Wachenhauser, Tsameret I am a graduate student at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Dept. of Communication, with a B.A. in English Literature, which might account for my decision to focus, in my current field of studies (Computer Mediated Communication) on a rather innovative adaptation of two of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet and Macbeth), performed on IRC a few months ago. Your list could be of great help to me in pursuing this project, and in time I might even contribute some ideas of my own. I therefore ask you to add me to your list. =============================================================================== *Wade, Kay J. Kay Wade, Technical Reports Manager, The Charles C. Lauritsen Library, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA. Home address: 905 Faysmith Avenue, Torrance, CA 90503. Formerly Reference Librarian, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia; and Technical Editor at an aerospace firm in the Los Angeles area. My interest in Shakespeare is personal and long-standing. I am interested not only in Shakepeare's life and writings but also in Elizabethan history and literature in general. I am fascinated by the relationship between the social and political events of an era and the literature produced by the people who lived in that period. I am a member of the Shakespeare Roundtable, which meets in the Los Angeles area. =============================================================================== *Wagner, Sara SWAGNE@acd.mhc.ab.ca HI! My name is Sara Wagner and I am 19 years old. I am a second year education student at the Medicine Hat College. I am majoring in English, history and French and I hope to someday teach an elementary class in grades one or two. In order to satisfy my english mahjor, I am currently enrolled in a Shakespeare class at the college. I have always been nterested in his works and I am enjoying the class immensly. This is the reason i have chosen to subscribe to SHAKESPER. =============================================================================== *Wake, David David Wake BA in English Literature - University of London 1970 Post Graduate Certificate of Education - University of Leeds 1971 I am a secondary (high) school teacher and have taught at the following schools: The White Cross School - S. Yorks, UK Kent School - SCEA West Germany KGV School - Hong Kong The South Island School - Hong Kong I teach to A-level in English, Drama and Theatre Studies and am particularly interested and experienced in methods to make Shakespeare accessible to high school students, particularly through educational drama methods and would like to hear from other educators in this field. I shall be taking a party of students to London this week in fact, on a Theatre/Arts Tour - where, as well as seeing eight plays, including Hamlet at the Gielgud Theatre, and "Dream" at Stratford, we shall be visiting the Globe Theatre and museum, and I would be willing to write a report on the state of the facility at present and its use for students of Shakespeare and Elizabethan & Jacobean Theatre. My postal address is: Mr. David Wake Head of Faculty of Creative Arts The South Island School 50 Nam Fung Road Hong Kong Tel: 555 - 9313 Fax: 553 - 8811 =============================================================================== *Walen, Denise My name is Denise A. Walen. I am a Teaching Consultant in the Teaching Opportunity Program for Doctoral Students at the University of Minnesota. I completed my Ph.D. in Theatre History at the University of Minnesota in September of 1993, and am currently seeking full-time academic employment in a Theatre Arts or Dramatic Literature position. My dissertation, titled SEX, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN JOHN LYLY'S GALLATHEA uses cultural historiography to analyze images of gender and sexuality in the play and performance. I am currently working on a book length version of this material. My publications include "'Lust-exciting apparel' and the Homosexual Appeal of the Boy Heroine: The Early Modern Stage Polemic," forthcoming in Theatre History Studies; "The Feminist Discourse of Ana Caro," in TEXT AND PRESENTATION, the Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference (1992); a forthcoming review of Michael Shapiro's book GENDER PLAY ON THE SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE: BOY HEROINES AND FEMALE PAGES in THEATRE JOURNAL; a review of WOMEN IN POWER IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA by Theodora A. Jankowski in THEATRE JOURNAL (1993), as well as a couple of other reviews in THEATRE JOURNAL. I belong to American Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Modern Language Association, and plan to join the Shakespeare Association of America shortly. My surface mail address is Denise A. Walen, TOPDS, 228 U Tech Center, 1313 5th St. S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546. =============================================================================== *Walen, Joanne I have a definite interest in becoming a member of the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference. While I have had a love affair with things British and Shakespearean since my high school days, my more recent qualifications are the following: I have been a public school teacher for 30 years, with a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Nevada, Reno and 60 hours of graduate work in the teaching of writing and Shakespeare. For the past 10 years I have been the English Program Coordinator in our school district and Director of the Shakespeare in the Schools Program. This program has three aspects to it: (1) Writing grants to bring actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to all our elementary, middle, and high schools (72 schools in all, over 18,000 students) every November and December to perform and conduct workshops with students; (2) Staff-development classes for teachers on how to teach Shakespeare in user-friendly ways through pleasurable performance activities. The staff development is "in-house," which means I teach the students, while modeling the activities for the teacher; and (3) our district Student Shakespeare Performance Festival every spring, in which over 300 students come together on two Saturdays to perform for each other their twenty-minute pieces of the Bard. In the summers of 1987-89, I served as Co-director and teacher for our university's Literature Institute, "Playing Shakespeare," wherein we spent three weeks with teachers helping them come to a better understanding of how to use performance to teach Shakespeare. In 1994 I spent six weeks in Stratford-upon-Avon in an NEH Summer Seminar, "Shakespeare: Text and Theater," with Miriam Gilbert from the University of Iowa, learning how to read "performance text" and working with archives of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Centre. Every summer I conduct a Shakespeare class at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for teachers from my school district, and in 1996 I plan to offer a two-week class in Stratford-upon-Avon for teachers and other interested persons, based on a mini-version of the work I did there in my seminar. I am a great admirer of the work done by the Folger Library Education office to make Shakespeare more accessible to everyone, not just scholars. I love working with young people--fourth graders on up--to bring them to a love of the Bard. I am most interested in making his work accessible to a general rather than an esoteric audience, although I also enjoy the thrill (and drudgery, sometimes) of scholarship as well. I am especially keen on collecting Shakespeare allusions from advertising and other general publications, so I hope I will find others willing to share their discoveries with me. =============================================================================== *Walker, Allen My name is Allen Walker, and I recently completed a master of fine arts degree from the California State University with an emphasis in directing theatre and film. My current interests are exploring modern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, both stage and film. I recently completed a production of "Measure for Measure," which was set in modern-day Vienna, in which I portrayed the role of Lucio. In addition, I am interested in the historical context of Shakespeare's topics and how they relate to our society in America. As yet, I have not submitted any academic articles for blication; however, I recently served as resident theatre critic for "The Union," a weekly newspaper published in Arcata, California. In all, I wrote more than 100 articles dealing with topics ranging from performance review to local Shakespeare in the Park. I am currently at work on another modern adaptation of "Measure for Measure," this time as a director, in which I intend to set the play in the Vatican in Rome. In light of this, I feel it would be very helpful to have the input and experiences of other scholars in this exciting field. =============================================================================== *Walker, Jarrett Jarrett Walker completed his Ph. D. in Drama and Humanities at Stanford University in 1996 and his B.A from Pomona College in 1980. His article "Voiceless Bodies and Bodiless Voices: The Drama of Human Perception in Coriolanus" appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Summer 1992. His 1996 dissertation, "The Phenomena of Tragedy," works in the tradition of Kenneth Burke and Elaine Scarry to understand the dualities of body and voice, singularity and plurality in the theatre event. The study argues that Coriolanus is an especially fertile source for understanding