Tachibana, Asami NAME: (Ms) Asami Tachibana DEPARTMENT: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences INSTITUTION: Iwate University, Japan BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: I studied English literature and critical theory at the postgraduate course, the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Also studied critical and cultural theory at University of Wales College of Cardiff for a year. I have written two essays on Shakespeare's romances, one on Hamlet, which have been published in periodicals in Japan. I have also written two essays on poststructuralist theory. CURRENT INTERESTS: Now I'm teaching English at Iwate University. I'm supposed to teach not only reading and writing English but critical theories such as feminist criticism or theories of postmodernism. I want to read Shakespeare with my students, but it seems too difficult for them. I believe they can do it if they try hard. So I would like to know how to make my students interested in Shakespeare and other English drama and invite them to enjoy these things with (I admit) their limited skills in English. =============================================================================== *Taft, Edmund M. Since I have applied to become a SHAKSPERean, let me just tell you, briefly, that I am a Professor of English at Marshall University whose specialties are Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and bibliography. I am also a member of the SAA and Director of Graduate Studies here at Marshall. ============================================================= *Takeda, Yoshiaki Yoshiaki Takeda, who is a part-time instructor in English, Department of General Education, Ishikawa National Collage of Technology, Japan. He was born in 1960 and attended a collage of science, before proceeding to the graduate school of English literature, Kanazawa University, where he got M.A. As an amateur Shakespearean, he sometimes contributes Shakespearean essays to some journals, e.g. Kanazawa English Studies, Japan Central English. He is now interested in new critical methods, especially in Computer Applications. =============================================================================== *Takeuchi, Fumiko My name is Fumiko Takeuchi. I am an Associate Professor of Meiji College of Pharmacy in Japan. I have majored in Shakespeare since my youth. When I was a student of Tokyo University about thirty years ago, I was directed and instructed by Professor Jiro Ozu, who was the pioneer of Shakespeare study in Japan. The title of my thesis for the degrees of M. A. was Twelfth Night and Elizabethan Comedy'. I started to work as an English teacher of Kyoritu Junior Women's College in 1975. Since I got a position as associate professor of Meiji College of Pharmacy in 1988, I have written some papers about Elizabethan Drama for the bulletin of my college. The titles of my recent papers are as follows. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the classics (1996) Social Elements and Dramatic Power in As You Like It (1993) Satirical Elements in The Merry Wives in Windsor (1990) I am now interested in the relation between Shakespeare and Ovid. I examine what Shakespeare learned from Ovid and how he made his drama. ============================================================= *Tam, Ronnie My name is Ronnie Tam and I'm a Grade 11 high school student. I'm 17 years old and the reason why I'd like to subscribe is so that I can get more ideas about Shakespeare's works. I am in an enriched English class at school and if I subscribe, I might be able to participate more in the discussions. I live in Nepean, Ontario and go to St. Pius X High School. I am in French immersion so I can speak French fairly fluently and English fluently. I'm also in Grade 10 piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music and will be doing my practical exam in June. I've worked part time at a video store for two years and enjoy working. This summer I hope to get a full time job but it is quite difficult finding a job. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at ar634@freenet.carleton.ca. =============================================================================== *Tamaki, Manabe My name is Tamaki MANABE. I was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1969. I graduated from Tsuda College in Tokyo in 1993 and finished a postgraduate master course in the same college in 1996. I have been studying Renaissance Literature, especially Shakespeare. In 1996 I went to England and studied Renaissance Literature at University of Reading as a postgraduate student. My supervisor was Professor Andrew Gurr and he told me this mailing list!!! In Univ. of Reading, I studied the relationship between the emergence of nationhood and Shakespeare's (history) plays with Professor Gurr's advice, and I got MA degree. Last December, I had finished all my research in Reading and came back to Japan. Now I am doing Ph.D. in University of Tsukuba, Japan. My supervisor is Professor Yukio Kato, a specialist in Shakespeare. I am still interested in Shakespeare's drama and continue my research. My current interest is the relationship between nationalism and Renaissance Literature. In particular, I am very interested in the recent academic debate on the emergence of nationhood and Shakespeare's history plays. On this weekend, Dr. Greenblatt will come to Japan and give us some lectures and seminars on history and Shakespeare plays in Tokyo and other cities. I am really looking forward to his lecture!!! Of course, I will be very excited at the discussion on SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Tan, Adrian Name: Adrian Si-Houh Tan Department: Classics and Ancient History Institution: University of Sydney Biographical Sketch: Undergraduate studying art/law. I hope to write a thesis on ancient literary criticism. ============================================================= *Tanaka, Akio I am currently teaching English as a foreign language at Science University of Tokyo. My primary interests are in phonetics-- the intonational pattern of English, in particular. But, since I am not teaching English as a liguistic science in my class, I use, as teaching materials, anything which might interest the students. We have watched BBC video versions of Shakespeare's plays. I am looking forward to reading interesting discussions on SHAKSPER. ======================================================================== *Taneya, Atsuko My full name is Atsuko Taneya and I am a Japanese actress. I was a member of TAKARAZUKA THEATER in Japan and I came to U.S. 14 years ago to expand my acting skill. I am a member of Actors Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild. I am currently in the play 'TEA' at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle WA. This summer I shot the BBC-TV film 'Prisnors in Time' with John Hurt in London and Thailand. I am not a native English speaker, nor a scholar but I am very much fascinated by Shakespear's world. I do not think that I am not capable to join your group discussion but if you allow me to observe and to learn from your group, I would be really honored. If you want my acting career resume and reviews I would love to mail it to you. =============================================================================== *Tanner, Marcia Current Area Coordinator (Department Chair) of 16-person Okemos High School English Department, Okemos, Michigan. Currently teaching two sections of Advanced Placement English - Literature and Composition and three sections of Communications Lab (Co-Coordinator), delivering major sections of the writing and research program to the student body and writing curriculum. BA, Michigan State University (1965); MA, Michigan State University (1969). Currently studying American Sign Language, and one of my interests is variations in dramatic interpretation through multiple media (signing, music, color etc.). I have been teaching since 1965, and I am a generalist (as I believe most high school teachers are), interested in a > variety of areas, including the study of Shakespeare. Shakespearean plays I currently teach: _King Lear_, _Othello_, and _Hamlet_. Also included in our department's curriculum are _Romeo and Juliet_, _Julius Caesar_, _The Tempest_, _Twelfth Night_, _As You Like It_, _A Mid-Summer Night's Dream_, _Richard III_, _Macbeth_, and _Merchant of Venice_ (and probably others done on a small-group, independent study basis). This past year I did something which probably would make most purists shudder, but my students produced some wonderful material with it and gained insight beyond what I had expected. I had them work in pairs to create a surrealistic art work based on either _King Lear_ or _Othello_ or on the interplay of themes and characterization. Some truly excellent thinking and work was produced. =============================================================================== *Tarbox, Rachel My name is Rachel Tarbox and I am a junior at Marlboro College in Vermont. I am currently conducting independent research for my undergraduate thesis in Literature and Education. By the suggestion of a number of my professors I would like to request a subscription to the Shakespeare Electronic Conference. =============================================================================== *Tashma-Baum, Miri My name is Miri Tashma-Baum, and I am a doctoral student in the English department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. I see Shakespeare as my major interest; I have written several papers and have also taught the Introduction to Shakespeare classes in the English Department. My M.A. thesis was on Sir Walter Ralegh, with indirect reference to Shakespeare. I am currently interested in pastoral literature and have done some work on "As You Like It" in this respect. I have a BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem =============================================================================== *Tashma-Baum, Miri I would like to join the Shaksper mailing list. My name is Miri Tashma-Baum and I am a doctoral student at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. I am writing my dissertation on Renaissance pastoral literature, focusing on Spenser and Marvell, from a theoretical perspective combining a New Historicist with a Lacanian psychoanalytical approach. I have a BA and an MA from the Hebrew University. I have also spent a year of my graduate studies at Oxford University, England. ============================================================= *Tate, Joseph I am currently a first year MA/PhD student pursuing my degree in Shakespeare. I graduated summa cum laude with a BA in both English and History with a focus on early modern England. A portion of my undergrad degree was spent at the U. of Warwick in Coventry, England where I studied early modern social history, medieval history and Shakespeare. At UW am attempting to devise a formalist hermeneutic that can join semantic content, historical specificity and meter in a meaningful discussion of Shakespeare's plays. ============================================================ *Tatsuki, Aeka My name is Aeka Tatsuki, a college student of Notre Dame Women's College in Kyoto, Japan. I am now in junior (3rd year of college), and my