O'Boyle, Patricia Marie I took my honours degree in English Language and Literature at Durham University, UK in 1982 ( class 11i) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 1983. My interest in Shakespeare stems from research into the links between Shakespeare and Wordsworth & Coleridge, with specific reference to the concept of Imagination.Originally starting from a study of Imagination and Fancy in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this has developed into a wider examination of the role(s) that different manifestations of what we call imagination ( or imaginative activity ) plays in Shakespeare and the two Romantics.Looking at studies in aesthetic theory, philosophy and psychology (especially memory and emotion more recently ),and involving a close study of the plays and poems, I have been working on this erratically, to say the least! As I teach in South East Asia now (Secondary level ),and am very busy, I have spent less time on the research. Library facilities are also a constraint, as I live in the New Territories of Hong Kong.I have access to the University Libraries, however. I still have regular contacts with the English Department at Durham, my home town, where I originally registered for an M.A. I attend relevant Shakespeare conferences when I can and keep abreast of issues through journals etc. but I think now is the time to get back on track more consistently. The studies I have made are, I believe, both interesting and of some value.I generally find very little work on the aspects of Shakespeare that I am researching though, and would welcome the opportunity to make contact with others who are interested and to have access to papers and publications which would be of help. I must say that I am more interested in the actual research than in the acquisition of the degree! Scholars I have discussed the issues with have also been extremely interested in my work.. I am simply a rather busy teacher who would like to put more time into research. ============================================================= *O'Brien, Peggy Peggy O'Brien, currently Vice President for Education, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Teacher. Publisher of Shakespeare Magazine. Editor of Shakespeare Set Free, the three-volume series on the teaching and learning of Shakespeare which features essays by scholars and practical plans by working classroom teachers. Formerly head of education at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and founder (with Jeanne Addison Roberts) of the Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute. Latest publications were 1996 article in Humanities Magazine on the teaching of Shakespeare, and "'And Gladly Teach. . .': Books, Articles, and a Bibliography on the Teaching of Shakespeare" in Shakespeare Quarterly, Summer 1995. Interested in all aspects of Shakespeare study and performance, especially those pertaining to the teaching and learning of Shakespeare which is, in many ways, what keeps us all in business! ============================================================= *O'Brien, Timothy M. I am currently a high school student who finds Shakespeare to be a very inspiring demigod of English literature. I want to expand my frontier of knowledge by being exposed to different views and concepts on this Bard's literature that I cannot find in high school presently. I have problems with the way Shakespeare is taught at that sub-college level, and I find that it turns many students away from what can be a most enlightening experience, the full comprehension of a Shakespeare drama. I have performed the role of Hortensio in Taming of the Shrew, and have recited many a monolouge from Hamlet and Henry V. That's a snapshot of who I am, I hope your happy. =============================================================================== *O'Connell, Renee Blue I am pretty new in my interest in Shakespeare since I am doing music in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I wanted to immerse myself in Shakespeare especially now while I'm in the play though my interest I can see will be longstanding once the production is over. =============================================================================== *O'Connell-Elston, Ryan T. My name is Ryan T. O'Connell-Elston, and I'm a sophomore in the Honors Program at Seattle University. I'm an English/Creative Writing major, with plans for graduate study in Literature and the Classics. I grew up in Spokane, Washington, where I attended Shadle Park High School. I became interested in Shakespeare after a Renaissance Literature course last fall, and I've been extensively reading and viewing as much Shakespeare as I can since then. I'm relatively new to the academic arena, but if I had to identify myself with a specific type of criticism, I would say I had leanings toward New Criticism. My last research paper analyzed the various potentialities for the Third Murder in _Macbeth_. Current topics that I've been researching include Shakespeare's portrayal of the shifting masses (especially within the Histories and _Coriolanus_), the influence of the classical authors and Shakespeare's use of the Greco-Roman deities, and the nature of male/male friendships throughout his works and sonnets. I'm also quite interested in the portrayal of Shakespeare on stage and in film. ============================================================= *O'Conner, Michael 107 Tate Hall University of Missouri, Columbia Columbia, MO 65205 voice phone: 314-882-3460 B.A. at Central Methodist College, 1978 M.A. at University of Missouri, Columbia, 1989 At present I am two years into Ph.D. work at Mizzou in the field of American Literature, specifically the novels of Mark Twain. I am interested in SHAKSPER List because I am working with genetic criticism and Shakespeare's works heavily influenced Twain's writings. Also, I simply enjoy reading Shakespeare and criticism of his works. ======================================================================== *O'Connor, Robert F. Robert F. O'Connor ANU Fenner Hall GPO Box 1213 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia I am a postgraduate student at the Australian National University, conducting research toward a Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jane Adamson. I have only been working on this since February of this year, so I am still fine-tuning things, but I am looking at writing on representations of ethics in Shakespeare's later plays. This is a gross over-simplification of my think- ing at the moment, but there is a word limit! My interest is not confined to Shakespeare - I find the other dramatists of the period - esp. Jacobean - and the prose writers particularly - fascinating. I have a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Diploma in Education from the University of Western Australia. I taught high-school Science and Maths for several years before realizing where my real interests were, so I went back to University to do a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at UWA. My dissertation on 'Models of Justice in Hamlet and The Tempest' was completed under the super- vision of Professor R.S. White. I was awarded first-class honours, and subsequ- ently a research scholarship at the ANU. I am also a resident tutor in English and Senior Resident (housemaster? I'm not sure what the American equivalent might be) at Fenner Hall, a new University Residence owned by the