these concepts, because it presents them in a particularly radical form. The study concludes by developing the ideas of instrumental interest and orificial interest as the fundamental elements of audience attention. His directing credits include numerous productions at both universities, including the rarely-produced Shakespeare-Fletcher collaboration The Two Noble Kinsmen. He has also served as an Assistant Director at Berkeley (now California) Shakespeare Festival. His parallel interests include city planning. He has written several essays on urban design and is active in efforts to conceive the post-automotive city. ============================================================= *Walker, Kerri My name is Kerri Walker and I'm a senior at Boise State University, in Boise Idaho. I am majoring in English and Communications with the ultimate goal of writing great literature. Other career plans include having my own column in a newspaper, or writing feature articles. I have a four month old daughter and hope she will love to read as much as I do so I have already started reading to her. I attend school part-time now with my new responsibilities as mom, but still hope to graduate soom. I work for the school newspaper and will be doing research on the Internet for articles I write this semester. Reading and writing are two of my favorite passtimes. I also enjoy jogging, swimming, cooking and spending time with my family. I like reading a variety of literature but my main interest is in the classics. Some of my favorite authors include Steinbeck, Twain, Hawthorne, and Shakespere. I enjoy the Shakespere Festival held in Boise every summer and have seen or read every Shakespere play. My favorites are "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Taming of the Shrew," and "Hamlet". =============================================================================== *Walker, Michael Michael Forden Walker M.A. student, English Dept.- Boston University I am 25 years old, and entering my last semester of M.A. work at B.U. this fall (1994). It's a strong possibility that I will choose the Renaissance (particularly English drama) as the focus for my ensuing doctoral work. I am interested in all facets of the Early Modern period, especially the development of the theater and its relationship to social and political surroundings. In addition to studying the drama of the period in a literary sense, I also wish to embrace opportunities to perform it. I have been acting for five years or so, and performing is something that has become an important part of my life. My most recent role was that of Subtle in Jonson's The Alchemist. It was quite a challenge as well as a learning experience; my only previous experience performing period work was a smaller role in Aphra Behn's The Rover, which incidentally was the first role I ever had in a play. I feel quite strongly that performing the plays is an excellent way to increase one's comprehension of how they function as performance texts. (And it's lots of fun, too!) This is not to say, however, that I believe that this is the only useful way to approach the texts, but I do believe that performing and/or playgoing experience informs any reading of drama. My next intended project will be a role in The Spanish Tragedy-- we'll be doing a production of it here in Spring 1995. I'm looking forward to it. As for my current interests, my next research topic on the period will be an investigation of the published writings of those opposed to the theater in Jacobean England (to be completed this fall). On a more personal note, I grew up in Silver Spring, MD (a suburb of D.C.) then went to Charlotte NC in 1987 for undergraduate studies. I completed my B.A. in English at UNC-Charlotte in 1991 (minors in History and Women's Studies). After two years of work, acting and playing in bands, I moved to Boston in late summer of 1993 and began graduate work that fall. I like the city very much and hope to stay here for a considerable amount of time. My surface address and telephone number are as follows: Michael Walker 299 N. Harvard St. #1 Allston, MA 02134 (617) 782-1171 email: =============================================================================== *Walker, Michelle <954walker@alpha.nlu.edu> My name is Michelle Walker and I am a grad student at Northeast Louisiana Univ. I am working on a few of the plays with gender issues in mind. Dr. LaRue Sloan forwarded part of a discussion to me and I would like to join the group so that I may continue with the rest of you in our endeavor of the Master. ============================================================= *Walker, Nina Name: Ms. Nina Walker Titles: Instructor of English at Northeastern University and Middlesex Community College (Boston and Lowell MA respectively) Interests and Teaching assignments: I am currently teaching core requirements in both institution's writing programs and upper level courses in literature. At Middlesex, I teach 2 semesters of British Literature covering Medieval to approximately 1900. At Northeastern, I will be teaching a survey course in American Lit. in the fall. Degrees: Northeastern University, 1967, BA in History Harvard University, 1990, ALM in English and American Language Literature. My Master's thesis is titled: The Importance of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus to George Eliot's Felix Holt the Radical. I am decidedly interested in two primary areas of study: The life and works of George Eliot and Shakespeare. I remain fascinated by Eliot's use of Shakespeare's works and her interpretation of his themes. Currently, I am working on interpretative analysis of The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. I eagerly seek opinion on both these plays. Mailing address: 26 Vernon St., Woburn, MA. 01801 Telephone: 617-933-4952 =============================================================================== *Walker. Rebecca Rebecca S. Walker. I am a graduate student at Northern Illinois University working towards an M.A. in English and secondary teacher certification. I have a B.A. in Theatre from Butler University, and studied for one semester in London. I am interested in the resources this list will provide me not only as a teacher, but also as a student and director. ============================================================ *Wall, Don I'm teaching three courses, working on two (overdue!) articles for the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, and engaged in going through masses of documentation as a member of our Dept. Personnel Committee, trying to get three members of our dept. tenured. I have a B.A. in English from Syracuse, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Florida State. I teach 17th C. Poetry and Prose, 18th C. Lit. (dissertation: The Restoration Rake in Life and Comedy), Survey of British Lit., Crime Fiction (also writing it), Intro to Poetry, to Fiction. This spring I'm slated to teach Shakespear for the first time (though I've taught various plays before, in one or another course). I thought your discussion group might be helpful. =============================================================================== *Wall, Geoffrey Geoffrey Wall, since 1975, Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York. His published work consists mainly of translations from the French (Macherey, Lacan, Cixous); most recently a new MADAME BOVARY. He has been at work, intermittently, over the last 12 years, on an anthology of 16th century popular culture, a compilation of primary texts and images organised around the '68-ish theme of carnival and the carnivalesque. This is prompted by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Weimann & Christopher Hill, as well as by his own utopian version of socialism. The project has extended, since its distant inception, to embrace what he likes to call the Low Renaissance, being both the material conditions of 16th century literary culture and the transcription-translation of the Low by the High. He is currently working on a study of Will Kemp's pamphlet, Nine Days Wonder, from a semiotic perspective. He is also working on the historical invention of the Bourgeois Eros, as set forth in the work of Spenser, Milton and Richardson. Geoffrey Wall can be contacted at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, England. Telephone 0904-433334 (direct line) ======================================================================== 84 *De Silva, Chandima Harsha or 16301 Buccaneer Lane Apt. 221 Houston, Texas 77062-5301 USA Home (713) 486-5960 Office (713) 283-3882 Education : At present reading for M.S. degree in Statistics University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA. Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA. Higher Diploma in Computer Science Institute of Technological Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Certificate of Computer Applications in Science & Technology Using FORTRAN University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Work experience : Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mathematics University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA. May 1990 - to date. Research interests : Statistical Data Analysis, Reliability & Quality Control. Personal interests : Studying computer networks such as bitnet, reading and practicing palmistry & astrology, photography. I am an international student at University of Houston-Clear Lake. After studying for three years at university level in my country Sri Lanka, I came here in August 1989 to complete my B.S. degree in computer science. After graduating I decided to change my major field of studies from C.S. to Statistics. Please be aware that I do not have any professional qualification in literature but I am very much interested in the subject and certainly would like to benefit from a discussion list. ======================================================================== 32 *Grier, David Alan I am a professor of Statistics and Computer Science at George Washington Washington University. My interest in Shakespeare goes back to when my parents took me to attend the Stratford, Ontario festival when I was 12. I've taken a course in Shakespeare in college. I attend Shakespeare whenever possible and I've given enough money to the Folger Shakepeare theater to get the quarterly magazine sent to me free. My interest in this discussion group came in part because of its association with University of Toronto and the fact that Northrup Frye is (or was) there. His books I have always found 1. very hard and 2. very stimulating. I look forward to joining your list. ======================================================================== 20 *Eden, Brad I am currently completing a doctoral degree in musicology, specialization medieval music (dissertation: The Thirteenth-Century Monophonic Sequence Repertory at the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (Sarum)). I have an interest in anything relating to medieval and Renaissance England. I have given a number of papers on relationships between saints' relics, liturgy, and English society. These areas include the early origins of liturgical drama in England, which has some associations with Shakespeare and his work. ======================================================================== 22 *Hasenfratz, Bob I'm a relatively new assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut, having finished my Ph.D. in 1988 at Penn State. My main area of interest is medieval English literature, but I'll be teaching a Shakespeare course in the fall of 1991. At the moment, I'm involved in two large projects: compiling an annotated bibliography of Beowulf scholarship (1979-1990) for Garland Press and co-editing the Chaucer Variorum's _Troilus and Criseyde_. I'm also working on smaller studies--the Office of the Dead in Anglo-Saxon England, various source studies, and a Chaucer topic or two. The prospect of teaching Shakespeare has me quivering in anticipation, and I look forward to participating in the discussions. ======================================================================== 37 *Forster, Antonia Assistant Professor of English University of Akron. B.A., M.A.: Flinders University of South Australia Ph.D.: University of Melbourne Shakespeare is an interest additional to my principal one: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, especially eighteenth-century periodicals. I have written articles on Pope, on the reviewing of women writers in the eighteenth century and, recently, on an eighteenth-century would-be editor of Shakespeare. My index to reviews of poetry, fiction and drama in England 1749-1774 came out a couple of months ago and I am at work on the second part of it to take it to 1800. Eighteenth-century Shakespeare interests me a great deal but I am also interested in general Shakespeare topics. ======================================================================== 37 *Blackburn, Thomas H. or Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081- 1397, USA. (215)328-8151 BA, Amherst College, 1954; BA, Oxford U., 1956, MA. 1963; PhD, Stanford University, 1963. MLA, Ren Soc.Am.,Milton Soc.Am., Shak. Assoc, NCTE, CCCC. At Swarthmore since 1961. Teaching courses and seminars in Shakespeare and Milton. Milton articles in Milton Studies (latest, on "Lycidas," forthcoming '92). Current major interest, postmodern understanding of the notion of "accommodation" in Milton's thought and poetry. General interest in Shakespeare, mainly toward sophisticated teaching. Also direct a collaboratively oriented, peer-based, writing-across-the- curriculum program, "The Undergraduate Writing Associates Program." ======================================================================== *Wall, Richard I am a reference librarian and bibliographer on the faculty at Queens College, CUNY with specializations in literature, theatre and film. My particular area of interest and current research is the popular musical theatre. However, Shakespeare and Shakespearean production in theatre, film and television are longtime pleasures. VITAE as requested: TITLE:Assistant Prof.; DEPT: Library;INSTITUTION: Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY.; MA--English, Brandeis Univ.; MSLS--Simmons Coll.; PROFESSIONAL: ASTR Member;Theatre Library Association: Member of Executive Brd. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: reference book:Musical Theatre in New York, 1866--; PUBLICATION:Union List of Film Periodicals, Greenwood, 1984. SURFACE MAIL: 301 West 45th St., Apt. 15K, New York, NY 10036; currently curating exhibit at QC celebrating Tennessee Williams & 50th annv. of Glass Menagerie. =============================================================================== *Waller, Gary I am Gary Waller, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. My current Shakespearean work is part of my wider work on the Renaissance. It focuses on psychoanalytical/materialist readings of the period, and the adaption of recent theory to the classroom. I am currently editing for Longmans an anthology of contemporary, theoretically oriented criticism on the comedies (due out 1991), and am writing an account for an MLA volume on teaching the late plays of [Shakespeare] as Family Romance (Freud's term). I will be happy to contribute the current draft of this to the network for comments. ["FAMILY ROMANCE" on the SHAKSPER Fileserver.] Other related work I am doing incudes books on Spenser, Mary Wroth and "The Sidney Family Romance" which is a study of gender construction in the early modern period, focusing on Wroth and her cousin, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (who is NOT Mr W.H.or NOT-Mr W.H.). Recent Publications relevant to Shakespeare studies: BOOKS Reading Texts (coauthored with K. McCormick) Lexington: D.C. Heath, 198 7. Shakespeare's Comedies: A Critical Reader. London: Longmans. Contracted, in preparation. Probable date 1991. Lady Mary Wroth : Representing Alternatives . Coedited with Naomi Miller. University of Tennessee Press. Forthcoming, 1991. Edmund Spenser. MacMillan's Literary Lives Series. Contracted. Due for completion 1991. The Sidney Family Romance: Gender Construction in the Seventeenth Century. In preparation. Reader Response Criticism. Longmans. In preparation. ARTICLES "Text, Reader, Ideology: The Interactive Nature of the Reading Situation," Poetics 16.1 (1987), 184-202. "Decentering the Bard: Shakespeare and Deconstruction," in Shakespeare and Deconstruction, ed. David Bevington and Douglas Atkins. Peter Lang, 1988 "Decentering Shakespeare," in Shakespeare and Television, ed. H.R. Coursen and J. Bulman. University Press of New England, 1988. "The Countess of Pembroke and Gendered Reading," in Renaissance Englishwomen in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. ed. Betty Travitsky and Anne Haselkorn. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1990. "Gender Construction in Early Modern England: Mary Wroth and The Sidney Family Romance" in Waller and Miller, Lady Mary Wroth : Representing Alternatives . University of Tennessee Press (forthcoming). "Shakespeare and the Family Romance" In Teaching The Tempest and the Late Plays, ed Maurice Hunt. MLA, (forthcoming.) "Author, Text, Reading, Ideology: Toward a Revisionist Literary History of the Renaissance," in The New Historicism, ed. Richard Dutton and Richard Wilson. Longmans (forthcoming). "Mother/Son, Father/Daughter, Brother/Sister, Cousins: the Sidney Family Romance," Modern Philology (forthcoming 1991) ========================================================= *Walsh, John I am an actor and writer, a regular at the Shakespeare Workout at Michael Howard Studios, and a member of the Puzzled Will theater company. I also run a small mailing list for other Workout regulars. Discussion on this list is *supposed* to be mostly about Shakespeare, but we more often use it for rehearsal scheduling, show announcements and scurrilous gossip. I love that list and the people on it, but I would also like to read something more informative. Since I began to take myself seriously as an actor, about two years ago, I've grown to love Shakespeare more and more. He's the only playwright I feel really strongly about, and I want to know everything I can about current productions and publications. The Workout and its members are, I think, one of the best Shakespeare resources in NYC. I'd love to pass along useful info from the SHAKSPER list to my own smaller list, in an effort to elevate the discourse. As moderator of the WSWORKOUT list, I'd be the most efficient point man for this info. ============================================================= *Walsh, William D. I am a graduate student in the English Dept. of the University of New Hampshire. I am currently writing my master's paper on _MND_. =============================================================================== *Walters, Karla K. Karla K. Walters, Assistant Professor, University College The University of New Mexico Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama is my minor field of interest, the major one being Victorian literature. I have taught survey of Shakespeare and other undergraduate courses in Shakespeare at California Polytechnic State University and at The University of New Mexico. I have done graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Oregon. I have an M.A. (1972) and a Ph.D. (1980) from the University of Oregon Publications have been in