seminar is Shakespear one. I am undergraduates, so no contributions nor degrees yet. My interest now is how to relate literature to computer. Most of all, I am thinking that great classical works such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, ... are going to be 'reborn' via computer as hypertexts especially among the youth. =============================================================================== *Tawiah-Boateng, John Kwame My full name is John Kwame Tawiah-Boateng, and I am a graduate student in the English Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. My postal address is 2155 Monastery Lane, Appt. #110, Halifax, N.S., B3H, 4P9, and my home telephone number is (902) 429 8617. I did my undergraduate studies in English and French at the University of Ghana, Legon, in Accra, and Dakar University in Senegal. My honors undergraduate dissertation was on The Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot's Drama (about 100 pages). After a brief teaching spell at St. Peter's Secondary School in Ghana, I lived in Ivory Coast where I worked as a translator and news monitor first with the News Agency of Nigeria and then with the U.S. Broadcast Information Service. I also worked as a part- time news monitor and stringer for the Reuters News Agency for 8 years. I hope that the above biographical information is adequate, otherwise I will be prepared to supply any other information that may be deemed necessary. Shakespearan, and indeed Renaissance Studies at large, constitute an area of great interest to me, and my current areas of focus are Gender and Textual Studies. While I do not have any item handy to present immediately, I am working on a major research paper which is due next March, on Hysteria in Shakespeare's Female Characters -- actually it is basically Shakespeare with some Webster, and I will provide an update as the work progresses. I will be happy to provide the List with a copy as soon as the paper has been completed and used for its basic purpose in my seminar. I am very keen to put across some ideas of interest and questions to other SHAKSPER members as soon as you confirm my membership. =============================================================================== *Taylor, Alan Alan C. Taylor: I, a lowly undergraduate, have no such credentials save the desire to learn and benefit from those who are learned in the realm of Shakespeare study. I believe that my inclusion will benefit me as I am planning to attend graduate study in this field. =============================================================================== *Taylor, Dennis Dennis Taylor is a professor at Boston College and editor of the journal, Religion and the Arts. He is a scholar of the history of poetry, and of religion and literature. His books include Hardy's Poetry 1860-1928 (revised edition, Macmillan, 1989), Hardy's Metres and Victorian Prosody (Oxford, 1988), Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology (Oxford, 1993), and Jude the Obscure (ed.) (Penguin 1998). His current book project is on Shakespeare and Post-Reformation Trauma, a study of the Catholic question. ============================================================= *Taylor, Jefferey My name is Jefferey Taylor and I'm a doctoral candidate in Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. I am currently beginning dissertation research in Medieval drama, specifically examining the medieval mystical unity of time and how the mystery cycles use time and history to define culture and community. I am also very interested in new historicism and cultural materialism in Renaissance studies, and have just completed a study of these critical methods. I would like to work on criticism of these methods and apply some nh and cm methods to Medieval studies. I am also the Computer liaison for the Dept. of English here at SIU and am presently trying to convince GAs, faculty and whoever to make use of the Internet. I look forward to participating on the Shakespeare List. =========================================================================== *Taylor, Leslie A Doctoral Candidate in English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, my major area of study is Renaissance Literature. I am currently working on my dissertation, "Gendered Creation: The Form/Matter Duality of Creation Tradition in Spenser's The Faerie Queene," in which I apply theories and models of the form/matter duality to a series of literatures from the Classical through the Medieval periods, culminating in a discussion of Spenser's and other Renaissance writers' application of this duality. I have a particular interest in the genre of epic and recently had the pleasure of designing and teaching a course on oral-based and written epics to first-year honors students. I will be presenting a paper on Much Ado about Nothing at the Ohio Shakespeare Conference in March. =============================================================================== *Taylor, Miles My name is Miles Taylor, and I am a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, where I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Early Modern literature in the English department. I took my Master's degree here in 1994. My essay, (d)Enunciations of National Subjectivity in 3 Henry VI, was recently part of a panel at the Sixteenth Century Conference, held in Toronto this past October. I am currently preparing for my oral exams while doing the preliminary research for my prospectus. The focus of my work has been on representations of English history in Elizabethan and Stuart drama and poetry. I am interested in exploring the body of these plays in relation to the shift in historiography during this period. I am also interested in exploring the ways in which, using an amalgam of the ideas of Victor Turner and Michel Foucault, we might read these plays as rituals of exclusion (and inclusion) in the process of defining national subjectivity. Two books which I have found useful to this project are Phyllis Rackin's Stages of History, and Richard Helgerson's Forms of Nationhood. I think, however, that there is a lot more to be said on the subject, especially when (as Helgerson in part does in his chapter on Shakespeare's histories) the scope of the project is inclusive of a number of history plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries: Peele, Rowley, Dekker, Heywood, Marlowe. =============================================================================== *Taylor, Roger Lee Roger Taylor :I got a late start on my "real" education because I made a detour into Air Force Intelligence and Russian Language. I felt I was unprepared for college on graduation from high school...so the Air Force immediately sent me to Syracuse University to learn Russian. I got out just as Vietnam was heating up, but late enough to still be classified as a Vietnam Veteran. My career has been markedly unremarkable. A few years at Beaufort Co. Technical Institute in Washington, North Carolina, then at Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina. In 1978, I moved to my current position at Western Wyoming College. I have published a few small pieces of little consequence. Most of my writing has concentrated on logical investigations: a piece in The Skeptical Inquirer examining a UFO claim (1985) and a chapter in a recent book edited by Joe Nickell entitled Psychic Sleuths, examining the claims of an alleged psychic who allegedly solved a murder via long distance. On top of that I wrote a weekly film review column for The Casper Star Tribune. In 1986, I participated in the Dartmouth Dante Institute - one of the true highlights of my life. Then in 1987, I was awarded a Fulbright to go to Italy - another highlight. Here at the school, I teach the usual composition and introductory classes in English as well as Masterpieces of World Literature, Film Appreciation, and Astronomy (another diversion). I am also the resident computer troubleshooter; things just seem to work for me when they won't work for anyone else. I am apparently good enough at it that college has given me release time to do it. I also wrote the college's evaluation scanning, tabulation, and storage program; I can still kick myself for not weighting the responses everytime the program hit "Roger Taylor". And finally I wrote the college's complete web site which is temporarily at "ftp://ferret.wcc.edu/REPORT. SHARE/WWC/WWW/files/wwcc.html" Despite the "ftp" address you still need a browser to get it to work probably...it's not my fault! I have a page buried in it with all my syllabi for the semester and more. =============================================================================== *Taylor, Tery My interest in your list is mainly to be an eavse-dropper, I am teaching English Literature in Turkey under a grant from from The United States Information Service. I have been asked to teach and Introduction to Shakspeare course next term. My background is mainly linguistic with an undergraduate degree in literature. I have no desire to waste your time and if you think that this list is not where I might find help to my teaching concerns please refer me to a place where I might be able to have my questions and those of my students answered. Please also be aware that I am teaching in a very small town in rural Turkey and my resources are limited. ============================================================= *Taylor, William L. <74642.2511@compuserve.com> William L. Taylor: My Bachelor's degree was in chemistry (Seattle University, 1956), and I worked for five years at the Boeing Company before returning to school as an English major. I did my graduate work at the University of Washington (1966), and have been teaching at Seattle U. since 1963, with a single year at California State University at Sacramento and two years at Utsunomiya University in Utsunomiya, Japan. I have taught "Shakespeare's Tragedies" and "Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories," undergraduate and graduate, but concentrate now upon "Shakespeare in Performance." I also teach the "Renaissance Literature" course in the Seattle University Honors Program, which is over half Shakespeare, and several courses dealing with Japanese art, literature and culture, including "Japanese Drama" (Kabuki, Noh, Kyogen, and Bunraku). I teach "Film and Literature," and of course, I use film and video a great deal in my Shakespeare courses. Though it is a topic outside my academic preparation, I have developed some expertise in Japanese art and drama, and have lectured at the Seattle Art Museum and elsewhere on Japanese woodblock prints and their relationship to Western Impressionism, and on Noh drama. I have commented from the stage during performances in Seattle of the "Grand Kabuki" of Japan, and recorded the "Earphone Guide," which provided simultaneous translation and commentary, for their twelve-city, forty-performance tour associated with the Good Will Games in 1990. For about a dozen years when I was younger, I was active as an amateur and semi-professional actor, performing with such people as Mercedes McCambridge, Edward Everett Horton, John Carradine, Sterling Holloway, and Rita Moreno. In recent years, I have been acting again, in campus productions at Seattle U. In over two hundred