Sabinson, Eric Mitchell Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP Campinas - Sao Paulo - BRAZIL My academic interest in Shakespeare is indirect. I am writing a paper on Shakespeare as a source for opera libretti. ======================================================================== *Sabo-Risley, Constance Home address: 608 Curtiss SChertz, Texas 78154 Work address: Advising Office Division of ENglish, Classics and Philosophy University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78249 E-mail: csaboris@lonestar.utsa.edu csabo@pclan.utsa.edu Education: M.A. in English Literature, UTSA B.A. in Political Sciencollege Organizations: MLA South Central MLA (Secretary, Session of the International Courtly National Council of Teachers of English Texas Council of Teachers of English (Member, State Membership Committee) Southwest Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College Interests: Interplay between medieval and Renaissance drama Influence of colonial exploration on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature Religios symbolism in the Shakespearean plays =============================================================================== *Sabotka, Robert I am currently an Electronics Engineer and aspiring actor. I have a bachelor degree from Wayne State University in Electronics-Computer-Engineer. After I recieved my degree, in 1985, I moved from Detroit, MI to Oxnard, CA where I now work and reside. In addition to my daytime job as an Naval Electronics Engineer, I am studying Shakesearean acting at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles, CA. I hope in the near future to become a working actor. =============================================================================== *Saeed, Tariq My name is Tariq Saeed and I am working as a lecturer at the Department of English of English, Govt. College, Multan (Pakistan). I have a masters degree in English Literature & Linguistics and post masters Dip. in Tefl & teaching of literature. I am teaching Shakespeare to post-graduate and under-graduate students. ============================================================= *Saeger, James P. I am a graduate student in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania and am currently writing my dissertation on bastards and bastardy in Renaissance drama "'Why bastard? Wherefore base?': Representing Bastardy in Early Modern English Drama." I'm working on two related projects: the first is on bastardy, genealogy, and early modern subjectivities; the second is on representations of adultery and female agency. I am also working on an ongoing project with Christopher J. Fassler in which we are looking at constructions of theatrical authorship. Conference papers include "'But he was not his father': Adultery and Women's Sexual Agency" and (with Christopher J. Fassler) "Pericles, Theatrical Authority, and Authorship in Early Modern England." I participated in the SAA seminars "Shakespeare's Bastards" (Vancouver 1991) and "Shakespeare and Unauthorized Sexual Behaviors" (Atlanta 1993). I am a member of the MLA and the SAA. My surface mail address (home) is 2612 Folsom St., Philadelphia, PA 19130-2416. My telephone number (home) is 215/232-5415. =============================================================================== *Saenger, Robert Michael Saenger, B.A. University of California, M.A. University of Toronto. Publications: "Shakespeare's Macbeth," The Explicator, forthcoming, April 1995. "Manningham on Malvolio," Shakespeare Newsletter, 43 (1993), 67. Review of Marco Mincoff, Things Supernatural and Causeless, for Durham University Journal, 55 (1994), 144-5. "The Costumes of Caliban and Ariel qua Sea-Nymph," Notes and Queries, forthcoming, September 1995. Review of Brian Gibbons, Shakespeare and Multiplicity, for Durham University Journal, 55 (1994), 333-4. Review of Zulfikar Ghose, Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge, for Durham University Journal, 55 (1994), 334-5. Reading the other biographies was fascinating. Although I am an academic, I felt closest to the many people who simply love Shakespeare and want to link in with a good dialogue on the subject. My interest began with a magnificent performance of Richard III that I saw as a child, and took a major turn when I performed Love's Labour Lost (One of the original versions of the title, which I prefer). After moving from the audience to the stage, I moved to the study. I have deeply loved Shakespeare, and found excellent company in others who do, whether formally or informally. I look forward to using this medium to evesdrop on this growing dialogue. Formally speaking, I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. and I have just completed my M.A. at the University of Toronto. I am currently applying for Ph.D. programs. My work can be found in recent issues of The Durham University Journal, Shakespeare Newsletter, and, before the year is out, in Notes and Queries. I will spend my life making a career out of ploughing this rich and oft-ploughed earth. I enjoy formality and I am a rational person, but in answer to the question why I do this, I can only answer that reason and love do indeed keep company, but they never understand each other. =============================================================================== *Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris I received my A.B. at Brown Univ. (1983), and my PhD at Brandeis Univ. (1994). Courses I teach at Colby include: 16th c. Poetry, 17th c. poetry, Early Modern Poetry by Women, Representing the Other in Renaissance and Restoration Literature, a senior seminar in Shakespeare's _Sonnets_, and Milton. I have published "Shakespeare's Sweet Leaves: Mourning, Pleasure and the Triumph of Thought in the Renaissance Love Lyric" in ELH 61 (1994) 1-26, and "Gathered in Time: Form, Meter (and Parentheses_) in _The Shepheardes Calender_" in _Spenser Studies_ 10 (1992) 95-107; my new essay under consideration is "The Cruel Fair and _Carpe Rosem_ in Samuel Daniel's _Delia_ and _The Complaint of Rosamund_". My principle research interest is the theory and history of poetry; my projects focus on the development of the lyric in the Renaissance, metrics, Shakespeare's _Sonnets_, early modern poetry by women, elegy and love lyric, melancholy, and the representation of thought in poetry. I am also a poet, with poems in _The Southern Review_, _Chicago Review_, and other journals. =============================================================================== *Saine, Jennifer L. I am a student of Libby Smigel's at Hobart and William Smith and would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER bulletin board for our Performing Shakespeare class. I am a senior this year (my last term as one) at William Smith and am a European History Major. I am interested in the Renaissance period and the times around it, thus my love for Shakespeare. I have some experience from high school and my English minor in college studying the Bard but have never acted, so Libby's class is a new experience for me. My E-mail address is saine@hws.bitnet and my mailing address is 80 Madison Street, Geneva, NY 14456, if that is also needed. =============================================================================== *Sajdak, Bruce T. NAME: Bruce T. Sajdak TITLE: Reference Librarian INSTITUTION: Smith College ADDRESS: Neilson Library Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 TELEPHONE: 413-585-2967 TERMINAL DEGREES: PhD, English Language & Literature, University of Michigan, 1974 AMLS, Library & Information Science, University of Michigan, 1975 PUBLICATIONS: Silence on the Shakespearean Stage (PhD Dissertation) 1974 Shakespeare Index: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Articles on the Plays, 1959-1983. Millwood, NY: Kraus, 1992. (The latter publication contains over 7,000 annotated entries to critical articles in English. These are exhaustively indexed by subject, character, and scene). CURRENT ACTIVITY: Member, Committee of Correspondents for "World Shakespeare Bibliography." =============================================================================== *Sakaino, Naoki Naoki Sakaino Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Iwate University *recent publications: "On Appropriation" (in Japanese), SHAKESPEARE NEWS, vol. XXXIII, 1993, No. 1, 3-5. ""Measure for Measure" and Restoration: D'avenant's Adaptation Reconsidered", Annual Report of the Faculty of Education, Iwate University Vol. 54 (1994), No. 1 October 1994, 13-23. *membership: The Shakespeare Society of Japan, The English Literary Society of Japan *major project: Representation of bodies in the early modern English stages *current interests Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare, Cultural Studies, Theatrical History =============================================================================== *Sakaino, Naoki full name: Naoki Sakaino title: lecturer department: Faculty of Education institution: Iwate University, Japan recent publication: "On appropriation", SHAKESPEARE NEWS, vol. XXXIII, 1993, No. 1, 3-5 (in Japanese), The Shakespeare Society of Japan (ISSN0582-9380) membership: The Shakespeare Society of Japan, The English Literary Society of Japan current interest & research topics: 17 century adaptation of Shakespeare, Restoration theatre, revenge tragedy tradition surface mail address: Naoki Sakaino, Faculty of Education, Iwate University, Ueda, Morioka, 020, JAPAN =============================================================================== *Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki While undergraduate, I read American and British modern poems. I was very much interested in New Criticism though many years had passed since the end of its movement. After graduating, influenced by some New Critics' books and T. S. Eliot's essays on Metaphysical poets, I got an interest in the Elizabethan poetry including Shakespeare's tragedy. I wrote a thesis for MA about J. Donne's imagery. After 15 year long teaching career, I have taught students English and Literature by using the computer for some years. Though I know my job is to teach them how to read and enjoy Literature, sometimes I put more emphasis on how to use the computer in order to search images and motives in electric texts which my students made by themselves. ============================================================= *Sakell, John My interest in Shakespeare is purely appreciative. I'm not a Shakespeare scholar but I have studied Shakespeare in some depth and, hence, I'm interested in what is being said or written about him and, especially his works. I'm a Concordia University of Montreal graduate, having majored in English Literature. I don't know what if anything I can contribute to the on-going discussions or postings about Shakespeare. But I would like to know what others are posting. If this is all right with you and anyone else who may have an objection, then please, put my name on your list. I would greatly appreciate it. Just for your information, my wife is also a gratuate of the same university and in English literature as well. She is a writer of science fiction books and short stories and is just as interested in Shakespeare as I am. I work for an insurance company in the information and technology department as an internal consultant. This, I admit, is a far cry from the English literature studies mentioned above. My job is to recommend and install new technologies at the Standard Life Assurance Company of Montreal, the Internet being a prime candidate. =============================================================================== Arleen, Hillary Hello. My name is Hillary Arlen, and I am a first year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I am in the MA program in the department of Theater and Drama, and hope to continue on towards the PhD. Since I am just beginning my graduate career, I really have not yet published any articles, nor do I belong to any organizations. In fact, that is one of the reasons I am interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER, so that I can become aquainted with the world of academia, specifically in reference to Shakespeare and the Renaissance period. I plan to specialize in theater history, specifically before 1700. I am interested in both criticism and performance, and hope to join the two together in my future work. Presently I am looking at physical depictions of violence in Shakespeare. My research involves critical theory about violence and its place in the theater as well as production histories. The play I am focusing on at the moment is Titus Andronicus, specifically Lavinia's entrance in Act II, scene iv. I received my B.A. in Theater from the University of New Hampshire in May, 1994. My advisor there, David Richman, told me about SHAKSPER and encouraged me to subscribe. My surface address is 917 W. Dayton St. Apt 385, Madison, WI 53715, and my phone number is (608)264-4274. I hope to hear from you soon, and I thank you for all the cooperation and information I have received from SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Salehi, Eric I. Eric I. Salehi is working toward his Ph.D. in English and American literature at New York University, where he also works as an instructor in the Expository Writing Program. Mr. Salehi's field of study is renaissance drama; his research focuses on issues of ideology and stage practice. He has presented papers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SUNY Stonybrook. Prior to attending graduate school, Mr. Salehi had a career as a systems analyst and spent some years as an actor specializing in Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Saliani, Dominic Dominic Peter Saliani Department Head Of English Sir Winston Churchill High School Calgary, Alberta, Canada I graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971 with an Honours B.A. in English. In 1976, I attained a B.Ed After degree from the University of Calgary and have been teaching in Calgary ever since. I am Senior Editor of a three-part poetry text book series published by Copp Clark Pitman. The Series is called Poetry Alive. Most recently, I have had published two multi-genre anthologies for Harcourt Brace and Company. These are part of a new series called Insights. I am interested in a number of areas relating to Shakespeare, including the authorship question. For the last five years or so, I have offered a number of sessions at teacher conventions and Language Arts Conferences on the subject of Shakespeare. I have also been a regular guest speaker at the University of Calgary. In this capacity, I have lectured to graduating classes of student-teachers on how to teach Shakespeare. My home address is: 6540 Silver Springs Cres. NW, Calgary, Alberta, T3B 3R2. My business address is: Sir Winston Churchill High School, 5220 Northland Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2J6. =============================================================================== *Salisbury, John I am a freshman English major at Rice University. I have have acted in several shakespearean productions in the past, and enjoy reading and hearing about shakepeare from both a productional and textual standpoint. =============================================================================== *Salter, Denis I am a Professor in the English Dept at McGill where I teach, among other things, the history of Shakespeare in performance. B.A. from UBC, MA and PhD both from Toronto. My current project is an investigation of recurrent problems in (mostly Canadian and Quebecois) theatre historiography. Part of the strategy is to reexamine the meanings of keywords in historiographic practice. For example, for the 1994 SAA conference in Albuquerque, I have written a paper called, "So what was 'natural' about it? Towards a theory of Victorian acting." The paper offers a close reading of George Henry Lewes's *On Actors and the Art of Acting* and a preliminary examination of 'natural' as an aesthetic ideal in some key(word) Victor- ian performances of Rosalind in * As You Like It.* =============================================================================== *Sam, David A. Coordinator of Enrollment Services Oakland Community College- Auburn Hills Campus 2900 Featherstone Road, Auburn Hills, MI 48326 (313) 340-6609 BA and MA in English from Eastern Michigan University (1971 & 1984). Have published poetry occasionally, and have written short fiction and some bad plays as well. Have taught as an adjunct for the better part of a decade, courses include composition, literature, and creative writing. Have an abiding interest in Shakespeare, regularly attend plays regularly read plays and sonnets. Currently am an administrator at Oakland Community College in Michigan, USA. =========================================================================== *Samutt, Carmel My name is Carmel Sammut, but friends call me Charles. I am from Malta, that small island in the mediterranean, but at the moment I am residing in Vancouver, Canada. Over here i am reading my MA in Theatre Studies in the theater department of the University of British Columbia. I have graduated form the University of Malta with an Honours degree in English. My area of research at the moment is the application of semiotics theory to the sphere of theatre, both at text and performance level. Apart from that I am highly interested in intertextualityy, more specifically with regards Shakespeare's Macbeth and Eugene Ionesco's "Macbett". As matter of fact I would like to see this two works from both aspects of semiology and intertextuality. Hopefully through SHAKSPER i could find some sounding boards which could help me clarify and expand my ideas. =============================================================================== *Sanchez, Paul I don't have too much to say about myself. I am an English major enrolled in a Shakespeare class. I plan to teach English after I graduate. At this exact moment I'm working on a paper concerning Brutus from Julius Caesar. I have to admit Shakespeare kicked my butt on this one. I sucked up to Brutus' meager rationalizations totally....with some kind and helpful advice from my instructor I took a closer, more critical look and am pleased with what I have come up with so far. Well I hope I get included in this list....I could use the peers to bounce ideas off. ============================================================= *Sandefur, Diana Diana L. Sandefur: Previously I taught Introductory English at the junior college level in Corpus Christi, Texas. For the last six years, I have been teaching senior level English to 12th grade students at Foy H. Moody High School. One of the focuses of our curriculum is the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare. Our school population is at-risk and poverty level and I love introducing them to the universal themes in Shakespeare. While studying at Ohio State University in the early 1970s, I took several courses specializing in Shakespearian literature and took several more at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, while working on my masters degree. Currently, I hold a B.A. in English, an M.S. in Curriculum & Instruction, and Teaching Certificates in Secondary English and all-level Reading. I am searching for a university where I can work on a doctorate in English specializing in some "Shakespearian" topic without straying too far from home and family. Unfortunately, at this time, I am stuck in South Texas and the outlook is bleak unless we are transferred. =============================================================================== *Sanders, Bradford My name is Bradford Sanders and I am a senior at Davidson COllege, Davidson NC. I subscribed to this listserv since this--my last--semester I am taking my first course in Shakespeare. As horrifying as that sounds, let me horrify you some more by saying that I consider myself mostly a miltonist who was quite content with leaving his education behind without paying homage to the bard. More specifically, my interests in Shakespeare lie in determining what exactly the "text" is. Is it the performance and play together or is a text, such as the Riverside Shakespeare what we look at more in critical contexts? In modern drama, I have no clear really what to think of this issue, and I felt that by looking at older texts I might be able to sneak in the back door of this issue by looking at what amounts to a genre all its own and, moreover, one in which there is no lack of critical context. Hence, I'm hoping that by eavesdropping on this list I'll be able to somehow grasp a firmer understanding of the issue of "text" and, moreover, have a stronger and more current critical context of understanding Shakespeare's works. =============================================================================== *Sanders, David I am a Portland, Oregon physician and I begin each day with a brief reading from Shakespeare. In these moments of peace I always find some humor, wisdom or beauty. I depend upon this time and cheerish it. I have not read all his works, nor seen more than a handful of performances, and certainly have not produced scholarly works in this area. It is my hope to continue to learn, understand and appreciate more of the language, the ideas, the man and his times. =============================================================================== *Sanderson, Richard K. Richard K. Sanderson Associate Professor of English Boise State University Boise, ID 83702 I received my Ph.D. in English from New York University in 1969 (my dissertation was on the tragedies of George Chapman). I teach Shakespeare almost every semester (tragedies and histories in the spring, comedies and romances in the fall). My publications include articles on George Orwell (in Modern Fiction Studies) and on Mary Shelley (in South Central Review). I have also published on Renaissance drama--an article on suicide in Ren. drama appeared in Comparative Drama (26.3 [Fall 1992]: 199-217), and several my reviews of books on Shakespeare and renaissance drama have appeared in Rocky Mountain Review. I belong to the MLA and to the Rocky Mountain MLA. My current research interest is in the literary representation of suicide. =============================================================================== *Sanderson, Sylvie and John Nemo<100325.1221@compuserve.com> Hi, My name is John Nemo. I am 36, British and live in both Muenster, Germany and on the tiny island of Sark on the Channel Islands ( off the north coast of France.) My girlfriend, a German, is 28, and her name is Sylvie Sanderson. We are both English teachers. My interest in Shakespeare is more recreational, Sylvie's is more of an obsession. She studies all the secondary literature in her spare time, Shakespeare Quarterly etc., and is pretty much of an expert (I think!). We are both interested in dropping in on Shakespeare-orientated discussions over the Internet and may, once we have overcome our techno-fear, participate as well. =============================================================================== *Sandlin, L. Clark My name is Lawrence (Clark) Sandlin, I am a student at the University of Memphis, where I study English and Russian. I am currently taking an Shakespearian course on Shakespearian Tragedy over the summer, so I thought that your list would be most helpful to me. I have thoroughly enjoyed Shakespeare's works ever since high school, and have studied Sh. in my spare time as well as taking many courses on his work time and works. I would probable not contribute much to the list, instead I would merely be a lurker since I do not consider myself an expert in Sh. =============================================================================== *Sandona, Mark Mark Sandona 318 Selwyn Drive, #1B Frederick, Maryland 21701 PhD, Harvard University, Comparative Literature, 1989. Dissertation: Patience and the Agents of Renaissance Drama, UMI Order Number 8914697 Advisors: Walter Kaiser, William Alfred BA, Northwestern University, English and Comparative Literature, 1977. Reading in English, French, and Greek. Teaching: Hood College, Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1990 to present. Bowdoin College, Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1988-90. Bates College, Instructor, Department of English, 1984-1988. Harvard University, Teaching Assistant, Department of English and Department of Comparative Literature, 1979-83. Harvard University, Tutor, Department of History and Literature, 1982-83. Scholarly Work: SAA 1992: "Viola's Sister: Envisioning Patience in Twelfth Night (2.4. 107-115)." SAA 1991: "Shakespeare's Gower: Source as Authorial Atavism" CEA 1992: "Moon's Sunny Beams: reading Peter Hall reading `A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Washington DC. Recent Publication: "Patientia Regina: Patience as Character from the Morality Play to Jacobean Tragedy." Comitatus 21 (1990). Association Memberships: Shakespeare Associaton of America Marlowe Society of America College English Associaton Modern Language Association ============================================================================= *Santana, LiLia My full name is A. Lilia Santana, and I am a graduate student in the English Department at California Polytechnic State University. I hold an undergraduate degree in English from Cal Poly. Up to now, most of my course work has been involved with technical writing/communication. However, this year I plan to concentrate on American and British literature courses. This quarter, as I've already mentioned, I'm enrolled in a Shakespeare course. With this list, I hope to gain more information from and possibly contribute to the on-line discussions. While I have not selected my exact research topic for this quarter, given the focus of my class, it will have to relate to TS, KL or WT. =============================================================================== *Santiago, Silvana As I'm assisting a special course on Shakespeare at the University of Buenos Aires, I'm specially interested on any discussion based on his works and influence. =============================================================================== *Sanyal, Madhuparna I am Madhuparna Sanyal, writing in from Calcutta, India. I am 21 years old, and am studying English Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. I have taken up a three year course, and am now at the end of my third year. Since my final year papers constitute one on Shakespeare, I am interested in this list. I plan to do my Masters after completing my graduation in 1997. My hobbies are reading and in recent times, web-surfing too. ============================================================ *Sarzo, Michael My name is Mike Sarzo (though I sign Michael A. Sarzo whenever I write something with formal intent). I am a senior English major at the University of Maryland College Park. I have had a long-standing interest in Shakespeare since my sophomore year in high school, when I read _Macbeth_ for the first time. Other plays I've read include: _Hamlet_, _King Lear_, _The Tempest_, _Measure for Measure_, and _Troilus and Cressida_. During the fall semester in 1997, I wrote a research paper on homosexuality in Shakespeare's day and Shakespeare's possible attitudes toward homosexuality based on his sonnets and his plays. I just completed my first year at the university following two years of being a full-time employee at Prince George's Community College, where I obtained an Associate of Arts degree in Arts and Sciences. ============================================================= *Sasaki, Kazuki Publications: Sasaki, K., (1980) 'On the festivity in Henry IV' Hokkaido English and English Literature 25: 1-9 Sasaki, K., (1987) 'On the obscene elements in Mankind 'Hokkaido English and English Literature 32: 1-10 Sasaki, K., (1994) 'Sexual Politics in As You Like It' ' in Z.Taira(ed.) Themes & Methods: Some Readings on English & American Literature, Sapporo: Hokkaido UP, 16-26 Professsional Membership The Shakespeare Society of Japan & The Englilsh Literary Society of Japan Majoir Project I'm now researching the representations of Virgin Mary and Witch in the early modern theatres and analyzing them from the feminist view point. Current Interest and Research Topics Feminism(Witch &Virgin Mary, Women in Jacobean and Restoration plays), M. Bakhtin (Renaissance Genre), Cultural Study ( Adaptations of the Bard ). =============================================================================== *Sasaki, Michiru My name is Michiru Sasaki. I am professor of Rhetoric, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University, Japan. I published two books: 'The Middle Metaphorical Structure of Shakespeare's Plays' and 'The World of Epics'. The latter is a joint work. I belong to The Shakespeare Society (of Japan) and The Society of English Literature (of Japan). I am now working on the theme of 'English Renaissance and Occult Philosophy'. =============================================================================== *Sassaman, Nancy I am interested in subscribing to the Shakespeare list server. I am a senior high school English teacher in California. My current teaching assignments are: Advanced Placement English Language and Composition, Senior College Preparatory English, and Humanities (a fine art elective for college-bound students). I am also chair of the English department. I teach at Ganesha High School, 1151 Fairplex Drive, in Pomona, CA. My most current degree is a M.A. in English from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1991. I have also earned graduate units in theology and French literature. My undergraduate educstion was at the University of California, Irvine, where I graduated with a B.A. in French Literature in 1970. I have been teaching at Ganesha High School since 1985. That position has been continuous with the exception of one year spent as an "exchange teacher" at Cal Poly, Pomona where I was a full-time lecturer teaching Freshman Composition. I have continued to maintain my connections with Cal Poly, Pomona, as both an informal liaison between my high school and the college, as formally, as a co-author of a planning grant for the California Literature Project at that university's site. My interest in Shakespeare has led me to pursue the possibilities to use a performance approach to the text in the high school classroom. In the fall of 1993 and the winter of 1994, I presented my paper, "Something Wicked this Way Comes": Characterization in Shakespeare's Macbeth, to the California State University's Shakespeare Symposium and to the annual Southern California Renaissance Conference (respectively). I am always on the lookout for ways to present Shakespeare to my students that will engage their interest and also lead them to appreciate the complexities of Shakespeare's language. For example, on 5 November, I participated in a special training session for teachers sponsored by the RSC as part of the local UK/LA celebration. The few hours spent enlivened my lessons considerably as I learned new techniques for voice projection and for movement. There is so much to learn and I would like to know as much as possible. =============================================================================== *Sauer, David K. David K. Sauer English Department Spring Hill College Mobile, AL 36608 (205)380-4644 I graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1966 with a BA in English, attended Indiana University 1967-72 majoring in English and minoring in Theatre, receiving my Ph.D. in 1977. In 1972 I came to Spring Hill, a small Jesuit liberal arts college in Alabama with a joint appointment in English and Theatre. Since then I have directed over 20 plays, including six of Shakespeare. In the past few years I have given up directing, chairing my department for three years, and then co- administering a Ford grant in cultural diversity for two. During the past year I have done an NEH summer seminar in Modern Drama with Howard Stein at Columbia, and an NEH institute held monthly during the past academic year at the Folger on Shakespeare and the Languages of Perfor- mance under the direction of Lois Potter. Previously I had done an NEH summer seminar on Medieval Drama at Wisconsin with Jerome Taylor, and a Shakespeare institute at the Folger with Audrey Stanley and Homer Swander. My interest is primarily in drama as a genre, and particularly in Shake- speare. I have an article stage directions in Etherege coming out this summer in RECTR, and am revising an article for SHAW on actresses who played Raina in Arms and the Man. I focus primarily on performance questions in my teaching and research, and attend a great number of productions each year, writing reviews which I would like to exchange with members of SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Sauer, Geoffrey F. Geoffrey F.K. Sauer English Department, CMU 259 Baker Hall, Frew Street Pittsburgh, PA 15232-3890 I am a graduate student in Literary and Cultural Theory at Carnegie Mellon University, interested in Renaissance drama and contemporary productions of Elizabethan texts. I have been at CMU since 1990, and am preparing for comprehensive examinations this fall. My undergraduate degrees were in English Lit. and Cultural Studies, with a concentration in East European Studies from the University of Notre Dame. I was a full-time student there from 1986-1990. I have lived in the U.K. and travelled widely in Europe. Two years ago I built a Gopher and FTP server for those interested in literary and cultural theory, and have administered it ever since. It's called (simply) The English Server, and is available to the public at the IP address 128.2.114.181. Since its creation, I have been particularly interested in the imagined community which Server which members embrace, that encourages us to share projects and writings among people we've perhaps never met. My current work examines the _theatrum mundi_ in order to explore historic precedent for such semiotic theories as those which emerged in Server discussions, to understand better the relationship between publics and institutions of representation. My work in political theory, computer and information theory, history, anthropology and literature hopes to make useful to education (and significant to students) electronic texts from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575, avail- able from Oxford) to Pope's Essay on Man (1733, available at UIUC). =============================================================================== *Saupe, Karen Karen Saupe Graduate student, Department of English University of Rochester I am working in Medieval and Renaissance literature; my dissertation involves editing a collection of medieval Marian lyrics and discussing related issues editorial theory. I am also very much interested in the transitions and relationships of medieval to Renaissance literature, particularly drama and romance. I am a former high school teacher; my college-level teaching experience includes courses in Shakespeare and Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama at the University of Rochester. saup@troi.cc.rochester.edu Department of English University of Rochester Rochester NY 14627 Degrees: M.A. in English, University of Rochester, 1992 M.A. in English, Wright State University, 1987 B.A. in English, Wittenberg University, 1981 =============================================================================== *Savioni, Mario My name is Frank Savukinas and I was born on May 22, 1973. I have two older sisters and am considered the baby of the family because I am the youngest. I grew up in Willowick, Ohio, which is just north of Cleveland. I was never really interested in Shakespeare until high school. It was during my junior year that I first saw Franco Zefferelli's 1968 adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet." It was that movie that got me addicted to Shakespeare. I have done some informal research on the play, as well as others. However, to this point I have done nothing that has been formally published. There have been a few of papers that I have written for a couple of classes here at Ashland University. I am looking forward to discussing Shakespeare with other members of the ListServ. =============================================================================== *Sawday, Jonathan Jonathan Sawday is a lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, where he teaches Renaissance Literature and Culture. Formerly, he was a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and University College Cork, Ireland. He is a former visiting Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and a former visiting research Fellow at the Huntington Library. In 1994 he was visiting Fellow at the Russian Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. He read English at Queen Mary College London, and took his PhD from University College London. He is co-editor (with Thomas Healy) of _Literature and the English Civil War_ (CUP, 1990), and author of _The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaisance Culture_ (Routledge, 1995). He has published widely on Renissance and seventeenth-century literature and culture. Currently, he is editing Shakespeare's _Pericles_ for the Arden-3 edition (due for completion 1997). Amongst his other research projects are: an edited collection of essays on English lyric poetry 1600-1655 (Macmillan, 1996), and an intellectual biography of Sir Arthur Keith, the Edwardian British anthropologist and archaeologist. =============================================================================== *Sawin, Sheryl My name is Sheryl D. Sawin. I have a Ph.D. in English Lit from the University of Rochester (NY), and specialize in Renaissance drama. I am currently working in the department of Academic Development as a Learning Skills specialist at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, but will be moving on to an appointment as Assistant Professor of Ren Lit, dept of Literature and Languages at the University of North Carolina in Asheville in August of '97. My dissertation, "Ritualizing the Word: Renaissance Dramatizations of Eloquence" focused mainly on how concepts of eloquence are dramatized in various plays and in other cultural arenas. Currently, I am interested in... 1. how Shakespeare's works get absorbed into contemporary American culture, 2. Shakespeare and technology, 3.violence and criminality, 4. issues relating to gender, 5. teaching Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Scalpello, Charlotte My name is Charlotte Scalpello. I am a student at Yok University. I am majoring in math and english and I am also in the Faculty of Education. Presently, I am taking a Shakespeare course. My TA is Peter Paolucci, who has encouraged the class to sign up with this Shakespeare discussion group. I look forward to learning more about Shakespeare through this technology. =============================================================================== *Schaefer, Jr., James F. James F. Schaefer, Jr. Assistant Dean, Graduate School 302 Intercultural Center Georgetown University 37th & "O" Streets Washington, DC 20057 (202) 687-4478 Degrees: B.A. Beloit College, 1970; M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1980, 1984; all degrees in Theatre Arts. I am one of those "new lost generation" scholars who did everything but scholarship for many years after getting my Ph.D., but by indirection, I've slowly been finding direction out. Overeducated unemployment led to freelance database programming (self-taught), which led to insitutional research number-crunching, then a position for several years as assistant to the dean of the graduate school at Minnesota, doing academic administration in the trenches. I've been at Georgetown for a year now. My research interests focus on HOW dramatic language means what it says, and on the history of critical approaches to dramatic language. Gerald Else on the _Poetics_ and psycholinguistic research have been major influences, leading to a view that what the drama imitates in the first instance is language itself: a play is essentially an imitated conversation. Plot and character are secondary elements that we infer from overhearing this imitated conversation, building our understanding gradually just as we do in life. I am interested in detailed textual study, ripping language apart to find out how it works, all with the goal of putting it back together in performance, for the playwright's text is all we have to guide us and prevent us from arbitrary theatrical interpretations. While scrambling for employment post-degree, I put my energies into work on the text of Gertrude Stein's _Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights_, working with a composer to develop it into the opera she had planned. Ours is not the first, or even the only current, attempt to bring this work to the stage, but we had a very successful workshop performance of the first half of the opera at Minnesota in 1991, directed by Vern Sutton, and are working toward a full performance within the next two years. I wish to subscribe to SHAKSPER in hopes of finding individuals with similar interests. =============================================================================== *Schaeffer, Marie name: Marie M. Schaeffer degree: MA in roman literature institution: Deutsches Theater, Berlin interest: dramaturgy research topic: Henry IV =============================================================================== *Schaffrath, Jeannette M. Home: 2 Todd Dr., Glen Head, NY 11545 USA USA Major: History Concentration in Major: Celtic and British History Year: Graduated May 1990 with a BA.. Attending grad school in Fall 1990 School: Long Island University/ C.W. Post Campus I am interested in the affect on Elizabethan society by Shakespeare, and the affect on Shakespeare's writings by the customs and beliefs of society in 16th Century Britain. I simply like Shakespeare. ======================================================================= *Schalkwyk, David Name: David Schalkwyk Institution: University of Cape Town Department: English Degrees: BA (Hons) (Stellenbosch and UNISA), MA (Stellenbosch and York), DPhil (York) Address: English Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7700 Tel no: (021) 650 2852 Fax no: (021) 650 3726 E-mail: SCHALK@BEATTIE.UCT.AC.ZA I am a lecturer in the English Department of the University of Cape Town with degrees in English and Philosophy from the Universities of South Africa, Stellenbosch and York (England). Publications include articles in *Theoria*, the *Journal of Literary Studies* and *English Literary Renaissance*, and I am currently working on a book which aims to offer a Wittgensteinian critique of the neo-Saussurean dissociation of language and the world. I am co-editor of *Pretexts: Studies in Writing and Culture*, and my translation into English of the Afrikaans novel *Another Country*, by Karel Schoeman, was published by Sinclair-Stevenson in 1991. My current research projects include an examination of the work of Robert Weimann and Jacques Derrida, especially with regard to representation on the Renaissance stage, the issue of dialogism and the