Victorian literature and children's literature. Memberships: MLA, NCTE, INCS, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Children's Literature Assn. =============================================================================== *Walther, Bianca Until this year I studied Interpreting German/English/French/Spanish in Germersheim, Germany. I am a native speaker of German. The program in Germersheim laid a strong focus on culture and history, for without knowing about cultural background one can hardly function as a mediator beteween different nations. In Fall 1996 I enrolled at Kent State for the Translation Program English/German and took a Shakespeare seminar because I am very interested in the literature of the countries were my languages are spoken (I did work on Margaret Atwood, Emile Zola and Moliere before). My main interest is how literature mirrors history, and how it influences the language that is spoken in a country. =============================================================================== *Wangsness, Alison L. Assistant PROFS Administrator Information Systems x74960 (202) 687-4960 My name is Alison Wangsness and I am the Assistant PROFS Administrator for Information Systems at Georgetown University. I cannot contribute any publications or claim any professional memberships as I am just out of my undergrad studies, and just embarking on my graduate studies and "the real world." I did my undergraduate work at Syracuse University where my major was Communications, my minor was anthropology (specializing in archaeology), and my concentration was English (specializing in Shakespeare). I have just started in the graduate program here at Georgetown University where I will be working toward a Masters in Liberal Arts (specializing in English, Art, and History). I go to school at night because I work full time at Information Systems maintaining and updating the electronic mail system, as well as teaching classes on E-mail to the University faculty and staff. I realize that I may not have as much to contibute as other members might, but I am a true Shakespeare lover and would really enjoy taking part in this forum. ======================================================================== 96 *Craig, David Hugh Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia. Address up to 31.12.1991: The Bake House, Stanton St. John, Oxford, OX9 1HQ, England. Address after 31.12.1991: Department of English, University of Newcastle, N.S.W. 2308, Australia. Publications: Craig, D. H., ed. Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage 1598-1798. London: Routledge, 1990. ---. Sir John Harington. Boston: Twayne, 1985. ---. "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." English Literary Renaissance: 10 (1980), 183-201. ---. "The Idea of the Play in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bartholomew Fair." Jonson and Shakespeare. Editor Ian Donaldson. London: Macmillan in association with the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 1983. ---. "Presentations and Re-presentations in King Lear." Sydney Studies in English (1985). My current project is a study of Renaissance drama texts based on the frequencies of certain very common words in them. The work began with an interest in the authorship of the anonymous 1602 Additions to The Spanish Tragedy, an interest arising out of my Critical Heritage book on Ben Jonson. A paper describing the results of a test of the attribution of the Additions to Jonson has been completed and is now doing the rounds of the learned journals. Principal Components Analysis was the statistical tool used, with fifty very common words as the variables, and the sample was nine plays by Jonson and nine plays of Shakespeare, together with the text of the Additions. The tests proved capable of discriminating between Shakespeare and Jonson texts down to act length, and put the Additions texts firmly in the Shakespeare cluster, evidence that the latter is a better candidate as author than Jonson, to whom the added scenes are often attributed. As of February 1991 I am on leave in Oxford continuing the project, adding plays to the database with the aim in the first instance of carrying out tests on the very common words which discriminate between comedies and tragedies -- especially pronouns (based on a hypothesis that tragedies have more plural pronouns, comedies more singular ones). I plan also to work on problems of chronology and characterisation in the canon of Ben Jonson, once all his dramatic texts have been entered and prepared (selected words in all the texts used are tagged for syntactic function). My methods are based on those of Professor J.F.Burrows of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and the work is supported by the Australian Research Council. ======================================================================= *Ward, Amy L. I am a third year student of English at The George Washington University. I intend to complete my undergraduate degree, then enter a graduate program to study the English Renaissance. ================================================================================ *Ward, Ron I am a recently retired Statistician (29 years in Statistics NZ). My involvement with Shakespear began as a child. My father read to us many Plays of the Bard and many a night's entertainment involved acting these plays out with my brothers. The final scenes of Henry IV part 1,the speaches over Caeser's body and several scenes from Macbeth were favourites. This has been a family tradition traceable back 4 generations. I have my Great Great Grandfathers copy of Shaespear's works with smuts of lamp black clearly present and annotations giving the names of people who played parts in social readings in 1848 in colonial New Zealand. I have 16 plays on video and several on audio disks and tapes, concentrating on the lesser known plays, my favourite being Cymbeline. I have seen both historicaly informed performances as well as the Royal Shakespear tours in modern dress. My preference is for the former. I have visited (in 1988) the Folger Shakespearean Museum in Washington DC.That got me interested in the problem of how the plays had been transcribed and pirated and whether the strange asides by Hamlet in the initial Ghost scene were actors ad libs. And whether the strange disjointedness of scenes in Macbeth is due to the same problem of sloppy or partial transcription. Any research on that would be interesting also. My interest was caught by a performance I witnessed in Chiswick, England, by a group who contended that many of plays had a Druidic background. An idea that ties in with the popular Green Man cult of the times. The play they performed was Cymbeline; a public performance at night under flood lights.The programme notes were very persasive and I was hoping that I would discover how widepread was the view that this group held. My other interests which bear on this topic is a love of history and historically informed performances of early music. Like Hamlet I play recorders and am an ex president, and still a very active member in the Recorders and Early Music Union of Wellington. I have a special interest in Shakespear's taste in music. His love of the music of ex-patriate Englishman John Dowland for instance. I would like to hear more about the way he used instrumental music. It has been said he produced the first musical plays, as most had more than one song in them. He also seemed to have used purely instrumental music more than other contemporaries. Pepys (though much later) expressed some contempt for music without voices. Certainly the record of purely instrumental music is quite thin. Although there is a reasonable amount of dance music of the day. Some of this music, such as Anthony Holbornes' was not intended for dancing (the sections are not spaced correctly) it still followed a dance form. Do we have any idea of the tunes Shakespear used? Is there any research being carried out in the area? Arne and Purcell wrote some famous versions of some songs and there is a whole genre of others which is continuing to grow. So these are my interests. I am very much a consumer of research rather than a provider.I hope this is the sort of thing you want. =============================================================================== *Warkentin, Germaine I am Professor of English in the University of Toronto, and recently completed a five-year term as Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto. My interests focus on 16th century lyric and its continental and medieval background. My special subjects of study are Sir Philip Sidney and Francesco Petrarca. At the present time I am completing a book on Sidney's _Astrophil and Stella_, and editing the library catalogue of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent (ca. 1665). I am also completing the annotation of a selection from Petrarch's _Canzoniere_, poems translated in collaboration with James Wyatt Cook of Albion College, Albion, Michigan. In addition I work on Canadian lit., where I specialize in problems of discourse in the early period (17th-19th centuries) with special emphasis on western exploration literature. ======================================================================== *Warley, Christopher Christopher Warley Graduate Student Rutgers English Currently most interested in dialectical criticism of sonnet sequences. =============================================================================== *Wasserman, Elliot Elliot H. Wasserman, Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Indiana and Artistic Director of the Lincoln Amphitheatre, holds an M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of Georgia. He has also