productions, however, I have played only one Shakespearean role, Theseus, in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. I am currently participating in a yearlong institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., entitled "Examining Shakespeare through Performance," conducted by Alan Dessen (University of North Carolina) and Audrey Stanley (University of California, Santa Cruz), and involving sixteen participants from universities across the country. We meet in Washington for one weekend per month, September through May, and engage in a wide range of activities related to Shakespearean performance, interpretation, criticism, and pedagogy. It is likely that my work there will lead to something I would like to contribute to the SHAKSPER on-line archive. =============================================================================== *Teague, Anthony Full name: Anthony Teague. Associate Professor and Department Chair of the English Department, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. (CPO Box 1142, Seoul 100-611; Tel. (2) 7058301. Fax (2) 7018962. Oxford University BA(1964) MA (1967) MLitt. Member International Shakespeare Association, The Shakespeare Association of Korea. Main interests: introducing the writing of medieval and renaissance Europe to Koreans by teaching courses and writing about related topics. Previous publication: Classical and Biblical Backgrounds to Western Literature, Sogang University Press, Seoul, 1989. Previous articles include: 'Korean Prospects: some thoughts on recent directions in medieval and renaiss- ance studies, with reference to a Far Eastern context' in The Renaissance Bulletin, The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 13 1986. 'Virtue called Ungratefulness: a reading of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and other renaissance texts' in English Language and Literature, Seoul, vol 33.4 1987. 'Suffering, trust and hope in English renaissance literature' in The Renaissance Bulletin, The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 14 1987. 'Shakespeare's Monsters of Ingratitude' in The Shakespeare Review, Seoul, 17 1990. Now working on a textbook for a survey course of English literature for use in Korea, concentrating on the earlier periods, taking account of modern interests while including enough actual text and summary to allow the book to be used without other texts being needed. Also interested in translation questions; have published four volumes of Korean contemporary verse in English: 'Wastelands of Fire' 'A Korean Century' being poems by Ku Sang (1919- ) 'Faint Shadows of Love' by Kwang-kyu Kim (1941- ) 3 vols published by Forest Books, London. 'Infant Splendor' poems by Ku Sang publ by Samsong Press, Seoul. Also founding member and committee member of Asian Society for Literature and Religion. Personally, am a member of the Community of Taize, France, and am more often known as 'Brother Anthony' than any other form of name but that should not frighten anyone. Participated as an auditor in last summer's World Shakespeare Congress, Tokyo. Fascinated by the possibilities offered by email to scholars far-removed from the centres of scholarship and lacking any proper library. Good luck. ========================================================================= *Teague, Fran Fran Teague Dept. of English Univ.. of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 E-mail: FTEAGUE@UGA.edu Phone Office 706-542-2192; Home 706-543-0860 FAX Office 706-542-2181; Home 706-546-6539 My research interests are performance history and theory, although I read fairly widely. I've published a performance history _The Curious History of "Bartholomew Fair"_ and a performance analysis _Shakespeare's Speaking Properties_; John Velz and I edited Joseph Crosby's letters under the title _"One Touch of Shakespeare"_ and I've done a collection based on an SAA seminar, _Acting Funny: Comic Theory and Practice in Shakespeare_ that will be out later this year. =============================================================================== *Teeter, Robert I am not affiliated with any university, but I am an amateur (in the best sense) devotee of Shakespeare's works. I read and reread the plays and poems. I have attended productions of Shakespeare's plays every year since 1981 in Ashland, Oregon, but I have also seen them other places, from Berkeley to London. This is why I would like to read what professors, students, and other amateurs have to say about Shakespeare. (And I would like to contribute my own ideas once in awhile.) =============================================================================== *Tempera, Mariangela MARIANGELA TEMPERA - Associate Professor of English, University of Ferrara, Italy. Director of the "Centro Shakespeariano" at Ferrara. Editor of "Shakespeare dal testo alla scena" (Bologna, Clueb): collections of essays on individual plays, 12 volumes have appeared so far. Co-editor of "A scuola con Shakespeare" (Comune di Ferrara): collections of materials produced by Ferrara school teachers. Co-editor of "The Renaissance Revisited" (Bologna, Clueb): collections of essays on groups of plays. Current interests: "Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare on video. =============================================================================== *Templeton, Michael Michael William Templeton: I recently completed my undergraduate degreee in English Literature at Marlboro College. I returned to college to complete my BA after a 7 year break between my last college endeavor and Marlboro. I am presently working as an admissions counselor while I prepare my graduate school applications. I have every intention of continuing the work that I started at Marlboro. Marlboro is unique in that it requires all students to complete a senior thesis. My thesis, or Plan of Concetration as it is known, was entitled: The Figure of the Outsider in Shakespeare and some of His Contemporaries. This involved an examination of Othello, Measure for Measure, The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. I was particularly interested in looking at those characters who are explicitly or implicitly marginalized by the guiding discourse of power that seemed to pervade the text. These characters ranged from the central figures, like Barabas and Othello, to the marginal and even liminal characteres of Measure for Measure-- the street people and bawds that seem to take over the play during the absence of the Duke. My approach to Shakespeare bears a close affinity to certain notions that have come to be known as New Historicism. However, I remain guarded against allowing my approach to literature to coalesce into any kind of essentialism. One of the things that I hoped to achieve in my Plan was a kind of critique of the New Historicist approach to Shakespeare. My degree of success in this is left to the reader to decide. I have found some of the discussions given by Jonathan Dollimore and Franes Barker, for example, to be a little too elemental. That is to say that, I find their interrogation of Tillyard's Elizabethan World Picture at times becomes as reductive as Tillyard. Many New Historicist cirtiques tend to accept certain grand narratives, the rise of the middle class for example, a little to readily. I am presently intrigued by the work of Peter Stallybras and Margreta de Grazia. They have raised some very interesting questions regarding textual authority. How are we to interpret the text when we have many variations of any given text. I find these kinds of muddy questions to be interesting. =============================================================================== *Teplitz, Harry My name is Harry Teplitz. I'm currently a grad student in the UCLA department of Physics and Astronomy. While my primary career path is science, I have been interested in Shakespeare, both as drama and literature, for a long time. I have been actively involved in student drama groups since my first year in college. I attended MIT as an undergraduate (graduating in 1991). For four years I was a member of the Shakespeare Ensemble at MIT, a student group dedicated to performance of the plays. Amoung the roles I played with the Ensemble were MacBeth in _MacBeth_ and Cloten in _Cymbeline_. Also at MIT, I minored in literature. I am now at UCLA, where I helped to found a student group committed to both performance of Shakespeare and exploration of the plays through weekly round-table readings. As part of this group, I have had the opportunity to direct _Twelfth Night_ and to play Shylock in _The Merchant of Venice_. While my current efforts are mostly in performance (acting and directing), I am also interested in the academic understanding of the work. In drama, my focus is non-traditional casting and ensemble productions. =============================================================================== *Tessier, Jeff Currently working on "Richard II", focusing on Shakespeare's use of source texts in constructing the character Richard. Generally interested in the relationship between the political and the spiritual in Shakespeare's characters. =============================================================================== *Testman, Satia B. My name is Satia Renee Testman and this Saturday I will be celebrating my fourteenth wedding anniversary. I am the mother of three children (13, 11 and 11---yes, they are twins) and am currently a full-time student at Kennesaw State College in Georgia. I am a Secondary-English Education major and I am looking forward to the opportunity to teach Shakespeare. It is my hope that I will be able to stimulate in each of my students the same love of literature that I have. Especially, that my own enthusiasm for Shakespeare will encourage them to read texts outside of the required readings in class. Thus far I have only read Shakespeare for pleasure. I would like my understanding of his works to be more thorough that I might best teach my future students. I believe that all children should have access to the best education. For me, this means great literature. And where else would I start than at the feet of the Bard? =============================================================================== *Tetens, Kristan Name: Kristan Tetens Title: Editor Department: University Publications Institution: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Independent scholar specializing in 19th-c. English and American theatre history, especially productions of Shakespeare. Received a research grant from the Society for Theatre Research in 1993 to study the American visits of English actor Henry Irving (1838-1905) and the reception of his productions in Detroit, Michigan. Current interests include cultural exchanges between England and the U.S. in the form of touring stars, particularly those with one or more Shakespearean plays in their repertoires; the formation of community Shakespeare study groups in the U.S. during the 19th century; and the use of scenes from Shakespeare in the training of actors during the 19th century. Education: B.A., Theatre and English, Michigan State University, 1986 M.A., American Studies, Michigan State University, 1993 Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan, planned Surface mail: Kristan Tetens University