sonnets, and the politics of Shakespearean comedy. =============================================================================== *Schall, Marc As a student of English at Cologne University in Germany I am presently working on several Shakespeare projects: a paper on "Shakespeare and Children", a seminar on "Hamlet" (as an assistant) and a seminar excursion to Stratford next year. I am highly interested in Shakespeare in performance, recent RSC productions, movie adaptations and audio versions. ============================================================= *Schaulin, Kirsten Biography: I am a senior undergraduate student at Xavier University, and will soon be graduating and attending either Kings College or University College in London for my graduate degrees in English. I am considering Shakespeare for research in graduate school. My email is schaulkr@infinet.com =============================================================================== *Scheeder, Louis Director, The Classical Studio Dept. of Drama, Undergraduate NYU/Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway 3rd Floor NY, NY 10003 Louis Scheeder is the Founder and Director of The Classical Studio, an advanced training program in the Department of Drama, Undergraduate, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. He served as Producer of Washington's Folger Theatre Group from 1973-1981 and was associated with the Manitoba Theatre Centre from 1982 to 1984. During the 1987-88 season, he worked in London and Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director to the RSC's then Artistic Director, Terry Hands. He has produced three off-Broadway shows, most notably Amlin Gray's Obie-winning HOW I GOT THAT STORY. He has directed on Broadway, off and off-off Broadway, and at regional theatres in the US and Canada. He consulted for many years with the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, taught in the graduate theatre program at Columbia University, and works on a regular basis with the graduate theatre seminar at Sarah Lawrence College. He has been at NYU since 1989, and teaches and coaches privately in New York. Current interests are primarily, though not limited to, performance and actor training. =============================================================================== *Scheidt, Richard I'm not exactly what you'd call a Shakespeare scholar, at least not by training or occupation. I have a B.S. in math and an M.S. in computer science. I taught at a college in Illinois for eight years, and am currently a programmer at the University of New Orleans. And so, you ask, where does old Bill come into this? My interest and experience with Shakespeare is in acting. At the moment, I'm in the middle of a run of an adaptation of "Julius Caesar" -- we're performing it outdoors, in N.O.'s City Park. Prior to that, I played Orsino in "Twelfth Night", and Lucentio in "Taming of the Shrew" (another theater company in town is going to do "Shrew" a little later in the year, and Tulane University is doing a few outdoor productions during the summer). =============================================================================== *Scheil, Katherine West I am an assistant professor of English at St. Joseph College, in West Hartford, CT. I teach early British literature, including Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers. I received my PhD from the University of Toronto in 1995, and wrote my dissertation on adaptations of Shakespearian comedy, 1660-1737 under Alexander Leggatt. I am currently finishing a book on adaptations of Shakespearian comedy in the early eighteenth century. My publications include an article on _Sauny the Scott_, a Restoration adaptation of _The Taming of the Shrew_ in the journal _Restoration_, an article on William Davenant's play _The Law Against Lovers_ in _Philological Quarterly_, and an article on Charles Johnson's _Love in a Forest_ (_As You Like It_ and the Black Act), forthcoming in _Shakespeare Survey_. My current research interests involve Shakespeare in the eighteenth century. ============================================================= *Schendel, Will My interest in Shakespeare dates mostly from my time at Swarthmore College, where I minored in English (major in History). I'm lucky enough to have reasons to visit Ashland, OR several times a year, and so can keep up with some productions. I generally get to London once a year for other productions. Lately I've read several collections of essays on the English Revolution by Christopher Hill, and am becoming more interested in the social history of the times. I would expect that I'd participate little for at least several months, and after then might have a few questions or comments arising from my reading. I'm looking forward to some intelligent exchanges. I also subscribe to the Chaucer mailing list and enjoy it. I'm employed (self-employed) as an attorney, specializing in employment and civil rights law, here in Fairbanks, Alaska. =============================================================================== *Schiffer, James Biography: James Schiffer Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Hampden-Sydney College B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1973 M.A. & Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1974 & 1980; Dissertation: "The Aesthetics of Sportive Villainy: A Study of Marlowe's THE JEW OF MALTA, Shakespeare's RICHARD III, and Jonson's VOLPONE"; advisers; David Bevington & Richard Strier Publications: rev. of R. W. Dent's SHAKESPEARE'S PROVERBIAL LANGUAGE: AN INDEX, MODERN PHILOLOGY, August 1983:1; rev. of Richard Wheeler's SHAKESPEARE'S DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROBLEM COMEDIES, MODERN PHILOLOGY 82:3 (FEB 1985); "MACBETH and the Bearded Women," in IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON RENAISSANCE DRAMA (Scarecrow 1991); with Susan Schiffer as "Susan James, FOUL DEEDS, an academic (Shakespearean) mystery novel (St. Martin's, 1989); RICHARD STERN (Twayne USAS 1993); published fiction and criticism on Richard Stern in CHICAGO REVIEW, CHICAGO, DLB YEARBOOK, SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW Professional Organizations: SAA, MLA, SAMLA, RMMLA, Mystery Writers of America Research Interests: psychological criticism of Shakespeare; feminist criticism; performance/audience response criticism; I am in the early stages of what I hope will be a book-length study of the divided/fragmented self in Shakespearean drama. Surface Mail: Department of English, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 Phone (office): (804) 223-6245 =============================================================================== *Schildiner, Frank Julian My name is Frank Julian Schildiner and I am a graduate student at Seton Hall University studying for my Master's in Public Administration, intending to achieve a Phd. in Political Science. My greatest love is the study of the works of William Shakespeare, specifically the differences between the original style of performances and the modern interpretations. Though I have not published any papers on this subject, I have made this a personal study for the last 10 years (it began when at age 16 I viewed a Broadway version of HenryV and compared it to Sir Lawrence Olivier's classic film). I have completed several academic courses on this subject and would welcome an opportunity to discuss this subject (as well as others) with the scholars on yournet. I hope the information I have provided for you will be sufficient to allow me access to your group; however if you require more detail please feel free to send any inquiries to the address provided. ============================================================================== *Schimek, Samuel I am a first year Ph.D. student preparing to write my dissertation on Shakespeare in Performance. As a director I have produced three Shakespearian performances (MoV, H4.1 & Mac) and several related productions. My masters thesis is unrelated to the topic at hand. If you wish more information please inquire. I look foreward to reading the articles as they arrive. =============================================================================== *Schimel, Lawrence I am a student in the English Department at Yale University. My current Shakespeare related projects involve the creation of a dramatic version of the sonnets and the compiling of a bibliography of works that are derivative of any work in Shakespeare's cannon. This bibliography will shortly be available from the SHAKSPER Fileserver as "SPINOFF BIBLIO SHAKSPER". If you know of any additional works which are appropriate, please e-mail the information to me at SCHLAWD@YALEVM and I will include it in the next update. There is also a "sub"-bibliography of works in which Shakespeare appears as a character. Again I would greatly appreciate any input on the list. ======================================================================= *Schipper, Hirsh I am a physician in active practice. My interest in Shakespeare stems from my school days, which I am trying to deepen. I have a few ideas I hope to write up and send you. =============================================================================== *Schlenger, Andreas My name is Andreas Schlenger, I am a 25-year old student of English and German language and literature at the University of Cologne. Since February 1993 I am a member of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. My major academic interests are the studies of elizabethan stage conventions and the historical dimensions of playwriting (sources, etc.). Currently I am very engaged in working for the "bremer shakespeare company", doing my best to help them establishing a German section of the "International Shakespeare Globe Centre", which is supposed to keep contact with the Globe Theatre in London and thus bringing together two sides of the same coin, namely "performance" and "literary theory". My address is: Andreas Schlenger Eichweg 2 50321 Bruehl Germany =============================================================================== *Schlueter, June Professor of English at Lafayette College, is the author or editor of ten books, mostly on modern drama. With James P. Lusardi, she has published Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1991). She and Lusardi are co-editors of Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal of performance criticism and scholarship. She plans to spend her 1992-93 sabbatical year working on the English actors in Germany, and especially in Kassel, during Shakespeare's time. (All leads welcomed.) She regularly attends the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar. (Her Ph.D. is from Columbia.) ============================================================================ *Schmeeckle, Roger I, like Shakespeare, grew up in Albion -- Albion, NE, after having been born in Cozad, NE, the early home of the famous American painter Robert Henri, before his father, named "Cozad," left town, a fugitive, for having killed a man. My family, like Henri's, moved to Colorado, when I was 10. After the best year of my childhood in Ft. Collins, we moved to Loveland. People used to go to Loveland to be married by a local minister named Sweetland. Also, people sent valentines there by the thousands to be postmarked; my father, before he died, was in charge of the annual volunteer project to process all those valentines. To my youth in Colorado I owe an abiding love for mountains and classical music. Graduating in 1944, I was drafted into the army, training at Camp Crowder, MO, and serving overseas as a radio operator with the Allied Control Commission in Sophia, Bulgaria. Discharged, I attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, where I developed a taste for Henry Miller, who led me to Chesterton. After converting to the Catholic faith, I attended Regis College in Denver, majoring in philosophy and minoring in English Literature and History. During the first third of my adult life, I vacillated about a religious vocation. I spent a year at St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, 18 months as a Jesuit novice in California, and, after an interval, almost 3 years in the Dominicans. As far as I know I am the only person in history to have been in both those orders. At the age of 37 I married. After two marriages, in which my first wife died and the second ended in divorce, I have a total of 12 children, half of them step-children. During that phase of my life I taught at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, St. Michael's College in Winooski, VT, and a public high school in Barre, VT. In a British Literature course I first taught Macbeth and Hamlet, but soon switched from Hamlet to King Lear, which worked much better with the students, and which I personally prefer among all of Shakespeare's work. For whatever it is worth, I regard KL as the Fifth Gospel. I am now retired, living alone in Seattle. My interests include religion, philosophy, art, science, and literature. I usually audit one or more course at the University of Washington as an Access student, i.e. a senior citizen. My most recent course was the first part of a graduate sequence in literary criticism, taught by Leroy Searle, in which we read a lot of Plato and Aristotle. I was introduced to so-called Critical Theory, to which my initial reaction, subject to correction, is that it is not critical enough; deconstruction teaches one how to deconstruct itself. I have recently begun the vast project of reading (mostly rereading) all of Shakespeare. My progress, so far, is only half-vast, having completed Venus and Adonis. It was interesting to discover there a parallel scene to the one in King Lear in which Lear comes out of his coma in the presence of Cordelia. My only immediate Shakespearean project is to develop and to test the hypothosis that an adequate interpretation of King Lear is impossible without taking into account the demonstrable Christian elements in the play. =============================================================================== *Schmidt, Arnold Although my formal training is in British Romanticism and Critical Theory, I have always enjoyed and been interested in Shakespeare and the Renaissance generally, specifically as they were seen by and influenced the 18th and 19th centuries (eg -- cf Wordsworth's "The Borderers" with "Lear," P.B Shelley's "The Cinci" with "Macbeth," Keats and Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry generally). I'm particularly intrigued by inter-relationships between/among literature and history (including popular culture and history of ideas), philosophy (including political theory), psychology (from Burton to Zizek) and gender theory (broadly defined (eg Feminism(s)). I tend to be a lurker, but will leap in if I've anything to say. =============================================================================== *Schmidt, Barbara As just a casual reader and lover of the numerous quotes by the bard, I would love to read what others are saying and thinking about his genius. I am a university media coordinator here at Tarleton. However, I have written no scholarly manuscripts on Shakespeare to contribute--just a love for his way with words. =============================================================================== *Schmidt, Rob My name is Rob Schmidt. I am a Graduate student in English Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York. While asked by a professor of Graduate Methodology to participate in six electronic mailing lists, I am also working on one section of my Graduate thesis which focuses on a linguistic comparison of Shakespeare's works. I am attempting to discern a difference in his poetry and drama, with respect to Stylistics. A previous section of my thesis was aimed at a critical study of the role of women in Shakespeare's comedies, with specific attention paid to cross-dressed females. I look forward to participating in your discussions. ============================================================= *Schmidt, Sylvia My name is Sylvia Schmidt; I am a student of English and German literature and linguistics at Bonn University, Germany. At the moment, I am preparing for my Magister-exam, one of the subjects of which will be Shakespeare's plays. I was born in Bonn in 1971. Between 1981 and 1984, I lived in Casper, Wyoming, where I attended fifth, sixth and seventh grade. So far, this has been my only extended stay in a foreign country. My only direct experience of England was gathered on several short trips, including two theatre-intensive pilgrimages to Stratford; at Bonn University, this experience is made possible for a small group of students every year by Professor Dieter Mehl. Since I have not yet finished studying, I do not have a full-time job, but I give tutorials in linguistics at university and teach the English language at the local Volkshochschule, an institution for adult education. I am not certain when my interest in Shakespeare began. My parents claim credit because they took me to an open-air performance of "Cymbeline" at Land's End when I was five, and though I can't say I remember much of it (reports are that I watched raptly for three hours in spite of not being able to understand a single word), it seems to have left a lasting impression. Whatever its origins, my interest has grown steadily in the course of my studies and shows no signs of abating as yet. ============================================================= *Schmidt, William William A. Schmidt 123 Duke Street Alexandria, Virginia, 22314 tel (703)739-8952 BA with High Honors, University of Virginia, 1970 JD, University of Virginia, 1973 LLM, Georgetown University, 1983 Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center I'm a lawyer with a keen interest in (and more than a passing knowledge about) Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Schmitt, Elizabeth Name: Elizabeth W.B. Schmitt Title: Teaching Fellow, Doctoral Candidate Title: Teaching Fellow, Doctoral Candidate Dept of English, University of North TExas as well as ADjunct Faculty, Eastfield College, Mesquite,Tx BA-Drama, Vassar College; MA-English and European Renaissance DRama, University of Warwick, UK Publications:Book Review of "At the Sign of the Swan" Renaissance DRama Newsletter, 1985--others in area pending Member: MLA, SCMLA, SC18thCS, SCRen.S, SAA, NCTE Major project: Dissertation in progres "The Metamorphosis of the Female Image in the Works of John Marston" Upcoming SAA paper for "Horror Session": She's Virtuous, She's Desirable, She's Dead: Necrophilia in THE SECOND MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY Interests: Shakespeare in performance; Marston; Revenge plays; Eliz. drama on film; critical trends Upcoming research: rhetoric of sexual persuasion in 17th c.poetry outside ressearch: tattoos in literature Address: 2410 El Cerrito Dr., Dallas, TX 75228, 214-324-4897 =============================================================================== *Schmitz, Johanna I am one of Bill Worthen's Ph.D. students at UC Davis and am working on Shakespeare and multi-media/film. =============================================================================== *Schmitzer, Joan I wish to subscribe to the Shakesper list service. My name is Joan E. Schmitzer. I am the English department chairperson at Poland Seminary High School in Poland,Ohio. I hold BS and MA degrees from Youngstown State University. Currently I am interested in research on "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I am also the drama director of the high school and would be interested in production or staging notes on any of the plays. My mailing address is 160 Indianola Rd.,Youngstown,OH 44512. My phone number is 216-788-1477. =============================================================================== *Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr. I'm a retired Professor of English, aged 71, father of four professionals, still married to Kay Mccord, still housed academically at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54911, where I am engaged in two projects at the moment: 1. To produce a State of the Art London Stage, 1660-1800 Data Base: I have transferred this data base of dramatic performances on the London Stage from a 2400' IBM magtape to eleven 3.5" IBM-compatible PC floppy disks. I have also rewritten for IBM-compatible PCs our program that analyzes cast lists assigns the various types of items to their proper classes and drops them into fields. And I have also converted the search program that accesses these fields or any word, word segment, or combination of words in the data base. However, this work is complete only for the first half of the data base and I do not know what snags remain to be dealt with in the remaining portion. But I am ready to answer queries on data from 1660-1750 with some confi- dence. Let me know if I can look up something for you. Also, let me know if you'd like to "inherit" this data base. It's looking for an heir. 2. To demonstrate the presence of classical and Renaissance moral philosophy in Shakespeare's plays: This project is computer-aided. I use the Electronic Text version of Shakespeare's complete works with WordCruncher for access. I am in the process of digitizing basic moral works by means of an optical scanner that I feed while doing other jobs. So far I have on line Cicero's De Officiis, Seneca's moral works, and Edith Kelso's huge bibliographies of conduct books for gentlemen and ladies of the Renaissance. I'm in the process of capturing John Florio's transla- tion of Montaigne's Essays (1603). It isn't a breeze: the books you want to use have been through so many editions that the type is blotched and broken and it isn't very clear to a machine. So far I've written three articles: "The Merchant of Venice: A Reconstruction;" "John Granville's Jew of Venice": a Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant;" and "Pseudo-Tempests, Counter-Tempests, and The Tempest," the last of which I shall transmit with this application for member- ship. (I don't care what use is made of this paper; it would be a great honor to have it plagiarized; but anyone who does so will have the whole literary establishment against him, which is (I think) why none of my efforts, beginning in 1985, have been published so far.) Publications: Wordsworth Portraits: a Biographical Catalogue, 1950; Words- worth's Cambridge Education, 1957; Themes and Research Papers (with H K Tjossem), 1961; The Ethos of Restoration Comedy, 1971 (computer- assisted); Travels in Computerland, 1974 (about The London Stage Project); Index to The London Stage, 1660-1800, 1978; My Personal Computer and Other Family Crises, 1984. Memberships: Modern Language Association; Association for Computing in the Humanities;, Society for Theatre Research (UK); American Society for Theatre Research; American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; Shakespeare Association of America; New Hampshire Historical Society; Exeter (NH) Historical Society; Royal Society for the Promotion of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures. ========================================================================== *Schnell, Lisa Lisa J. Schnell Assistant Professor University of Vermont Publications: "Parenthetical Distaurbances: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Relativity" _Semiotic Inquiry_ Vol.12, Nos 1-2 (1992). 95-113. "Disorderly Semiotics" _The Semiotic Review of Books_ Vol. 3.3. (1992) Member of SAA, MLA, CSRS (Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies) Work in Progress: article on Aemilia Lanyer (1611), article on Rachel Speght (1621), book (together with Andrew Barnaby) on knowledge and writing in the 17th century. Research Interests: women writers and gender issuesin the early modern period; gender and epistemology; pedagogy (particularly for courses on early modern texts). Surface Mail Address: Department of English, 315 Old Mill, University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405 (802) 656-3056. =============================================================================== *Schnierer, Peer Paul As you can see, there is no publication of mine that relates directly and exclusively to matters Shakespearean and which might be made available. I have covered modern adaptations (or rather: consciously epigonal work) in my book on 1980s drama, but that is too unwieldy to post (quite apart from the fact that my publisher's contract specifically forbids such private distribution.) =============================================================================== *Schoeneman, Deborah Deborah Schoeneman: I am a H.S. English teacher at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns H.S., who obviously teaches Shakespeare every year to ninth graders and to 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in tutorial periods for the learning disabled. I have also been working for the last three years on the third volume of the Modern American Literature Encyclopedia for Continuum Press. This is due to be published roughly one year from now; publishing permission pages and bibliography stages are now being completed. My current interests in English are in Shakespearian studies, Psychology and Literature, Celtic Literature, and Twentieth Century British and American Literature. I am very concerned about how Shakespearian research is affecting the teaching and learning situation in high schools and colleges throughout the world. I continue to be successful in my approach but am always looking for fresh points of view. I have not published anything in this area but would be open to the idea of further research and possible writing. I have long wanted to write some "decent" study guides for high school students' appreciation of Shakespearian plays, as I find what is available to be simplistic, to say the least. =============================================================================== *Schroeder, Duane Paul I began my college education as a classical percussionist at the Eastman School of Music, after being a finalist in the National Symphony Orchestra's Young Soloist Competition, but I was forced into an early performance "retirement" as a result of tendinitis. Changing academic gears, I returned to my home state and completed my undergraduate work at the University of Maryland, College Park, in English Literature, finishing my B.A. with a number of academic honors and two senior theses on Ben Jonson (one on and another on and ). After graduation, in addition to working and also investigating graduate school opportunities, I spent a year doing periodic volunteer work as a docent at the Folger Shakespeare Library. I am currently completing my first year of graduate study at the University of Washington in Seattle and am gathering ideas for work on my Masters Essay. As evidenced by my background, I am interested in music in Renaissance England and, especially, in Elizabethan/Jacobean Theatre, and I hope to incorporate these interests into my research and writing. Theoretically, I have interests in New Historicism, Psychoanalysis, Performance Theories and other such flavors, but I shrink from being constrained by them. I have recently completed two courses in Anglo-Saxon with the goal of translating/reading (and of bringing this linguistic knowledge-base to my Renaissance studies); I have written seminar papers on Chester cycle drama, on a gender-pronoun issue in , and another on the "hypocrita" of ; I further plan to work on pre-Shakesperean drama this Fall. While the following disheartening fact is merely a result of how class-scheduling and course syllabi have worked out, most of my official academic writing (though not READING) has been on other period-dramatists than Shakespeare; however, I plan to remedy this unfortunate, necessary evil in upcoming coursework and research, and now I hope to gain some new perspectives upon the Poet this summer by subscribing to this list. ============================================================= *Schroeter, Ken I am a Navy Pediatrician in San Diego who is interested in watching your discussions of Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Schrum, Stephen A. Stephen A. Schrum Lecturer, Theatre Dept. of Theatre Arts Penn State University, Hazleton campus Highacres Building Hazleton, PA 18201 Work Phone: (717) 450-3094 Home Phone: (717) 455-9540 B.A. in Theatre, 1981, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA M.A. in Theatre, 1983, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Currently writing dissertation for Ph.D. in Directing, University of California, Berkeley. The topic concerns staging Goethe's FAUST in English, and the consideration of studying and directing large scale works such as FAUST. I like to think of my productions as publications. As a director with an academic background, I use research and scholarly study as the basis for a production. (This research is reflected in the show, and in my director's notes for the program.) This is the main reason I wish to subscribe to SHAKSPER: to widen my access to materials, ideas, and opinions about Shakespeare. While I am not interested in directing only Shakespeare, the information I can find on SHAKSPER can help me with future productions of Shakespearean plays. To date, I have directed only LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, but hope, in my capacity as director at PSU's Hazleton campus and at the local performing arts center, to continue to stage the Bard's works. I would also like to discover how other instructors integrate Shakespeare into their courses. I teach Intro to Theatre and Intro to Acting, and unfortunately have little time to spend on Shakespeare. Perhaps someone can suggest ways to make my limited coverage more effective. ======================================================================== *Schuckal, Peter My interest in Shakespeare is primarily in terms of theatrical production. I am an actor in the San Francisco Bay Area, and have acted in many Shakespeare plays. I have recently been hired by a rep group which is doing "The Tempest," "The Taming of the Shrew," and "The Imaginary Invalid" (Molier) this summer so I am interested in any discussions on these plays. I might add that my girl friend is absolutely passionate about Shakespeare as well. =============================================================================== *Schueller, Andre studying English, French literature and media science at the Westfdlische Wilhelms-Universitdt M|nster, Germany; will have acquired my M.A. around summer 1996; currently working in the institute for bibliography and book science (Institutum Erasmianum); as a student, of course, has not published, but has done longer essays on Pound, Shakespeare's Coriolanus and sonnets, and Swift, and is currently working on an 80-page essay for the M.A. on TS Eliot and the French poet Gerard de Nerval with special interest for their philosophy of time and the identification techniques, touching on many more from Dante to Picasso. interests: have not yet found anything more complex than Shakespeare and Eliot, so this is what I'm interested in. =============================================================================== *Schulting, Sabine Born in 1965. M.A. in English Literature at the University of Muenster (Germany) in 1991. 1992-1995 scholarship at the Graduiertenkolleg (Graduate Research Centre) "Gender & Literature" at the University of Munich. PhD in English Literature in 1995. Research Officer at the Graduiertenkolleg from 1995 to 1996. Since July 1996 Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. In my PhD thesis ("Wilde Frauen, fremde Welten: Kolonisierungsgeschichten aus Amerika"; Reinbek: Rowohlt 1997) I have discussed early modern European travel literature on the "New World". I was particularly interested in the interrelations between gender and "race" in the constructions/representations of space, bodies, and the stories about cultural encounters. Although the book does not focus on Shakespeare, I have tried to show that similar textual strategies are at work in many of his plays and that they can (and should) be read against the background of early modern colonialism. Although my new research project, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, is on 19th-century representations of poverty, I am still interested in and working on Shakespeare and early modern literature and culture. Only recently I have written two papers on Shakespeare: an afterword to a bilingual edition (German-English) of King Lear (Munich: dtv, forthcoming), which is about the discourse of gender in this play, and an essay on "colonial mimicry" in Othello, which will be published in EESE (Erfurt Electronic Studies in English, available ) in November 1996. =============================================================================== *Schultz, Lydia My name is Lydia Schultz and I am a sophomore at East Texas Baptist University. I am currently enrolled in a World Literature class and have been asked by my professor Dr. Ellison to subscribe to an internet discussion group. I am interested in Shakespearean literature and would like to read and discuss the findings and viewpoints of others on the subject. I am 19 years old and am originally from Austin, Texas. I am a Spanish Education major, but also enjoy the English language and excel in both fields. ============================================================= *Schultz, Stephen C. I am a director and teacher and semi-retired scholar. I've directed educational and low-level professional theatre productions of "Twelfth Night," "Midsummer," "Measure for Measure," "Merry Wives," "Winter's Tale " (twice), "Cymbeline " (twice), "Richard II " (once too often), "Lear," and "Hamlet" (a conflation of the Q1 structure and the Q2 and F1 texts). (I think there were more, but those are the ones that occur now.) Among the courses I have taught recently are Shakespearean Acting, Approaching Period Drama (how to interpret a Shakespearean text for acting or directing), and Scansion. The department in which I work gives an MFA in Acting. I have largely given up scholarship (except as a consumer) so that my energies will go in the same direction as my department's. (I also Chaired for six years, which drained fuels which might have gone into research.) In the good old days I published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Nineteenth Century Theatre Research, and Southern Theatre--mostly on subjects related to the history and theory of Shakespearean production. At present I am mulling the writing of a book for actors and directors on what prosody, rhetorical studies, linguistics, bibliography, and other recondite studies can contribute to theatrical interpretation of Shakespeare's scripts. I'm directing "Antigone" at the moment and preparing for productions of three Beckett one-acts. I'm trying to find time to edit some Medieval cycle texts for production sometime soon. If I have a run at Shakespeare anytime soon, I hope it's another try at "Measure for Measure." (My experience suggests that one's first attempt at a Shakespearean play is mostly good for finding out what the problems are.) =============================================================================== *Schulze, Patricia I am a high school English Teacher and Drama Coach. I teach Romeo and Juliet to high school 9th graders each semester. I also teach some of the sonnets and some other plays occasionally to my other upper level English courses. In my role as Drama Coach I have directed both A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth in the last five years and directed a cutting from Twelfth Night for our state One-Act Play festival. My interests in Shakespeare are directed more toward performance than literary analysis, however, analysis is of course necessary for successful production of one of his works. Two summers ago I had the pleasure of visiting Shakespeare's birth place, Anne Rutledge's house and attended a performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. What a wonderful experience. I am afraid I am not engaged in any research topics at this time. My writing, I fear, is all directed toward short stories. and those in the mystery field. However, I will be directing more of Shakepeare's plays in the future, and think both I and my students would benefit from my being on this list. =============================================================================== *Schwab, Anna My name is Anna Schwab and I am a Temple University undergraduate student taking a Shakespeare course. I am a junior studying journalism. I am English, born in London, and have lived in the U.S.A. for over 20 years. I love literature in general, my favorite author (a hard one to call!) being Bernard Malamud. I also love the bard...especially "Othello" and "A Merchant of Venice." I have fond memories of seeing an outdoor production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Regents Park, London, many years ago.Currently I am researching Wanamaker and the Globe. I am interested in finding out more about his (very large) hand in the creation of the new Globe. I am interested, too, in those groups or individuals who were opposed to the building of the new Globe. There was some dissenting opinion, I believe. I want to know why. I am interested in the new Globe in general. Searching your archived materials would, I think, be very useful. ============================================================= *Schwartz, Larry Theatre & Film Librarian Southern Methodist University I am currently the Theatre and Film Librarian for Southern Methodist Univer- sity in Dallas, Texas, having signed up for the job in October, 1990. For a year previous to this, I was in school in Pennsylvania, getting my Master's degree and, for eight years prior to _this_, I was employed by an aerospace company in California. More to the Shakespeare point, though, my theatrical experience has been cen- tered at the Conejo Players Theatre in Thousand Oaks, California, an all- volunteer community theatre that was established (in a barn) in 1959. Since 1964, though, the Players have been in their own 188-seat theatre, leasing the land upon which the building sits from the city for $1 a year. At the theatre, I have stage managed, directed, run lights and sound, built sets, set lights, and acted. My interest in Shakespeare is in "Shakespeare as acted," rather than on, say, Shakespeare discussed in an English class. ======================================================================== *Schwartz, Louis Assistant Professor of English English Department, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173 (804) 289-8315 Born New York, 1962; B.A. SUNY Albany, 1984; M.A./Ph.d Brandeis University, 1989. Presently on tenure track at University of Richmond in 16th and Early 17th Century British Literature. I'm technically the Miltonist here, but my research interests and teaching responsibilities cover the whole to the English Renaissance (including Shakespeare). Presently at work on a book on Imitation and Poetic Authority in 16th Century Lyric. Other current projects include a textbook/reader for a theoretically informed methodology course for first year English majors and essays on Milton and child-bed death and Spenser's elegies. =========================================================================== *Schwartz, Mathew Mathew Schwartz Cornell University mjs2@cornell.edu Following a year studying English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, I'm a fourth year undergraduate at Cornell University. Currently, I'm at work on a thesis discussing "Measure for Measure" in terms of Shakespeare's society, using Michel Foucault's writings as the basis for analyzing prevalent discourses of sexuality, power, authority, anxiety, identity... I'm especially interested in Renaissance gender and power studies, as well as the work of Kathy Acker, Noam Chomsky, Manuel Puig & John Ashberry. =============================================================================== *Schweinhart, Thomas M. My Shakespeare related academic credits include only a class I took in college. This undergraduate class turned me on to the Bard and opened up an infinite amount of possibilities for study. I find Shakespeare's works to be beyond compare in terms of poetry, psychological insight and links to reality. I have an English degree and someday plan to attend graduate school. ============================================================= *Schwencke, Amelia I have always loved Shakespeare and would like to receive your newsletter to keep up to date on current trends and research. My interest is purely personal, as I am not a scholar or actor or in anyway involved with theater. (Also, my boyfriend also appreciates Shakespeare and with the knowledge I hope to gain from my association with your list, I hope to impress him with my knowledge.) ============================================================= *Schwienhorst, Klaus I am currently working for Prof. Brian Gibbons and trying to check out what is available on the Internet. =============================================================================== *Schwyzer, Philip I'm a graduate student working on Renaissance literature in the English Dept. at UC Berkeley. =============================================================================== *Scinta, Vanessa I am not myself a Shakespeare scholar. In fact, I am a teacher of drama, theatre history, and acting in a large high school in suburban Buffalo, NY. This follows a 20+ year career which began in the area of theatre research, proceeded into school administration (I was a high school principal and asst. principal during the 80s--a misspent period for many people, or so I've heard), and has settled in a position in both teaching and directing. I've directed Shakespeare (and plan to do so again this fall, in fact), and I have in the past taught Shakespeare to A.P. level students, but my interest lately is in making his work more accessible to "the great variety of readers," among whom I number most of my present students. I have no paper to send you, no publications, nothing in fact to offer to the group. I can be at best a benign parasite, reading what your more accomplished members offer, and saying very little, I'm sure. But you will find in me an avid student, and I will be most grateful if you will have me. For your information, I hold a B.F.A. in theatre production from Emerson College (Boston), an M.A. in theatre history and dramatic literature from Cornell University, an Ed.M. in school administration from SUNY/Buffalo, and I'm just about to finish an M.L.S.from U.B.'s school of information and library science (it's my library studies that's put me on the Internet to begin with). =============================================================================== *Scolnicov, Hana Dr Hanna Scolnicov Department of Theatre Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel FAX 972-3-6409482 Home phone 972-2-344459 Main publications: *Experiments in Stage Satire: An Analysis of Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour, Cynthia's Revels and Poetaster* (Frankfurt a/M, Peter Lang, 