ANU. =============================================================================== *O'Daniel, Colleen My name is Colleen O'Daniel and I am a senior at the University of Houston. I will graduate this May with a BA in Literature and would like to be a part of the discussion on the Shakespeare list. =============================================================================== *O'Donnell, Jim (Penn, Classics) I am diffident about providing biography, as though that would claim me a rightful place at a table where I wish merely to hang about and pick up a few scraps. I am a classicist specializing in late antiquity, esp. Latin patristic writers, at the University of Pennsylvania. But I read Shakespeare as assiduously as I can, having lately cajoled a colleague into a mutual exhortation society in which we plan to read the whole canon over the next 20-odd years, more or less chronologically matching the production of the originals over the same period 400 years ago. Having worked out a rough-and-ready chronology, blurring difficulties and making some arbitrary placements, we decided to bite the bullet and begin with 1, 2, and 3 HVI, and are at the moment testing resolve at the prospect of 3. RIII lies beyond, and the whole rest of the rich world, so if we can just forget 1 and 2 (esp. 1) long enough to swallow 3, we should be ok. ========================================================= *O'Hair, Amy I am a graduate student at San Francisco State University, working towards a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. My correlative work is in English literature, and my particular interests regarding Shakespeare are the construction of gender and madness, the placement of his work in the historical flux, and his use of language. My undergraduate degree is from Cornell University (BFA, 1984). I have a story published in _Paragraph_, and am currently completing the first draft of a novel. =============================================================================== *O'Malley, Lurana LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Dance 1770 East-West Rd. University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI 96822 w. 808-956-9609 Pacific Time FAX 808-956-4234 EDUCATION: BA University of Virginia Drama/English MA University of Texas at Austin Theatre History and Criticism PhD University of Texas at Austin Theatre History and Criticism Dissertation topic: Commedia dell'arte and the early twentieth century Russian avante-garde Have published in: Theatre Studies, Theatre Insight, Theatre Journal, American Drama 1945-Present, Slavic Review, Soviet and East European Performance Professional memberships: Women and Theatre Program, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for Theatre Research Current interests: Contemporary Russian theatre, contemporary American women playwrights, Russian and Soviet drama of the 20th century ============================================================================= *O'Neil, Bill I am writing to request membership in the Shakespeare discussion group which you edit. I am the Head of the English Department at University School in Chagrins Falls, Ohio. In 1994 I earned a PhD in English from Yale University by writing a thesis on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Renaissance concepts of justice. Currently, I am doing research on regalia in Tudor England and preparing articles on Book V of The Faerie Queeene. In the fall I will be teaching a senior elective called "An Introduction to Shakespeare." ============================================================= *O'Neil, William I have a Phd. in English form Yale University having written my thesis on Book Five of The Faerie Queene and the Renaissance Concept of Justice. My present research involves Renaissance depcitions of Justice in Spenser and Shakespeare and in the visual arts. I am the Head of the English Department at University School; 2785 SOM Ct. Rd.; Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022; (216) 831-2200. =============================================================================== *O'Neill, Daniel I am an American of Irish and French descent, a petty bureaucrat, computerized, of course, working for a grim corporation. I have a BS in Biology, a BS in Nursing, and an MBA in Accounting. I am educated and reasonably cultured. My wife of 24 years is a very nice lady We have two cats and an iguana named Louie. I garden. My father is a retired high school English teacher with a good knowledge of Shakespeare. Mine own is more modest. My favorite play is "Macbeth", followed closely by "Hamlet", and "Julius Caesar". My major area of academic interest presently is management theory, particularly the work of W. E. Deming. I read much on military history. I would enjoy sharing with my father whatever bits of Shakespearean wisdom to be found at your web site. ============================================================= *O'Neill, Michael James Interested in all things Shakespearean, at the moment especially Henry IV pts I & II and Henry V. ============================================================= *O'Shea, Thomas I'm Thomas M. O'Shea, asst prof English, Tuskegee U, Tuskegee AL 36088. 334-727-8109. Iteach lots of shake, though my diss ('94, Minn) is on joyce. =============================================================================== *Oakes, Elizabeth Biographical Sketch: In l990 I received my Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, specializing in Shakespeare, the early modern period (drama only), and American poetry (with an emphasis on poetry by women). I was hired ABD in l987 on a tenure-track position at Western, where I received tenure about three years ago. I teach two Shakespeare classes, one in the fall and one in the spring. One is open to both undergraduates and graduates; the other is only for graduate students (Western grants the M.A.) Current Interests: After a hiatus of about a year in which I was involved in other things, I am returning to a reworking of my dissertation on widows (Title: Heiress, Beggar, Saint, or Strumpet: The Widow in the Society and on the Stage in Early Modern England). Also interested in pedagogy, I am exploring ways other than the by now traditional performance exercises to lift Shakespeare off the page and enable students to experience the plays as well as analyze them. "The Widow as a Site of Ideological Deviation in Shakespeare and His Society" read at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 9, l994, in Dallas, Texas. "Two Notes on Gertrude" published in Hamlet Studies, summer and winter, l994. "Polonius, the Man behind the Arras: A Jungian Study" published in New Essays on "Hamlet." Ed., Mark Thornton Burnett and John Manning. New York: AMS Press, l994. Book Review Editor, Shakespeare and the Classroom, l995-- (The most recent issue has my review of Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom, edited by Bruce McIver and Ruth Stevenson "Enacting Shakespeare's Language" published in Teaching Shakespeare Today: Practical Approaches and Productive Strategies. Urbana, Il.: National Council of Teachers of English, l993. "Writing Shakespeare: Some Pre-play Exercises for The Tempest" published in English Journal, a National Council of Teachers of English publication, April, l993. =============================================================================== *Oates, Jeff I have been interested in Shakespeare since High School