Publications Michigan State University 447 Berkey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Telephone: 517/355-3299 Fax:517/336-1325 =============================================================================== *Thackeray, Francis I am a palaeontologist with a background in archaeology and biology, and have general interests in art and literature. The focus of my scientific research is on human evolution. I grew up in Pretoria and was educated at the University of Cape Town and at Yale University where I obtained a PhD in Anthropology. I am Head of the Department of Palaeontology at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria where important fossils representing distant ancestors of humankind are curated. In the course of my career I have excavated at archaeological cave sites, notably at Wonderwerk Cave which yielded stones that had been engraved. This stimulated an interest in prehistoric rock art, and I have published several articles on this subject. Of particular interest are images which can be interpreted in terms of altered states of consciousness. It is now recognised that artists in many regions of the world may have used hallucinogens in prehistory as well as in recent times, and that these substances can have been used as stimulants and sources of inspiration for imagery expressed in art. I have published on these and other topics in various journals, including Science, the South African Archaeological Bulletin, and Antiquity. I have had an interest in Shakespeare since a young age, and would be very pleased to participate in activities run by SHAKSPER. In particular, I would welcome the opportunity to contribute a number of ideas as to how certain texts may be interpreted. ============================================================= *Thiel, Greg My name is Greg Thiel. I have a B.A. in English from the University of Toronto and am currently enrolled in library school. Shakespeare and other Eliza-bean dramatists were my favourite area of study and I am interested in this bulletin board mainly to find out what is being talked about. My e-mail address is Thiel@flis.utoronto.ca My snail mail address is Greg Thiel 2250 Portway Avenue Mississauga, Ontario L5H 3M7 =============================================================================== *Thigpen, Joshua D. I am a sophomore undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, applying to this list of my own interest. I am a double major: theatre and honors English, and I am active in both departments. I have never published, nor am I possessing of any unique qualifications. I would very much like, however, to be admitted to this list-I believe that it will be a benefit to me, both academically and personally. ============================================================= *Thimmesh, Hilary D. John B. Thomas, III Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center HRC 4.106 University of Texas Austin, Texas 78713 (512) 476-4676 lyaa066@utxvm My name is John B. Thomas, III. I am Chief, Rare Book Cataloguing, and Curator of the Pforzheimer Collection of Early English Literature at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin. I received both my B. A. (majors: English and History) and M. L. S. (specialization: rare books) from the University of Texas. I was a librarian at the Yale Center for British Art before I took my present position here. My publications have been in the areas of rare book librarianship, especially cataloguing, and the construction of form and genre thesauri for rare books. I am a member of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Associa- tion of College and Research Libraries, and have either chaired or been a member of several of its committees, e. g., Standards; MARC for Special Collections; and Transfer of Materials. I am interested in joining your group because of my duties as curator of the Pforzheimer Collection, which includes all the early folios, and many early quartos, of Shakespeare. Much else to do with him, and with his contem- poraries, is also here, including a great deal of Bacon material. =============================================================================== *Thomas, Jurgen A. With reference to your request for a bio, let it suffice to say that I am a retired academic, appointed to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners by Governor Weld last year. Since our commission votes annually on the distribution of millions of dollars for internet access for public libraries, I am trying to get aquainted personally with activities on the internet. Your list caught my eye as a conspicuously academic one, and I would like to monitor it for a time. Thank you for your consideration. Jurgen A. Thomas Commissioner Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners 648 Beacon Street Boston MA 02215 (jthomas@williams.edu) =============================================================================== *Thomas, M. I receieved my PhD from U Penn in 1993, and am currently an assitant professor at the University of Iowa. Although my writing is on non-dramatic texts (poetry, commonplace books, London-as-metropolis), I have a pedagogic interest in SH. In addition to teaching the undergraduate SH survey course, I am developing a book/reading/literary history course which will take SH texts from early quartos to the present as its field of investigation (this course is part of a Book Studies degree that we're developing through the Iowa Center for the Book). =============================================================================== *Thomas, Martin Completed undergraduate degree in English Literature (Medieval and Renaissance) at Cardiff University Wales UK 1996. Master of Art Degree in English Literature at Cardiff University Wales UK 1997. Post Graduate Certificate in Education at Cardiff University Wales UK 1998. I am a lecturer in English at Yale College of Further Education in Wrexham North Wales. I have just begun to research Wilke Collins for my Phd which I am beginning (P/T) at Cardiff University. Interests: Post-structuralist Critical Theory, Renaissance Drama, Medieval Drama, Chaucer, Gender Studies (esp. late medieval/early renaissance) Wilke Collins & The Novel of Sensation (as a break from the early material!) ============================================================= *Thomas, Max W. My appointment at Iowa is in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, and my PhD training was at the University of Pennsylvania. Although I am not our primary Shakespearean, I do teach the basic undergraduate course on occasion, and I teach a course called "Shakespeare and the Book" (for both advanced undergraduates and graduate students), which combines material book studies, cultural history, editorial and textual theory, reception history, and "shakespearotics." The course is based on the premise that some version of the plays and poems have been continuously in print since the 1590s, and it considers both the diachrony of Shakespearean reproduction and the synchrony of Shakespeare-as-cultural-production. My research interests include the emergence of the early modern metropolis (London, in particular), technologies of writing and reproduction, and early modern conceptions of memory. Most recently, I have completed a book-length study, entitled "Practice of Poetry and Matter of Memory in Early Modern England," which focuses on manuscript commonplace books in order to theorize an early modern practice of writing which is heterogeneous, non-author-centered, and insistently memorial in its function. =============================================================================== *Thomason, Selena My name is Selena Thomason and I am currently working in the Box Office of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. I was previously subscribed to SHAKSPER while a student at Catholic University (also in DC). My old school e-mail address was 71thomason@cua.edu; my address is now SelenaT@Shakespearedc.org. I recently completed degree requirements for a BA in Drama at Catholic University and anticipate graduation in March. I am particularly interested in feminist criticism as it relates to Shakespeare. My senior project was on "The Taming of the Shrew" and I remain especially interested in that play. =============================================================================== *Thomason, Selena <71THOMASON@CUA.EDU> My name is Selena Thomason and I am currently a senior drama major at The Catholic University of America. For my senior project I am working on feminist criticism and especially what it has to say about Shakespeare's plays. The second part of my project focuses specifically on the production history of Taming of the Shrew. I am looking at productions from different time periods and comparing/contrasting their treatment of women and the "taming." I plan to graduate with a BA in Drama at the end of this semester (December). =============================================================================== *Thompson, Elsi N. Hello, my name is Elsi Thompson. I'm an undergraduate at New Mexico State University where my major is currently Theater but inclining towards English. I'm also a Crimson Scholar with a 4.0 GPA. I'm taking an advanced Shakespeare course, but I'm fascinated by Shakespeare irrespective of the class. I'll admit I haven't read very many of the plays yet (mostly the histories so far, a few of the comedies, and all of the sonnets.) I intend to rectify this as part of the course I'm taking and, with luck, as part of this discussion group. =============================================================================== *Thompson, Jane Alice Jane Alice Thompson, instructor, English Department, Mount Mary College; graduate student, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee I was born and raised in Milwaukee; my BA is in English, from Rockford College in Rockford, IL. At present I am teaching Composition, though I am scheduled to teach two literature classes this summer (1995)--neither, alas, is about Shakespeare. My research interests are various, but those connected with Shakespeare are performance criticism and feminist criticism. =============================================================================== *Thompson, Karen My name is Karen Thompson. I am currently a sophmore at East Texas Baptist University. I was born on august the 18, 1979 in Tyler, Tx. In my early childhood my parents moved often, never staying in one place for more than 2 years. At the age of 7 my parents decided to move to Ecuador, South America. After living one year in Costa Rica, we finally moved to Ecuador, where I lived until graduation from High School. I decided to attend ETBU and continue my education. My major is Secondary Education with my emphasis in Spanish, and possibly a minor in English. This semester I decided to take a class in world literature, which increased my interest in Shakespeare. I want to learn as much as possible and hear other opinions about his work, life, interest, etc. ============================================================= *Thompson, Kate My name is Kate Thompson. I am currently working as a computer technician for Symantec Corp (gotta have that day job). I also, however, hold a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon and have considerable experience performing Shakespeare and the works of his contemporaries. My primary interests: the role of women in the History plays, political commentary in the Jacobean drama and the theatre ban of 1642 (steps a little out of the realm of "only" Shakespeare, but still applies to S's later works). And, of course, any discussions of performance problems and/or character interpretation, in particular those relating to "Hamlet". (the play, not just the character. =============================================================================== *Thompson, Torri Interests: early modern domesticity; medicine; lesbian subjectivity; STC texts ============================================================= *Thomson, Leslie Leslie Thomson U of Toronto, Erindale College Department of English Asst. Prof. lthomson@epas.utoronto.ca work: 416-828-3734 home: 929-0989 Erindale College Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6 Canada Shakespeare Assoc. of America ACUTE MLA SHAKSPER My particular research interest is Renaissance drama, specifically Thomas Middleton and, of course, Shakespeare. My focus is on matters of original staging and theatre history. I am currently editing Middleton's *Anything for a Quiet Life* for the forthcoming Oxford edition. =============================================================================== *Thornton, John W. My name is John William Thornton, and I am currently attending Grand Valley State University, just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon receipt of my Bachelor's degree in English Literature, I plan to continue studying the same at the graduate level. My goal is to teach college English. Currently, I am enrolled in a Shakespeare course, the reading list for which consists of six plays. Unless I am way off the mark with my interpretation of the purpose of your list, I believe that I could gain a great deal from the discussion threads, and that I could contribute a great deal as well. =============================================================================== *Thurman, Susan I'm Susan Thurman. I teach high school English at Henderson County, Kentucky. This year I teach British lit, American lit and an elective in mysteries. I am the co-author of _Currents--Henderson's River Book_, which is a local history of stories connected with our town's association with the Ohio River. I am the editor of _Class Act_, a newsletter for teachers of English in grades 5-12, and have written many articles for that. Currently, the only Shakespearean project I have going is transcribing a tape I made of my recent tour of London's new Globe. Fascinating tidbits in the tour! =============================================================================== *Tibbetts, Ted My name is Ted Tibbetts. Kenneth Rothwell suggested that I write to you. I served under him as a teaching assistant at the University of Vermont. Currently I teach English at Portland High School in Portland, Maine. In addition to my regular teaching responsibilities I teach a year long elective "Shakespeare: Text, Screen and Stage." In addition, I am the faculty advisor for a student dramatic organization that performs Shakespearean plays. ============================================================= *Tidwell, Gale My name is Gale Tidwell. I teach AP Literature, process writing in a computer lab setting, English composition and early British Literature at a high school in southwest Florida. The comp and British lit courses are in conjunction with the local community college for dual credit. I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Conecticut and a Master's Degree in English from the University of South Florida. As an undergraduate I majored in English and minored in political science. I use telecommunications quite a bit in the classroom. Last spring I was invited to attend the European Conference on Telecommunications in Vienna to present the results of a three year project using telecommunications with classes in Denmark, Norway and Estonia. I also was involved in an epistolary Shakespeare project with an instructor in Ohio. Our classes exchanged letters and diary entries which chronicalogically told the story of Macbeth. =============================================================================== *Tiedeman, Ann I work for a private company, but I have spent the summer working on an interactive King Lear project that will be put on the Web this Fall. I feel very out of touch with the academic community and I feel it would be to my benefit to have some scholarly feedback on this project before the site is formally announced. I also think some of your subscribers might be interested in the Lear project. =============================================================================== *Tiffany, Grace Enclosed is a brief biographical sketch as requested. I'm Grace Tiffany, assistant professor of Shakespeare at the English Department of the University of New Orleans. I've also taught Shakespeare at Fordham U. in NYC and at Notre Dame, where I received my doctorate (ND). I've published primarily on Shakespearean comedy, including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida, and As You Like It; my most recent article on Shakespeare and the Theater Wars shall emerge (supposedly) in The Huntington Library Quarterly in the fall, and I also have a book on Shakespearean androgyny (doesn't everybody?) and classical myth and satire, entitled "Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny"; it'll be published by U of Delaware Press sometime soon. I'm a member of MLA, SCMLA, and Shakespeare Association, and think I might be a member of the Marlowe Society. I'm currently writing a novel about Haiti with a niece of the Marcelins, and this book has nothing to do with Shakespeare as far as we know. Pedagogically, I'm getting increasingly interested in teaching Shakespeare through performance, and integrating theatrical with literary approaches in the classroom. =============================================================================== *Tilghman, Elizabeth Sharp I would be very pleased to subscribe to the SHAKSPER electronic conference. I received my Bachelor's degree in English literature from Oberlin College in 1986, a Master's in flute from Penn State in 1991, and will receive my Master's in conducting from Penn State in May 1996. I am employed as the Admissions Coordinator for the Office of Overseas Study at Indiana University, Bloomington; my husband is in his third year of doctoral work in music theory here. Although my graduate work has been in music, I have always loved English literature, especially poets such as Donne, Herbert, and Shakespeare, as well as the Victorian novelists (especially George Eliot). My favorite Shakespeare play is Troilus and Cressida, and now that I have finished the monograph for my conducting degree, I hope to have much more time to read criticism of this and other Shakespeare plays. I am especially interested in gender studies and know that a great deal of gender-related criticism has been published that would be fascinating to me. I am eager to resume reading in Shakespeare literary criticism now that the period of my formal music study has been completed. =============================================================================== *Timmons, Gregory I am a first-year M.A. student in English at the University of Georgia. I am currently taking a Shakespeare class, and my professor, Dr. Frances Teague, recommended this discussion group to the class as a supplement to our discussions and readings. I am interested in 18th-Century fiction, and I would like to explore the connections between 18th-Century writers and Shakespeare. However, I have long been interested in Shakespeare's works in and of themselves and I would appreciate almost any scholarly discussion related to Shakespeare. I have not published any articles, but I hope this will change as my career as a graduate student progresses. =============================================================================== *Tipton, Alzada I am an assistant professor of English at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. I hold a position in Renaissance and medieval literature. I earned my PhD at Duke University in 1994. My dissertation examined histories written about Richard II in the 1590's and early 1600's, using Elizabeth I's famous comparison of herself to Richard II after the Essex rebellion as my jumping-off point. My dissertation was directed by Annabel Patterson. I am interested in historical approaches to literature, as well as Elizabethan theories of historiography and Renaissance approaches to the Middle Ages. I am also interested in the Puritan pamphlets directed against the theatre in the 1570's, 1580's, and 1590's. My interest in Shakespeare is demonstrated in my dissertation, which concentrates on Shakespeare's Richard II in one of its chapters, in my interest in the anti-theatrical polemics, and in my teaching; I teach the Shakespeare course for Hamline every year. =============================================================================== *Todd, Anthony I have a nearly life-long interest in Shakespeare plays being introduced through the Ashland Shakespeare Festival in the 1950's. I enjoy the productions and seek to learn more about what they mean to enhance that enjoyment. I am not a scholar and would fall into the category of eavesdropper rather than contributor, if that's ok. I am an evesdropper on the Evermore1 list and have subscribed to the SOS and Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable groups but I am not convinced. =============================================================================== *Todd, Mary Mary Todd: I learned of this organization from our Internet guru at Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She knew I would be excited about such an opportunity as Shakespeare is my specialty, my avocation, and my passion. I have been teaching term or semester courses in Shakespeare at Country Day School for twenty six years. I attended a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar at Bowdoin on the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream in l990. I had participated in l983 in a Shakespeare in Performance Institute in Stratford, England through The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1992 - 1993 I lived and taught in Southampton, England as an exchange teacher at the King Edward VI School, an experience which afforded me numerous opportunities to see plays in both Stratford and London. I teach a course that I call Shakespeare for Adults and currently have thirty paying adults in a study of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Some of these adults have studied as many as 18 or more plays with me and the word continues to spread as the old guard come back and bring new recruits with them. I tell them that my definition of heaven is "a place where adults talk about Shakespeare." I would love to have a resource for bouncing off questions that arise in my study of these plays (and the poems) and would be tremendously excited by the opportunity to join other adults in such a "cyberspace heaven." =============================================================================== *Todokoro, Hiroyuki