. Craig Abbott who have suggested that I subscribe to SHAKESPER. My dissertation is examining Shakespeare's so-called "bad quartos," Hamlet in particular. I have taught Freshman English at this university for the past five years. Recently, I have been given the opportunity to expand my teaching repertoire into lit courses-a survey of British literature and poetry. I hope to teach Renaissance drama-especially Shakespeare-in the future. I would like to become a subscriber to SHAKSPER. I am sure that it would be a valuable resource for me as a student and teacher. I am also sure that I will be able to make a few significant contributions to your scholarly electronic community. ============================================================= *Mather, Susan I recently graduated December 17, 1994 from Kent State University under the combined bachelor's/master's degree program in English. I am currently working on my master's degree in English literature and my area of interest is in women's literature and drama. My Shakespeare professor, Dr. S. Reid, is requiring that we subscribe to Shaksper so that it might help us generate new ideas about coursework. He would like us to delve into Shakespearean criticism. I am a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society and of the National Golden Key. I was vice-president of Sigma Tau Delta during the 1993-1994 academic year at KSU and president during fall semester 1994. My interests are in literature during the Victorian age and in theatre. I have been to the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada twice which imspired me to continue in my pursuit to know Shakespeare better. This summer, I would like to travel to England and enroll in the British Universities Summer School program at the University of Birmingham. This is a pipe dream for I do not have the money and considering I haven't had much success in the financial aid department--well, I don't have much hope. Maybe someone can help me? Some of my non-Shakespearean interests are in Irish-Canadian singer/songwriter, Loreena McKennitt and British actor, Tim Curry. =============================================================================== *Mathews, Kenneth Kenneth Mathews: I am a former English teacher and assistant principal for curriculum and instruction from St. Catharine Academy (Bronx, NY) who is currently working on WEBSPEARE (http://shell.idt.net/~kcn/shakes~1.htm), a web site on Shakespeare for high school students. I'm pursuing a new career in Internet and multimedia development for education. =============================================================================== *Mathews, Susan Susan Mathews is a senior English major at Mary Washington College and fascinated by Shakespearean studies. Unfortunately, she was a bit intimidated by the description of the structure and activities of the group. I must add that she is back in school at age 50 after having devoted much of her life to children and following me around in my attempts to first, support a family on the salary of an assistant professor of physics at a small midwestern college, and then to attempt a career in industry. She has taken three semesters of Shakespeare and we used to frequent the Folger theater in DC whenever we could. She has read a lot on her own, but really can't cite papers or scholarly works. =============================================================================== *Mathis, Andrew My name is Andrew Mathis. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in American literature at New York University. I expect to defend my dissertation sometime next year. It is on the subject of the use of myth in political literature in America since the U.S. Civil War. My interest in Shakespeare is tangential, but I did deliver a paper this past summer (1997) in Canterbury, U.K., on Arthurian sources in _King Lear_ which I am presently revising for publication. As myth forms a large part of the Shakespearean canon, I expect to find a need for leads in research and discussion as I complete my research. And I certainly do expect to limit my research, once I defend my dissertation, in any way to American literature. As a matter of fact, I am at work on a side project right now that involves British playwright Arnold Wesker's work _Shylock_, which represents a look at _The Merchant of Venice_ from the money lender's point of view. Shakespeare is undoubtedly among the most influential and greatest writers in our language. As an Americanist, I can see the long trajectory of his work. ============================================================= *Mathwig, Cariann My name is Cariann Mathwig and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse. My major is secondary education in English with a minor in ESL (English as a Second Language). I presently have a course which studies the "latter" plays of Shakespeare, including Henry V, As You Wish, The Tempest, King Lear, Othello, and others. As a member, my primary intention is to observe, rather than contribute to this list. However, I would like to contribute unresolved questions as they arise in my studies. Most of all, I wish to simply learn more about and enjoy the writings of Shakespeare. =========================================================================== *Matsuba, Stephen N. Ph.D Candidate, Graduate Studies Programme in English, York University. Address: 215 Stong College, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3. Currently in the Ph.D in English, York University 1987 M.A. in English Literature, University of British Columbia. 1984 B.A. in English, University of British Columbia. Member of the Shakespeare Association of America and Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. My interests (other than Shakespeare) include bibliography, performance history (particularly 19th-century British theatre), intertextual studies, textual analysis, linguistics, critical theory, and computer-assisted literary analysis. My proposed dissertation will examine what various critics have identified as allusions in Shakespeare's works. In defining allusion and its structure, one must consider whether or not a single system exists. Reader response, intertexuality, and all the theoretical implications they entail further complicate matters. For example, would a Victorian critic be able to see the same allusions in the plays as a critic in the 1990s? Using computer programs like the Micro Text-Analysis System (MTAS) developed by Ian Lancashire and Lidio Presutti (University of Toronto), the Structural Analysis Program (STRAP) developed by Teresa Snelgrove (University of Toronto), and DiscAn to analyse the syntactic, semantic, and connotative patterns of what critics have identified as allusions to other material in Shakespeare's works. Based on this analysis, I hope to form a preliminary theory about the way allusions work, and will test it by writing a computer program that searches for "allusions" in different texts. ========================================================= *Matthews, Billy My name is Billy J. Matthews and I am a senior Francis Marion University majoring in English. I am searching for a graduate program to attend next year. I have a chance to go to London this summer to study Shakespeare first hand. I have taken a few courses on Shakespeare and loved them all. My favorite is Richard III. My reason for subscribing is two-fold: 1) I want to keep abreast of the London scene in case I do go this summer and 2) I like his work and want to learn more about it and him. =============================================================================== *Matthews, Julia Julia Matthews is a director, teacher, actor, singer, and scholar, with particular interests in Renaissance drama. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, an M.Phil. in Shakespeare Studies from the University of St Andrews, and a B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her doctoral thesis, "Characterization and Structure in the Development of Tudor Comedy," addresses characterization in English comedies from Heywood to "Love's Labours Lost." At Wesleyan College she teaches acting, directing, dramatic literature, and introductory theatre courses, and directs several productions each year. Her productions include "All's Well That Ends Well," "The Learned Ladies," and "In The Beginning," Matthews' adaptation of ten medieval mystery plays. An accomplished singer of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, Matthews has performed in many ensembles in the U.S. and the U.K., and most recently participated in the musicmaking at the 1995 Aston Magna Academy. She is currently participating in the 1995-96 NEH Institute, "Examining Shakespeare Through Performance," at the Folger Institute. Her research interests include comic theory and structure, the intersection of musical and theatrical performance aesthetics, and musical adaptations of "The Taming of the Shrew." =============================================================================== *Mattina, Emily Hello...I heard about this Shakespeare network from my professor, David Richman at the University of New Hampshire. I am interested in joining it. I am a senior at UNH. I am a children's theatre and classical theatre major, with a minor in English. Next year I hope to get a masters degree in England. Eventually, I would like to write adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, and I am hoping to glean some information from this network. I'm not certain if I am supposed to write more or not, but I'll stop here for now. ============================================================================= *Maurer, Kate My name is Kate Maurer and I am finishing up my dissertation in Renaissance Drama through Marquette University in Milwaukee. My dissertation work centers on gender issues and cross-dressing, as evidenced in Shakespeare's _Twelfth Night_, Middleton and Dekker's _The Roaring Girl_, and Wycherly's _The Plain Dealer_. My work employs dual approaches, focusing first on textual analysis and then on North American performance history. The second line of inquiry has proven to be very interesting and frustrating all at the same time. I will be defending my work this fall.In addition to my Ph.D. work, I teach for the University of Minnesota-Duluth. I teach primarily introductory and advanced writing, although there is an occasional literature course. I am adjuct faculty. ============================================================= *Mautner, Chris Hello, my name is Chris Mautner and I am a internet surfer/writer for the Classroom Connect newsletter, located in Lancaster, Pa. Our goal is to provide k-12 educators with valuable information about how to use the Internet and its resources effectively in the classroom. Personally, I have always enjoyed studying Shakespeare, both in the classroom and the theatre. I have to confess, however, that I am one of those fools continually in doubt over the true identity of the author of these great plays. (Hope that's not a problem.) Sadly, I have no current paper or article to share, but nonetheless I look forward to participating in this unique forum! =============================================================================== *Maxwell, Dwight My name is Dwight Maxwell, I am one of Professor Smigel's students. I am a Junior here at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. My major is English with a concentration in poetry with a possible Psychology minor. I grew up with Shakespeare. I went to school in the Caribbean (Jamaica) and for much of my life there I was bombarded with English Literature. If my parents hadn't decided to live here in the United States I would have been takeing exams like the CXCs. On the written part of this exam almost all the questions are on Shakespeare's plays. Even with this familiarity of Shakespeare's works, I am still puzzled by the true nature of his plays. Also I never really appreciated Shakespeare's plays sonnets and plays until college. I know I have a lot to learn about him and that is why I am takeing Performing Shakespeare with professor Smigel. I appreciate Shakespeare's works now more than ever, because I endevor to be a writer or professor of poetry and literature someday. If it is possible I would like to get some information on performance of Twelfth Night. insight and Interpretations of the play, and some historical facts and allegorical meanings. This will help me in reading and performing the play. I would be greatful for any information about why shakespeare wrote this specific play. Why the character's were chosen and if they had any significance to the time, perhaps informantion on modern day performance of Twelfth NIght. =============================================================================== *Mayadunne, Anthony I am a graduate student at University of British Columbia, and have been interested in the area for some time. I hope I will be able to join you, and the other members for a few minutes of discussion on occasion. My name is Anthoiny Mayadunne, and my email address is mayadunn@unixg.ubc.ca =============================================================================== *Mayer, Jean-Christophe I am a senior lecturer/Associate Professor employed by the University of Rennes. I teach various courses including a graduate course on Elizabethan poetry and a post graduate course on Shakespeare. My Ph.D. topic was on the links between Religion and Politics in Shakespeare's English History Plays and in the wider context of Elizabethan England. I have written 12 papers (to date) on theatre and politics all published in different journals/books. I'm also associate editor of the journal Cahiers Elisabethains and Early Stuart editor for the Montpellier Early Modern English Documents (a collection of e-texts available on the internet). I'm currently working on the Elizabethan history play (non-Shakespearean primarily) and also on the myth of the origins of politics in the Elizabethan period. ============================================================= *Mayes, William Russell William Russell Mayes Jr. (Russ) Graduate Student Dept. of English University of Virginia wrm2b@faraday.clas.virginia.edu I am a fifth year graduate student at UVA in the dissertation stage of my career. In brief, I am writing on prophets and prophecy in Elizabethan England, particularly in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. My concern is with the intersections of humanist education, public policy, religious doctrine (both of which condemned contemporary prophecy), and popular culture. The Shakespeare section of the dissertation deals primarily with the first tetralogy and Macbeth. I am also interested in the teaching of Shakespeare; I have taught an introductory seminar to first and second year students and I am currently TAing for a major-level lecture class. =============================================================================== *Mayoral, Daniela Fernanda My profound interest in the English language dates from my early childhood when I started taking classes with private teachers. Later on, after finishing the secondary school I decided to study Economics at the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) and I did so until discovering that the English language interested me more deeply. It was then when I enrolled in a tertiary level course which I have not finished yet due to a series of circumstances I could not handle at will. It is a three-year course to get a degree as a Literary and Technical/Scientific Translator. It was thanks to subjects such as English Literature and Language that I discovered my passion for literary works by English authors and their interpretation. When doing further research into those subjects was the premise, I found it most exciting! I had already completed the 1st and 2nd years of the career and was ready to start the last one. By that time, I was working as a bilingual secretary at a company where my timetable and activity prevented me from arriving in time at the classes, which meant either losing the richest part of the course or being +absent+ most of the times. As I really needed the job to afford the monthly fee I had no choice but to give up after the first semester. This situation was very hard to cope with, especially when I did not want to lose contact with the language and was eager to continue learning. I have always found the experience of learning a foreign language something amazing and, in the case of English, this adds to my attraction towards the history and beauty of the country as well as the lifestyle and customs of its people (which I would love to experience personally). This state of affairs made me consider the possibility of travelling to my dreamed country to make a course which would certainly fulfil all my expectations and that is what I have been saving money for. Navigating the net I visited the page containing exactly what I had been searching for : The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham).I am seriously studying the possibility of enrolling in one of the annual courses offered by English Universities. For that purpose, I would travel to England in 1999. I am interested in English Literature as a whole but, in particular, the analysis of the Shakespearean works so, when I knew of the existence of SHAKSPER I decided I should also be a member of it. ------------------------------------------------------------- *Holcombe, Stephen My name is Stephen Holcombe, and I am a graduate student in the second year of the English PhD program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My interest in Shakespeare is a little oblique, in that I am actually a Victorianist. To be a good Victorianist, however, of course requires familiarity with Shakespeare. I'm currently taking an undergraduate Shakespeare course, and took two others while earning my B.A. I'm currently reading the King James Bible for the same reason. I imagine I would mostly be a lurker on the list, but would certainly contribute to a discussion concerning something about which I felt knowledgeable. ============================================================= *Mazer, Cary M. I'm an Associate Professor in the English Department at Penn, I chair the Theatre Arts program there, and I write about Shakespeare in Performance in general, and Production History in particular, particularly the 19th century and the present. =============================================================================== *Mazzetti, Kate I am new to the net and therefore may have my terminology a bit off, but nonetheless I am not new to Shakespeare. I am currently working at the Folger Shakespeare Library in the education department, and am also teaching Shakespeare Text and Performance at Georgetown University. In addition, I have received an M.A. in Shakespeare Studies from The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. I would like to keep abreast of everything Shakespearean, and this source will prove invaluable to my furtherance of my knowledge and career. My e-mail address is Mazzetti@mail.folger.edu. Please inform me of the procedure, and I look forward to subscribing to this information source. =============================================================================== *Mazzucco, Louis My name is Louis Mazzucco. AT the present time, I am teaching computer science at the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. While I am not a Shakespearean scholar, I do have a novice interest in him. I am hoping to learn from individuals who have made the study of Shakespeare their life work. =============================================================================== *Mazzucco, Louis My name is Louis Mazzucco. I teach computer science at SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica, NY. I would like to be added to the Shakespeare list. =============================================================================== *McAlister, Brendan I am currently an undergraduate senior attending Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. My area of study, no surprise, is English, with a strong emphasis on the Modern and Renaissance periods. Though I love Shakespeare, he is not, I admit, the only, or even the greatest, allurement towards the Elizabethans: I simply love the vital and inquisitive minds revealed in all their literature. From Donne to Milton, Jonson to Kyd, I love it all. As of April, 1997, I am in the midst of the graduate school application process. I have been accepted to the University of Kansas, but am currently embroiled with my wife over my taking a year off-to pursue some of the more esoteric Renaissance topics probably-and attending Indiana the following year (assuming they want me!). I do not currently have any driving research topics in Shakespearean studies, it is rather all I can do to keep up with my classes, my magazine (the school's actually) and my TA position. But I hope to be able to contribute some thoughts in the near future...perhaps a little something on Othello, my absolute favorite play ever. ============================================================= *McBrearty, Tina K. TINA K. McBREARTY 500 S. Prospect St. Apt. 10-71 Burlington, VT 05401-3507 (802)660-4906 e-mail tmcbrear@moose.uvm.edu EDUCATION M.A. in English (expected) University of Vermont, Burlington, VT May 1995 B.A. Trinity College, Burlington, VT May, 1993 Major: English THESIS How Arthurian Legend Portrayed Romantic Relationships (in progress) The thesis explores how middle English Romances and particularly Arthurian legends portrayed romantic relationships realistically or unrealistically concentrating primarily on Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and the romances of Chrtien de Troyes CONFERENCE "The Writings of Three Early Feminists: Mary Astell, PRESENTATIONS Anne Finchand Mary Wollstonecraft" presented at The Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Student Symposium, April 9, 1994 MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Medieval Academy of America International Arthurian Society-North American Branch International Courtly Literature Society-North American Branch National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication American Association of University Women In additions to work on my thesis I am presently working on two papers, one on Mary Shelleys _Matilda_ and one on Milton's _Paradise Lost_. I have also had an idea rambling around in my head for a paper on _Othello_ and I am hoping membership on this list will help motivate me to actually write it. =============================================================================== *McBrien, John or My name is John McBrien, formerly SHAKSPERean John Goodrich who has recently married and changed his name. I am a simple undergraduate student who has a love for Shakespeare. I have made a contribution to the World Shakspeare Bibliography in Texas and hope to become a teacher. I am an English Education major at the University of New Hampshire. I should be graduating in August '91. I love Shakespeare's plays and am interested to hear what other people have to say about the man. If this is another argument forum, I'll be off very quickly. I have no real projects, other than to learn more about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Hoping to see you on the net soon... ======================================================================== *McCandless, David B.A. from Carleton College, Ph.D. from Stanford University; wrote my dissertation on *The Winter's Tale," with Dr. Eleanor Prosser directing. I have taught classes in drama and directed plays at The University of Illinois-Chicago, The University of California, Berkeley, and am currently Associate Professor of Theatre and English at Carleton College. I have published several essays on Shakespeare and my book, *Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies* has just been released by Indiana University Press. ============================================================= *McCarthy, William J. Dept. of Greek and Latin Catholic University of America Washington, D.C. 20064 U.S.A. BA Classics University of Maryland 1971 MA Classics Ohio State University 1978 Ph.D. Classics/Patristics Catholic University 1984 American Philological Association North American Patristics Society the poetry of Prudentius early Christian rhetoric Although the literatures of many periods and cultures -- and certainly Shakespeare -- are of considerable interest to me, I am trained in classical languages, and am particularly inclined to Greek. Nonetheless, being particularly interested in arriving at some proper method of deploying literary texts in a digitized format for the purpose of scholarly research, I have chosen first to work on a particularly interesting (to me, at least) Latin poet, Prudentius, whose works I have been assembling in a HyperCard stack, gradually building a network of links among apparatus criticus, MMS images, translation, and complete bibliography. ========================================================= *McCarty, Willard or Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. M5A 1A1 Canada. Home: 30 Jenoves Place, Toronto, Ont. M5A 4A7 Canada; (416) 947-0048. Professional Associations: Modern Languages Association; Milton Society; EuraLex Biography: As Dr. Jekyll I am an administrator in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, primarily responsible for editing various publications, gathering and organizing information about current software, talking to faculty, and so forth. As a professional computing humanist, I became the founding editor of the electronic seminar Humanist (1987-1990), which concerns itself primarily with the application of computers to the humanities. Editing Humanist got me interested in electronic communications, and pursuing that I have given several lectures on the subject and written an article for <> (forthcoming). Humanist also awakened me and others to the possibilities for humanistic dialogue in the new medium; this awakening led in turn to Ficino, with considerable encouragement from the CRRS. As Mr. Hyde I received my doctorate in English literature (1984) for a dissertation on biblical structure in Milton's <>, but shortly afterwards became preoccupied with certain Greco-Roman myths in light of Milton's allusions to them. While working on a monograph about Narcissus in Ovid (in press), I paused to write about the classical patterns of catabasis and their influence on Milton (UTQ, 1986/7); the word `hybris' (unfinished); and mirroring in classical literature (Arethusa, Fall 1989). At the moment I am attempting to make a good book from my dissertation. As an ordinary fellow, I retain from prior lives a love for calligraphy, some ability to write a sweet Italic hand, and a respect for Asian cultures. More recently I've taken delight in travelling through Europe, and so learned why hospitality to strangers was the particular concern of Zeus. I have been joyously married for about 20 years to a beautiful artist, have a 16 year old daughter, a 14 year old son, three cats and assorted fish. ======================================================================== *McCauley, J.P. J.P. McCauley Assistant Manager, Academic Computing St. John's University 300 Howard Ave Staten Island, NY 10301 I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in English Literature at St. John's University in New York. Presently, I am in a class which focuses on Shakespeare's plays from the Jacobean period. I am especially interested in the political views Shakespeare expresses in these plays. =============================================================================== *McClain, John My name is John McClain. I have been an English conversation instructor at the Berlitz school in Fukuoka, Japan for seven years. I am also an active member of the Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT), editing the Teacher Education N-SIG (that is National Special Interest Group) newsletter. I am particularly interested in the forms, structure, authorial intentions and effects of dramatic irony utilized by playwrights in general and Shakespeare in particular. I recently led a presentation-workshop here in Fukuoka to JALT members under the rubric *Attracted to Irony: Echoes, Asides and Awareness.