Pabotoy, Orlando Orlando Pabotoy opabotoy@mason1.gmu.edu (Home) 703/323-5547 The Juilliard School for the Arts Drama Division. I am currently a student at George Mason University, but will be transfering to "The Juilliard School for the Arts" in the fall of 1994. I am currently looking for areas where Shakespearean plays are being discussed. My sole reason for applying to this server is to further my knowledge and develop, however possible, my interest in the classic. I have not done that many performances or have afilliated in any type of professional membership for me to be qualified in any type of professionalized sketches. I have however worked in two Shakespearean plays; Pericles as Pericles; Directed by Philip Goodwin. The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Launce; Directed by Edward Gero. I am in need of information which can help me get in depth with the literary and other important parts. Please consider me in your list, I would greatly appreciate it and it would help me a great deal. Thank you. I will be employed here at George Mason University during Summer and other Breaks, so I believe this address that I have right now will pretty much stick with me. =============================================================================== *Pace University At Pace University and as per the faculty's request, we try to subscribe Netnews to your list. This is done to reduce spool files and e-mail trafic. Although Netnews is known to be a news reader, we don't receive any news feed nor do we provide one. We subscribe Netnews to the list as per Student/Faculty's request. =============================================================================== *Pace, Cheryl Cheryl S. Pace Head of Reference Archie Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center 2100 W. 39th St. Kansas City, KS 66160-7180 (913) 588-7321 BITNET: csp07321@ukanvm Internet: csp07321@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu I am a medical librarian. I am Head of Reference at the Archie Dykes Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center. I enjoy my job, but I work to support my hobby - my husband and I are musicians. And our favorite period of music is the Elizabethan era. I play folk harp, recorder (all voices), and flute. My husband plays lute, guitar and hurdy-gurdy. We are musicians at the Renaissance Festival of Kansas City (this is our 6th year). We have always been interested in all aspects of Elizabethan England and the Renaissance in general. This past summer Kansas City had the first annual production of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (the play they did was the Tempest). I played recorder every evening before the play started. Thus, my new interest in Shakespeare! We just joined the local Shakespeare Club. I saw that there was an electronic conference and was hoping to join the list and learn anything I could about Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, etc. I am particularly interested in learning about the music used in Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *Pacheco, David David Pacheco 1600 Grand Ave St. Paul, MN 55105 My name is David Pacheco Glover, a senior undergrad student at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, U.S.A. I am an acting track student, majoring in Dramatic Arts and Computer Science. I moved to Minnesota after living 11 years in Costa Rica, and before that another 11 years in the South Eastern part of Great Britain. I have been studying drama for quite a while, starting down in Costa Rica and continuing to this day. One of the reasons I want to join the SHAKSPER list is to talk to faculty and staff from graduate programs around the country and around the world, as my interest at this point is the drama of the 15th and 16th centuries, and of course, in particular, the Shakespearian theatre. Our last producton for last year's season was "Much Ado About Nothing", directed by Timothy Oman. Other productions I have been lucky enough to participate in over the past few years include works by Chekov, Pinter, Milne, Behn, Maria Irene Fornes, and this year we return to a Spaniard Shakespearian contemporary: Lope de Vega. As I mentioned before, I am very interested in continuing studies in the Shakespearian realm, and would appreciate information on graduate programs that accent this period in general. =============================================================================== *Pacholski, Richard A. RICHARD A. PACHOLSKI requests membership on the SHAKSPER listserv. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois 62522. For 28 years at Millikin he taught Shakespeare, Major World Authors, Classical Greek and Roman Drama, Comic Drama, Literature of the Holocaust, Literary Approaches to Death and Dying, Freshman English, Business and Professional Writing, Humanities Honors Seminar (Western Civilization), and a host of other courses. Pacholski served for 10 years as departmental chair (1978-1988) and wrote Millikin's institutional NCA (accreditation) reports in 1986 and 1996. As of July 1998 he is retired from full-time service at Millikin, but will continue teaching part-time for the next few years while at the same time working as full-time scholar, househusband, yardman, piano student, independent investor, and solo athlete (trying to stay in shape). His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1969), his M.A. from Marquette University (1963), and his B.A. from St. Francis Seminary (Milwaukee, 1960). He taught as a T.A. at Marquette and UW-Madison, and full time at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (1966-1970) before coming to Millikin in 1970. As an undergraduate he majored in philosophy and the classics; his graduate training emphasized drama, Shakespeare, and comparative literature. Over the years his teaching and research interests were varied and interdisciplinary. Pacholski has published a number of articles, chapters and reviews in the field of death studies. He is co-editor of a standard reference book for death educators as well as four anthologies of essays published by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. He served for several years as media editor of the journal "Death Studies." He has given hundreds of lectures and presentations to local and regional church groups, professional and fraternal organizations, grade and high school classes-as well as at Millikin-on a wide range of topics. Millikin's Cultural Events Seminar, which he co-founded and administered for over 15 years, continues to foster student attendance at concerts, plays, art gallery exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, and other co-curricular activities in a wide range of fields across the campus. Pacholski's course in Shakespeare at Millikin (introductory level) has been the core of his academic life lo these many years. He is especially interested in Shakespeare in performance; analyzing and evaluating video productions in the classroom is his standard pedagogical practice. Over the years he has made several theatrical pilgrimages to London and Stratford, as well as Stratford, Ontario, and other festivals in the U.S. As a member of the Shakespeare Association of America since the 70's he has participated in many convention workshops and seminars-mainly those focusing on performance and on pedagogy. In retirement Pacholski's part-time teaching load will continue to include Shakespeare, at least occasionally. His scholarly interests in Shakespeare will remain "general" and wide-ranging, but should begin to focus/narrow as retirement allows for additional time at the computer and in the library. He expects that SHAKSPER will help him grow academically, and he promises to contribute to the community as soon as may be. ============================================================= *Page, Brian Brian R. Page: I am currently employed as a Systems Engineer for Network Imaging Systems, although I maintain an avocational interest in the study of history and manage an occasional publication in the history of science. My current research interest (since you asked) is Nathaniel Bowditch, the colonial American mathematician and astronomer. In Shakespearean matters, I am interested in promoting oral performance of the plays by adults in non-credit community school classes. I hope that subscription to your list will acquaint me with current thinking in Shakespearean scholarship. =============================================================================== *Page, Robert I have been a professor at Western Oregon Stage College in Monmouth, Oregon for about 25 years. Besides teaching I get to act and direct. Last tackled "Merchant" and "Twelfth Night". In younger days I spent two glorious summers in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company, playing Antonio opposite founder-director Angus Bowmer's last Shylock. My oldest son is a professional actor with strong classical training and a long resume of Shakespeare in regional theatres, including OSF. I'm 70 and not nearly ready to retire - having too much fun ! I'm anxious to begin reading what comes over the net. =============================================================================== *Pago, Thomas Thomas Pago: Thesis: Theory of literature in the 18th century (Gottschedt) Main field of Studies in English: Shakespeare (Prof. Marvin Spevack) Occupation: Editor =============================================================================== *Palermo, Maria Concolato My name is Maria Concolato Palermo and I am an associate professor in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the Faculty of Modern Language and Literature of the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples,where I teach English Literature. I studied at the University of Venice (Ca' Foscari) where I took my degree many years ago (1960), with a thesis on 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by John Heywood. I taught English in Italian secondary schools for two years, then moved to Glasgow in Scotland, teaching Italian both in a secondary school and at the University for one year.The following year I successfully competed for an assistantship in English Language and Literature at the Istituto Orientale in Naples, where I have remained, becoming in time an associate professor of English. I have been working mainly on Early Tudor and Elizabethan literature, but I have devoted some time to particular themes such as utopian literature("Medieval Images of Cockayne", in 'Anglistica', I.U.O., 1980) and travel literature (various essays on British travellers in Naples and in Southern Italy).More recently I have devoted particular attention to the literary relations between Italian and English cultures both in the Renaissance and in the eighteenth century ( "On Some Aspects of Baretti in England", Napoli 1993), "Aretino in England in the Sixteenth Century" (Roma, 1995) and "The Penitential Psalms fron Aretino to Wyatt"('Filologia e Critica', III,XVIII,1993). I have edited, for an Italian readership, the Elizabethan morality 'All for Money' by Thomas Lupton ( Napoli, 1985, with introduction and notes) and 'The Introduction of Knowledge' by Andrew Borde (Napoli, 1992, with introduction,notes and a parallel Italian translation). As far as Shakespeare is concerned I have devoted courses and seminars to his plays and his poetry, and I have also reviewed critical books on his work.My only extended published contribution, however, is an essay on 'Timon of Athens' ("Notes towards an interpretation of 'Timon of Athens'", in 'Il Muro del Linguaggio: Conflitto e Tragedia', Napoli, 1989). My present research, which explores the degree to which Aretino's work was known in Elizabethan England,with particular reference to Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe, does not ignore the possibility that Shakespeare knew Aretino's plays (the main theme of my academic lectures of three years ago). In the next academic year (1996-97), I'll be lecturing on "Nashe's 'Summers's Last Will and Testament' and Shakespeare's 'M.N.D.'", discussing the themes of dramatic illusion and transformation in both plays, paying particular attention both to contemporary theories of poetry and to the dramatic practice of the period. I am a member of the following professional associations and societies: AIA (Association of Italian Scholar of English Literature) ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) "Centro Pio Rajna" ( a centre for linguistic, literary and philologival studies). Amici Thomae Mori Thomas-Morus-Gesellschaft Hakluyt Society Bibliographical Society (UK) =============================================================================== *Palermo, Patricia E. Hi. My name is Patricia E. Palermo, PhD candidate in English at Drew University in Madison, NJ. I have a paper forthcoming in SELAS (_The Southeast Latin Americanist_) on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, called "Self Discovery and Re-Creation in _The Apple in the Dark_." I am a member of SAA, MLA, SAMLA, Donne Society, Bronte Society. My research interests are varied; currently I am researching women dramatists during the Renaissance. My surface mail address is P.O. Box 802, CM 378, Drew University, Madison, NJ, 07940-0802. =============================================================================== *Palmer, Barbara B.A., English, Chatham College, Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., English, Michigan State University. Currently Professor of English, Mary Washington College; former faculty positions at Wayne State University, University of Leeds, Northern Illinois University, and Chatham College. Principal teaching and research concentrations: early English drama (beginnings to 1642), Shakespeare, medieval English literature, Chaucer, early English drama in performance, English Renaissance literature, early English theatre history. Current research priorities: Records of Early English Drama (REED) project as U.S. Executive Director of the project and co-editor of the Derbyshire, West Riding Yorkshire, Clifford household, and Cavendish family records' collections; wit and humor in _Hamlet_ on film; interdisciplinary uses of the REED volumes (e.g., paleography, historic preservation, and women's studies research and teaching); historic definitions of "city" and "town" in assessing early English entertainment data. Current and continuous interests include the Early Drama, Art, and Music project (EDAM) with its tacit critical caveat not to ignore the visual dimensions-early English religious art, iconography, dramatic production, gesture, the new Globe, staging evidence from the records, and so forth-which define theatre, then as now. ============================================================= *Palmer, Becky My Name is Becky Palmer and I am a student at East Texas Baptist University. This semester I am taking World Lit. I and required to join a discussion list about a author that is covered in our assignments. I want to join a SHAKSPER list because I have had a the lead role in 3 of his plays and I also enjoy reading his works. I grew up in Central America. My parents are missionaries in Nicaragua and that is where I lived since 1990, last year I left home and came to college where I am now a junior. I am a psychology major and who like to go one and get my Masters and Dr. ============================================================= *Palmer, Emily My name is Emily Palmer, I am still interested, but probably would not be a particularly active member of the group. I am a reference librarian at a county library in Colorado and am interested in Shakespeare stricly as an amateur. I have been re-reading some of the plays and the sonnets and wrote to subscribe because I thought it would be fun to see what was going on with the group. I am also reading (Sir) Walter Raleigh's "Shakespeare's England" published in 1917, which is a treasure trove of information and really brings to greater light the wonderful works of Shakespeare. Over the years I have also read quite a few historical novels and biographies of various people, including (of course!) Elizabeth I. I often help students at the reference desk with Shakespeare criticism, my favorite recent question involving a mother and