in the late 70's. We read, "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," and I have been interested in him ever since. In College at Ohio University, I took two classes on Shakespeare with a focus on Hamlet. During my days at OU my interest in Shakespeare expanded to the Sonnets as well as "King Lear," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Othello," and "Henry V." At Graduate School at Youngstown State University, I did not take any classes on Shakespeare, but I did read him quite a bit in order to escape the trials and tribulations or writing papers and taking exams. I guess you could say I am an innocent bystander. I am someone who is truly interested in learning, listening, reading, watching, and even talking about Shakespeare. No, I am not a scholar, actor, or director. I can say this though, I will not bring any shame or dishonor to list such as this. More than any other list that I am a member of, I would truly welcome the opportunity to be a part of this one. ============================================================= *Oates, Jim I am a profesional accountant (CMA) in private practise. The focus of my business is assisting small businesses better manage their finances. I reside in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. My interest in Shakespeare is as an interested bystander. I have writen no papers nor am a member of any academic body. I am a member of Stratford Shakespeare festival and have been for about 4 years. =============================================================================== *Oelke, Kent I am presently teaching foreign languages in West Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Unified School District in a substitute position. I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Oregon. I have passed the National Teacher's Examination in French. I have also passed the Los Angeles Unified School District's examination of Spanish proficiency. I also speak Portuguese fluently. I have virtually completed the course work necessary for a clear credential at California State University. Otherwise I have written an unpublished novel in French. I am presently writing my dreams - I have so far logged 330. I find it very interesting, and I have a solid background in psychoanalysis. I consider my -field- to be contemporary French literature, but I often find myself far away. I have a continuing interest in Shakespeare. Also science fiction, computers, dance, etc. ======================================================================= *Ognibene, Mary My name is Mary Ognibene, and I am in Professor Libby Smigel's Performing Shakespeare class at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. When I told my friends I was going to take the course, most either said, "Wow, that's so cool!" or "What possessed you to sign up for that???!!!" I guess I like acting. No, untrue. I KNOW I like to act. I'm always doing it around my friends. I love impressions and accents, and I'm really impressed by creativity, no matter how crazy things can get. I like to have a lot of fun. I also sing (although my sister always complains of headaches when I do!) Come to think of it, I have to choose a major this week at school. I am a sophomore without a clue! I think I may major in English with a Theatre concentration, but I am also fufilling the requirements for Medical School (my interests are vast, as you can see). Why am I taking this Shakespeare course?? Perhaps I should just give you a quick list of my passionate interests, and then you can draw your own conclusions. I LOVE: castles, renaissance faires, theatres (my dream house will have a secret room leading to one), old quotations, medieval and renaissance costuming, monasteries and convents, anything Irish and, of course, the all too famous British accent. Perhaps these are the ingredients for a Shakespeare fest, perhaps not,but I'm here, and I'm prepared to enjoy my time. Thanks for your utmost consideration in reading this meagre biography. =============================================================================== *Okumoto, Kyoko I am a graduate student of English Literature in Japan. My university is called Kobe College, and I am a doctoral student. My interests are in Literature including Shakespeare and Peace Studies. My current research is on "the role of literature/art in achieving peace." I am very much interested what are discussed among Shakespeareans on-line. ============================================================= *Oldenburg. Scott I am working toward my MA in English literature with an emphasis in early modern literature at San Francisco State University. In 1993, I graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in English, a minor in Linguistics, and a certificate in Applied Linguistics. In the years between graduating and beginning work on my MA I lived in Panama where I taught literature at a bilingual highschool. In addition to Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights, I am particularly interested in sonnet cycles, early modern culture, discourses of colonialism and nationhood, and psychoanalytic approaches to literary and cultural studies. Aside from being a student of literature, I teach literacy and English as a Second Language classes to immigrant communities in Oakland, CA. I plan on pursuing my Phd in the near future. ============================================================= *Oldrieve, Susan C. I am originally from the Washington D.C area. I taught part time at Pasadena City College, SUNY Binghamton, and James Madison University while concentrating on my three children Jonathan (now 20), Katherine (17), and Libby (14) Burchmore. I began working full time at Baldwin Wallace in 1986, was tenured in 1992, and promoted to Full Professor in 1997. I am responsible for all courses in both Medieval and Renaissance literature, including Survey of British Literature I, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature in Translation, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Literature of the English Renaissance, and Acting Shakespeare. I also teach Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Drama, and three levels of composition. I served as Director of the Writing Lab at Baldwin Wallace from 1994-1997 and have been active in working with the student print media on campus and in promoting multicultural concerns, particularly in the classroom. Baldwin-Wallace is a teaching college with a heavy work load, so my time for research has been sparse. I see my primary responsibility as a scholar to stay current in the broad range of fields that I cover so that I can convey important new information, ideas, and approaches to my students. My scholarly studies therefore result mostly in constant revisions in the content and pedagogy of my courses. Nevertheless, I regularly presented papers on Sidney's Arcadia and the Anglo-Saxon poem Genesis B at the International Congress of Medieval Studies for several years. I also more recently published an essay on The Merchant of Venice in Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature (1993) and presented a paper on the play at the 1996 Ohio Shakespeare Conference. My current research interests focus primarily on the history of race and gay/lesbian issues, early period women writers, the family in Medieval and Renaissance literature, performance approaches to teaching drama, and on pedagogical methods for promoting