1987). *The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture*, ed. by Hanna Scolnicov and Peter Holland (Cambridge University Press, 1989). (Spanish tr. 1991) *Reading Plays: Interpretation and Reception*, ed. by Hanna Scolnicov and Peter Holland (Cambridge University Press, 1991). *Woman's Theatrical Space* (Cambridge University Press, 1994). "The Undiscover'd Country: Theatrical Space Without in Hamlet", *Lieu et temps* (Societe Francaise Shakespeare, Actes du Congres 1984). "'To Understand a Parable': The Mimetic Mode of The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom", *Cahiers Elisabethains* 29 (1986). "Theatre Space, Theatrical Space and the Theatrical Space Without", *Themes in Drama* 9 (1987): The Theatrical Space. "Mimesis, Mirror, Double", *The Play Out of Context* (Cambridge, 1989). "The Play's the Thing in Amleto e nel Gabbiano", *La scena di Amleto* (Biblioteca Teatrale, 13-15/1989). "Chekhov's Reading of Hamlet", *Reading Plays* (Cambridge, 1991). "The Woman in the Window: A Theatrical Icon", *Spectacle & Image*, ed. by Andre Lascombes (Leiden, 1993). "'Here is the place appointed for the wrestling'", *The Show Within: Dramatic and Other Insets. English Renaissance Drama (1550-1642)*, ed. by Francois Laroque (Montpellier, 1992). "Hamlet's conundrum: How can 'that within which passeth show' be shown?" *Theta* (forthcoming). "The Zoomorphic Mask in Shakespeare", *Assaph* 9 (1994). Also articles in Hebrew periodicals. International Conference Organization: The Jerusalem Theatre Conference 1986: The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture. The Jerusalem Theatre Conference 1988: To Read a Play. Membership in scholarly societies: The International Shakespeare Association The Shakespeare Association of America The Israeli Society for the Promotion of Theatre Studies The International Shakespeare Conference at The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Current research interests: theatrical space; Shakespeare and the Italian Reanissance theatre; Italian Renaissance drama and scenography; the interface between theatre and visual art; Harold Pinter. =============================================================================== *Scotese, Joseph I submitted a subscription request for the shakespeare server and as per instructions I would like to tell you a bit about myself. I'm an English Teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago, IL. I participated in the The Folger Shakespeare - Teaching Shakespeare - fellowship last summer in Washington D.C. =============================================================================== *Scott, Alistair I qualified as a teacher of agricultural science in 1968 and, after a brief spell teaching in the UK, moved to Africa (Zambia) on a UK aid project. My contract was for an initial period of three years. But three became six; six became nine and, in the end, I spent 21 years there. During that time I became increasingly interested in conservation and, as a result, moved from being head of the agricultural science department at a secondary school to Executive Director of a non-governmental organisation, the Wildlife Conservation Society of Zambia. The principal activity of this organisation was running an environmental education programme - the 'Chongololo Clubs' - in schools throughout the country. This involved producing a magazine and a radio programme and I got much satisfaction out of the creativity required. Upon leaving the Society I spent a year working as a safari guide in one of Zambia's national parks, living pretty rough in the African bush but, at the same time, really close to nature. Then, for family reasons, I had to return to Europe. Whilst in Zambia I published several scientific papers (e.g. A Revised and Annotated List of the Birds of the Luangwa Valley National Parks - Zambia Ornithological Society 1990) but became disenchanted with the precise yet sterile approach that one needs when writing for science. I have come to realise that there is a spiritual dimension to the natural world which is vitally important to conservation. It is not enough to count animals or plants and classify them precisely, pinning them (literally and metaphorically) to boards in museums. One must also consider less precisely-defined factors. How is the natural world beautiful or ugly? How and why does it sometimes inspire, sometimes calm, sometimes give solace, sometimes cause terror? What is our relationship to it? How do we succeed or fail in this relationship? And where, nowadays, are the people who can write about this? I have attempted to write in this way and have had a number of works published (Essays in BBC Wildlife Magazine, a short story on the BBC World Service, articles in South African magazines). However, I feel that I need to develop a greater background knowledge of literature. The last time I studied anything literary, or read any Shakespeare, was in secondary school, thirty years ago. So, I am now taking a BA course with the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK). This year I will be studying Shakespeare. I am not interested in the statistical analysis of Shakespeare's texts in an attempt to prove that he did or did not write them. That is too close to the science that I am trying to put behind me. I wish to develop a knowledge of his works which can act as a source and an inspiration for my own writing. But I am studying through a distance learning course and am concerned by my 'isolation'. Whilst I am confident of success I also fear that, working alone, I will not get the full benefit from the study. I would like the opportunity to ask questions, to listen in to discussions on Shaksepeare, to chip in with my own points and have my arguments criticised, or supported ... and generally learn from the experience. =============================================================================== *Scott, David David Scott, Deputy Law Librarian, Law Library, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 3438, Wellington, New Zealand. Born 1932. MA (1955), Dipl Libr (1985), Victoria University of Wellington. Home: 63 Cecil Road, Wadestown, Wellington, New Zealand (Ph 0064 4 499 1704). Taught English at University of Sydney, McGill University, Dalhousie University, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Articles include: William Patten and the authorship of "Robert Lancham's Letter" (1575), English literary renaissance 1977; 6(3): 297-306. Main interests: Shakespeare's sonnets and early life in an historical context. =============================================================================== *Scott, Pauline Pauline Scott: I am an assistant professor of English at Alabama State U, with a specialization in Shakespeare and Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Seaborn, True True Seaborn is a first-year graduate student in the MA program in English at California State University, Long Beach. He recently returned to graduate school after retiring from the IEEE Computer Society, where as publisher he managed a staff of 60 and a budget of more than $10M. In this capacity he had overall responsibility for the editing and production of 18 periodicals, 100 conference proceedings, and 25 authored books per year-all in the computer field. At his retirement the society's Board of Governors conferred upon him the title of Publisher Emeritus. Seaborn graduated cum laude with an AB in English from the University of California at Riverside and attended Claremont Graduate School under a Ford Foundation-funded fellowship. He is a member of the IEEE and the Computer Society and holds several Computer Society awards, including the Harry Hayman Award for Distinguished Staff Achievement. ============================================================ *Seamans, Lynne I am a System Programmer here at Millersville University (a real computer-geek type, I'm afraid) and my interest in Shakepeare has been purely of the 'watching plays and movies' type. My 16-year-old daughter has developed a similar interest, spurred I beleive by a 'baser' attraction to Kenneth Branaugh (sp?) so I thought I might be able to get her involved with the computer in this way. =============================================================================== *Searles, Jason My name is Jason Searles. I am an undergraduate student in my third year at St. Lawrence University. I am majoring in English, with minors in Religious Studies and Anthropology. Since high school I have been extremely interested in English Literature, especially the Renaissance and Shakespeare. I have done extensive reading and research on my own, and feel I am fairly well versed, for a Junior in college, in both the primary works and the more general material written about Shakespeare and his legacy. I hope to teach English Literature at a University some day and to do some of my own creative writing on the side. =============================================================================== *Seary, Peter Professor Department of English, Wetmore Hall New College, University of Toronto Office: (416) 978-8276 Home: (416) 689-3501 Degrees: B.A. Hons. 1960. The Memorial University of Newfoundland M.A., 1961. The University of Alberta (Edmonton). Thesis: "The Theme of Creativity in the Novels of Joyce Cary," pp. 155. D.Phil., 1967. Oxford University. Thesis: "Verbal Criticism and English Drama: A Study of Critical Approaches to Dramatic Language, 1660-1765," pp. 608. Research Interests: History of Shakespearean scholarship in the eighteenth century, with special reference to the work of Lewis Theobald. Publications/papers of possible interest to Shaksperians: Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1990. Ten chapters, five appendices. Pp. xvi + 248. "The Early Editors of Shakespeare and the Judgments of Johnson" in Johnson after Two Hundred Years. Ed. Paul J. Korshin. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1986. Pp. 175-86. (Selected papers of the Johnson Bicentennial Commemorative Conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, 1984.) "Language versus Design in Drama: A Background to the Pope-Theobald Controversy." University of Toronto Quarterly, 42, 1972, 40-63. "Pope's Taste in Shakespeare--Revised." Delivered in the seminar Pope in Perspective, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, New Orleans, 30 March 1989. "Tibbald: Portrait/Self-Portrait." Delivered at the meetings of the Johnson Society of the Central Region, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 7 April 1990. "Malone and Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare [1734]." Delivered at the Malone Bicentenary Conference of the Malone Society, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 29 June 1990. Work in Progress The Shakespearean Correspondence of Lewis Theobald. Theobald remains the most successful emender of Shakespeare's text; many of his emendations are found only in his correspondence. A critical edition. ======================================================================== *Sebold, Philip Gerard I am currently a graduate student in English at Northern Illinois University as well as a full time teacher of Scripture at the high school level. Despite these activities my true interest is in the direction and total production of Shakespeare's dramas. This only came to light recently with my departure from the business world. My acting career, although somewhat removed was concentrated in Shakespeare's comedies (I am a character actor) and has allowed me to become confortable in the teaching of young students the comic gifts of Shakespeare. My hope in joining the bulletin board is to engage in discussions with other directors especially those who are producing classical performances. =============================================================================== *Seddon, Elizabeth I'm a graduate student--working on my doctoral degree at McGill University in Montreal. By April, 1994, I will be at the ABD stage. My dissertation will be on the work of Canadian novelist and playwright, Timothy Findley. However, as Findley left a career as a Shakespearean actor to become a writer, I am interested in what he draws from Shakespeare in terms of dramatic structuring devices. My B.A. is from Concordia University, and my M.A. from l'Universite de Montreal. My research and teaching interests are in Canadian Literature, Literary Theory and Gender Studies. I greatly look forward to becoming a "full-member" of SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Sedinger, Tracey I am currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I am in the last stages of completing a dissertation entitled, "Epistemology of the Crossdresser: Sexual Politics in Early Modern England." The dissertation studies the phenomenon of crossdressing in selected texts by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare as a site of tension within the political, familial, and sexual discourses of early modern England, and argues for the necessaity of a psychoanalytic understanding of sexual difference in relation to crossdressing as performance. My teaching and research interests include English literature, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, and Milton; literary and critical theory; feminist theory; and psychoanalytic theory. =============================================================================== *Sedinger, Tracey A I received my PhD from SUNY at Buffalo's English Dept. in 1995; my dissertation was entitled "Epistemology of the Crossdresser: Sexual Politics in Early Modern England." I am currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado, where I teach courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, and feminist and literary theory. I've published articles on Shakespeare's As You Like It, and psychoanalysis. I am currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled, "'An essence that's not seen': Sexual difference and early modern scopic regimes." ============================================================= *Seeger, Naomi or 4472 Hazeltine Ave., #11b, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 (818) 995-7732. I work at UCLA's biomedical library as a library assistant. I graduated with a bachelors in English and American literature from UC Santa Cruz in 1987. I am currently working on an essay on the character of Olivia in _Twelfth Night_, addressing the application of such labels as "melancholic" and "self-delusional" to her. =========================================================================== *Seehaus, Niklas I was born in 1973 in West Berlin. After finishing school in 1993, I began to study English and German in the same year. Since these study courses are designed for prospective teachers at grammar schools, they contain many subjects; apart from some educational science, psychology, didactics etc, there are: in English, synchronic and diachronic linguistics, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English literature. In German, the same structure prevails. In 1997/98 I studied two terms at the University of Manchester, UK. There I did a course on Shakespeare's tragedies, another on Old English, and a third on medieval German romances. From all things I came across, I developed a preference for the following topics: Shakespeare, Old English and Anglo-Saxon history, medieval German literature, and etymology of words in general. I hope to finish my studies within the next year or so, and then to start working as a teacher. ============================================================= *Sefton, Laurie I'm a literary reviewer, mostly of fantasy and historical fantasy. I've been reviewing for about 4 years now, in a publication called OtherRealms. I'm also a source for information and pointers to material for writers (all free), in the areas of agronomy, biology, computer science, and English history. These days I'm also offering information on middle eastern history, and the history of Islam. Back to English history: most of my information gathering and dispersal is about the various monarchs covered in Shakespearian literature. I provide all the viewpoints of what occurred from the Shakespearian (Tudor approved) to alternate viewpoints. Richard III is always popular and Henry IV and V are also becoming areas of interest. I don't have a degree or formal qualification in these areas--just college and pre college work in these areas, and a rapidly expanding book collection in these areas. ======================================================================== *Seidler, David I am interested in your electronic conference-I am a high school teacher but the interest is personal. I enjoy viewing Shakespeare's plays and reading certain things. I am more interested in being a peruser of information than a presenter. ============================================================= *Seiff, Joanne My name is Joanne Seiff and I am an English teacher at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. I am also currently a graduate student at George Washington University in Secondary School English and ESL Education. I am interested in subscribing to this community in order to learn more about teaching Shakespeare. I am in the middle of teaching Hamlet through performance (using Peggy O'Brien's Shakespeare Set Free) and would love some more intellectual pedagogy to gain new insight. I would be delighted to read some of the scholarly work that is going on in the field. =============================================================================== *Selden, Deborah I am an ABD at the University of Houston. I am writing my dissertation on late 16th /early 17th century dramatic literature (English). One reason I got on internet was to explore groups such as yours. =============================================================================== *Sellari, Thomas J. Thomas J. Sellari, Lecturer, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan I have a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry), both from the University of Virginia. My current research interests include contemporary American poetry and fiction, 17th-century poetry, and computer-aided English instruction--maybe not the interests of the typical SHAKSPER subscriber(if there is such a thing). In any case, I enjoy reading Shakespeare and relevant scholarship, and look forward to benefitting from, and, if possible, contributing to, the SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Senczuk, John I am not aware of the number of Australian subscribers you have and how up to date you may be with the state of Shakespeare in Australia ... for your interest, however, I list below the current productions of Renaissance playscripts in the country! HAMLET - Belvoirs Street Theatre MACBETH - The Bell Shakespeare Company (a national touring company privately funded) THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - The Bell Shakespeare Company KING LEAR - The Sydney Theatre Company THE COMEDY OF ERRORS - FCA (directed and designed by moi!) TIME, GENTLEMEN! - Theatre South (This is a musical suggested by Massinger's A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS) THE VILLAIN FLOWER - NIDA (A musical based on HAMLET) =============================================================================== *Sengel, Deniz Received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU and has taught in the fields of the Renaissance, the history of poetics and rhetoric, and contemporary theory at The Catholic University of America and Trinity College in the US and at Bogazici University in Turkey. Published articles on Renaissance authors, the interrelations between literature and the visual arts, literary theory, and has edited a three-volume series exploring the interrelations of artistic practice, the political order, and aesthetic theory [_Art as Knowledge and the Artist as Historical Construct: The New Ontology_, _The Right to Art_, _Contemporary Thought and the Arts_ (Istanbul: PSD-AIAP, 1992, rptd. 1993)]. Has recently completed a book on Philip Sidney and the emergence of poetic theory in sixteenth-century Europe (_The Emergence of Modern Linguistic Disciplines 1: Poetics/Reading and History in Philip Sidney_). Is currently working on its companion volume about the rise of philology in the fifteenth century (_The Emergence of Modern Linguistic Disciplines 2: Philology/Valla, Bruni, Alberti_). Her next research project is law and hermeneutics in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. ============================================================= *Senoff, Shirley 1992-12-5 Senoff, Shirley University of Guelph English and French Undergraduate Student (fourth year) <Email> ugu00279@vm.uoguelph.ca or ssenoff@cosy.uoguelph.ca <Phone> <Address> P.O. 48-2038, <Line> University of Guelph. <Line> Guelph, Ontario <Country> CANADA <Postal Code> N1G 2W1 <Professional Associations> <Interests (key words)> Comparative Lit., Medieval Lit., Theory <Biographical sketch (ca. 100-500 words)> Hello! I am currently in my fourth and final year of a double major degree in English and French at the University of Guelph. I'm in the process of learning how to access various e-lists, and am pleased to discover that there is a big world of e-communication fans (like me) out there! My interests in literature are quite varied, ranging from medieval to modern stuff. I am a great fan of Chaucer, Milton, Proust, Leonard Cohen, and Alice Munro, among others. I also like to dabble in philosophy, but make no pretences of being an expert in that area!! Ultimately I aim to do graduate work in Comparative Literature. I will be taking a course on Shakespeare's Tragedies this winter, and am very much looking forward to it. I love to receive e-mail, so if you would like to find out more about the Royal City of Guelph or its university, or just want to chat, by all means feel free to send me an e-message, and I will reply as promptly as possible! ============================================================================== *Serchak, James <JRSn%TsPm%PS@bangate.pge.com> James R. Serchak 413 Frederick Street San Francisco, CA 94117 My interests in Shakespeare began in high school and continued on in college at Rutgers University where I studied four semesters of Shakespeare and received a B.A. in English in 1983. In 1991 I studied the Sonnets at New College in San Francisco. Currently I'm working on Playwriting and Directing at U.C. Berkeley, where I'm directing a scene from Richard III. My initial studies of Shakespeare were all from the literature perspective, whereas now I'm looking at the work from the point of view of playwright and director. As such, I'm seeing the work through new eyes and each day I gain a deeper appreciation for his work. Initially, I will be a reader of Shaksper, but hope that over time, I will be able to participate more fully in the electronic exchange of ideas. =============================================================================== *Sexson, Michael <uenms@gemini.oscs.montana.edu> My name is Michael Sexson and I am a professor of English at Montana State University where I have taught for the past 25 years. I hold a Masters from Pennsylvania State University in Communications and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Religion. I am the author of a book on Wallace Stevens, numerous articles dealing with the topics of myth, religion and imagination, and am the editor of a interdisciplinary journal called CORONA. My interest in Shakespeare blossomed when I was a visiting professor in the school of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1986. Since that time, I have regularly taught the Shakespeare class at Montana State and currently I am working on a sequence of articles having to do with the recovery of the sense of the sacred in speaking, seeing, and acting as it relates to the works of Shakespeare. I have completed articles on Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest and am awaiting decisions from the editors of several journals regarding publication. I am intrigued and somewhat intimidated by the notion of Shakespeare scholars throughout the world linked electronically. It promises to promote an interest in the "infinite variety" of WS. This paragraph is indication of my interest in and willingness to become a part of the Shakespeare discussion group. Please do whatever is necessary to beam me up. =============================================================================== *Sexton, Jim <jim_sexton@cc.sfu.ca> Instr, Camosun College, Victoria, B.C. B.A., M.A., (U.B.C.) Renaissance; Doctor of Arts, (Oregon), Mod. Brit. Most recent publications: "Huxley's Bokanovsky", *Science Fiction Studies*, vol 16, 1989 "*Brave New World* and the Rationalization of Industry", *English Studies in Canada*, XII, 4, December, 1986. Currently editing Huxley's newpaper essays and also investigating the Shakespeare influence on his work. Am reviving a second-year Shakespeare course now that budget permits. Hope to announce soon plans for a cable-satellite delivery Shakespeare telecourse with online support. ========================================================= *Seymour, Joanna <jseymour@cfunet.net> I am Joanna Seymour, a middle school literature teacher at St. Patrick School in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I attended the University of Wisconsin and majored in Education with an emphasis in English literature. I am currently teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream to 8th graders and would like to share good resources and ideas with others teachers. I've been frustrated by the lack of resources in my community. I have found that by expanding my vision onto the World Wide Web much more information is available to me. I would appreciate being added to your mailing list. =============================================================================== *Sforza, Francesco <MC9628@mclink.it> I'm 39, theater architecture historian, graduate at Venice University. I have no academic affiliation. I publish this year a book about the italian theater building, which title is GRANDI TEATRI ITALIANI [GREAT ITALIAN THEATERS] The development of the Italian Playhouse from the XVIIIth century to the present times. Editalia, Rome, 1993 200 pages, 9.45 x 12.20 inches, 210 color and B/W pictures. Cost 98.000 Italian lire, approx 70 US dollars. As you may see, I think I can be only a reader of SHAKSPER list, being very interested in relations between the cultural middle of W.S. and the Italian renaissance's culture, which seems -following the studies of Frances Amelia Yates- be brought in England by the terrible dominican Giordano Bruno. The art of memory is crucial in theater architecture. I don't imagine I can give any contribution to the discussion, but I'm interested in following it. I hope you will allow me to receive the list. I will forward it to some friends which don't use computers at all, but are involved in shakespearian studies. =============================================================================== *Shady, Jean <SHADY@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU> Jean M. Shady Collection Management Librarian Harvard Law School Library SHADY@HULAW1.BITNET SHADY@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU My undergraduate degree is in English lit; I'm a librarian at Harvard Law School. I have a brother and brother-in-law with doctorates in Renaissance drama and thought I would scan the list for the latest in their fields: they're both in business now without Internet access. =============================================================================== *Shamburg, Chris <cshambur@pegasus.rutgers.edu> I've been English at the Hudson County Vocational-Technical High School in Jersey City for five years; teaching Shakespeare is probably the most exciting part of my job. Besides teaching and watching the plays, I enjoy studying their critical and performance history. =============================================================================== *Shand, G.B. Skip <SHAND@VENUS.YORKU.CA> English / Drama Studies Glendon College 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M6 (416)787-7652 Winnipeg-born, raised north of Superior, educated at Manitoba (United), Cornell, and Toronto (1969 thesis on Marlowe's stagecraft, directed by Clifford Leech). Associate Professor of English and sometime Co-ordinator of Drama Studies at Glendon College, York University. Usually teach the Glendon undergrad Shakespeare course. Articles on early and Elizabethan stagecraft, a co-edited book on Play-texts in Old Spelling. Sporadic experience, training, and even paychecks as actor and director. In my 1989-90 sabbatical, I've prepared editions of Middleton's The Black Book and The Ghost of Lucrece for the Oxford Middleton project. (The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased and Sir Robert Sherley are also on my plate for the same project). I have also been writing two papers (and planning at least one more) on Hamlet's Queen Gertrude: a performance-based study of acting options in the usually-played Q2/F conflation (forthcoming in Elizabethan Theatre XIII, from the Waterloo Conference), and a less practically grounded piece of performance criticism on the Queen of the First Quarto (for Janis Lull's Quartos seminar at the SAA, Vancouver, 1991). I'm trying to formulate a contribution concerning all-male performance, actorly process and female roles for Michael Shapiro's seminar on Female Impersonation at the World Congress in Tokyo, 1991--something that might consider whether my actorly analyses of female roles, laden with 20th-century preconceptions about process and psychology, have any bearing at all on the same roles as realised in all-male performances in the early 17th century. And I seem to be editing The Actors Remonstrance, a much-reprinted but not so much considered brief pamphlet of 1643/4 (those who know Arthur Kinney will understand--I merely passed too near him one day, with a copy of the pamphlet in hand, and the next thing I knew the whirling Kinney vortex had sucked me into a project I wasn't even considering!). ======================================================================== *Shannon, Jocelyn G. <CAJGS@delphi.com> My B.A. was in Drama from C.S.U. San Jose, California. I have done graduate work at U.C. Santa Barbara, C.S.U.Dominguez Hills and other institutions. I currently teach at South Gate High School in California. It is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District , and most of my students are bi-lingual (Spanish-English) I teach a senior Shakespeare elective, Journalism and sheltered English 10. =============================================================================== *Shapira, Gilad <gilad@mail.netvision.net.il> I am a teacher for hebrew language and hebrew and general literature in Reali Ivri school in Haifa Israel. My main interest is drama and of course Shakespeare. I made some reaserches on Hamlet compare to Stoppard's "Rosencranz and G. are Dead" and Waitin =============================================================================== *Shapiro, James Jarasa@aol.com Thank you for your invitation for me to join SHAKSPER. I am a businessman involved with real estate and marketing. I am not highly Shakespeare literate, but I would very much enjoy learning more about the works of the bard from an esteemed collection of experts (all are experts compared to me). Being brutally realistic, I know that I could not and would not spend the time and effort to seek out information and interpretations in the library, school courses, or other sources, so I look forward to the convenience of the web to expose me to meaningful thought that otherwise would regretfully pass me by. Furthermore, I am sure that your site will offer insights that would be otherwise unavailable to me from anywhere else. While I may be in the "interested bystander" category, I want to thank you for offering me this exciting and rewarding intellectual opportunity. ============================================================= *Sharpston, Michael <MSHARPSTON@worldbank.org> Briefly, my background is that I have taught development economics at Cambridge, and been a Research Officer in the same field at Oxford. I have worked at the World Bank for many years, which has given me the chance to experience kabuki and non-Western cultures. But I am also a fairly avid Western-style playgoer and for several years running went to Stratford-on-Avon, on one occasion attending their Summer School. In my current work I am concerned with social psychology, and also have a personal interest in more psychoanalytically oriented psychology: sometimes I find myself reading about Shakespearian characters -- Hamlet obviously, but also say the young Henry V. My current psychology interest definitely includes psychodrama, while my original education was Classics, Aristotle's "like us" criterion for tragedy and all that stuff. Professionally I am concerned with the relationship of face-to-face and mediated communication (electronic mail, videoconferencing etc.): this relates to the difference between live theatre and say screen or TV (which does seem to have this parasocial intimacy, despite the lack of an actual human presence). Last but perhaps not least, I grew up with Shakespeare in general, and Gielgud's Hamlet in particular, the music of the blank verse in my ears. It was the end of the Golden Age of the Theatrical Knights, Sir Marius Goring, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and so on. Sometimes I would leave the theatre and what I wanted to say would automatically come out in blank verse (I am not saying GOOD blank verse). =============================================================================== *Shatkin, Laurence <lshatkin@rosedale.org> I got my doctorate in English from Lehigh University in 1978, specializing in pre-Shakespearean drama. I wrote my dissertation about festive games in early Tudor moral interludes. I work at Educational Testing Service as a writer and computer systems developer, mostly in fields related to career guidance. I don't get much chance to put English literature into my work, but I did have one occasion: I was developing a comic strip about four high school students, to be part of a workbook on how to interpret scores of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. I wrote a sequence in which they were rehearsing a scene from _King Lear_, the one where Kent is put in the stocks. I'm proud to say that thousands of high school students read the tiny bit of Shakespeare that I put in there. =============================================================================== *Shattuck, Sim <sshattuck@garts.latech.edu> I am Sim B. Shattuck, Jr. I teach in the English Department, School of Literature and Languages, at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. I grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia, getting my Spanish degree from George Mason U., my master's in English at Northeast La. U., and my PhD from the U of Southern Mississippi. I consider Renaissance and Medieval English lit. my interests and specialties. The child of Louisianians, I have lived in Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, New York City, and Virginia. I enjoy composing music (particularly fugues) and enjoy socializing, running, and swimming. My hobbies include reading, dinosaur paleontology, cooking, tropical botany, and keeping up with my extended family's activities. My current interests in Shakespeare are based on my dissertation, "The Cross-dressed Heroine and Female Mobility in 'The Faerie Queene' and 'The Merchant of Venice.'" I am currently investigating whether Shakespeare's cross-dressed heroines grew in complexity over Shakespeare's career. I am also interested in the modern 3rd-world novel and literary pedagogy, particularly re Shakespeare and Marlowe. ============================================================= *Shaw, Benjamin <ben@info.east.oberlin.edu> My name is Benjamin Shaw and I am a college student at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio. I am an English/Theater major and at present am a junior. While my main interest is in performance I am facinated by, and am just beginning to discover, the many ways in which Shakespear's work can be approached and studied. =============================================================================== *Shaw, Jim <SHAWJ@lib.bham.ac.uk> I have recently been appointed Librarian of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. I was formerly Assistant Librarian at the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Graduate Trainee at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. My publications include four articles in Shakespeare in Performance edited by Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason, and short pieces in theatre programmes of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. I am currently working on Shakespeare: a Dictionary with Professor Stanley Wells for Oxford University Press. ============================================================= *Shawcross, John T. <jtshaw0@pop.uky.edu> John T. Shawcross, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, is the author of various studies dealing with the British Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, centering on Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, and on Marlowe and Shakespeare. His most recent book is "John Milton: The Self and the World" (1993) and his most recent articles are on the Christ figura (in "Cithara," 1996) and on Donne and Herbert (in "John Donne Journal," 1996 [for 1994]). A former officer of the Marlowe Society of America, he is also a member of the Shakespeare Association and has published on both dramatists. His interests in Shakespeare lie primarily in the literary aspects of his craft, the texts of the plays, their contextual relationship to Shakespeare's everyday world, and the influence of biography on the nature of the plays. =============================================================================== *Shea, Joe <joeshea@netcom.com> Joe Shea: I am editor-in-chief of the first daily newspaper to originate on the Internet, the American Reporter. My interest in Shakepeare comes from having read his works and studied his Sonnets, and being the author of 80 sonnets in the Elizabethan style (though modern language). I studied Shakespeare in a course dedicated to his work in college. I live in Hollywood, California, where I occasionally recite both in legitimate theater productions and open poetry readings. On occasion, I recite some of Shakespeare's sonnets. In 1970, with Dennis Hopper, I produced and performed in "An Evening of Shakespeare" at the Greer Garson Theater at =============================================================================== *Shehane, Susan <SSShehane@aol.com> Susan Shehane: I in interested in becoming a part of the Shakespeare communications group. As a graduate student in English (secondary education) at Auburn University at Montgomery, this quarter (and next) I'm studying Shakespeare under Dr. Susan Willis, who works with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. My sole interest in the communications edge is to have easier access to resource materials, if that's possible. Proper credit will be given to any resources I obtain through your organization. I appreciate this opportunity. =============================================================================== *Shell, Cheryl <Cadshell@aol.com> Cheryl A. Shell: I am currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California at Davis, specializing in 16th and 17th century English literature, emphasis on Shakespeare. My dissertation will discuss Shakespeare's fourth estate--a cultural studies approach to representations of the lower orders in the plays. I have published on John Donne's Elegie XIX, as well as on American literature of the Vietnam war, another teaching/research interest of mine. My interests in Renaissance literature and war literature combine nicely in an additional interest in early modern military treatises/manuals and military imagery/themes in the literature. My critical approach tends to be cultural-class studies/Marxist, thus I also enjoy studying the social history of poverty and work, especially, of course, as it applies to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. =============================================================================== *Shelton, Jennifer <SHELTONJ@uhura.trinity.toronto.edu> Name: Jennifer H. Shelton Title: none (undergraduate student) Degrees: currently working on B.A. Area of study: English and Political Science Location: University of Toronto Publications: none that are relevant to this list (poems, etc.) Supervisor: my professor is Jill Levenson (ENG 220Y) Reasons for subscribing: to obtain greater understanding of Shakespeare's work by observing dialogue of experts in the field. =============================================================================== *Shelton, Stephen <sshelton@MWE.COM> I am an attorney who practices in the area of intellectual property law, focusing mainly on copyright law and trademark law. I have been practicing in this field for almost four years. The name of my law firm is McDermott, Will & Emery. I practice in the firm's Chicago office. Although I have no academic background in Shakespearean studies other than the basic college courses (i.e., my majors were Philosophy and Religion), I have always had an intense interest in the works of the Bard that began in high school and continued throughout my college years, my four years in the U.S. Army infantry, law school, and through the present time. =============================================================================== *Shelton, Steve <sheltost@concentric.net> I am an intellectual property attorney at a large law firm in New York City. My areas of specialty are copyright and trademark law. I am not a scholar of Shakespeare; nor have I taken a course in Shakespearean studies (although I tried). In undergraduate school, I studied philosophy and religion. However, I have had a life-long interest in Shakespeare and in his works. ============================================================= *Shelton, Trace <RFS0616@ACS.TAMU.EDU> Hello! My name is Trace Shelton, and I am a new graduate assistant in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. I am currently enrolled in a graduate seminar on Shakespeare taught by World Shakespeare Bibliography editor Jim Harner. Thus, I would enjoy participating in critical discussions that occur on SHAKSPER. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of it! =============================================================================== *Shenk, Linda S. <FTLSS@acad3.alaska.edu> I am a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a concentration in Shakespeare. My emphasis in Shakespearean study lies primarily in performance scholarship--an interest which combines my love of acting (just finished doing Kate in SHREW last semester and Beatrice the year before) with my focus on literature. I am presently working on my thesis in which I am reading anything I can get a hold of that an Elizabethan actor has written. I am looking for references to memory and memorizing with the hope that\ I can begin to answer the question: "How did the Elizabethan actor commit such a staggering volume of material to memory each year?" I received my B.A. from James Madison University where I majored in English, French, and Theatre. There, I worked with Ralph Cohen and his Shenandoah Shakespeare Express first production of RICHARD III which now I am studying in-depth with Janis Lull here in Fairbanks. I can be reached in Fairbanks at P.O. Box 85251 Fairbanks, AK 99708 and (907) 455-4023. =============================================================================== *Shepherd, Scott <skot@panix.com> New York City actor/director Scott Shepherd (1968- ) got his AB in English and American Literature in 1990 from Brown University, where he appeared in countless plays, studied Shakespeare with Coppelia Kahn, and directed two productions: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet Prince of Denmark ("Bravo," wrote Professor Kahn, "one of the most interesting Hamlets I've seen"). In 1991 six Brown graduates including him founded Theaterhouse in Burlington VT, and there he directed two shows and played Troilus in Troilus and Cressida. In 1993 he was the assistant director for Richard 3 directed by Daniel Kramer at Cucaracha Theater in Manhattan. And this year he appeared in his own solo performance of the complete text (!) of Macbeth, at Access Theater in Tribeca, NYC. He is also a member of Elevator Repair Service, "the best young performance group in town" (Brian Parks, Village Voice). =============================================================================== *Sheppard, Paul <PESheppard@AOL.COM> My name is Paul Sheppard. As a former teacher of English at the junior high and high school level (ages 12-18) who finds himself in front of a class of 2nd graders (as a matter of choice, believe it or not), a key consideration for me is how to present Shakespeare in a way appropriate to my seven- and eight-year-old students. My experience in teaching adolescents, especially younger adolescents, convinces me that Shakespeare is accessible to all ages-provided it is offered with intelligence and playfulness. There are innumerable ways to introduce Shakespeare's language through games, recitations, skits, and other media. The comedies especially are full of beautiful, light, amusing ditties that children can take on quite capably. My position calls for me to stay with this group of students for at least the next four years, which offers the possibility of really cultivating their love of Shakespeare and, as any teacher knows, learning much from them in the process. I hope at some point to be able to share with this group the ongoing progress we make in our studies. The name of the school at which I teach is The Abraham Lincoln School, located at 12 East 79th Street, N.Y., NY, 10021. ============================================================= *Sheppard, Shelia <tsheppar@fox.nstn.ns.ca> I am writing this on behalf of my wife, Sheila M. Sheppard, who wishes to belong to this group but who is also reticent about submitting an autobiographical note. Sheila is a sometime high school English teacher and full-time Shakespeare enthusiast who has recently completed a Shakespeare course (at Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S.) with a top mark (A+) and accolades from her professor for the quality of her research on Shakespearean matters. Her main interest lies in the close reading of the texts and analysis and interpretation of all aspects of the plays. She lives near Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia with her husband, Tom; son, Jonathan and Swiss exchange student son, Christof Elmiger. A daughter, Anne-Marie, is currently an honours student at Trent Unviersity, Peterborough, Ontario. Sheila is the representative for our area for ASSE International Student Exchange; the family has hosted students from Sweden and Norway as well. =============================================================================== *Sher, Benjamin <bs07@gnofn.org> As a lifelong Shakespeare enthusiast, having written my Master's Thesis on his craft and art (Revolt and Bondage: War-Prison Symbolism in Hamlet, University of New Orleans, 1975), I would like to respectfully request admission into the Bitnet SHAKSPER Mailing List. =============================================================================== *Shershow, Scott C. <shershow@pub2.bu.edu> Scott Cutler Shershow Department of English Boston University 236 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-2506 I am currently an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University. My own degrees are from Yale University (A.B. English 1975), New College, Oxford (B.A. 1977, Faculty of English), and Harvard University (Ph.D, 1983, English and American Literature and Language). My doctoral dissertation was later published as Laughing Matters: The Paradox of Comedy (Amherst: MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986). After receiving my PhD, I left academic life for nearly five years, during which I worked as an Editor at Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, acquiring and editing books, videotapes and software intended for use in management training. I returned to academics in 1989, and now specialize in the history and theory of drama. At Boston University, in addition to Shakespeare, I have taught each of three courses which form a chronological survey of English drama from the medieval period through the eighteenth century. Next spring, I am looking forward to teaching a graduate seminar in Theories of the Theater, which will cover highlights of the European tradition from Aristotle to Artaud. I am a member of the Modern Language Association and the Renaissance Society of America, and the author of: "Windings and Turnings: The Metaphoric Labyrinth of Restoration Dramatic Theory." Comparative Drama 26.1 (1992): 1-18. "The Pit of Wit: Subplot and Unity in Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One. Studies in Philology 88.3 (1991): 363-381. "Higlety Piglety, Right or Wrong:" Providence and Poetic Justice in Rymer, Dryden and Tate." Restoration 15.1 (1991): 17-26. I am currently at work on A Creature Wanting Soul: Puppets and Representation from 1590 to the Present, a book-length study of puppet theater from a philosophic and theoretical perspective. The book investigates how how puppets, marionettes, automata, and other performing objects illuminate the interrelationship of theatrical performance and cultural representation, in particular the evolving notion of authorship. ======================================================================= *Shibuya, Yoshihiko <shibuya@ELLE.NICOL.AC.JP> Current interests and research topics: Rhetoric and Poetics in English Renaissance Various Studies on Shakespeare, a dramatist and a poet Main Professional Papers : Masao Tanji, Takemi Yokoyama, Fuminori Koseki and Yoshihiko Shibuya. "A Translation of The Arte of English Poesie " Memoirs of The Tohoku Institute of Technology, Ser. II a Japanese translation with notes of The Arte of English Poesie (1589) by George Puttenham, an English Rhetorician. Yoshihiko Shibuya. "A Logic in the Actions of Touchstone and Jaques" (Japanese) Memoirs of Niigata Women's College. Yoshihiko Shibuya. " Adversity and Patience in As You Like It"(Japanese) "Muse" No.10 English Department Niigata Women's College. Yoshihiko Shibuya. "Deliberative Oratory and Shakespeare's Marriage Sonnets" (Japanese)Tohoku No.14 , Tohoku Gakuin University ============================================================= *Shields, Julia L. <jshields@pen.k12.va.us> I am beginning my twenty-ninth year of teaching English at Charlottesville High School in Charlottesville, VA. Though British literature is my favorite, I have taught every course we offer from ninth through twelfth grade, from Advanced Placement to remedial. I have also served as department chairman. I majored in English at Sweet Briar College and earned my Masters from the University of Virginia. My interest in Shakespeare is evidenced by my having taken a number of courses throughout my career: as an undergraduate at SBC, as a graduate student at UVA (under my hero Fredson Bowers), at George Washington Univ. (under Milton Crane), at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, Connecticut, at a Shakespeare Institute at High Point, NC, and at s Shakespeare something-or-another at the Folger. I have also taught an elective course in Shakespeare in high school and wrote a tongue-in-cheek article on Macbeth for the English Journal. I am interested in any information that will help me teach these plays to high school students. Among the plays I frequently teach are Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Midsumer Night's Dream, though I occasionally include others. As a result of a marvelous NEH summer institute, I have also developed an interest in Shakespeare's female characters. =============================================================================== *Shields, Ronald E. <rshield@andy.bgsu.edu> Ronald E. Shields Ph.D Associate Professor Department of Theatre Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Office Phone- (419) 372-6812 internet-<rshield@andy.bgsu.edu> My advanced graduate degree is from Louisiana State University. As a performance studies/oral interpretation scholar and teacher, I have taught several courses (for both undergraduates as well as graduate students) in the solo performance of Shakespeare. In addition, I usually direct a Shakespeare play each year (or every other year) as part of my Department's regular theatre season. My publications have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Literature in Performance, New England Theatre Quarterly, Ohio Speech Journal, Carolinas Communication Journal, and in the reference work, American Orators of the Nineteeth Century (published by Greenwood Press). My current leadership roles in professional organizations include the following: Past-Chair, Performance Studies and Theatre Division (Central States Communication Association); Chair, Theatre Division (Speech Communication Association); Publications Chair, Performance Studies Division (Speech Communication Association); editorial board, Text and Performance Quarterly. I wrote my master's thesis on Coriolanus and have in recent years returned to the study of Shakespearean texts and Shakespeare performance as an important part of my research agenda. I am currently writing a book on community verse drama and verse speaking in England between the wars as venues and indicators for cultural change. As part of this study I will focus on John Masefield's Shakespearean productions (staged at his private theatre at Boar's Hill during the 1920's). =============================================================================== *Shields, Tim <T.Shields@derby.ac.uk> I am very interested in subscribing to this listserv, as I teach Shakespeare courses here at the University of Derby. So far, apart from accessing the website, I have not been able to get any feedback through the system. Have I got the right contact this time ? (as found in Theatre Topics Mar 95 vol 5 no 1) =============================================================================== *Shikoda, Mitsuo <shikoda@tscc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp> Professor Faculty of Letters Tohoku Gakuin University Publications: (Books) Basic Knowledge for Understanding Poetry (in Japanese) Concise History of English Literature (in Japanese) etc. (Articles) Juliet, the Nursling of the Nurse (Shakespeare Studies, Vol.25) etc. Professional memberships: English Society of Japan Shakespeare Society of Japan Tohoku English Literary Society Shakespeare Society of Sendai (President) Sendai English literature Society (President) Current interests: (1) Contemporary criticism and new critical thinking in Shakespearean studies. (2) Staging of plays by college students. =============================================================================== *Shingavi, Snehal <SSHINGAV@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU> I heard about the shakespeare society on the internet from a professor and was interested in becoming a subscriber. if possible, please add me to the mailing list. I am an english major at trinity university. =============================================================================== *Shingavi, Snehal <sshingav@trinity.edu> My name is snehal shingavi and i am currently an undergraduate english major at trinity university. i have recently presented a paper at the southern renaissance conference entitled "the house that henry built: the discourse of domesticity in henry the 4th part 2" and am interested in continuing shakespearean studies upon entering graduate school. =============================================================================== *Shipp, Juanita <r-nshipp@mcmsys.com> My name is Juanita Shipp. I teach American and British Literature at Shelby County C-1 Schools in Shelbyville, Missouri. I am especially interested in the use of music in Shakespeare plays. ============================================================= *Shipp, Nita <hfd008@mail.connect.more.net> My name is Nita L. Shipp, and I teach English, French, and Speech/Drama at North Shelby High School in northeastern Missouri. I am interested in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in London as it was in Shakespeare's time, in Shakespeare's use of diction and atmosphere in his plays, and in the recently released Shakespeare films. =============================================================================== *Shiratsuchi, Shuho <00046089@ex.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp> I am just a sophomore majoring English & English literature at Osaka University, Japan. So I don't have a lot of knowledge about high-level research of literary works. I'm just very interested now. I intended to subscribe to SHAKSPER in very passive attitude. I just wanted to have a look at the articles and get interested. =============================================================================== *Shochet, Fred <fshochet@jhu.edu> Fred Shochet: I am a recently retired federal government worker, age 55, who, at age 49, after paying dearly for my son's education through a masters degree, decided to resume my education which had not advanced beyond high school. From nothing, I now have 78 credits as a degree candidate in Johns Hopkins Continuing Studies BLA in Humanities program. Additionally, I take foreign language courses at Towson State University because JHU's evening division does not offer foreign language courses for credit. I want the credits because, should I decide to pursue graduate studies in my forthcoming dotage, I believe foreign language credits would facility my acceptance to graduate programs. I am certainly not an accomplished Shakesperean scholar, but have read some of his plays on my own time and others through courses at JHU. Further, I intend to take more Shakesperean courses--JHU Continuing studies offers one on William's tragedies and historical plays and another on his comedies, romances, and sonnets. Obviously, I have found Shakespeare's works of great interest, otherwise, I would not be here at 10 p.m. tonight pounding out this brief scope of scholarly interest in William. Perhaps, during or after additional Shakesperean courses, I can contribute something that might be meaningful to others. =============================================================================== *Shofner, Gene <McShof@AOL.COM> I am the Managing Director of Kumu Kahua Theatre here in Honolulu. We produce local writers and plays relevant to Hawaii. I am in the MFA graduate program in playwriting and have a keen interest in Shakespeare. I have acted in and directed Shakespeare and will do some specialty study on the Bard. For our theatre research seminar I am currently researching the connections between the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the US and Shakespearean plays, particularly Othello. ============================================================= *Short, Carol <shortj@vcss.k12.ca.us> My name is Carol Short, and I originally hail from the far tropics of Zimbabwe, Africa. I attended the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa (alma mater of Alan Paton) where I earned a BA degree. From there, I went to Cape Town and did a one-year, post-graduate teaching diploma. I taught in Zimbabwe for about 5 years before moving to the States with my husband. I am presently teaching at a new tennis academy, where the pleasure of dealing with few numbers is more than made up for in the stress of making sure that these students achieve their dream of winning Stanford and UCLA scholarships! We have just started a unit on the Renaissance, and Macbeth in particular, so I would enjoy talking to other teachers of Shakespeare, and hearing their views. ============================================================= *Shtier, Jon <Jarses@AOL.COM> My name is Jon Shteir. I have no formal academic connection to Shakespeare. I studied comparative literature in college. I am interested in Shakespeare as literature and as a source of historical information. I am also an actor. I enjoy the contextual discussions for their insight in approaching any roles from an actor's perspective. On one of the theatre lists (on which this was recommended), I enjoyed the discussions which periodically arose regarding evaluation of the works and their sociological import. ============================================================= *Shults, Steven <SLShults@aol.com> I've been involved in scholastic, community, and regional theatre since I was 13. In the 15 years that have passed I have been an apprentice, carried scenery, built scenery, been a props master, done alot of lighting tech and some design, run sound, house managed, stage managed and directed, but most often I find myself on the stage. I'm not going to bother cut/copy/pasting a resume into this bio because it seems irrelevant. I am currently a grad student in the Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco CA. =============================================================================== *Shumaker, Curtis <curt11@ix.netcom.com> My name is Curtis Shumaker, and the subject of Shakespeare and his works is very important to me. My background is in the theatre. I graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in theatre. I have had the pleasure to perfrom in 10 of the Bard's works at this time, and hope to do the entire Cannon before I die. I have performed with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, National Players Tour 42, Arena Stage and lastly with the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington. I am currently a member of Actors Equity though I am on hiatus from my acting career. I would very much like to speak with you and others about Shakespeare and other related topics. I will say this now, I believe that Shakespeare wrote his own plays. I wanted to say that now so you know where I stand. =============================================================================== *Siconolfi, Michael <siconolfi@gonzaga.edu> Associate professor of English, recently retired director of university honors program, teaching courses in Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and contemporary drama. Ph.D. Syracuse University, M.A. (Hon) in comparative dramatic literature from Columbia university, A.B. Fordham University, M.DIv. Woodstock College. Most recent publication is review of Garry Wills: Witches & Jesuits, Shakespeare's Macbeth in EMLS, VOL 2.3, December, 1996 Most recent new course is "Poetry & Prayer: The Poetics of Religious Experience" (studies in Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, and Dylan Thomas). =============================================================================== *Sidnell, Michael J. <msidnell@epas.utoronto.ca> Professor Michael J. Sidnell, Professor of English and Drama, University of Toronto. Author of DANCES OF DEATH: THE GROUP THEATRE OF LONDON IN THE THIRTIES (Faber 1984); articles on Yeats, Irish theatre, Auden, MacNeices, Eliot, Canadian theatre, theatrical performance; editor of three vols. of Yeats's MSS; editor of SOURCES OF DRAMATIC THEORY (Cambridge U P, 1991 and in progress). Reviewer (Stratford Festival) for Journal of Canadian Studies and Canadian Theatre Review. Courses in "Theory of Drama" (Graduate Centre for Study of Drama), modern poetry, Yeats, Canadian drama, Yeats, literary theory etc. (English Dept.). Postal address: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave., Toronto M5S 1H8. =============================================================================== *Siemens, Ray <siemens@unixg.ubc.ca> Ray Siemens, Doctoral Student, Department of English, University of British Columbia. <siemens@unixg.ubc.ca> After spending considerable time as an undergraduate and MA student convinced that the contemporary novel was the most fruitful area for scholarly research, I saw the light in time enough to write my MA thesis on the evolution of the trickster figure in medieval and early modern literatures; my work on this topic concluded with a discussion of _Twelfth Night's_ Feste. While I have a lively interest in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and look forward to participating in discussions of Elizabethan/Jacobean literature, my current focus is on the literature and court culture of the earlier Tudor reigns and, I plan to prepare an edition of an early Tudor poetic manuscript for my dissertation. I have published and presented several papers on early modern English literature and lexicography, and on topics relating to computer-assisted research in the Humanities; the most recent of these is an electronic edition of _Tottel's Miscellany_ (1557a), which will be available this summer. =============================================================================== *Silverman, Paul <wayback@netcom.com> PAUL SILVERMAN is a stage director whose main areas of focus include Shakespeare and the adaptation of fiction into dramatic form. Recent work includes HAMLET and KING JOHN at the California Shakespeare Festival, and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Goodman Theatre. Paul spent three years directing, teaching and performing with the Renaissance Performing Artists Guild, a Renaissance-based historical theatre troupe. He has also worked on UNCLE VANYA, also at the Goodman Theatre, and directed an original adapation of THE POWER OF LANGUAGE at the Chicago Directors Festival, where the production was awarded "Best of the Fest." Paul is co-founder and Artistic Director of Past Present, a history education performance company. =============================================================================== *Silverstein, Barbara <barsilvr@odin.english.udel.edu> I am about to complete my Master's Degree in English Lit, and will be continuing towards a PhD beginning this fall, concentrating on 16th and 17th century English literature, at the University of Delaware. Although I was a teaching assistant in my first year as a Master's candidate, I was awarded a Fellowship for the 1996-97 academic year, and next semester I will be a Research Assistant for Dr. Lois Potter. My field of concentration will be the Renaissance. At the moment, I am becoming more and more drawn to Milton and Donne in general (with a soupcon of Sir Thomas Browne for variety), as well as to drama of all kinds. I have also found fascinating the ways in which the Court Masque appears to have influenced literature of the period (all sorts of literature, that is, not just drama). I come to this field having spent the first twenty years of my adult life as a professional musician. For most of that time I was a conductor of opera, as well as the Artistic Director of The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, an opera company that had a very gratifying seventeen-year run in Philadelphia before economic forces overcame its momentum. ============================================================= *Sim, Steven <steven@moe.edu.sg> My name is Steven Sim. I'm a graduate from the National University of Singapore, B.A. Hons (Lit). I'm currently teaching literature and the General Paper at 'A'-level at a Junior College in Singapore. =============================================================================== *Simerka, Barbara <BASIMERKA@davidson.edu> I have a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the U. of Southern California, specializing in early modern Spanish, French and English drama. I teach Golden Age Spanish lit. and interdisciplinary courses on drama at Davidson College, NC. My dissertation used the rudiments of post-marxist literary theory to examine the relationship between tragicomedy as a genre which bends aesthetic rules, and the subversion of christian/patriarchal/absolutist discourses in plays including Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and Cymbeline. In the process of converting the dissertation into a book, I am developing a more in-depth literary historical approach, using the theories of Hayden White to examine Althusser and Gramsci's writings on the relations between literature and history and to examine new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to early modern drama. In addition to re-working the readings of the plays cited above, the book will include a study of the Henriad as part of a chapter that examines genre and the formation of national identity. I am also currently researching an article that I plan to write on Hamlet and the Quijote, examining the role of madness and melancholy in these two works in the context of the early modern period's examination of epistemology. I am particularly interested in the period's search to identify the process by which knowledge can be attained, once, as Foucault asserts, the Medieval/Renaissance concept of "resemblance" was shown to be inadequate. My other primary area of interest is performance. I have written on the English Shakespeare Company's innovative staging of sections of the Henriad in Los Angeles in 1992, in order to examine the discourses of war right after the Persian Gulf "war." This was part of an examination of how "the classic" can be appropriated for contemporary questioning of orthodox ideology. =============================================================================== *Simkin, Stevie <stevies@interalpha.co.uk> I currently work as a lecturer within the school of Community & Performing Arts at King Alfred's University College in Winchester, UK, where I specialise in drama of the early modern period. I have been at KAC since September 1995. Prior to this, I worked for two years as a lecturer in English at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education in Southampton (1993-95), and before that worked part-time in the Department of English, University of St. Andrews. It was at St. Andrews that I studied for both my M.A. (graduated 1988) and Ph.D. (completed March 1992). The thesis was a study of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and critical perceptions of his relation to poetic tradition. In 1990, halfway through my Ph.D. work, I began to direct productions of plays, using for the most part casts of student actors. I co-founded Mixed Metaphors Theatre Company in December 1990 and for the next few years, I directed three of four shows a year, including 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Hamlet, Marowitz's Collage Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Duchess of Malfi, Pains of Youth, The Suicide and Miss Julie. Our company had a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1991 with a production of Twelfth Night running in rep with a premiere, Blood on their Lips. My teaching and research consequently shifted into the drama field, and the progression from an English to a Drama department (in 1995) was a natural one. I am field leader for Drama Studies at KAC (responsible for the running of the programme, with student numbers currently running at about 250). During a recent overhaul of the course, I wrote a number of new modules, including 'Acting the Heritage', 'Shakespeare and Ideology', 'Interpreting the Classic Text', and 'Body Parts: Early Modern Tragedy and Millennium Cinema'. I have published articles on poetry and drama, and have worked as reviews editor of the journal Speech and Drama since January 1996. My present research projects include A Preface to Marlowe, commissioned by Addison Wesley Longman (submission date April 1999) and The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Renaissance Drama and Modern Acting Techniques. The latter is a study of the significance of post-structuralist theories of early modern subjectivity in relation to modern approaches to performing plays of that period. In September 1997 I gave a paper entitled '"The Artificiall Jewe of Maltae's nose": Performed Ethnicity in Marlowe's the Jew of Malta" at the conference 'Passing: Assumed Identities in Literature, Art and Film', held at King Alfred's College. This paper explores issues I intend to investigate further in a production of The Jew of Malta I am due to direct this winter (1997). My research interests are centred in the early modern period, and specifically: Marlowe; cultural materialist and new historicist approaches to Shakespeare; early modern drama and performance theory. Other areas of interest include the study of high/popular culture binaries and popular cinema. ============================================================= *Simon, Linda <lsimon@palmerdodge.com> When I was 14, my favorite teacher of English prodded me to read aloud Lady Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7, over and over, until the meaning sunk in. Suddenly it did, and my stomach fluttered, a hot flush rose rapidly, and my brain cells expanded exponentially. From that instant, I was hooked on both acting and Shakespeare! Still an actor, and acting coach, occasional reviewer, writer, and new playwright as well, I have over the span of 20 years performed in stock and regional theaters in the United States and two other countries, usually in character parts including six Shakespearean women's roles. As a coach and teacher, I have worked on a freelance or contract basis in repertory theaters and community schools, in addition to giving private lessons. My favorite pedagogical role is teaching the poetry of Shakespeare to children; when they rhyme "upon the heath" and "Macbeeth", I know they've got it! I am also a member of a regional network of one-person performers who actually make a living bringing their (mostly historical) characters to life at theaters, schools, libraries, and national parks. Among my writings are fervent petitions for aliens of extraordinary ability to work in and eventually immigrate to the United States. Often these are research scientists or performing artists, and I write their pleas with passion. I have yet to have a petition rejected, so if you know any worthy performers who need to be in the U.S., send them to me. In June 1997 I will become a member of Shakespeare & Company, the unique performing and training theater company established by Tina Packer, et al. on the Edith Wharton estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In accordance with the specializations offered at Shakespeare & Company, I will concentrate in playwriting and the teaching of Shakespeare in schools, as well as in acting. I long ago graduated with a double major in Psychology and Theater from the University of Massachusetts. My favorite role there, in an experimental production, was that of Romeo! I have done graduate work and held straight jobs in journalism and law, but always have returned to my first love, theater. ============================================================= *Simone, Thomas <tsimone@moose.uvm.edu> I first studied Shakespeare at Dartmouth College with Professor Thomas Vance and went on to Claremont Graduate School where I studied with Professor Riccardo Quinones. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare's Lucrece and published a book, Shakespeare and 'Lucrece' in 1975. I have taught Shakespeare in a variety of contexts at the University of Vermont from general undergraduate courses to undergraduate seminars to master's level graduate seminars. I was a member of Stephen Greenblatt's NEH seminar on Shakespeare and the new historicism in Berkeley in 1989. Since 1992 I have taught a three week undergraduate course in England on Shakespeare in performance for the University of Vermont with residency periods in both London and Stratford. I have visited England frequently and seen a large number of English productions of Shakespeare and other dramatists. My current interests are focussed on Shakespeare in performance with emphasis on film. For the past three years I have presented papers at SAA on Shakespeare on film: Branagh's Henry V, Kurosawa's Castle of the Spider's Web, and Olivier's Henry V. Also, I have done some work with Peter Donaldson at M.I.T. on the Shakespeare hypertext project and have just taught my first undergraduate seminar on Shakespeare on film. We were able to use the computer/laserdisc system pioneered by Donaldson and Larry Friedlander of Stanford. I have just finished an essay on this course and its approach. I have published articles on film, Shakespeare, and Beckett, and co-authored a book on the humanities. I am also a staff writer for Recollections Quarterly, a journal that is concerned with the history and esthetics of recorded music. I am currently working on a book that concerns the history of media and technology as critical components of the presentation of Shakespeare on film. =============================================================================== *Simons, Linda Keir <simons@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu> Reference Librarian University of Dayton I would like to join the list, at least for a short time, as I am writing an annotated bibliography of reference materials in theatre and dance. One of my chapters will discuss lists of this type in those fields. I can probably write an explanation of this list from the information you have already given me, but I would like to get "the feel" of the list myself if possible. As to personal details, I am a reference librarian at the University of Dayton. I have a strong avocational interest in theatre and dance and have served on various committees in arts organizations for over fifteen years. This work includes serving on the play reading committee of our local theatre group. ============================================================================ *Simpson, Tom <tsimpson@DataFlux.BC.CA> Hello, my name is Tom Simpson. I'm certainly not a Shakespeare scholar, I'm not a student, I've never had published in an academic journal anything I've written - but I do write...drama (sort of - scripts) and, like most of my kind, I steal from Shakespeare every day. What's worse, I'm now obsessed with Ted Hughes' Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. Not a scholar, a single issue insomniac and a thief - not much of a candidate for SHAKSPER...but, if you won't have me, maybe you could suggest an internet way to satisfy my curiosity regarding the critical response to the Hughes book. =============================================================================== *Sims, Stephen <ssims@SD68.NANAIMO.BC.CA> I was born in Yorkshire, a County somewhat North of Warwickshire yet possessing, even in contemporary dialectical discourse, many of the speech patterns prevalent in Shakespeare's England..." Aye, sithee,dost tha knowest?"I was forced,under threat of corporal punishment, to "study" Shakespeare during my seven long years at a grammar school and was bullied into learning vast tracts from his works. Since it was an all boys' school, all female roles were spoken by males, in the best tradition of Elizabethan theatre. At college, I conned my way into the theatre department with a heavily mugged version of " Now is the winter of our discontent....." , the overall effect being much improved by the placement of a bundled and bulky sweater up the back of my shirt. My teaching career has involved me in the pursuit of that most elusive of Holy Grails: an effective strategy/methodology for imparting a love of the Shakespearean thing in a schooling environment. The quest has involved me in a number of trying and testy thespian manipulations, including a rendition of one of the wildest celtic portrayals of Macduff ever to befall an amateur canadian audience. I have at various times attempted to claim his spirit as my own mentor but,"...he writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose." As Robert Graves put it: " The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." And that is why I wish to be included on your subscription list. ======================================================================== *Sincoff, Ryan <esincoff@CS.Stanford.EDU> My name is Erik Sincoff and I am a student at Stanford University. I am working on my MS in computer science here. Last year I received my BS in computer science at UC San Diego, where I minored in General Literature. Half of this minor consisted of Shakespeare courses taken during an exchange year I spent at Sheffield University, England. So I am not really a professional Shakespeare researcher, simply an interested amateur. Currently, I am attempting to put together a Shakespeare server on the World Wide Web. I have been formatting the plays into HTML and have been experimenting with annotating the works using hypertext. Other potential ideas are works of art, Shakespearian history, thematic descriptions, etc. I am always looking for advice, corrections, and new ideas for this project. The server (in progress) is at: http://lrc.nps.navy.mail:8080/~erik/Shakespeare/Shakespeare.html =============================================================================== *Singer, Mark Andre <V219JCLC@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> MARK ANDRE SINGER c/o University of Buffalo 306 Clemens Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 USA Tel: 716-881-4092 Fall 1994 Doctoral candidate SUNY Buffalo Enrolled in Jim Swan's "Shakespeare and the Media of Performance" seminar 92-94 Taught Literature at The Koc School, Istanbul Turkey Taught "Othello" to 16 year old Turks 1991 Lectured at the Univ. of Nouakchott, Mauritania, West Africa Taught "Hamlet" to nomads 1989 Student-taught "Romeo & Juliet" and "Macbeth" in Lewiston, NY 1974 Attended first Bardic performance ("Titus Andronicus") at Ashland, OR Languages: fluent French, survival Turkish, Hausa, Hassanaye, Spanish Publications: still to come Interests: How Shakespeare is read, performed and interpreted in non-English speaking countries; especially in Francophone West Africa. =============================================================================== *Singer. Mark A. <masinger@acsu.buffalo.edu> After a two year hiatus I would like to rejoin the SHAKSPER electronic community. You might remember me as the Shakespeareanist working on a paper about how the Bard is taught, performed, and otherwise circulated in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. I read that paper at two conferences. At the moment I am writing on the St. Crispin's Day speech to situate it within the anti-Henry critical tradition (Hazlitt, Bradley, Van Doran, Goddard, Gould, Greenblatt, Spencer, and perhaps most notoriously, Chris Fiter). I also discuss the possibility of some possible literary antecedents from classical antiquity (Cicero, Livy, Luccius) and the Renaissance. I should have it finished by year's end and will submit it to your SHAKSPER file. I am a Franco-American dual national, and bilingual. My scholarly interests include the problem of exile and expatriation for writers. I am also very active in the "Finnegans Wake" Reading group of Buffalo (on February 2nd-Joyce's birthday-I'm organizing a screening of the 97 minute film version of "FW" complete with sub-titles; all are welcome). ============================================================= *Sinowitz, Jonah G. <sinowitz@pilot.njin.net> English Major at Rutgers Univerity, N.J. Goal: A well rounded education ! ========================================================= *Sirofchuck, Mike <Mike_Sirofchuck@kodiak.alaska.edu> I have taught high school English full time since 1978 in Ohio and Alaska. I have also taught college literature and writing classes on a part-time basis since 1976 in both states. I currently teach Senior World Literature and Honors Psychology. I will be teaching the first-ever Advanced Placement English course here at KHS beginning in the 1997-98 school year. I teach Hamlet from several points of view (literary, psychological, philosophical) and also coach my students in performance. We read the entire play in class, culminating with a rehearsed and staged Act V. My current interests in Hamlet are Jungian approaches to the play, student performance, and criticism of the various Hamlet films. I request that you allow me to participate in the Shakper forum. ============================================================= *Sites, Elizabeth <esites@metronet.com> I am not an academic. I'm a (gasp) mass-market commercial novelist, and I'm working on a new book with a Shakespearean element. I was hoping to read SHAKSPER (and possibly even ask a question or two) in order to get my facts straight and learn anything I could. My undergraduate degree is in literary studies (University of Texas at Dallas, with my honors thesis directed by Dennis Kratz). ============================================================= *Skeele, David <DBS@SRUVM.SRU.EDU> I am an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Slippery Rock University. I received my B.A. from Marlboro College in Vermont, my M.A. from Smith College, my M.F.A. from University of New Orleans and I am finishing my dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh (all degrees in theatre). My dissertation is a critical and theatrical history of Pericles in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essentially, it juxtaposes chapters on criticism and production, with a focus on the question of whether the play is fragmented or unified. This topic is currently my major area of research interest, but I am especially interested in so-called "problem plays" and their history in criticism and production. I recently had an article entitled "The Devil and David Mamet: Sexual Perve rsity in Chicago as Homiletic Tragedy." Also, I have just had an article on Sa muel Phelps' Pericles accepted for publication in an anthology to be published by Garland Press in 1996. =============================================================================== *Sklar, Bill <EL407007@brownvm> or <EL407007@brownvm.brown.edu> 79 Charlesfield, Providence RI 02906. I'm an undergrad who's had a grand total of three english courses, one of which was _Art of Film_ and just happened to be classified in the English Department, another of which was "Fiction Writing," and the third of which was "Major British Writers." I've read a lot of Shakespeare, though, and love his stuff. I'm interested in the list more as a browser looking for thought-provoking material than an active participant, since I'm not too qualified to speak on any Shakespeare work except maybe _The Tempest_, which happens to be my favourite. I *am* interested in theater and drama, especially as expressed through music, but haven't got any real "academic" criteria of any sort. I guess that more or less sums it up, except that I love to write and love to read, and that's why I'm here. ========================================================= *Skovmand, Michael <ENGMIK@hum.aau.dk> Michael Skovmand Associate Professor Dep't of English University of Aarhus 8000 Aarhus C Denmark E-mail: [ENGMIK@HUM.AAU.DK] My Background: I am Associate professor of English and Media Studies at the Dep't of English, University of Aarhus (since 1980), 46 years of age, and a fairly recent convert to Shakespeare. I am currently in the process of editing a collection of 9 essays by American and Scandinavian scholars on Shakespearean films, "Screen Shakespeare: new studies", to be published in September 1993 by Aarhus University Press. In addition, I am working on a book on Hamlet. =============================================================================== *Skura, Meredith Ane <SKURA@ricevm1.rice.edu> Meredith Anne Skura is a Professor of English at Rice University (P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251). She is the author of "The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process" (Yale 1981) and "Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing" (Chicago 1993). Ongoing interests include Shakespeare's sources (all kinds, literary and non-literary) and early modern biography. =============================================================================== *Slattery, Susan <SLATTERYS@VXC.UNCWIL.EDU> I am a lowly graduate student and teaching assistant in English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Twenty years ago I focused on what (was) contemporary and modern literature in my graduate work, and I received an MFA in creative writing from UMass/ Amherst. (My name was Susan Grant.) After a long data processing career and some teaching, I am back in graduate school, this time looking farther back--to the Renaissance. Currently, I am taking a class from Lewis Walker in intertextual (Chaucer/Montaigne) Shakespeare and I love it. I would like to find more out about this Shakespeare/Chaucer resonance. My only publications have been in poetry journals (in 1992 Colorado Review published two of my poems). =============================================================================== *Sledd, Hassell <Hass6034@aol.com> Hassell B. Sledd: Educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B., M.A.) and Boston University (Ph.D.), I expected to become a college teacher but detoured into advertising before I settled down as a teacher, a married man, and a father. Professionally I am active as a member of The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and an associate (non-theatrical) member of Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA). I have attended all the World Shakespeare Congresses beginning in 1976; most SAA meeting , making regular contributions to seminars; and two conventions of STAA. In 1992 I received a grant to direct a Shakespeare conference for teachers of Shakespeare in the Pennsylvania state university system, in 1993 and 1994 brought "Shakespeare on Wheels" to perform on the campus of Slippery Rock University (SRU), and in 1994-95 helped to direct a conference at SRU called "'Wretched Plays' and 'Miserable Fragments': Exploring the Dark Corners of the Shakespearean Canon." My most recent publications appear in "Shakespeare Companies and Festivals: An International Guide" [New to AOL,I haven't yet figured out how to underline!] (Ed. Ron Engle, Felicia Hardison Londre', and Daniel J. Watermeier. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood, 1995). I wrote about the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare-at-The-Ruins, Shakespeare by the Sea, Shakespeare at Benbow Lake, and Shakespeare on Wheels. My interest in Shakespeare lies mainly in understanding the plays. Because there is a myriad of ways to understand them, I enjoy reading them and what has been written about them more than writing about them myself. This bent translates well into teaching as it means that I can introduce something new into every hour in class. My research interests lie in out-of-the-way areas such as the relationship between Strindberg's "Eric XIV" and "Hamlet," the printing of the English sonnet books of the 1590s, Essex and "Hamlet," and the reasons given by artistic directors of Shakespeare festivals for taking up Shakespeare. Many artistic directors hint at universal values, a few dare speak the term, but NOT ONE of more than thirty has offered the "feast of language" as a primary reason. "Why Shakespeare?" is a question that points in many directions, and I would like to find out what a few of them are. My teaching career has been spent mainly at SRU and at Northeastern University in Boston. In 1995-96 I taught a full load of twelve hours (half of it in freshman composition--standard practice at SRU and many other schools), but the pressure to retire applied by my wife Polly was becoming intense. She wanted to travel. I would like to travel, too, and teach Shakespeare along the way. =============================================================================== *Slights, Jessica <BHM9@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> I'm interested in joining the SHAKESPER discussion list. I'm a Ph.D. student at McGill and while my work at the moment focuses on seventeenth-century devotional material, I have an ongoing interest in early modern drama as well as in nineteenth century readings of 16th century play-texts. =============================================================================== *Sloan, LaRue <ENSLOAN@MERLIN.NLU.EDU> I teach three courses in Shakespeare and one of Technical Writing at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana, where I am an Assistant Professor of English. The Shakespeare courses include two surveys (Comedies and Histories, Tragedies) and a graduate seminar that I'm offering for the first time this spring, entitled "The Unruly Woman in Shakespeare." I have read two papers on containment in -Othello-("[Eye]conography of the Feminine: From Eve to Basilisk in _Othello_"), one on Hamlet's use of "feminine" language, and one on Petruchio's methods of protecting himself from the unruly woman (coming out in the _Proceedings_of the Philological Association of Louisiana). I am currently reworking my Eyeconography paper to submit for publication. I've read papers on many other topics, including Latin American theatre, Ellen Glasgow, Flannery O'Connor, and, coming up next month, Hroswitha of Gandersheim. My favorite regional conferences are the South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature and SCMLA. My publications include an article on Flannery O'Connor ("The Rhetoric of the Seer . . ." in the Spring (maybe summer) 1988 _Studies in Short Fiction_ and a lengthy explication of Thom Gunn's "On the Move" in _The Explicator_, also in spring or summer of 1988. I'm certainly hoping to get an unruly woman manuscript together after some of my ideas distill during this spring's seminar. I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Drama from Texas Tech University (1973). I am active in the arts--a member of the executive board of the North Central Louisiana Arts Council, past president of the Ruston Community Theatre, and sometime actress/director in community theatre productions. My snail-mail address is LaRue Love Sloan N.L.U. Department of English Monroe, LA 71209 Office phone: (318)342-1511 =============================================================================== *Slonosky, David <3NDS3@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Full name: David Slonosky Title: Mr. Department: Drama Institution: Queen's University at Kingston Publications: No literary or academic publications in the field of literature Memberships: None Major projects: Two play scripts Current interests: To learn more about Shakespear's contribution to the dramatic arts. Having studied mainly 20th century playwrights up to the present, I have somehow managed to avoid every seriously studying Shakespear until this year and the introduction of "Hamlet" into my life. To generally broaden my knowledge of the poetry inherent in the English language. Surface mail: 71 Pembroke Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 4N6 Degrees: BSc. (1984, Queen's), MSc. (1990, Queen's) =============================================================================== *Small, David <DNS@cbsnews.com> My name is David Small. I am a producer and video editor, currently at CBS News. I was once a professional actor, but haven't trod the boards for a number of years. I caught the Shakespeare virus at a very young age, via readings in school, MAD Magazine parodies, and playing Edgar in a high school production of KING LEAR. After 20 years, my wife finally became came down with the Bard Bug, so now we constantly re-infect each other. Shakespeare on film is a particular interest of mine. My VHS collection numbers 26 tapes and continues to grow. I am working on two screenplays adapted from the works, including LEAR. ============================================================= *Small, David <DavidSm+aFOXNY3%Fox_Inc@mcimail.com> I am a television news producer, currently employed by FOX Broadcasting in the U.S. My only qualification for membership in this group is a lifelong love for the works of Shakespeare - and my portrayal of Edgar in KING LEAR my senior year in high school. During a performance for our parents at graduation, the actor who played Edmund whacked me so hard with his sword, that the next day, I bore a large, purple welt on my forehead as I received my diploma. Heavy lies the head that's wears a lump. Despite the injury, LEAR is my favorite play to this day. Its strata of meanings reveal something new to me each time I dig into it. At first, as a teenager who had lived through the 1960's, I was intrigued by its intimations of epochal changes; the wheel of history creaking and turning. Now that I'm forty and a father, issues of family, legacy, age, and mortality speak to me as they hadn't before. Each birthday, I vow not to be old before I am wise. Since I work in television in both New York and Los Angeles, I have a particular interest in how the plays translate to the screen, and how they benefit (and suffer) from interpretation, tinkering, and updating. I'm also interested in how they've burrowed so deeply into our psyches and culture as to be mythological archetypes, not only by virtue of their wonderous language, but the themes that language conveys. =============================================================================== *Small, Susan <ENG0006@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK> 17, Monument Road, Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland BT26 6HT U.K. I took my degree at Oxford, and am now doing research for a doctorate at Queen's, Belfast. My research topic centres on images of the body in Shakespeare, and on the relationship between word and image in the Renaissance. I aim to look specifically at literary images which tell of the creating body, and to establish a relationship between such images and the creative power of the artist. I would also like to look at interpretations of Shakespeare in art, and through them to consider the relationship between word and image. I assert that the extent to which characters in Shakespeare have power over the creative faculties of their bodies (be it in the procreation of children or in the imaginative power of dreams) reveals the extent to which they can effect an ability to control the play's outcome. (So Macbeth speaks of the impossibility of lineality when he reflects on his "barren sceptre", the existence of which ensures his tenuous grasp on kingship, parentage and dramatic control.) The image of the creating body seems to me to be an apt one when considering Shakespeare's position of influence, particularly in his paternal inheritance to the artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries. By relating Shakespearean imagery to later poetry, poetic drama, art and the novel, I hope to consider the different prerogatives which form and genre ascribe to the imagined and actual body, and to elaborate on the methods of onstage communication which do not require a physical presence (narration, ghosts, visions...) and which exist to exert control over the brevity of dramatic time. I will look at the ways in which character and body become the possession of the written word once committed to paper (- why King John should have his soul fighting for "elbow room" inside his body as he dies, and why he envisages his death as wastepaper - "I am a scribbled form, Drawn with a pen upon a parchment, and against this fire Do I shrink up.") My research interests lie in Renaissance body image and its subsequent development, narration within dramatic enactment, comic and tragic conceptions of the body, and private and public character. In terms of influence, I should like to look at P.B. and Mary Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Austen; also possibly Marlowe, Jonson, Browning, George Eliot and Yeats. Some critical works which I imagine to be germane to my subject are Devon Hodges' _Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy,_ Woodbridge and Berry's _True Rites and Maimed Rites_, Helena Michie's _The Flesh Made Word_, Francis Fergusson's _The Human Image in Dramatic Literature_, Merchant's _Shakespeare and the Artist_ and Malcolm Salaman's _Shakespeare in Pictorial Art_. =============================================================================== *Smigel, Libby <SMIGEL@HWS.bitnet> Libby Smigel, Asst. Prof. of Theatre, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Ph.D., drama, Univ. of Toronto; M.F.A., dance history and criticism, York Univ. Member: ASTR, ATHE, Society of Dance History Scholars, Country Dance & Song Society. Vice-President/President-Elect of Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Society. Direct and choreograph productions of Renaissance plays; teach a course in "Performing Shakespeare." =============================================================================== *Smiley, Grace Leigh <lgrace@sas.upenn.edu> I am currently teaching at Emerson College, The Linklater Studio, and the New Theatre Conservatory. I have also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and The Walnut Street Theatre. I am an actor as well and have worked primarily on classics for the past five years. I am an adjunct member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts and assist in workshops here and at the Company's home in Lenox. I have acted and studied with the Company. My major influences are Tina Packer and her mentor, John Barton, and Kristin Linklater with whom I still work. I am fascinated with the process of making Shakespeare's words and meanings immediately accessible to a contemporary audience, particularly to children. =============================================================================== *Smith, Alexander <alexd@merle.acns.nwu.edu> My name is Alexander D. Smith. I am a sophomore at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL., about thorty minutes outside of Chicago. Right now I am a theatre major, and a preparing to apply for a double major in English in Writing at the end of this year (because the major in writing is so exclusive, applications must be submitted so that the department can decide if an applicant is of the standards necessary for the English Major in Writing). I have taken a number of classes on Shakespeare and Rennaissance Literature, on Spenser, a little bit on Milton also. I am planning to study abroad next year for a term in England so that I can study Shakespearean Theatre. In simple terms, I love Shakespeare. I have a number of collections of his complete work, and a large collection of critical books on his life, times, and work. Right now in class (which is being taught by Professor Albert Cirillo, a well-noted Shakespearean critic and analyst) we are studying the sonnets, particularly the contrast between those written to the young man and those to the dark lady and the contrasting notions of lust and true love, of obsessed desire and elevating, heavenly, spiritual love. =============================================================================== *Smith, Dana <lucky@sky.net> Dana Smith: I am a simple Shakesper fan that feel that I will benefit from reading what more learned persons have to say about the subject of Shakesper and his plays. =============================================================================== *Smith, Diana <fasm01@STAB.PVT.K12.VA.US> My name is Diana Smith. Address: 3885 Garth Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22901. I am a graduate student in English at the University of Virginia, and academic dean/English and Latin teacher at a private school in Charlottesville. I am primarily interested in the joys of Shakespearean language and verse, with a particular interest in Shakespeare's classical allusions. As a high school teacher, I am also interested in how one teaches Shakespeare. I received my undergraduate degree from Princeton University, summa cum laude in classics. I received my MA from UVa in religion and literature. =============================================================================== *Smith, Don <dcsmith@eden.rutgers.edu> I'm currently enrolled in a Shakespeare class at Rutgers University and frankly feel that it doesn't offer me the rich discussion I would like of the works we're reading. I realize that being an undergraduate, some of the things discussed in your list may be over my head, but I would much rather struggle to swim than become bored of floating. I would appreciate it very much if you would add me to your list. =============================================================================== *Smith, Doris <dorisann@tenet.edu> I teach 12th grade English in a public school in Texas. Since senior English in my school is a survey course of British Literature, I teach some Shakespeare, although the course does not concentrate on him. I belong to several professional orgainizations and serve on a few committees at the local level. One article of mine was published in the professional journal _English in Texas_ in 1987, but I have not written for publication since then. My interest in this list is due to my interest in becoming better informed regarding Shakespearean studies. ============================================================================= *Smith, Emma <ejsmith@vax.ox.ac.uk> I am currently completing my D.Phil thesis on the representation of European foreigners in English drama from 1580-1623. This research investigates the difficulties around defining nationality in the early modern period, when a concept of national identity based on place of birth is being replaced by nationality as a composite of parental inheritance and birthplace. Texts I'm focussing on include Dekker's _The Shoemakers Holiday_ and _Old Fortunatus_, Haughton's _Englishmen for my Money_, Robert Wilson's London plays, the Ho! plays, and Shakespeare's _Merry Wives of Windsor_ and _Henry V_. I'm also working on an edition of Thomas Kyd's _The Spanish Tragedy_ with particular emphasis on its long life in the theatre, and the allusions, parodies and rewritings it inspired. Other research interests include Shakespearean film, particularly in the silent period, and its relationship with theatrical performance. I am very interested in active and innovative methods of teaching Shakespeare and have been involved in work with high-school students, undergraduates and returners to learning. =============================================================================== *Smith, Grant W. <gsmith@EWU.EDU> Grant W. Smith (BA, Reed College; MA, U. Nev.; Ph.D., U. Del.) has taught at Eastern Washington University since 1968 and is Professor of English and Coordinator of Humanities. He has been the Rocky Mountain regional secretary for the American Dialect Society since 1981 and was recently elected vice president of the American Name Society. His scholarly work includes some Shakespeare studies and dialectology, but his concentration has been in onomastics, dealing especially with Native American languages, with the design of computer formats, and most recently with the language sounds in names and how they may affect political elections. He has written scripts and hosted programs for public radio and TV, served as director on a variety of grant projects, and holds office in several other national and international organizations. ============================================================= *Smith, Ian <SI#0@LAFAYACS.bitnet> Name: Ian Smith Title: Instructor Department: English Institution: Lafayette College Research Interests: Shakespeare and Narrative; Afro-American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Modern Drama. Dissertation: In progress--Narrative and Narration in Shakespeare. ============================================================================== *Smith, Larry <slsmith@vnet.IBM.COM> I would very much like to subscribe to the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. I am interested in Shakespeare's expansion of language to accommodate his style and application... =============================================================================== *Smith, Lyle <lyle_smith@peter.biola.edu> My name is Lyle Holden Smith, Jr. I was born in Sacramento, California in March of 1944 and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I lived until 1972. I am at present an associate professor of English at Biola University, La Mirada, California, where I have taught since 1978. Prior to that time I taught at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky (1972-1977). I received the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in March of 1973. My dissertation attempted to situate the Martin Marprelate tracts of 1588-89 within the broader literary-historical frame of reference provided by the tradition of medieval English anti-clerical satire. I regularly teach the required upper-division undergraduate Shakespeare course in my department. Although I have not published on Shakespeare, I have carefully studied the Henry VI plays, and presented a paper on 1 Henry VI at a conference several years ago. Because I regularly teach Shakespeare and feel that I myself have much to learn, I am very interested in networking with Shakespearean scholars Most of my publication has been in nineteenth and twentieth century literature--German, American and British, my most recent article (Christianity and Literature, Spring/Summer 1996) being on "Tintern Abbey." At present I am engaged with two other C.S. Lewis scholars on a collaborative book project on Lewis. =============================================================================== *Smith, M.W.A. (Wilf) <CBHW23@UPVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK> Department of Information Systems, University of Ulster at Jordanstown Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, N. Ireland. Fellow of the [British] Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Most publications (from 1982) are on authorship and chronology of English poems and plays dating from about 1600. Contributions are mainly in 'Computers and the Humanities', 'Literary and Linguistic Computing', 'Notes and Queries', and 'The Shakespeare Newsletter'. Most of the papers are on authorship (particularly 'Pericles') but many consist of critiques of stylometric methods, while some deal with statistical techniques for establishing Shakespearean chronology. Recent examples of publications are: "The Authorship of 'Timon of Athens'" in 'TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship' 5 (1991), 195-240. "Statistical Inference in 'A Textual Companion' to the Oxford Shakespeare" in 'Notes and Queries' 235 (1991), 73-78. "Will the Computer Finally End Authorship Controversies?" in 'The Shakespeare Newsletter' 41, pp.14,15,17. "The Authorship of 'The Raigne of King Edward the Third'" is to appear in 'Literary and Linguistic Computing' 6 (1991) No.3. ============================================================================= *Smith, Mary Elizabeth <SMITH@admin1.UnbSJ.CA> Mary Elizabeth Smith: I am a Canadian whose PhD is from the University of Exeter with a dissertation titled "'Love kindling fire': The Tragedy of Marlowe's 'Dido Queene of Carthage"' (1969, under Moelwyn Merchant), subsequently published by the University of Salzburg. I have contributed to the International Shakespeare Congress, the Waterloo International Elizabethan Conference, and various conferences and publications on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the children of the Chapel Royal and Blackfriars. I am especially interested in Shakespeare's comedies and romances, in Marlowe and the early Shakespeare, and in "King Lear." Other areas of active research, publication and teaching are Atlantic Canadian drama and theatre historiography and Literature and the Bible. =============================================================================== *Smith, Matthew <V109LV3R@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> My name is Matthew Westcott Smith, I am currently completeing the PhD thesis in political science at SUNY Buffalo. My specialization is political philosophy-- and more particularly Literature and Political Thought. I am employed as Adjunct Lecturer at Buffalo, and Adjunct Professor of History and Government at Daemen COllege. I have been appointed Visitng Lecturer at Debrecen University in Hungary for 1994-95, through the Civic Education Project, sponsored by Yale University and the Soros FOundation. I have taught political philosophy courses on Shakespeare--and literature more broadly. More substantively, my thesis is entitled "The Political Teaching of Shakespeare's Richard III," in which I argue that the portrayal of Richard suggests that Shakespeare may have had in mind a collision--or at least competition-of political ideas that characterizes early modern thought. More specifically, the challengeg to Ancient and CHristian thought by Machiavelli, Bacon, and later Hobbes and others. The depiction of Richard seems to (at least) preview the modern emphasis on individual and egoism over against the emphasis on "other" (for lack of a better term) that characterizes both Ancient and Christian thought. I hope this enough info for subscription. I will try to submit some of my scholarly work--which goes beyond Richard III--in the near future. =============================================================================== *Smith, Matthew Vail <MASMITH@HWS.bitnet> full name: Matthew Vail Smith dob: september 29, 1971 College: Hobart College Majors: English and Religious Studies year: SENIOR!!! Shakespearean experiences: 9th grade: Forced to read Romeo and Juliet. 10th grade: Saw the movie that shows some brief nudity. Put on detention for whooping excessively. Put on detention again for writing a paper about the episode of the Brady Bunch when Marcia played Juliet in Filmore Junior High's production of the aforementioned play. Sophomore year in College: Read Macbeth and sonnets in intro English class. Had an overwhelming urge to write about the episode of Gilligans Island when the director of the musical version of Hamlet was stranded on the island. Remembering the negative reaction of my 10th grade teacher, I assumed this professor would be less amused. Junior year: I spent the fall term (1992) in Bath, England, on the Advanced Studies in England program. Studied Shakespeare under Paul Lapworth. We spent a week in Stratford-upon-Avon and saw a few plays. There was an outrageous production of WINTER'S TALE. I am convinced that it is the best production ever. We also did a voice workshop with a voice coach from the RSC. I cannot remember his name right now, but if I rummaged through my papers I could find out. Of all things to concentrate on, we worked on the Chorus which introduced Romeo and Juliet (I cannot escape that play!). Anyway, he and I really hit it off (he liked my sweater) and the plays were beyond my limited descriptive capabilities. Senior year: In short, since my term in England I have wanted to play the Fool. I think that I was made for the part. Hopefully, this PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE class will help me sharpen my skills. I also hope to get a clue into the interpretive aspects of directing and producing. =============================================================================== *Smith, Paul <smithpe@flash.net> I am an undergraduate English major at San Diego State University going into my senior year. I love Shakespeare and want to continue to study/discuss the plays regardless of whether I pursue graduate education or teach high school. ============================================================= *Smith, Shawn <smithsb@minerva.cis.yale.edu> BA 1986 Boston University (English) MA 1993 Purdue University (Comparative Literature) I am currently a Ph.D student in the Renaissance studies program at Yale. I am interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and seventeenth- century German literature, and the relationships between these literatures. My MA thesis examined Andreas Gryphius' German translations of Sir Richard Baker's devotional works with a view to better understanding the religious message of Gryphius' poetry. =============================================================================== *Smith, Wesley D. <WSMITH@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU> Professor of Classics 713 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 19104-6305 (215) 898-6465 My interests are Greek Literature, especially tragedy and Lyric, and the ancient medical writings. I work on ancient medicine and science. I am president of the Society for Ancient Medicine, and edit its Newsletter. Ancient Medicine includes everything before the 17th century. Among other things I am author of The Hippocratic Tradition, a discussion of readings of the ancient medical writings from the beginning to nowadays. I would be happy to see what goes on in the SHAKSPER colloquium, and to contribute if I can. ======================================================================== *Smittle, Grover <C619263@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> Currently a Ph.D. student in Theatre History at the University of Missouri- Columbia. Research projects include investigating Noah Ludlow's performance of _The Honeymoon_ in Natchez< Mississippi in 1817 and an ongoing project looking at German caberet theatre just before WWII. What does all this have to do with Shakespeare? Not a thing, except I don't know nearly enough about the Bard and hope this will be a good way to bring myself up to speed. =============================================================================== *Smotherman, Mac <Spinnerman@aol.com> My name is Mac Smotherman. Currently, I am a high school theatre teacher at Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga, TN. I have also taught at Chattanooga School for the Performing Arts and in The Department of Theatre and Speech at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I hold a BA in Theatre from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1973) and an MFA from The Dallas Theater Center/Trinity University (1977). Although I am not presently involved in a research project, as a teacher, director, and actor I frequently develop lines of inquiry. Some past performance projects include: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, THE TEMPEST, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ROMEO AND JULIET, MACBETH. =============================================================================== *Smythe, Jacob <smy2707@etbu.edu> My name is William Jacob Smythe and I am a sophomore at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. I am in a sophomore level English class World Literature 2307. We will be covering some SHAKSPER later on in the semester and we must get into a discussion group on something assigned in class. So I have decided to join this group in hopes of contributing and gaining valuable knowledge about SHAKSPER masterpieces. ============================================================= *Soare, Thomas <drm_tfs@SHSU.edu> THOMAS F. SOARE Degrees: PhD, Florida State, 1974 Professor of Theatre MA, University of Denver, 1966 Sam Houston State University BA, " " 1958 PO Box 2297 All in theatre Huntsville, TX 77341 DRM_TFS@shsu.edu 409/294-1338 Fax: 409/294-3898 Experience: Theatre director, actor, lighting designer, teacher, 36 years 24 years at SHSU: teaching theatre appreciation, theatre history dramatic theory & criticism, lighting design, experimental production Directing: Over 80 productions, among them: TAMING OF THE SHREW, MERCHANT OF VENICE, HENRY IV (pts 1&2), HENRY V, OTHELLO, MACBETH, TWELFTH NIGHT Acting: Over 40 major roles, including Petruchio, Henry IV, Falstaff, Claudius (in Hamlet), and currently Julius Caesar (tonight is opening!) =============================================================================== *Sobus, Brian <ravens@wam.umd.edu> Name: Brian Sobus Title: Undergraduate English Major and Technical Writer Institution: University of Maryland at College Park Currently, my interest in this list is due to my Senior Seminar. This course is dealing with Shakespeare in the light of feminist theories, women writers of his time, and some history surrounding his works. The research that I'm focusing on now is for a paper due November 2nd. I'm discussing the change Shakespeare seems to make between his comedies and the Tempest. I'm concentrating mainly on the roles of women in the Tempest and a few of his comedies. My third paper, the one which I have to conduct a discussion on, focuses mainly on the way the character of the shrew, from the Taming of the Shrew, seems to alter, in stage and film, through the years." =============================================================================== *Sohmer, Steve <DRSOHMER@aol.com> I hold a D.Phil (Oxon '95), MSt (Oxon '94), MA (Boston U '92), was a Doubleday Fellow at Columbia ('65) and an undergraduate at Yale ('63). I served as a Distinguishing Visiting Lecturer at San Diego State ('86), and a Lecturer at the BU Film School ('92). I've just completed my first research book, "Shakespeare's Invention of Julius Caesar," which justifies and restores many of the Folio's readings which have suffered emendation. I am completing a second book, "Calendrical Design in Shakespeare's Hamlet," which does the same for Q2 of Hamlet. I have a number of non-scholarly publications, "Patriots" (Random House '92), "Favorite Son" (Doubleday '87), "The Way it Was (Simon&Schuster '66). I've also written and produced a good deal of television: "Tom Clancy's Op Center" (NBC), The Primetime Emmy Awards (Fox), "Mancuso FBI" (NBC), and "Favorite Son" (NBC). As an executive, I served as President of Columbia Pictures, Executive Vice President of NBC, and Sr. Vice President at CBS. I am a recipient of the BPME Industry Achievement Award ('86), a member of the BPME Hall of Fame ('88), and was named Young Newspaperman of the Year (when I was young) in 1970. My referees are: Professor Emrys Jones (New College, Oxford); Professor Donald McKenzie (Pembroke, Oxford); Professor Dennis Kay (UNC Charlotte); Professor Richard Wilson (Lancaster UK). I've asked Professor Kay to stand by in case you'd like to verify the above details. His phone number is: (704) 525-9717. =============================================================================== *Solid, Robin <dnrsolid@ix.netcom.com> Occidental College graduate 1995: Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in English and Comparative Literary Studies. New Mexico State University graduate 1993: Double major: English/French. Member of National Council of Teachers of English (NCATE). I am particularly interested in ideas for making Shakespeare's plays come alive for high school students. My current focus is on _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, as this is one of the plays I will be teaching in the fall. =============================================================================== *Soller, Larry S. <SOLLER.LARRY@a1.pc.maricopa.edu> Dr. Larry S. Soller Communications and Theatre Phoenix College (602) 285-7299 (602) 279-6701 email: soller@maricopa.pc.edu IN 1966 PRIOR TO ACCEPTING A POSITION AT PHOENIX COLLEGE , LARRY RECEIVED HIS B.A. IN ENGLISH AND HISTORY AND IN 1967 HIS M.A IN THEATRE FROM THE U. OF KANSAS. DURING THE YEARS FROM 1969 TO 1973 HE COMPLETED WORK ON THE PH.D AT THE U. OF GEORGIA WITH AN EMPHASIS IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY DRAMATIC LITERATURE. THE DISSERTATION DEALS WITH IBSEN IN AMERICA AND SPECIFICALLY, PRODUCTIONS OF A DOLL'S HOUSE BESIDES DIRECTING OVER 50 MAJOR COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS RANGING FROM IBSEN TO SHAKESPEARE TO CRISTOPHER DURANG AND JOE ORTON, LARRY HAS TAUGHT DIRECTING, ACTING, CINEMA AND HUMANITIES(DEVELOPED THE INNOVATIVE INTEGRATED STUDIES PROGRAM AT PHOENIX COLLEGE) INCLUDING THE NOW REGULARLY OFFERED INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY CINEMA CLASSES ALL VIEWED FROM A THEATRE PROFESSIONAL'S PERSPECTIVE. WHEN TIME PERMITTED LEAVE FROM HIS DEPARTMENT CHAIR DUTIES, LARRY HAS PARTICIPATED IN NUMEROUS PROFESSIONAL GROWTH ACTIVITIES INCLUDING NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SEMINARS AT BERKELEY, "THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DRAMA" AND PRINCETON "SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE"(DANIEL SELTZER) . HIS WORK IN PERFORMANCE STUDIES RANGES FROM A MUSICAL COMEDY WORKSHOP TO THE BRITISH AMERICAN THEATRE ACADEMY WITH JOHN RUSSELL BROWN AND SIMON CALLOW. SABBATICAL LEAVES HAVE FOCUSED ON THEATRICAL PARALLELS IN CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION AND FILM. MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL STAGE DIRECTORS DUE OUT IN 1994 AND HIS PRESENT SABBATICAL STUDY DEVELOPING AN ANTHOLOGY OF ETHNICALLY UNIQUE PIECES EMPHASIZING THE COMIC OR SATIRICAL ASPECTS OF "PEOPLE OF COLOR" IN RECENT YEARS PERFORMANCE WORK HAS RANGED FROM HARPAGON IN MOLIERE'S THE MISER TO A MEMBER OF THE ENSEMBLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY IN THEIR ORIGINAL PRODUCTION OF STUDS TERKEL'S INSPIRED WORK ENTITLED AMERICA DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND. MOST RECENTLY, LARRY WAS SEEN ON-STAGE AS CHARLES RUSHER IN THE MIDDLE AGES ALONG WITH A FEATURED ROLE IN TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS. LARRY IS A MEMBER OF ACTORS EQUITY AND THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD. NATIONALLY , LARRY CAN BE SEEN ON THE FAMILY CHANNEL IN FIVE EPISODES OF ABC'S YOUNG RIDERS AS WELL AS JUDGE ROTH IN ABC'S A MOTHER'S REVENGE(NOV. 93'). =============================================================================== *Somerset, Alan <somerset@epas.utoronto.ca> ALAN SOMERSET: I am a graduate of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (Ph.D. 1966). I have since, my graduation, taught Shakespeare, his contemporaries and predecessors at the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, London Canada N6A 3K7 (with some time out for a couple of stints in administration). My major research interests are in theatre history, both Shakespearean and pre-Shakespearean, both in London and in the provinces. I have been closely involved in the work of Records of Early English Drama since 1979, and my most recent major publication was the latest REED edition to be published: {Shropshire}, Records of Early English Drama, 2 vols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). My latest article also arises from Reed-related research: "'How chances it they travel?': Provincial Touring, Playing Places, and the King's Men," {Shakespeare Survey} 47 (1994): 45-60. I am currently preparing the early records of Staffordshire and Warwickshire for a future REED volume. My appearances at the Shakespeare Association of America meetings during the past several years have also focussed upon topics in theatre history: "{Tour de Force} or Forced to Tour? Renaissance and Later Attitudes to Touring, and Renaissance Realities" (1990); "Unremarked, but not unremarkable: the Lady Elizabeth's Men" (1994); and I organized a session, "'As it hath been publikely acted': Early Modern Stages and Early Modern Texts" (1995). I have also worked on modern Shakespearean theatre archives, and have published {The Stratford Festival Story: A Catalogue- Index to the Stratford, Ontario Festival 1953-1990} (Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1991). As a result of this research I developed database applications software which is used to maintain and updtate archives catalogues at Stratford, Ontario and Stratford- upon-Avon, England, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto. As an editor, I have published {Four Tudor Interludes} (London: Athlone, 1974) and {A Play of Love} (Malone Society, 1978). I have compiled the section on "Early Moralities and Interludes" for the revised {New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature}, which is not yet published. =============================================================================== *Sondergaard, Morten <mortens@datashopper.dk> I am a 41 year old dane who earn my living as a bookseller and translator. I have no formal education whatsoever. My three main interests in Shakespeare are: (1) Shakespeare on film and TV (I rarely have the opportunity to see theater productions here in Denmark) (2) The relationship between Shakespeare's productions and the social and economical "pressure cooker" of the English renaissance (3) I must confess that I have a morbid fascination with what drives people into the clutches of anti-Stratfordianism. ============================================================= *Duwaik, Jad <shaxper@fun-edu.com> Hi, I'm Jad Duwaik. I was subscribed to Shaksper about a year ago, but discontinued it when I moved to Denver, CO. I've recently moved back to LA and have gotten reinvolved with the UCLA Shakespeare Reading and Performance Group. I'm also working to set up a new theatre company, The Bedlam Players. I'm also working on a parody of Macbeth to introduce the text to high school students. ============================================================= *Song, Chang-seop <cssong@nms.kyunghee.ac.kr> I teach Shakespeare and other courses at English Department, Kyunghee University in Seoul, Korea. I got my M.A.(1987) from the University of Iowa, and my Ph.D.