high school-age son needing critical essays on "Two Gentlemen of Veronica"! =============================================================================== *Palmer, Meara Meara Palmer: I would like to join SHAKSPER because I am currently studying English at Medicine Hat College. The course focuses on all of Shakspeare's work, and therefore I would enjoy on line conversing. =============================================================================== *Panek, Jennifer My name is Jennifer Panek, and I'm a second-year PhD student in the department of English at the University of Toronto. I have a BA from the University of Manitoba (1992), and an MA from Dalhousie (1993). My main area of study is Renaissance drama, especially non-Shakespearean drama, with a particular interest in gender studies. Currently, I am planning a thesis on widows in the plays of Thomas Middleton. Another interest (usually more pleasurable than professional) is the nineteenth century novel. A chapter of my MA thesis, which was on adultery in Renaissance tragedy, has been revised as an article, "Punishing Adultery in A Woman Killed with Kindness" and published in the Spring 1994 issue of Studies in English Literature. =============================================================================== *Paolucci, Peter Phd (abd): English Literature (York) Minor Field: Renaissance. Major Field: Victorian. Dissertation: "The Gothic Tradition" argues that the Victorians transformed the 18th century horror novel into our modern horror story by their attraction to supernaturalism and its antitheses (materialism and empiricism). MA English Literature 1977 (University Of Manitoba) Thesis: "The Poetry of Edward, Lord Herbert Of Cherbury" examines the biographical, literary and philosophical factors that shaped Herbert's constantly shifting aesthetics. BA (English/Philosophy) 1973 (University of Manitoba): courses in Classical Literature, Psychology and Architecture RENAISSANCE: Drama, poetry, prose, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Metaphysicals =============================================================================== *Papageorgiou, Ioanna I wrote a 4000 word brief thesis power on the supernatural in 'Macbeth' and have studied 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet' and 'The Tempest', but as to the rest of the plays I have limited knowledge. This is intended as only a brief, introductory response and I will be in touch. Thank you. I would like to add though that the group sounds very interesting and well organised. =============================================================================== *Papeika, Tom Tom Papeika: I am an undergraduate student at Shepherd College, a small liberal arts college located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. I will graduate in May of 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, and a Bachelor of Arts in History. In the Fall, I intend to pursue a PhD in Medieval Studies. My specific interest in Shakespeare lie in his use of the inhereted medieval literary traditions as well as the Renaissance traditions in vogue at the time of his writing. Also, Shakespeare's commentary on the social conditions of his day hold a particular interest for me, especially in regards to how the social conditions have evolved throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Paragon, Stephan B. I am a composer & pianist. I love to read! And of course love Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Parcel, Alexander I would like to receive the Shakespeare list. I cannot, however, claim any kind of expertise. I am simply a lover of his work, which I have read continually over the years. I have a particular interest in the sonnets, the histories, and the tragedies. ============================================================= *Parent, Stefanie My name is Stefanie Parent and I am currently a graduate student at the University of South Carolina. I will receive my Master of Arts in English and a Master of Library and Information Science in August of 1992. My undergraduate degree is in English from the University of South Carolina. I currently work on the Science level of the Thomas Cooper Library as a reference graduate assistant. At this time I have not published anything; however, I am presenting a paper at the 16th annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association this March titled "The politics of Ophelia's madness; Or, a method to her madness." This paper describes Ophelia's madness as a way of protecting her battered psyche in a world bent on self-destruction -"something is rotten in the state of Denmark." I am a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Library Association, and the Southeastern Women's Studies Association. My current interests include examining Ophelia as a victim of the battered woman syndrome, the use of witchcraft and the witch figure in Macbeth and other 17th century plays, and the distinction betwen "good" or theologically acceptable knowledge and "evil" or unacceptable knowledge in 17th centry drama; as in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. After a few years I plan to continue my studies in pursuing a doctorate in Renaissance drama with a minor in Women's Studies. ============================================================================= *Parise, Jason Hello, my name is Jason Parise and I attend the University of Illinois at UC studying biochemistry. I enjoy literature very much and would like to join the discussion group to learn more on how to interpet and appretiate the beautiful prose of William Shakespeare. Rarely, I think, would I have anything importent to add, only a casual reader. Mostly I stand to benifit from reading the duscussion of scholars, but perhaps my questions will provide yet another angle to mull over. I can assure you that I'm not some juvinile wanting to spread junk mail, but just an inquiring soul with poor spelling! =============================================================================== *Parker, Nikki My name is Nicole Hannelore Parker, I am a second year student at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. My permanent residence is in Montpelier, Vermont. I am currently in a 300-level Shakespeare course taught by Professor Nick Clary, a member of SHAKSPER. When I discussed my enjoyment of Shakespeare, Professor Clary referred me to this vax group. I understand I am not a professor or graduate student, but I do profess an interest in Shakepeare as well as this group. I have read Shakespeare since junior high and it has always intrigued me. I am more interested in the themes and "hidden meanings" the plays can have, than merely reading the play. My favorite plays (as of now) are Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, MacBeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I hope that being a part of this group will help me gain better understandings of Shakespeare's plays as well learning what others think about the plays. ============================================================================= *Parks, Lynn My name is Lynn Parks. I am the chair of the English Department at Texas State Technical College Waco, Texas's largest state-supported technical college. In this position, besides administrative duties, I regularly teach freshman composition, remedial writing, and technical scriptwriting. I also do some scriptwriting on the side, for a Dallas-based firm that creates CD-ROM presentations, primarily as product advertisements. I have just completed and successfully defended a dissertation for a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, which surveys the issue of capitalism in American literature from its beginnings (with the writings of John Smith) through the Jacksonian period; the longest sections are on James Fenimore Cooper and Charles Frederic Briggs. In it I demonstrate that the idea of the benefits of capitalist enterprise is a given in our early literature, but that critiques of the uncompassionate use of wealth and of economic exclusion and oppression also developed very early as "tempering" ideas. My interest in Shakespeare is derived from my undergraduate days (at Texas Tech) and my master's degree work (at Baylor University), where I focused much of my coursework on Shakespeare. In my master's thesis, I attempted to demonstrate that "divine interventions" actually occur in nearly comedy; that is, figures aligned with the divine save the action from turning tragic, which is perhaps the essence of Shakespearean comedy. I have done a little acting at Texas Tech and at the community theater level. I have completed a comedy based on Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, but have not found a theater interested in it yet. I am the father of one son, Micah, and the husband of one wife, Shelley. I am also a licensed Baptist minister, although I have not preached for over ten years. I am not currently a member of any professional organization, having developed somewhat of a distaste for them back in the days when I was teaching English in a Texas public high school. However, I am open to suggestions for worthwhile ones. =============================================================================== *Parsons, Joyce L I am a grad student at the University of Guelph and I believe that the information available through your list could be quite useful to me. =============================================================================== *Patel, Ankur My Name is Ankur Patel. I am 17 years of age. my interest is in all works of Shakespeare. I have read at least 14 plays, incl. Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, R&J, AMSND, 12th Night, and tempest. ============================================================= *Patterson, Mark I am Mark Patterson, and I teach law at Fordham University. Neither my current research interests, in antitrust and corporate law, nor my previous career, =============================================================================== *Paul, Graham Graham Paul: I attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1968 to about 1971 (wild times), when several friends and I dropped out to form Otrabanda Theatre Company, an experimental company which managed to sustain itself as a touring company for about ten years and continues to exist in NYC, though I left it in about 1982 to attend graduate school. During the seventies, we performed almost exclusively original work, touring practically continuously in universities, colleges, theatres, science museums, community centers, etc., including a bit in Europe and Southeast Asia. Every summer we would build a raft and float down the Mississippi River, performing vaudeville-style revues in a circus tent in towns and prisons from St. Louis to New Orleans. Eventually, I married and decided to give up that life. I got my MFA in directing from Tulane and found a job (my only full-time academic job) at Warren Wilson. I also did a bit of stock, film, and t.v. So why Shakespeare? This summer I attended the CRASS (Center for Renaissance and Shakespearean Staging) NEH Summer Institute at JMU in Virginia (hello to Ralph and all other CRASS types), which seems to have had a profound effect on what I want to be doing with theatre. Working with Ralph Alan Cohen and members of the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, as well as the various visiting scholars and other members of the Institute was an unforgettable experience. I'm painfully aware of my ignorance in this area, but my interest in the history, the literature, and the contemporary performance possibilities has never been higher. Hence my desire to join this list. I have not yet joined the SAA but I hope to. I run a tiny department in a college of 500 students. We have no major at this time (other than an English/Theatre major that few avail themselves of) but we manage to mount pretty large, pretty good productions of various kinds. I'm more interested in staging the classics than anything else (in spite of or because of my background in "experimental" theatre) and now of course I want only to do Shakespeare and friends. Two I've enjoyed directing in the past are Twelfth Night and Duchess of Malfi. I dream of getting to London for the opening of the new Globe in the summer of '96. I also dream of building an outdoor Shakespearean Laboratory Theatre at my college, in which I can explore the possibilities of performing Renaissance and other texts in a configuration similar to the Globe. Not a small replica of the Globe, but a true theatre lab. Right now I'm most interested in the idea of how to create a somewhat volatile "event" where the actors will have to work to harness the energy of a concentrated, intimate, boisterous crowd: the bear-baiting pit as performance space. I supervise a student work crew, direct two major productions a year and supervise others, and teach acting (incorporating much voice and movement work), directing, improv, occasionally tech theatre, and, with the head of the English Dept. (David Bradshaw), "Page to Stage: Shakespearean and Modern Drama," and "The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival in Performance." I need to find ways to "grow" my department, which is what much of my current sabbatical is devoted to. I'll be looking for ideas and suggestions from friends new and old. =============================================================================== *Paul, John Steven I am associate prof. and chairman of the Theatre and Television Arts Dept. at Valparaiso University. This spring I will be directing King Lear for the University Theatre. I also direct a program called the Young Actors Shakespeare Workshop, a program of Shakespearean acting and production for young people, age 8-18. =============================================================================== *Paul, Larry R. I would like to join the Shakespeare list. I am new to the internet and will need instructions. I am an M.A. candidate in English literature at Georgia State University in Atlanta. I plan to specialize in Renaissance drama with an emphasis in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Pauley, Jonathan My name is Jonathan Hamric Pauley. I am currently attending Magnolia High School and taking early entrance college courses. I have earned my Eagle Scout Rank and am currently very active in my scout troop. I enjoy outdoor activities, love to read, and think that Shakespeare is the greatest play write of all time. I am currently a senior in high school, run track and enjoy working with computers. I first found that I enjoyed computers in the 6th grade when we started doing simple programs for extra credit work. I have been selected for the Who's Who Among American High School Students for 3 years straight. I also have been to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Currently I am interested in Macbeth. It has intrigued me for some time, and I am finally pursuing that to find out more about the play. ============================================================= *Pavan, Elisabetta I'm an Italian student at Venice University. I study (I'm supposed to study, since I'm a worker, really) in the English Department, and I think I would find many interesting topics in SHAKSPER. I've already taken an examination on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', and have to read a lot more, as I'm supposed to know most of Shakespeare'a plays. I'm not only a student, as I have my own business. I work in advertising, writing texts for advertisments, especially radio commercials. I also run a recording studio, where we record music and dub adverts and videos. That's why I'm very interested in advertising as communication as well. =============================================================================== *Payette, Chantal My name is Chantal Payette, and I am a computer project assistant at Robarts Library, University of Toronto. I'm not published as of yet, but I am trying very hard to do so....fiction, not anything to do with Shakespeare. Why? I really don't believe I would be at all qualified to write about someone who has almost single-handedly shaped literature as we know it today. I have a four-year honours degree in Eastern European politics. I plan to go back