Born in Gunma Prefecture in Aug.8,1946, studied Sh at Sophia University in Tokyo, and am now teaching Sh at Gunma Prefectural Women's University. One of the classes is 'Sh Recitation.' Students have sweet pangs of memorising and reciting Sh. I am also director of an amateur dramatic group mainly performing Sh's plays in Japanese. Last year we staged Much Ado about Nothing. Ours is a very tiny theater of round-in-square stype, with only 60 seats around the stage. But the effect is very good. My academic interest about Sh is exclusively about the relationship between play and reality, between stage(theater) and life. This somewhat archaic theme keeps enchanting me partly because I regard (as a Zen Buddhist) this life as an evanescent, nonsubstantial being. The nothingness we find in the world and life as its essence, is exactly the metaphorical correlative of the player's corporeal incorporeity. Hence theatrum mundi becomes my major theme of study. The famous 'All the world's a stage' speech is, in my (daring) opinion, not yet fully understood in view of this relationship. The most intuitive and instructive work about this theme, I believe, is Kent van den Berg's 'Playhouse and Cosmos'. He clarifies how the metaphor of life as a stage functions in life as well as in the theater. Especially his idea of the principle of replication leads me to a new insight. I have not yet published any paper about this theme, though. It is going to be my life long study. Most recent paper I published and the one I am now preparing, are about the disguised heroines in Sh's comedy. As a means of producing a play-within-a-play, disguise serves as a litmus paper to prove how the idea of play is dealt with in a specific play. In The Merchant of Venice, the idea of play is stiff and rigid, not having enough room for ambiguity. What Portia performs for, is merely a puppet (and would-be) masculinity. In the struggle of male-female dualism, she cannot afford to find out a way of reconciliating mercenary Venice and fantastic Belmont. In As You Like It, Sh experiments a different idea of play. Rosalind's pastoral disguise with an erotic undertone serves the purpose of presenting an approapriate sphere for romantic (or Grecian) myth.... But I've not yet reached any conclusion. I am keeping a safe distance from the recent trends of critical theory. I cannot by now find any useful means of understanding Sh and his works by exploiting feminism or historical re-interpretation, although I sometimes find shocking insight among them as I once found in Heidegger's phenomenology. Since the most important topic I am interested in, is the one concerning theatrum mundi, my focus of study naturally falls upon play, player and playing. Of course I know nothing is understood without the help (or channel) of critical theory, but some theories are productive, and some are not. To play means to make, and to remake. This, and only this matters to me. =============================================================================== *Tofteland, Curt Curt L. Tofteland is currently in his seventh season as the Producing Director of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival where he is at the helm of all the Festival's activities: artistic, administrative and educational. The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival is the oldest (35 years), professional, free, independently operated Shakespeare festival in North America. An Equity actor, director, playwright, adjunct theatre professor, teacher and arts educator, Mr. Tofteland has been active in Louisville arts scene since 1979. Mr. Tofteland created, in 1990, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's award winning educational outreach program, SHAKESPEARE ALIVE!. SHAKESPEARE ALIVE! includes developmentally appropriate workshops and performances for kindergarten students through adults. Mr. Tofteland also created a teacher training institute, FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE: Teaching Shakespeare in the Classroom, to train teachers in performance-based techniques to teach Shakespeare to students. In 1993, Mr. Tofteland co-founded, with Romanian director Alexa Visarion, the ROMANIAN/AMERICAN ARTISTS THEATRE (R/AAT). The purpose of the theatre is to bring together Romanian and American theatre artists to work on collaborative projects. In October of 1992, Mr. Tofteland performed his one man show, SHAKESPEARE'S CLOWNS: A Fool's Guide to Shakespeare to Bucharest and Brasov. A native North Dakotan, Mr. Tofteland holds a B.F.A. in Vocal Performance, Theatre and Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of North Dakota and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Tofteland is an accredited theatre and conducts workshops for the Collaborative for Elementary Learning (where he is the Master Drama Artist), Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Humanities Council, Very Special Arts Kentucky, and the Kentucky Basic Arts Program. He served for three years on the staff of the Institute for Arts in Education and has conducted state, regional, national and international workshops for the American Council for the Arts; National Conference for the Teachers of English; Educational Theatre Association; Institute for Outdoor Drama; Shakespeare Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia; Kentucky Council of the Teachers of English and Language Arts; Kentucky School Board Association; Indiana Council of English and Language Arts Teachers and the Greater Louisville English Council. Mr. Tofteland designed, wrote and hosted the award winning creative thinking series, IMAGINE THAT, for Kentucky Education Television. Mr. Tofteland is the author of ten professionally produced plays and in 1988 was awarded an Al Smith Fellowship in playwriting from the Kentucky Arts Council. Mr. Tofteland has worked as an adjunct theatre professor at Indiana University Southeast, University of Louisville and Bellarmine College. In addition to his home state of North Dakota, Mr. Tofteland has worked professionally in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, as well as internationally in British Columbia, Israel and Romania. =============================================================================== *Tokumi, Michio Name: Michio Tokumi Present Address: 26-7, Mizuki 6-chome, Dazaifu-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan Birth: March 1st, 1950/ Mine-shi, Yamaguchi-ken, Japan Marital Status: Married/ two children Education: English Literature 1969-1973 B.A. Kyushu University English Literature 1973-1975 M.A. Graduate Faculties Kyushu University Employment: 1975--1980 Kagoshima Prefectural Junior College, Associate Professor 1980--1992 Institute of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, Associate Professor 1993-- Professor Membership: The English Literary Society of Japan The Shakespeare Society of Japan Telephone Number: 092-928-2241 And my academic achievements are as follows: A. A book 1. Shakespeare's Romances--Patriarchy's Dramaturgy(Otowashobou- Turumishoten, 1994) B. Papers published for the last ten years 1. The New Arcadia and Amphialus, in Studies in English Language and Literature published by Kyushu University, No. 35(1985). 2. Disguising as a woman in the New Arcadia, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 36(1986). 3. On the Sources of King Lear, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 38(1988). 4. The Winter's Tale in the Social Context, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 39(1989) 5. The Tempest---Antonio's Silence---, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 41(1991). 6. Cymbeline---The Design of Patriarchal Reestablishment---, in Studies in English Literature published by The English Literary Society of Japan, Vol. 68, No. 1(1991) 7. Patriarchy and Jealousy---In the Case of Othello and Leontes---, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 42(1992). 8. The Succession to the Throne in the Romances, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 43(1993). 9. Gower in Pericles, in Studies in English Language and Literature, No. 44(1994). C. Translation 1. Astrophel and Stella(Shinzakishorin, 1980) =============================================================================== *Tolva, John Nathan My name is John Tolva and I am a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis in English literature. I did my undergrad work at Vanderbilt University and (with a focus in renaissance lit) I worked with Valerie Traub, a noted Shakespearean scholar whose work concentrates on sexuality in the early modern period. At Wash U I work with Joe Loewenstein whose interests include the development of print culture in the renaissance. As for me: I haven't narrowed my field any further than renaissance studies, though the issue of the impact of print on early modern culture currently intrigues me (thank you Elizabeth Eisenstein). I've done quite a bit of work on Emily Dickinson's incorporation of Shakespeare into her poetry and letters. In short, Shakespeare interests me greatly. I believe that I could contribute a good deal to this forum and I actively seek my acceptance to it. One reason that it interests me is exemplified by a current thread being debated on the Literary mailing list over a student's solicitation for help on shakespeare's sonnet 116. She obviously was new to the internet (not a crime) and new to shakespeare (not a cri... well maybe) and she basically asked for a critical exegesis implying that she had been assigned a paper on that sonnet (a crime, not the assignment but the query). I won't summarize the debate, but I have a feeling that SHAKSPER is relatively free of such hangers-on. In my opinion the internet should be used for *exchange* of information and dialogue rather than simply as an electronic version of cliffs notes. Sorry to soap-box there. =============================================================================== *Tomaszewski, Lisa --I graduated from Villanova University with a BA in English/Honors --I am currently a Masters/PhD Canidate at Drew University --My interests include: Performance Theory, Feminist Literary Theory and Classical Mythology-- all of which I utilize to expand my passion for Shakespeare ============================================================= *Tombe, Sheila Ph. D. 1992, Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina Dissertation: Voice and Action: Women and Astrea in 17th-century European Drama [the focus, however, was Shakespeare-primarily Isabella, Portia, and Beatrice] Director: Prof. George L. Geckle. As a result of this diss.I became interested in the concept of tragicomedy as defined by Guarini and pretty much ignored thereafter-perhaps the Shakespeare Discussion Group can set me straight about my definition of the so-called "problem comedies" as true tragicomedies? I currently teach Shakespeare to juniors and seniors who are mostly in an inter -disciplinary program. I am becoming increasingly interested in the Histories, and would like to study them in more detail, perhaps continuing my focus on the role of the women in these dramas. I am from Belfast, Northern Ireland; BA (Hons.), U Strathclyde, Scotland 1983, Joint Honours in English and Spanish Languages and Literatures; MA, USC 