(1993) from Northern Illinois University. I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on Shakespeare's history plays; the title is "The Politics of Desire: William Shakespeare's "History" and the Question of Subjectivity in Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV I, and Henry IV II." I am currently interested in pedagogical methods in teaching Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Sonjae, An <anthony@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> An Sonjae is the Korean name of the subscriber to this list more usually known as Brother Anthony, who is a member of the Community of Taize (France), who has been living in Korea since 1980 and has now become a Korean national. He studied things medieval at Oxford (The Queen's College) for nine years. Arriving in Korea he began to teach at the Jesuit-run Sogang University, Seoul. He is now a Professor in the English Language and Literature Department at Sogang, teaching topics such as Shakespeare, 16-17th century literature, the Middle Ages, and surveys of literary history or the classical and biblical backgrounds. He has published a number of articles in local journals, including "Shakespeare's Monster of Ingratitude" in The Shakespeare Review (Seoul) No 17 Winter 1990, and "Shakespeare's Perceptions of Pain" in The Shakespeare Review No 23 Autumn 1993. One of his several fulltime activities is translating modern Korean poetry and fiction into English, he has published several volumes in England and the States. =============================================================================== *Sorensen, Kristen <76415.161@compuserve.com> I am a comp. lit. student presently studying abroad in Germany. My primary interest lies in the translation of Shakespeare into German and the effects the translation has on the stage production. Also, I am researching the effects of Shakespeare's languange on the writings of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist, and therewith the growing influence of the English languange within the German. =============================================================================== *Soriano, Edilberto Antonio <esoriano@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Edilberto Antonio Soriano, Jr. graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College of the City University of New York in June 1994. While at Hunter Edilberto studied British and Russian literature through the Thomas Hunter Special Honors Curriculum and received departmental honors from the departments of English and Russian, and the Council on Honors. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Edilberto is now in the Ph.D. program in English at the University of California at Berkeley. His main areas of interest are English Renaissance drama, particularly Shakespeare, queer theory, =============================================================================== *Sorrells, David <SORRELLS@twlab.unt.edu> My name is David Sorrells. I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and I am a teaching fellow in the department. My dissertation is on Eugene O'Neill's use of modernist humor. My areas of specialty are modern American literature, modern British literature, literature of the Renaissance, and technical writing. Although my areas of concentration seem to be quite diverse, they are actually not; my primary interest is the drama throughout all literary ages. I have published articles in *Rhetorical Designs,* a book about nonfiction pedagogy, *Texas Books in Review,* and *Irish Playwrights, 1880-Present.* I have also presented many papers at professional conferences, from MLA to small regional meetings. Some of the papers I have presented include "Contemporary Drama in Emily Dickinson's Poetry," "Interpretive Textual Criticism: The Museum of the Future in H. G. Wells's *Time Machine*," and "Creating the Real-World Technical Writing Classroom." =============================================================================== *South, Brian Keith <bks@uclink3.berkeley.edu> I am an English major at UC Berkeley. I am interested in participating in a live Shakespeare discussion as well as receive the offering announcements, scholarly papers, and informal discussions that you mentioned =============================================================================== *Sowers, Scott A. <SCT@KSUVM.BITNET> I am 5'9", weigh 135 lbs., have brn hair, brn eyes and no visible birthmarks, moles or scars. I am wearing a silver ring on my right index finger today. My name is Scott A. Sowers (the A. stands for Anthony when I use it). I am a student at Kansas State University, where (coincidentally) I am also employed as a computer programmer. I currently hold no post-secondary degrees and will hold none until this May when I will complete my B.A. in mathematics. Despite these severe handicaps I am fond of Shakespeare both from a literary and a thespian perspective. I do not have any scholarly works on the bard completed or in progress and my long-term goals (math professor) do not assure that I ever will; neither, however, do they assure that I won't. ======================================================================= *Spacek, Richard A. M. <RSPAC@unb.ca> Name: Richard A. M. Spacek Born: 12/06/59 Arnprior ON Degrees: B.A.: Mount Allison (1982); M.A.: University of New Brunswick; Ph.D.: University of New Brunswick (1991). Academic Rank: Sessional Lecturer, Department of English, University of New Brunswick. Professional Affiliations: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies; Elizabethan Stage Direction Project (ESDP) Current Research: Both my Master's thesis ("Staging in Antony and Cleopatra: The Monument Scenes") and my dissertation ("Stage Action in Tudor and Stuart Drama: Analysis and Classification") dealt with the relation between text and performance. Since completing my doctorate I have continued in this direction; I am a co-investigator of the ESDP and I have been concentrating on stage "business"--action presented on-stage. In May I presented a paper on stage use in the Folio texts of Shakespeare's history tetralogies ("The History Tetralogies and Shakespeare's Development as a Dramatist") at the sessions of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. I have begun to uncover interesting changes in the way Shakespeare dealt with sequences of actions in the later plays; the results are very suggestive, and I am now working on the Quarto texts of the same group of plays. The classification and analysis of stage action, Shakespearean theatre history in general, and the use of computer databases in literary research are my chief areas of interest. ======================================================================== *Spagnolo, Philip <dylan@feldspar.com> My name is Philip J. Spagnolo. I am currently a full-time student at Laurentian University, located in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. My primary focus is in film studies but I do study a number of courses from the English department including Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. I am currently reading all of Shakespeare's body of plays in search of a unification of themes among genres (tragedy, comedy, history). These themes, I find, can be then extrapolated to the world of film. For example, examining the structure of any of Shakespeare's comedies in relation to comedy in film can provide some interesting similarities and unique differences. Comparisons of genres can then take place on a purely structural level. =============================================================================== *Spence, Neil <nspence@pyrimage.com> As an undergraduate (many years ago), I majored in Humanities and minored in Classical Languages and Literature, with an additional minor in the History of Art. I am not currently an academic, but maintain a lively interest in the humanities in general, and literature in particular. My strongest interests are in English, Russian and French literature, particula [TEXT CORRUPT HERE. GIE] ============================================================= *Spencer, Anne J. <TJ0AJS9@NIU.BITNET> NAME: Anne J. Spencer 311 W. Roosevelt St. DeKalb, IL 60115 TJ0AJS9@NIU POSITIONS: School Psychologist employed by Cooperative Association For Special Education in Lombard, IL Clinical Psychology Associates, Bloomingdale, IL PhD candidate in Psychology - Dept of Psychology Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 60115 CURRENT PUBLICATIONS: Helping Students Cope With Divorce: A Complete Education & Counseling Program For Grades 7-12. Spencer, A. J. & Shapiro, R. B. (in press) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Simon & Schuster. PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: In addition to my applied pscyhology interests, I am interested in Reading/Verbal Learning with emphasis in the processing of blank verse and the use and interpretation of irony and ambiguity in verbal communication. OTHER INTERESTS: I began college as a theatre major with a particular interest in Shakespearean drama. Despite several career changes (I have a BS in Geology (NIU, 1979) and worked as a silversmith from 1975-1985), I have maintained and further developed my interest in Shakespeare. As I near the end of my doctoral training, I find I have more time to devote to Shakespearean pursuits. I am looking forward to learning and sharing ideas in both my professional and personal areas of interest. ====================================================================== *Spencer, Eric <espencer@acofi.edu> Grew up in Reno, NV. B.A. Whitman College 1987; Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1994. Loved the small school experience as an undergrad and was pleased to find that a small school in the Northwest was hiring in 1994. I am starting my 5th year of teaching there. Research time and opportunity are limited by class load and student centered institutional philosophy, but my interests (which don't always have much research behind them) include Shakespeare and Renaissance magic, the status and function of economic ideas in the plays, and the uses of names and naming. ============================================================= *Spiro, Jack D. <jspiro@atlas.vcu.edu> I received a B.A. with honors at Tulane University. Ordained a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College where I earned an M.A. with honors and a doctorate in psychology and religion. I served three years in the United States Air Force stationed in England, then spent a year studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Returning to the States, I served as rabbi of Temple Anshe Emeth in New Brunswick while earning a doctorate in psychology and religion from Hebrew Union College. I was then appointed national director of education for the Reform Jewish Movement in North America; in this capacity, I was editor and publisher of all books and other educational materials for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in addition to being executive editor of its national magazine. Presently I serve as senior rabbi of Temple Beth Ahabah in Richmond and as director of Judaic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University where I edit the periodical, "Menorah Review." I served as editor-in-chief of the journal, "Religious Education." I earned another doctorate in educational philosophy from the University of Virginia. I have written four books and over 40 journal articles. In addition to several courses in religion, I created the following course which is now in the VCU catalogue: "Shakespeare and Religion." My present research is generally in the area of religious concepts in the plays; more specifically, views of death in the plays. ============================================================= *Spiro, Jack D. <jspiro@cabell.vcu.edu> Jack D. Spiro: I am director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Virginia Conmonwealth University in Richmond. I have been on the faculty of the Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies for 23 years. I have been teaching such courses as the following: Old Testament, New Testament, Religions of the World, Hebrew Prophets, Introduction to Religion, Introduction to Judaism, Jewish History, American Jewish Experience, Modern Jewish Thought, etc. I have developed a new course on "The Religious Dimensions of Shakespeare," which I will teach in the summer and fall semesters of l996. I am a member of the International Shakespeare Association and receive the "Bulletin" of the Shakespeare Association of America. In addition to preparing for this new course, my primary research is on Keats' concept of "negative capability" and religious issues in Shakespeare's plays. I am also the editor of an internationally distributed publication of review essays, under the auspices of VCU, "Menorah Review," which appears triannually. I have authored several books and about 40 journal articles. Prior to coming to Richmond I served as national director of education for Reform Judaism, publishing and editing all of the publications of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. =============================================================================== *Spitzer, Zac <jjs@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> Name: Zac Spitzer c/o jjs@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au Title: Lighting Designer Insitution: St Michaels' Grammar School Department: St Mich. Amateur Dramatic Society Address: 1 Staniland Grove Elsternwick 3185 Victoria Australia Phone: 061-03-528-6775 Whilst my part-occupation is not usually associated with interest in Shakespeare, I use it as a vehicle to explore my interests in the subject. In 1993 I am undertaking a course in Theatre Studies within which we are studing the Jacobean period. Our Major production this year is of Hamlet. We are also co-producing Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard for a short season in July/August. The rehersal period is six months of research and character development outside school hours, followed by a two week intensive rehersal period which follows into the production/performance week. We are all fans on Peter Brook and many of the methods we use are based on his works. Co-currently I am also researching 'The Maids Tradgedy' by Beaumont and Fletcher. Previous productions I have been involved in include, As you Like it and King Lear which was also co-produced in tandem with Edward Bond's Lear. Others plays I have studied include, Macbeth, A Midsummers Night's Dream, A Winters Tale, Othello and next Much Ado About Nothing. =============================================================================== *Sponberg, Arvid F. <ASPONBERG@EXODUS.VALPO.EDU> Arvid F. Sponberg English Department Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383 Tel: 219-464-5100 Fax: 219-464-5496 Here is the requested biographical information: I am a professor of English at Valparaiso University in Indiana. I teach modern drama and write about the history of American playwriting. One of my models has been Gerald Eades Bently's THE PROFESSION OF PLAYWRIGHT IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME. I want to write something similar for American playwriting. Though I am presently working on mid-twentieth century playwrights, I am moving into the nineteenth century when the influence of Shakespeare and the English forms of theater organization were extremely strong. Consequently, I believe that I would benefit from regular conversation with scholars knowledgeable about Elizabethan playwrights and theaters. I have published one book: BROADWAY TALKS: What Professionals Think About Commercial Theater in America (Greenwoood, 1991); I am com- pleting a second: A.R. Gurney: A Casebook (Garland, 1993). Both books address problems arising from the interactions of artistic and management decison-making. I have taught Shakespeare while I was director of my university's overseas study center in Cambridge, England from 1977-79 and have played the part of the Gravedigger in a university production of HAMLET. My degrees are from Augustana College (IL), the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan where I wrote my dissertation on J.M. Synge and the manner in which he adapted his plays to the talents of the original Abbey Theater company. I focused on Irish Theater for about ten years. I became interested in Frank and Willie Fay, who were themselves vitally interested in Shakespeare, and delivered a paper at a Midwest American Committee for Irish Studies meeting entitled "Frank Fay and Modern Acting". However, purusing research in Ireland became financially impossible and I switched my attention to the development of American playwriting. I am now the editor of the newsletter of the American Theatre and Drama Society. ATDS has about 200 members and is a constituent body of the Association for Theater in Higher Education. Within ATDS, I am chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Promptbooks. The committee is currently surveying principal theatre collections in the US and Canada to get some idea of the scope, depth, and accessibility of promptbooks. We need to do this as a first step in a plan to determine the feasibility of establishing, eventually, a promptbook cataloging network. Such a network would link theaters, libraries, and scholars in an effort to better understand and preserve the foundational documents of theater history. ============================================================================= *Spradley, Dana Lloyd <dna@svpal.org> My full name is Dana Lloyd Spradley, and I connect to the Internet via the Silicon Valley Public Access Link, a non-profit, member-supported net access organization. A victim of the ever-tightening job market squeeze of recent years, I currently hold no paying academic position and sustain no vigorous institutional affiliation. I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale in 1989. My dissertation, "Rewriting the Respublica: The Politics of Literary Figuration in More's Utopia, Shakespeare's Pericles and Milton's Areopagitica," embodied a crypto-(anti-)new-historicist initiative to reclaim Renaissance literature for radical politics. I taught literature and literary theory as a Lecturer for the Committee on Degrees in Literature at Harvard from 1988 to 1991, then moved on to teach Shakespeare and Renaissance literature to undergrad and graduate students for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming (1991-1992). My stint on the high plains over, my wife and I drifted back to our native California after I spent the summer with Jean Howard and company at the Folger's "The Theatre in History: The Social Function of Renaissance Dramatic Genres" NEH Institute. My only published article, "Pericles and the Jacobean Family Romance of Union," came out in Assays VII in early 1993, just as that year's job market was giving me its final kicks in the teeth (details on demand). I have been working as an Abstractor (that's right, I read computer magazine and journal articles and boil them down to 10-12-line abstracts that appear in online and CD-ROM information products) for Ziff Communications Computer Publications Databases in Foster City for a year, and am about to be promoted to Editor. Theoretically, I am also a part-time General Literature pool instructor for my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, but further unexpected budget shortfalls have doomed the pool to disuse. My present address and phone is 1055 Manet Dr. #77, Sunnyvale, CA 94087; (408) 773-0265, but we may be moving to San Francisco this summer. Looking for a more lucrative and intellectually rewarding way to spend my working life, perhaps in a way that blends literary-critical-style research with the latest advances in computer communications technology, constitutes my major professional project at the moment. I am subscribing to the Shakesper list to maintain some connection to the profession I was trained to pursue, on the off chance that it might put me in mind of what I once found rewarding in the academic pursuit of Shakespeare and literary studies in general. =============================================================================== *Spriggs, Julia <Dadaist471@aol.com> My name's Julia Spriggs, and am a fifteen year old born and raised in Ohio. I first got to know Shakespeare a couple years ago in eighth grade when my class and I read The Taming of the Shrew, a very good play, although I will admit it bothers me a little how you never hear whatever happened to Christopher Sly at the end. Since then I've become interested in Shakespeare's work, and even went to the Stratford play festival this past year with my mum and really enjoyed it. I'll be the first to admit that I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable about Shakespeare, but through this list I do hope to learn more about him. My knowledge is a little more extensive in the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, and also have been studying traditional Japanese poetry as of late. That's okay though, I really hope to learn more, and can't wait to hear from this listserv! ============================================================= *Sproat, Kezia Vanmeter <KEZIAV@aol.com> Kezia Vanmeter Sproat, AB Vassar '59, MA The Ohio State University 1963, PhD OSU 1975, author of dissertation, "A Reappraisal of Shakespeare's View of Women," winner of the 1975 Florence Howe Award for Feminist Criticism of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association of America. Also, "Re-reading Othello II,1," Kenyon Review, summer 1985; founder, Ohio Shakespeare Conference, 1976. Attended International meetings in Washington 1976, Stratford-on-Avon 1981. I was the first person to note (and publish, but in one of those "unpublished dissertations,") that Desdemona is not flirting with Iago in 2,1 (which the Arden editor previously called, "the most unsatisfactory passage in Shakespeare") but is instead defending Emilia from Iago's attack. In 1975 my dissertation appeared simultaneously with Juliet Dusinberre's Shakespeare and the Nature of Women; her work is the terminus ad quo for Philip Kolin's bibliography of feminist criticism (Garland,1991--mine doesn't appear in that bibliography, and is almost never referenced, although it should have been at least twice). In sum, 20 years ago, I found lots of evidence in the tragedies and comedies that led me to offer the hypothesis that Shakespeare himself recognized the traditional oppression of women and tried to mitigate it. I still find that hypothesis useful in solving cruxes, a number of which are discussed in the dissertation. The humanities job market was terrible when I graduated; in 1977 and 1978 I presented lecture/demonstrations with a terrific actress (Bronwyn Hopton of Worthington, Ohio) focusing on how the meaning of Shakespeare's texts can be changed with variations in voice inflection and body language; we focused on texts traditionally used to show Shakespeare as a misogynist, then showed how they can be performed in a coherent feminist/humanist interpretation of the plays they're found in. People like myself, who have been excluded from the towers and groves of academe by gluts in the market, are also sometimes elbowed out of serious discussions of Shakespeare. I feel extremely fortunate, however, at having kept my independence all these years, and more important, my ability to read and find great joy in reading Shakespeare; I might not have kept that had things fallen out otherwise. Recently, I've been working on Merry Wives, looking at corroborative evidence for the legend of the Queen's commission. For ten years, I have had my own communications company, Sproat Communications Corporation, in Columbus. In 1994, we started the Highbank Farm Peace Education Center, near Chillicothe, Ohio, where we teach Alternatives to Violence, a comprehensive conflict management curriculum developed by Peace Grows, Inc. of Akron, and other relevant courses (mediation, for example). It's all deeply Shakespearean. =============================================================================== *Srivastava, Shalini <srivasta@husc.harvard.edu> My name is Shalini Srivastava. I am a senior at Harvard University concentrating in English Literature, focusing upon Renaissance Lit. and Shakespeare in particular. I am currently writing my honors thesis on patterns of manipulations of voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses as they are reflected in Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *St. John, Susan <susan.st..john@qm.phxhs.k12.az.us> My name is Susan St. John (not Susan St. James or Jill St. John, although I am often called by both of those names - to which I reply, "No, she's the *famous* actress, I'm the not-so-famous one!") I've been a performing artist since the age of 3 (that's 34 years now). I earned my BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and then took Education courses at Arizona State University in Tempe. I now hold a Teaching Certificate in Drama, with a minor in dance, and am currently teaching at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona. You may have heard of this school because we gained notoriety a few years ago for our gang riot on campus, but we like to think that our claim-to-fame should be our Performing Arts Magnet programs. I am now in my third year teaching drama and dance. My partner teacher and I have redesigned the drama department to focus part of the year on Shakespeare studies and production. We annually attend the Utah Shakespeare Festival's High School Competition and see several Shakesperean productions in Phoenix and Tucson. Before I began teaching I helped found The Courtyard Players, a theatre company dedicated to producing and promoting the plays of Wm Shakespeare and the arts of the Renaissance. This company produces one-hour versions of Sh's plays and tours to junior high and high schools, and just recently began including elementary schools. The company also offers workshops and residency programs through the Arizona Commission on the Arts to schools throughout Arizona. I still serve the company as Mistress of Music and Dance, and we have a group of singers that perform Renaissance carols during the Christmas season. As an actress myself I love to perform in ALL types of theatre but have a special love for Shakespeare. I have played Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT, King Alonzo in THE TEMPEST, Kate in SHREW, a witch and the Gentlewoman in the Scottish play, Sylvia in TWO GENTS, and Gertrude in two completely different, both very unusual adaptation s of HAMLET. I have played a dozen different parts in sveral scenes from MIDSUMMER but have never been a part of the whole show! So, I submit my bio to this list : as a working Shakespearean actor and director, as an educator, and as an ardent fan. ============================================================= *Stacy, Robert <rstacy@net1plus.com> My name is Robert Stacy and I teach comparative literature and history at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, generally concentrating on the countries of Central Europe. I will be expanding my offerings to include courses in Shakespeare in the coming year. My current work centers on preparing two classes for the Winter session at the Center. The first course takes as its subject four of Shakespeare's kings: Henry V ("The Good King'), Richard II ('The Weak King'), Macbeth ('The Bloody Usurper'), and Richard III ('The Machiavel'). Thus, far, the plan of the course includes viewing films, reading the plays, providing both the historical context and the context of other plays (e.g., the development of Richard of Gloucester in the Henry VI plays). The second course, not quite so far along, will concentrate on Shakespeare's last plays (Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, Pericles, and The Tempest). =============================================================================== *Stafford, Rick <RStaff8813@aol.com> I would like to subscribe to your Shakespeare mailing list. I am currently preparing for my Master's oral examination at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. I believe subscribing to your list will enhance my knowledge of Shakespeare. Rick Stafford =============================================================================== *Stagg, Danielle <STDNTVQA@LMUACAD.BITNET> My name is Danielle Stagg. I am a junior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. I am majoring in English with an emphasis in literature and am taking a minor in Theological Studies. I am an English major because I love literature, plain and simple. Well, not so plain and simple, but that's why I like it. :) I really enjoy my classes and if I could minor in Shakespeare, I could. :) I look forward to joining in this on-going discussion. :) =============================================================================== *Staley, Owen <ostaley@ucla.edu> Owen Staley is a lecturer in English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he currently teaches "Shakespeare, Early Poems and Plays" and "Writing the Royal Road," a special studies seminar on early modern dream analysis. He recently returned from England where he spoke at the Oxford symposium on Fulke Greville, the first in the history of humane letters, at the Shrewsbury School in Shropshire. A version of the paper, "Mapping Greville's America," is slated to appear in the Summer 98 _Sidney Journal_. Owen also delivered a paper on Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, "Pursuing an 'Ydle Dreame,'" at the 1998 Renaissance Conference of Southern California, held at the Huntington Library in May. Owen has taught Shakespeare at UCLA Extension and at Whittier College, and will begin an assistant professorship at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles this fall. ============================================================= *Stallings, Alden <aps@usia.gov> I received a BA degree in English from Carleton College in 1969 and MA and PHD degrees from the University of Virginia in 1974 and 1980. The latter was awarded on the basis of a dissertation entitled "'When I Perceive Your Grace': Shakespeare and the Structure of Visionary Experience." From 1978 to 1980 I was an editorial writer and book review editor at the Alabama Journal in Montgomery, Alabama. Since 1980 I have been a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Information Agency, with assignments in India, Pakistan, Korea, Washington and Korea again. While I don't have the opportunity to work with Shakespeare on a daily basis, during the course of my career I have lectured at numerous universities on various Shakespearean plays, so I have professional as well as personal reasons for wishing to keep abreast of the scholarship. =============================================================================== *Stanard, Bill <Bill_Stanard@Windsor.vegs.together.org> Bill Stanard: I am the technovore at Windsor High School as well as the senior (12th grade) Advanced Placement English teacher for this small (250 students) New England high school. I have been teaching Shakespeare's works since 1972 when I started teaching at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. At last count, I have taught the Scottish play 23 times, and I'm going to try teaching Hamlet this year to my AP students by using only the World Wide Web and a VCR (!)... =============================================================================== *Starks, Lisa S. <Lisa_Starks@etsu.esu> I would like to join the Shakesper list. I'm currently an assistant professor at East Texas State University (soon to become Texas A&M University, Commerce), where I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare, drama, theory, etc. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, with a dissertation on gender and Shakespeare's English history plays. Since then I've published articles, abstracts, or reviews on Marlowe and Shakespeare in *Theatre Journal,* *Shakespeare Newsletter,* *Ohio Shakespeare Newsletter,* and *Comparative Drama* (forthcoming). I also have articles published in two books, *The Aching Hearth* (on Jean Rhys) and *Gender and Academe* (on pop culture and pedagogy). I've been an active member of the Shakespeare Association of America for five years, and I've delivered papers at the Ohio Shakespeare Conference as well as many others, including MLA (on Marlowe). Most recently, I'm guest editing a special issue of the film journal *Post Script* on Shakespeare and Film. =============================================================================== *Starner, Janet Wright <JS0O@NS.CC.LEHIGH.EDU> My name is Janet Wright Starner. I am a teaching fellow at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. I have a B.A. in English from Thiel College, an M.A. in English from Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, and I am currently enrolled in the doctoral program here at Lehigh. I am a third of the way through my course work, but have already decided to specialize on the Renaissance period for my comprehensive exam. I am also very interested in Gender Studies and hope to work on a combination of the two in the future. I can be reached here via e-mail, of course,(JS0O@Lehigh) or by phone (215) 758-3336. I am already a member of FICINO, but Shakespeare is my first love. I'm looking forward to listening in. ======================================================================== 30 *Mez <mez@mint.LCS.MIT.EDU> or, preferably, <mez@allspice.lcs.mit.edu> As an undergraduate at MIT, I was a member of the Shakespeare Ensemble at MIT. I now maintain my interest via reading of the Bard and criticism, and attending performances, mostly local to MA, with a yearly trek to Stratford Ontario. My favored email address is mez@allspice.lcs.mit.edu. Mez ======================================================================== 115 *Lord, Paul A. <STU_PALO@JMUVAX1.BITNET> stu_palord@vax1.acs.jmu.edu plord@hub.cs.jmu.edu paul@dirac.physics.jmu.edu P.O. Box 2736 J.M.U. Harrisonburg, Va. 22807 Student, James Madison University Member, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express I am a senior English major here at JMU, expecting graduation in December of 1991. I began my acting career as a freshman with the roles of Fluellen, Grey, Bourbon, and Berri in _Henry_V_. This show was the only production of the JMU Shakespeare Company, directed by Dr. Ralph Cohen of JMU. The next year the company severed its formal ties to the university and the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express was born. I was not able to rejoin the company until this season because of financial and time constraints (mainly, they began summer tours and I needed a higher-paying job). In the interim I did perform in a number of shows at JMU, most notably the premier of _Advice_From_a_Caterpillar_ by Douglas Carter Beane. _Advice_ has been optioned by Edgar Lansbury and may open on Broadway in the spring. With the closing of my college career and the end of my bills from JMU, I look forward to a long association with the S.S.E. Speaking of which, here is a bio for the company: In 1988/89 the S.S.E. produced _Richard_the_III_ and toured with _The_Taming_of_the_Shrew_. They performed at the John Houseman theatre in New York, as well as colleges and community theatres from Dartmouth (New Hampshire) to Mary Baldwin (Virginia). During the summer of 1990 the company added a New England leg to the tour, culminating with shows in Cape Cod at the Academy Playhouse. For the 1990 season, the shows were _Julius_Caesar_ and _A_Midsummer _Night's_Dream_. _Caesar_ was performed for the Shakespeare Association of America's annual meeting in Philadelphia (the only troupe ever invited to perform for that conference). The S.S.E. is beginning a season of immense growth. Ralph is still our Executive Director, and is joined by Jim Warren (Managing Director) for this year's shows. Together with the 11 members of the company (7 men and 4 women) they have advanced the same philosophy of Shakespearean theatre productions since _Henry_V_, namely, Shakespeare more as "theatre" than "literature". We mount productions with the same methods (known or assumed) that Shakespeare used: thrust stage, quick pace, and a team of less than fifteen actors who relate to the fully illuminated audience around them -- with careful attention to the text. Recently we were granted tax exempt status by the IRS, and A sight reviewer from the N.E.A. will be reviewing us for a possible 18,000 dollar grant early in this season. Our Advisory Board speaks for itself in the Shakespeare and theatre communities: Miles Anderson and Leslie Duff (veterans of England's Royal Shakespeare Company), David Bevington (University of Chicago), Ronald E. Carrier (President of James Madison University), Gordon Davies (Head of the Virginia State Council of Higher Education), Dame Judi Dench (England's most celebrated Shakespearean actress), Michael Goldman (Princeton), Bernice Kliman (Author of several book on film versions of the plays), Barbara Mowat (editor of the _Shakespeare_Quarterly_), Phoef Sutton (head writer and producer of the tv series "Cheers"), Gary Taylor (Brandeis and editor of the Oxford Shakespeare), George Walton Williams (Duke), and Jerry Zaks (winner of two Tony awards for Best Director). A name we've added to our advisory board just this year is Sam Wanamaker, who is in charge of the Globe reconstruction project in London. Sam has invited the S.S.E. to perform on the Globe stage in the summer of 1992 (a prospect which gives me an indescribable thrill). With this in mind, we have budgeted the funds to make that appearance at the Globe, attend the International Play Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, and possibly tour Denmark that summer. As I mentioned, we are a company beginning a season/year of immense growth. Our tour this summer features _Measure_for_Measure_, _Twelfth_Night_, and a revival of our successful _Midsummer_Night's_Dream_. I'm quite lucky, as I will play the Provost in MFM and the Duke in TN. _Midsummer_ will be our in-house show and will likely be recast from last season. If you'd like to drop us a line: Shenandoah Shakespeare Express P.O. Box 944 Dayton, Va. 22821 Ralph Cohen 336 E. Springbrook Broadway Va. 22815 area code 703 /(h) 896-8996 (w) 568-7058 Jim Warren 207-A Newman Ave/ attic apartment Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 (703) 564-0774 ======================================================================== *Starnes, Jason Vernon <starnes@interchange.ubc.ca> My name is Jason Vernon Starnes. I am a fourth year honors english student at the University of British Columbia. I am an American citizen but have resided in Canada for almost ten years now. I was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and the move to Grande Prairie, Alberta many years ago was quite a growth experience. My interest in Shakespeare began in high school and has grown stronger ever since. This year I am working on my thesis, the topic of which is materializing into something like "Shakespeare, his critics, and their God." I intend to conduct a study of Shakespeare studies, comparing the various ways that Christian aspects, issues and allusions in King Lear and Hamlet are received and interpreted by various Christian and atheist critics. Principle critics in the study will include Northrop Frye, Maynard Mack, T.S. Eliot and Robert G. Hunter. I have aquired the guidance of several brilliant professors at UBC, one of whom is a former student of the great Dr. Frye. It seems to me that critics rarely allow themselves as much spiritual or religious lateral movement as is contained in Shakespeare's plays. I intend to bring many of these critical viewpoints together in a manner that allows an objective examination of the ways in which we examine and construe the relationship between our great playwright and the single greatest force that his society knew. ============================================================= *Stavreva, Kirilka (Katy) <stavreva@SAUNIX.SAU.EDU> I received my Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1997, and have since spent a wonderful term as a post-doctoral fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This is my first year at St. Ambrose University and I am enjoying teaching Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, drama, and Women's Studies courses. My dissertation, which I'm currently revising for publication, focuses on representations of female unrestraint in the popular printed culture of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. I have published articles on early modern women and popular culture in The Journal of Popular Culture and History of European Ideas, as well as numerous book reviews for The Sixteenth Century Journal. I am particularly interested in early modern jest and laughter, in things exotic and barbarian, as well as in performance- and film Shakespeareana. More recently, I have been developing an interest in women's travel narratives. ============================================================= *Steele, Kenneth B. <KSTEELE@utorepas> or <KSTEELE@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Department of English Mail: #720 - 222 The Esplanade, Toronto, Ontario M5A 4M8 BA (English) University of Western Ontario (1986), MA (English Literature) University of Toronto (1987), Ph.D. candidate University of Toronto (1991?). Member of the Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, Society for Textual Scholarship, and Bibliographical Society of America. I'm currently engaged in thesis research investigating textual evidence for Shakespearean revision, under the supervision of Professor Jill L. Levenson (Trinity College, University of Toronto). My working title is "'The Second Heat Upon the Muse's Anvil: Poetic Revision in Shakespeare's Early Plays." I'm eager to discuss textual theory, editorial theory, and/or authorial revision with anyone who shares my interests. From 1988-1990 I edited the Shakespeare Electronic Text Archive and Shakespeare's Tragedies In-TACT for the University of Toronto's Centre for Computing in the Humanities. Papers describing these projects (in varying levels of detail) appear on the SHAKSPER Fileserver as "DYNAMIC SHAKSPER" and "WCRUNCHR SHAKSPER." A recent conference paper on MSND, its sources and its use of Petrarchan language, appears as "PETRARCH PYRAMUS." An expanded version of an SAA seminar paper on Shakespeare's use of the internal dramaturge in Comedy and Romance appears as "SURROGAT PLAYWRIT." Since 1988 I have been exploring electronic mail and Bitnet discussion groups, and have been a brief or long-term member of ENGLISH, LITERARY, WORDS-L, REED-L, GUTNBERG, TEI-L, SFLOVERS, and most of all, HUMANIST. My feeling has long been that a medium which can support discussion groups for subjects like Morris Dancing, Yachting, or a single novel by James Joyce (Finnegan's Wake), should offer *something* for Shakespeareans. Hopefully SHAKSPER will fulfill that purpose. ========================================================= *Steelman, David L. <SCUT024@TWNMOE10.BitNet> David L. Steelman Soochow University scut024@twnmoe10.edu.tw I come from Illinois and California and for the past twenty years have been teaching in the English Dept. at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. One of the course I teach is Shakespeare. Our problems are perhaps somewhat different from what are encountered in English speaking countries with English speaking students. We spend most of our time dealing with the problem of understanding the words in the texts. Often the students want to know how a particular line would be translated into Chinese. The experience has been helpful to me because it has forced me to go through texts word by word with a view towards understanding what is being said. So I will be very interested to see what the members of SHAKSPER have to say about textual problems. Another area of interest is in recordings (video and audio) of the plays. This is a much neglected area in Taiwan and we have access to few recording. We have some of the BBC tapes and a recording of the Gielgud/Burton Hamlet. I hope the list will give me some clues as to where to find more good recordings. =============================================================================== *Steen, Sara <uenss@newton.math.montana.edu> I'm a Professor of English at Montana State University, where my teaching assignment regularly includes courses in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. I have published on Shakespeare in Shakespeare Quarterly and attended (and led) sessions at the SAA; I serve as a bibliographer for the World Shakespeare Bibliography and as a consultant for the Shakespeare in the Schools program, the educational branch of Montana's Shakespeare in the Parks theatre company. My most recent books are Ambrosia in an Earthern Vessel: Three Centuries of Audience and Reader Response to the Works of Thomas Middleton (AMS Press, 1993) and The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (Oxford UP, 1994). =============================================================================== *Steenbergh, Kristine <K.Steenbergh@stud.let.ruu.nl> To begin at the beginning, I was born in Utrecht on the 9th of June 1976. After having finished my grammar school, I decided to study the English language. It was at Utrecht University that my interests in the English Renaissance and especially Shakespeare were roused. I am now a second year student and a member of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries. Later on in my studies I hope to specialise in Shakespeare and other English Renaissance writers. =============================================================================== *Steggle, Matthew <steggle@vax.ox.ac.uk> NAME: MATTHEW STEGGLE. AGE : 23. ADDRESS: TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, OX1 3BH, ENGLAND. STATUS: D.Phil student at the University of Oxford (M.Phil awarded summer 1994.) RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1) The Poetics of Comedy in the Renaissance, and especially the reception of Old Comedy. My primary field is Jonson, but I have a keen interest in Shakespeare t. 2)Thomas Nashe. 