completed Doctoral coursework at Emory University where he focussed primarily on dramatic literature. Wasserman has published a conference paper on Gordon Craig and Samuel Beckett, a number of poems in literary magazines, and a short play. He has directed professionally, as well as at the university level, and is currently working toward bringing more Shakespeare production to Southwestern Indiana. Although not a Shakespearean scholar, he has an abiding interest in contemporary interpretations of the plays. =============================================================================== *Wasserman, Gabriel Zachary My name is Gabriel Zachary Wasserman. I live in NYC. I am fascinated with "bad quartos", which I believe to be Shakespeare's first drafts. I just finished a study of *Loues Labour's Lost* in H. H. Furness's "New Variorum" edition. I am interested in what Chas. Hamilton believes to be *Cardenio*. I am currently at Hunter College High School, and am very eager to join SHAKSPER. (If it's not off the point, I wish to add that I am a Stratfordian, and am studying Latin.) =============================================================================== *Watson, Ben My name is Ben Watson, I am a high school senior, currently in the application process for Brigham Young University, which I will probably attend this winter. I am 17 years old, born in Japan, son of a military family. My mother got me interested in Shakespeare with Kenneth Branaugh's movie Henry V, and I have read a little Shakespeare, seen a few movies, and studied him joyously in advanced English classes. ============================================================= *Watson, Lynn LYNN WATSON teaches and works as a voice, speech, and dialect coach for theatre, film and television. In the 1997-98 season, she coached the critically acclaimed productions of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at A.C.T. in San Francisco, and David Hare's SKYLIGHT at the Mark Taper Forum. For South Coast Repertory, she has coached productions of ARCADIA, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY by Lynn Nottage, and the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's HURRAH AT LAST. She is on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine, teaching voice and speech in the graduate acting program, and undergraduate acting. Other university teaching includes UC-Davis, UC-Riverside, and California State Polytechnic U., Pomona. For the Aphra Behn Society, she directed and co-produced APHRA BEHN: POET AND PLAYWRIGHT, a compilation of the writer's scenes and monologues. Acting credits include Off Broadway in New York, most notably for Wynn Handman at the American Place Theatre, where she performed in A GIRL'S GUIDE TO CHAOS; WHEN IN DOUBT, ACT LIKE MYRNA LOY; and HANDY DANDY with Jane Alexander and Jerry Orbach. She has performed at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, toured the U.S. and Canada, and played leading classical and Shakespearean roles for the Clarence Brown and Barter regional theatres. She has studied acting with Wynn Handman, Robert Cohen, and Robert L. Hobbs; voice with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Dudley Knight; Shakespeare with Kathleen Stafford of the Bristol Old Vic; period dance and movement with William Burdick; Lecoq mask with Craig Turner; stage combat with Chris Villa and Allen Suddeth; and Suzuki movement with Kent Kirkpatrick. Watson is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. She received her B.F.A. from Ohio University and her M.F. A. from UC-Irvine, where she was a recipient of the Chancellor's Fellowship. Other biographical/professional information is available at: www.arts.uci.edu/drama/bios/lynn_watson.htm www.valpo.edu/organization/vasta/dir/watsonl.html Current areas of interest/research include: 1) The role of breath in helping the actor understand and communicate text, including Shakespeare. 2) Strategies for assisting actors in tapping their full potential for embodying (including voice as part of the whole body) the range, subtlety, and extravagance of Shakespeare texts, and making the texts, insofar as possible, transparent, so that the audience becomes effortlessly engaged and able to follow a character's emotional/intellectual development from one moment to the next. 3) Use of computer technology in teaching voice and speech, and in collecting, disseminating, and teaching dialects. 4) Use of computer technology in research on Shakespeare's texts. 5) Creation of an electronic journal of voice and speech. ============================================================= *Watson, Nicola J. Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University Department of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Born Henley, England, 1958 BA (Oxford) 1979, M.Phil (Oxford, 1984), D.Phil (Oxford, 1990) Visiting Scholar at Harvard 1985-89, Asst. Prof of English, Northwestern University (and Visiting Asst Prof, Indiana University) since 1989. Sole publication on Shakespeare to date is the essay "Kemble, Scott and the Mantle of the Bard" in Jean Marsden's anthology "The Appropriation of Shakespeare" (Harvester Press, forthcoming), among much work on the Romantic period including a forthcoming book from OUP, "Purloined Letters: Revolution, Reaction and the Form of the Novel, 1790-1825." ============================================================================= *Watt, R.J.C. Lecturer in English Dean of Students, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Dundee, Scotland. M.A. (Aberdeen), M.Litt (Oxford) Publications: Cannot all be listed here, but main areas are: 1. Books and articles on 19th and 20th century poetry. 2. Articles on computational textual analysis, concordancing, and computer programming for the humanities. 3. Articles and reviews on textual problems in Shakespeare and other Renaissance authors, including: `"This poor trash of Venice": a crux in Othello', Notes and Queries, N.S., vol. 32 no. 4, December 1985. `Armado's fadge not in Love's Labour's Lost: The Case against Emendation', Notes and Queries, N.S., vol. 33 no. 3, September 1986. Extract from `Armado's fadge not in Love's Labour's Lost: The Case against Emendation', reprinted in William Shakespeare: a Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987 (1988). `Three cruces in Measure for Measure', Review of English Studies, N.S., vol. 38 no. 150, May 1987. `The Lacuna in Milton's "On the Death of a Fair Infant"', Notes and Queries, N.S., vol. 36 no. 1, March 1989. I am also the author of the section on Shakespeare, editions and textual matters, in the annual volume The Year's Work in English studies. Research interests correspond to the three main areas of publication above. ======================================================================== *Watts, Ann I am a pretender, an interloper from medieval studies, where almost all of my research and some of my teaching lies. As an associate professor in the English Department at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, I find that increasingly chances come my way to teach various courses not in medieval English literature or history of the language. When the evening Shakespeare courses went begging, I jumped. Shakespeare and his age. If you must deny me access on the grounds that I am unlikely to contribute anything worthy, then I quite see your point. I have published one book (on *Beowulf*) and several articles (on Middle English literature), but nothing in Renaissance literature ("Renaissance": yes, I'll take that over "early modern"). A brand new interest that I have not yet begun to pursue has to do with Elizabethan anatomies and *As You Like It*. My Ph. D. is Yale, 1965. My surface address is: Dept. of English, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102 (201-648-5820). =============================================================================== =============================================================================== *Wayne, Valerie Valerie Wayne is a Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. I have edited _The Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare_ (1991), Edmund Tilney's _The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage_ (1992), and Thomas Middleton's _A Trick to Catch the Old One_, which will appear in the forthcoming _Collected Works of Thomas Middleton_, for which I serve as an associate general editor. I have published essays on _The Taming of the Shrew_ and _Othello_ as well as women's writing and early modern mothers' advice books. Work in press includes an essay on _Swetnam the Woman-hater arraigned by women_ and another called _The Sexual Politics of Textual Transmission_. I am also just beginning two new projects, an edition of _The Winter's Tale_ for the Bedford Shakespeare series that prints cultural and historical materials on the play, and an edition of _Cymbeline_ for Arden 3. ============================================================= *Weaver, Carolyn I am a reporter at the Voice of America, the international radio service operated by the government. I learned about the Shakespeare electronic conference through the Washington Shakespeare Reading Group, which I joined recently. =============================================================================== *Webb, David L. David L. Webb received his Ph.D. from Cornell University under the direction of Kenneth S. Brown, with a thesis in algebraic K-theory. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo, Webb joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1985. After promotion to Associate Professor in 1990, he spent the year 1990-91 at Dartmouth College. He joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as Associate Professor in 1992. Webb spent the year 1993-94 as a Member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley, and is spending the present academic year on leave as a recipient of an American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship. Webb continues his work on algebraic K-theory of integral group rings of finite groups. In addition, he has worked in differential geometry, particularly on questions concerning what geometric information is (or is not) encoded in the eigenvalue spectrum of the Laplace operator of a Riemannian manifold, a question popularized by Mark Kac as "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" =============================================================================== *Webb, Heidi Sue I am writing my dissertation on George Herbert at the University of Chicago, and I have a very strong interest in Shakespeare as well. ============================================================= *Webb, Michael My name is Michael Webb. I have been the managing director of college theatre at Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL. since 1985. Since being appointed director, I have been committed to directing the entire cannon (have completed 17 to date). ============================================================= *Webb, Michael My name is Michael P.(Mike) Webb, I have been the Managing Director of Theatre at Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL for 10 years. I have an MFA in directing from Michigan State(1981) and have personally directed/produced 27 productions of 14 of the plays by Shakespeare. My studio theatre season always includes one Shakespeare production (this season R&J). The interesting thing about the theatre is that it is a 166 seat thrust theatre with a 20X16 stage (no one in the audience is more than 18 feet from the actors). I have a collection of early 19th century illustrations on disk (pen & ink) from various editions of the complete works that I personally scanned. I am very interested in textual derivations and determining which actor in the company created which role. My mailing address is: Michael P. Webb Rock Valley College 3301 N. Mulford Rd. Rockford, IL 61114 office (815) 654-4288 fax (815) 654-4402 =============================================================================== *Webber, Jeannette Jeannette Webber, PhD, Professor of English, Santa Barbara City College, and chair of English department. I teach the sophomore level Shakespeare course at SBCC during the spring semester. This term I'm also teaching a non-credit adult ed. course, "A Shakespeare Festival," in preparation for a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland which I will lead in June for the SBCC Continuing Education Division. I've not written any papers in Shakespeare studies but have just completed an historical novel set in 1590's London entitled No Woman I. My agent is certain she'll sell it in 1998. I've a sequel planned, which gives me a lively interest in performance history, events and people of the time, and necessitates frequent trips to England. ============================================================= *Weber, Alan S. Alan S. Weber Box 217, English Department Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902 (607) 773 - 4755 EDUCATION: Ph.D. , English, Binghamton University, expected 1995 M.A., English, Binghamton University, 1992 B.A., English, Cornell University, 1984 DISSERTATION: The Troilus and Cressida Legend: Committee - Mario DiCesare (Director), Albert Tricomi, Gayle Whittier The thesis investigates love as philosophical and literary concern in the major Troilus and Cressida texts of Benoit de St-Maure,.Boccaccio, Lefevre, Herbort, Guido de Columnis,Chaucer and Shakespeare PUBLICATIONS: Matthew Arnold and the French Marguerite Tradition, Victorian Newsletter (forthcoming, Fall 1994); Even the Winds and Sea ObeyU: Medievalism in the Thought of Clough,Proceedings of the 7th Annual General Conference on Medievalism , (forthcoming, 199?) PAPERS The Rhetoric of Exclusion in ShakespeareUs Troilus and Cressida, On the Margins, Twenty- Seventh Annual CEMERS Conference, Binghamton University, October, 1992; Even the Winds and Sea Obey: Medievalism in the Thought of Clough, 7th Annual General Conference on Medievalism, University of South Florida, September, 1992 WORK IN: Rapt Security: The Psychosexual Landscapes of Matthew Arnold,(under review, Victorian Poetry) MEMBERSHIPS:Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of America =============================================================================== *Weber, David Edward My name is Dave Weber and am currently an English and History student at Kings College in Halifax. By subscribing to SHAKSPER I'm hoping to gain access to perhaps a more informed pool of knowledge and debate than I currently have among friends. Being a Ba I have no Bibliography to report however I should expect that SHAKSPER doesn't require a very extensive cv. In any case, my participation is most likely to be silent. ============================================================= *Weber, Sue I am a 46 year old artist living and teaching drawing in Charlottesville, VA. I've a long time interest in Elizabethan history and Shakespearean theater with little time to pursue my interests fully. Discovering this listserv seemed an excellent way to add to my knowledge. I can add little to the discussions except my excitement for the literature so expect to "lurk" and learn. =============================================================================== *Weber. A. S. A. S. Weber is completing his dissertation entitled "Shakespeare's Cosmology" under the direction of Mario Di Cesare at SUNY Binghamton. His research interests include Early Modern Literature, Victorian period, and linguistics. He has forthcoming articles on Victorian Medievalism, Medieval cuisine, Shakespeare and Stoicism, Shakespeare and Hermeticism, etc. He will be presenting papers this fall at the MLA, Villanova PMR, and Binghamton CEMERS conferences on Shakespeare and cosmology. =============================================================================== *Webster, Mark J. My name is Mark J. Webster. I am currently a doctoral candidate in Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas at Austin. My dissertation research concerns dramatic production in England in the early 20th century, with particular focus on plays produced in London during the First World War years. I intend to explore the ways in which the war effort affected theatrical production and how the theatre as a social institution responded to the stresses of the war. Although my research touches upon some Shakespeare productions, I do not consider myself a Shakespearean scholar, and indeed will probably fall into the "interested bystander" category. I have been acutely interested in most areas of Shakespeare research for many years, particularly in productions of the plays, but my pursuit of the subject has been largely informal and recreational. Degrees held: BA Southwest (MN) State University Theatre Arts 1974 MFA University of Texas Directing 1984 Memberships: ATHE, TCG, Actors Equity Membership Candidate Address: 1701 Alameda Dr. Austin, TX 78704 (512) 444-5395 =============================================================================== *Webster, Peter Peter Webster: Artistic Director of Mappamundi, a Houston-based non-profit arts and Arts in education company. Currently producing the Young Houston Playwrights Festival, "Distant Voices", a new play in devlopment with The Ensemble Theatre, and "Shakespeare's Brain", a CD-ROM exploring Shakespeare in a text and performance context*Master Teacher in dramatic studies for the Houston Grand Opera Opera Studio*Guest Lecturer on Shakespeare in performance at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, U. of Md., College Park*Professional Actor for 27 years, working on Broadway, Off and Off-Off Broadway, Resident Theatres in 22 states, television and radio:roles include Hamlet, Mark Antony, Pericles, Macduff, Romeo, Angelo, Hal (both), Hotspur, Bottom, Bertram, Ferdinand, Claudio, Orsino, Lacy-Hans (Shoemaker's Holiday) Ariel, Puck, Oberon, among others*As director: A Midsummer Night's Dream (twice), Richard II, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (twice) The Duchess of Malfi, The Passion Play (5 plays from the York & Wakefield cycles) The Cocoanuts, The Destiny of Me, Fighting Deer*With Louis Scheeder, co-founder of The James Project, a performance and text study group in NYC examining the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries by readings and performance:among others, The Dutch Courtesan, The Honest Whore,i, The Roaring Girl, The Changeling, The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Malcontent. I translate Shakespeare's work into Spanish, and have directed a site-specific Spanish/English R&J that played outdoors at nine different locations and was seen, gratis, by 5,000 people. I believe that Shakespeare's stories are at the core of human endeavor, his language is sinuous, vibrant and sexy ("The only words big enough to say what I feel"-a 14 year old in the South Bronx), and that these stories and words should be disseminated in a thorough and compelling fashion. =============================================================================== *Wechsler, Jeremy I am the artistic director of Magellan Theatre, a not-for-profit theatre company operating in Chicago, IL for the last two years. My classical work includes productions of Troilus and Cressida and Calderon's Life is a Dream. I am requesting a subscription to your mailing list out of pure interest in seeing what the internet has to offer, and saw the note in "The Internet