a multicultural perspective in the early British Literature classroom. I am a member of The Sidney Society, The Spenser Society, MLA, NCTE, the Ohio Shakespeare Conference, and SAA. ============================================================= *Olesh, Elizabeth Nancy Hey ho! My name is Elizabeth Nancy Olesh and I inquired about the SHAKSPER conference about two weeks ago. Yes, I was (still am) a little intimidated about writing a personal statement for you. How formal should this statement be? Quite honestly, I am still a lowly undergraduate, so I haven't published, nor am I a member of any professional associations. I am just an English major who is completely obsessed with Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and drama, and I hope to find a place on the Internet where I can banter with similarly crazed individuals (who are intellectually responsible, no doubt). Do you think there might be a place for me in SHAKSPER, or would this upset the social order? If the prospects seem bright, I will send more info. [Exit, chased by a bear] =============================================================================== *Olivar, Jordi My name is Jordi Olivar, I live in Barcelona, Spain. I am 27 years old and I am actually attending to my last course in English Philology on the University of Barcelona. My interest in this Shakespeare list is due to the need of reaching a wider range of points of view concerning Shakesperean Studies, especially any works referring to my main concern: his tragedies. ============================================================= *Oliveira, Marta Ramos Graduated in Translation (English) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS - Brazil) in 1992. At the moment I am a postgraduate student of English literature at the same university. My thesis project is not defined yet but I was thinking in terms of post war British literature. I have not yet defined authors or works and am accepting suggestions (orientation, etc.). My idea was to discover whether there is a significative change in response to society after the war. It is still too broadly defined, but I expect to have something more specific by the end of the year, and if it does not prove a good idea, I will try something else. I am still looking forward to translating in the future (although I do some work on translation as a free lancer). surface mail address : Marta Oliveira Av. Cristo'va~o Colombo, 1323 apto 502 90.560-004 - Porto Alegre - RS Brazil phone number : (051) 346-25-64 degrees held : translator (UFRGS - 1992) =============================================================================== *Oliver, Anika My name is Anika Amelia Oliver, and i am a Computer Science major classified as a junior. I am enrolled in a shakespeare class here at Tuskegee University. I joined SHAKESPER for my personal love in Shakespeare! =============================================================================== *Olmert, Michael Michael Olmert is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he's been teaching advanced Shakespeare courses for the past eleven years. He has writen MILTON'S TEETH & OVID'S UMBRELLA (Simon & Schuster, 1996) and the SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF BOOKS (Smithsonian Press, 1992), which includes an illustrated chapter on the printing of Shakespeare's texts. He has also appeared in the scholarly journals CHAUCER REVIEW (twice), FLORILEGIUM, ARETE, ANNUALE MEDIAEVALE, CHAUCER NEWSLETTER (twice), MOTIF, AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTAL QUARTERLY, TLS, and ARCHAEOLOGY. His book THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1985), a guide to 18th Century material culture, reaches about a half million readers a year. Olmert also has an active freelance writing career, with over 50 contributions to SMITHSONIAN Magazine, and appearances in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, HORTICULTURE, SCIENCE, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, the NEW YORK TIMES, BOOK WORLD, and the WASHINGTON POST. He wrote the screenplay for the recent feature film THE LEOPARD SON, narrated by Sir John Gielgud (Discovery Pictures, 1996). He also has written over fifty television documentaries on cultural history and wildlife biology for such outlets as PBS, CBS, Discovery Channel, ESPN, A&E, National Geographic, and the acclaimed but now defunct SMITHSONIAN WORLD. He lives in both Washington, D.C. and Berthoud, Colorado, with his wife, Meg Daley Olmert, who is completing a book on animal communication. He holds degrees from Georgetown (MA,'65) and Maryland (PhD, 1980). =============================================================================== *Olsen, Brian Brian Olsen 1805A Tower Road Rolla, MO, 65401 I am presently an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the University of Missouri-Rolla. In addition to my scientific oriented studies I have been involved in an Elizabethian madrigal group for the past two years in which I both sing and play viol da gamba. My interest in this group stems from my interest in the literary devices and techniques utilyzed by writers and composers during the Elizabethian and Jacobean time periods. I believe that my initial observation will greatly add to my ability to produce lyrics indicitive of the time period and for the enjoyment of myself and others. As of the present, I have neither authored nor contributed to any paper or publication involving Shakespeare's works. However, I have participated in interpreting and performing Shakespearean plays and compositions. I have also read many of his plays and have seen several of the BBS interpretations of his plays. =============================================================================== *Olsen, Kristen I am a grad. student at UMASS-Boston. Last semester I took a course entitled "Teaching of Shakespeare." It was wonderful. However, no other courses with a Shakespearian focus are currently being offered here. Admittedly, my knowledge base is not large, and my computer skills are not at all impressive as of yet, but I wonder if I might be allowed to sub-scribe, listen, and learn. =============================================================================== *Olson, Ann Marie My name is Ann Marie (Annie to friends) Olson. I am a graduate student at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, working on a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric. I am just beginning my Ph.D. work, having completed only 6 hours and currently taking 6 hours. I completed my master's degree in English last spring at the University of Texas at Tyler. My thesis was on the ethics of justice in Shakespearean comedy, specifically All's Well, Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, and Winter's Tale. My conclusions are: 1. Shakespeare builds on and borrows from classical, traditional, and biblical models of ethics. However, rather than endorsing or asserting any specific ethical system, Shakespeare explores the potential outcome of many ethical approaches and actions. 