to school to make up all the English courses I need to get into a Masters programme in English. I plan to specialize in Shakespeare, hense the desire to enter this list. I have performed in several Shakespearean plays, saw the rest when I was in England a few months ago, and took an incredible Shakespeare course in my last year of University which changed my views of English as a topic of study, forever. Chantal@vax.library.utoronto.ca (416) 978-2398 =============================================================================== *Payne, Sarah I am a student of the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK). This year I am studying course A361 - Shakespeare. This includes Henry IV (Parts I and II), Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest. =============================================================================== *Paynter, Mary Mary Paynter: I am Professor of English at Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin. Among other courses, I teach Shakespeare and l7th century English literature. My academic background is as follows: B.A. Rosary College, M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation was on George Herbert's poetry, under the direction of Helen C. White, my major professor. I also did post-grad study in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne. I continue my research interests in the metaphysical poets, in Shakespeare (especially in approaches to teaching undergraduates), and in composition (especially in computer assisted instruction). I will be teaching Shakespeare in the l996 spring semester, so I am looking forward to joining the SHAKSPER list. I am particularly interested in current research on approaches to the history plays. =============================================================================== *Pearlman, E.H. (Elihu Hessel) Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado, Denver. Campus Box 175, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA Phone: 556-4648; FAX: 556-2959. I wrote my dissertation (in 1966) on "A History of Hamlet, 1601- 1772" but have been until the last few of years rather a dilettante than a true Shakespearean. In 1987 I contracted to write the volume in the TEAS series called William Shakespeare: The History Plays. (It is scheduled to appear in February of 1992, but Twayne was bought out by Macmillan and publication will almost certainly be delayed.) Writing about the histories, especially the first tetralogy, awakened an interest in the very first part of Shakespeare's career. Since completing the Twayne book, I've written three papers: one on 3 Henry VI and two on Romeo and Juliet. I'm interested in the way Shakespeare learned his trade and I think I'm planning to write either a book or a series of essays on the craftsmanship of the early plays. This semester I'm teaching a M.A. level class devoted almost entirely to Romeo and Juliet, which I take to be a play in which Shakespeare brought together with some success techniques he had recently acquired. I plan to spend the spring at the Folger and continue to work on this topic. The following is a list of the essays I've written either on Shakespeare or the related drama: "The Hamlet of Robert Wilks," Theatre Notebook (London) 24 (1970), 125-133. "Shakespeare, Freud, and the Two Usuries, or, Money's a Meddler," English Literary Renaissance 2 (1972), 217-236. "Historical Demography for Shakespeareans," Shakespeare Research and Opportunities nos. 7-8 (1972-74), 69-74. "Malcolm and Macduff," Studies in the Humanities 9 (1981) 5-10. "Ben Jonson: An Anatomy," English Literary Renaissance 9 (1979), 364- 394. "Macbeth on Film: Politics," Shakespeare Survey, 39 (1986), 67-74. "R. Willis and The Cradle of Security (c. 1572)," English Literary Renaissance 20 (1990) 357-373. The following are completed but unpublished: William Shakespeare: The History Plays. Twayne, forthcoming. "The Emergence of Richard of Gloucester." "Watson's Hekatompathia (1582) in Romeo and Juliet." "Texts, Source, and Performance in Romeo and Juliet." ======================================================================= *Pearsall, Josiah My name is Josiah Pearsall. I am a sophomore in high school in Richmond, VA. I am taking British Literature this year and I love it. Our teacher took the class to see Macbeth and Henry V at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D. C. I went with a group of people from school to the Open House at the Folger Library. I write poetry (only Shakespearean sonnets of course). Actually I write a lot of sonnets (Shakespearean and Petrarchan), but also free verse. I am acting in Tartuffe, by Moliere, the spring production at school. I also dance in the modern dance group at school and hope to continue dancing after college. So please subscribe Shaksper . =============================================================================== *Pearson, Ann Kristine My name is Ann Kristine Pearson. I feel rather embarrassed in writing a biography. I have no title. I have been a professional actress in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but did not act for some years as my son had medical problems. However, I am finishing a M.A. degree in the next two months at the University of Toronto Graduate Centre for Studies in Drama and I will be jumpstarting my career in the near future. My main reserach interests are Medieval Studies and Japanese Drama, specifically Noh and Noh-related western drama. I am interested in "reading" this newsgroup from a performance standpoint rather than from that of my own research. =============================================================================== *Pearson, Velvet I'm Velvet Pearson, graduate student at the University of Southern California, and assistant lecturer for their Expository Writing Program. Recently ABD, in the last year I've presented papers at the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies Conference and the Christianity and Literature Conference. Early on in my graduate career I published a paper, "Searching for a Liberated Kate in _The Taming of the Shrew_," which I don't particularly like now (_Rocky Mountain Review_ 1990). I'm a member of MLA, NCTE, AAUW, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and Christianity and Literature. Currently, my main interest/nightmare is--of course--my dissertation, which considers broadly the impact of French culture on the development of English literature and culture. First this involves culling all the translations from French to English from the STC to notice trends in genre and subject matter. (Later I'd like to do some work on the printers themselves, as there are definite groups of them who publish translations.) More importantly, I'm looking at issues in the French court of Francis I, particularly as they are gendered, and how they are transmitted to the Tudor court. This involves discussing French women and their writing, particularly Marguerite de Navarre's literary and diplomatic impact in England, as well as English women's writing. Much of the flurry occurs around refomration texts and subjects, ultimately, I find, adding to the hysteria arising from female monarchs. There are three polemics to that particular group of texts I have labeled the gynecocracy debate texts in England (Knox et. al): gender, religion, and nationalism. The first two are obvious, the latter and how it depends on the other two are, in the end, my main focus and compose the answer to a somewhat neglected question. I guess you could call me a feminist-new historicist-cultural critic if you really had to have a label!! ============================================================================== *Peck, David My name is David Peck. I teach theatre and direct at Milton Academy, Milton, MA 02186. Tel (617) 698-7800 x2631. My interest in the Shaksper list is primarily from the performance and theatre history perspectives My most recent Shakespearean produc tion was COMEDY OF ERRORS which I directed. I hold an MA and and MFA in in directing from Florida State University where I was also, at one point, poised to write my dissertation for a PhD. Subsequently I taught Theatre History, Directing, Acting, Dramatic Literature, Shakespeare, and Humanities at the college level. My most recent college position was as Chairman of Dramatic Arts at Dickinson College. I have been at Milton Academy for six years. =============================================================================== *Pedaci, Brian Anthony Brian Anthony Pedaci 3rd year MFA Student at Case Western Reserve University Not an academic per se, but trained and devoted to the performance of Shakespeare and all verse drama. No publications, but would like to join as a silent observer. =============================================================================== *Pedone, Rose-Robin My name is Rose-Robin. I am a graduate student at ESU in Pennsylvania. I am currently studying to become a high school English teacher. I will graduate in December, with honors. Last semester I took my first Shakespeare class and enjoyed it immensely. For my paper/project, I demonstrated to the class various ways in which Shakespeare could be taught through the use of modern technology. =============================================================================== *Peeren, Chuck G. Thespian/Systems Analyst. Attended the University of Waterloo as an Electrical Engineering Student. I make my living as a Systems Analyst for an Insurance Company in Canada. My passion lies in the which I have been involved in for well on to 25 years playing various roles in community, semi professional and professional organizations. I have performed in various Shakespearean plays and scene studies, Richard the III, Midsummer Nights Dream, Hamlet and King Lear. I have not written any academic commentary on his life and times. My desire is to better understand the times he lived and the subtly that exists in the text of those roles I have performed and wish to. I have read the complete canon of his work and would like to discuss interpretation, ask questions and explore his work more fully. ============================================================= *Pehme, Kalev This message is late not because of a lack of desire, but bad fortune and being too busy. As you know, Shakespeares us a lot about fortune, chance, and I am a child of bad fortune. I am a writer and an editor, whose interest in Shakespeare has been life-long. I am subscribing, because my son, who is almost 16, who, fortunately, has maintained an interest in classical literature, Shakespeare, as well as PG Wodehouse. Of my other interests, I should note that I am leading a discussion and slow reading of Plato's Philebus (subscribe Plato@world.std.com) and that commitment might slow down my active participation in discussion. However, if there is any heated discussion that catched my eye, you will find me flaming on as carefully as possible. There is very little else to relate, except that I am most interested in the Sonnets of late. I am not too sure why, perhaps because it meets personal needs at this point. I am interested, moreover, in what the latest in scholarly discussion there is in Shakespeare, because I am not an academic and I am curious as to what constitutes scholarship now. =============================================================================== *Pelafas, Denise Denise Pelafas sophmore Parkland College beginning shakespeare would like information about and translation of some of the plays. =============================================================================== *Pelcher, Joseph I don't have any professional interest in joing the group. I have been studying the Russian language for a number of years and have made a number of trips to Russia. On a recent trip it came to my attention that there are lovers of Shaksper there and that he is translated into Russian. I have not seen any of the translations yet but it rekindled my interest. I don't have any real interest in reading Shaksper in Russian but I have been enjoying reading Russian lit. in the original and I remembered what wonderful things shaksper did with the english language. In addition I have four children whom I want to grow up with a love and appreciation of Shakspere. I won't be much of a contributor to the group but will read everything with great interest. If you don't think that it is appropriate for me to become a member than maybe you can suggest other resources on the internet that I can use. =============================================================================== *Peled, Elana R. As a composition instructor, I am interested in gaining ideas on how best to incorporate the works of Shakespeare into a second semester, literature based composition course, one that asks students to think critically about the world in which they live while at the same time demonstrates to them that certain themes are universal and exist in the works of both contemporary and long-honored artists and writers. Although most of the students I anticipate teaching will not be English majors, I believe they can benefit from having the opportunity to complete a close reading of a Shakespearean text provided they are given guidance in ways of understanding that text so that the it becomes meaningful in the context of their lives. ============================================================= *Pence, Jeff -Jeff Pence Ph.D. candidate English Dept./Temple University -Unless there is some good news in tomorrow's mail, I remain unpublished. I have delivered papers at the Temple Colloquium in Cultural Studies, the National Association of Graduate Students Conference, and the Society for Cinema Studies Conference. I am a member of these latter two organizations as well as MLA. Current projects: basically, finishing my last year of coursework, sending off occasional papers (mostly in film) to journals. My interests are in early modern and postmodern culture, specifically the visual culture of both periods. In the area of the Rennaissance, I've done work on cinematic interpretations of period texts (Welles, Jarman) and of the period itself (Greenaway); I've written on early travel literature, legal interepretation debates of the 17th c., and Ralegh's poetry. =============================================================================== *Pendergast, John I am currently teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, where I teach some Renaissance courses, including Early Shakespeare and Milton, as well as general literature survey courses. My scholarly pursuits are centered around issues of Renaissance philology, more specifically issues relevant to literacy in the late 16th and early 17th century. I am also interested in Shakespeare's place in the modern canon and in contemporary society. To this end I published an article a couple of years ago in Extrapolation which looked at Shakespeare's appropriation by Hollywood. I am currently finishing an article on bilingual puns in the early comedies. A more complete overview of my teaching and scholarly issues, including abstracts of my publications, may be found at http://saturn.vcu.edu/~jpender. ============================================================= *Perew, Mark Hello. My name is Mark Perew. I am a 36 year old Sr. Systems Programmer for Unisys. However, being divorced a little over a year, I've returned to school to study arts and literature rather than science and circuits. I've fallen in love with amateur acting and in preparation for an upcoming production I stumbled into a Shakespeare survey course. My appreciation for The Bard has climbed to new heights. I'd like to follow the discussions of others and increase my comprehension and appreciation of the works of William Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Perfect, Tim TIM PERFECT Tim graduated in May with his MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve University, where he appeared as Orgon in Tartuffe, Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, and as The Sentry in Antigone, directed by Edward Payson Call. Tim was last seen as the Old Soldier in The Red Shoes at the Cleveland Playhouse and this past summer, in Ecclesia Theatre's inaugural production, as Oedipus in Oedipus Rex. Tim was also seen at The