Directory." =============================================================================== *Wedaman, David David Wedaman Graduate Student, Humanities Department Teaching Assistant, English Department Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana 47802 B.A. Humanities, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota 1991 I'm interested in the evolution of Shakespearean criticism. I recently compiled a chronology of critical reaction to Timon of Athens, but I'm currently researching the Shakespearean influences on Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. Specifically, I intend to analyze the different opinions about the amount of Shakespearean influence in Otranto to see if I can draw some general conclusions about why people look for Shakespeare in Otranto. People who like Gothic novels, for example, tend to link them, through Otranto, to Shakespeare, thus making them more significant by this attachment to the Bard. I've found other reasons, though, too, and I think it will make an interesting study. ======================================================================== *Weeks, Matthew S. I am a high school English teacher who has a special interest in Shakespeare, and participated in the NEH Summer Institute "Shakespeare in Ashland" last summer. I found a reference to your "Shakesper" list in a resource guide to listservers... =============================================================================== *Wehling, Thomas M. I have taught the senior honors, Advanced Placement/ University credit course called "Early English Literature/Shakespeare" for 20 years. I credit Norman Maclean and David Bevington of the University of Chicago (A.B.; M.A.T.) as the mentors who pushed me to utilize my skills and learning in the high school arena, for which I have no regrets and much joy. Despite the focus I received at Chicago on the "interiority" of a text as critical beginning for inquiry, I have become as interested in the dramaturgy inherent in Shakespeare's plays. Students learn how to visualize action by listening to the dialogue, as the Globe Theater Project and various Folger Library seminars have encouraged. I also have long taught a Creative Writing/Poetry course, and this interest leads me to emphasis on the poetic aspects of Shakespeare's plays. Parkway North encourages students toward independent inquiry, and so I ask students to immerse themselves in various O.E. and M.E. issues, and in particular, to read and listen to serious discussions about Shakespeare. Personally, I am interested in the transformation of heroic character from Beowulfian will and courage into more political and socially charismatic figureheads. I am also interested in Shakespeare's treatment of madness and its various causes. ============================================================= *Weil, Eric My name is Eric A. Weil, and I am an assistant professor of English at Shaw University (118 E. South St., Raleigh NC 27601). PhD 1993 University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Usually I teach surveys of American literature or modern British (in addition to 3 composition sections), but for this semester I have been asked to teach our Shakespeare course. So I am interested in reading some good teaching tips & ideas for an undergraduate course tackling a dozen plays. A poet, I've had work in Poetry, The American Scholar, The Greensboro Review, Appalachian Journal, and others. I've published scholarly articles on Chaucer, Hawthorne, and E.A. Robinson. =============================================================================== *Weinberg, Howard I received a B.A. in English, in 1972 from the U. of Iowa. Ten years later I received an M.A. in Psychology, with concentrations in clinical and social psychology, and 1983 I received my Ph.D., also from the U. of Iowa. Why mess with a good thing? I live in Iowa City, where I maintain a private practice. I also write and occasionally publish poetry and fiction (1992, Winner On-Line Writing Award, The Well; 1995, 2nd place Story Magazine, Short Short Story Contest). Received the usual innoculations against the bard in high school and college, but these proved too weak, compared with performances viewed every summer in Central Park, NYC. I was inspired (two years ago) to begin reading the entire corpus by Ted Hughes' Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. Like Graves' The White Goddess, its ability to inspire, synthesize, and illuminate texts (almost) banishes concern over the truth of its argument. I was probably damaged for life by a clever drama teacher, who cast me as Toby Belch in my senior of high school. It set a certain tone, you know. Hope my lack of reverence and academic distinction will not disqualify me from joining the list. =============================================================================== *Weiner, Margret I am Austrian by nationality, and an avid lover of Shakespeare by choice. After having finished my working career with the united nations as an international civil servant, I am now pursuing a career as a reader in English lit. with emphasis on S. at present, I am writing my master's thesis with the working title: the role of children on the Elizabethan stage. in this, i want to write about the difference between the boys' groups (like St. Paul's etc.) with the apprentices of the stage companies, like S. any hints and ideas about this topic would be highly welcome. ============================================================= *Weingust, Don Department of Dramatic Art 101 Dwinelle Annex University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A. Telephone: (510) 642-1677 My name is Don Weingust. I am a Ph.D. candidate, and Graduate Student Instructor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Training for a career in academic theatre to complement my work in the professional theatre, my chief area of interest is Shakespeare studies and performance. Recent topics of investigation include David Garrick's adaptations of Shakespeare, the evolution of the portrayal of Shylock, and Ingmar Bergman's stage production of Hamlet. I am a professional actor and member of Actors Equity Association, and have performed in several of Shakespeare's plays. My most recent performance project was direction of The Merchant of Venice at Berkeley this past fall. =============================================================================== *Weinstein, Charles I graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1976 with a BA in English Literature. My Senior Thesis was on The Faerie Queene. I considered graduate studies in English, but ultimately opted for law, receiving my degree from Harvard Law School in 1980. I currently practice Intellectual Property law (copyright, trademarks, etc.) at Foley, Hoag & Eliot, one of Boston's largest firms. All this has not prevented me from pursuing my interest in Shakespeare on both the academic and theatrical fronts. I am the Dramaturg (i.e., Literary Director) at the State Shakespearean Theater of Maine, where I have also directed Hamlet (1997) and The Winter's Tale (1996). As a professional actor, my Shakespearean roles have included Puck, Jaques, Bottom, Trinculo, Duke Vincentio, Oswald, Feste and many others. In all, I have appeared in some 25 Shakespearean productions. My primary interest is the history of Shakespearean production and performance in the 20th century. My article on Olivier's Coriolanus appeared in the Spring 1995 edition of the Shakespeare Bulletin. As a lawyer-dramaturg-director-actor-writer, I believe that I bring an unusual variety of perspectives to bear upon this, our common passion, and I would very much like to participate in the discussions and other shared activities provided through SHAKSPER. ============================================================= *Weiss, Adrian Associate Professor, English Department University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069. TEACHING AREAS: Shakespeare's Comedies, Tragedies Literary Criticism Plato to Pope; Renaissance Women in Conflict: Elizabethan Drama. RESEARCH AREA: The Printers of the Elizabethan Period, 1552-1620, with emphasis upon dramatic quartos but by no means limited to them. The essential thrust is to build a foundation which will enable bibliographers and textual editors to identify printers and compositors involved in the textual transmission process regardless of the kind of book. My work has focused upon the methods of identifying printers by their type fonts and ornamental stock. Both are rather complex undertakings given the vagaries of printing in the period. However, attempting to edit a text without first identifying the printer (and hence the compositors) who produced a book invites disaster. Publications include "Font Analysis as a Bibliographical Method: The Elizabethan Play-Quarto Printers and Compositors," SB, 43 (1990); "Biblio-graphical Methods for Identifying Unknown Printers in Eliz./Jacabean Books,"SB, 44 (1991); my review of Craig Ferguson's error-ridden "Pica Roman Type in Eliz. England" in PBSA, 83 (1989); and forthcoming in SB, 45 (1992), "Shared Printing, Printer's Copy, and the Text(s) of Gascoigne's A HUNDRETH." Current projects include a manual for the bibliographical description of the typography of early books. ====================================================================== *Welch, Susan Susan Welch College of St. Catherine srwelch@alex.stkate.edu I teach literature and creative writing at the University of Minnesota a College of St. Catherine. I'm going to be teaching "Antony and Cleopatra" summer and a couple of times next year, in a real classroom and a virtual classroom and am interested in discussing this play with