2. Shakespeare's comic justice is restorative rather than retributive (as it is in his tragedies). Currently I am teaching full time in a small Christian high school. In addition to teaching English and Bible, I am the drama director. The highlight of our productions to date was out Spring, 1995 production of Much Ado about Nothing. This year we are performing A Midsummer Night's Dream. Both of these productions are at the request of students who have learned in the classroom to enjoy and appreciate Shakespeare's works. I am especially interested in the ways in which Shakespeare interacts with his culture through the medium of drama. I am also interested in production approaches to A Midsummer Night's Dream. =============================================================================== *Olson, Kristen My full name is Kristen Lee Olson, and I am a graduate student/teaching assistant in my second year of the MA/PhD program at Case Western Reserve University. My BA is from Colby College (1988). I also have an ALM (Master of Liberal Arts) from the extension program at Harvard University (1993). The thesis I completed for that program focused on structural patterns in King Lear, 1&2 Henry IV, and The Tempest. I plan to pursue my PhD and an academic career focusing on Shakespearean literature. I'm currently enrolled in a seminar on Renaissance theater that encompasses socio-political history, performance history, and also gender issues. My interests are centered primarily around textual studies, linguistic analysis, semiotics, as well as post-structural approaches, but I'm interested in learning as much as I can in this field, hence my interest in this bbs. =============================================================================== *Olson, Lise LISE OLSON, currently Lecturer in Acting and Voice at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, formerly at Welsh College of Music and Drama, Rose Bruford, Central School of Speech and Drama, the Drama Centre London, East 15Acting School, Assistant Professor Purdue University, Duke University, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of Washington. Postgrad work at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Central School and University of Utah (MFA Directing). Member of British Voice Association, VASTA. Research areas include historical study of Shakespeare performance, heightened text and verse work. ============================================================= *Olson, Stephen I am currently an undergraduate at Cardinal Stritch College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My interest in drama, especially Shakespeare, comes from my studies in school and previous work in technical theatre. I have worked in the travel industry for 15 years since leaving high school. For the last 11 years I have worked for The SABRE Group, a part of American Airlines. I am a returning adult student completing my undergraduate degree. I have found that listservers have been a wonderful way to "hear" what the cutting edge issues are. I am looking forward to taking part in scholarly discussions about Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Onorato, Jody Simply put, I am an adult re-entry student at Cal. State Northridge which is located north of Los Angeles. I am an English lit. major and am enrolled in a wonderful senior seminar this semester entitled "Shakespeare and film". It is gratifying to begin completing what I started over 20 years ago, and after this semester I will have only five classes left to complete for my B.A. I am certain your program will be tremendously interesting, stimulating, and helpful to me as well. I look forward to you reply. ============================================================= Deborah Dale I'm an undergraduate at the University of Washington majoring in Creative writing and comparative literature. At present I am enrolled in Sara Van den Berg's class on Hamlet and King Lear. Unfortunately this is all the bio I can give you, other than mentioning my interest in writing scholarly papers in the future, and that I am also a practicing poet. My poems have appeared in university journals. ============================================================= *Onorato, Jody I am an adult student who has recently returned to school to finish what I started over 20 years ago-my B.A. in English Lit. I am currently enrolled in a wonderful class entitled "Shakespeare and Film" and look forward every Wednesday to the next meeting. It is a rigorous schedule, what with family, work, an hour drive to campus and the course work, but there is practically nothing else I'd rather be doing for now. I am sure that subscribing to SHAKSPER will be a super way to get an even deeper appreciation for Shakespeare and to be inspired by the enthusiasm I am starting to see around me. I want to be part of it! ============================================================= *Orchard, Chris Chris Orchard: I am an assistant professor of English, specially Shakespeare and renaissacne lit. at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I appear frequently on the Milton list as this is my real speciality. I received my doctorate from Oxford in November 1994 with a thesis entitled "Politics and the Literary Imagination 1642- 1660." I work on the politics of translation, theories of literature in the 1640s and 1650s and literary portrayals of women in the same decades. My secondary interest is Ben Jonson. =============================================================================== *Orgel, Stephen English Department, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2087 Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford, and has taught at Harvard, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins. He has published widely on the political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater and art history. His books include THE JONSONIAN MASQUE, THE ILLUSION OF POWER and, in collaboration with Sir Roy Strong, INIGO JONES: THE THEATRE OF THE STUART COURT. He has edited THE TEMPEST for the Oxford Shakespeare, Ben Jonson's court masques for the Yale Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe's Complete Poems and Translations for Penguin English Poets, and, in collaboration with Jonathan Goldberg, John Milton in The Oxford Authors series. He has been senior editor of ELH. His Oxford edition of THE WINTER'S TALE is forthcoming. Recent Publications: Editions: John Milton, The Oxford Authors (in collaboration with Jonathan Goldberg), Oxford 1991 Anthony Trollope, LADY ANNA, edited with an introduction, Oxford World's Classics 1990 Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST (The Oxford Shakespeare), Oxford 1987 Articles: "Counterfeit Presentments: Shakespeare's Ekphrasis," in ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENTAL RENAISSANCE, edd. Edward Chaney and Peter Mack (Boydell, 1990) "Jonson and the Amazons," in SOLICITING INTERPRETATION, edd. Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katharine Eisaman Maus (Chicago, 1990) "Nobody's Perfect, or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women?" South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 (winter 1989) "The Authentic Shakespeare," Representations 21 (winter 1988) "Plato, the Magi, and Caroline Politics," Word and Image 4.3/4 (July-December 1988) Work in Progress: THE WINTER'S TALE, edition for the Oxford Shakespeare WHY DID THE ENGLISH STAGE TAKE BOYS FOR WOMEN (book) THE AUTHENTIC SHAKESPEARE (Shakespearean essays) =============================================================================== *Orkin, Martin Ronald <071MRO@cosmos.wits.ac.za> Professor Martin Ronald Orkin Department of English University of the Witwatersrand. PHd London 1980 `An examination of Shakespeare's use of Proverb Idiom in four plays' Lectured at University of Natal Durban 1971-3; Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University 1987-8. Creator and Editor of The English Academy Review, Journal published by the English Academy of SA 1979-1988.Books: Shakespeare Against Apartheid, Johannesburg 1987, Drama and the South African State, Manchester 1991: Editor of At the Junction: four plays by the JATC forthcoming 1994 Witwatersrand University Press. Chapter in Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama edited V Salmon and E Burness. Articles include: `The Politics of Editing the Shakespeare Text in South Africa' in Current Writing 5:1, 1993; `Re-presenting The Tempest in South Africa 1955-90' Shakespeare in SA 6:1993, `Shakespeare and the Politics of "unrest"' English Academy Review 8:1991; `Touchstone's Swiftness and Sententiousness' English Language Notes XXVII:1, 1989 (see also article in XXIII:1 1985);`Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913' Shakespeare Survey 40:1987; `Othello and the plain face of Racism' Shakespeare Quarterly, 38:2, 1987; `Sir John Falstaff's Taste for Proverbs in Henry IV Part 1' English Studies 65:5, 1984, Articles in Notes and Queries 31:2, 1984, 30:2, 1983; The Explicator 42:2, 1984. Current interest: Reading Shakespeare's Late plays in a post-colonial context. =============================================================================== *Ormond, Philip <100013.1162@CompuServe.COM> Philip Ormond Director Rose Theatre Trust c/o THEATRE DESPATCH Azof Hall Azof Street London SE10 0EG Great Britain Tel: +44 81 853 0750 Fax: +44 81 293 4861 In addition to running a theatrical publicity company (THEATRE DESPATCH) I am also Honorary Treasurer and amateur archivist of The Rose Theatre Trust having been involved with the publicity of the campaign to save this site from destruction by developers since March 1989. I maintain a miniscule library of books, articles, and papers dealing with the history of The Rose and its excavation, and press cuttings books on the campaign to save it. Information about material and material itself are always very welcome. The library is currently not available for research but it hoped that it will one day be housed in the museum space devoted to The Rose. In the meantime enquiries are dealt with by an untrained, willing but time-scarce me. We have produced a very short bibliography (really for the Trust's internal purposes only) of works relating to The Rose and a series of 67 daily newsletters were produced during May-July 1989 chronicling the campaign. Now that contact has been established with SHAKSPER an effort will be made to make these available electronically. My company, THEATRE DESPATCH, has sponsored a 50 minute documentary on the history of The Rose, presented by Edward Fox. This has been shot and rough-cut but is awaiting a broadcast outlet before it can be fine-cut. ============================================================================== *Ortiz, Eugene D My name is Eugene Ortiz, a M.A. Candidate on the English Composition Track at The University of Akron. I'm currently using computers as a means to mediate composition in first year undergraduates. Specifically, I am using student interaction on electronic discussion groups to mediate student awareness of audience in the composing process. I am currently enrolled in a graduate seminar on Shakespearean drama. My instructor, Nicholas Ranson, suggested I subscribe to SHAKSPER since I am an Internet user already. My plan is to report regularly to my colleagues about goings-on in this group in order to illustrate just how alive Shakespearean studies are and where the latest discussions in the field are taking place. I subscribe to MBU-L, "Megabyte University" discussions on Computers and Composition. I have been publishing THE WRITER'S NOOK NEWS, a national quarterly newsletter for freelance writers, since June 1985. I can be reached at or =============================================================================== *Orvik, Kirsti Lynne My name is Kirsti Orvik, and I am in my third year of doctoral work at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Although I am doing a creative dissertation in poetry, my profram requires that I do a fair amount of critical work as well. I am also in my third year as a TA, and have taught several World Lit courses which included Shakespeare. I have no publications on the subject of Shakespeare, but I did participate this summer in a Shakespeare course as part of my university's British Studies Program in London at King's College. We studied five plays (Hamlet, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tempest) and had the opportunity to see them performed by the RSC. For our final project, we must write a substantial paper (20-30pp) on one of the plays. I have decided to do King Lear, and am specifically interested in the Lear/Cordelia/Fool relationship. My other major field of critical interest involved John Berryman (he is my "major figure" for my comps), and I know that he worked on a new (In 1952) textual reading of Lear. I have made contact with the people in charge of the Berryman papers at the University of Minnesota, and am considring making a trip there in January. My purpose is to see what Berryman did (the manuscript was never finished) and try to find something to tie in to my own interests involving Lear, as well as the work I have already done on Berryman. All this may be a little off the subject, but I want to let you know why I am interested in subscribing to "Shakesper", and to assure you that, at least for now, I want only to observe what goes on in your discussion group as a means of becoming more informed of the current Shakespeare scholarly scene. =============================================================================== *Osborne, Laurie E. Assistant Professor Dept. of English Colby College Waterville, ME 04901 (207) 872-3304 My Shakespearean interests are varied, including performance, metadrama, literary theory, gender studies, and, most recently, textual studies. I have pursued my interests in performance and metadrama in my dissertation on Shakespeare's player-dramatists and in the Folger N. E. H. seminar on Shakespeare in Performance. My most recent publications are "Letters, Lovers, Lacan; Or, Malvolio's Not-So-Purloined Letter" in Assays V(1989):63-89; "The Texts of Twelfth Night" in ELH 57(1990): 37-61; and "Dramatic Play in Much Ado about Nothing: Wedding the Italian Novella and English Comedy" in Philological Quarterly(Spring 1990). The last of these is a revised chapter from my dissertation, whereas the previous two are part of my current work on the performance texts of Twelfth Night. I am now working on a book tentatively entitled The Multiple Texts of Twelfth Night. My basic interest is what does it mean to be a Shakespearean text in a post-structuralist world. In my work on the play, I have undertaken to explore how the single, apparently unproblematic text of Twelfth Night is in fact multiple texts, varying through time. To that end, I examine factors like the dating of the play which Malone and others came up with in the eighteenth century (they gave the play a date of composition in 1614!!) and, more important, the various performance editions which came out in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These published editions make some fascinating cuts and changes in comparison with the Folio text, all the while making