1987,Comparative Literature; I am a fluent reader of French and Spanish --and can get by in Portuguese, Italian, and-slowly-in Latin. Current projects are in the creative arts: am on the faculty of the Lowcountry Writers' Conference each August (2nd year); on the board of the SC Playwrights' Conference each June (4th year); I edit Apostrophe: USCB Journal of the Arts; have had two one-act plays produced and have published several poems; I act in the Carolina Renaissance and Arts Fair performances of Shakespeare (2nd year); and am currently in a one-woman show (Shirley Valentine). This leaves little time for academic publication. I miss serious study and am anxious to get back to it. The University of Florida Press did contact me about producing a manuscript from the dissertation and...well, I didn't. I'd like to, though. My main areas of interest are gender, the Histories, and European influences on the English Renaissance. ============================================================= *Tompkins, Daniel P. Daniel P. Tompkins Associate Professor of Classics, Temple Univ., Phila. PA 19122 (215) 787-8251 B.A. Dartmouth College 1962 M.A. Yale University 1964 Ph.D. Yale University 1968 Teaching experience: Wesleyan University 1965-73; Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973-74; Assistant Prof. Swarthmore College, 1974-76; Assistant & Assoc. Temple University 1976-. Publications on Wallace Stevens, Homer, Thucydides, social history of ancient world. My primary current research interest is in Thucydides, esp. rhetoric, style and historiography. I'm working on the 40+ speeches in this work and discussing the ways in which they "characterize" their speakers, and how they form the framework for th narrative. I'm also at work on various small projects about the ancient city, slavery, social history, and interpretation of Thucydides by political scientists (esp. Straussians and "neo-realists"). I'm interested in this list for a number of reasons. 1) I helped develop and for a while directed a big and successful great books program at Temple University in which Shakespearean tragedy (Hamlet, Lear, Othello) has played a central role. (Lest folks conclude that we're hopelessly Eurocentric, I'll add that we also spend 2 weeks on the Koran and read the W.African epic Sundiata.) So I teach these plays frequently and want to stay up to date on interpretation. 2) For my research, I'm very interested in the various positions taken on "character" in literature. Also in current developments in stylistics, and in interpretation of narrative. I have not found many groups or lists dealing with literary topics, and would like also to find lists for cultural studies and post-structuralism. ============================================================================= *Toole, Dee I would like to subscribe to Shaksper. Aside from two evening classes, I've had no formal education in the study of Shakespeare. I do appreciate his work and would like to communicate with others who share this interest. I enjoy seeing performances of his plays in small theater settings, and have seen all but nine at this time. I also have accumulated several books on his life and works. I would like to communicate with other subscribers to gain historical perspective on his works and to discuss the motivation behind his characters and his use of symbolism. =============================================================================== *Torkikian, Merwyn I am the General Director of the English Drama Group at Reitaku University, Japan, where I am a full-time lecturer of English. The RUEDG (Reitaku University English Drama Group) was founded in 1935, and since 1970 has annually performed Shakespearean drama under the direction of Prof. Gavin Bantock. I joined the group in 1993, and directed "Love's Labour's Lost" (1993), and "The Tempest" (1994), both performed in the Toho Semei Hall in Tokyo. This year we are planning to perform Julius Caesar in November. Although the RUEDG is an amateur, student group, we aim for high, professional standards in our productions; our motto is - Strive To Do Better (King John). I am, therefore, interested in joining SHAKSPER, in the hope that I can gain knowledge from the group, and also contribute from my experiences with Shakespeare, here in Japan. =============================================================================== *Tornberg, Aaron I am completing my English degree next year. I am particularly interested in "The Merchant of Venice" in relation to Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta" and I hope to be on the list soon. I am planning on taking more Shakespeare next year, so I want to be on line for a while with this list. I hope this is enough biographical information. =============================================================================== *Toropov, Brandon I am interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER. I am a playwright whose work was recently staged at the National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut. The play is called AN UNDIVIDED HEART. I graduated in 1983 from Brandeis University, concentrating in Politics and Theatre; I studied Shakespeare extensively at Brandeis. I also work as an editor in the Boston area. =============================================================================== *Torrent, Melanine My name is Melanie Torrent.I am a student in English literature in France(Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle) and I have decided to work on Shakespeare for my Masters this year. My topic is covering Carnival in Henry 4 ant Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday. At the moment I am spending the year in Cambridge as a French lectrice as well.I am very much interested in drama as a whole and I am fascinated by Shakespeare. I am also studying the theme of desire in his works for a side course. I would be really interested and happy to get as much information, ideas and so on about all of this. ============================================================= *Totaro, Rebecca C 1995 - PhD candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. English, concentration in Renaissance Literature. PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY PANELS: Otherness, 1491-1992: Vision and Re-Vision in Text and Image, RCSC Southwest Regional Conference, Huntington Library, 1993. Chair and discussion leader. "Regaining Perception: The Ransom Trilogy as a Re-embodiment of the Neoplatonic Model." Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society. 22.10. (1991) 1-12. Jessamyn West Young Writers Conference Assistant Coordinator, Whittier High, 1990. =============================================================================== *Traister, Daniel Curator of Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215 898 7088 215 898 0559 (fax) I am a librarian at the University of Pennsylvania whose duties involve me with a large collection devoted to documenting the printed history of Shakespeare's text and criticism of the plays, poetry, and their transmis- sion, as well as the history of study of Shakespeare. Not myself a specialist in Shakespeare or the drama (I studied sixteenth-century non- dramatic poetry when I was in graduate school and have since then pub- lished a little bit about Sir Philip Sidney and Renaissance English pub- lishing practices, as well as material on rare book and special collections librarianship), I nonetheless feel it would be helpful to keep in touch with the field through your bulletin board. I am a member of the Columbia Seminar on Shakespeare (Steve Urkowitz, also a member, has told me that he is already part of your bulletin board); the paper on Renaissance pub- lishing practice mentioned above was presented at that Seminar prior to its appearance in print. My interests are primarily bibliographical and cura- torial--which I hope will seem appropriate for your roster. Minor details: B.A., Colby College, Waterville, ME; M.A. and Ph.D., NYU; M.S. in Library Service, Columbia; taught English literature at colleges and universities in Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York; teach occasional graduate courses here at Penn; also teach rare book librarianship at Columbia's Rare Book School (moving next year to UVirginia) and have taught history of books and printing at Columbia's School of Library Service. Publications: *ELH*; *SP*; *The Explicator*; *The Colby Quarterly*; *Wilson Library Bulletin*; *Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship*; *PBSA*; *Rare Boooks 1983- 1984*, ed. Alice D. Schreyer; *Library Trends*; etc. Editorial board, *Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship*; *Mississippi Studies in English*; sometime co-editor, *BiN: Bibliography Newsletter*; sometime book review editor, *American Book Collector*. Sometime Trustee, American Printing History Association. Officer (currently immediate past chair), Rare Book and Manuscript Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association. Librarian at: The Library Company of Phila- delphia; Lehigh University; Bodleian Library, Oxford; The New York Public Library; and Penn (1982- ). ========================================================================= *Traves, Julie Hi my name is Julie Traves. I am currently a third year student at Dalhousie University in the English Honours Programme. As a component of my programme I am taking a Shakespeare Seminar. I would be extremely interested in joining your discussion group. I am working on a paper on the use of silence and its relation to death and art in Hamlet and would be interested in some input. My external address is: 6194 Pepperell St., Halifax, N.S., B3H 2P1. Thank you. =============================================================================== *Treadwell, Thomas I am a Senior Lecturer in English at the Roehampton Institute in London; my academic specialism is Elizabethan/Jacobean drama. =============================================================================== *Tribble, Damon <94dtribb@ultrix.uor.edu> Name: Damon Anthony Tribble Institution: University of Redlands Occupation: student Mailing address: 1230 E. Colton Ave. #U507 Redlands, CA 92374 Telephone: (909) 307-7268 My name is Damon Tribble and I am a junior majoring in music (vocal performance) at the University of Redlands in California. My hometown is Reno, Nevada. I have been very active in theatre since high school and plan to make a career performing on the stage. Most of my experience thus far has been in music theatre, but doing Shakespeare has always been my secret dream. Recently I have begun following that dream. I am currently preparing monologues for auditions and since my university is somewhat of a theatre wasteland, I am full of questions for people who are active in Shakespeare. I hope that through membership in this discussion group I can learn more about all aspects of Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Tribble, Evelyn Name: Evelyn B. Tribble Affiliation: Dept. of English, Temple University Philadelphia PA Status: Assistant Professor Graduate Degree: University of California, Berkeley Biographical sketch: My research for the dissertation--and since--has centered upon early modern pri nt culture. Specifically, I examine the margins (the "real" margins of 16th and 17th century texts, seeing the printed page as an arena in whicj issues of authority are negotiated and contested. Among the texts I study are: English printed Bibles; the works of Spenser and Harington; the Martin Marprelate pamphlets; and the masques of Ben Jonson. My book is now under contract at Virginia and should appear in about a year. My current research is concerned with ceremonial symbolism in Shakespeare, Spenser, Wilson, and Foxe. I'd be interested in hearing from scholars working in this area or from those interested in an historical semiotics of the Renaissance. I'm also now attending Lois Potter's NEH Institute at the Folger library on "Shakespeare and the Language of Performance." ================================================================================ *Triskle, Nonnien Hello, my name is Nonnien Triskle and I am a journalism student attending Medicine Hat College. This semester (and hopefully next), I am taking a Shakespeare course. My teacher suggested that all the students in the class join SHAKSPER. I believe that joining the forum would an enlightening and enjoyable experience. This semester we are studying Richard III, Macbeth, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, King Lear, and A Winter's Tale. As of yet, we have no research topics assigned. Thank you for your time and I hope you find me worthy of joining the forum. ============================================================= *Troshynski, Bob 143 West Hall (906) 227-3034 Marquette, MI 49855 I am interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER. I am a student at Northern Michigan University, and getting my BA in Technical Theater. I am currently working on a paper on As You Like It. It is part of a period analysis of the year 1599. My main interest, as part of technical theater, is sound. I am willing to send a final draft of this period work to your database. I also have an interest in shakespeare as a past-time reading hobby. ========================================================================= *Trousdale, Marion S. Marion Trousdale, Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Phone: 301-405-3809; Fax: 301-314-7539. MLA, SAA, ISA; executive committee, Folger Institute; Shakespeare and the Rhetoricians; many articles, most recently in SQ on texts. I am presently finishing a book on Shakespeare's verse and completing a Shakespeare-in-performance volume for University of Manchester on Coriolanus. =============================================================================== *Trube, Todd I graduated summa cum laude from the University of the South (Sewanee) in 1990. In December 1992 I received my Masters in English from Northwestern, where I continue to pursue the PhD. My specialty is the Renaissance, and more specifically the Italian Renaissance as well as Shakespeare. I am currently writing my dissertation, a study of four groups of stories in their classical, early modern Italina, and Shakespearean incarnations. I approach Shakespearean sources with an eye to investigating the ideological implications of Shakespeare's use of his material, especially those changes having to do with gender politics. =============================================================================== *Trullenque, Jordi Mas I'm Spanish, 36, graduated in mathematics in 1984. Giving classes and making reserach in Celestial Mechanics for ten years. Now I'm beginning to become interested in humanities. I'm interested in "lurking", but I doubt I might contribute anything of = value, at least by now. =============================================================================== *Tsao, Andrew Andrew Tsao: I am currently the Artistic Director of The New Harmony Project, an annual writers conference for the development of film, television and stage projects. I was resident director of Indiana Rep for three seasons, 1992-1995, and am currently resident director of the new ABC series "Buddies" which will air mid season. I still direct theatre free-lance, and focus on productions of Shakespeare. I will be directing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival 1997, and and still Associate Director at Indiana Rep, where I will direct two shows 1996-1997. I attended the California Institute of the Arts 1987-1990, received an MFA in Film, Television and Theatre Directing. My BA was in Theatre Arts, 1982 University of Washington. From 1981-1983 I was Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Society at the University of Washington. I am originally from Seattle, but currently reside in L.A. with my wife, Diana. My main interest in Shalespeare is as a practitioner, who daily seeks answers to the troubling question of how one should mount Shakespeare on the stage in today's world, and to what end? =============================================================================== *Tull, Sue <004st501@fortbend.k12.tx.us> I am a teacher at Clements High School in suburban Houston, Texas, with both a professional and a personal interest in Shakespeare's works. I teach both Advanced Placement Seniors and students who can be described as cautious in their approach to all literature, but who are especially wary of Shakespeare. In these two classroom situations, I am, of course, looked to as the expert; however, I am aware of my need to expand my knowledge. Each year, as I teach a small sample of Shakespeare's works, I am awestruck with his richness; I have stopped being surprised when I see something new in a passage that I might have taught five or six times. It is this aspect of his genius that excites me and that I desire to bring to my students. I have taught for 20 years in the public school system; seven of those years were in the middle school, and I have been at Clements High School for the remaining 13. I am currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Instructional Technology, so I have a special interest in the Computer Application aspect of your electronic conference. =============================================================================== *Turley, Lisa My name is Lisa Turley. I am a graduate student, first year Master's at the University of Connecticutt in Storrs. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at El Paso, awarded in December, 1994. I am interested in this network only as an observer and will not be contributing to Internet discussions at the present time. =============================================================================== *Turnbull, Courtney My name is Courtney Turnbull. I am currently a full time teacher's assistant and part-time student. I am taking a Shakespeare course at Medicine Hat College (which is, of course, in Medicine Hat). I will be returning to full time studies in September of 1997. I hope to complete my B.Ed./B.Arts at The University of Lethbridge. We are studying seven of Shakespeare's plays this term including; Julius Caesar, Henry V, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. I am interested in learning more about the role of women and gender issues within Shakespeare's plays. I have chosen this as my term paper topic. =============================================================================== *Turner, Amy Hi, this is Amy Turner from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I'm a 4th year student doing my honours in English and would like to subscribe to SHAKSPER for a Shakespeare class that I'm taking. ============================================================= *Turner, Brian Born 1936 at Napier, a provincial city in New Zealand. Educated Napier Boys High School and Victoria University of Wellington. Obtained a mediocre B Sc degree in mathematics. Had an interesting and varied career in the computer industry. Now 'retired'. Was married and divorced. Two children. Shakespeare:At school we did Shakespeare. When asked to write an essay on the characters in "The Merchant..." I was told that what I had done was too good for a student and I must have got it out of a book. So I decided to study the sciences. The teachers were better. At age 30 I picked up Hamlet and read it. I was blown away. Since then Shakespeare has been important in my life. You will appreciate that I have a number of interests and this is just one of them. Theatrical experience: About the age of forty I attended hobby writing classes. I showed a piece I had written to an actor friend who asked me to make a play of it. Since then the writing of plays has become somewhat the centre of my life. I suppose I have had about twenty productions in amateur theatre, mostly one act plays. I have also done acting and directing, however I have never been involved in a play by Shakespeare. My most recent production was of "Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus which I translated in collaboration with a retired classics professor. (Great stuff.) My interest in joining this group is as a student, in the hope that I might learn something. I do not know if I would wish to contribute a lot in the way of articles or discussion unless it is thought that a student could write something that might have come out of a book. =============================================================================== *Turner, Mary I am a professor of Theatre History at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, and am the author of a book "America's Forgotten Leading Ladies" published by McFarland. I'm working on a second book and I am always looking for new sources, bith for my research and my classroom. =============================================================================== *Turner, Myron My major source of study has been Sir Philip Sidney, on whom I've published a variety of studies in SEL, TSLL, ELR, Papers on Language and Literature, and ELN. In addition, I've published essays on Spenser and Marlowe (TSLL, Neophilologus) which refer to questions in Shakespeare. I've also written on 20th century literature and have published four books of poetry, including a volume with Ohio University/Swallow Press; I published many poems in journals such as Atlantic Monthly, Massachusetts Review, Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, and in Canadian journals such as Malahat Review and Tamarack Review. I recently retired and am a Senior Scholar in English at The University of Manitoba; I continue to be a member of the graduate faculty and to direct theses. =============================================================================== *Turner, Robert Kean Professor, English Department University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P. O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Telephone: (414)229-6436 FAX: (414) 229-4380 Interests: textual criticism of Elizabethan drama. Contributing editor to The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, Genl. ed. Fredson Bowers (CUP, 1966-) Now working on a New Variorum edition of The Winter's Tale with Virginia Haas, Andrew Sabol and Patricia Tatspaugh. ======================================================================== *Tvordi, Jessica I am a graduate student at the University of Wyoming writing my master's thesis on Shakespeares's comedies. I would like very much to subscribe to your list. =============================================================================== *