Children's Play House last year, as The Lion in Androcles and the Lion, and as The Emperor in The Emperor's New Clothes. He is currently a member of the faculty of the Ohio Company, the resident intern company at The Cleveland Play House, and in his spare time, is working on mounting the inaugural season of The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, a free, outdoor summer repertory theatre in Cleveland. ============================================================= *Perkins, Eric Eric Perkins (1950- ) Connecticut, USA BFA Theatre, University North Carolina Author of seven published books, none of them related to Shakespeare. Listed, "Who's Who In The East" Currently completing a fictional play about the production of William Shakespeare's first play. Interests include the authorship question. Favorite play: Hamlet. =============================================================================== *Perloff, Richard I'm an actor/director with an extensive background in Shakespearean production, and would love to participate in any ongoing discussions you have on-line. =============================================================================== *Perng, Ching-Hsi I teach Shakespeare in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, and would be interested in communicating with colleagues from the world over. =============================================================================== *Perricone, Siobhan I have stage managed "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Henry IV part 1" in Juneau, Alaska for Theatre in the Rough. I enjoy Shakespeare's plays a great deal and I am hoping to learn more about them. =============================================================================== *Perry, Alan My name is Alan Perry, and I am the English department chairperson at Chattooga High School in Summerville, Georgia. I have taught senior college preparatory English literature at this school for 18 years. Other classes I teach include Advanced Placement English and print journalism and broadcast journalism. I have my master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University and am currently working on my Ed.S. at Berry College. As a part of my action research class, I am about to conduct an experiment on the use of technology in a constructivist design for teaching Shakespearean literature to 12th grade students. I will be teaching both Macbeth and Hamlet through the use of CD-ROMs, other computer programs, the Internet, and videotape. I hope to be able to determine if there is an advantage in this pedagogical methodology over lecture/discussion. My students will be making use of a computer mini-lab in my classroom. The lab was built with funds received from a grant I wrote for gifted technologies money two years ago. I have just completed the first draft of my literature review, and my professor has encouraged me to, upon completion of the experiment, publish my findings and lit. review as a book. I am now expanding my literature search and am especially interested in finding empirical data from research conducted by other teachers in their use of technology. I have not been a true proponent of teaching through performance, but last year my seniors and I produced Macbeth as their spring play and I feel that they came to understand the play much better through the production. A part of their duty was to translate the drama into language more easily understood by their audience. I hope to publish the findings of my research, which should be completed by March. I also have applied to make a presentation on this subject at the annual conventions of the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, the Georgia Association for Gifted Children, and the Georgia Educational Technology Conference. Three years ago I made a similar presentation on the teaching of Medieval English Literature at those conferences. ============================================================= *Perry, Curtis Curtis Perry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University teaching Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, etc. Areas of interest include Jacobean literature, politics in literature, historical criticism, libel and scandal, Senecan drama, inwardness and autobiography, Shakespeare redactions and performance etc. ============================================================= *Perry, John John Perry jperry@cebaf.gov 124 Archer Rd. Newport News, VA. 23606-1102 I fall under the "interested amateur" classification: I'm an engineer at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), a nuclear physics facility under construction in Newport News, VA. I've always been an avid reader of anything I could get my hands on, and since late in high school (back when they still required three years of Shakespeare for advanced students) I've been a Shakespeare fan. I go to the Shakespeare festivals held annually here in Williamsburg, attend the Shakespeare films, and of course read occasionally from my four complete collections of Shakespeare's works and commentary. I also enjoy other classic English authors, such as Milton and Chaucer (yes, I know his was Middle English), other languages' great works, and even some less elevating literature (certain authors in science fiction and fantasy are very dear to me). Since all my professional publications and interests are of a technological nature, I suppose this is a fairly complete list of my non-qualifications for this list. If I'm acceptable, I'm anxious to join and eavesdrop, and possibly even comment on occasion. BA Math Christopher Newport College, 1975 =============================================================================== *Perry, Martha Martha Perry is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her interest is primarily performance-directed. For the past five years she has been involved in bringing the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express to the University for a week-long residency. Her current PhD project, which she is just beginning, is a theatrical history of 18th Century productions of Shakespeare in the Caribbean. Of particular interest is the way in which slaves accepted and incorporated Shakespeare into their own experience. For instance, preliminary research suggests that sections of Richard III might follow talking drums in slave entertainments. ============================================================= *Person, Arthur I am no formal scholar of Shakespeare. Nonetheless, as a professional actor and writer, I am an active and avid participant in his work. A member of Actors Equity Assoction, I have appeared throughout the Midwest from The Nebraska Shakespeare Festival to American Players Theatre (a classical repertory company in Spring Green, Wisconsin) to Shakespeare Rep in Chicago. I have appeared in fifteen works from the canon including the playing of such roles as Iago, Orlando, Cloten, MacDuff (and, recently, the ghost of John Barrymore as Hamlet in Paul Rudnick's I HATE HAMLET). As a writer, I have recently completed a play entitled LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, currently in development with Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. This work chronicles Shakespeare's writing of his odd and arid last will during his last days at New Place. My reason for wishing to subscribe to your listserv is to tap into a living resource of Shakespeare. As a brief chronicler of the age, I believe the more information, the richer and more complete the performance. =============================================================================== *Perusquia, Ana Ana Perusquia: I am about to finish my BA with a a Major in English Literature and Drama. I am really interested in suscribing to your mailing list about Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Peschko, Ed I'm not much of a acamedician, nor actor ( although once I did play Orsino in Twelfth Night). My interest in Shakespeare is purely as hobby. I'm a database consultant by trade (28 years old), and am interested in utilitarian things (perl, c, c++, a new idea, a new approach to things, a clever twist to make a complicated problem simple) This is where Shakespeare comes in. One of the most fascinating things to me about him is his agility at bending the english language to his will. For me, Shakespeare does to language and emotion what I do for computers. He simplifys things. Ironically, I can thing of no better phrase than one out of Shakespeare: he 'gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.'. I'm very interested to continue in my personal studies, and think that this list would be *perfect*: to listen and learn, and to get more information about what resources are available ( especially musical CD's ). =============================================================================== *Pessina, Tomaso My name is Tomaso Pessina. I was born the 11 Jenuary of 1969 in Milano, Italia. I grew up and spent most of the time Milano. I studied until I finally realized that my main interest was for movies first, and later for theatre. So I began to work as an ass I worked in a couple of plays done by students. I worked in a local radio station (Radio Popolare di Milano) in the cultural section, and now I'm collaborating with one of the most important italian cultural association (ARCI NOVA) trying to promote theatre. Last but not least it is some years that I desperatly fell in love with Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Pesta, J. Duke Name: J. Duke Pesta Title: Ph.d candidate and teaching assistant. Department: English Institution: Purdue University Bio: I am currently engaged in writing my dissertation on Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Teaching and research keep me pretty busy. I've had the good fortune here at Purdue to be able to teach a few literature courses, including a course in the Bible as literature and a course in Great Narrative Works. The focus of my dissertation is Shakespeare's treatment of death in the Romances. Address: 3535 Union Street #3. Lafayette, Indiana. 47905 Degrees: B.A. John Carroll University. (1989) M.A. John Carroll University. (1991) Phone: (317) 448-1809. =============================================================================== *Peters, Daedri Daedri Peters: I am a senior at the University of Arizona. My major is English (Secondary Education). I am currently taking a Shakespeare survey class for my major and I have discovered a real love for the Bard. I am interested in all types of literature, both prose and poetry. I would like to subscribe to this list in order to further my understanding of Shakespeare by getting other people's insights and ideas. =============================================================================== *Peters, Michael J. <941PETERS@MERLIN.NLU.EDU> As a new subscriber to Shaksper, my name is Michael J. Peters, an English graduate student at Northeast Louisiana University. My current interest is feminist criticism of Coriolanus. I would appreciate any suggestions/information on this topic. =============================================================================== *Peters, Raymond I. As a member of the adjunct faculty, I teach courses in business communication at the University of Delaware. I also work as a writer, editor, and consultant; most of my clients are in high-tech businesses. I have not written anything scholarly about Shakespeare since graduate school, but, with age and experience, my enthusiasm for his works continues to grow. ============================================================= *Peters, Stacy I am writing to you in hopes that I may soon take part in the phenomena that has the bard himself on-line. My name is Stacey Peters, and I am not a researcher nor a professor; I am merely a student. I study dramatic literature at NYU, and if this alone does not purge enough interest for me to join the listserv, then the fact that this fall I am enrolled in a Shakespeare colloquia is. This list has possibilities to become a focal aide to my semester's studies, and I wish to become a part of it right away. =============================================================================== *Peterson, Jean Jean Peterson, Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 USA jpeter@bucknell.edu I am involved with a number of projects: a book-length study of Renaissance and Restoration drama, focusing on representations of gender and subjectivity, and how those representations respond to the socio-political changes of the 17th Century. In short, my interests can be summarized: stage representations of gender in both Renaissance and Restoration drama, developments in drama and stagecraft from 1550-1700, theories of early modern subjectivity and the development of character. ============================================================================== *Peterson, Timothy I am an attorney with a corporate law firm in New York, handling securities litigation, white collar criminal defense, and media law. My educational background includes a JD, an MBA, and an undergraduate degree in literature. My primary interest in Shakespeare is in studying the text itself-the words and the characters built by the words. I am less interested in developing methods for bringing the text to the stage or screen, although I enjoy watching the results of these efforts by others. I would enjoy watching the SHAKSPER discussions, particularly as they relate to character motivations in the histories. I feel the histories have the most relevance to law as they frequently turn on elements of gamesmanship that are similar to litigation. My favorite play is 1 Henry 4. ============================================================= *Peterson-Kranz, Karen E. I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Guam, a US-style, public, originally "land-grant" institution serving the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and the Micronesia area (including the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Nauru). We also draw students from Polynesia, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and other Pacific Rim locations. I taught previously at Miyazaki University (Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyuushu, Japan), and have taught on the island of Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia) as visiting faculty from the University of Guam. My undergraduate degree is from The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington; 1989; Japanese and Comparative Literature). I received an MA in English literature from the University of Washington in 1991. I am currently working on my dissertation, examining the discourse of influenced reproduction in Sonnets 1-17, the narrative poems and representative plays (especially Richard III). My research interests tend toward the intersection of cultural studies with early modern literary criticism, with a special interest in Shakespeare and Spencer. I also pursue interests in post-colonial theory and ethnology as a literary and critical influence. ============================================================= *Pezza, Brian P. I am a senior undergraduate from Cranston, RI pursuing an English major with an emphasis in Renaissance Drama and a minor in music (vocal performance). I am a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society and have been awarded the Rahter Scholarship for outstanding performance in the English major. I am in the process of applying to several law schools and hope to begin studies in the Fall of 1998. I am also in the process of applying for a Fulbright Fellowship to the United Kingdom. If awarded the fellowship I will research cultural issues such as race and religion as depicted in Shakespeare's _Othello_, _Midsummer Night's Dream_, _Tempest_, and their opera counterparts composed by Giuseppe Verdi, Benjamin Britten, and Henry Purcell respectively. I currently hold an assistantship with Susquehanna's Choral Activities Department managing the University's touring choirs. I will also be performing a solo voice recital in February of 1998. Other musical activities include performing with the University Choir and conducting the University Chamber Singers. This semester I am the teaching assistant for our Shakespeare class