* The subject was how to introduce irony to late-beginner and intermediate Japanese students of English. I am also working on a paper entitled *Culture and Irony: Teaching Irony in ESL* on various cross-cultural aspects of teaching irony to Japanese. Finally, I will soon be applying to English literature graduate programs in the United States and would like a to get a sense of what the issues now being raised in the field of Shakespeare scholarship are. =============================================================================== *McClintock, Michael Name: Michael McClintock Status: Ph.D student, Department of English, University of Toronto Memberships: ACCUTE, CSRS, MLA Thesis Topic: The Elizabethan Dramatic Soliloquy Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Renaissance Rhetoric =============================================================================== *McClure, April I am currently a Master of Divinity student at Lexington Theological Seminary. I am a licensed student minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). My love affair with Shakespeare began in fourth grade when my father began taking my sister and I to the plays at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. We soon added yearly trips to the plays at the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival. To prepare for the plays, my father asked my sister and I to read the Cliff Notes for each play. After a few years, this was no longer necessary and by the time I was a senior in high school, I had seen all but three of the plays performed live and read all of them countless times. In college, I was an English major for a brief period of time and took three Shakespeare courses. The final course was an independent study of Shakespeare and film. I have also researched Shakespeare's use of song in his plays. My current interest is the religious climate in which the Bard was working, especially the conservative Protestant influence on his plays and their performances after his death. I look forward to sharing my work with the list. ============================================================= *McCluskey, Peter M. Peter M. McCluskey is a Ph.D. candidate in Renaissance literature at the University of Arkansas. He received his B.A. in English from Hendrix College in 1987 and his M.A. in English from Indiana University in 1988. He is writing his dissertation on "Representations of the Dutch in Renaissance Drama, 1554-1635," and his dissertation director is Joseph Candido. As a graduate student, McCluskey has presented papers on a variety of topics at several conferences, including the first and second Southeastern Conferences on John Milton, the Rocky Mt. Medieval and Renaissance Association, and the South Central Renaissance Conference. He has published an article on Hawthorne, has an essay on Milton appearing in the forthcoming _Spokesperson Milton: Voices in Contemporary Criticism_, and has another Milton essay under consideration for a proposed sequel to the book. He has also presented papers on _Othello_, _Bartholmew Fair_, and _The Interlude of Wealth & Health_. His current project, the dissertation, examines the representation of Dutch immigrants to England in Tudor and Stuart drama. Shakespeare, however, does not figure prominently in the project. When he completes his degree, McCluskey has several Shakespeare projects planned, including an article on the subversion of language in _Othello_, a comparison of that play with _The Hollander_, and an essay exploring travel in Shakespeare. Peter M. McCluskey home address: Department of English 2311 Lawson St. 331 Kimpel Hall Fayetteville, AR 72703 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501)444-7233 USA =============================================================================== *McCluskey, Peter M. Peter M. McCluskey, an Instructor of English at the University of New Orleans, received his PhD from the University of Arkansas in 1998. His dissertation, "'The Strangers' Case': Representations of Flemish Immigrants in Renaissance English Drama, 1515-1635," explores how early modern dramatic representations of Netherlandic peoples shaped and were in turn shaped by native English attitudes toward refugees and immigrants from the Low Countries, who comprised England's largest foreign population. At the University of New Orleans, Dr. McCluskey teaches three different Shakespeare courses, as well as introductory literature and writing courses. His other scholarly interests include Milton and Middle English literature. ============================================================= *McConnachie, Moray As a scholar working in the English Renaissance generally (though not specifically on Shakespeare - I'm currently working on ideas of space in the literature of the English Renaissance), I was pleased to come across your Shakespeare discussion list mentioned in the Humanities Resource Guide compiled by Diane Kovacs. Iwould be delighted if I might subscribe, since the electronic medium strikes meas an excellent method for keeping up to date with Shakespearean developments on the many sides of the water. =============================================================================== *McCormick, Mack I am a graduate student in English at the University of Kentucky at work on my Masters degree. My primary field of interest is Renaissance drama, and I hope that SHAKSPER will help me with research. =============================================================================== *McCoy, Kenneth Ken McCoy PhD candidate (ABD: looking for a job for 1994-95) Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio kmccoy@andy.bgsu.edu - MFA in theatre (acting/directing), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984. - BA in performing arts/theatre (acting/directing), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1982. As you can see by my previous degrees, I am a theatre practitioner. That is the starting point for my interest in Shakespeare. I have had the good fortune to hold modest roles in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Lysander), "Twelfth Night" (Curio), and the Scottish Play (Malcolm). I have also performed countless scenes from most of the major plays in over 8 years of classes in acting, voice, period movement, etc. My experience with Shakespeare is thus conditioned by my predisposition to "put it on its feet." As an actor and director, I worked for about seven years (in Chicago and elsewhere) before I returned to academia. As a result, I remain unpublished at present; hopefully that will change soon. As it is, I have presented one paper at a national conference and will soon present another. They are: 1. "Debauching the Age?: A Cultural Reading of Gender and Sexuality on the Restoration Stage" (Central States Communcation Association, Lexington, KY, April 1993) and 2. "Strategies for Liberation in the Latin American Popular Theater" (Speech Communication Association, Miami, FL November 1993). As theorist/director I have become interested in the phenomenon of what many critics (Robert Brustein, among others) have come to call "deconstructive" performances of Shakespeare. To most of us lowly actors and directors, however, the more commonly employed term is "having a concept." I am intrigued with directors like Charles Marowitz, on the one hand, who consider it a director's obligation to his audience to employ a "concept," and with those like John Russell Brown on the other, who advocate an actor-centered production process (which would seem to negate the role of the auteur-director). I find this debate lively, interesting, and directly applicable to my activities, although I am unable to come down clearly on one side or the other. I keep up with cinematographic forms of Shakespeare's plays: Brannagh's, Gibson's, Greenaway's, etc. I have recently directed a production of Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me Kate," which, for those who are unfamiliar with the play, concerns an actor-producer trying to mount a Broadway version (and therefore by necessity, a musical one) of "The Taming of the Shrew." I did my best to preserve the integrity of the Shakespeare scenes, although any production of either Porter's or Shakespeare's "Shrew" is bound to encounter difficulties with the ethics of the present age. I should probably mention as well that I am currently researching electronic resources for both the Performance Studies and Theatre Divisions of the Speech Communication Association, and that is how I encountered this list. =============================================================================== *McCutcheon, Debra I am not a Shakespeare expert, but I am an impassioned sharer of all that I can learn about Renaissance theatre, Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare, and the Shakespearean plays with occupy so much of my time and my heart. I teach English in a small high school in southern Illinois. While I have never published, I take great pride in having students burst through my door to exclaim, "Mrs. McCutcheon, I LOVE this scene; these are THE greatest lines," and to ask, "Do we get to study Shakespeare next year?" My master's degree and my bachelor's degree are in secondary education. I am a member of Phi Delta Kappa, National Association of Teachers of English, and National Association for Gifted Education. I have taught the usual assortment of reading, composition, and general English classes. Even though I have no background in drama or theatre, my first year teaching duties included the school play and a drama class. I fell in love with theatre that year, and I continue to teach the class which includes both seniors who are National Merit Scholars and seniors who are on a third grade reading level. The focus of my university coursework was in composition and reading, so I actually have embarrassingly little formal education in Shakespeare- his times or his works. Informally, however, I read just about everything I can get my hands on-not only about the life and literature of Shaskespeare but also about the theatre, theatrical productions and movies of his plays. The margins of the texts from which I teach are covered with liberal notes taken from dozens of sources. Last year I attended the first International Conference on Teaching Shakespeare through Performance. There I wholeheartedly embraced the concept of putting the "play" back into Shakespeare's plays, deepened my love affair with the bard, and learned how to improve my students' love of his work, as well. I have also helped to coordinate a Medieval/Renaissance Festival which includes the talents of over half our 500 students. Prior to the event, costumed "characters" go into local grade schools to prepare students for their field trip to our festival. Research-comes-to-life projects are on display. Mimes, jugglers, Madrigal singers, Renaissance dancers, and Elizabethan actors perform among the exhibits. Last year for the first time, we finished the day with a Madrigal dinner for 150 community members. The entire meal was prepared and served by students. I would like to subscribe to your service so that I can learn more about the life, the times, and the work of William Shakespeare and so that I can talk with other people who share my enthusiasm and whose interest in Shakespeare go deeper than their next term paper topic in English. ============================================================= *McDonald, Mary F. I've been a public school teacher for 24 or so years. I've just completed my 18th year at Enid High (Enid OK) where I've been teaching AP English and a one semester Shakespeare course. I'm a fan of teaching Shakespeare through performance (my personal theatre background has provided the urge to get kids on their feet with Shakespeare's words for the past 20 years. I first met Peggy O'Brien in 1990 at OK Fall Arts Institute. She in turn connected me with Kevin Coleman and Mary Hartman of Shakespeare & Company. I participated in the National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare in 1994 and returned in 1995 as an associate teacher. I brought Peggy and Michael to Enid High in 1993 and Kevin and Mary in 1997--both for workshops with EHS students and community theatre adults. I hve been instrumental in founding our community theatre's own Shakespeare in the Park each June (this summer of As You Like It will be our 4th show). Last spring the EHS drama teacher and I co-edited and directed "Scenes from the Gender Struggle-Shakespeare's look at relationships between men and women"-which featured over 40 student actors in 16 scenes taken from 12 plays. I just got connected to the internet at school and want to learn how to utilize the various Shakespeare links with my students. ============================================================= *McDonald, Phoebe Student of English ============================================================= *McDonald, Russ Russ McDonald was born in Houston, Texas, and holds the B.A. degree in English from Duke University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation was a study of Ben Jonson's intrigue comedies. He has taught Shakespeare and Renaissance drama at Mississippi State University (1975-77), the University of Hawaii (1977-79), the University of Rochester (1979-1992) and, since 1992, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. At the University of Rochester he was awarded the Dean's Student Life Award (1981) and the Student Association Teaching Award (1985). Since 1985 he has been actively involved in the Teaching Shakespeare Institute, an NEH-sponsored summer program for high-school teachers at the Folger Shakespeare Library, serving as resident scholar, head scholar, and Institute Co-Director. His most recent publication is THE BEDFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE: AN INTRODUCTION WITH DOCUMENTS, published in 1996 by Bedford-St.Martins. It contains ten chapters ranging from biography to textual study to social history, each of which is followed by relevant excerpts from sixteenth and seventeenth century writing (Holinshed and Hall, Golding's Ovid, Puttenham, marriage tracts, Stow, royal proclamations, playhouse records, etc.). The book is designed to be used, along with a Shakespeare text, in undergraduate and graduate classes. Earlier work includes SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON / JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE (Nebraska, 1988), an attempt to modify the conventional opposition between the two playwrights, and SHAKESPEARE REREAD: THE TEXTS IN NEW CONTEXTS (Cornell, 1994), a collection of essays by various hands investigating the uses of close reading in the present contextual phase of criticism. Articles on Jonson, Shakespeare, Massinger and others have appeared in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, SHAKESPEARE SURVEY, PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, and THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY. He has contributed two articles to the three-volume SHAKESPEARE SET FREE published by the Folger Shakespeare Library and Washington Square Books. His current research interests focus on Shakespearean language. He is completing a manuscript on the structure of verse in Shakespeare's late plays and is planning a general study of Shakespeare's dramatic language. He is also studying the stage history of TWELFTH NIGHT for the Shakespeare in Performance series. =============================================================================== *McDonough, Bob Bob McDonough: I am a semi-retired trial lawyer in my late sixties, who also has taught part time at Rutgers Law School. A few years ago my wife and I took a one semester course in Shakespeare at Drew University as part of a graduate course. I found it very enjoyable and since then I have been working my way through the plays. I have gotten about half way. We always take in a Shakesperean production whenever one becomes available and have seen seen most of the movies that have been produced. I also have about a dozen tapes of various performances which we frequently play in the car on long trips. =============================================================================== *McDougle, Roger My name is Roger McDougle. I am a second year doctoral student in English and education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. My interest in Shakespeare developed when studying with Myra Hinman, the widow of Charlton Hinman, as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas from 1982 to 1987. At her suggestion, I applied for and received a Graduate Direct Exchange Scholarship to study Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama with Douglas Sedge and Peter Corbin at the University of Exeter in Exeter, England. After receiving my M.A. from Exeter in 1991, I worked for several years in Kansas City, Missouri, teaching composition, English as a second language, and literature as an adjunct at various area colleges before I decided to expand my career goals and apply for a Ph.D. My journey to find a focus for my studies took me to visit David Bergeron at the University of Kansas, Michael Bristol at McGill, Gary Taylor, then at Brandeis, and Robert Willson at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In the end, I chose the interdisciplinary program at UMKC, in my own backyard, because it would allow me to pursue my interests in English language education as well as literature. The focus of my research is on the history of Shakespeare's reputation in non-Anglophone countries, especially France. Areas of inquiry include the causes of Shakespeare's international appeal, how Shakespeare is viewed from other cultural perspectives, and how these differences influence the study and performance of Shakespeare in other countries. I am also interested in gender and sexuality in Shakespeare, performance and film, and to a lesser extent, textual studies. I am currently studying the publication of the First Folio, including the attempt to establish a standard text in Hinman's 1968 Facsimile and Gary Taylor's work with King Lear. In my spare time, I look at gay interpretations of Hamlet. I teach English as a second language for Penn Valley Community College. I have also taught at William Jewell College, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Maple Woods Community College, and Harvard University. ============================================================= *McEvoy, Grainne Grainne Anne McEvoy Undergraduate majoring in English and History UCLA I'm currently an undergrad at UCLA, and I'll be starting the Ph.D. program in English at UCLA in September 1994. Although I'm heading toward being an Americanist (early American literature - 19th century American literature), the English Renaissance has always been one of my favorite fields, and one that I'm seriously considering as a minor for the Ph.D. As an undergraduate, I've taken several courses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and as a graduate student, I plan to continue studying Shakespeare. A class I took in Fall 1993 really got me interested in Shakespeare's manipulation of his many sources, and the relationship between the source materials and his plays would certainly be my strongest current interest, one that will probably have me pillaging *Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare* whenever I can miraculously find the time this summer. =============================================================================== *McFarlane, Ken I am a second graduate student at WSU. I became interested in Shakespeare as an undergrad at the University of Iowa and although my interests range more widely now, I still return to Shakespeare will pleasure. I hope to teach some of the undergraduate sections of Shakespeare next year. As a pre-theorhetical undergrad, I wrote a close reading of *Henry V* which won a departmental award. My theorhetical postion has devloped at WSU in the direction of cultural materialism. I am currently working on a paper on *TGV* which situates the play historically and culturally. =============================================================================== *McFarlin, Crystal I am currently attending East Texas Baptist University where I am classified as a sophomore. I am majoring in English and minoring in Spanish. As a part of the requirements for my World Literature, I must subscribe to a discussion list. I have chosen to seek membership to the discussion list on Shakespeare. In the future, I hope to earn a Master's and Doctorate. This semester, I am taking classes in British and World Literature. ============================================================= *McGugan, Brian I am a professional actor based in Vancouver. Received a BFA in acting from the University of Alberta and have played theatre houses from Toronto to Victoria as well as many roles in Canadian and American television series. In 1990, I wrote and performed in The Man With The Jelly Mask a one person psycho thriller that toured to Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary (for One Yellow Rabbit), Vancouver and Victoria. The play was seen widely in Vancouver as it was taped for cable television and broadcast on the community networks here. I have performed at a professional level in the Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt, Richard the Third as Buckingham, Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry, Midsummer Night's Dream as Flute, The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Launce, The Comedy of Errors as Balthazar/Cast and as Gentleman/Cast in King Lear. It might be of interest to mention that I was directed by Nicol Williamson in my first professional production as an actor in 1983 at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton in a production of The Lark. Williamson played Beaudricort and the Inquisitor and I played background cast, with one line at the end of the play; soldier giving cross to Joan before she was incinerated. More recently, I produced the above production of Richard the Third at Studio 16 here in Vancouver, and received critical success for this original production which was set "upon a garbage dump". The goal was not to seriously alter or mangle the text, nor to define the production as 'modern' but rather to create a relevant interpretation of the story's space, and to allow the characters to live within that. This setting offered some wonderful moments including: Queen Margaret as a raving 'bag person' with shopping cart, Clarence emerging from a "miserable night...ghastly dreams" in a freezer, Buckingham's antics as a drug crazed Hotel Landlord and a host of characters all living within the 'kingdom' of the dump. Producing and performing in a major Shakespearean work, in considerably adapted form, with a cast of around 25 persons, including two young men of pre - teen age (the princes) was a great challenge but an exciting triumph considering our limited production facilities/ supplies and literally no money. In spite of circumstances and challenges that should have daunted us we simply solved problem after problem as they arose, giving no more worry to each situation than was due. Richard the Third achieved sell out houses for the week and generated great interest even as far as the CBC Arts Report, the Georgia Strait and the Vancouver Province. Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach has commented positively of our achievement, "I admired the conceptual approach to this production of Richard the 3rd and noted excellent coverage of the event in the media. It was a unique and innovative production". I adore Shakespeare; I look forward to producing and performing in many more of his plays in the future. =============================================================================== *McGugan, Brian I am a professional actor based in Vancouver. Received a BFA in acting from the University of Alberta and have played theatre houses from Toronto to Victoria as well as many roles in Canadian and American television series. In 1990, I wrote and performed in The Man With The Jelly Mask a one person psycho thriller that toured to Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary (for One Yellow Rabbit), Vancouver and Victoria. The play was seen widely in Vancouver as it was taped for cable television and broadcast on the community networks here. I have performed at a professional level in the Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt, Richard the Third as Buckingham, Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry, Midsummer Night's Dream as Flute, The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Launce, The Comedy of Errors as Balthazar/Cast and as Gentleman/Cast in King Lear. It might be of interest to mention that I was directed by Nicol Williamson in my first professional production as an actor in 1983 at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton in a production of The Lark. Williamson played Beaudricort and the Inquisitor and I played background cast, with one line at the end of the play; soldier giving cross to Joan before she was incinerated. More recently, I produced the above production of Richard the Third at Studio 16 here in Vancouver, and received critical success for this original production which was set upon a garbage dump. The goal was not to seriously alter or mangle the text, nor to define the production as 'modern' but rather to create a relevant interpretation of the story's space, and to allow the characters to live within that. This setting offered some wonderful moments including: Queen Margaret as a raving 'bag person' with shopping cart, Clarence emerging from a "miserable night...ghastly dreams" in a freezer, Buckingham's antics as a drug crazed Hotel Landlord and a host of characters all living within the 'kingdom' of the dump. Producing and performing in a major Shakespearean work, in considerably adapted form, with a cast of around 25 persons, including two young men of pre - teen age (the princes) was a great challenge but an exciting triumph considering our limited production facilities/ supplies and literally no money. In spite of circumstances and challenges that should have daunted us we simply solved problem after problem as they arose, giving no more worry to each situation than was due. Richard the Third achieved sell out houses for the week and generated great interest even as far as the CBC Arts Report, the Georgia Strait and the Vancouver Province. Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach has commented positively of our achievement, "I admired the conceptual approach to this production of Richard the 3rd and noted excellent coverage of the event in the media. It was a unique and innovative production". =============================================================================== *McIntosh, Jeri J.L. McIntosh: Currently I am a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University in the History Department under the direction of Richard Kagan and J.G.A. Pocock. I have two Master's degrees, one in English history from Oxford and the other in general history from Hopkins. I did my undergraduate degree at Berkeley. My area of specialization is Tudor/Stuart England. My dissertation is on the succession of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and what determinant role, if any, was played by their households in their succession. ============================================================= *McIntyre, William B. E-Mail - billmci@america.net Voice # - (404) 371-1898 Address - 1357 Fairview Rd. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30306 I graduated in 1992 with a B.A. degree in English with a focus in writing from Michigan State University. I enjoyed my coursework in Shakespeare probably more than any other author, poet or playwright. My interest in Shakespeare is centered primarily on character and dialogue rather than dramatic performance. I've done some substitute teaching of English for a few elementary schools, most recently at Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Academy in Detroit, Michigan. The experience was so rewarding, that I've decided to pursue a career in teaching literature. I'm currently looking into graduate programs in literature in English with the hope of attending in the fall of '95 or '96. Any recomendations of Universities or programs would be greatly appreciated. =============================================================================== *McIver, Bruce J. <3074bmac@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> I am a part time instructor at Santa Barbara City College in the English Department. I have published articles in recent years on John Earle and on Sir Thomas Overbury. The last paper on Shakespeare that I read at a conference was on the subject of Shakespeare and the New Historicism in (I believe) 1990 at the Ohio Shakespeare Conference. I recently published a book (of which I am co-editor) entitled Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom. Associated University Presses (University of Delaware Press), 1994 (October). I hold an M.A. from the University of Kent, Canterbury (1971) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1974). =============================================================================== *How, Dan Well, I began an interest in Shakespeare while I was in college, at UC San Diego. I have a B.A. in theatre with an emphasis in acting, although I do more work as a director (since I think I'm a better director than an actor) After taking classes from Jim Winker on Shakespeare at UCSD, I was hooked. We learned the about scansion, meter, rhetoric, etc. After graduation I went to study at Oxford for the British American Drama Academy's (BADA) "Midsummer in Oxford" program, where we underwent an intensive 4 week program under some very good instructors. We also had master classes with the likes of Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson, Ben Kingsley, Adrian Noble, and others. The program covered everything from auditioning, shakespeare as well as modern works, movement and voice. After the program I joined up with a small theatrical troupe called "Dramatis Personae", and have performed in scenes and showcases with them for almost 2 years. As we were small in number, we could not mount a full production (I'm happy to say, we had our first full-length production of 3 moliere one-acts last fall, and our first full production of as you like it this summer) We focus primarily on Shakespeare, and I have functioned as actor and director for the troupe. My focus is on interpretation and textual analysis, and I think this newsletter/conference of SHAKESPER is just what I've been looking for on the internet. Last summer I went through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's (LAMDA) summer program and took up where I left off. Once again, under some brilliant instructors, I learned my strengths and weaknesses as a performer, with voice, movement, scene study, stage combat, etc. I feel I have something to contribute, as a performer and director (and sometimes composer and singer of Shakespeare's songs). I'll be honest in saying I have not written any papers on Shakespeare, but will gladly do so on topics of which I am competent. interests: Shakespeare analysis, Off-the-wall but justifiable interpretations of plays, wants to learn more about the Histories and minor plays, acting and directing, conservatory programs, etc =============================================================================== *McKay, David P. I am a graduate student in the English Dept. at the CUNY Grad Center, NYC, currently between my written and oral comprehensive exams, which are scheduled for Feb 1998. At present, I am participating in Peter Holland's Folger seminar, "Shakespeare and Film." I am interested in the history and process of adaptation/appropriation of Renaissance drama, particularly in the 20th century as these relate to gay and lesbian history and queer theory. Additionally, I am interested in "performance/staging" as a form of textual criticism. In 1993, I received the Randall Goodman Shakespeare scholarship from Brooklyn College, which gave me the opportunity to attend the Shakespeare Summer Institute in Stratford, England. Before taking a 10 year break between my first and second years of undergraduate work, I was a theater major at NYU. During the 10 year break, I worked in sales promotion/production, ending as the Director of Purchasing and Production for a design/manufacturing company in northern NJ. I hate writing personal biographical blurbs, and this probably well illustrates that; it has taken me over two years to do this one badly. ============================================================= *McKay, Kenneth M. Kenneth M. McKay Professor Department of English Language and Literature Brock University St. Catharines, Ont. Canada L2S 3A1 Tel.: 905-688-5550, ext. 3474 1. Canadian 2a. Primary research area: Victorian literature, politics, thought b. Interest/teaching areas: Shakespeare, Romantics, Canadian, Biography 3. Major publication: Many Glancing Colours: An Essay In Reading Tennyson, 1809-1850 4. Work in progress: George Meredith in his time, 1828-1909 5a. B.A. (Hon. History & English) 1960; MA English 1964- Univ of Manitoba b. Ph.D. English 1972 - Leicester University, U.K. 6. Organizations: MLA, NACBS, Victorian Studies Assoc. of Ontario =============================================================================== *McKeague, Ian Ian McKeague grew up in New Zealand. He did his undergraduate work at Cambridge University, obtaining a first class honours degree in Mathematics there in 1975. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1980. He is now a professor in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University. His research interests include inference for stochastic processes, counting processes, survival analysis, and nonparametrics. He has published over 25 papers in these areas. He is an associate editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association and The Annals of Statistics, and is a member of The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and The American Statistical Association. He is interested in studying the use of scientific ideas in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *McKeand, Daryna Daryna M. McKeand, b. 3/25/74. 1996 AB honors candidate in English and American Literature and Language at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Member of _The Harvard Lampoon_ since 1993; Treasurer and Executive Board member since 1995. MLA member since 1995. Publications include: researcher-writer for _Let's Go Spain and Portugal 1995_ and _Let's Go Europe 1995_; Business Manager for the Fall/Winter 1994 magazine parody _The Harvard Lampoon Parody of *Entertainment Weekly*_. Current projects include: researching senior honors thesis on etiquette in Middle English and Victorian Literature (a more specific topic TBA), studying for the GREs, and worrying about graduate school applications. =============================================================================== *McKee, Jack I work at Chatfield College, a small, independent liberal arts institution serving primarily at-risk adults. I hold a Bachelor's degree in English and COmparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati. My wife, Vickie, and I live in Cincinnati with our son, Ian. SOme years before Ian came along, I was involved in community theatre, including a modern version of "Midsummer Night's Dream" and serving as music director for "Henry V" and "Merry WIves" at Cincinnati's Shakespeare in the Park, also serving as an extra (Westmoreland, whose claim to fame is provoking the "St. Crispin's Day" soliloquy. It ain't much, but it was fun....). I learned two things from the experience: The masses can and do love Shakespeare when given half a chance; and you shouldn't oughta dress actors in heavy, lined, velour doublets if you want them to run around "France" in a humid, 90-plus-degree Cincinnati August. Last year, I taught Intro. to Theatre at Chatfield, where my students learned a lot about Shakespeare, primarily through studying "Much Ado" (The Branagh version was out on video.....) My interest in Shakespeare revolves largely around love of language and my concern that schools are "dumbing down" the curriculum so much that students are losing what small knowledge of literature and culture they used to get. =============================================================================== *McKee, Jennifer K. First, I will tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Jennifer McKee. Presently, I am attending Monmouth College and I have attained junior status. I am majoring in English with a minor in History. At the moment, I am taking a course on Shakespeare and part of our assignment is to join a Listserv. The purpose of this assignment is not to contribute to the Listserv, but to learn about it and to find a way to gain useful information about Shakespeare. Jan Stirm, my professor, suggested this particular Listserv to the class. The class I am in is focusing on the sonnets and comedies. So far, we have read A Midsummer Night's Dream and quite a few of his sonnets. Before this class, I had read many of his tragedies but only one comedy. I enjoyed reading the play and cannot wait to read more of his work. I feel that this Listserv would help my understanding of Shakespeare's history; and, therefore, the meaning of his work. I appreciate your time and hope that I can become a member of this particular Listserv. ============================================================= *McKenna, James I am a student at the University of Cincinnati, and I am interested in expanding my network of contacts in Renaissance studies. If you need any further information, please contact me. I look forward to joining the conference. =============================================================================== *McKenzie, Mary Ms Mary Josephine McKenzie, Department of English, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. LLB (Melbourne 1962); BA (Melbourne 1964); BA (Hons and University Medal - ANU 1993). From 1964-1990 I worked for the Commonwealth (federal) Government on legal issues - research, policy development, advice, legislative drafting. I am now a PHD student, working on the representation of pregnancy in The Winter's Tale. =============================================================================== *McKenzie, Stanley D. Professor, Language and Literature College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology 1 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, New York 14623 B.S. from M.I.T. in Science and Humanities, 1964 M.A. from University of Rochester, English, 1967 Ph.D. from University of Rochester, English, 1971 Professional Publications: "'Unshout the noise that banish'd Martius:' Structural Paradox and Dissembling in Coriolanus," Shakespeare Studies XVIII (1986), 189-204. [This paper has been reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 9, Gale Research Inc., 1989.] Paper in Press: "The Prudence and Kinship of Prince Hal and John of Lancaster in 2 Henry IV," appearing in a two volume Festschrift for George Anastaplo by Ohio University Press, with a December 1990 publication date. Professional Memberships: MLA, NEMLA, AAUP During my twenty-three years at RIT, I have risen from Instructor to Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, receiving various "outstanding teacher" and "outstanding service" awards along the way. My major career emphasis, however, has been in administration, having spent fourteen years as "Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs/Judicial Affairs" (responsible for resolving all student misconduct cases at the Institute), one year in 1987-1988 as "Acting Dean for the College of Liberal Arts" (responsible for 90 full-time faculty, five degree programs, general education for 14,000 students, and a $6 million budget), and currently serving as "Assistant to the Provost" (conducting a series of institutional research projects and chairing an institutional Task Force on Faculty Professionalism). During the last decade, I have attempted to become more involved in my chosen academic field of Elizabethan studies, giving a series of talks and papers on teaching Shakespeare at a technological institute, and working on articles for submission to professional journals. Currently I am completing a study on Michael Drayton's "Mistress Shore" in England's Heroicall Epistles, which examines the ironic shift in her archetypal status from fallen woman to liberated woman in today's society. I have also begun work on a rhetorical study of Richard II, which I hope to complete during a sabbatical in 1991. I have also done extensive collegial copy-editing and have been cited for such in several books in a variety of academic fields. ========================================================= *McKim, William I appreciate your helpful and encouraging responses regarding my request to be a subscriber to the SHAKSPER conference. Although I am relatively new to computer networking, I am not new to Shakespeare, having taught Shakespeare courses at the college and university level since 1968, and since 1972 at Northern Kentucky University (near Cincinnati, Ohio) where I am an associate professor of English and teach both halves of a two- semester Shakespeare sequence. I received my doctorate in English at Harvard University in 1967, the late Alfred Harbage serving as my dissertation director and primary mentor. I have written scholarly articles and presented papers on a variety of plays. My most recent article, "Viola's Many Sorts of Music in Twelfth Night," was published in the 1993 issue of Kentucky Philological Review. My most longstanding scholarly project, one which I hope will result in a book, is to explore, through Hamlet and other plays, how Shakespeare comes to envision theatre as a means of both lamenting and simulating lost sacred and communal experience. I am interested in both Reformation and modern (especially anthropological) perspectives on what constitutes the sacred and in postmodern debates as to whether the sacred is a viable, useful, or anachronistic concept. I also have a longstanding interest in theatrical performance, having served as a judge of community theatre in Greater Cincinnati for over twenty years. Related to my affiliation with Northern Kentucky University, I have in recent years taken American students to study Shakespeare in London during the summer and have worked in that capacity with Patrick Spottiswoode, the education director of the Shakespeare Globe Museum. I am eager to use and contribute to the conference's services relative to my above-mentioned scholarly research and to current and recent Shakespeare performances. Sincerely, William M. McKim, Jr. 10 Homestead Place Fort Thomas, KY 41075 Home phone: 606-781-3609; Office 606-572-5416. =============================================================================== *McKinnon, Elieen I would like to subscribe to "Shaksper." I graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in English Lit. and I spent a summer at Trinity College in Oxford studying Shakespeare in Repertory. My e-mail address is: tlc@shore.net and my home address is: 8 Bay State Ave. #2, Somerville, MA 02144. =============================================================================== *McLaughlin, Catherine I am not sure SHAKSPER is where I belong. I am a Vice President with a = small software company and a mother of four children, not a researcher = or scholar in the formal sense. I am simply an ardent fan of the Bard = and my interest has been for my own enjoyment. As far as being an = instructor, I share rather than instruct my love of Shakespeare with my = friends and my children and their friends.=20 We try, (when affordable), to see any Shakespeare performed in the = Washington D.C. metro area. Our groups have been family and various = interested parties or persons, who had no interest initially, but were = hooked after seeing their first play.=20 I have found a personal connection to some of Shakespeare's plays and = they have become old friends. So, if this can be a forum for me, I would = love to partake. I also have a question and hope you can take a moment to answer. I was = discussing Shakespeare's use of gender reversal in some of his plays. I = was asked if I was of "the Hat". I have never heard of this; what does = it mean? =============================================================================== *McLellan, Hugh Born Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; BA (UNB), LLB (UNB). Called to bars of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Newfoundland. Appointed a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick in 1986. =============================================================================== *McManus, Caroline Caroline McManus: I'm in the English Department at California State Univ. Los Angeles, and I'd like to subscribe to SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *McManus, Eva Beasley Eva Beasley McManus: Since 1988, I have been at Ohio Northern University where I am currently an associate professor. I completed the B.A. at Madison College, the M.A. at James Madison University (same school, new name), and the Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My areas of specialization are Shakespeare and the Renaissance, particularly drama. In my dissertation and in subsequent projects I have taken a performance approach, working also with feminist theory and historical contexts. An offshoot of these interests has been to find ways to integrate performance ideas into the classroom. I've been a speaker at two workshops for high school teachers on ways to do so when teaching Shakespeare. Due to these interests, I joined Herb Coursen in the spring of 1993 to start Shakespeare and the Classroom, a journal with a performance emphasis for teachers at all academic levels. Initially, I was managing editor, but Herb's desire to step down has shifted my position to editor-in-chief with him now as co-editor. The publication reviews related books, articles, and films and provides articles on teaching ideas and current issues in education that impact on the teaching of Shakespeare. We offer news of the regional Shakespeare festivals and encourage an interaction between educators and theatre professionals. The sponsors for the journal are Ohio Northern University and the International Globe Association. Because of the latter connection, we also provide information on the progress of the Globe reconstruction and news of the Globe's educational outreach programs in the U.S. and abroad. Last spring I also became a member of the Globe's Midwest Regional Education Team, led by Michael Mullin of the University of Illinois-Urbana. In Spring 1995 I started Ohio Shakespeare Notes, an annual newsletter for the Ohio Shakespeare Conference that contains abstracts of the papers presented at the meetings as well as news of association members and information on the up-coming conference. My most recent research topic has been on the educational outreach programs of Shakespeare Festivals and Theatres in North America. Using grant funds, I visited several regional festivals and contacted about 25 others. I've written an article that will appear in James E. Davis and Ronald Salamone's forthcoming book on teaching Shakespeare, a follow-up edition to their Teaching Shakespeare Today, published by NCTE. Based on this research, I have set up an on-going review of the educational programs of two or three festivals/theatres per edition of Shakespeare and the Classroom. My other main research interest is marital relationships in Shakespeare's comedies and romances and the history of ways in which these relationships have been staged. =============================================================================== *McManus, Rose Rose M. McManus 2135 S.W. 173rd Place Seattle, WA 98166 (206) 246-2566 A 39 year old hospice and grief counselor, may seem an unlikely candidate for acceptance into the electronic conference for Shakespearean scholarship. Still, tarry while I briefly state my case. My experience with the Bard began at Girls' Latin High School in Boston, with the usual obligatory exposure to one of his blockbusters. My classmates and I endured it, with not a spark of wonder to lure us from the sleep of ignorance. A tenth grade German teacher who courageously escorted her charges to a Bertolt Brecht play helped to kindle in me a life-long love of theater. This, in spite of the fact that I understood almost nothing of the performance! While attending graduate school at U.C.Berkeley, I took in several plays at the Berkeley Shakespeare festival. There I learned that enjoyment of the wine, stars, and characters in the audience was an inextricable part of my passion for theater. In 1987, I attended the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and at the great pleasure I derived from the plays, despite my towering ignorance. My thirst awakened by such good drink, I formed a Shakespeare group upon my return to Seattle. A few devoted regulars join with occasional visitors to read aloud and discuss the plays. When theater offerings and chaotic schedules allow, we attend performances of the plays we've tackled. The pilgrimage to Ashland has brightened each of my years first I took the plunge. And, to my delight, the group flourishes. When Shakespeare is the life of the party, is it any wonder that they keep coming back for more? Although I am not employed in academia, Shakespeare does come to work with me. Our hospice team works with families, helping terminally ill members to live at home, and to die with dignity. Shakespeare's eloquent descriptions of the fear and despair, which rule man's darkest hours, can help the grieving to express their pain. My Bereavement Group uses as its motto, the following passage from Macbeth: Give sorrow words: The grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break." =============================================================================== *McMillian-Cunningham, Melissa CENTRAL HEIGHTS SCHOOL RT 13, BX 2390 NACOGDOCHES, TX 75961 I am a teacher of Theatre, English and gifted and talented students grades 7-12) at a small school in east Texas.(I am the only theatre teacher, and I chair our English department.) I also coordinate our district's gifted and talented program in grades K-12. I am a member of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and the Texas Educational Theatre Association. I hold a Master of Arts in Theatre (Acting/Directing) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre/English. My current activties include writing thematic curriculum and presenting worksops for educators relating to thematic curriculum, interdisciplinary studies and the uses of theatre in the classroom. Although I have not published any articles relating to Shakepeare, I believe that the resources of this net would be valuable to me, my students and our future productions. ========================================================================= *McNair, Martha I have been Advanced Placement and Honors courses in literature and composition at Fayetteville High School for the past six years. I teach three Shakespeare plays annually--Macbeth, Hamlet, and either The Tempest or King Lear. I have also taught--and occasionally still teach--freshman composition and world literature at the University of Arkansas, both of which include a Shakespearean play in the curriculum. My field of study is Literature of the American South. My dissertation, completed in 1991, was on the major novels of Ellen Glasgow, a Virginia novelist in the first half of the twentieth century. I am currently planning a one-semester course in Shakespeare for high school seniors. =============================================================================== *McNally, Joel I am a University Transfer English student at Medicine Hat College, Alberta, Canada. As part of that progam I took English 312, Shakespeare and was a member of Shaksper last semester. I am continuing to study Shakespeare and, as part of this effort am hoping to renew my membership in Shaksper for the next three months. =============================================================================== *McNally, Joel Patrick I am a student at Medicine Hat College, Alberta taking University Transfer English. I am hoping to move to the University of Calgary next year. My full name is Joel Patrick McNally. I am joining SHAKSPER for my English 312A course Shakespeare on-line. My Prof. is Dr. Jay Johnson. I am in my second year of college and graduated from high school in 1993 with an advanced diploma. I havea lot of interests, but the primary one is reading. =============================================================================== *McNally, Mary Patricia I teach at Derby University in the north midlands of England and Tim Shields is one of my colleagues..he told me all about you. I did my MA at the Shakespeare Institute of the Univ. of Birmingham and I'm currently engaged on PhD research in the area of renaissance Women. Iteach 1st, 2nd, 3rd year undergrads and Tim and I co-ordinate a year 3 Shakespeare course which is taught mainly via computer! We also hope to inject some shakespeare/renaissance into a lits MA our dept is thinking about for next yr. My own research at the moment is on women and spiritual autobiog in late Henrician england. I'm doing a review essay and a chapter so it's all go!!!! =============================================================================== *McNamara, Gregory I am a graduate student at West Virginia University with an MA in English, and, if all goes well, will be entering the Ph.D. program here next semester. My responsibilities at WVU include: teaching composition; acting as Graduate Assistant for the West Virginia University Center for Literary Computing, which is run by the Department of English and directed by Professor Patrick Conner; editing the list WVUEGS-L, which is a discussion group for graduate students in English at WVU and across the nation-- hopefully we will soon have international members as well; and, naturally, completing coursework, the majority of which has been devoted to Shakespearian and Modern British studies. I have recently had an article, "Hypertextual Pedagogy: Structuring Student Exercises," accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of _Computers and Texts_, a journal published by the CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford University Computing Service. The article is based on my development of student exercises to accompany Michael Best's HyperCard program, _Shakespeare's Life and Times_. Additionally, I am currently working with twentieth-century re-interpretations of _Hamlet_ as a seminar project and potential conference paper. I am always eager to enhance my knowledge of Shakespeare, and am looking forward to eavesdropping, and hopefully joining in, on the discussions which take place on SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *McNeill, Fiona