a variety of claims for their own authenticity. As a result of my interest in the editorial strategies of these texts, I've also ended up exploring some of the current textual bibliography done by Gary Taylor and others. The book will not be limited to textual issues, however, and also takes up the question of the practices at work in our current performance editions of the play on film and video and the larger issue of what can be considered inside and what outside the text. If all this sounds vaguely like deconstruction, I guess is it, though I depart from Derrida's claim that there is not "outside" the text since I see a historical process grounded in the attempt to draw the line between what is inside and what outside or beyond the bounds of the text. My other theoretical interests in this project center around performance criticism and feminist criticism of film. From discussing the implications of performance editing in the early nineteenth century, I move to considering the ideological implications of current performance editing on film and video. I should also add that I am very interested in Shakespearean pedagogy, especially in ways of teaching Shakespeare which use either performance or critical theory. ======================================================================== *Osiowy, Rod I am a teacher in Cranbrook, British Columbia in Canada. You are right, I have been tardy in responding with an autobiography, mostly due to the summer holidays drawing to a close and my preparations for a new term filling my days currently. I am interested in the newsgroup and would appreciate listening in and possibly asking a few questions now and again. My area is drama and have taught for approximately 10 years at all levels including post secondary. In that time, I've taught everything from grade 12 Biology and English to Art, Theatre, and even Business Education. I annually produce one or two major productions in our school and teach Acting and Stagecraft. Two years ago I experienced my greatest satisfaction in producing A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was the first Shakespeare in many years, and drew crowds into the theatre with standing ovations from packed houses. It was a production that took some liberties with the script, changing place, time, and dialect, but kept true to the language. I graduated with great distinction with a BEd, and am interested in finding a way to do a Master's degree through the internet. My work has included places like Norway for two years, the Queen Charlotte Islands, (in paradise) for three years, and the prairies in Saskatchewan. =============================================================================== *Oster, Gloria My name is Gloria Oster, and I have taught high school English for 20 years. I teach advanced Placement English; thus, I have a pedagogical reason as wellas a personal interest in this listserv. My undergraduate degree is from the Uniersity of Tennessee at Knoxville (1974) and I have an M.A. from Eeast Tennessee State University in English. Last year I took a semer semester's leave to begin work on a Ph.D. in English at the university of SOuth Carolina. Completing this degree is a personal goal more than a professional one. I would be interested in perusing the material posted here to enhance my teaching. =============================================================================== *Ostovich, Helen I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9; the office number is (416) 525-9140 x4496. Recent publications include: "Two Jonsonian Neologisms", Cahiers Elisabethains 38 (Oct 1990): 65-7; "`Manfrede'?: Reconstruction of a Misprint in Jonson's Every Man Out of his Humour (1600)", Notes and Queries (Sept 1989): 330-1; and forthcoming "`So Sudden and Strange a Cure': A Rudimentary Masque in Every Man Out of his Humour", English Literary Renaissance. I am also preparing a modern critical edition, Four Comedies by Ben Jonson: Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair for Longman Annotated Texts, London, for publication in late 1993 or early 1994. ========================================================================== *Ostrowsky, Benjamin A. Ben Ostrowsky is an undergraduate student at the University of Florida in the USA. Shakespeare studies are of particular interest to him these days, prompted by challenging senior-level courses in the area. His long-range plans center on work as a librarian. Physical correspondence sent to 560 Hunting Lodge Drive, Miami Springs FL 33166 is likely to reach him within a week or two. =============================================================================== *Ota, Kauaki My name is Kazuaki Ota (b. 1950). I am an associate professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, Japan. I have been studying English Renaissance drama and have published papers on Shakespeare and others. Although I usually write in Japanese, I have written three English papers: "Admiration in Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy"(1985), "Shakespeare's Romances and the Court"(1991), and "The Quarto of '2 Henry IV' as a Revised Text"(forthcoming). Now I am particularly interested in Elizabethan censorship. I have written a review of J. Clare's 'Art made tongue-tied by authority' and R. Dutton's 'Mastering the Revels' for Japanese readers. I am currently working on a book on Elizabethan dramatic censorship which I will publish with my Japanese friends next year. =============================================================================== *Otis, Shelly My name is Shelly Otis. I work in the health care profession and am the mother of a wonderful, busy 2 year old. I hold two degrees, a B.S. in Biology, and an M.B.A. in Health Services Administration. As for my interest in Shakespaere, My interest began in High School and has continued ever since. I attend as many Shakespaere festivals as possible. Including, the Ashland Shakespaere Festival, the California Shakespaere Festival and the Santa Cruz Shakespaere Festival. I read each play before I see it and I also enjoy reading Asimov's Shakespaerean studies before watching each play.My only problem is that I currently do not have anyone (except my husband who also loves the plays) to discuss the productions with. Hopefully SHAKSPER can fill this void. I would also love to learn about productions around the world. =============================================================================== *Ott, Lesli Shea My name is Lesli Shea Ott, and I attend Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. I am here majoring in English with a double minor in Spanish and Biology. I am a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society and participate in our annual celebration of Shakespeare's birthday. I very much enjoyed the collaborative efforts of my peers and our professors in making the celebration a success. During that afternoon, sonnets were recited, personal interpretations were given, games were played, and personal papers and essays were delivered. My contribution was an essay on Othello which I was asked to deliver by my Shakespeare professor, Dr. Gordon Ross. I am very interested in suscribing to SHAKSPER because there will be a discussion on his works each time I log on, and I won't have to wait for an annual event to bring Shakespeare buffs together. =============================================================================== *Ottenhoff, John