taught by Dr. Rachana Sachdev. Duties include teaching outside group sections of the class, leading discussion on certain days, and planning of an annual scholarly conference. I presented a paper on the religious aspects of Shakespeare's _Othello_ and Verdi's _Otello_ (with additional focus on Franco Zeffirelli's film production of the opera) at the 1996 Susquehanna University Shakespeare Conference. Continued research on this topic will culminate in a Senior Honors Thesis. ============================================================= *Pfaff, Janice K. I am presently working on an MLS, which will be completed in May, and a PHd in medieval history. My primary interest in joining SHAKSPER is to evaluate the listserv as an educational resource for inclusion in an Infoguide for the ERIC database. =============================================================================== *Phillips, David My name is David Phillips, and I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, currently writing a dissertation on xenophobia in Renaissance Drama. I am very interested in subscribing to Shaksper. I am an active member of MLA, SAA, RMMLA, PAPC, and NCTE. =============================================================================== *Phillips, Michele My name is Michele Phillips and I am 26 years of age. I am a college Senior at Columbus College in Columbus Georgia. I have not done any formal writing about Shakespeare but I took a Shakespeare Course here at the college where I wrote two class paper on him that may be suitable for publication with editing. My favorite Shakespeare plays include "Hamlet","Macbeth", and "Romeo and Juliet". I have read 12 or 13 of his plays and love them all so much. I love his sonnets too ! I am join this group because I want to learn more about Shakespeare and his wonderful work. I also want to share my love for Shakespeare with other Shakespeare fan ! =============================================================================== *Phillpot, Simon Simon Phillpot is a Physicist in the Materials Science Divsion of Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL USA, where he performs atomic-level computer simulations of interfacial systems. He is a lover of Shakespeare and wants to increase his appreciation and understanding by sharing in current scholarship. =============================================================================== *Phoenix, Zeb My name is Zeb Phoenix. I am a Computer Programmer at Telecom Australia. Currently I am seconded to a network management project in Sydney. I was born on 08/08/65 in Christchurch NZ and went to a catholic school. I moved to Australia with my family in 1985 where I enroled at LaTrobe University in Melbourne and studied Computer Science. I subscribe to LAN magazine, Unix review, and Autosport. I enroled in drama school in 1992 at The Australian Playhouse Theatre, (TAPS), based in Parramatta, Sydney. It was there that my love of Shakespeare was born. My surface address is 14 Virginia Street, Marayong, Sydney, NSW 2148, Australia tel: 02 831 2415 =============================================================================== *Phylactou, Phylitsa Hello! My name is Phylitsa Phylactou and I am a student in Peter Paolucci's Shakespeare tutorial. He has told us about the SHAKESPER conference and I would like to subscribe. I am a 3rd year student in the Faculty of Arts and have finished my first year in the Concurrent Education program here at York. I am very excited about joining the conference. =============================================================================== *Piazza, Luciana My name is Luciana Piazza. I am located in S. Paulo, Brazil, where I was born on the 12th of January, 1971, although I couldn't be more Italian: family, origins, heart... everything is from Italy, or in Italy. I have always enjoyed arts in general very much (music, literature, theatre, painting, sculpture, films etc.). When I went to University, I wanted to keep studying performing arts, which I had already been doing. But this "idea" of mine never got much support, and my parents talked me out of it. I ended up going to Law School, which in fact was a mistake since I have never really liked it: I am a lawyer but dedicate less and less of my time to this kind of work. Fortunately, I never stopped studying languages (another of my passions), and now I work as a translator and interpreter in four of them: English, French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. Even though I didn't really keep my work in Performing Arts, I never lost contact with arts. I kept studying them: I am good at writing, I know a lot about Literature, Music, Painting, Theatre, Films - and it's never enough. I never quit writing, I read a lot, go to the theatre a lot, know I lot about music, painting etc. So, from Molière to Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire, from Shakespeare to Byron, from Marlowe to Ibsen and Tchekov, from Mozart to Rachmaninoff, from Botticelli to Delacroix, from Michelangelo to Rodin, from Laurence Olivier to Kenneth Branagh - it is all a matter of passion, of love for arts, just like my love for languages. When I was studying performing arts, I used to enjoy acting Shakespeare and other classics. I could talk about it for a long time but it would make this note too long. The thing is, I am not doing this professionally but I am still in touch with it, reading, watching, still studying. Shakespeare is one of those "things" that you can appreciate in many ways: you can enjoy being on stage, or watching the play, or a film, or you can read his works and appreciate the poetry. I happen to enjoy History quite a lot too. So, when you are reading or watching a play by Shakespeare, some verses make you giggle, others make you think, others make you cry - and that is art. Of course, I do have other passions, other hobbies, like everyone else, I suppose. But this magical world when we go to the past and find ourselves in the Globe Theatre again is more than fantastic. ============================================================= *Pickering, Michael I was born in London in 1945, and studied at a local grammar school and at Cambridge University from 1964-1970 (Politics and Economics, specialising in social theory). I remained at Cambridge doing college supervising and tinkering with unfinished Ph.D until 1979. My wife's career in medical anthropology then took us abroad, first to Mexico in 1979-80, the US (Stanford University, 1980-81), the Gambia (1983-4 and again from 1989-91), Papua New Guinea (1985-1987) and Uganda (1994-1996). Most of my `working' life has in consequence been spent doing odd teaching and aid jobs in the African and New Guinea bush. I began serious theatre-going in the early 80's between periods abroad, and by nipping back from time to time have managed to see almost every UK Shakespeare production in Stratford and the London region over the last 15 years. I was an early member of the Globe project Friends and 1000 Club. Having learnt Chaucer in middle English while out in the bush, I more recently taught myself early modern pronunciation, using Dobson and other sources, and for my interest have set about learning the Shakespeare canon in supposedly original pronunciation. My interest in Shakespeare & contemporaries is performance rather than theory oriented. ============================================================= *Pickman-Thoon, Rennika I am unaffiliated with any university, but pursue Shakespeare- particularly Shakespeare in performance-with avid interest. There is no limit to the topics which fascinate me for discussion; they are as broad as the works. I am not working on a paper, publishing an article, or performing in any Shax piece. (I have no agenda in joining the list, save sharing opinions on, insights into, and interpretations of the works.) However, Hamlet has a special place in my heart . . . . ============================================================= *Piechoski, Francis E. I am Francis E. Piechoski, an actor and journalist, currently enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pursuing a BA, double majoring in Theatre as an Acting Specialist and Journalism. Shakespearian roles and language interest me very much and I have played such roles as First Player ("Hamlet"), Lefew ("AWTEW"), and King Lear. I have an audition for "Romeo and Juliet" in January, and I am concentrating mainly on Friar Laurence. I would like to explore more fully Shakespeare's language and how it can best be used and understood by both performers and audiences. I am also interested specifically in the use of astrological terms in Shakepeare's texts, as I am also a professional astrologer. =============================================================================== *Pierpoint, Alan At age 47, I have settled down to my life's work of inflicting my students and Good Literature on each other in the hope that the former will benefit, the latter will not be harmed, and I'll continue to get paid for doing what I love to do. Going back a bit, I studied Shakespeare at Oberlin College and the U. of Redlands (BA '72; MA in English Composition at Cal St. San Bernardino, 94), and I now teach English at Southwestern Academy in San Marino. I teach Shakespeare to all of my classes, grades 9-12, and take them to see local productions of his plays, or bring them to campus when possible. We are a "second-tier" prep school with a diverse student body, including a large ESL contingent and many "at-risk" students, as well as the "averag deas for the classroom, and find resources for interested students as they read the plays and write their essays. ============================================================= *Pieters, Jurgen My name is Jurgen Pieters. I am currently preparing a doctoral thesis on Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicism at the University of Ghent (dept. of literary theory). The final version is due somewhere around January 1999. For the moment plans are to find out by what theoretical sources Greenblatt's work is supported (Bakhtin, Althusser, Certeau, Foucault, Benjamin, ...) and how these affect positively or negatively any propsect of a new (as opposed to older versions of) historicist literary analysis. An essay on Greenblatt and Certeau will be published next year in Theo D'haen and Nadia Lie, Caliban's Books (Rodopi Amsterdam) and on Greenblatt and Auerbach in Poetics Today. =============================================================================== *Pietrokowsky, Owen Michael Title: Graduate Student Dpt.: Creative Writing Institution: San Francisco State Univ. My area of emphasis is poetry, and my work has been published in: 1) Poets on Parnassus Anthology, Univ. of California, San Francisco Medical School 2) The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal My interests include literature and poetry, and the intersection of literature, poetry, the Humanities, and computers. I am currently working on poetry about fishing, tailoring, and metallurgy. =============================================================================== *Pigeon, Renee Renee Pigeon Department of English California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407 (909) 880-5896 e-mail: rpigeon@wiley.csusb.edu Title & Institution: Associate Professor, Dept. of English, CSU San Bernardino Major Interests and Current Research: English Renaissance Prose Fiction, Shakespeare, Film Studies, Detective Fiction; Shakespeare History Plays, English Shakespeare Co. *Wars of the Roses* Publications: "'An Odious Marriage with a Stranger': Sidney's Arcadias and the French Match," English Language Notes 31.1 (September 1993) 28-40; "William Painter" Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 136, p. 259-63. "James Howell" Dictionary of Literary Biography (17th Century Prose) (forthcoming). "Manuscript Notations in an Unrecorded Copy of Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania," Notes and Queries n.s. 38.1 (March 1991): 81-82. "A Model for the Castle of Amphialus in Sidney's Arcadia," Sidney Newsletter 8.2 (1987): 10-15. Dissertation: Prose Fiction Adaptations of Sidney's Arcadia (UCLA 1988) Presentations: Moderator, "Shakespeare on Film and Video: A Roundtable Discussion," Teaching the Renaissance Symposium, CSUSB, Jan. 1994 "'A Garment All of Blood': Michael Pennington's Prince Hal," CSU Shakespeare Symposium, Cal Poly Pomona, November 1993 Panelist, "Comedy of Errors," CSU Shakespeare Symposium, Cal Poly Pomona, November 1993 Session Chair, "Shakespeare," Southwest Regional Renaissance Conference, San Marino, May 1993 "Narrative Voice in William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure," RSA National Conference, Kansas City, April 1993 Participant, Folger Shakespeare Library Weekend Workshop, From Critic to Director, March 1993 Participant, Folger Shakespeare Library Weekend Workshop, Court and Culture in the Last Decade of Elizabeth's Reign," October 1991 "A Mounting Mind: Neoplatonism in Love's Labour's Lost," Southwest Regional Renaissance Conference, San Marino, April 1986. (Have also chaired sessions and presented papers on English Renaissance Prose Fiction--Sidney, Wroth and others; served on panels and chaired sessions on Shakespeare) Academic Service: Coordinator, Renaissance Conference of Southern California Symposium on Teaching the Renaissance, 1993 and 1994 Vice-President, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 1993-95 Second Vice-President, RCSC, 1992-93 Secretary-Treasurer, RCSC, 1991-92 Coordinator, Neo-Areopagus Society, UCLA, 1987-89 =============================================================================== *Pigg, Daniel Farris Daniel Farris Pigg Assistant Professor of English The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 IVAD@UTMARTN.BITNET AREAS of Interest: Medieval and Renaissance literature, especially drama I am particularly in pursuing research on earlier Reniassance literature, but believe that participation in the SHAKSPER list would be of great benefit. I am particularly interested in what we have come to term "metadrama" not just as it appears in Shakespeare but in other drama of the period. I regularly teach courses in the area and believe that participation in the list would be of great benefit. With regard to publication, I have essays on _Beowulf_, _The Dream of the Rood_, a Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale," and Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth". I am interested in pursuing several projects on the construction of the new Tudor Man in the interludes. ============================================================================== *Pilo, Sam I received my BA from Hofstra University in 1969 in Dramatic Literature, and my MFA from Columbia in 1972 in Production, producing 'Julius Caesar' as my thesis in an outdoor setting on the steps of the Rotunda. Over the last sixteen years I have run the Brattleboro Center for the Performing Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont and the Actors Theatre Playhouse. We have a strong community based group committed to producing several productions per year on an all volunteer basis. Included in over 100 productions we have mounted are Long Days Journey, Twelfth Night, Hedda Gabbler, Cherry Orchard, and just this last summer, Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer. While classic theatre is our major impulse, we also are interested in new works and current scripts, radio theatre, and staged readings. My hope is to encounter other working directors, local theater producers and theatre designers and technicians who can share their experiences and conceptions through this forum. =============================================================================== *Pilzer, Kay Kay Pilzer, a graduate student in English Literature at Vanderbilt University, is particularly interested in inter-textual and inter-cultural issues in Shakespeare studies. Her master's thesis (" 'Contrary Possibilities': A Woman Reads Shakespeare's "King Lear" and Jane Smiley's "Thousand Acres", University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1993) looks at ways in which Shakespeare and Shakespeare criticism may have encoded a gendered way of reading and thinking. She is also interested