P Fiona P.S. McNeill Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University Home address: 908 Amsterdam Ave #3C New York, NY 10025 I am in my M.Phil. year of a Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York City. I received a B.A. Combined Honours in English and Russian from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London in 1991, and an M.A. in Critical Theory from Nottingham University, also in the UK, in 1992. I have completed my coursework at Columbia and am now preparing for my Oral examination. My Masters thesis at Columbia was on Lyly's GALLATHEA and Sidney's ARCADIA and the Elizabethan court as an arena of erotic knowledge. I joined the SAA in Fall 1992 and recently participated in a seminar on "The Politics of Pleasure and Renaissance Drama" at the SAA's annual meeting in Albuquerque. My dissertation interests will focus on the female court as an arena of erotic erudition, particularly the oscillation between the prohibition and production of erotic knowledge in the literary productions for and in the court. This involves not only a contemplation of censorship and satire, but also the more subtle ways in which repulsion is voiced and deviance is marked. With this in mind, I wish to read in Foucault's HISTORY OF SEXUALITY a delineation of the mechanisms by which sexual discretion is exercised. =============================================================================== *McPherson, David C. David McPherson is a Professor in the English Department, University of New Mexico. A native Texan, he received his B.A. from Hardin-Simmons University (1957) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas (1962, 1966). He was assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966-72 and associate professor at the University of New Mexico, 1972-77, when he was promoted to full professor. He was chair of the UNM English Department, 1986-89. He is author of the recent Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Venice (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990). He has also published a monograph: Ben Jonson's Library and Marginalia: An Annotated Catalogue, Texts and Studies issue, Studies in Philology (1974), plus articles in PMLA, Renaissance Quarterly, Philological Quarterly, and Modern Language Quarterly. Currently he is working on a study of the Ages of Man traditions and how they relate to the significance of the chronological age of certain characters in Shakespeare's tragedies (particularly those whose age is specified, however ambiguously, in the text). =============================================================================== *McRae, Bill I am currently Associate Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University. My PhD, in Renaissance literature, is from Purdue (1977). I have read papers and published essays on medieval and Renaissance drama, literary theory and the philosophy of science, and on popular scientific writers such as Primo Levi, Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks. I edited The Literature of Science, a collection of essays on popular scientific writing, published in 1993 by the University of Georgia Press. As my research implies, I have been particularly interested in popular scientific writing. In the immediate future I will be teaching Shakespeare rather intensively, far more often than the once every 2 or 3 years which has been my experience for the past dozen years. Quite frankly, I look to SHAKSPER to help bring me up to speed in current Shakespeare research. I especially want to know what is being done to follow up on Leah Marcus's recent suggestion that the "Copernican shift" taking place in science studies means that the early modern "relations between science and literature will have to be massively reconceptualized and rewritten." =============================================================================== *McRobbie, Andrea I am a researcher at the Australian National University, with a keen personal interest in the poetry and plays of Shakespeare. My interests relate to both the literary and performance aspects of the subject, and I have a side interest in the social history of Elizabethan England. I am a (constantly) practicing poet and a former thespian, and maintain a world-wide web page of literary links including on-line Shakespeare resources, which is located at the following URL: Literary Links =============================================================================== *McShane, James James McShane Queens Borough Public Library Jamesmc@queens.lib.ny.us Queens Borough Public Library Literature and Languages Division 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 My name is James McShane and I am currently working as a librarian at Queens Borough Public Library in Jamaica, NY. I am the Assistant Division Manager of the Literature and Languages Division at the main library. I have a background in English and American literatures, Russian literature, and languages. I received my MLS from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1989. I hope to begin work on my PhD. in English, focusing on Renaissance studies, at CUNY if I can ever find the money. I am presently interested in Shakespeare bibliography, *Coriolanus* (if only because it is the play I have most currently read), and the second tetrology. I am also still pondering *Measure for Measure* (and expect to be till the day I die). =============================================================================== *McSweeney, Gregory I received my B.A. in English last year (after spending several years in the work force) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have done qualifying work this year, and will be entering graduate school here at Concordia University in Montreal in September. I have published in poetry and review markets, but not in the field of Shakespearian studies - yet. Having studied the work of that writer at an undergraduate level, I decided to take more Shakespeare courses at the graduate level - this year, the history plays. I am currently shopping around for thesis ideas, and hope to investigate methods of interpretation (reader response, etc.) in connection with Shakespeare's work. =============================================================================== *McVay, Scott My name is Scott D. McVay. I am a graduate student (1 course from completion) in the MALS program at Hamline University in Roseville (St. Paul), Minnesota. My undergraduate work was at the University of Minnesota where I graduated summa cum laude with a double major in history and english. My undergraduate studies focused primarily on Tudor/Stuart history (with a particularly interest in women, literature, and riot and rebellion) bringing me into constant contact with Shakespeare's works. My graduate studies have a writing concentration with a strong literature component, and I frequently draw upon Shakespearian works to shape the content of both my creative work and my research work. To list my recent encounters with Shakespeare: I have a course this semester in which we are reading The Tempest; I have a book group for which I am reading King Lear; I went to Hamlet yesterday; and I reread MacBeth two weeks ago for fun. My favorite play happens to be Richard III as that play falls squarely on my primary topic of interest in Tudor/Stuart history, the transition from Richard III to Henry VII. Although some might construe this as an interest in the Wars of the Roses, my interest is less in the fight between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, and more in the particular struggle between these two monarchs, and their methods of propaganda and pacification. ============================================================ *McWilliams, John I am an English Literature Graduate from a British University, currently working to raise funds to continue study in the field of Shakespeare and Shakespearean influence. My particular interests are: modern critical approaches to Shakespeare (in particular, feminism, new historicism and their critics) and Shakespearen influence (especially on Marvell's political poems). ============================================================= *Mealor, Si Position: Lecturer in French Literature, Hertford College, Oxford University. Doctoral Thesis Title: The writings of French-speaking immigrants in Elizabethan England I have just finished a D. Phil at Oxford University upon Huguenot immigrants and their texts written during their exile in England in the latter half of the 16th century. Most of these texts are language teaching manuals, but there are a range of other genres, including poetry, theology and political tracts. English writers discussed at length in my thesis include Shakespeare, Spenser, Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, Richard Mulcaster. The aim of my thesis was to restore a level of agency to immigrants, who negotiate their 'otherness' in relation to English society through a range of textual procedures. At present, I am teaching a range of French literature at Oxford, from Rabelais to Annie Ernaux, and am working upon turning my thesis into a book. I am continuing to work in early modern Anglo-French culture.. ============================================================= *Meaney, Kenneth Kenneth Meaney, M.A., P.G.C.E (T.E.S.L.) Department of English University of Joensuu Finland Tel. +358-73-1514319 Fax +358-73-1514211 Email: meaney@joyl.joensuu.fi (Internet) or meaney@finujo.bitnet I was born in St John's, Canada, but grew up in Scotland, where I went to school. I spent one year at Glasgow University, before going to Cambridge University where I graduated B.A. with honours in English, 1968, M.A., 1972. I spent several years teaching English in Norway before taking up my present post as Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Joensuu, which is in eastern Finland, where I have lived since 1973. I work in a small department, teaching language skills, literature and British history to Finnish undergraduates. I teach three drama courses: a survey course in British drama from Shakespeare to the present day; a course on contemporary British drama; and a course on Shakespearean tragedy. My current interests include performance approaches to studying Shakespeare and researching the intonation of questions in British English. =============================================================================== *Mediatore, Kaite My name is Kaite Mediatore and I am the Head of Adult Services at Emporia Public Library in Emporia Kansas. I am also a graduate student at Emporia State University. I expect to complete my master's in English by the end of August and completed my master's of library science at ESU in December of 1990. I became interested in this mailing list after I enrolled in EN 803 Problems in Shakespeare at ESU. Currently I am compiling an annotated bibliography on cross dressing in _Twelfth Night_ and audience reaction to cross dressing. I will write a paper on this topic and submit it as the final requirement of my class. I am a member of the American Library Association and a former member of MLA (I will renew membership soon). My street address is 1303 West Sixth, Emporia, KS 66801 and my work address is Emporia Public Library, 110 East Sixth, Emporia. I also have an additional e-mail address at mediatok@esuvm.bitnet. I look forward to contributing to this list and reading the contributions of others. =============================================================================== *Medina, Susan Susan Medina holds a Master's of Arts in Classical Humanities from Texas Tech University. Her undergraduate work included a major in English with an emphasis on Shakespeare's works. She has been managing director of a regional theatre in West Texas and has been involved in several Shakespearean productions including directing HAMLET, assistant directing THE TEMPEST, and acting in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM. She is currently working on research involving THE TEMPEST and the Classical Tradition. Ms. Medina teaches English and Latin at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas and is currently working toward a Master's in Educational Technology. ============================================================= *Meier, Paul PAUL E. MEIER Associate Professor, Theatre and Film Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Professor Meier was trained as an actor at London's Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama (1965), B.A.( Honours) in English from University of Kent at Canterbury (1970), has taught voice & speech, accents & dialects, Shakespeare Voice & Text at several conservatories and colleges in the U.S. and England including RADA, LAMDA, Weber-Douglas, The Drama Studio, The City Lit, The North Carolina School of the Arts. He is a former member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company where he performed in many a Shakespeare production including several of the VIVAT REGINA history cycle narrated by Richard Burton. He has directed Shakespeare on stage a dozen times-chiefly the comedies. His abiding interest in Shakespeare is in the prosody, and his pedogical passion is in helping actors achieve clarity, power and freshness in their speaking of the texts. His interview with Kenneth Branagh-With Utter Clarity-appeared in TDR Summer, 1997. He conducted a workshop on speaking Shakespeare's verse for the company at Shakespeare's Globe in 1997. He is keen to correspond with others who share his interest in acting Shakespeare. Paul is currently finishing a book on Shakespearean acting which he hopes to publish under the title of Voicing Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Melchior, Bonnie I am a Professor in the English Department at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas 72032 (school phone 501-450-5127; home phone 501-224-1248; home address 11215 Ethan Allen Drive, Little Rock, AR 72211). UCA has a thriving M.A. program, but it is primarily an undergraduate institution (about 9000 students). I, like most of the full-time faculty, teach two general-education classes and two upper division or graduate classes every semester (12 units). I have a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1962, Phi Beta Kappa), a Master of Arts from UCLA (1964), and a Doctor of Arts in Renaissance Drama from University of Oregon (1973). Currently, I am a member of NCTE and an associate editor of _Slant Magazine_. I have published the following articles: "Teaching _Paradise Lost_: The Unfortunate Fall," _College Literature_ 16 (Winter 1987): 76-84. "Odysseus Polytropos: The Hero as Poet, _Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association_ 15 (Spring 1989):67-79. "Iago as Deconstructionist," _Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association_ 16 ( Fall 1990):63-81. "A Marginal 'I': The Autobiographical Self Deconstructed in Maxine Hong Kingston's _The Woman Warrior_, forthcoming in _Biography_. I have become particularly interested in gender issues and in the development of self-consciousness (and the language of self- consciousness). =============================================================================== *Mengel, Ewald English historical novel; Charles Dickens; Harold Pinter; modern English drama; translation theory and practice; Shakespeare's Lancaster Tetralogy; Drama of the 16th century =============================================================================== *Merians, Linda E. Linda E. Merians Associate Professor of English La Salle University Here's my brief autobiographical statement for membership on Shaksper. Although my speciality is in eighteenth-century British Literature, I've been teaching our Shakespeare for non-majors course, so I'd like to be able to keep my e-mail eyes on this bulletin board. My research interests are varied, but the one most relevant to Shakespeareans would be my current project of Renaissance representations of the peoples of southern Africa. To that end, I have, of course, worked some with current theory, specifically articles related to how Shakespeare related "otherness" in some of his plays (although none of his characters are from southern Africa per se). I look forward to joining this bulletin board. My snail mail address is Box 174, English Dept., La Salle Univ., 1900 West Olney, Phila. PA.19141 =============================================================================== *Merriam, Joanne I am Joanne Merriam, an undergraduate in English and Mathematics (double major) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. I answer to both Miss and Ms. if you feel you need to use a title. I am currently taking the undergraduate Shakespeare course at Dal (Engl 3214). =============================================================================== *Merrill, Kenneth B. Although I am a lawyer, my love is the theater. I have studied the plays for many years. Four years ago, during a [burnout] "sabatical" I logged in about 45 sem. hours hours in English literature, theater/drama, acting, and wrote four one act plays before going back into the trenches. I promise to know when to keep quiet and just listen. =============================================================================== *Meserole, Harrison T. or Harrison T. Meserole, Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professorship in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, received his Ph.D. from the U. of Maryland in 1959. Before coming to Texas A&M in 1985, he taught for 28 years at Penn State and was visiting professor at UC-Davis and the U of Leeds, where he was awarded the Longman Medal in Bibliography. Formerly editor-in-chief of the MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (1966-75), he is now one of the editors of the World Shakespeare Bibliography (published annually in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY) and is senior editor of SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS. He is the author of approximately 50 scholarly essays and reviews in such journals as PMLA, AMERICAN LITERATURE, MODERN PHILOLOGY, AND STUDIES IN AMERICAN FICTION. He is the author or editor of 7 books, including SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY, THE RESPONSIBLE MAN, and THE CRITICAL QUESTION. He is currently engaged in editing THE CUMULATED WORLD SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY 1958-79. ======================================================================== *Metsker, Steve Full Name : Steve Metsker Title : Software Engineer Company : Sematech Biographical Sketch : Now that I'm developing an interest in Shakespeare, it seems monstrous that my education to this point has excluded his works. I'm brand new at this, and just starting on understanding "Hamlet". Shakespeare's genious is immediately appealing, even to a neophyte such as myself, so I am most curious to get an exposure to the latest thinking about Shakespeare. Surface Mail Address : 2706 Montopolis Drive / Austin, Texas 78741-6499 Daytime Phone : 512.356.3500 (as of 9/27/93) or, 207.775.4647 in the mean time =============================================================================== *Metzger-Hoge, Sheri I am a PhD candidate at The University of New Mexico. My field of study is Renaissance literature and I am currently beginning work on my dissertation. I recently returned from London where I spent a month in preliminary research at the British Library. My dissertation will focus on women's texts as a response to religious ideology. I am particularly interested in how Elizabethan and Jacobean women responded to sermons and theology that attempted to define women's roles in society. David McPherson is directing my dissertation, with Barry Gaines, Mary Bess Whidden, and Carolyn Woodward (all at UNM) as readers. I have been a teaching assistant in the English department for five years. I have also been a reasearch assistant for David McPherson (in his Shakespeare Tragedies class) and for Cheryl Fresch (UNM Miltonist). I have twice taught the Early British Lit survey and the introduction to lit classes. Although my dissertation examines women's texts, Shakespeare remains an important focus and interest in my academic studies. Accordingly, I hope the Shakespeare forum will expand my academic studies. =============================================================================== *Meyer, David My original messgae wasn't supposed to be "correspondence", but a request to be added to the mailing list. My wife -- G.L.Horton -- is a playwright and admirer of the Bard. She is artist, not a techie, and refuses to get her own account -- what else am *I* good for, then? =============================================================================== *Meyer, Denise P. I have little to recommend me but an undergraduate degree in English and a love for the sounds of S's words. =============================================================================== *Meyer, Russell Russell J. Meyer: I regularly teach Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature at Emporia. Over the past 20 or so years, I've taught Shakespeare at all levels (from intro courses for beginning undergraduates through PhD seminars) at Missouri, Houston, and the Universitat des Saarlandes in Saarbrucken, Germany. Probably of most interest to members of your list is my plan to teach a "Shakespeare on Line" course this summer via Internet. =============================================================================== *Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel I would like to subscribe to the Shaksper list. I hold a PhD from the University of London, and work as Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth. I have published on Shakespeare Review of Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West (1984), Theatre Research International 10:3 (1985), 242-3. "Hamlet at the Royal Court and at the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz", in: 40 Years of Mise en Scene 1945-1985, Ed. Claude Schumacher (Dundee, 1986),141-8. "Hamlet at the Crossroads", Hamlet Studies 8 (1986), 77-82. Review of Des Widerspenstigen Zahmung. Moderne Shakespeare-Insze nierungen in Deutschland und England by Michael Raab (Rheinfelden, 1985), in: Theatre Survey 27 (1986), 183-185. "From Theatre to Film: Ronald Harwood's The Dresser". Shakespeare Bulletin 8:3 (1990), 37-38. "Hamlet in Aachen", Shakespeare Bulletin 10:2 (1992), 29-32. World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research, Glasgow, 1985. Paper: "Hamlet at the Royal Court and at the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz". The World of the Theatre in Film. Venice, November 1989. Paper: "From Theatre to Film: Ronald Harwood, The Dresser. Fifth World Shakespeare Congress, Tokyo, August 1991. Seminar on "Shakespeare and the Heterogeneous Classroom". In September 1996 I will attend a Hamlet conference with a paper presentation in Gdansk, Poland. =============================================================================== *Meyers, Mark Mark Meyers: I am currently student teaching 7th and 8th grade English at Tonawanda middle. Tonawanda is a little suburb outside the city of Buffalo, New York. Prior to this, i received my bachelor of arts in English at Canisius College, also in Buffalo. Some say that by getting my certification to teach, I am making an English degree "practical." To some extent i agree. Before this semester i was thinking of entering the rhetoric and composition program at Arizona st. university. I visited the campus in august--and aside from getting awfully hot-- i learned much about the program and staff there. Since then, ive been struggling over the issue of graduate school. on the one hand, i would like to starting teaching(the practical); On the other hand i would like to continue my studies in composition(the idealism). I was thinking that my training in comp at asu might lead to a position teaching comp at a community or junior college. Although this may be in my future, i have decided to work with secondary kids. I enjoy this age group and feel a strong sense of purpose working with them. At twenty two years old, i have plenty of time to build my career with a masters degree. I have just started working on a paper on "women in Shakepeare." I am intrigued about how many strong women characters there are in shakepeare plays. I think of the strength and the manipulative power of lady macbeth as an example. i would like to explore more of his female characters, as I think that Shakepeare had a fairly liberal view of women for that time period. This is the kind of issue that i would enjoy discussing over the internet. =============================================================================== *Meyers, Michael AT&T Executive with a strong interest in viewing Shakespeare's plays. During an average year, I will see 5-6 of Shakespeare's plays (can you ever see enough?). We subscribe to Shakespeare Rep here in Chicago which has proven to be an excellent vehicle to see outstanding productions. My work life centers around the areas of computer science and business management for computer systems that run the AT&T communications network. =============================================================================== *Mical, Jason N. My name is Jason Mical. I am an undergraduate English Literature and History major at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. I was involved with an Honors College project in the past that examined several Shakespearean plays from a "values analysis" standpoint, reading them and relating their 'lessons' to life today (proving the universality of Shakespeare, if you will). I am currently engaged in Shakespearean research, examining some of the English and Roman history plays in-depth as well as studying the history of Tudor-era England to get a historical perspective on the plays. I have not yet decided on a topic for a paper this semester, although I am leaning towards Shakespeare's thoughts on the origins of evil in "Richard III." Although at this point in time it is only tentative, I may be involved in a research project next summer going back to the original "values analysis" perspective I took. If everything works out, I would examine several plays for a common theme and write papers on all of them. I have already chosen the theme-revenge ethics (or lack of ethics in revenge scenarios) -- but am waiting for word about the almighty dollar. I addition, I will be studying in London the Spring Semester of '99 and will be attending a great deal of plays while there. ============================================================= *Michael, Jeffrey Wayne I am currently a graduate assistant working on my Master's Degree in Theatre at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. I am presently working on my Thesis, a study of the application of Kristevan theory in the theatrical production process, specifically, how stage directions and non-linguistic actions on stage convey semiotic information. (That's semiotic in the Kristevan sense, of course, and not traditional theatre semiotics.) I also have recently completed seminar papers on Ben Jonson and the reversion to the Master of the Revels, the History of Springfield Missouri's Gilloiz Theatre, and three different papers on Othello: the fashioning of Desdemona, the lack of comedy in the play, and Shakespeare's notion of suicide as an act of setting one's self free. I received my B.A. in theatre from The College of the Ozarks in 1995, where I studied Shakespeare with Dr. Juanita Kirk, and I currently study at SMSU under Dr. Tita Baumlin. Though I primarily work as a director or actor, I intend to pursue a Ph.D. Degree in theory/criticism. I am encouraged by what I perceive to be a growing interest in Shakespearean scholarship and production in this country, and I hope