John Ottenhoff Associate Professor Department of English Alma, MI 48801 internet: ottenhoff@alma.edu BA: Calvin College; MA, PhD: University of Chicago My dissertation (U of Chicago, 1982) and most of my published work involves devotional poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries, especially the work of George Herbert and John Donne. My teaching, in the setting of small liberal arts colleges, has ranged freely across several interests: nonfiction writing, general linguistics, Renaissance poetry, Milton, and Shakespeare. I teach our upper-level Shakespeare course as well as a May Term Shakespeare on Film course. Both courses have deeply engaged me in recent years, and I find myself drifting from my original teaching and research interests toward Shakespeare. A familiar story, I'm sure. I'm especially interested in working more with film interpretations and am currently trying to write up some of my ideas in that area. I'm also interested in computer applications for teaching undergraduate humanities courses; I've just completed a successful experiment with a computer conference in my Shakespeare class andhope to do more with the format in future classes. I look forward to joining the SHAKSPER conference. =============================================================================== *Oulton, Nicholas Since 1968 I have worked as a professional economist. I taught economics at Lancaster University (UK) from 1971-1987. In 1977/78 I was a visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. In 1987 I moved to London and began work at the National Institute, the leading independent research institute in economics in the UK. I have published numerous articles in academic journals, mainly on industrial productivity and competitiveness. Partly because of a family background in the theatre, I have long had a strong interest in Shakespeare. I try to keep abreast with some of the recent scholarly work, particularly on playhouses and theatrical companies. I cherish the hope of one day applying my professional skills as an economist to the study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre industry. ============================================================= *Owen, John I am the librarian at Advanced Micro Devices, a chipmaker in silicon valley. I intended seriously to go into literary criticism and got my B.A. in English at San Diego State with that intention, but was not able to follow up on it for various reasons. I used to follow all the Shakespearean scholarship quite heavily, but now that it is an avocation, I have gotten perhaps a little out of touch. I am quite capable of keeping my opinions to myself if need be, but I do have a few hot spots that I need to watch out for - 1. I think SHAKESPEARE wrote his own plays and did not receive assistance from dead noblemen or resurrected atheists or natural philosphers. 2. Shylock is NOT the central character of MOV. Say what you will about Will's motivations, the moneylender is a supporting character and the play's villain. 3. Can we go back to setting Shakespeare either in Elizabethan/Jacobean England or in a setting corresponding to the author's intent? I hope never again to see Much Ado set on the moon, or Twelfth Night set in Jamaica. =============================================================================== *Owens, Norman My name is Norman Owens and I am enrolled as a Master's candidate in the English Department at the University of Minnesota. I was briefly enrolled in the English department at Temple University in Philadelphia but I left that department to join my wife in England. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. After obtaining my degree I plan to teach English at the high school level in cities in America. I hope to perpetuate an interest in Shakespeare among my students by focusing on conflicts with central authority which arise in many of the tragic heros. I will use my own research of Shakespeare to complete the paper requirements for my degree. =============================================================================== *Owens, Tom I'm a former English Major who taught himself to program and found that more lucrative than pursuing his college degree. When at Ohio State, however, Shakespeare won my heart. I did an honors independant study tracing the history of Hamlet criticism and performance leading to a directing script for Act I as I'd do it. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but I find it takes a _very good_ Hamlet indeed to stop me from thinking things like: "sullied, eh?" "I like it better as "I _am_ thy father's ghost" "Good nunnery scene, wrong of course, but a new approach (Nicol Williamson's)" =============================================================================== *Oz, Avraham Avraham Oz was born in Tel Aviv and holds degrees from the universities of TelAviv and Bristol(PhD). He has taught at Tel Aviv University (where he was also head of the Theatre Arts department), The University of Haifa where he is now head of Theatre Studies),The "Beit Zvi" School of Dramatic Art; lectured at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, served as associate artistic director at the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv and dramaturg at the Haifa Municipal Theatre, and had a weekly show on the Israeli radio. His Books include "The Yoke of Love: Prophetic Riddles in The Merchant of Venice," (University of Delaware Press, 1994) and colections of essays on Marlowe (forthcoming from Macmillan) and Shakespeare (forthcoming from U of Delaware Press). Oz founded and edited ASSAPH: THEATRE STUDIES and published extensively on early modern drama and political theatre. He is the general editor of the Hebrew edition of Shakespeare, and his Hebrew translations of Shakespeare, Brecht, Pinter, and others (Shakespeare's plays including THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, AS YOU LIKE IT,CORIOLANUS,THE TEMPEST,ROMEO AND JULIET,KING LEAR and JULIUS CAESAR) have been performed by all major theatres in Israel. Home Address: P.O.Box 14358, 61142 Tel Aviv, Israel. telefax:+972-(0)3-5609627. =============================================================================== *Ozturk, Tugrul Can Semsettin Gunaltay cad. Gursoylu sk. 39/25 Erenkoy, Istanbul-Turkey. Tel: 90 1 3683474 (home) My full name is Tugrul Can Ozturk. I am 23 and male. Currently, I have been studying English Literature as a senior student at the University of Bosphorus in Istanbul-Turkey. Like most of other literature majors, I am a Shakespeare enthusiast. The universal appeal of reading the plays of Shakespeare and watching them in the theatre as an audience have attracted me too and now I feel a keen interest on anything about Shakespeare. I am also interested in pre-Shakespearean English Literature, Old English Literature in particular. I completed my BA thesis entitled `Martial Idiom in Old English Religious Poetry' last semester. I plan to follow a graduate course on Medieval English Literature. Last year, I happened to hear an exciting report on BBC radio concerning the excavations in the Rose and Globe Theatre sites. Unfortunately, I could not get any information thereafter. I am looking forward to hearing on this subject. Although I am clearly a novice among other seasoned Shakespeareans, I will do my best to contribute to your list. =========================================================================== *