in ways that Biblical texts intersect in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Pinkava, Pavel Pavel Pinkava is not a professional Shakespearean scholar and has yet to publish anything on the subject. He has however taken a strong interest in the field in the last few years. His formal education has been heavily Science based and he holds a PhD in Solid State Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London. After his PhD Pavel became an active broker of products traded on the London International Financial Futures Exchange and more recently has been a successful dealer investing into East European money markets. Pavel was born in Prague in 1965 and thanks to his close-nit family still speaks fluent Czech despite having grown up in England since 1968. Pavel's recent interest in Shakespeare was spurred by his purchase of a copy of the complete works whilst on a business trip to Scotland in 1993. He still recalls the truly delightful "personal revelation" of reading the Sonnets for the first time on the flight back. Since 1995 his interest in the Sonnets has accelerated and he has virtually all annotated editions in print. He is also a member of the British Library where he has examined the original copies held there. Pavel's level of interest has now grown to the point that he has taken a career break to further his researches into the subject. He hopes that his personal study will yield useful results in due course. ============================================================= *Pinnow, Timothy Dayne Professor Pinnow is currently an Assistant Professor of Speech-Theatre at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He holds a B.A. in psychology and musical theatre from Luther College and a M.F.A. from the University of Florida. Tim is an Equity actor specializing in Shakepeare and has previously worked with the Hippodrome State Theatre of Florida, The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and The Old Creamery Theatre of Garrison, Iowa. As an actor and director, Tim is primarily interested in the performance of Shakespeare, and character analysis for performance. Tim recently published an article, "Toward a New Hamlet" in Text and Presentation, 11. Maupin House, Gainesville, Florida, 1991. ============================================================================= *Pittman-Jones, Mary My name is Mary Pittman-Jones and I teach at a private American middle school in Paris, France. Some five years ago I decided to expose my 11 year olds (sixth grade) to _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ and I haven't looked back since. I now teach four of Shakespeare's plays to each grade level (6-8) and I've created a wonderful monster in that my students have become serious scholars of Shakespeare. After having read Jonathan Franzen's article in _Harper's_ mourning the lack of study of Shakespeare even at university and Harold Bloom's _The Western Canon_, I can safely say that if Shakespeare is approached early, he easily becomes the "be-all and end-all" of my students' interest. I organize a yearly trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon in which my seventh and eighth graders see at least two plays and attend workshops, talk with RSC actors, and see the stage, costume and make-up rooms. I host a week-long Shakespeare Celebration at my school in which students dress as characters, perform scenes, design costumes and playbills, and compete in a mastermind quiz. In the interest of this I wanted to become more informed as everything I read about Shakespeare goes into the classroom. I have also given presentations at international educational conferences on the teaching of Shakespeare. While my particular expertize may not enhance this listserve, I would welcome the chance to observe and help create a new generation of Shakespearean scholars. The level of work my very young students have been able to produce is awe-inspiring. =============================================================================== *Pitts, Russell I am returning to academia after practicing law for 20 years. I am also pursuing a Ph.D. at Western Michigan University in British Renaissance Literature. My primary area of teaching is interdisciplinary courses in the Humanities. My particular interest is how textural variations between the folio and quarto editions translate into performance variations. I am currently working on a book that traces the British fairylore influences on the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream and how those infuences manifest themselves in performance, particularly in the Startford, Ontario productions of the play. =============================================================================== *Pival, Paul J., Jr. Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Bradford, PA 16701 M.A., English, Seattle University Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tel (office) (814) 362-7695 (home) (814) 362-1757 I am not actively doing research in Shakespearean studies. My primary interest is pedagogical: I am the only faculty member at my institution teaching Shakespeare (Pitt-Bradford is a branch campus with fewer than 1000 undergraduates, most of whom are career oriented). Associations: National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication ========================================================= *Pixley, Edward BIO: Edward Pixley, MS. UWisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., University of Iowa. CO-Author, GEORGE Kernodle's INVITATION TO THE THEATRE, 3rd ed. and Book Review Editor of EDUCATIONAL THEATRE JOURNAL (1974-77). Prof. of Theatre, SUNY-Oneonta since 1969. Teach Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre History, Appreciation, and some Performance. I occasionally team-teach an advanced Shakespeare course with Pat Gourlay of our English Department and occasionally teach Shakespearean acting. In 1989, I created and ran the Shakespeare in the Catskills Weekend Workshops, a series of six weekends, each weekend focusing on a different play, combining two leaders, one a scholar and one a performance specialist. This series was followed by our Elizabethan Repertory during the following season, which I managed, performed in a facsimile Elizabethan playhouse. Plays directed: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, HAMLET, MACBETH, VOLPONE. Current research: Disguise-spying motif in Shakekspeare. Historical shifts of cuckold as object of mirth. =============================================================================== *Plamondon, Marc Marc Plamondon Department of English McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada I am a Master's degree student at McGill University. I hold a B.Sc. from Universite Laval (1990) in Physics, and a B.A. from McGill (1992) in English Literature. I am currently in my final year of my M.A. in English Literature, and am writing a thesis on the poetry of Robert Browning and his use of music as theme and form. Being interested in the relation between poetry and music, Shakespeare is a natural attraction for me. Shakespeare and Milton seem to be generally regarded as the two great musical poets, and my tendency is to agree (with the addition of Browning to the list). I am hoping to write my doctoral dissertation on the relation of music to Victorian poetry. I have only recently embarked upon the ship of literary academia, and am looking forward to seeing the places to which this ship will take me. =============================================================================== *Planinc, Zdravko Zdravko Planinc Associate Professor Religious Studies McMaster University I am writing to request that I be added to the SHAKSPER list. =============================================================================== *Plaza, Victoria Please add my name to the SHAKSPER network. I am a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland currently working on representations of women in Tudor drama, especially femininity as a performance or act. Previous work has included the politics of displacement in Derek Jarmen's Edward II and textual transmission/sexual chastity in Othello. =============================================================================== *Plisson, Emmanuel I live in toulouse, France, and work for national service till june 1997 in the Clubs UNESCO center of this town. French teacher in "normal" times, I produced in 1993 a 160p. "maitrise de lettres modernes" upon the relationships between Shakespeare comedies and the definition of the "baroque" courant, which intended to put them both in a pespective of litterature history. Though I had not worked again on this essay since this time, and don't intend to do, I still think that the subject was very rich and interesting. As a french, I'd like to confront some of my points of view with people for whom Shakespeare works is a kind of essential cultural data. In any case, please forgive my english, which happens to be poor "in the heat of action". =============================================================================== *Plotkin, Joel Joel Plotkin at the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome teaches drama and applied theater at a small, upper division technical college in central New York State. He has previously taught at Colgate Univ., Skidmore College, and the Interlochen Arts Academy. A generalist, he is especially curious about audience/performer interaction; his recent explorations in Brechtian notions of impact have encompassed psychodrama, drama therapy, public issues theater, Boal's Theater of Oppression, and theater as a human resource training tool. He wishes to explore ways of vivifying Shakespeare for the blue-collar, career-focused adults in his current elective class. Brandeis BA Theater June 1964 Trinity U MA Drama Aug 1966 Mich. State Univ. PhD Theater Dec 1971 =============================================================================== *Plotnikoff, Fred I am definitely interested in this group...but I am not a scholar or an academic of any sort...I just love to read Shakespeare!! I am a little intimidated by the list of academics and professional people that belong to this group. I would just like to join to absorb all the very interesting commentary on The Bard and his works.... I am by profession, a computer systems consultant, and run my own small consulting business out of my home... I have always loved English Literature, especially Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Poetz, Troy My name is Troy Poetz. I'm a senior at Bemidji State University and I'm currently enrolled in an upper level Shakespeare class. My thesis for the class involves research pertaining to Shakespeare and the accessability of his works on the net. I also plan on starting my Honors Thesis this Spring which will also involve Shakespeare. I have been a long time admirer of Shakespearean works and I have a fairly large collection of papers examining his plays and sonnets. I'm extremely excted to become involved in this interesting group of others that admire his works as well. =============================================================================== *Pohrer, Irmgard Since my interest in Shakespeare is purely private, I do hope that amateur enthusiasts are welcome to this list, too! Being supposed to present credentials here is a little daunting... I am a librarian (Dipl.-Bibl., Bayerische Beamtenfachhochschule Muenchen), and I am currently employed as a systems administrator at the library of the Technical University Munich. I love reading Shakespeare's works, and I hope to gain a lot of new insights here as regarding interpretation and historical/sociological background. I greatly enjoy seeing his plays on stage, but I am also very interested in screen adaptations, so I would be pleased if discussion covered this area as well. Another main interest of mine is learning languages. After English, French and Icelandic I have started on Klingon (which has a translation of Hamlet, BTW). ============================================================= *Pokoluk, Megan My name is Megan Pokoluk and I am a graduate student at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. The course I am taking now is a literary research class and one of our first assignments is to subscribe to an internet literary discussion group. At the end of the semester we are to write a paper discussing the internet as a means of coducting scholarly research and the ways in which scholars interact through the network. I chose to subscribe to the Shakespeare group not only because I thoroughly enjoy Shakespeare but also because the teacher who most inspired me to continue study in English literature was my undergraduate Shakespeare professor, James P. Lusardi, one of the chief editors of the Shakespeare Bulletin I feel very lucky to have had Professor Lusardi as a teacher since there is no doubt he is one of the most learned scholars of Shakespeare. I graduated from Lafayette College in May 1995 with my Bachelor of Arts in English. My senior honors thesis was entitled "Animal Imagery in Five of Hardy's Major Novels" and focused on Darwinian aspects of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Mayor of Casterbridge. My supervisor for this project was Professor Joseph Martin who also teaches Modern British Literature at Lafayette. I plan to continue my pursuit of an advanced degree in English simply because I love research and literature, particularly British literature. My passion is really for writing and I am hopeful that one day I will be able to devote myself to it entirely. =============================================================================== Sachdev, Rachana I would like to subscribe to the shakesper listserv. I am an assistant prof. at Susquehanna University, and have recently finished my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania on "race" and the immigration of Englishwomen to the American colonies in Seventeenth-century English drama. =============================================================================== *Polin, Linda I've taken many classes in literature and love both reading the plays and seeing them performed. I'm also a member of the American Friends of the Royal Shakespeare Company and have been lucky enough to see about 15 plays in London and Stratford and am looking forward to seeing the New Globe Theatre this summer. ============================================================= *Pollard Jacqueline Anne Jacqueline Anne Pollard S. 1231 Ferrall Court Spokane, WA 99202 (U.S.A.) Phone: (509)534-7558 My name is Jacqueline Pollard. I am currently a first-year graduate student in English at Eastern Washington University. Although my actual area of research is the Medieval period, I find that there is much overlap between the Medieval age and the Renassaince. Also, the Renassaince has always fascinated me. I am a true "fan" of Shakespeare's works, on the page and as his works are performed. My interest, therefore, in the man is both personal and academic. Professionally, I have yet to be published (although this may be changing fairly soon -- I will keep you posted!). I am beginning English literature. I also plan to include a brief examination of how gender roles evolved in literature of the Renassaince. That really is about as much as I have done. I look forward to participation in the SHAKSPER discussion list -- it looks quite interesting. Even exciting! =============================================================================== *Pollard, Tanya Having studied English at Yale (B.A. 90) and Classics and English at Oxford (M.A. 92), I'm now working on a Ph.D. in comparative literature with a particular interest in the way shadows of antiquity color Renaissance literature and thought. In particular, I'm interested in the legacy of Plato's distrust towards spectacles and surfaces, and the way Renaissance Platonism intersects with Protestant iconoclasm and Petrarchan desire/fear of seductive but dangerous beauty. In my dissertation, "What murderous spectacle is this?," I'm exploring scenes of spectatorship in Renaissance drama which represent spectacles as capable of destabilizing, and ultimately killing, their viewers. Claudius, for instance, says of Ophelia's