to build a career as a Shakespearean scholar and director. My primary research interests include New Historicism and Gender Studies, though I have done a fair amount of graduate work in Rhetorical Studies. ============================================================= *Michael, Nancy Associate Professor of English and German Department of English Bemidji State University Bemidji, MN 56601 I have taught undergraduate and graduate Shakespeare courses since I took a PhD degree in Renaissance literature from Tulane University in 1971. My dissertation, "Shakespeare's 'Pericles': The Play and Its Problems," was written under the direction of Professor Edward B. Partridge. I am the compiler of the "Pericles" bibliography for the Garland Bibliography Series (No. 13, 1987). Currently, I am teaching English 444 (Shakespeare), a required one-quarter course at Bemidji State for undergraduate English majors and minors. (One of my students found the Shaksper list address researching for his paper on Internet sources.) In 1984 I returned to graduate school to work on German studies. I completed my PhD degree in German literature in 1991 (UWisconsin- Madison). My dissertation, "Elektra and Her Sisters: Male Representations of Female Characters in Austrian High Culture, 1900-1905," was written under the Direction of Professor Jost Hermand. My area of specialization in German is turn-of-the-century cultural studies. I currently teach German 410, Contemporary Germany, and spring quarter I will teach German 312, Introduction to German Literature. As "bridge person" in the College of Arts and Sciences at BSU since 1990, I teach courses in English, German, history, philosophy, and women's studies. I belong at present to the MLA, the AAUW, the German Studies Association, and Women in German. =============================================================================== *Michaelson, Landon and Malcolm Keithley Landon Michaelson & Malcolm Keithley Gateway Productions & CD-Cinema 100 Woodring Cashmere, WA 98815 We are involved with the production of an educational, entertaining, interacive CD-ROM on Shakespeare. This production includes 3D recreations of the Globe and other historical landmarks, music from Shakespear's composers, the complete works of Shakespeare and more. We are interested in comments, directions, hints and discussions about the project and its content. Malcolm Keithley is a graduate of The Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts, Eastern Washington Univesity and the University of Connecticut and has been involved in live theatre and film prodcution since 1964. Landon Michaelson is 3D designer and works with advanced computers and software to create the authentic elements for the project. Other talented people are also part of the production and would gain from the knowledge base of other SHAKSPEReans. =============================================================================== *Michel, Jean-Bernard Due to my lengthy name, my friends call me JB. I am French, born in 1953 and living in Switzerland since 1981. I am working in a R&D company as project manager in the field of better and cleaner energy systems (nothing to do with literature !). I am also a free-lance trainer in creativity and in job-finding techniques. Hobbies: poetry, philosophy, mathematics, music, theater. Current research topic: My interest to join the list is to learn about the way Shakespeare is considering "Love", in order to draw some comparisons with French authors. Unfortunately, the French school system has not given me the opportunity to really study Shakespeare and I welcome this opportunity to correct this terrible gap ! ============================================================= *Middleton, David I teach the Shakespeare classes here at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and would certainly like to be part of the electronic Shake speare group. Can I get subscribed? My address is dmiddlet@Trinity.edu and I l ook forward to hearing from you as well as from others in the field. Please exc use that address above. When the prompt came up it was so near the top of my sc reen I didn't see that it was asking me for a name, not a subject. Do you gathe r that I'm not quite expert yet at this electronic communication? But I'm using it more and more, especially in my role as Chair ofour Faculty Senate, where I do nearly all the inhouse messaging this way instead of on paper. =============================================================================== *Miles, Linda I am Linda Miles (miles.linda@mail.utexas.edu), a PhD student in Theatre History/Criticism/Text/Theory in the Department of Theatre and Dance of the University of Texas at Austin. I received my MA in Theatre History and Criticism from the same department in May, 1993. My thesis was entitled "Semiotics of Performance: The Signification of TWELFTH NIGHT." I received my BA in Theatre with an emphasis in directing from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in the May of 1985. I am currently Assistant Editor of THEATRE INSIGHT, a scholarly journal publishing the work of emerging scholars, which is completely produced and distributed by graduate students. My interview of feminist theatre scholar Jill Dolan will appear in the summer, 1994 issue of TI. A paper entitled "Split Subject Technique for a Feminist GOOD PERSON" has been chosen by a blind jury for participation in the THEATRE TOPICS' writing for publication workshop at this summer's ATHE conference in Chicago. In addition to my membership in ATHE, I am also a member of the Women in Theatre Program, an organization which began as an ATHE interest group. I am currently preparing for my Qualifying Examinations and, although I haven't narrowed the research topic, I hope to write my dissertation on directing and feminist theory. =============================================================================== *Miller, Amy I am currently a graduate student at Drexel University's College of Information Studies and received my bachelor's degree (in June) from Harvard in the History and Literature of Early Modern Europe (England and France). My undergraduate thesis was titled "Justice sate high: _The Faerie Queene_ V and the Government of Elizabeth I". Although I am not continuing to study Elizabethan history and literature, I am still very interested in the subject (and may return to it in some form later). ================================================================================ *Miller, Ann E. or Reference Librarian/Assistant Professor Carrier Library, James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Phone (voice): (703)568-6929 Degrees: BA History, Goshen College, Goshen, IN, U.S.A. Masters of Library Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. Primary research interests are: Shakespeare in performance; electronic access to and manipulation of information and texts (especially Shakespeare); and keeping up, in a general way, on Shakespeare scholarship so as to provide good reference service and collection development. Projects: Handout to materials and research methodology in Shakespeare for the Carrier Library (completed) Annotated bibliography on Shakespeare in the theatre in the twentieth century. =============================================================================== *Miller, Beth Bryant My name is Beth Bryant Miller. I a 24-year-old graduate student in English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. I graduated with my B.A. in December 1993, and began working on my masters degree this summer. I am a journalist by profession, but after I obtain my masters degree I intend on pursuing my doctorate. I have completed one class toward my M.A., Issues and Identities in the Modern Novel, and will take Shakespeare's Tragedies from Dr. Dale Priest in the fall. I am very interested in issues dealing with Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Miller, Elizabeth Name: Elizabeth Miller Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland Department: English Rank: Professor Date of initial appointment: 1970 Degrees: M.A. Thesis: "Byron's Treatment of Women in "Don Juan" Ph.D. Diss: "Norman Duncan: A Critical Biography" Surface Mail: Department of English Memorial University of Nfld. St. John's, Nfld. Canada A1C 5S7 Phone number: Office: 709-737-8276 Home: 709-726-6928 My primary area of teaching and research is not Shakespeare, but Newfoundland Literature. My publications include two authored books: "The Life & Times of Ted Russell" (1981) and "The Frayed Edge: Norman Duncan's Newfoundland" (1992). I have edited several collections of stories by Newfoundland humorist Ted Russell, and one collection of Newfoundland poetry. I am presently working with a colleague on an anthology of Newfoundland short fiction. My secondary area of interest is British Romanticism, in particular the works of Byron and the Shelleys. I have in the past two years given four conference papers on Mary Shelley. My present work in this area centres on Romantic narrative/Gothic fiction. As for my association with Shakespearean studies, it is somewhat limited to course preparation, as I am frequently assigned an undergraduate course in Shakespearean Tragedy. While I attempt to keep abreast of current scholarship in the area, I find this a somewhat formidable task, given my other areas of interest. This is the main reason I am interested in SHAKSPER. While I have taught our undergraduate course several times, I have never written a scholarly article on Shakespeare, nor attended a Shakespearean conference. Maybe this will change. I look forward to the challenge of participation in this List. =============================================================================== *Miller, Jon Ryoo Graduated Cornell University in May 1996 with an AB, summa cum laude, in Asian Studies and Religious Studies. In the autumn, I will begin pursuing a PhD in Buddhist Studies at Yale University, the Department of Religious Studies, concentrating on the historical development of one particular Japanese sect, the Tendai, and investigate its contribution to esoteric Buddhism in Japanese religious and cultural history. One might ask why a Buddhologist-in-training such as I would wish to join SHAKSPER. The answer lies not in my avowed academic interests but in my private pursuit of literature and writing. I was born in Japan 22 years ago and raised there until I departed those islands upon my high school graduation. My destination was Ithaca, NY where I soon developed an intense interest in Religious Studies at Cornell University. Particularly I was drawn to Japanese Buddhism. My double majoring in Asian Studies and Religious Studies facilitated my studies in this area and resulted in a thesis on Tendai esoteric Buddhism I wrote during my senior year. Yet my new-found pursuit of Buddhist studies did not, and could not, eclipse my devotion for literature. Fortunate enough to attend elementary and secondary schooling in an international school where devotees of literary genres of numerous cultures abounded, my esurience for Shakespeare, which I had cultivated then and there, far from diminished and grew proportionally larger. As a result of a my bilingual and bicultural upbringing I am interested now in how artists translate Shakespeare into other languages and cultures; Kurosawa Akira=D5s Kumonosujoo (Throne of Blood) and Ran spring to mind. My motives for requesting admission to this mailing list also arise from a yearning to learn more of the linguistic and prosodic aspect of Shakespeare=D5s eximiou= s use of English. In joining the mailing list, I hope to share in the discussion and exchange of ideas and interests regarding Shakespeare. I wish to be able to talk in depth about his sonnets and plays. The wisdom and insight I receive from the list will be an invaluable asset to me as both a Shakespeare lover, and a writer-scholar in the humanities. In return, I can only give my genuine thoughts, reflections, and responses, dilletantish though they may be. But I regard such a mailing list as a forum where genuinely interested souls can improve their knowledge of Shakespeare and his writings, and thereby magnifying their appreciation of his work treble. =============================================================================== *Miller, Mary Jane Mary Jane Miller, Dept. of Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1. Phone (416) 688 5550 ext 3584, Fax: (416) 682 9020, e-mail: mjmiller@spartan.ac.brocku.ca Following is a CV which doesn't answer why I'd like to join SHAKSPER. I've taught full courses in Shakespeare since I was a green M.A. in 1964. 6 weeks of observing rehearsals under Michael Langham and Stuart Burge at Stratford in 1963 left me with a love of theatre and a determination to teach these and any other plays as dramatic texts performed in a particular context ( i.e.primarily as script) - orthodox now but unacceptable in many quarters then. My research has never been in W.S [ I also teach 'The Tragic Vision', ' Canadian drama +radio and tv' 'Television' and Yr.IV 'Critical Theory'. I find much of the discussionof interest, particularly the accounts of productions and discussion on teaching techniques. I may be able to contribute on television adaptations - I've seen and have access to many. EDUCATION, GRANTS - B.A. & M.A. University of Toronto 1963, 64 - PhD.(Drama) University of Birmingham, England 1973 "Radio Drama as a dramatic medium: BBC radio plays" - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant 1984-5, - " " " " " " " 1985-8 - " " " " " " 1988-91 - " " " " 1991-93 TITLE AND ADDRESS: Professor, Department of Film Studies, Dramatic and Fisual Arts. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S3A1 (416) 688 5550, ext 3584, FAX 682 9020, e-mail mjmiller@spartan.ac.brocku.ca BOOKS -Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952 - University of British Columbia Press,: Vancouver: 1987. -"Rewind and Search: Conversations with the Makers and Decision-makers of CBC Television Drama" is an account of on how television drama is created and who makes the decisions about it and an analysis of forms of television drama in Canada. McGill-Queens, nearing completion. Major PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY EXPERIENCE - Consultant (1979) to the Sound and Moving Images Division, the Public Archives of Canada: viewing, assessing, evaluating and cataloguing Canadian television dramas 1952-1970. -Book Review Editor (English) for Theatre History in Canada ,four years. Guest Editor for the RAdio/Television isue of Canadian Drama referee for Theatre History in Canada, Canadian Journal of Communications, Canadian Drama the usual refereeing for the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, SSHRC and Killam applications PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS - Founding member, Canadian Theatre History Association 1976 -the present. (Book Review Editor, (English) for four years) - Member, Canadian Studies Association 1981-4 , 1988- present - founding member (1978) and President, Assn. for the Study of Canadian Radio and Ttelevision/AERTC 1988-91 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 20+ in the areas of Canadian dramatic Literature and Radio and Television Drama. (list available) - PLAYS DIRECTED at Brock for the Community -Measure for Measaure -Troilus and Cressida -Henry IV, Parts I and II- in my own collation -The Winter's Tale In addition I have been an assistant director in the World Premiere of George Ryga's Portrait of Angelica in Banff, a stage manager for James Reaney in his second production of One Man Mask and have appeared as Carmen in Genet's The Balcony directed by Martin Kinch in London Ont. =============================================================================== *Miller, Nancy W. Nancy W. Miller, Graduate student Department of English Ohio State University 164 W. 17th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 I'm a Ph.D. student in Renaissance Lit, currently working on articles and the early stages of the dissertation. My approach predominately involves materialist/ideological readings of women's issues in a variety of texts (mostly 17th c. pamphlets/polemics written by men and women). My interest in Shakespeare (and drama in general in this period) includes the way some of what might be considered "dominant" ideological issues are broken down and questioned by playwrights, who were as deeply concerned with contemporary issues and concepts as the pamphlet writers (many, like Greene, writing for both genres). One example of this breakdown and questioning is The Taming of the Shrew, which problematizes the conflation of women's silence and obedience that obtains in most other social arenas at this time. I'm afraid I've not yet published on Shakespeare, but I hope to before too long. =============================================================================== *Miller, Norman Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Trinity College Ph. D. Columbia University, 1958. My professional work has centered on the sociology of culture with particular attention to literature. I have also done a certain amount of time, beginning in 1948, on the sociology of religion as well as social stratification. My most recent relevant publication is "Three Arguments on the Death of Art" in The Death of Art, ed. Berel Lang, New York, Haven, 1984. I am at work now on a series of studies of 18th and 19th century British writers: from Johnson and Fielding to George Gissing. ========================================================= *Miller, Scott I have no academic credentials related to Shakespear research. I am very interested in subscribing to your list and hearing what your members have to say. =============================================================================== *Miller, Shannon Shannon Miller is currently an assistant professor in the English department at Temple University. My specialization is Renaissance Literature, specificially sixteenth century non-dramatic literature. I have published on article on Shakespeare's Coriolanus, "Topicality and Subversion in Shakespeare's Coriolanus," in the 1992 issue of SEL. My current research is a study of Sir Walter Raleigh's various new world and colonization projects during the sixteenth century: Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. My 1991 Ph.D. is from UC Santa Barbara. My teaching interests include: Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Early Modern Women's Writing, Renaissance Poetry, British Literature Survey courses. My address at Temple is: Shannon Miller Department of English Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 204-1893 (215) 222-4128 (home) e-mail: smiller@astro.ocis.temple.edu =============================================================================== *Miller, Stephen Roy Graduate student (here called post-graduate) Department of English King's College London I am an overseas graduate student at King's College London completing my PhD thesis: A Critical Old-spelling Edition of THE TAMING OF A SHREW (1594). My superviser is Professor G R Proudfoot, general editor of the Arden Shakespeare. Because I am trying to finish my thesis, my research at the moment is concentrated wholly upon THE TAMING OF A SHREW, the anonymous quarto of 1594 which has not appeared in anything like a fully-annotated edited text since 1908. In addition to the text, my introduction will provide a revised assessment of the vexing enigma of its relationship to Shakespeare's version. At the moment I am particularly interested in bad quartos and reported texts and the question of whether Shakespeare revised his own texts. Further relevant research topics for me are early works by Shakespeare, particularly comedies, and contemporary pieces by others. Originally I am from the USA, Missouri and Kansas. Outside of teaching English for a year and a half at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri in the mid-1980s, I spent most of the '80s in London working on my thesis and attending theatrical performances. During my time in England I have managed to see Shakespeare's complete canon performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as many others. Other performances seen include works of the Spanish and French theatre of the seventeenth century translated into English (a current fashion for which I am very grateful.) From late January 1989, I followed the exciting discovery here in London of Henslowe's Rose playhouse through the unsuccessful campaign to have the British government list it as an historic site. Late in the year I saw the small part of the Globe foundations unearthed. During the course of these events I participated in the international discussion via e-mail and I still listen for hopeful developments. My first degree in English was from Kansas State University, and I hold both British and American MA degrees - the first in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham (1978), the second in English from the University of Kansas (1980). SURFACE MAIL: c/o Dept of English, King's College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS England. ======================================================================== *Miller-Schutz, Chantal I work with Andrew Gurr, and am in charge of the Globe Theatre Website at Reading University (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe). ============================================================= *Mills, John I am: John A. Mills, Assoc. Prof. of English, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721. Degrees: B. A. 1953, Butler U., Ip., Ind. M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1961, Indiana U.: Theatre History and Dramatic Literature. Regularly teach upper-level and graduate courses in Shakespeare. Publications: BOOKS: Hamlet On Stage: The Great Tradition, Greenwood, 1985; Language and Laughter: Comic Diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw, UA Press, 1969. Articles on Shaw, Shakespeare et.al. in Shaw Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, American Imago and Midwest Quarterly. =============================================================================== *Mills, Lesley My interest in this listserv is primarily a result of a Shakespeare class I am currently taking at the University of Nevada, Reno. I hold a BA in Communications from CSU Chico but I have recently returned to school for my teaching credential. I am working toward certification in K-12, and interestingly enough, Shakespeare is the only author required for the English degree. My Shakespeare is very weak and consequently I thought this listserv might provide some insight into Shakespeare's life and times as well as the eleven plays I will be reading! =============================================================================== *Mills, Rose M. I am a graduate student in the English Dept. at the University of Ken- tucky and would like to follow the discussion on SHAKSPER. I'm taking courses in the Ph.D. program and plan on Renaissance as my major area of concentration. How do I go about subscribing? =============================================================================== *Minadakis, Jasson I am the current Artistic Director for FAHRENHEIT Theatre Company in Cincinnati, OH. I am interested in joining your Shakespeare List. I found your e-mail through Dr. Bill Godshalk of the University of Cincinnati. My interest in your list is for information and stimuli for my company. Our season consists of three Shakespeares and two recognized classics, or adaptations of classics. Our current season includes SHREW, TWELFTH NIGHT, and CAESAR; next season MACBETH, AS YOU LIKE IT, and MERCHANT. Our performance style is similar to that of the SHENANDOAH SHAKESPEARE EXPRESS (three quarter thrust, full lights, Elizabethan tiring house, maximum 80 lines cut per production, 12 players). I currently have two SSE grads in the company and I studied with Dr. R. Cohen at JMU for three years. =============================================================================== *Minchew, Daniel I work ACT * American College Testing, one of the two major organizations that administers an assessment instrument that is used by many postsecondary institutions as part of an admission process. While I probably will be mostly a lurker, at least at the start, but I have a strong interest in English literature in general and Shakespeare specifically. While this interest in Shakespeare dates from my teen years, it was surely heightened by the opportunity to see at least one performance of every production offered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon over a three year period when I was in graduate school. In addition, I am occasionally called upon to review grant applications that are presented to government agencies or to private foundations. Likewise, I am occasionally called upon to sit on scholarship review panels. Therefore, for professional and for personal reasons I am applying to join this group. Personally, I have degrees from the University of Georgia and from Oxford University. I sit on several boards, and I have been heavily involved in the pre-college education of my children. =============================================================================== *Minnix, Jay I would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER mailing list. While not an English or theatre professional, I have a long involvement and interest in theatre, particularly in classical theatre. First the particulars: Name: Jay I. Minnix Title: Engineering Specialist Institution: Stanford Telecomm Address: 1761 Business Center Dr. Reston, VA 22090 Home Address: 11764 Great Owl Cir Reston, VA 22094 Phones: H: (703) 435-0273 W: (703) 438-8026 or 8096 FAX: (703) 438-8112 email: jaym@sed.stel.com Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Jan. 1990. M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Aug. 1986. B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, May 1984. Theatre Background: Acting: Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1988. Tom Snout / Wall in Midsummer Night's Dream, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1987. Cleomenes / Third Gentleman in Winter's Tale, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1986. Lots of community and high school theatre. Production: Set Construction for All's Well that Ends Well, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1992. Set Construction for As You Like It, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1991. Set Construction for Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1990. Technical Director for Twelfth Night, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1989. Mask and Properties Designer for Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1988. Properties Designer for Midsummer Night's Dream, Midsummer Players, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1987. Production Crew, Heritage Repertory Theatre, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1983. Lots of community and high school theatre. Education: Stage Combat at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, Fall 1993. Theatre Technology at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Summer 1983. Shakespearean Interests: As a former actor and theatre participant, I am primarily interested in Shakespeare in performance, including historical performance, modern performance, and new interpretations. While the plays do interest me purely as text, I am more interested in how the plays are interpreted in performance. This interest extends not only to technical details such as setting and costuming, but also to character interpretations. One of the things that attracted me most to Shakespeare was how well the characters hold up, how they speak to the modern audience just as