3) The history of Trinity College, Oxford, in the Renaissance period. 4) Generally: the reception of classical literature in the Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Steiber, Ellen <ESteiber@compuserve.com> Ellen Steiber was born in Newark, N.J. in 1955 and received a B.A. in English from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976. From 1977 through 1990, she lived in New York City and worked as an editor of children's books. Since then she has lived in Tucson, Arizona, dividing her time between writing fiction and continuing to edit in a freelance capacity. Among her published works are a number of novellas whose themes are based on folklore and fairy tales. Japanese folklore permeates _Shadow of the Fox_ (Random House, 1994) and "The Fox Wife" (1995). "In the Night Country" (1995), a story of two troubled teens, is based on the Grimm's "Brother and Sister," and the follow-up essay, "A Matter of Seeing" published in _The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors_ (edited by Terri Windling, 1995) examines the metaphors of that story. Forthcoming from Avon is "The Cats of San Martino," a novella that sets an Italian fairy tale in modern Tuscany; from Tor Books "Argentine," a Day of the Dead story set in the Borderland world; and from HarperCollins, "In a Season of Rains," a story that reworks the legend of "Lilith" in a contemporary desert setting. She has also written eight novelizations for HarperCollin's X-FILES series. Currently, Ellen Steiber is working on an adult novel for Tor Books based on the legends surrounding gemstones. She is also working on a young-adult novel whose premise involves a 1890s theatre company that is putting on a production of _Macbeth_. She is now looking for material about how the play might have been produced at the turn of the century. She is also searching for any information on the curse. ============================================================= *Stein, Christine M. <cstein@mason1.gmu.edu> I am writing to ask to be included in the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. I am currently a student at George Mason University. I will be graduating in May. I have a great love for Shakespeare and am currently enrolled in a semester long study of King Lear. I would greatly enjoy the opportunity to exchange ideas with a group of international fans and students of the bard. =============================================================================== *Stein, L. Jay <ljstein@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> L. Jay Stein P.O. Box 2416 Iowa City, Ia. 52244 (319) - 351-5610 B.A. - 1969, University of Iowa M.A. - 1972, University of Iowa J.D. - 1977, University of Iowa I am currently a lawyer in private practice and a part- time judicial officer in Iowa City, Iowa. My B.A. and M.A. are in English literature with an emphasis on Shakespeare and Milton. While obtaining these degrees, I studied with John Huntley, Miriam Gilbert, and Oliver Steele. I am a professional actor currently involved at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City in a production of "The Wooden O," Bruce Wheaton's retelling of "Richard II," "Henry the IV,pt.1 & 2," and "Henry V." =============================================================================== *Steinke, Margaret Helen <MHDUPUIS@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Hello, my name is Margaret H. Dupuis. I am a graduate student and graduate teaching fellow in the English Department at the University of Oregon. I am a member of the MLA and I teach both composition and literature courses to undergraduates. I am currently teaching a 200-level introductory course on Shakespeare. My dissertation topic focuses on representations of childbirth in Early Modern literature (including works by Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare). I have a B.A. degree in English Literature from Willamette University and an M.A. degree in English Literature from the University of Oregon. I can be reached at the English Department at the University of Oregon, 118 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. My telephone number there is (503) 346-3988. =============================================================================== *Steinmeier, Anke <a1967703@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de> I'm a student of English at the University of Cologne. I've just attended a class on Shakespeare and thus begun to become interested in Shakespeare. At the moment I am particularly interested in the role and function of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in *Hamlet* as I am writing a paper on this topic and I believe this is a good way to collect some information about this subject. Therefore please subscribe me to SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Stenberg, Rannvi <rstenber@cc.helsinki.fi> I am currently working on my final thesis on Commedia Dell'Arte type elements in some of Shakespeare's plays. What interests me is characters, scenes, set elements etc. that show traces (?) of Commedia as well as the discussion on the relationship between Italian drama and renaissance English drama on the whole. I am also interested in the performance side of the plays and the effect of Commedia type elements in the plays, both for performances in Shakespeare's time and for modern productions (and film ). Apart from anything to do with Shakespeare, I am also interested in the development of drama and the history of drama theories, especially the development/theories about comedy ! I expect that my interest in the development of comedy ( and Commedia Dell'Arte) will take me to Shakespeare's contemporaries but also to medieval Mystery plays and Moralities. I find that I become more and more fascinated by comedy all the time ! =============================================================================== *Stephens, Scott W. <yku02876@YorkU.CA> My name is Scott Stephens. I am a third year undergraduate student majoring in English Lit. at York University. My Shakespeare instructor, Peter Paolucci, recommends that his students subscribe to the SHAKSPER newsgroup; and here I am, about three months late, finally getting around to it. I guess I should tell a little about myself. I'm 32 years old, and on a leave of absence from my job at Bell Canada to finish my education. Like many people, I've loved reading and seeing Shakespeare's work for years (since I was a teenager, actually). Next year I plan on taking whatever Shakespeare courses are offered in fourth year here at York; so I look forward to reading the different opinions and insights available in your newsgroup (if that's the correct term for it). I'm particularly interested in Shakespeare's tragedies and romances, but I like to read and discuss anything related to his work. My e-mail address is <yku02876@yorku.ca>. I don't know if you would like this info, but the specific Shakespeare course I am taking now at York is English 3190.06. =============================================================================== *Stephenson, Heather <stephenh@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu> I am currently a graduate student at Georgetown University, and expect to recieve my M.A. in English in the spring of 1996. Originally from Libby, MT (a tiny town of 2400 people, nestled in the Rocky Mountains), I became impassioned by Shakespearean drama during a summer program (Shakespeare: Text and Performance) based in Leicester, England. I am currently researching and writing my thesis (untitled as yet) on Charles and Mary Lamb's early 19C adaptation, Tales from Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Steppat, Michael <Michael.Steppat@uni-bayreuth.de> I'm interested in joining SHAKSPER. Name: Prof. Michael Steppat, English Literature, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Biographical data: Educated Univ. of Hamburg & Univ. of M=FCnster, worked with Marvin Spevack. Dr.phil 1979, Habilitation 1986. Associate editor, New Variorum Sh. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (MLA, 1990). Teaching & research position at Univ. of M=FCnster until 1993, then at Freie Universit=E4t Berlin (1994-96); Adjunct Professor at Arizona State Univ. 1993-95. Professional experience as commissioning editor / department director with publishing houses, 1993-96. Professor of English Literature at Univ. of Bayreuth since 1996. Book publications: mainly "Critical Reception of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA" (1980), "Chances of Mischief: Variations of Fortune in Spenser" (1990), edition of Latin drama (1991). Current work: editor of New Variorum MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR; semiotic discourse analysis of Elizabethan comedy (Lyly and Shakespeare), with Louise Schleiner. =============================================================================== *Sterrett, Paul <Romeo1595@AOL.COM> My name is Paul Sterrett. I wish to subcribe to the Shaksper news group. I am a part time student at Wayne County Community college, in Detroit Mi. I don't have any literary credentials, and I don't know if that will exclude me from the list. However, I am a huge fan of the bard. I've seen many Shakespearean plays preformed at Stratford, Ontario Canada. I've read most of his plays, and more than a few sonnets. As for me, I'm a 30 year old bus driver from Detroit,Mi. I'm a voracious reader. My favorite writers being, Shakespeare, Dickens, Poe, Tolkien, and Herbert. =============================================================================== *Stessel, Philippe <stessel@voyagerco.com> I am a producer at The Voyager Company, a publisher of CD-ROM's. We have recently published a CD-ROM on Macbeth and I would like to see Voyager continue this series. Without knowing more about it, I thought that discussions taking place in your conference might be of mutual interest. My background in brief: BA, Columbia University =============================================================================== *Stetner, Clifford <fs10@columbia.edu> I am the son of a Shakespearean scholar who was chairman of the English department at cw post college for two decades. after graduating from the New York city public school system, I spent four years in the us navy. after which I returned to Brooklyn College, first as a physics major, but finally falling back into my literary heritage. I graduated in 1996 phi beta kappa, magna cum laude, with several English department honors including a scholarship to study Shakespeare in London and Stratford over the summer, after which, I entered the Ph.D. program at cuny. I am currently in the midst of my second year of post graduate study, teaching on a fellowship at York College, and preparing for my comps in august. I am also enrolled in the renaissance studies certificate program at cuny. I am planning my studies around a dissertation involving the relationship of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry to his comedy and tragedy. i am also hoping to develop my knowledge of contemporary literary theory and its possible application to the reading of Shakespeare. I write poetry, prose, and drama (all on hold for the moment). I ride a bike thirty miles a day (pretty consistently) around Manhattan traffic. I enjoy drawing portraits, playing the guitar and visiting museums. I believe that global warming, the thinning ozone layer and other forms of environmental damage will have very serious consequences in the near future. ============================================================= *Stevens, Stanley <stevstan@aol.com> Biographical Sketch: Stephen E. Stanley English Instructor Memorial High School Manchester, NH 03290 BA English Literature 1974 University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME. MED Computer Education 1991 Lesley College, Cambridge, MA. Member New Hampshire Society for technology in Education. I have been teaching English literature to high school seniors for the past 17 years. As part of this year-long course students study at least three Shakespearean plays. King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Henry V are some of the titles we have to work with. I am interested in gaining new insights that might aid my students in enjoying the plays. =============================================================================== *Steverson, Walter <LordJaxom@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> My name is Walter Martin Steverson, and I am currently a senior at Thompson High School in Alabaster, Alabama. I am a A-B student and 13th in my graduating class. Last year I receive three awards for three different pieces of writing at the high school level and two more for the same pieces at the county level. I am very interested in making use of the SHAKSPER discussion group and its archives for my current research paper. My assignment is to discuss how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements in his plays. I plan to show specific uses in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar. As I stated before, access to the SHAKSPER discussion group would greatly help my research, and I plan on submitting my paper back to the group once I've completed it. This listserv group is the only in-depth and serious study of Shakespeare's works that I have been able to find on the Internet that would help my paper. ============================================================= *Stewart, Geoffrey <gstewart@k12.oit.umass.edu> Teacher of Theatre/Technical Director, The Winsor School, Boston Director, "Youtheatre" program, Dorset Theatre Festival, Vermont Teacher (S.A.T.), Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers, Inc. University of Rochester class of 1990, English/theatre minor Professional actor, resume upon request Above, we see the short story. To try to keep the long story relatively short, I will move quickly. I was a massive Shakespeare-phobe in high school, not comprehending a word, much to the frustration of myself and my instructors. In college, my avoidance of the Bard continued, until I decided that acting would be my career, and the Big Play On Campus was to be "Romeo and Juliet". I got a copy, began to look at the work not as a stuffy book on the shelf but a living, breathing thing, expertly crafted for me, the actor. The veil was lifted, and I enrolled immediately in Prof. Russ McDonald's Shakespeare class. I never looked back, and Shakespeare has been a passion for me ever since. Needless to say, I believe he was written to be performed, and, as a teacher, I stress this endlessly. Oh, that R&J was the first of three productions of that play I have appeared in so far. I am an actor currently working in the Boston area, summering in Vermont directing childrens' theatre at Dorset (and doing a little acting- more to follow?) Winsor, the school I teach and direct (both tech and lower school productions) at was my sister school in high school, so I now direct on stages I used to patrol. It is an excellent college preperatory school, with a traditional eighth grade Shakespeare play (which I prepare the girls for in 7th grade.) Nights I pursue my own work, which has included Petruchio in "Taming" with the Roxbury Outreach Shakespeare Experience (ROSE), and a season at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire (the site of one-third of my personal R&J trifecta.) I have appeared in many other companies, both in Boston and elsewhere (summer stock is my friend), but those are my only Bard-related works. I did play the title role in Jonson's "The Alchemist" my senior year in college, and I rate that as my favorite non-musical theatre role to date. So, I suppose like everyone else writing these bios, I love the study of Shakespeare, but, for me, there is nothing better than actually performing his works. I most certainly strive to seek out more opportunities to play such roles, but the whole acting career in general seems to be going somewhat slowly, what with the teaching and my new wife (fellow actor Kathleen Loftus) and all. I must say, though, I enjoy the teaching very much as well, particularly when it involves Shakespeare. Many I know are pointing out to me that teaching plus acting could equal directing, which I also love to do, and may pursue more and more in the future (the Dorset gig is great in that regard.) In any case, I seek to make Shakespeare as much a part of my life and work as possible. =============================================================================== *Stewart, Linda <lstewart@math.ias.edu> Linda Stewart: I am a beginning grad student in English Lit at Trenton State University with a particular interest in 16th Century literature, especially Shakespearean drama. I've just become serious about literature, so I have nothing to offer in the way of papers yet, but hopefully in the future there will be something interesting that I can contribute. My main interest is learning from the contributions of others. =============================================================================== *Stewart, Patricia <PSTEWART@uga.cc.uga.edu> Full name:Patricia L. Stewart; title: assistant professor; dept.: English; institution: University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30602. Bio.: 30 years as teacher of Shakespeare on college level. Surface address: 135 Pinecrest Terrace,Athens, Ga. 30606. Degrees: B.A. from Agnes Scott College, l958; M.A. and Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the '60's. =============================================================================== *Stewart, Robert <CSBRIS@CS.UPE.AC.ZA> I do not have much of a biography - I am not an English academic. I am a fourth year Computer Science student at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I am involved in amateur dramatics which includes an annual Shakespeare play performed at our local open-air theatre (Mannville). I was therefore interested when I heard about SHAKSPER and tried to subscribe. =============================================================================== *Stilborn, James <dropkickmejesus@hotmail.com> My name is James Russell Stilborn. I am 19 years old and currently studying at Medicine Hat College (Brooks Campus). I have decided to join you organization because it will be an asset in one of my courses, English 312A: Shakespeare. I have also applied because of a personal fondness of Shakespeare bestowed on me by my father. ============================================================= *Still, Peter <still007@gold.tc.umn.edu> Peter John Still, practising theatre composer and sound designer BA Hons (first class) in music, Oxford University MA in American Studies, University of Sussex I am an Oxford-educated theatre composer and sound designer, based in Minneapolis, working every summer at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and regularly with Hartford-based, ex-Guthrie, Shakespeare director, Bartlett Sher (Twelfth Night - THe Acting Company; Pericles - Guthrie Lab)... I am new to the inet, and desperately seeking the informed discourse that seems to have disappeared from the print media, especially in this country. My reference points, for better or for worse: Kott, McLuhan, Laroque, Barthes, Foucault ('Les mots et les choses'), Baudrillard - Brook, LePage, the Trevor Nunn RSC, Ninagawa... =============================================================================== *Stille, Richard <rstille@finearts.uvic.ca> Richard Stille Theatre comprises bookends at the front and back of my life. I graduated from high school (Seattle, Washington) in 1965, determined to make a success as a great actor. I attended two years of college in theatre, worked community theatre for a couple of years, then worked as an apprentice actor for the Seattle Repertory during their 1969-1970 season. After a few years of sporadic employment in this show and that, I returned to school, majoring in psychology. Not surprising, I was involved in experiential therapy, the Esalen Institute, Topanga Center, etc. While marching from one degree to another, I continued to take theatre classes, getting enough credits for theatre minors for both my B.A. and M.A. I acted in my last show (before the present period of my life) in 1978 at the University of South Dakota. I practiced as a psychologist for twelve years, then, following the publication of a non-fiction book, I began writing full time. I wrote two (as yet unpublished) mystery novels, numerous non-fiction pieces and short stories, and magazine articles. During this period I came back to university and rediscovered the theatre, and a love for directing. I started the theatre program full time in 1992 (well, as full time as raising a 3 year old allows) and now devote all my energies to theatre. Needless to say, it feels like coming home. I will be entering the M.F.A. program in directing and production here in the fall. My major focus is directing, although I continue to act and stage manage. In terms of Shakespeare, I have acted in three of his plays, Hamlet, As You Like It, and The Taming of the Shrew. I have directed scenes for advanced directing from two of the plays -- Twelfth Night and Hamlet. And, of course, I've taken a number of classes on Shakespearean drama. Although my focus is on professional theatre production, I must admit I am academically trained and a scholar at heart. While it's true that I'd rather be on the stage or directing, I can end up staying up all night following an informed argument on things Shakespearean. I don't have a research paper on a Shakespearean topic to submit. If it would be of interest, I would submit my director's analysis of Twelfth Night. I hesitate to do it without a "go-ahead", as it is not likely to be in the same category as presentations to a conference. =============================================================================== *Stoddard, Christine <EGAX0021@ac.dal.ca> Hello. My name is Christine Stoddard (EGAX0021@AC.DAL), a fourth year undergraduate student at University of King's College (on the Dalhousie campus). I am working towards a BA combined honours in English and Theatre. I am particularly interested in the performance aspect of Shakespeare's work; in fact, I am currently involved in a student production of -Cymbeline-. I am extremely computer illiterate, and am joining this discussion group as part of my degree requirement; however, I hope that the discussion on SHAKSPER will prove valuable to my studies. =============================================================================== *Stodder, Joseph <jhstodder@csupomona.edu> Joseph H. Stodder is Professor of English in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His Ph.D., from the University of Southern California (1964), centered in Renaissance Drama. His dissertation, <italic>Satire in Jacobean Tragedy</italic>, was later published by the University of Salzburg Press (1974). He has published another book, <italic>Moral Perspectives in the Tragedies of John Webster</italic> (Salzburg, 1975), and over twenty articles and reviews on drama-related subjects, from the work of Robert Greene to that of Peter Brook, in publications such as <italic>Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Modern Language Review, Shakespeare Quarterly</italic>, and <italic>Theatre Journal</italic>. He has also written a commissioned entry, "Experimental Theatre," for <italic>English Drama Series</italic>, Vol. VI (1985). His last article, "Teaching Shakespeare Through Play Production," appeared in the 1995 issue of <italic>Journal on Excellence in College Teaching</italic>, and describes a specialized Shakespeare program which he teaches, and which has been the subject of numerous papers presented in conferences. These conferences, spanning a twenty -year period, have included the following: California State University Institute for Teaching and Learning, CSU Shakespeare Symposium, CSU Summer Art Institute, Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Modern Language Association, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Shakespeare Association of America, and the World Shakespeare Congress (1966). Subjects of papers presented ranged from theory and pedagogy ("Archetypal Criticism in the Teaching of Renaissance Drama,""Performing from the Folio:=20 <italic>The Winter's Tale</italic>") through Shakespeare to Modern and post-Modern Drama (with an emphasis on experimental theatre). His teaching career, both at undergraduate and graduate levels, has for over fifteen years centered on the performance approach to the teaching of Shakespeare and other dramatic literature. His regular Shakespeare courses, as well as courses in Early English and Modern Drama, emphasize performance in each class meeting, and conclude with a "performance final examination" which requires the students to perform scene excerpts before an audience, participating afterward in an oral examination on the material presented. The success of this technique resulted in his developing--in 1985, at student request--the Shakespeare Production Program, a two-quarter course centered in one play which concludes in a fully mounted production of that play. The production is conducted throughout by the students (including a student director), under the supervision of the professor. The first of these productions, <italic>The Merchant of Venice</italic>, was given a single performance on campus. The rest of them--<italic>Macbeth, Much Ado, Dream, Winter's Tale, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Shrew, </italic> and <italic>Merry Wives</italic>--received four performances each, most of them on a professional stage (the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood). As was mentioned earlier, this specialization of the performance approach to the teaching of Shakespeare has been the subject of a number of conference papers, some of which have been published. =============================================================================== *Stoker, Gloria <david@stokerfam.dungeon.com> My name is Gloria Stoker. I am currently finishing a Bachelor's degree in English literature through the University of Maryland, European division. I live in Newmarket, England about 60 miles from Stratford On Avon. My interest in Shakespeare is purely personal. I have had the opportunity to study several of the plays in depth while pursuing my degree and availed myself of the opportunity to walk in his footsteps so to speak. I have seen many interpretations of his works acted on the stage throughout England. It would be a privilege to be part of this listserv and gain from the academic insights of others. ============================================================= *Stokes, Jason <jason.stokes@m.cc.utah.edu> I wanted to send you a brief biographical sketch so I could subscribe to the Shakespearean newsletter. I am not a researcher, professor or writer. I just like Shakespeare. I am presently attending the University of Utah and will start medical school here next fall if all goes well. I grew up in Cedar City, Utah and was able to attend all of the plays at the Utah Shakespearean Festival for 5 or 6 years. My wife and I will be taking our honeymoon 5 years late in the middle of July, and travel down to see Timon of Athens, Richard II, and Midsummer. I think it would be fascinating to see much of the research and facets to Shakespeare that this conference seems to offer. =============================================================================== *Stone, James <jstone@uclink2.berkeley.edu> I, James Stone, was an undergrauduate at Yale who took degrees in English and Philosopphy, and now I am in my final year of graduate shool in English at University of California, Berkeley. My dissertation is called "Crossing the Mirror: Androgyny and Transvestism in the English Renaissance." My theoretical interests lie in the fields of Gender Studies and Psychoanlysis. I have an article forthcoming on "Androgyny and the Sound of 'Un' in Richard II." One chapter of the dissertation is on Milton's Paradise Lost, but most of my project concerns the tragic androgyny of Shakespeare's male heroes versus the comic transvestism of the female characters. I am a member of SAA and the Renaissance Society of America. My address is 330 49 Street, Oakland, CA 94609. =============================================================================== *Stone, Paul <pas@MNSI.NET> My Name is Paul Stone. I'm 31 and I live in London Ontario Canada. I am presently attending University of Western Ontario for Chemical Engineering. I previously received a Master's in English Literature from University of Windsor. My main interests were modernism and the 16th & 17th century lit. I concentrated on the comedies and tragedies, but have a great love for the Henry plays as well. Falstaff and Hal's relationship is something I would like to discuss in a new-historicist kind of analysis. In other words: what were the actual courtier/royalty relationships? What might Shakespeare have been saying about them? How does this relate to Jonson's and Shakespeare's relative positions as men about town? I've read 30 of S's plays and I would love to have this forum in order to discuss them with others who have similar interest of the Bard. I attended the Shakespeare Conference in 1993 (Cleveland-main topic was Ben Jonson's masque of Ariel I think) I am not presently studying Shakespeare formally; but I am interested in renewing my fondness for his work, as well as in sharing my positions and gaining valuable insights from others. ============================================================= *Storey, Bette <Betstorey@aol.com> My name is Bette Storey and I am currently a Junior at the University of Nevada Reno. My major is English. Currently, I am taking a class on on literary theory and criticism. Our next assignment will be reading Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" and am interested in any insight I might receive. I traveled to Stratford-Upon-Avon a few years ago and have become very interested in Shakespeare and his works. I would like to know more in depth information. ============================================================= *Stott, Susan <SSTOTT@TrentU.ca> I am a fourth-year English student at Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario), and I am presently enrolled in a reading course on Shakespeare. At Trent, I have recently been employed in the Cultural Studies Dept., assisting with research in Celtic mythology for a textbook on storytelling. This job was offered to me because of the work which I had done on Celtic mythology in a previous reading course. Using the internet resources was extremely helpful to me in both my own work and my work as a research assistant. Although I have learned a bit about mythology and cultural history, I tend to approach a subject hoping to learn as much as I can from it and not necessarily from a specific set of interests. =============================================================================== *Stovall, Jerry <GSTOVAL3@UA1VM.UA.EDU> Student, School of Library and Information Services University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama I am a graduate student in library and information services at the University of Alabama, and I would like to subscribe to your forum on Shakespeare. In order to fulfill a class assignment I must sign on to a Bitnet forum, observe the activity, and the write a short paper at the end of the semester describing what I observed. I originally decided to subscribe to SHAKSPER because I enjoy Shakespeare's plays. After having read your introductory letter, I concluded that your forum is unique and that studying it might answer several questions: Does the exclusive nature of your forum lead to a better discussion of the topic? Do people from around the world participate? What features does your forum have that could improve the quality of discussion on other forums? ====================================================================== *Stracke, J. Richard <lngjrs@admin.ac.edu> I have a B.A.(Hon.) from the University of Windsor, 1967. Ph.D. is from the University of Pennsylvania, 1970, in Old and Middle English. I have published a monograph, *The Laud Herbal Glossary*, as well as some articles. I have also worked in composition studies. I am Professor of English at Augusta College, in Augusta, Georgia, where I have taught for 13 years. I have also taught at Vanderbilt and at the Rock County campus of the University of Wisconsin. My teaching responsibilities, primarily undergraduate, often involve Shakespeare, so I am excited about the prospect of joining this forum. =============================================================================== *Strange, Sande <ssandy@712admn.nebo.edu> I am a middle-aged mother of four teenagers and almost-teenagers. I have a B.A. plus the equivalent of three years post-graduate study at Brigham Young University. My further education is informal, including one year in Spain and another year in Mexico, years which taught me much about people, cultures, languages and sharing. A native Californian transplanted to the Intermountain West, I teach 11th and 12th grade English and Creative Writing at Springville High School in Springville, Utah, a bedroom community to Provo and Salt Lake. We are rural and suburban at the same time, so our students span all levels of ability and interest. I gained an appreciation and love for Shakespeare in spite of my experiences reading the plays in high school and college. My first positive exposure to Shakespeare was Olivier's _Hamlet_. Since then I take every opportunity to view plays (through the University and through the Cedar City Shakespeare Festival), go to workshops, etc. I subscribed to this list for a few months earlier in this school year, but because of change of hardware in our district, was forced to sign off in December. I will welcome the intellectual stimulation of reading the scholarly and not-so-scholarly exchanges on this list. I have already used much of the material I learned earlier in teaching _Hamlet_ and _Taming of the Shrew_ to my senior classes, and hope to expose them to _Macbeth_ soon. =============================================================================== *Strauss, Gerald <strauss@planetx.bloomu.edu> Gerald H. Strauss In brief, I am Professor Emeritus of English at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, having retired in 1993 at age 58. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Pensylvania and my graduate degrees are from Columbia University. I did my formative Shakespeare studies under Hardin Craig at the Uni- versity of Missouri, where I also studied with Richard Hosley. These early graduate courses I took while teaching at the University in the first years of my career in the late 1950s. I did my dissertation on Elizabethan domestic tragedy and taught both Shakespeare and other Elizabethan drama for many years. I've written on Jonson, Kyd, Fletcher, etc. =============================================================================== *Strax, Jacqueline <Straxj@worldnet.att.net> My name is Jacqueline Strax. I was educated at two Canadian universities, Calgary and UNB. For several years I have worked in relative isolation as an independent scholar affiliated with Wabash College, Indiana. At present I live and write in New York City. My work in Shakespeare studies focuses mainly on "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet." In joining Shaksper I look forward to interaction and exchange with as many members as possible. ============================================================= *Stremel, Leah LSTREM@acd.mhc.ab.ca My name is Leah Stremel. I am in my second year at the Medicine Hat College in the Education faculty. I am an English major and a Drama minor. I am really interested in Shakespeare's literature. He is one of my absolute favorite writers. I am all ready finding this Shakespeare course fascinating and am really looking forward to the rest. =============================================================================== *Strickland, Ronald <rlstrick@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Ronald Strickland received his Ph. D. from Syracuse University in 1987. His dissertation, directed by Jean Howard, was on the _Ideological Functions of Renaissance Funeral Practices_. He is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in early modern English culture and Shakespeare, introductory literature courses, and graduate courses in critical theory and critical pedagogy. He has published articles and reviews on topics in these areas in _ELH_, _College English_, _Shakespeare Quarterly_, _Textual Practice_, _Novel: A Forum on Fiction_, _College Composition and Communication_, _College Literature_, and _Poetics Today_. He has also contributed essays to two collections: an essay entitled "Confrontational Pedagogy and the Introductory Literature Course," in _Practicing Theory in the Introductory Literature Course_, edited by James Cahalan and David Downing, and an essay entitled "Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain," in _Teaching Shakespeare Today_, edited by James Davis and Ronald Salamone. Ronald Strickland's archival research on aristocratic funeral practices in early modern England has been funded by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a founding co-editor of _Mediations_, the national journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and co-editor with Christopher Newfield, of a forthcoming book entitled _Going Public: The Human Sciences after the PC Debates_. =============================================================================== *Strim, JC (Jan) <IZZYYG4@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Name: JC (Jan) Stirm Title: Teaching Fellow (Dissertation Fellow) English Dept, UCLA I'm currently working on my dissertation, "Representing Women's Relationships: Intersections of Gender, Class and Generation in English Drama, 1580-1642," and expect to finish the PhD this spring. My dissertation analyzes relationships between women, especially mistresses and servants, sisters, mothers/daughters, neighbors, friends and other family relations. I use relationships to go beyond addressing one female character in a play in order to recognize the variety of women's experiences being represented. In my work, I'm most indebted to the works of Kimberle Crenshaw, gell hooks, Pierre Bourdieu and of course, Shakespeare, Middleton, Chapman, Jonson and Dekker... I'm especially interested in feminist, materialist and semiotic approaches, and occasionally dabble in Lacanian theory. (I presented a paper using Lacanian theory "'Naive Lips': The Effect of Jesus as Other in the Towneley Buffeting" at a Medieval Assn of the Pacific conference in 1992.) My professional memberships include: MLA, SAA, Medieval Assn of the Pacific and the National Peace Corps Assn. My surface mail address is: Jan Stirm English Dept, UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1530 =============================================================================== *Stritmatter, Roger A. <stritmatter@complit.umass.edu> Your recent letter invites a biography of under 500 words as pro forma for members of SHAKSPER. It may be relevant to my interest in your Conference that I hold a Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology, awarded with honors from the New School for Social Research in 1988. As a PhD cantidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and teaching associate in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I pursue a strong interest in the history of literary theory and the complex interelations between historical and literary hermeneutics which goes back to my undergraduate education at The Evergreen State College (BA, Anthropology, pscyhology 1981). The most recent specific application of this general interest has been my completed research report on the marginal annotations of the 1570 (not, as has been erroneously reported, 1596) Geneva Bible of Edward de Vere, owned by the Folger Shakespeare library. In gaging the intellectual merits of present controversy I always find it useful to recall the slippery nature of terms such as "culture," which seem to be employed in an astonishingly cavalier fashion by pop critics with little or no training in the academic discipline which has made them passe. Of numerous publications and research papers, the only one which may prove interesting to members of SHAKSPER is my recent review-essay of Holland et. al. 1989 in the Fall 1993 issue of The Elizabethan Review, titled "Shakespeare's Missing Personality." Biography is, of course, an important genre and adjunct to literary criticism. In closing it may be relevant, therefore, to mention that I have not found the idea of "incomprehensible genius" to be a useful premise for historical or literary investigation -- though it seems to be one which is shared by 99.9% of the present participants in your Conference. Perhaps, in time, that will change -- and we'll be making some culture, and not just talking about it. =============================================================================== *Stroffolino, Chris <LS0796@ALBNYVMS.BITNET> I am currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the State University of New York at Albany, in English Studies and I am in the second semester of my first year of study. I have received an M.A. in English in 1988 from Temple university and a B.A. in English/Philosophy from Albright College in 1986. I am quite new to Shakespeare Studies, but a, currently teaching an undergraduate Shakespeare class (this is my second--I also taught one as an adjunct in the Spring of 1994) and am currently working on a paper on TROILUS AND CRESSIDA for a graduate class here...I have written on CYMBELINE (my primary focus was how all critics REVISE the play--specifically taking to task four recent discussions of the play), and have also written "character studies" of Enobarbus and Jaques...None of my work on Shakespeare has yet been submitted for publication. I am however a widely published poet and essayist of 20th Century poetry. I am contemplating a dissertation that will center around Shakespeare and 20th century poetic "appropriations" of Shakespeare...However, by "appropriations" I do not mean blatant ones like Auden's "the sea and the mirror" as much as the way so-called "postmodern" tendencies tend to be there IN SHAKESPEARE and are NOT as specifically 20C as many like to flatter themselves. =============================================================================== *Stumbaugh, Linda <clowder@olympus.net> Linda McPeters Stumbaugh. PhD candidate. University of Washington. BA (History, 1976); BA (English, 1986); MA (English, 1989) all from University of Washington. Areas of study include Shakespearean prosody and linguistics, sonnets, historiography, new historicist applications, semiotics. Other non-Shakespearean interests: 18th century novel (particularly epistolary), feminist criticism, Milton, contemporary poetry. ============================================================= *Sturat, John Ian <jisjas@dircon.co.uk> John Ian Stuart b 1945 University of York 1963-67 B.A (Hons 111) English and Diploma of Education.Poor degree because I did three plays in my final year including "Mother Courage." A teaching career of 28 years teaching English Literature at schools in Derbyshire, Manchester, and ultimately the Isle of Man.Taught English to age range 11- 18.Many productions, starting with "Richard 11" (1964) in the courtyard of King's Manor York- all ritual and brocade- looked and sounded lovely.Also "Macbeth" (thirties modern dress- an interesting one that) and "Midsummer Night's Dream" ( massive thrust stage out into the audience- no set at all-costumes largely jeans and tee-shirts.)Various other non-Sh productions inc "Oh What A Lovely War" "The Crucible".... Took early retirement July 95 because I was tired of the bullshit teachers in the UK have to put up with.Good teaching no longer matters;speaking the right jargon does. I have written Hypercard stacks on Henry IV, Lear and John Donne. Other interests- Vaughan Williams/Blues/photography running. Current address(but changing in Sept): 2,The Promenade, Castletown, Isle of Man, UK =============================================================================== *Subbaro, Suba <SXSUBBAR@OCC.bitnet> I am an instructor at Oakland Community College in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Once a year, I teach a class on Shakespeare to a group of 37 students, most of whom have signed up for the course only to fulfill a requirement for graduation. However, I have been successful in engaging their interest (most of the time, at least) by introducing them to the "contemporariness" of Shakespeare's plays as a way of understanding and enjoying something whose language they otherwise find intimidating. I am therefore constantly looking for ways to improve my teaching. I am sure SHAKSPER will offer me plenty of opportunities to lurk and learn. Suba Subbarao Instructor, Oakland Community College 2900 Featherstone Road Auburn Hills, MI 48326 Phone: 810-340-6593 SXSUBBAR@OCC.BITNET =============================================================================== *Suematsu, Michiko <sue@si.gunma-u.ac.jp> INSTITUTION Faculty of Social and Information Studies, Gunma University TITLE Lecturer E-MAIL sue@si.gunma-u.ac.jp HOME ADDRESS 30-4-701, Renjaku-cho, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan 350 The articles I have published so far mainly dealt with the character analysis based on the close readings of the text. However, since I started teaching drama to the college students, I have become interested in the performance-oriented approaches to Shakespeare. At the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Society of Japan last October, I participated in the seminar "The possibility of Stage Productions of A Midsummer-Night's Dream" and read a paper on the various possibilities of staging fairies in the Dream. I would like to read the reviews of recent productions and also join the discussion on various issues concerning Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Sujaku, Shigeko MXC05615@niftyserve.or.jp> Shigeko Sujaku received the B. A. and the M. A. degrees in 1968 and 1970, res pectively, from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. She was a Research Assista nt from 1970 to 1973 at kyushu University. In 1974 she joined Baiko Jo Gakui n College as a lecturer of the department of English, and is currently (Septe mber 1995) Professor in the same department. Her research interests are Shake speare, feminism and post-colonialism. =============================================================================== *Sulik, Jeff <jsulik@hotmail.com> My name is Jeff Sulik and I am requesting access to the SHAKSPER Listserv. I am a student at the Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada. At present, I am enrolled in a Shakespeare study class under the teaching of Dr. Jay Johnson. We are studying six plays this year, including Richard III, Macbeth, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, King Lear, and Winter's Tale. I am interested in viewing the scholarly discourse and maybe being involved in some of the discussions. I have been interested in the works of Shakespeare since I was young and saw my first performance of Romeo and Juliet. Please consider me for your group. ============================================================= *Sullivan, Chris <chris@gandalf.ca> Gandalf Data Limited 130 Colonnade Road, Nepean Ontario, Canada K2E 7M4 613-723-6500 My father is a retired professor Emeritus, formerly head of the English Department at the University of Windsor (Dr. John F. Sullivan). One of his fields of study is Shakespeare. I have been trying for a number of months to get him to request an account on that institution's Internet-connected computer, so he could apply for a subscription to this mailing list. I am now requesting a subscription for myself so that I can show him some archives of its traffic and further motivate him. I won't have anything to contribute myself, but he likely will if he ever gets on line. ========================================================================== *Sullivan, Cynthia M. <CindySully@aol.com> I guess I am full of stories. My earliest memory is of saving up to buy a Big Five Tablet, so that I could write. You see, I have no choice in the matter. Writing is simply a must to me. I have written on shelf paper as a child, in order to keep a long story intact. As the years have gone bye, I have advanced to notebook paper, scrap paper, and even the back of grocery store receipts. Any blank space holds the possibility of storing a few words, a phrase, a chance to get to know another character and see just how her/his head works. I have no choice but to do so, In 1990, at the non-traditional starting age of 43, and after pretty much raising four children, I enrolled at Moraine Valley Community College, not knowing why. In the spring of 1991, I took a communications course, offered by Tom Sullivan, which included the study of _Hamlet_. I was hooked. He has become my victim. Finishing up my work at Moraine, in 1993, I enrolled at St. Xavier University, with English as my declared major and Psychology as my minor. There I met Dr. Norman Boyer, who mentored me in my study of Shakespeare. The pot kept stewing. After finishing my undergraduate work and graduating with a 3.8 G.P.A., I decided to continue on at SXU and enrolled in the Masters in English Program there. Exposed to even more interesting and interested professors there, I went on to write two Master Project papers entitled: "Justifying the Self: Conflict Resolution in _Hamlet_" and "Self-Interest and Unresolved Conflicts in _Americana_" (in order to deal with an American example of conflict resolution). Having finished my graduate work in 1991 and capping it off with a 4.0 average, I began to look at my need to write. My writing is composed of poetry, a children's series, short stories, a few lingering novels, but most of all at this time centers around my need to know _Hamlet_. I have viewed all the films of _Hamlet_, seen many live productions, and currently am working on a piece concerning Prince Charles as a reincarnation of Hamlet. This piece of work is the most haunting piece I have ever been involved with. It needs to live and it will. I intend to tell his story so that a new generation will know him through me. My story will live through him. Toward that end, I have formed a writers group, in conjunction with a number of my fellow graduates, that acts as a support group. These fellow writers have helped by encouraging me to continue to work on this piece concerning _Hamlet_, which I now think of as my life's work. My thinking is slanted by my concern for males, who I feel have a much more difficult time facing adulthood and separating from their mothers. In an attempt to better understand their condition, I am researching the works of Freud, and in particular, Jacques Lacan. ============================================================= *Sullivan, John F. <SULLIV3@ucc.uwindsor.ca> I am Dr. John F. Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1918. After my discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, I taught at my alma mater, the University of Detroit, until I took up an appointment to the faculty of English at Assumption University of Windsor (later the University of Windsor) in 1958. In 1959 I was awarded the doctorate at the University of Michigan; my dissertation on the concept of authority in Shakespeare was written under the direction of Professor G. B. Harrison. At the University of Windsor I became Head of the Department of English in 1969 and remained in this post until my formal retirement in July of 1984, though I have been teaching, chiefly extramural courses, since 1984. My primary teaching field has been Shakespeare, undergraduate and graduate, though over my career I have taught almost every course in the Calendar, from medieval literature to the history of the English language. Publications include *Poetry in English, 1900-1930* (London: Edward Arnold, 1965) and an edition of *1 Henry IV* for Macmillan of Canada's College Classics in English Series, edited by Northrop Frye, reprinted in the United States by Odyssey Press. Papers whose titles reflect my research interests include "Compassing the Crowne: Political Campaigns and Political Action in Shakespeare's English Histories" for the Michigan College English Association; "Elizabethan Women and Shakespeare's Comedies" at the University of Detroit; "Love and Parental Authority in Some Plays of Shakespeare" at the Central Renaissance Conference, Stephens College; and "Something After Death: Salvation and Damnation in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies" at the 8th Annual Lemoyne College Forum on Religion and Literature. However, my major research project for about three decades now has been an edition of the 1595 work *A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland*. This book, enunciating political ideas which have subsequently come to have great modern significance, has never been edited and is almost never cited or referred to without error. Incidentally it may have been Shakespeare's source for the name Peto in *1 Henry IV*. For a number of years I directed a program in which University of Windsor English courses were offered in the summer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and other British universities. I was married in 1952 to Barbara H. Knowlton. We have six children. My home address if 4252 Mt. Royal, Windsor, Ontario, N9G 2C2, and my telephone number is (519) 969-1798. ======================================================================== *Sullivan, Maureen A. <FSMAS3@aurora.alaska.edu> I am a graduate student in the English dept at University of Alaska Fairbanks. =============================================================================== *Sullivan, Thomas <tomsulli@mcs.net> Thomas H. Sullivan: I am a professor of English at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois where I have taught since 1969. I teach freshman composition (both semesters), Introduction to Poetry, Western Literature, and creative writing (poetry and fiction). I have been quite active in investigating and applying computer technology in my teaching. I am not a scholar, that is I do not usually conduct research in my field, and so I would not be likely to contribute to the list in that way. I am most interested in SHAKSPER for my own intellectual growth, and because I want to be able to expose my students to active scholarship and discussion. I would likely spend more time reading the list than making contributions, though I do attend theater productions here in Chicago and could do some reviews (i.e. I did see the Wisdom Bridge production of _Hamlet_ of a few years back -- it got national attention). On a more personal level -- I am 54, a new grandfather, and live with my wife and two of my children in a suburb of Chicago. I am active in the Friends of the Library at booksale time, and a student of Tai Chi. I do a little fly fishing and even less sailing, though I really enjoy both activities. I have an M.F.A. in poetry, and an M.A. in 19th Century American Literature, and a certificate from De Paul in their Artificial Intelligence program. I love Sharespeare's plays and wish he demonstrated the same naturalness and energy in the sonnets (no flames please). =============================================================================== Bruhn, Karen <kebruhn@EMAIL.UNC.EDU> My name is Karen Bruhn and I am a PHd student in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I concentrate on popular piety in Early Modern England, and I am particularly interested in English Calvinist concepts of personal identity. I detect some changing notions of self in the prescriptive literature, and I detect similar notions in some of the popular drama, notably Shakespeare. I am at the very beginnings of my dissertation--still shaping up my proposal--but plan to trace this changing concept of identity, starting with Calvin, and continuing through two subsequent generations of English reformers. I then will do a close of reading of "The Merchant of Venice" with an eye towards highlighting some of the questions and concerns about personal identity that seem to be present in the religious literature (I may also include "Measure for Measure"; it was the subject of my MA thesis). I also have some professional theatre in my background, and have performed several of the plays--Celia in AYLI, Maria in TN, Lady Anne in R3, and Snout in MND (don't ask). =============================================================================== *Sullivan, William <isinglass@worldnet.att.net> I am currently employed by the Connecticut State Library as the administrator for the Connecticut Library Network. I am a professional librarian with substantial experience in the field of information technology, and am especially interested in its use in libraries and in the humanities. Recently, my interest in Shakespeare has been reawakened through the work of Kenneth Branagh and others. I am interested in exploring those timeless dimensions of his work that can only serve to enrich our current understanding of the world, and about what is possible. What does the work reveal about the time in which we now live? And, if one approaches the work without making a distinction between art and living, what new choices (paths) might a deeper understanding of the work create? Those are my interests at the present time and I appreciate the opportunity to become a member of this listserv. ============================================================= *Sumangala, Bhattacharya <ac05@sol.acs.unt.edu> NAME: Sumangala Bhattacharya Internet: ac05@sol.acs.unt.edu Bitnet: ac05@untvax.bitnet Surface: 1607, West Oak, Apt.202, Denton, TX 76201 I am currently a student in the M.A. (thesis) program in the English Dept. at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Although I am currently leaning toward Victorian literature as my field of speciality, I am also strongly attracted by Renaissance literature. Since I shall have to begin my thesis by Fall '92, I must make up my mind between the two fields soon; I am hoping that the discussions on SHAKSPER will help me make the decision. I am a foreign student from India. I received my undergraduate degree in physics from Smith College, Massachusetts. ============================================================================= *Sumimoto, Noriko <sumimoto@mxd.meshnet.or.jp> Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature Meisei University, 2-1-1, Hodokubo Hino City Tokyo 191 Japan E-MAIL sumimoto@mxd.meshnet.or.jp EDUCATION M. A. The University of Tokyo, English Renaissance Drama, 1974 B. A. The University of the Sacred Heart Publication Recent essays and articles include those on Henry VI plays, The Winter's Tale, Textual problems of Hamlet , and Philip Henslowe and other early impresarios. =============================================================================== *Summers, Ellen <SUMMERSEL@HIRAM.EDU> Ellen Summers Member: Shakespeare Association of America Publications: "Shaw and Henderson: Autobiographer versus Biographer," Studies in Bibliography 42 (1989): 284-293 "Genre as Ideology and the Characterization of Angelo," Shakespeare Jahrbuch 126 (1990): 109-112 "Archibald Henderson," American Literary Biographers (1st series), Dictionary of Literary Biography 103 (1991): 151-162 Contributing editor, Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists, vol. III (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994): 119-112, 137-139 Projects: Editing work (as consultant) for Robert Weimann, Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse, vol. 1 (Johns Hopkins, 1995) Projects: Director, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Hiram College, 1993 ----- Measure for Measure, Hiram College, 1992 ---- The Winter's Tale, Hiram College, 1991 ---- All's Well That Ends Well, Hiram College, 1989 Current Work: In progress: a book-length essay on change in character in Measure for Measure =============================================================================== *Sumner, Angela M <Angela.M.Sumner@sowi.uni-giessen.de> Angela M Sumner: student of political studies and Anglistics at the Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany; current interests: gender studies, New Historicism, cultural studies. ============================================================= *Sundar, Janice <jjjj@sprint.ca> My name is Jae Sunder, I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta. My major is English and I am a new Shakespearean, but want to learn more. ============================================================= *Suprenant, Susann <ssuprena@DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU> My name is Susann Suprenant. I am a director and teacher and, currently, also a student. I am working on my Ph. D. in Theatre Arts at University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. My first year of Ph. D. work was last year, 1997-98. Prior to that I was at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1995-97 where I received my M.A. in English. At UNR I taught Composition courses and teacher training courses as adjunct and/or graduate teaching fellow. At UO I teach Acting and Theatre History courses as a graduate teaching fellow. Before I returned to graduate school, I taught high school English and Drama for 10 years in Northern California. My primary research interest is in recent adaptations/appropriations of Shakespeare's plays, especially the ways in which female characters are represented. I have presented papers on this topic at two previous Popular Culture conferences and am scheduled to present a similar paper at this year's PC/AC AA conference. I write about plays I have actually directed, whenever possible. I am also interested in Shakespeare and Pedagogy-differences and intersections in method, objectives, etc. in the teaching of Shakespeare in English and Theatre Arts departments. ============================================================= *Sutherland, Richard <Richard_Sutherland@mindlink.bc.ca> A former actor and singer, I recently obtained an MA in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Although my specialty is Canadian Theatre History (see my article "The Gallimaufry and the Roots of Alternative Theatre in Vancouver" in the current issue of Theatre Research in Canada), I have had a lifelong interest in Shakespeare--as a spectator, actor, and, more recently, a researcher. Currently I am giving a summer course affiliated with UBC called "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" that is designed to introduce and review the plays (Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice) presented by an annual Vancouver Shakespeare Festival called "Bard on the Beach." Although I cannot claim to be an accredited Shakespeare scholar, and at present have no institutional affiliation, I hope this will not bar me from admisssion to your list. I feel I have a great deal to offer. My specialized fields of interest?--the Elizabethan Playhouse, Shakespeare in Performance, and Shakespeare in Video. =============================================================================== *Sutphen, Joyce <sutph001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> I am a grad student at the University of Minnesota, though I am teaching full-time this year at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter (commuting up and down the Minnesota River Valley). I hope that I can become part of SHAKSPER, and thank you for your efforts in making the whole amazing thing possible. =============================================================================== *Sutton, Catherine <C0SUTT01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU> I have studied Shakespeare as an undergraduate and graduate student at Indiana University where I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the problem plays under the direction of Gene Lawlis. Since then I have taught a variety of students in high schooland college and continued to read and study Renaissance drama. I hope soon to be in a position that will allow me to pursue Shakespeare studies in a more scholarly way. Membership in the network will surely help me accomplish this goal. Thank You, Catherine Sutton =============================================================================== *Wilson-Okamura, David Scott <dswilson@midway.uchicago.edu> David Scott Wilson-Okamura. I am at present a graduate student at the University of Chicago, trying to decide whether to specialize in Wordsworth and Coleridge, Milton, or Shakespeare. After graduating from Stanford (BA, English) I worked in computer publishing for six months, married a classicist, and taught in English in Japan for the better part of a year. I am an old-style textual scholar, not much for modern theory (Aristotle is good), and would like a chance someday to do some editing. =============================================================================== *Suzuki, Mihoko <MSUZUKI@umiami.ir.miami.edu> Mihoko Suzuki is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of _Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic (Cornell UP 1989), which includes chapters on Homer, Virgil, Spenser, and Shakespeare, and articles on Nashe, Spenser, Shakespeare, and other topics in Renaissance and Women's Studies. =============================================================================== *Svenne, Helena <hsvenne@julian.uwo.ca> My name is Helena Svenne and I am a student at the University of Western Ontario, pursuing a Masters of Library and Information Science. My undergraduate degree was in English Literature, hence my interest in joining the Shakespeare list. =============================================================================== *Swaim, Kathleen <Kathleen.Swaim@ENGLISH.umass.edu> Professor of English at UMass/Amherst [01003] I am primarily a Miltonist in publications, but regularly teach Shakespeare as well as Spenser and seventeenth-century literature, and I hope will be found an appropriate participant in SHAKSPER. I am co-editor of "A Concordance to Milton's English Poetry" (Clarendon 1972), of "Before and After the Fall: Contrasting Modes in Paradise Lost" [UMass 1986), and of several dozen articles and reviews, mostly on Milton, and of "Pilgrim's Progress, Puritan Progress: Discourses and Contexts" (forthcoming U Illinois); and a member of the editorial boards of "English Literary Renaissance" and "Milton Studies." Presently I am supervising a graduate student's work of legal issues relating to women in Shakespeare's plays and am myself working on poetry by seventeenth-century women. =============================================================================== *Swan, Jim <PROJIM@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> Jim Swan Department of English 309 Samuel Clemens Hall State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260 Office: (716) 645-2711 E-mail: projim@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu My name is Jim Swan. I am Associate Professor of English at SUNY/Buffalo and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research in the Faculty of Arts & Letters. I am also a member--and past Director--of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. On Shakespeare, I recently published: "_Hamlet_ and the Technology of the Mind's Eye," _Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology_ (Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 1991): 87-101. There I argue--using Freud, Lacan, and current film theory--that it is not so much that Olivier uses film in order to present an oedipal Hamlet as it is that he presents an oedipal Hamlet in order to fulfill the specular desire and logic of mainstream film narrative. My main interest is Shakespeare's relation to media, both Renaissance and 20th century media, and I am particularly interested in the way the technology of the camera has transformed our culture -- and our experience of Shakespeare -- over the past century and a half. Right now, however, my work is focused on the experience of writing, language, and representation in relation to deafness and blindness. The interest in media is still central but now in relation to their transformation or absence due to the unique perceptual experience of the deaf and the blind. I spent last year, 1992-93, as a fellow at the U of Utah Humanities Center at work on a book-length study with the title, "Reading Deaf, Writing Blind: Mind, Body and the Experience of Language." It is, in effect, an elaboration of a recent law-journal article (originally presented as a paper at a joint law and literature conference on intellectual property): "Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship." This essay, along with others from the same conference, has just been published in a volume from Duke UP, titled _The Construction of Authorship_. As part of my project I am putting together a Special Session, titled "Deafness and Writing," for the upcoming MLA convention in San Diego. P.S. My understanding of copyright is that anything I write, as soon as I put it into any readable form, is copyrighted. So, anything I contribute to SHAKSPER is copyrighted already. And this is true of anything contributed by other members of SHAKSPER. With this understanding I would argue for unrestricted duplication and distribution of everything on SHAKSPER, provided that proper credit is given to the author(s). =============================================================================== *Swanson, Michael <swanson@newton.franklincoll.edu> Michael Swanson, Associate Professor of English, Speech, and Theatre & Director of Theatre, Franklin College of Indiana Publications/Presentations: mostly on contemporary British drama, although I have also made presentations on Elizabethan acting troupes and on my dissertation topic, the late 18th century British comic playwright John O'Keeffe, who loved Shakespeare's work so much that the hero of his best-known work, "Wild Oats," is a Shakespearean actor who stages a provincial production of "As You Like It." My professional interest in Shakespeare is from a teaching and directing standpoint. I teach Stage Speech and Oral Interpretation at Franklin using only Shakespeare's texts for material and relying upon the training approach of Cecily Berry of the RSC, who recommends such a textual choice for vocal training for the stage. I also teach dramatic literature and intro to theatre here, and have taught a number of the Bard's plays in those classes. I have recently directed "Rosencrants & Guildenstern Are Dead," and a few years back produced "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)," both of which are, of course, conbtemporary pastiches on Shakespearean characters and plays. I was inspired this past summer by Gary Taylor's "Reinventing Shakespeare," and I have the goal of reading all of Shakespeare and much recent critical and historical work on the Bard over the next two summers. =============================================================================== *Swartz, Andrew <swartzh@hookup.net> My name is Andrew Swartz. I am 17 years old and I attend Upper Canada College, in Toronto. I expect to graduate in June 1995. This summer, I was involved in the Cornell University Summer College program for High School students. I took a course in Critical Reading and Writing, and Interactive Multimedia and Social Issues(Theatre Arts). I have alwys been an avid student of the theatre. I have attended Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan for six summers, each of which I majored in the theatre. My first summer was when I was 9 years old. Some of the productions I have been invloved with at Interlochen include: Williams Window(10 years old), Miracle Worker(James Keller, 13 years old), A Comedy of Errors(a player, 14 years old), and Macbeth(minor roles, 16 years old) which was directed by Roy Henderson, an alumnus of the Royal Shakespearean Company. I have also studied various Shakespeare plays in high school, as they are a required part of the curriculum. Last year, I engaged myself in a challenging independant study project which entailed writing/arranging a play and directing it. The play is called "Love and Lust in Shakespeare" and it is a collection of scenes and monologues, and soliloquies depicting some of the Bard's most memorable moments between men and women(-an idea borrowed with permission from Roy Henderson). The play was a great learning experience for me and remarkably was very succesful. I worked with four actors(2 men, 2 women), myself as director, lighting and sound coordinater, and no budget at all(proceeds from ticket sales went to Colon Cancer Research). The toughest part of the whole project was the writing of the script. I edited the script in such a fashion that there was a continuing story and character development between each scene. This was very difficult considering the scenes were all from different plays. I am very proud of the work, and I hope when I go to University I can continue work on it and continue to improve it. I also am a musician(piano and percussion) and am a member of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. I come from a family with an extensive musical and theatrical background. I am looking forward to becoming a member of the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference, and hope to hear from you soon. =============================================================================== *Swartz, Jennifer <jswartz@kent.edu> My name is Jennifer A. Swartz and I am currently on graduate appointment with the English Department at Kent State University. This is my second and final year in the Masters Program here, after which I hope to pursue my Ph.D. in English. I obtained my B.A. in English at Kent as well (graduating magna cum laude) and heard about this group as a result of one of the classes I am currently taking. Our professor suggested we join the group because it will introduce us not only to a discussion group dedicated to Shakespeare studies, but also to the growing number of on-line discussion groups, which is one of my current interests. Some other projects in which I am involved are my thesis and revising a paper on Jane Austen. =============================================================================== *Swartz, Troy A. <swartz@winnie.susqu.edu> Troy A. Swartz: I cannot say that I am a teacher of Shakespeare, but I definitely can say that I am a student of Shakespeare. I have taken only one course on Shakespeare, but it has spurred my interest to continue on to work in a directed reading and research program in Shakespeare, which shall most specifically focus on the sexuality, race, and gender conflicts that often arise in his works. I believe it is these conflicts that allow us to understand the society of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. I have presented a paper, "Shakespeare's Portrayal of Blacks and Interracial Relationships in 'Othello, The Moor of Venice'", on December 1, 1995, at Susquehanna University's 'Contemporary Shakespeare: An Undergraduate Conference'. =============================================================================== *Swearingen, David <swearingen@liblan.uams.edu> David H. Swearingen, born an American, has lived and traveled in many places of the world. He is presently occupied as a library technician in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Mr. Swearingen is a musician, a poet, a reader. He also dabbles in English history, particularly that of the Restoration, and increasingly of the Elizabethan. Whilst living in England, and having attained sufficient maturity, DHS discovered the world of Shakespeare. In fact, it occurred precisely one evening after several pints at the Dirty Duck. He had just seen Antony Sher's Richard III, and all those pints were not enough to dull the thrill. The next morning, DHS drove back to his village of Lavenham, in Suffolk. He stopped in Sudbury and bought the Complete Works. He's been reading it ever since. He has also found many other things to read: Shakespeare, by Ivor Brown. William Shakespeare, by John Masefield. Shakespeare's Bawdy, by Eric Partridge. William Shakespeare, by A. L. Rowse. William Shakespeare, by Peter Levi. Year of the King, by Antony Sher. The Backgrounds of Shakespeare's Plays, by K.J. Holzknecht. Shakespeare and His Sources, by Joseph Satin. Shakespeare the Boy, by William J. Rolfe. Reinventing Shakespeare, by Gary Taylor. A Casebook on Shakespeare's Sonnets, by Willen & Reed. Prospero's Island, by Noel Cobb. On Shakespeare, by Northrop Frye. And, of course, Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary. Mr. Swearingen considers himself to be a student of Shakespeare. And as a student, he hopes to learn from inclusion on the SHAKSPER LIST. =============================================================================== *Sweeney, Diana <Dhs1029@aol.com> My love affair with Shakespeare began in 1986; my first year of teaching drama at North Hollywood High School. Even though my exposure to the Bard had been limited to the perfunctory read of ROMEO & JULIET in high school and a few dreadful classes in college, I entered the school in the annual DTASC Shakespeare Festival. The two featured plays for the festival were HAMLET and MIDSUMMER. After the very audible moans and groans of the class, we read the plays, picked our material and began rehearsal. It was at that point that Puck creeped in and anointed our minds and hearts because what happened next was truly magic. The students, with their own styles and conceptions, lifted those words off the page and brought them to an incredible life; leaving the festival having placed in the top five of every category we entered. The student's enthusiasm and my renewed interest for Shakespeare has gathered such momentum that now, in addition to the DTASC Festival, we enter each year in several others including the English Speaking Union's Festival where we consistently place in the top of all categories. I now produce and direct a full length Shakespeare play each spring that includes faculty as well as the students and we have standing room only audiences for every performance. We have begun a class devoted entirely to the works of Shakespeare and the class is one of the few that ever has a waiting list. My passion for Shakespeare and the obvious interest of the students has spilled over into the English department where many more plays are being integrated into the core curriculum and we have also begun regularly scheduled evenings where the faculty meets at someone's home to read a Shakespeare play together and discuss it afterwards. This year I am hoping to produce a school wide Shakespeare Festival with each department contributing a booth dedicated to Shakespeare and his influence on their content area. The real miracle in this school-wide passion for Shakespeare is that the school is located in the second highest gang infiltrated area in L.A. Almost 95% of the school's students fall into the poverty level and more than 75% of them speak English as a second language but despite the apparent obstacles these students find that the beauty of the words and the themes of love, courage, betrayal, conspiracy, family honor, etc. transcends those obstacles and take on a definite relevance in their often harsh lives. For the time they are transported to a world of magic and possibilites and the graffiti tarnished walls of their experiences don't seem quite so inpeneratable. For this reason, my own quest for knowledge about Shakespeare and his plays have become my obsession. I attend every workshop I possibly can on any aspect of Shakespeare and his theatre and last summer I was fortunate enough to be awarded an NEH grant to study Shakespeare's Hamlet's with David Scott Kastan at Columbia University. That experience and the incredibly vast knowledge of Professor Kastan opened new doors and possibilities for Shakespeare study that I didn't know existed. Being in the trenches at the High School level leaves little time for research and much of the scholorly work being done in the Universities and by groups such as the Shakespeare Association of America bypass this very important group of educators who are hungry for this type of information and inspiration. The more I know, the more I can pass on to a very unlikely group of students who may become the next generation of Shakspearians. I graduated from Colorado State University in 1973 with a BA in Theatre Arts. I was the Los Angeles Unified School District's Teacher of the Year in 1992-93 and have received several similar awards throughout the County of Los Angeles. I have recently contemplated returning to Graduate school to get a degree with an emphasis on Shakespeare. . =============================================================================== *Sweeney, Dominique <edadominique@ipnet.ins.gu.edu.au> My interest is particularly with mask. At present I'm lecturing and teaching Effective Performance in a Creative Arts program at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Australia. My post graduate research is in the field of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performance. As an actor I have toured with a company in Queensland, The Grin and Tonic Theatre Company, who specialise in Shakespearean productions. I am a 2 year graduate from the Lecoq School in Paris which orients my thinking about theatre towards the power of gesture. And for the power of the word in English I turn to Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Swetman, Margaux <Mjsusm@aol.com> I am a graduate student working on my Ph.D. in English. I am interested in doing research on a topic concerning Titus Andronicus. ============================================================= *Swets, Robert <bobbo@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> Robert D. Swets: I teach English, Journalism, Yearbook, Creative Writing, Drama, Communications, and Religion at Zion Lutheran High School. Have taught at Fort Lauderdale Christian and Bauder College. Music Associate at All Saints Episcopal Church, Fort Lauderdale. Managed to sneak into Holy Trinity in Stratford this summer (sang there with the Florida Philharmonic Chorus) to kiss Shakespeare's grave. Also dragged spousal unit all over creation on the south side of the Thames (and down the banks to walk on the river's bottom) to stomp over Southwark. Have first folio reprint. Write high school sports for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, am Associate Conductor of the Fort Lauderdale Christian Chorale. Like Roger Quilter's settings of Shakespeare's songs best. =============================================================================== *Swilley, Louis C <lcsswill@tenet.edu> LOUIS CHARLES SWILLEY, M.A., University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Retired professor of English, Chairman of Department of English at University of St. Thomas, Houston Texas; teacher and Chairman of English Department at St. Thomas High School, Houston, Texas. (A total of 38 years). With a private reading group for the last four years, I have continued studies in Dante, Shakespeare, Henry James, and, currently, the history of the novel - both in weekly meetings and by internet discussion. We return constantly to problems in Shakespeare's plays, a recent and continuing discussion concerning Brutus and Portia in "Julius Caesar." =============================================================================== *