performance of mad songs, "this, like to a murd'ring piece, doth bring me in many places superfluous death"; Hamlet says of the Mousetrap "This play is the image of a murder." I'm particularly interested in tracing perspectives on spectatorship in other discourses, such as medical treatises, and art commentaries, as well as within strictly literary contexts. =============================================================================== *Polniaszek, Stephen Amateur is the operative word. As a nonacademic administrator in the Academy, my interest in Shakespeare is contained wholly within the realm of personal intellectual pleasure. Although three decades have passed since my acting days, a theatrical background still colors my reading of the plays. I have acted in and directed scholastic productions, staged readings, and have even written an unpublished children's play telling a story of Sycorax-a prequel for THE TEMPEST. My re-reading of the Shakespearean canon is ongoing with a current particular interest in the Harvester-Wheatsheaf editions of the early Quarto versions. I have recently joined the Malone Society to learn more about their photofacsimiles and reprint editions of the Quartos. I do not pretend to scholarship, but am interested in how these beautiful constructions actually worked in their often-compressed contemporary performing versions, and what that might teach us about seeing the works afresh on today's stages. ============================================================= *Porter, Judie I am Supervisor of Media Services (K-12) for the Portsmouth Public School System in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. I have two bachelor degrees from the University of Oklahoma in Journalism and English Education, and two masters degrees from the University of Rhode Island in Educational Technology and Library Science and Information Services. My interest in Shakespeare is primarily to serve as a resource for high school teachers in our system. Although I have little expertise in the field, I feel this listserve would be beneficial for both library and curriculum development. =============================================================================== *Portley, Mary Beth Student, MA English/ Master of Library Science Department of English/ School of Information Science and Policy University at Albany MP0384@cnsvax.albany.edu (Internet) MP0384@albnyvms.bitnet (Bitnet) Degrees held: BA English/minor: Education, Utica College of Syracuse University BA Psychology, Utica College of Syracuse University Professional membership: American Library Association Current interests/ research topics: My current interest is in the study of Shakespeare's sources, and of subsequent adaptations of his plays. My most recent paper traced the evolution of Desdemona and Emilia, from Cinthio's Hecatommithi, to Shakespeare's Othello, and beyond in three very different offshoots: Mary Cowden Clarke's story of Desdemona in The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, Verdi and Boito's opera Otello, and Charles Marowitz's An Othello. I argued that no author before or since Shakespeare has successfully created characters of the complexity of his Desdemona and Emilia (and Bianca). In addition, the characterizations often have more to do with the dominant beliefs about women in a given culture at a given time, than with the portrayal offered in the source material. I'm interested in pursuing this line of inquiry for my upcoming MA examination. I'm especially interested in adaptations and their relationship to their Shakespearean source. What kind of commentary on Shakespeare are they offering? Are they attempting to reinforce Shakespeare's position in the canon, or are they attempting to canon-bust, or do they do both? I'm looking forward to the conversation on SHAKSPER to help develop these thoughts. =============================================================================== *Post, Mike Graduate Student, Performance Theory and Criticism AB Drama, Ripon College, 1984 While I am currently an MA candidate, this degree track is not specifically what I am looking for. As of next fall, I will be transferring to the MFA Directing/Acting program. I am interested in everything pertaining to theatre. Shakespeare holds particular fascination in finding the right way of performing it to a contemporary audience given the language barrier inherent in these plays. I have participated in several productions including: Twelth Night Lighting Design Macbeth Lennox/Lighting Design Loves Labor's Lost Holofernes Much Ado About Nothing Balthazar As of yet, I am unpublished. I am involved in independent research in dramatic forms (What is comedy as opposed to farce? Is there still tragedy in this day and age?) My thesis, should I choose to complete the MA program, will involve this research in regard to mounting the different forms in production. Between classes and productions, I teach acting as part of The University of Montana's Expressive Arts requirement. To support my habit in theatre, I keep my knowledge of computing up to date. I held the job of Systems Analyst at Ripon College in Wisconsin for 5 years. I am familiar with Digital PDP 11/70, and VAX, as well as the Apple Macintosh. Currently, I am employed as a consultant at The University of Montana. I find many uses of computers in theatre, and suspect I will continue to find more. ======================================================================== *Potgieter, Christo Christo R Potgieter completed a BA (Drama) at the University of Pretoria in 1978 and BA Honours in 1979. From then on he worked as a professional actor for different acting companies in South Africa as well as the South African Broadcast Corporation. He also worked as Cultural Officer and Regional Manager in the Gauteng Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture where he was concerned mainly with Community Arts & Culture, youth development, presenting courses on creative youth leadership and enviro-drama. He published articles on environmental education, drama games and development communication through drama. At present, he is working as Voice, Speech and Communications Consultant and is a part-time lecturer in voice and speech training at the Pretoria Technikon. He is busy with a Magister Technologiae in Voice and Speech Training at the Pretoria Technikon. ================================================== =========== *Potter, Lois D. LOIS POTTER, Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware, 204 Memorial Hall, Newark, DE 19716, TEL (302) 831-2298. An Army brat: hence, my 10 different schools include addresses in Japan and France. Diplome from Sorbonne for Cours de Civilisation Francaise in 1957; BA Bryn Mawr 1961; PhD Cambridge 1965. After taking my doctorate, I worked for 27 years in Britain, mostly at the University of Leicester, so my experience is largely European: I lectured on the Continent, did theatre reviews for BBC Radio Leicester and the TLS, and was heavily involved in A Level and External Examining (which is something you don't have here). Publications: A PREFACE TO MILTON (Longman), An ed. of PARADISE LOST Book III for Cambridge Milton, substantial sections of Vols II and IV of Revels History of Drama in English (Methuen), Editor of Vols I and IV of same series, Ed. of THE TRUE TRAGICOMEDY LATELY ACTED AT COURT by Francis Osborne (Garland) and THE MISTRESS PARLIAMENT PLAYS (in the journal AEB), author of TWELFTH NIGHT; TEXT AND PERFORMANCE (Macmillan) and SECRET RITES AND SECRET WRITING: ROYALIST LITERATURE 1641-1660 (Cambridge). Currently working on an edition of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN for the Arden Shakespeare and a book on OTHELLO in the U. of Manchester Plays in Performance series. Lots of articles and reviews. The one I would most like to follow up in future research is 'Nobody's Perfect: Actors' Memories and Shakespeare's Plays of the 1590s', which is in SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 1990. Particular interests are 1. drama in its historical context 2. Shakespeare in performance (and anything to do with theatre) 3. Shakespeare in other languages and cultures (I am currently doing notes and intro--in English--for a French translation of HAMLET; I have seen productions of the plays in many other languages) 4. pedagogy, which was a strong emphasis of the course at the Folger. In England, I attended a number of courses on teaching at University level, especially the highly innovative DUET (Development of University English Teaching) sessions at the University of East Anglia under John Broadbent. Despite all this, I have found the transition to teaching US undergraduates very difficult, but I think I'm getting better at it. At the moment what I most need to know about is anything relevant to my edition of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, which I hope to finish within a year; it has been taking far too long, mainly because of the disruption caused by this move to the States. =============================================================================== *Powell, Pam Name:Pam Powell Library of Business Management University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Lay person with great interest in Shakespeare. BA degree, majors in English and French. Member of South African Shakespeare Society. Born in England. Lover of all forms of literature. Knowledge of Portuguese and Italian member of Alliance Francaise for 15 years. Interested in reading e mail on Shakespeare and perhaps asking a few tentative questions of the experts every now and then. Hobbies - reading, especially history, music, especially early music. Archaeology, psychology,travel,walking, birdwatching and general sociability. Emigrated to South Africa in 1970, have travelled quite a bit. =============================================================================== *Power, Debra Hello. I am a masters student at Dalhousie University. I have my undergrad degrdegree from Carleton U. and took further courses at MSVU. I know I will be doing my graduate papers on the Renaissance and gender issues, but I am still brainstorming concerning what authors to focus on. Currently I am writing a very interesting paper on Marlowe and gender in Tamburlaine--I specialize in close readings. I am a (relatively) mature student , and endlessly curious =============================================================================== *Powers-Beck, Jeff I am an Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University. My specialties are in Renaissance literature, lyric poetry, and the poetry of George Herbert. I frequently teach Shakespeare's sonnets and the major plays. I have published articles on George Herbert, Elizabeth Bishop, Reginald Scot, Robert Burton, and (yes) William Shakespeare. I have been very intrigued by the controversy surrounding Donald Foster's attribution of the W.S. elegy to Shakespeare. As a matter of fact, one of my classes has been likewise interested in Foster's work-- we're now planning a multi-media presentation called "Project W.S." I hope that the Shakesper dialogue will contribute to our project. =============================================================================== *Precosky, Dan I am not a Shakespeare specialist but I am an interested amateur. My primary field is modern Canadian poetry. I work at a small community college in Northern British Columbia and look to electronic discussions groups such as SHAKESPER as a means of overcoming the cultural isolation that a northern location creates. Don Precosky English Dept. College of New Caledonia Prince George, B.C. Canada V2N 1P8 PhD University of New Brunswick 1979 =============================================================================== *Prescott, Paul Paul Prescott is currently studying for a MA at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon (University of Birmingham). He graduated from Oxford University in 1997 having read English Language and Literature. His main field of interest is Shakespeare in performance. ============================================================= *Pressler, Charlotte To introduce myself, I am Charlotte Pressler, a student in the SUNY at Buffalo doctoral program in English, with an intended specialization in Renaissance/Jacobean literature. My theoretical framework tends to draw on hermeneutics, Russian Formalism, Czech Structuralism, discourse analysis, and the work of Bakhtin. I am also interested in the interrelationships between Renaissance philosophy and literature, and in the beginnings of science in the early modern period. Finally, I am interested in the social/historical contexts of Renaissance/Jacobean literature, though I am not sure I could describe myself as a New Historicist. (In fact, I still have a certain fondness for the Warburg School.) Interests not specifically related to this list include contemporary music ("post-classical" and electro-acoustic) and poetics. I have done weekly or bi-weekly programs of new music on college radio stations for six years, and have presented, reviewed, and been a reader/editor for publications of contemporary experimental poetry and prose for several years also. Earlier, I presented new music in Cleveland as part of a grass-roots collective, wrote reviews, and played in a New York avant-noise band called Red Dark Sweet. (I was a rather mediocre keyboard player, to be honest.) Degrees include a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Cleveland State University and an M.F.A. in creative writing (fiction) from Brooklyn College, CUNY. I am what is known as a "returning woman," and list members interested in the earlier part of my life can consult Clinton Heylin's _From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World_ (Penguin, 1993). I will say no more about it here. =============================================================================== *Preussner, Arnold Arnold Preussner, Assoc. Prof., English Northeast Missouri State University Kirksville, MO 63501 I received a B.A. in English and History from Luther College, Iowa, in 1967, and did my master's and doctoral work at the U. of Colorado, Boulder, where I received a Ph.D. in English Lit. in 1977. For the past five years, I have taught at Northeast Missouri State U. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Jonson, and have kept up a fairly active interest in English Renaissance drama. I have published an article on Hamlet and Tw. Night (Hamlet Studies, 10, 1988), given several conference presentations on Shakespearean drama, and review books on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama for The Sixteenth Century Journal. I am currently working on a conference paper on Tw. Night in performance, to be given at the 1993 16th Cent. Studies Conference in St. Louis. I am interested in just about all aspects of Shakespeare, but am especially interested in performance criticism. I look forward to participating in the shakesper program. =============================================================================== *Price, David David Joseph (Joey) Price Western Carolina University I am a publications writer in the Office of Public Information at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA. I earned a bachelor's degree in English at Berry College in Rome, Georgia, USA, in 1986 and a master's degree in English =============================================================================== *Price, Diana Over the past two years, Diana Price has written on a variety of Shakespearean topics and lectured at several colleges and universities. Her article "Reconsidering Shakespeare's Monument" was published in The Review of English Studies (May 1977). The article introduced a 17th century drawing of Shakespeare's Stratford monument. That drawing debunks the theory that the present day effigy of Shakespeare was substituted in the 18th century, replacing an "original" bust that depicted a man holding a sack. Ms. Price debated Prof. Donald Foster in The Shakespeare Newsletter (Summer 1996, Fall 1996, and Spring 1997) by challenging his conclusions based on his computer-aided lexical analysis (Shaxicon) of the Shakespeare canon and his attribution of the Funeral Elegy to Shakespeare. She has also published two feature articles in The Elizabethan Review. Over the past few years, she has lectured at Cleveland State University, Lorain County Community College, John Carroll University (a Jesuit institution), and the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable (Los Angeles). She chaired a panel on research methods at Ball State University's annual Conference for the Advancement of Early Studies in fall 1997. Her lecture series on Shakespeare has been produced on video for release later this year. ============================================================= *Price, Michael W. Forthcoming publications: 1. Dictionary of Literary Biography entry on Sir William Cornwallis; 2. Short explications of Milton's sonnet 18 and The Winter's Tale 1.2.1-9 in The Explicator. Member of MLA Current project: dissertation on John Donne's preordination secular prose. My home address: 2304 Dakota Drive Lafayette, IN 47905 USA 317/474-8238 My office address: Department of English 1356 Heavilon Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA 317/494-3724 =============================================================================== *Priest, Donna I am a student, about to study English literature next year. I've had a love of Shakespeare's writing for a long time, and would like to join the Shakespeare list for interest and for educational purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------- *Boyd, Cindy I am a currently a Junior at Augustana College in Rock Island IL, double majoring in history and art, with a minor in Med. and Ren. studies. My interest in joining the list is mainly personal. Though my areas of academic interest overlap with some of the things probably discussed on the list, my ultimate purpose is gaining a better understanding of how an academic community can function in the microcosm of an email list. Since I am but an undergrad, I have yet to figure out what my specialized area of study is, but I certainly am a Shakespeare fan. ============================================================= *Primm, Denise My name is Denise Primm and I am a graduate student at Syracuse University. (I also am an editor/writer/market researcher/health planner--all in other lives. I am a victim of downsizing.) I am in an independent study degree program and am pursuing a Master of Library Science. As part of my class assignment, I am compiling an InfoGuide for the AskERIC virtual library. The subject of my InfoGuide is innovative ways of teaching Shakespeare. I fell in love with Shakespeare about two years ago when I took a course at Vanderbilt University called "Shakespeare In Film." I wrote two papers in this course, evaluating film presentations of The Winter's Tale and Macbeth. It was an experience that changed my life. I am now interested in anything to do with Shakespeare. I would like to be part of your electronic discussion on Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Prince, Karen I would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER discussion group. I am a PhD candidate in Renaissance Drama at the University of Alabama, finished with course work and anticipating being ABD in September. At the moment I am finishing a paper on Shakespeare's depiction of prostitution for a seminar at the International Shakespeare Congress in L.A. As requested, I'll post this paper to the SHAKSPER archive when it is finished. My dissertation will concern women on the early modern stage, comparing Jonson's women characters with those of his contemporaries. I'd originally planned to organize it around different female social roles (mothers, daughters, wives, whores, widows) but it may well turn out to be an expansion of my current study of prostitution. My MA thesis, written under the guidance of Robert C. Evans, examined the role of Celia in Jonson's _Volpone_, concluding that she voices Jonson's Stoic Christianity. =============================================================================== *Prince, Michael I work as a highschool English teacher in a Norwegian Waldorf school. Last week I completed a Cand. Philol. degree (M.A.) at U of Bergen (Norway) in American Studies, but my interests are by no means limited to American Literature and culture. I also teach a section of our expository writing program at the university. My interest in Shakespeare has been intense for the last fourteen years. I'm familiar with most of his works, except the histories. Since I moved to Norway seven years ago, I find the greatest challenge is to teach Shakespeare to pupils who have English as their second language. Waldorf schools (established by Rudolf Steiner) put a particular emphasis on "canonical" texts for their highschool cirriculum. While individual treachers are rather free in terms of what they teach, Shakespeare's sonnets and at least one play (HAMLET is the preferred choice) is recommended in the course of the three years. I've been relying for the most part on MACBETH, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and I'm considering THE TEMPEST for future use. My personal interest was very strongly piqued by a number of books about Shakespeare as phenomenon: Halliday's THE CULT OF SHAKESPEARE, Taylor's REINVENTING SHAKESPEARE, and the Ogburn book (which I notice most "serious" scholars tend to lump with UFO abductions and the like-- Still, Ogburn does tell a ripping good story.) I have attended a two week seminar/course given by Bernard Nesfeldt-Cooksen at Hawkwood College in Stroud, Gloucestershire in which he links motifs in the comedies to Rudolf Steiner's cosmology (anthroposophy, used to be theosophy). I have also gotten "the usual American university exposure" to the Bard from my Bachelors of Arts at Clark U (Worcester, MA). My current academic projects encompass a consideration of the postmodern subject-space relations in popular literature via a myth-criticism/cultural studies theoretical vantage point. =============================================================================== *Proctor, Charles <75537.1572@compuserve.com> An English major, I graduated from Harvard in 1963, having read Shakespeare with Alfred Harbage and William Alfred. After a year as a teaching fellow at Exeter, I returned to Harvard for an Master of Arts in Teaching, and then, via the U.S. Army, to Hawaii and Iolani School where I have taught all levels of English including a Shakespeare elective for juniors and seniors, for the past thirty some years. I am now Dean of Faculty/Ass't Head of the school which cuts into my teaching time, but I have kept faith with Shakespeare and continue to offer one of the more popular and respected courses at the school. Iolani itself is a wonderful school, recently in the top ten in the U.S. in National Merit Semifinalists and number 26 out of some 10,800 schools in the number of AP exams administered. I am proud to be a part of such a fine school! I created the Shakespeare elective with an emphasis on close textual analysis and performance. The students are expected to read with passion and insight while writing and talking about the text in highly specific ways. A product Reuben Brower's 'new criticism' at Harvard, I have not followed the path of deconstruction, but maintain that meaning inheres in the text, and that intelligence and diligence will serve to elucidate that meaning for motivated students. The students also see as much Shakespeare as possible, not always easy in Honolulu, and part of my interest in SHAKSPER derives from my hope that I may be able to locate obscure videotapes of significant performances. I am also interested in pedagogical give-and-take, and although by no means a Shakespeare scholar, I have picked up some ideas over the years on what works with young people. I would be happy to share them. =============================================================================== *Proehl, Geoffrey BIO: Dr. Geoffrey Proehl is chair of the graduate committee in theatre arts at Villanova University where he dramaturgs, teaches dramaturgy, and directs. He holds an M.F.A. in directing from Wayne State University and a Ph.D. in directing and dramatic criticism from Stanford University. Articles by Dr. Proehl on the dramaturg, dramaturgy, and theatricality will appear in the forthcoming ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH STUDIES AND THE LANAGUAGE ARTS. His study of the conventions of American family drama, COMING HOME AGAIN: AMERICAN FAMILY DRAMA AND THE FIGURE OF THE PRODIGAL has recently been accepted for publication by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. While at Stanford, Dr. Proehl served as assistant director on Lucian Pintile's productions of TARTUFFE at both the Guthrie Theatre and the Arena Stage. Most recently, he was artistic director for Plays-In-Process I at Villanova: three evenings of workshops and staged readings of new plays, including COSMOLOGIES by David Rabe. He currently supervises the work of Villanova graduate student interns in dramaturgy at Villanova, as well as at other educational and regional theatres. He is co-moderator of the Playwrights Group at Villanova. His current dramaturgical project is a production of Barrie's PETER PAN to be produced in the fall of 1993 at People's Light and Theatre Companny. Address: Theatre Dept., Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 Phone: 215-645-7786 E-Mail: proehl@ucis.vill.edu. =============================================================================== *Pucci, Anthony My name is Anthony J. Pucci. I am the English Department Chairman at Notre Dame High School in Elmira, New York. I have a BA in English from Merrimack College in North Andover, MA and an MS in Education from Elmira College in Elmira, NY. I have been teaching at Notre Dame since 1974. I have been a regular contributor of book reviews to KLIATT for the last three years. I have been teaching Advanced Placement English for a number of years. It is in this regard that I am interested in joining SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Puin, Jennifer E. My name is Jennifer E. Puin, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at The Ohio State University in Columbus. My interests are in Elizabethan drama, courtly performances, and fairy literature. I've served as a Graduate Teaching Associate for the past five years while working on my doctorate and have taught courses on Shakespeare, English literature from the medieval period to the eighteenth century, and composition and computers. I am currently working on my dissertation entitled "The Rise and Decline of the Fairy Presence in English Renaissance Literature," which is a historical/folkloric study examining the causes for the sudden literary exploitation of fairies in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England. In the process of exploring reasons for the literary fairy vogue and for the fairies' subsequent decline in the literature of the Caroline period, I will examine the uses of fairies in various Renaissance genres--the epic, masque, and pastoral. My dissertation will also touch upon the most important and well known fairy dramas of the Renaissance, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. It is Titania and Oberon, Puck and Peaseblossom, and all the fairy creatures of Shakespeare's imagination that have lead me to this research topic. In 1989 I received both my M.A. in English and my B.A. in French and English from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. My land mail address is Jen Puin, 101 Curl Drive, Rm 228, Columbus, Ohio 43210. My telephone number at work is (614) 292-6065. =============================================================================== *Pundiak, Terry Terry James Pundiak, M.D. 243 Spring Garden Street Easton, PA 18042 phone (215) 253-4380 Growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania (born in 1948), I went to The Pennsylvania State University initially to study Engineering, but graduated in 1970 with a B.S. degree in Pre-Medicine. Then I obtained my Doctor of Medicine degree at The Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1974. I did my internship at Crozier-Chester Medical College in Upland, Pennsylvania and my Internal Medicine Residency at Hahnemann and Easton Hospitals. It is here in Easton that I have remained for the last 15 years practicing general medicine. My hobbies have taken me all over the world - sort of speak - Amateur Photography, Jogging, and then Amateur Radio captured my interest. Speaking to radio operators around the world, I also got interested in home computers. I learned a computer language, Pascal, and discovered it was my native language. Grammer and syntax made sense and I loved to program. I took a few computer courses at Lehigh University. My running and computer hobbies were so intense that I married them with medicine for a time, fabricating and programming a computer to carry on my back as I ran the New York City Marathon in 1981. Wires from my feet and chest were electronically attached to the computer which calculated speed and fatigue indices. The computer sent me the information through an earphone, talking to me by Morse Code. This was quite an exciting time for me. After seven marathons a back injury retired me, luckily, because I then rediscovered my family. It was with my two daughters that I got exited about Shakespeare. One day I pulled a volume of an old Harvard Classics, telling my children about how important Shakespeare was... we started to read and act out one of his plays and went on to do about 10 of them together... I have tried to study and read all of Shakespeare as sort of a marathon of literature. I am only three quarters done. We have seen about 10 or 15 productions so far. I still am just amazed at Shakespeare's work. I have a science club which discusses each monthUs Scientific American. I am a Rotarian, immediate Past President of Easton Rotary Club. I have been playing harmonica for 5 years, guitar for 3 years, and piano for 1. All in all it has been a good life. =============================================================================== *Purdy, Scott I am an English teacher at Governor Dummer Academy, a private, co-educational boarding high school located 30 miles north of Boston. I teach sophomores and seniors, and at the senior level, I teach a one-semester course on Shakespeare's plays. We read Richard II, Othello, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Temptest. In addition, we attempt to see at least two Shakespeare plays performed in the Boston area, and the students read two other plays on their own during the semester. I received a B.A. in English from Williams College in 1988 and this summer (1995) completed the first year of a five-year master's program at the Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College. I am a former journalist, having worked as a reporter and as an editor at a couple of small daily papers in Massachusetts. =============================================================================== *Putnam, Randal Randal Putnam Periodicals Librarian Washoe County Library, Reno, NV I have a personal interest in Shakespeare and would like to follow a discussion regarding studies. =============================================================================== *Pywell, Geoff A short biographical sketch. My name is Geoff Pywell and I am Professor of Drama in the Theatre, Dance and Film Dept at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In this small liberal arts college I teach dramatic literature, acting and direct and supervise productions (unusual right?). I have acted professionally in both the States and Europe. Despite other temporary affairs, I keep returning to Shakespeare, feel a strange lack when not watching students begin to tackle verse, or discuss their first real analysis of the plays. I'm always wishing I had time to act again, and I only want to do Shakespeare. I have never directed a play of his. Too scared. My publications are easily dealt with: Staging Real Things: The Performance of Ordinary Events just out through Bucknell UP. Not specifically about Shakespeare, but used as a constant reference and guiding light. Current interests; the Holy Actor whatever that means. =============================================================================== *