powerfully as modern works do. This is not to say that all of his characters have stood the test of time, but many still offer the audience insight into 'how people are.' I also collect bits of stage business that I see or hear of in plays. Such an interest may seem trivial, but these things can have a great impact on performance. For example, I saw a production of Macbeth several years ago at the Lime Kiln Theatre in Lexington, VA (an excellent performance space). In general, the performance was nothing special, but one particular bit of business worked very well. The director used the witches (masked) as participants in the other scenes - servants, random lords, combatants, etc. It gave the impression of the witches maintaining their involvement in the story, not just being external observers. It added an interesting touch to an otherwise unremarkable performance. I remember little about the play, but I do remember the witch business. Ultimately, I would like to use my knowledge about Shakespeare in performance to improve my own performances. I would also like to apply these ideas to future productions in which I'm involved in a technical or creative role. =============================================================================== *Minwalla, Framji Framji Minwalla is a book editor at HarperCollinsPublishers (sic). Before joining HarperCollins, he taught English Literature and Drama at Yale University and at Vassar College. He received his BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1987, his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1991, and will receive his DFA from Yale in 1996. His dissertation is titled Edward Bond's Political Aestheic: The First Cycle, and deals with Bond's first eight plays. He is a regular contributer to Theater magazine, and has also published in American Theater, Manhattan File and the now defunct Theater Three. One of his ongoing projects is a production and critical history of King Lear from the old King Leir play (one of Shakespeare's sources) to the present. One forthcoming book: The Queerest Art edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla. An anthology of round-table discussions and papers delivered at the Queer Theater conference in New York City, April 27-29, 1995. It will be published in January 1997 by New York University Press. =============================================================================== *Miola, Robert S. Robert S. Miola is a Professor of English and adjunct in Classics at Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, 21210-2699. He has an undergraduate degree from Fordham U., and graduate degrees from U. of Rochester. He is interested in the classical backgrounds of the Renaissance and also Continental literature of the period (especially Italian). He has writted articles and reviews and three books: Shakespeare's Rome (Cambridge, 1983); Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy (Oxford, 1992); Shakespeare and Classical Comedy (Oxford, forthcoming). Work phone: 410 617-2748; home 410 435-2790. =============================================================================== *Miranda, Aramis or I am an undergraduate student at Fordham University studying History and Italian Lit. I am in my second year. I would very much like to join the conference. ============================================================================ *Mischo, John B. Here at Southeastern I teach early British lit, intro to philosophy, freshman writing, and of course Shakespeare. I received my Ph.D. from SUNY / Buffalo in 1990, with a dissertation on Elizabethan sonnet sequences. I have been teaching here in Oklahoma for five years. Before that I was a TA at Marquette University (early 80's) and at Buffalo. I was visiting assistant prof at Stetson University before arriving here. Since I've left graduate school I've completed two Shakespeare-related projects, one on economic history and the Sonnets, and another on the history of medicine (theories of childbirth in particular) and its relation to the Elizabethan sonnet sequence. Currently I'm working on two new projects. My most recently developing interest is in the intersection between Shakespeare, pedagogy, and film. I'm especially interested in the performance theory aspects of the two cinematic versions of : the Mary Pickford version and Zeffirelli's with Elizabeth Taylor. I attended the recent SAA in Washington, participating in the panel led by Linda Woodbridge on poverty and vagrancy in early modern British literature. My paper focused upon the connections between the Jack Cade character in <2 Henry VI> and the Elizabethan rhetoric manual's treatment of poverty and language. ============================================================= *Miserocchi, Nathan Though my primary focus has been in Romanticism, I've avidly pursued Renaissance studies as well (with a particular fondness for Shakespeare, of course). This past academic year I wrote two year-long honors thesis. My English thesis was entitled _Wordsworth and the Myth of Origin: Myth Making in _The Prelude_. My Russian thesis was a translation of _The Forest_ by the Strugatsky brothers accompanied by a critical chapter on the book and a chapter on translation theory. =============================================================================== *Misseldine, Albert I was born in 1932, in Banbury, England (about 20 miles from Stratford-on-Avon.) I came to America in 1949. I have taught at Adrian College since 1964. Previously I taught three years at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis. after getting a B.S. and M.A. there. I teach a Shakespeare class each year and in 1992 helped our theater department with a production of 12th Night. I have no publications worth mentioning. =============================================================================== *Mitchell , Charlie My name is Charlie Mitchell. I currently teach Intro to Theatre at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-edit _On-Stage Studies_, a journal dedicated to production-related research. ============================================================= *Mitchell, Charlie My name is Charlie Mitchell. I recently completed an MA in Playwriting at Boston Univerity where I studied with Nobel Prize winning author Derek Walcott. In September, I will begin my PhD studies - most likely with an emphasis in Elizabethan Drama. I am currently writing a play in verse which, for me, sparked a renewed interest in Shakespeare, his plays, his life, and his process. =============================================================================== *Mitchell, John Allan I am currently taking an MA in English at Dalhousie U., in Nova Scotia. My interests are still rather broad and undefined, but I am looking toward completing my MA thesis on A Winter's Tale. ============================================================= *Mitchell-Shiner, Matthew I am a student at UCSB, drama department, preparing to enter graduate program with the final degree goal being a phd in drama (maybe a MFA along the way.) I am interesting in your mailing list Shaksper, and have heard positive comments regarding it and would like to see what it is all about. =============================================================================== *Mitchell-Shiner, Twyla I am currently an MA/PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have been active in theatre for the last thirteen years and have done almost every role there is to do I have designed lights, sound, and costumes, built sets and costumes, hung lights, stage managed, acted, was run crew (scenic, prop, costumes) and now I am a budding theoretician. In addition to the things I have done, I have studied scenic design and directing, with an eye toward doing those at some point in the hopefully near future. My thesis will encapsulate this, as I plan to produce a performance on the Internet and discuss that for the paper. Currently I am also in the early preparation stages for a role as dramaturg for an upcoming production of Twelfth Night, which is among my favorites of his plays. Furthermore, I will begin a seminar studying Shakespeare in January, and look forward (I hope) to discovering new things about this greatest of playwrights and of course, about his plays through this list. While I do not yet have an article on Shakespeare to contribute, I hope to have one by April that I would be pleased to add to your archival collection. =============================================================================== *Mithaug, Dustin Dustin K. Mithaug Development Assistant Development/External Affairs Teachers College, Columbia University I have an interest in joining this Shaksperian on-line, super-highway. In particular, I'm looking forward to meeting with other serious Shakesperian scholars and discussing/conveying twentieth century theories about the Shakesperian tragedies (my area of expertise). =============================================================================== *Mobley, Joy Music Major interested in learning about Shakespeare through this Discussion List for World Literature Course. ============================================================= *Moh, David David Moh, born and raised in Taiwan. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Washington. I am currently working for Hewlett Packard Co. in the San Francisco Bay area, as a computer engineer. I started to read Shakespeare about three years ago, and became "addicted" to him gradually. For the past two years, I have been an avid and serious reader of Shakespeare's work, as well as essays, criticisms, biography, and theatrical works based on or related to Shakespeare. My academic exposure to Shakespeare has been limited so far. However, I see Shakespeare as a life long passion and obsession and intend to dedicate a significant amount of time and effort on serious studies and projects on Shakespeare in various directions. With English as my second language (my mother tongue is Madarin Chinese), Shakespeare can manifest particularly interesting aspects. The process through which I grew into a Shakespearean reader, and the obstacles I needed to overcome can be of interest to other Shakespearean devotees. There are several potential projects I would consider undertaking in the future. One is the translation of works by and related to Shakespeare into Chinese. There have been a few translation and interpreting efforts in Chinese done by respected scholars, but a truly satisfying, large scale effort encompassing a comprehensive scope has been lacking. As a result, Shakespeare's work has not been very popular, nor very accessible in Taiwan, like it deserves to be. Also, being a theater lover, any aspect of a drama production would be of high interest to me. Some other possible projects are: textual analysis by computer application, Shakespeare interpretation and criticism, comparative study between Shakespear's work and the poetic drama of China, etc. EMail: moh@dtc.hp.com Surface Mail: 282 Romain Street, San Francisco, CA. 94131 USA Phone: 415-826-4421 (H) 408-553-2996 (W) ============================================================================ *Moncrief, Kathryn M. I am a Ph.D candidate at the University of Iowa in the Department of English. (B.A., Doane College, Crete Ne in English and Psychology; M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln in English with a minor in Theatre.) My primary area of research is Renaissance Drama, especially Shakespeare. Most recently, I presented a paper titled "Female Speech and Silence in in Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale and Othello" at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in December. My research methdology is primarily a feminist historicist one. Here at the University of Iowa I am working closely with Dr. Huston Diehl and Dr. Miriam Gilbert. Also (last summer) I was the Assistant Director of a production of Romeo and Juliet. (My interests are both scholarly and performance.) This semester I'm teaching a course here called Literature of the Theatre. My surface address is Kathryn M. Moncrief, 740 Westwinds Dr. #3, Iowa City, IA, 52246. =============================================================================== *Mondalek, Marlene Marlene Mondalek, resident of South Korea, particular interest: female images of God in Shakespeare as well as general research interest. =============================================================================== *Montgomery, Robert My credentials in brief are as follows: I am Professor Emeritus (since July, 1994) of English at the University of California, Irvine. My interests are in Renaissance literature, English and Continental, the history of criticism and critical theory, satire, poetry, and modern fiction. Most of my teaching career has involved Sidney (I wrote a dissertation on Astrophil and Stella), Shakespeare (I've written articles on Lucrece, Richard II, and am currently finishing a book on the Sonnets), Spenser, Renaissance poetry in general, rhetoric in the Renaissance, satire, poetry criticism. I've published books on Sidney's poetry (Symmetry and Sense), Renaissance didactic theory (The Reader's Eye), a translation of Mazzoni's introduction to his Defence of the Comedy of Dante, and most recently a study of theories of the connection between language and emotion in neoclassical criticism and aesthetics (Terms of Response). I am a member of the Shakespeare Association and participated in the session on the Sonnets at Albuquerque last April. At next year's meeting I will contribute a paper to the session on prostitution, probably dealing with the rhetoric of Troilus and Cressida. This, at the moment, focuses my attention to Shakespeare when I am not working on my book on the Sonnets. My education was at Harvard where I took a PhD in 1956. I have taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Willimas College (a year's visiting appointment), and for the last 27 years at UC Irvine. =============================================================================== Garisto, Jennifer I am a 4th year student at York University and am presently enrolled in a Shakespeare class with Peter Paolucci as my TA. I am am English major, History minor who is also in the Education program here at York. I would appreciate the opportunity to become involved with the Shakespeare discussion group. =============================================================================== *Montgomery, Travis Hmm.... After reading you introduction to you service, I'm not sure I'm quite qualified. I'm a Sophomore at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I'm a Music Education major. You may be asking yourself what I'm doing contacting you, but as it turns out I have this strange and mystifying love of Shakespeare. I have read most of his plays, and starred in three of them, having played Macbeth, Prospero, and Julius Caesar. There isn't much more to say about me really, I don't have any Degrees, or publications. I just enjoy Shakespeare and want to learn more about it. You need not worry about any extraneous posts from me, I'm not here to put in my "un-qualified" two cents. I'm here because I'm interested and want to learn more. I completely understand if I'm refused membership, however I would very much appreciate this chance to learn and enjoy more of my favorite Playwrite. =============================================================================== *Moody, Ellen My biographical sketch: born in NYC in 1946 I attended public schools, Queen College, CUNY, Leeds University, and the Graduate School, CUNY. I've a Ph.D. in British Literature. My major area originally was the Renaissance with a minor in Shakespeare, but I switched to major area 18th century with minor European Renaissance. My dissertation title is _Richardson, Romance_, and Reverie_; it's a study of romance tradition from the 16th through 18th centuries with particular attention to _Clarissa_ & _Sir Charles Grandison_. I love Shakespeare's plays and have read them all many times; whenever I can I go to see productions of his plays on the stage or in film. I used to be a great reader of criticism of Shakespeare; I once wanted to write my dissertation on Shakespearean Romance. If I were to die I think one of the last things I'd like to read would be _The Winter's Tale_. I have listened to a record I own with John Gielfuld and Wendy Hiller in the title roles so often the record is now beyond listening to. But I save it anyway. I ask to be put on "digest format." As you can see, I am on a number of lists, and it is only my desire to read about Shakespeare too and listen on (and maybe participate) which makes me want to add yet another list to my sum. Thus I fear _too many separate messages_. If it is your sense that Shaksper-L has a large number of contributions daily, I would appreciate your putting me on a digest and not a separate message format; otherwise I fear I would not be able to cope with the mail and have to ask to come off. =============================================================================== *Mooney, Vincent J. I have read Shakespeare since I was a child under the guide of my mother, an English Major. I find his plays and the times to be of great interest. The plays represent many wonderful ideas and the poems and sonnets are also excellent for the poerty alone as well as the concepts in them. It is no wonder that there are so many quotes from Shakespeare in common use and that people still read and study him. Over the years, I have acquired a small library of Shakespeare studies and will be looking for more recent studies as well as older ones (Sidney Lee, Frederick Furnival, etc.) and how to acquire them. I have found that the writers of 100 plus years ago (Charles Knight is an example) wrote and thought differently from the more recent writers which does not mean that the recent writers have it all correct. This is one of my research areas: what did writers of yore say about the author? Another is the dating and sequence of the plays. The authorship question interests me as well and I have a few books on that subject. The SHAKSPER home page will, I hope, provide current information on meetings, papers, books, people and other Internet links. From these contacts, I will, perhaps, be able to learn more about the man and his times, and discuss new and old questions. A current pair of questions are on the Funeral Elegy and Stritmayer's work on the Oxford Bible. I am a computer literate person, use the internet often, trained in mathematics, not an English scholar. I have a B.A. and an M.A., one in the 1960's and the other in the 1970's. =============================================================================== *Moore, Douglas My name is Douglas Moore. I am an undergraduate student at Northeastern Illinois University. I learned of your list through other members of an Honors Seminar on the portrayal of "outsiders" in Shakespeare's work. I have seen some of the messages they have forwarded onto our own list at the University and would like to subscibe. =============================================================================== *Moore, Edward M. Edward M. Moore Professor of English Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 (515) 269-3105 (office) (515) 236-3528 (home) MOOREED@GRIN1.BITNET or MOOREED@AC.GRIN.EDU B.A. University of the South, 1962. M.A., Ph.D. Harvard Universtiy, 1964, 1968. Member Shakesspeare Association of America, International Shakespeare Asssociation. "William Poel," SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, Winter, 1972. "Henry Irving's Shakespearean Productions," THEATRE SURVEY, Fall, 1976. ed., MORE PREFACES TO SHAKESPEARE by Harley Granville-Barker, Princeton University Press, 1974 (Published in England by B.T. Batsford under title PREFACES TO SHAKESPEARE, Vol. VI). "Bradley's Ending of KING LEAR" (in progress). =============================================================================== *Moore, James Edward My name is James Edward Moore. I'm a literature student at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. I work in the dietary department of Southern Ocean County Hospital. I was born in Inverness, Florida on December 23 in the year 1975. I have lived in Manahawkin, New Jersey the majority of my life. My interests are oil painting, writing, and reading. I enjoy James Bond films and adventure films that have not only a knack for breathless action and suspense but also deliver that action and suspense in an artful, intelligent way. I read espionage, action-adventure, and fantasy novels. My favorite writers are Clive Cussler, John Gardner, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ronald Kessler. I am currently registered for the Shakespeare course in my college and expect it to be the greatest and most horrid challenge of my life. I have read much Shakespeare but normally only for enjoyment. I am not an avid donator to literary theory. I have my problems with it, especially in literature for distant periods like Conrad, Dostoevsky, Hawthorne, and Shakespeare. I hope in joining this club I can improve my understanding of Shakespeare, a dramatist I thoroughly enjoy, and further my knowledge of him to assist in my studies in this coming semester. I also hope to improve my active part as a literary theorist and improve in all my future studies as a literature major. ============================================================= *Moore, Michael I am a second-year graduate student at San Francisco State University, and am applying to Ph.D. programs for Fall, 1995. My main field is Renaissance literature, including Shakespeare. Among my interests are printing history, manuscript transmission and dissemination, lyric genre, and parlimentary history. For my M.A.thesis I am researching the printing history of Fulke Greville's treatises. =============================================================================== *Moore, Steve I have just graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago. Every English student here has the option of writing a lengthy research paper on the topic of his choice, and I chose to write on _King Lear_. The paper focussed on issues of blindness and madness in the play. I tried to rework conventional criticism which sets Lear and Gloucester in a simple twin paradox of clarity through madness, and sight through blindness. Instead, using the word *glare* as a center, I tried to show that Lear and Gloucester are overwhelmed by their worlds rather than just closed down to them, that their inability to "see" is a product of too much light rather than not enough. I'm afraid my only other qualification is a hearty love of Shakespeare's work, of his grace, of his wit, and of his darkness. If SHAKSPER is a community of Shakespeare fans then it will be a community of friends for me. =============================================================================== *Moravec, Cynthia I am a 29 year old female of Armenian/French descent (for you census takers). I am the Executive Assistant to the President at Rhode Island School of Design. I am currently working on my Bachelors at Providence College where I am studing Anthropology, Archaeology, and English. My brother and I have always been interested in Shakespeare - quoting from plays, watching movie adapations, and the like. My partner is a graduate student at Brown University and his period is the Renaissance so I am surrounded by Shakespearian people (in addition to being one). I don't have any significant academic papers to offer but I am an archer and a state champion. =============================================================================== *Morey, Lisa Hello! My name is Lisa Morey. I am currently finishing the final phase (I hope) of Student Teaching in English at Olympus Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Due to my career status, I am wildly collecting everything I can get my hands on to help me teach when I have a class of my own. I know how valuable electronic conferences are (and will continue to be in the future), and I look forward to participating in the group! In my spare time I am active in local theater groups. I have never performed Shakespeare, although I would love to play Cordelia in King Lear! there is a very wonderful Shakespeare festival in Cedar City Utah every summer that I thoroughly enjoy. If you come to Utah, you must experience this. My interests include lesson plans and teaching ideas, set and costume design as well as performance ideas. I am especially interested in theater experiences in English classes, and how to implement this. =============================================================================== *Morey, Shari L. Shari L. Morey Graphics/Communications Specialist The State Life Insurance Company e-mail: morey@butler.edu I discovered Shakespeare during my freshman year in high school, when I stumbled upon the BBC production of _As You Like It_, starring Helen Mirren. Needless to say, I was enthralled. As an undergrad, I divided my time between literature and newspaper studies, earning a bachelor of arts degree in English and journalism. I took as many Shakespeare courses as Butler offered. That love continued after school, when I became a volunteer with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Festival. Later I joined the ISF's board of directors and was elected secretary. Unfortunately, the ISF folded in 1992, leaving few outlets for Shakespeare in the Indianapolis area. Since 1988, I've been sporadically attending the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. My husband has recently acquired a taste for Shakespearean theatre (thanks to Kenneth Branagh's films) and has begun to accompany me to Canada. I'm currently back at Butler, working toward my MBA in marketing. Consequently, you won't be seeing any scholarly Shakespeare research from me, but I'm thrilled at the prospect of participating in discussions about my long-time passion. My other hobbies include organizing an annual Star Trek convention with my husband, studying Celtic legend (esp. Arthurian), following the Cincinnati Reds and playing with our three fuzzy feline children. =============================================================================== *Morford, Marion K. I am currently an English and humanities instructor at the two-year college level in the lower Puget Sound region of the state of Washington. I only have a solid background in a few Shakespeare plays - Macbeth, Much ado, Hamlet and Othello in particular. I just returned from a long weekend at the Oregon Shakespeare festival in Ashland Oregon and would like to discuss with others the way the people at Ashland produce plays. One area I'd like to know more about is how (or if) contemporary productions "work." Do they engage modern (meaning young) readers/viewers? Is something lost by presenting Shakespeare as "our contemporary"? I look forward to invigorating and insightful wordplay as we explore Shakespeare's literary terrain. ============================================================= *Morgan, Gerry Gerry Morgan: I am a Shakespeare hack, but one with a true sense of jaded reverence for Saint Will. My name is Gerry Morgan, and I was born 7/15/64 in Klamath Falls, Oregon. I have an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Oregon (BA, '90), and there I was able to immerse myself in Shakespeare proper. Since, I have become a rather modest collector of books of Shakespearean Criticism and filmed Shakespeare on video. I have a 22 month old daughter, for whom I have collected the HBO animated Shakespeare plays, a delightful and imaginative application of the works which Chelsea watches with glee and amazement. I am currently working at the UO (a clerical position in the Provost's office) while I work toward my masters in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education. Whenever I have opportunity I travel three hours south to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland for their rather impressive productions of the canon, while I continue to be most impressed by a local independent company, The Lord Leebrick Theatre, who present the plays with amazing energy and elan on a shoestring budget. I hope to engage in, and perhaps occasionally contribute to the list. My major goal in joining the discussion is to feed my own interest in Shakespeare's works. =============================================================================== *Morgan, Stacy My name is Stacy Morgan. I am a Senior at Montclair State University in New Jersey. I am an English Major and am interested in learning as much as I can about Shakespeare. I am currently enrolled in a Shakespeare -Tragedies class. My reason for joining this mailing list is to assess the information available on the internet about Shakespeare. The internet is a powerful tool which can be used to gain knowledge which was not available years ago. Now, with the help of a computer, I am able to have contact with experts in the field I am interested in; Shakespeare. My goal is to sort through the vast pages on the internet and determine what information is reliable. My hope is that this mailing list will aid me in doing so. Shakespeare has been analyzed for ages and there is still great debate on this topic. I hope to also be able to contribute to the discussion with the knowledge I have. ============================================================= *Morgan-Russell, Simon Simon Morgan-Russell BA(Hons) '89, University of Kent at Canterbury MA '92, Lehigh University PhD exp. '94, Lehigh University Currently enrolled in the Graduate Program in English at Lehigh University. I am completing my dissertation "O London!: Urban Bodies in the Age of Jonson," and my main areas of interest are, therefore, more non-Shakespearean than Shakespearean. I am, however, interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama (including the Restoration stage) and the critical interest it generates. Most specifically, I research the representation of the City in early modern England in a range of textual materials. =============================================================================== *Morin, Joey Hello! My name is Joey Morin. I'm a Drama student at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada. I'm currently in 3rd year and am vice-prez of the TSU (Theatre Student's Union). I am currently taking four drama courses this term. They are: Drama 409 Theatre criticism Drama 314 1st half 20th cent. British Theatre literature Drama 331 Theatre Design (for non-designers) Drama 490b Stage combat with Fight Director John Stead My focus is on the performance side of theatre (performance, directing) I love Shakespeare! =============================================================================== *Morrill, Justin My name is Justin Morrill and, I am a Junior in the english department at Montana State University. I have had what I consider to be a fairley limited exposure to Shakespeare, that is until recently when I took a class about Shakespeare this last semester. Since then I have become very intrigued by Shakespeare, I have read Harold Blooms The Western Cannon, which is an amazing defense of Shakespeare and Dante against the many de-cannonizing "resentment groups" in our politically correct era. Recentley I discovered (through my professor) Ted Hughe's Shakespeare and The Goddess of Complete Being, which is thus far an astounding book. My limited knowledge about Shakespeare is what has motivated me to subscribe to this discussion group, and I look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. =============================================================================== *Morris, Brad I am a 27-year-old musician. I left college after three years and spent the next five years touring with two different acts. After neither record contract panned out, I returned to school at Oklahoma Baptist University, and I am now an English Education major. My interest in Shakespeare goes back to my 9th grade English teacher, who would not let us read the text the way 9th-graders tend to read Shakespeare-- "duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH"-- rather, she showed us what was being said, what was not being said, and how great it was, until finally, I couldn't help falling in love with the work. I am not a Shakespeare scholar, I don't type that well, and there are a few of the Bard's works I don't care for. I have never published anything other than songs, and none of them were about William. If this removes me from being a candidate for this mailing list, I can live with that. All I wanted was some discussion of the work outside of a classroom, and more importantly, outside of a Baptist classroom. =============================================================================== *Morris, Elizabeth Bio: Member NCTE. Working toward M.A. in English, plan to continue on to Ph.D. Interested in writing/teaching writing, discourse analysis, and learning more about Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Morris, Jeffrey I am in my second year as a professor of English at Carroll College, where I teach courses in 16th and 17th-century Poetry and Prose (among many others). Although my specialty is Spenser, I like to keep up with Shakespeare studies as well, hence my interest in joining this group. I also hope that my participation in this conference will feed into my teaching of Shakespeare when I have the opportunity to teach him. We have one outstanding Shakespeare scholar already, so I'm on the bench but could be called into the game any semester. As for research projects on Shakespeare, I have been working on a paper on the representation of duelling and feuding in *Romeo and Juliet.* As far as I know, this is the only play from Shakespeare's "lyric" phase that has not received substantial historicist attention. However, I don't know thatfor sure. Maybe this conference will help me figure out whether my study would be interesting and useful to Shakespeareans at large. ================================================================================ *Morris, John Graduate Student, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. I was granted a Bachelor of Independent Studies by the University of Waterloo in 1979. I spent several years taking qualifying courses at night at the University of Toronto while holding down a job and raising a family. I am presently completing an MA thesis at the University of Alberta on the four cardinal virtues in Chaucer's _Troilus and Criseyde. Although my procedure requires a good deal of exegesis, the method is reception/historicist. I am particularly interested in Shakespeare's relationship with medieval drama, but I have occasionally been caught dwelling on the "beauties of the language." I am interested in computing and literary studies and wrote a series of tutorial guides used in a graduate seminar on literary computing. ======================================================================== *Morrison, Marissa I am a junior majoring in English Literature. Currently, I am taking an honors Shakespeare class. I have also had the pleasure of playing several Shakespearian roles on stage. Topics which particularly interest me are the hidden sexual meanings in the sonnets, the mutilation of bodies in Shakespeare's plays, and ways in which current directors such as Peter Sellars are bringing Shakespeare's works to modern audiences. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to read what other scholars have to say about Shakespeare and enhance my own understanding of his writings. =============================================================================== *Morrison, Michael A. Michael A. Morrison is a New York-based theatre historian and collector of theatrical memorabilia. His collection includes more than three thousand photographs, engravings, letters, and other memorabilia of great actors of the past from the time of Kean and Macready to the age of Olivier and Gielgud. Formerly a Shakespearean actor, he received his doctorate in theatre from the City University of New York and has contributed theatre- and drama-related articles and criticism to a number of publications including the New York Times, the Village Voice, the London Daily Telegraph, Stagebill, Theatre Survey, Theatre History Studies, and New Theatre Quarterly. He is the author of John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Please visit the John Barrymore, Shakespearean Web site at http://www.Shakespearean.com. It features more than three dozen photos of Barrymore and his Shakespearean predecessors and successors, a biography of the actor, and sound excerpts from Barrymore's acclaimed Hamlet. ============================================================= *Morton, Mark Hi, I am interested in joining SHAKSPER. I am a specialist in Renaissance literature and I'm currently teaching rhetoric at the University of Winnipeg. My Ph.D. dissertation was on The Faerie Queene and was completed in 1992 at the University of Toronto. I have taught courses, as recently as this summer, in Shakespeare, and I am interested in doing an article on the Winter's Tale. In addition to the University of Winnipeg, I have taught at the University of Regina, the University of Toronto, and the Universite canadienne en France. My surface mail address is 165 Ethelbert St. Apt. 4, Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1V8. =============================================================================== *Moschovakis, Nicholas R Nicholas R. Moschovakis is currently an Instructor in English at Sewanee College of the University of the South. His B.A. in English is from Harvard University (1991) and he expects to be granted his Ph.D. from Princeton University in early 1998. His dissertation concerns divine agency in Renaissance tragedy by authors mostly (though not exclusively) English, from George Buchanan and John Bale through Shakespeare; the Shakespearean section seeks to resituate the question of Shakespeare's providentialist devices (in plots and in language) from the narrowly historiographical, political and theological contexts in which critics have hitherto examined the "providentialism" problem, into the wider context of tensions and disruptions wrought in English culture by the Reformation. A major post-dissertation project, now underway, concerns prison writings, representations of incarceration and discourses of bondage in early modern England. An initial approach towards this topic was presented as "Playing the Prisoner" (actually mostly about the forms and discourses of bondage in *The Tempest* and their relevance to life in early modern London) at the Ohio State Shakespeare Conference, May 1997. A non-Shakespearean installment of the same project (largely about underworld pamphlets) will be presented as "Prison Writing as Ethnography," in a session entitled "Contemporary Anthropology and the Representation of Culture in Early Modern England," at MLA 1997. Some other interests relevant to SHAKSPER are Shakespeare's use of genres, university drama and Latin drama, and, generally, Reformation and early Elizabethan drama. ============================================================= *Mosher, Marilyn My name is Marilyn Mosher. I am a research analyst with the Canadian federal government in the department of Human Resources Development. I have never written an article about or even taken a course in Shakespeare but I have read many of the plays and nearly all of the critism of Shakespeare that I could find at my university library. I am particularly enthralled by The Tempest, Lear and Henry V (more than a little Branagh influence in the latter). I will definitly be in the "interested bystander" category. =============================================================================== *Mosley, George Doctoral student in English University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) My research and work center, for the most part, on Eighteenth Century British literature, and I am a member of both the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and two regional branches of that organi- zation. I received my BA in English in 1985 from Emory University and my MA in English from the University of Georgia in 1988. I am now in my second year of coursework on my doctorate. Needless to say, there are many reasons for taking an active interest in a Shakespeare list. First of all, Shakespeare received his first major editions in the eighteenth century, and his editors are important at least as much for their editorial disagreements as for their work as poets and critics. Secondly, the movements of such critical trends as New Historicism are beginning to have an impact on eighteenth century studies, and, inasmuch as the tensions between old and new historicisms have been played out for a few years in Renaissance studies, it is possible to learn much from seeing where the debates now stand. Finally of course, I like Shakespeare and want to know his works better. =============================================================================== *Best, Michael Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., V8W 3P4 Canada Phone (604) 721-7273 Degrees: B.A., Ph.D., University of Adelaide, South Australia Fields of interest: - Renaissance Drama - Elizabethan Popular Culture (magic and science, domestic literature, etc.) - Shakespeare - Australian frontier literature and history, 1890's - Computer assisted learning Publications: Articles on the drama of John Lyly and John Webster, wine, cookery and medicine in the Renaissance The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 1973. Edited, in collaboration with F.H. Brightman. Reissued 1990. Shakespeare, I: Power and Justice. Text written and course designed for English 425. Open Learning Institute of B.C.: Vancouver, 1983. Revised for publication by the International University Consortium, University of Maryland, 1990 A Lost Glitter: Letters Between South Australia and the Western Australian Goldfields,1895-1897. Wakefield Press: Adelaide, 1986. The English Housewife, Gervase Markham. Edited, with Introduction and Notes. McGill-Queen's University Press: Kingston, 1986 Shakespeare, II: Freedom and Restraint in Love. Text written and course designed for English 425. Open Learning Institute of B.C.: Vancouver, 1989. Shakespeare's Life and Times. A HyperCard program for the Macintosh. Intellimation: Santa Barbara, 1991 Current administrative appointments: B.C. Open University Academic Council B.C. Council for Admissions and Transfer =============================================================================== *Stegner, Dan My name is Dan Stegner. I am a senior at Northern Michigan University who is majoring in English and Computer Systems. It is a strange fellow indeed who confesses a passion for BOTH Shakespeare and assembly language programming. Although I have read some of Will's work on my own, I will be taking my first college level Shakespeare course this fall. Although I will probably snatch up the first job offer that pays a reasonable wage when I graduate in December, I hope to work at developing educational software in the future--possibly focusing on the appreciation of various types of literature. If students do not fully appreciate the past, how can they expect to realize their future potential? But that's getting too philosophical. I'm not so good at talking about myself, but I am looking forward to hearing from you. =============================================================================== *Kelemen, Erick R. Department of English, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 I am a graduate student (Master's) in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. I graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in May of 1990, so I am really very wet behind the ears still, though I know enough to admit to it. I studied Shakespeare for two semesters under Professor John Velz and "Later English Renaissance" for a semester under Professor Kate Frost. I intend to focus my graduate work on the literature prior to the Restoration, though I have not narrowed my field more than that. =============================================================================== *Mosley, Mickie Current Position - Internet Resource Monterey Institute of International Studies, 425 Van Buren St. Monterey, CA 93940 ` (408) 647-4102 Background: I have been a theatre professional for over 20 years. My resume is quite extensive as to acting, directing, stage management, theatre management, teaching, etc. My emphasis for the past 5 years has been Shakespeare and producing/directing productions. My most recent was direction of The Tempest for the Montereybay Theatrefest in the summer of 1993. I am currently involved in a research project of the piece entitled "Cardenio" which has been recently authenticated as a lost piece of Shakespeare, written with the collaberation of John Fletcher. I am currently writing a proposal to have this play produced in the summer of 1996 under my direction. I am a new member of the Shakespeare Oxford Society, but I do not 100% subscribe to the theory that Edward DeVere wrote the works. I simply find this intellectually stimulating as the authorship question has long been a fascination for me. =============================================================================== *Moss, Grant I am a Ph.D candidate in English literature at the University of North Carolina. At present, I have no publications on Shakespeare, but I am interested in writing a dissertation on Renaissance drama and would therefore be very interested in the SHAKSPER list. My address and phone are: 215 Chateau Apts Carrboro, NC 27510 919-967-7143. ============================================================================== *Moss, Grant My name is Grant Moss, and I am a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My major area of study is Renaissance literature, with a minor concentration in art history. I am just beginning to do the research for my dissertation, which will be on images of Queen Elizabeth I in the literature and art of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. I would very much like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER list. =============================================================================== *Moss, Kim My name is Kim Moss. I was an English Literature Major in college. I developed an interest for Shakespeare when I was a freshman in high school. The first thing we read was Twelfth Night. The teacher was very good and everyone in the class enjoyed Twelfth Night. I majored in English Literature in college. I had two classes on Shakespeare there. I started to really appreciate the language and the plots. I am currently an attorney. My interest in Shakespeare has returned in the last few years. I try to see as many Shakespearean plays and movies as I can, I enjoy watching a good performance of Shakespeare. When the actors are good it is as if you know and understand every word that they are saying. ============================================================= *Mountford, Diane I discovered Shakespeare at a very young age, through a school assembly, and cried when I turned fourteen because I thought I was too old to play Juliet. Eventually I got over that, continued studying acting, went and got a B.A. from Dartmouth College (including a term in London studying with Tony Church, Bernard Lloyd, Patsy Rodenberg and Sue Lefton), and eventually returned to Los Angeles to live. I have also studied at Shakespeare and Company in Lennox, MA and at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, CA. Currently I serve on the board of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. We are an organization dedicated to bringing women's voices onto the stage and into the world by producing all-female productions of Shakespeare. Our artistic director, Lisa Wolpe, has spoken at schools, universities and conferences about the gender-crossing issues that we face. (Lisa can be contacted through me at the moment, she's not yet on the Internet.) I also direct (most recently a production of "Merchant of Venice" which toured to coffeehouses around Los Angeles) and teach at the Los Angeles Unified School District's Saturday morning Performing Arts Conservatory for kids. This year I'm teaching a straight acting class, but I taught Shakespeare last year and probably will again next year. I've still never played Juliet (although I think there's still some hope), but I am getting quite a lot of experience playing men: Don John in "Much Ado," Oswald in "King Lear," Demetrius in "Titus," Paris in "R&J," Lodovico in "Othello" and I'm currently in rehearsal for Horatio in "Hamlet." =============================================================================== *Moyer, Ronald L. Ronald L. Moyer, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theatre, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark St., B.A., M.A., University of Illinois, 1966, 1967; Ph.D., University of Denver, 1974. Book--American Actors, 1861-1910: An Annotated Bibliography of Books . . .; courseware-- "Multimedia Hamlet: The Soliloquies" (co-developer); numerous conference presentations, including "Multimedia Hamlet," demonstration and discussion of courseware development, at 1993 A.T.H.E. and EDUCOM conferences; active stage director (including development of folio- based performance texts). In process co-developing multimedia courseware on acting Shakespeare. Interested in broad range of topics, with emphasis on practice and twentieth-century history of Shakespearean production: analysis/conceptualization, approaches to acting/ directing/design, prosody, use of early texts. =============================================================================== *Mraz, Doyne I have been a professional actor for 55 years, have been in or directed every one of the plays, have taught the plays for forty years, possess a Ph.D. in dramaturgy from the University of Southern California, with an M.A. from Stanford University. I am now retired and finally have an ability to investigate my real love, Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Mroczko, Delilah Terezia Delilah Terezia Mroczko :I am am student at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, and I am enrolled In the UT Science program. I enroled into an optional Shakespearean English course, and I think this would be a valued source of info. =============================================================================== *Mucci, John C. John C. Mucci Director, VisNet East GTE Service Corporation One Stamford Forum, Stamford, CT 06904 203-965-4314 direct 203-965-2463 fax 1-800-828-3465 toll-free & voice mail ----------------------------------------------------------------- BA English, Carnegie-Mellon U. MA Educational Media, Fairfield U. At present, am responsible for the development of a satellite network for a company primarily concerned with business television programming. Aside from this, Shakespeare's works are a great passion in life, and has formed much of the study undertaken in undergraduate, post-graduate, and continuing artistic endeavors. Have taught (English, Scriptwriting, Video Production, Electronic Media) at Sacred Heart U (Bridgeport, CT); Fairfield U (Fairfield, CT), and Allegheny Community College (Pittsburgh, PA). Am in the preliminary stages of working with the Folger Library to present their method of educating students about the works of Shakespeare via CD-ROM, DVI, and satellite broadcasts. Recently produced and directed a 3-hour interactive videocon- ference moderated by William F. Buckley, Jr, with a panel of eminent Shakespeare scholars, discussing the Shakespeare Authorship Question, which was offered to schools nation-wide. The videotape made from this conference is available in 2-hour and 3-hour versions, through our 800-number. I am also willing to share relevant portions of hard-copy transcripts of the various interviews (which total 15 hours of videotape) of nationally known scholars and celebrities such as Earl Hyman, David Bevington, and Fr Joseph Edwards, SJ. Am interested in many aspects of Shakespeare studies; have read literally hundreds of books on the subject and am willing to open my library (or research therefrom) to others. ============================================================================== *Mueller, Anna I. I am a German postdoc researcher currently working on Renaissance drama and on the look-out for a space to voice my ideas and questions (of which there are plenty). ============================================================= *Mueller, Martin Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Department of English Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 708-467-1065 martinmueller@nwu.edu Martin Mueller (PhD Indiana, Classics, 1966) taught at Brandeis (1965-7) and the University of Toronto (1967-76) before joining Northwestern University in 1976 as professor of English and director of the Comparative Literature Program. At Northwestern he has also served as director of the Humanities Program (1979-81) and chair of the Department of English (1983-90). He currently holds a joint appointment as professor of English and Classics. He has written *Children of Oedipus* (Toronto, 1979), which won the Harry Levin Award of the American Comparative Literature Association, and a monograph on the *Iliad* (1984) for the Unwin Critical Library. His publications on Shakespeare include a number of articles that pursue various aspects of Shakespeare' s use of his sources. =============================================================================== *Mueller, Shane R. For starters, my name is Shane R. Mueller, and as pretentious as it may seem, in formal situations I have always used my middle initial. I have been a lover of the theatre for as long as my memory serves me. My mother, I remember, used to take me to the Guthrie Theater, in Minneapolis, MN, to see their productions. One of my favourite productions was interpretation of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The unabridged text version, directed by Livie Chielu. In 1989. Then this past February 1997, A Midsummer Night's Dream opened, directed by Joe Dowling. It was one of the most fun, innovative, and freshest productions I have seen of "Dream" in quite some time. I think, however, few can compare to, in my opinion, the Royal National Company's production of Richard III, with (now Sir) Ian McKellan. McKellan's Richard was the finest Shakespearean performance I have had the pleasure to witness. I have seen all but, I think, seven of Shakespeare's plays performed at least once on stage. In addition to being a lover of Shakespeare, I spend as much of my free time as possible reading GREAT literature. I have also been fortunate enough, though my years number a mere 27, to have had the honor to make the acquaintance of some of the world's finest authors, including ( but not limited too): Seamus Heaney, Derek Wolcott, Arthur Miller, Joseph Brodsky, Octavio Paz, Wole Soyinka, Carlos Fuentes, & Kenzaburo Oe. I devour the works of Nobel Laureates as well as making the Nobel Prize and its process one of my few hobbies. I am currently a student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. I am actually finishing my degree after a seven year sabbatical. I enjoy reading, writing poetry, playing with my dogs, listening to Mandy Patinkin, bicycling, (trying to) teach myself Latin & Greek, and traveling, especially to Shakespeare festivals, with my wife. I believe in drinking at least two pots of coffee per day-to keep one on their toes and awake & alive, and that one damn good cigar and a glass of scotch, straight up, each day won't hurt you. I collect fountain pens, first edition literature, baseball cards of Gary Carter (Montreal Expos catcher from 1976-1984 and who retired from baseball in 1994 after finishing his final ten years with five different teams) and books by and /or about T.S. Eliot, my hero. ============================================================= *Mueller, Tom M. I'm the single parent of a six year old daughter; a "non-traditional" (read older) returning student. My majors are Englilsh Literature and Information Studies. I'm currently an undergrad (Senior), and plan on continuing with an MLS, plus a second degree in Literature. My career goals include doing literary research in an academic environment. I also have an interest in teaching Literature at the college level. Although my primary literary interests have been Twentieth Century realism-the short story form in particular-I'm almost overwhelmed at times by the intricacies in Shakespeare's works, the subtle weaving and inter-mixing of art and life. His influence is undeniable in those who have followed him, and I wish to further study his works as well as those who influenced Shakespeare. My school (Florida State University) offers a London library internship that can be done in conjunction with their London Shakespeare program. I hope to be able to take advantage of this offering next summer. ============================================================= *Muench, Jim I am a simple science writer (to be read "propagandist") for the University of Missouri-Columbia as well as a free-lance writer and playwright. I have a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Unfortunately, I have no publications in the field of Shakespearean scholarship, simply an interest engendered by a fine college teacher of the Bard and much reading and viewing of his works. I find that the Bard had a very large appreciation for other careers as shown in several of his plays (many references to sailoring and soldiering, etc.) perhaps due to his status as a "Renaissance man." Therefore, I feel some kinship with him, as my interests are varied also. If you want to include a working stiff like me in the list, so be it. Every Prince Hal has his Falstaffs. There's a very good chance I won't fit in with the elite Shakespearian buffs, so don't worry if you don't include me. I've got plenty to do. ============================================================================== *Mufson, Daniel NAME: Daniel E. Mufson TITLE: Graduate student DEPT. & INSTITUTION: Yale School of Drama, Dept. of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism BIO: Managing Editor, Theater Magazine. Published four articles in the most recent issues of Theater. I am currently working as the production dramaturg for the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Twelfth Night, and my interest in subscribing to SHAKSPER stems from the desire to facilitate the research that I will have to do as part of the pre-production process. SURFACE MAIL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 206963 New Haven, CT 06520 TEL. #: 203-436-0940 I hold an A.B. from Harvard University and expect to receive my MFA from Yale in May of 1995. =============================================================================== *Mulder, Stacy S. <00SSMULDER@bsuvc.bsu.edu> I am by no means a Shakespearean expert; let us just say I am a devotee more than anything else, though I taught Shakespeare in the high school for several years and had success in emphasizing the performance aspect of plays-- especially those works which are not within the generally-prescribed high school Shakespeare curriculum. As I complete my Ph.D. in British, American, and World Lit, I have now the oppotunity to focus more attention upon the things I love--and Shakespeare is one of them. ["opportunity" above; this system not correctable] I hold a Bachelor's Degree in English and Secondary Education from Anderson University of Anderson, Indiana. My Master's Degree in English was granted by Ball State University of Muncie, Indiana--M.A. Thesis: "Objective Romanticism: A Study of the Romantic Roots in the Objectivist Philosophy of Ayn Rand." In conjunction with my doctoral studies in lit with a lit theory cognate, I find myself forever saddened that academia requires narrow specialties; besides the eternal Bard I also love the classics, Dante, Milton, Proust, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, post-modern Canadian fiction--and Carl Jung! Professional memberships at present are limited to MLA and ICEA (Indiana College English Association). Publications are mainly fiction but consistent over the past three years: poetry and short stories in locan and regional journals. I look forward to sharing with you. I shall begin by stating that my daughters' (ages 7 and 10) favorite play is Richard III; mine is Lear. =============================================================================== *Mullaney, Steven Associate Professor of English English Dept./Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 (Currently at the National Humanities Center in NC) Recent publications: THE PLACE OF THE STAGE: LICENSE, PLAY AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND Memberships in MLA, SAA Current project, a study of the social construction of and history of emotions in Reformation England. Preliminary title is AFFECTIVE DOMAINS: THE SYMBOLIC ECONOMY OF THE EARLY MODERN SUBJECT. ======================================================================= *Mullenix, Ruth I would like to subscribe to your Shakespeare list. My name is Ruth Mullenix and I have a master's degree in English from the University of Illinois. I am not someone doing research or writing on Shakespeare-I'm just a Shakespeare nut. I feel I would very much enjoy having access to your list, although I doubt that I would have much to contribute. I am especially interested in any new developments about Shakespeare's biography, the use of magical and occult themes in his work, and his use of themes from classical antiquity. Your list sounds like a good way to keep current with recent Shakespearian developments. ============================================================= *Muller, Julia Julia J.G.Muller-van Santen, the hyphenated bit being my father's name, which is how the Dutch treat married women's names when they use both parts. My writings can be found under "Juul Muller" (non-academic work) or "Dr. J. Muller (-van Santen) for academic work. Born in The Hague, October 1937 of Jewish parents, fled the country in 1940, three months before the German invasion. Educated in New York, to Jr High School level and then returned to The Netherlands for Lyceum and higher ed. Married designer Frans Muller in 1956, had three children and then went to college of education at night. Obtained lower (1965) and higher (1971) degrees in English, followed by Free University of Amsterdam degree in English and American Language and Literature, cum laude 1974. Translated several books into Dutch, i.a. "Games People Play" by Eric Berne, Chesser's "Sexual Behavior" and from Dutch into English a pocket encyclopedia of the classical world for Prentice Hall. Teacher of English at Montessori Lyceum and later Barlaeus Gymnasium from 1970, teaching night classes at college of education (now Hogeschool Holland, where I am still based) on a part-time basis until 1980. In that year, full-time staff member at Hogeschool Holland, with occasional additional stints at Free University. PhD Free University 1990, on " Henry Purcell's First Semi- Opera, Dioclesian" (Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) . Additional: biography of Bach baritone Max van Egmond published in Dutch (1984). Recently published: articles on Donne's and Shakespeare's lute songs in Dutch Friends of Art Song periodical; "Music as Meaning in The Tempest" (in Shakespeare Yearbook 1994, Mellen Press ,NY (I'm trying to get permission to put that on your network) Forthcoming: article on Dorset Garden Theatre and semi-opera in London, 1690 (in "Performing the Music of Henry Purcell" ed. Michael Burden, Clarendon Press, 1995 (we hope) and a text edition of "Dioclesian" in "Henry Purcell: The Complete Opera Texts" ed. Burden, Clarendon, 1996. My main area of endeavour at the moment (as you may have guessed) is English theatre from Shakespeare on and its development, with special reference to music theatre. I teach theatre from Sh to now in the graduate school, also Lit 1660-1830, Mod Lit and American Lit. I have been chairperson of the equal rights committee of the higher education authority, a member of the civil service equal rights committee for The Netherlands and a negotiator for the teachers' unions with the min. of education. I am a board member of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries and of the Dutch Society for the Study of English (ESSE affiliate). I am also an enthusiastic grandmother and a fanatical swimmer. My home address is Amsteldijk 89, 1074 JB Amsterdam, tel 00 31 20 679 0340, fax 00 31 20 679 1855. =============================================================================== *Mullin, Michael MICHAEL MULLIN, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois- Urbana (UIUC), holds an M.Phil ('70) and a Ph.D. ('72) from Yale, where he was one of the last to get out before Hillis Miller and other theorists took over. His publications include Macbeth Onstage, Theatre at Stratford- upon-Avon: 1879-1978, Set and Costume Designs by Motley, and numerous articles on Shakespeare in the twentieth-century theatre, on film, and on television. In 1975 he held an Observership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1979-1980 he served on the National Advisory Council for the PBS/BBC Shakespeare on Television. In 1989-91 he served as project director for Design by Motley, an interpretive exhibition on set and costume designs that toured the US and then transferred to the Royal National Theatre, London. The US phase was partially supported by an NEH grant (the budget was $500,000). He is currently partially supported by an NEH grant ($250,000 outright, up to $400,000 match). He is currently embarked on a major research project entitled Shakespeare Across Cultures in the Theatre Today, with emphasis on Asia this summer. For further information, he may be contacted at . =============================================================================== *Mullin, Robert W. Robert Mullin POB 528085 Memphis, TN 38152 I am Robert W. Mullin, senior undergraduate student at Memphis State University. I will receive B.A.'s in Modern English Literature and French come May, 1994. Having returned to academia following a 20 year hiatus, I now pursue my academic endeavors with great alacrity. The time away from school must be attributed to J. Edgar Hoover and post-Vietnam syndrome. At any rate, the identity crisis is over; I am free to follow the scholastic path and shall do so with the mania that is my wont, be the goal literature, auto mechanics, the common law, or zymurgy. Part of the literary mania includes participation in scholarly discussion just such as is offered by SHAKSPER. I intend to push rapidly through into a doctoral program in French, a program hopefully offered by some well-endowed ancient, sea-coast institution situated in an exotic, french-speaking principality. My interest in SHAKSPER has two sources, one short-term another long. In the short, I hope SHAKSPER will provide a broader discussion and resource base to supplement the reading and writing I will be required to do in my fall '93 "Shakespeare Tragedies" class. The longer more enduring interest stems from a lifelong appreciation of the bard's work, from both the literary and dramaturgical perspective. I write seriously and must of course nod the master's way often. And I have, in the very recent past acted to some 'eclat.' At the Southeast Regional Theater Festival, The National Community Theater Festival, and the Canadian Community Theater Festival, Victoria B.C. And so it is again that I must tint my appreciation of the theater with the palette provided by the Avon Avatar. =============================================================================== *Munkelt, Marga English Department, University of Muenster Johannisstr. 12-20, W-4400 Muenster, Germany phone: 011-(251)-834292; private: 011- (251)-42296 Main academic fields: textual studies and stage history/practice. Main publications: one book on stage-directions (in German); collaboration with Marvin Spevack on the Shakespeare Concordance (esp. vols. 7 and 9); associate editor (with Marvin Spevack and Michael Steppat) of the New Variorum Antony and Cleopatra; articles on editorial traditions and on performances. Work in progress: associate editor (with John Velz) of the New Variorum Julius Caesar; reviews; article on genre; and more. ============================================================================ *Munkhoff, Richelle I am a graduate student currently working on my dissertation in the field of English Renaissance literature. My project, tentatively entitled "The Eyes of Her Judgment: Women Watching Women in the English Renaissance," examines various cultural texts in which women are encouraged to survey themselves and each other as a means to enforce, reproduce, and sometimes subvert the dominant cultural codes of ideal femininity. Some of the topics I am researching include conduct manuals aimed at women, popular pamphlets concerning the witch trials and the plague outbreaks, and the flurry of pamphlets over the "woman controversy." I am also interested in examining instances, in addition to the witch trials, of women dealing with the legal system (suing, bearing witness for or against one another in court, etc.), but as yet have very little information. The literary texts include Sidney's Arcadia, Wroth's Urania, Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, Middleton's Women Beware Women and (with Rowley) The Changeling. As for Shakespeare, I am focusing on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All's Well. The dissertation has most of my attention for the time being, but another major area of interest for me in Shakespeare studies is that of the performance, stage, and publication history (especially into the Restoration). Richelle Munkhoff Department of English University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 munkhoff@students.wisc.edu =============================================================================== *Munro, Ian I am a fifth year grad student in the Harvard English department, ABD and pursuing a dissertation focussed on urban representation in early modern London. Beyond a general interest in all aspects of Renaissance literature and culture, I am particularly interested in drama and other popular forms of entertainment. My present work has centered around the Lord Mayor's Show, and I would be very interested in talking with anyone who is also working on this subject, or on any other aspects of civic pageantry. I'm just beginning a project on Shakespeare's _Henry VIII_ and would love to talk to some people about it. =============================================================================== *Murley, Jean My name is Jean Murley, and I'm a first -year graduate student (coming in with a B.A.) in the PhD in English program at the City University of New York Graduate Center, in Manhattan. My main area of research is 19th century American (Twain and Melville), but of course this always leads me back to the Renaissance and Shakespeare. I am primarily interested in renaissance magic and the hermetic tradition; Milton and the satanic political culture of the mid-1600's is another interest. This list was recommended to me by a fellow graduate student. At this point in my career, I am getting all the information I can and narrowing down my range of interests. I have not published or attended any conferences. ============================================================= *Murphy, Andrew Andrew Murphy: I am a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and Brandeis University in Boston (MA; PhD). My PhD thesis was on colonial representations of Ireland and included a chapter on Shakespeare, centering largely on _Henry V_. Since completing my PhD I have worked at the University of Hertfordshire -- initially as a postdoc, then as a lecturer. Since coming to work at Hertfordshire, I have become interested in the history of the Shakespeare text and in the various disputes over the future of bibliography. My publications include 'Shakespeare's Irish History' (_Literature & HIstory_ Spring 1996); an edition of Q1 _Othello_ (in Prentice Hall's controversial 'Shakespearean Originals' series); 'Shakespeare's England, Britain's Shakespeare' (in the forthcoming Manchester UP volume _Shakespeare and National Culture_). I am currently working on a study of editorial changes to the four captains scene of _Henry V_. =============================================================================== *Murphy, Brendan I would like to subscribe to the Shakespeare thread on the Internet, and was informed that you acted as the moderator of the discussion, and required a brief biography of each potential participant. My name is Brendan P. Murphy. I am married and have three beautiful young children. I am currently a Senior Editor at Frost & Sullivan, a market research company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. My wife and I both graduated from Santa Clara University. She has a BA in Theatre Arts, while I have a BA in English with a writing emphasis. While at Santa Clara, I took four courses on Shakespeare. Three of those courses (including a Senior Seminar) were taught by Diane Dreher, currently Chair of the English department at Santa Clara and author of the book "Domination and Defiance: Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare." I am currently writing a play entitled "Crowne Jewel," which is based on King Lear (now there's a novel idea for you!), and would love to participate in your group. =============================================================================== *Murphy, Pamela Coats My name is Pamela Coats Murphy, and I am an English and theatre teacher in a high school just outside of Indianapolis, IN. I am a graduate of Indiana University with majors in English (emphasis on Brit. lit) and theatre, and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Secondary School Administration. One day I hope to become a principal. My interest in Shakespeare is both as a canonical masterpiece and as a means of production. I have directed my high school students in "The Tempest" just last year, and was in the Indianapolis Shakespeare in the Park's production of "Romeo and Juliet" myself. I hope to learn through these discussions information that will help me in the classroom and on the stage. I look forward to hearing/reading from you. =============================================================================== *Murphy, Patrick M. Patrick M. Murphy. I am an assistant professor in the Department of English at SUNY Oswego. I received my doctorate from the University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign. I am currently editing a book on THE TEMPEST for the Garland Shakespeare Criticism series, while also working on a book about Shakespeare's scenes in the context of philosophical and political debates in early modern England. An essay on wardship practices, Southampton, and VENUS AND ADONIS is also forthcoming in the Garland Series volume on that poem. =============================================================================== *Murray, Janet I am the mother of three, foster mother of one, and day care provider (part time) of three. I also have a Bachelor's of Art in English (UMASS/Boston '87) I took all of the available Shakespeare courses. I have always enjoyed reading Shakespeare but have never been able to find anyone to converse with about his works. I am hoping that this conference will allow me some intellectual stimulation. Being around kids all day is rewarding but I do have other interests and needs. ============================================================= *Muscovitch, Mark I'm not a scholar. I am a very interested bystander who studies and reads lots of Shakespeare!! I do attend college and I am currently studying acting and stage combat. =============================================================================== *Musgrove, Diane Diane Musgrove, Graduate Instructor, University of Missouri-Columbia BS in English, Evangel College, Springfield, Missouri, 1982 MA in English, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1984 PhD. in English, University of Missouri-Columbia, expected Dec 1994 Office address: English Department, Tate Hall 107, University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65211 (314) 882-0681 Current interest in Shakespeare: My dissertation examines the changing representation of women in selected Shakespearean plays and their Restoration adaptations. Other interests include: Religious lyrics of the 16th/17th centuries Theatre text and performance (new interest) Women and the novel: Especially Austen, Eliot, Meredith, Wharton and Cather Detective fiction =============================================================================== *Mutschelknaus, Mike I am a doctoral student at Kent State University interested in joining the SHAKSPER on line discussion. As an undergraduate, I specialized in Shakespeare and wrote an Honors Thesis on his sources for "The Rape of Lucrece." Now that I have completed my MA in linguistics, I am returning to Shakespeare for my Ph.d work. My main interests are Lear, and interpretations of Lear in the twentieth century. I also enjoy researching his transmutations of the Elizabe- than world view. My surface mail address is: Mike Mutschelknaus / Kent State University English Department / Kent, OH 44242. =============================================================================== *Mycoff, David I have been a full-time member of the English Department at Warren Wilson College for eleven years (we have no faculty rankings or tenure at this egalitarian institution). Warren Wilson is a very small liberal arts college, currently about 600 students and under 50 faculty, so faculty, whatever their academic specialties, are expected to be competent generalists in their teaching. My main responsibilities--aside from the usual 1/3 of total load devoted to freshman expository writing--lie in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Chaucer; Middle English; interdisciplinary courses in Medieval Life and Literature, Medieval Islamic Culture, Literature and Culture of the Renaissance, and Readings in Medieval and Renaissance Thought; and occasionally Milton. When our current Shakespearean retires in the next few years, I shall probably take up the upper-level Shakespeare course as well. I also regularly teach Scriptural and Doctrinal Backgrounds to Literature, African-American Prose, and interdisciplinary courses in Early American Studies. I include a strong component of period drama in the Medieval and Renaissance courses (nine plays and one opera in my current Renaissance course). Next fall, I shall team-teach with the chair of the theatre department a freshman-level seminar on Shakespeare in text and performance. Occasionally I serve as dramaturge or text coach for the theatre's productions of Renaissance works, and I act a little sometimes. My current project outside of teaching is a modern-spelling edition of Sidney's ASTROPHIL AND STELLA, introduced and annotated for upper-level undergraduates encountering the work for the first time. I'm currently using a desktop-published version of this edition as a text in my Renaissance course to see how well it works. Perhaps I shall eventually transcribe the piece into HTML for internet distribution. Previously, for ten years, I collaborated with R.F. Yeager of UNC-Asheville on an annotated bibliography of scholarship on the final five tales of THE CANTERBURY TALES, a piece that seems to have stalled permanently somewhere between the general editor and the University of Toronto Press. Two booklength publications, a critical edition of the legend of Mary Magdalene from Caxton published in Dr. Hoggs's Renaissance series at the University of Salzburg, and a translation and extended commentary on a medieval treatise on Mary Magdalene, published by Cistercian/Western Michigan, grew out of my dissertation work on medieval hagiography. Education: Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1984; M.A. University of Rochester, 1977; B.A. Washington and Lee University, 1975. Memberships: Medieval Academy of America, Dante Society of America, John Gower Society; Institute for Early American History and Culture. =============================================================================== *Myers, Amanda Cabot My name is Amanda Cabot Myers and I am a student of Professor Libby Smigel's at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. I am interested in subscribing to the Shaksper bulletin board. I am currently a junior at the colleges and am a music/english double major. Shakespeare is a favorite of mine and I have played Portia, Beatrice and Juliet in various school productions. Shakespeare's women have always proven to be very strong characters, and I am interested in refining those character's I have already portrayed, as well as learning about those I have not. I am also looking forward to increasing my knowledge of his plays as I have only read six of them. =============================================================================== *Myers, Jeff I would like to join the Shakespeare newsgroup. =============================================================================== *Myers, Marie Marie Myers 601-234-5988 chalc@chmrs6.chem.olemiss.edu I am currently working on my Master's Thesis (University of California, Berkeley -- not in residence) on the quarto and folio versions of Henry VI, Part 2. My major interests are textual studies and performance-based criticism. =============================================================================== *Myers, Norman J. NORMAN J. MYERS, Professor, Theatre Department Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 DEGREES: AB Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio MA, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana RELEVENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS: "Edwin Forrest's Coriolanus: The Democrat as Aristocrat. SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION OF WEST VIRGINIA: SELECTED PAPERS 14 (1989-90): 29-43 "Josephine Clifton: 'Manufactured' Star. THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES 6 (1986): 109-123 "The Public Reading Career of Edwin Forrest," Speech Communication Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 1988. "Manipulating Popular Male/Female Stereotypes in ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM" Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Mar. 1988 SHAKESPEARE/ELIZABETHAN PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED: COMEDY OF ERRORS, BGSU 1992 ELIZABETHAN DOMESTIC TRAGEDY (Program for Ohio Shakespeare Conference, 1992) LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST, BGSU 1989 AS YOU LIKE IT, BGSU, 1985 TWEKFTH NIGHT, BGSU 1975 OTHELLO, SUNY OSWEGO, 1964 CURRENT PROJECTS; --Margaret Anglin's Shakespeare productions (1913-14), the first professional productions in US with settings in the new stagecraft manner. --"Shoestring Shakespeare" BGSU Production of COMEDY OF ERRORS --Revision of ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM paper ASSOCIATIONS; American Society for Theatre Research SAA Speech Communication Association =============================================================================== *