others. =============================================================================== *Wells, Christina M. I'm interested in joining SHAKSPER and was recently notified that I should provide a short autobiography. I'm Christina Wells, a first-year doctoral student in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I am specializing in Renaissance Literature and Gender Studies. I have an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas and a B.A. in English from Henderson State University. Currently, my interest in Shakespeare involves textual research I'm doing on Shakespeare's _Sonnets_ for a Bibliography and Methods class. ============================================================= *Wells, Edward Edward Wells, aspiring writer. Interest in Shakespeare: personal and scholarly. =============================================================================== *Wells, Ethan I am currently an undergraduate entering his junior year at Cornell University. I have an immense interest in Shakespeare, for reasons that shall, I hope, soon become apparent. Although I am technically not an English major, my interests lie primarily within English literature, French literature and moral philosophy. Through great fortune, I was selected to participate in Cornell's College Scholar Program (in the College of Arts and Sciences), which enables me to study these various interests without the restrictions of a major. This freedom, of course, did not come unqualified. I am required to complete a senior project inspired by my various interests, to be reviewed by the "ominous" College Scholar Board. Although my project remains in its infancy, it almost certainly will address literature as a form of moral inquiry. Perhaps you see already how such a project leads, almost inevitably, to the great one himself. Who has dealt more movingly with the concept of justice than Shakespeare in <> or <>? Who has dealt with the failure of a good man to be good more enlightening than Shakespeare in <> or <>? Who looked evil in the eye more unflinchingly than Shakespeare in the characters of Richard III and Iago? Finally, who recognized more clearly the hazy line that separates illusion from reality, an important concept in moral philosophy, than the great one himself? My academic interests follow a path that must pass through William Shakespeare. I have yet to write a paper on William Shakespeare of any real merit. I learned about this listserv from Charles Levy, a professor at Cornell who teaches classes on Shakespeare quite regularly. I'd been discussing my readings of certain plays with him when, perhaps to free himself of a "troubling" pest, he recommended I join this listserv. ============================================================= *Wells, Robin Headlam Dr Robin Headlam Wells is Reader in English at the University of Hull. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Canada, France, Italy, the US and the West Indies. His publications include -Spenser's 'Faerie Queen' and the Cult of Elizabeth- (Croom Helm and Barnes and Noble, 1983), -Spenser, Politics and the State- (Macmillan, 1986) and -Elizabethan Mythologies- (Cambridge University Press, 1994). He is currently writing a book entitled -Shakespeare on Masculinity-. =============================================================================== *Wells, Stanley I am Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. I am also Chairman of the International Shakespeare Association, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Vice-Chairman of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (for which I direct an annual Summer School), a member of the Board of Directors of Shakespeare's Globe, and a Trustee of the Rose Theatre. I edit 'Shakespeare Survey' for Cambridge University Press and am General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare. For more than thirty years I have published and lectured internationally on Shakespeare. My recent book, 'Shakespeare: A Life in Drama' is to be reprinted (with an additional chapter mainly on the Funeral Elegy) in paperback by Norton during the next few months. I have recently edited for Oxford an anthology of Shakespeare theatre criticism, to be published late this year or early next, and shall shortly turn to editing 'King Lear' for the Oxford Shakespeare. I hope you regard me as an eligible person. =============================================================================== *Wen, Chih-Po Name: Chih-Po Wen Title: Graduate Student Researcher Institution: Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley I am a Phd student in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. I am joining this mailing list mainly for a friend, who has a MS degree in Theatre Performance Evaluation from NYU. My own interest related to this discussion group lies in the intelligent, computer-aided indexing and retrieval of classical literature. =============================================================================== *Went, Alex I would like to subscribe to the SHAKSPER listserv. I am an English teacher at Shrewsbury School, England, where I also run the drama department. I teach Shakespeare at all school levels as well as to prospective university entrants. ============================================================= *Werner, Sarah Sarah Werner, Graduate student in the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. I am currently at work on a dissertation about Shakespeare and contemporary acting methodologies, exploring the ways in which our thinking about acting and subjectivity interact with how we perform and understand Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Werstine, Paul Professor, King's College and the Graduate School, University of Western Ontario, London Canada I have taught English for fifteen years at King's College (affiliated with the University of Western Ontario) and, more recently, in the Graduate School at Western. Some of my recent publications are the following: associate editorship of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England IV (New York: AMS Press, 1989. xiv+354); "'Foul Papers' and 'Prompt-books': Printer's Copy for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors." Studies in Bibliography 41 (1988): 232-246; "The Textual Mystery of Hamlet." Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988): 1-26; "McKerrow's 'Suggestion' and Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Textual Criticism." Renaissance Drama 19 (1989): 149-73; "More Unrecorded Variants in the Folger Library Collection of Shakespeare First Folios." The Library VI 11 (1989): 47-51; "Narratives about Printed Shakespeare Texts: 'Foul Papers' and 'Bad' Quartos." Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 65-86. Currently I am editing Shakespeare's plays and poems with Dr. Barbara Mowat of the Folger Shakespeare Library for a series entitled the New Folger Shakespeare to replace the rather dated Folger General Reader's Shakespeare, and to allow the Library, for the first time, to benefit from the royalties generated by the sale of an edition bearing its name. The New Folger is not a revision of the old edition, but a complete re-editing of the plays and poems based directly upon the early printed texts. Last year, supported by a Research Time Stipend from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, I also worked on a skeptical history of the editing of Shakespeare in this century (still unfinished). The project calls into question the absolute status accorded such categories as "foul papers," memorial reconstructions, touring texts, and "prompt-books" in contemporary editing and textual criticism by historicizing the comparatively recent production of these categories and by setting them in relation to extant dramatic manuscripts. Since 1980 I have also been working on the New Variorum edition of Romeo and Juliet. ========================================================================== *West, Frances My name is Frances West. I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history, with a minor in English. I am not currently pursuing a degree, nor am I associated with any institution at the moment. However, I continue to study the humanities as much as being a stay-at-home-mother allows. I do enjoy Medieval Studies, however, I also enjoy the Renaissance, especially the literature. Obviously, I like Shakespeare. My favorite plays are As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Othello, and The Taming of The Shrew. Of course I have many more to read. I also like most of the movies I have seen. My interests in Shakespeare, as far as literary criticism, include his views on Order, kingship, and love. I have always found it interesting that Richard II and Henry V seem to have such opposing views on the privilege of wearing the crown. I also like the way Shakespeare wrote about love in his plays. In fact, I wrote an undergraduate paper on love in The Taming of The Shrew. I am familiar with the works of Northrop Frye and E. M. W. Tillyard, as well as David Daniell and Irene Dash, but I have a very small library of criticism. I also enjoy the debate on the "true" identity of William Shakespeare, although it does not make any difference to me who he was. ============================================================= *West, Katherine 376 Davenport Road Toronto, Ontario CANADA M4V 1B4 (416) 515-9172 kwest@epas.utoronto.ca I am a third year graduate student at the University of Toronto. I am doing my thesis on adaptations of Shakespearean comedies from 1660-1740 with Alexander Leggatt. My research interests include Shakespearean adaptations, Shakespeare in eighteenth-century culture, and Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre history. I recently gave a paper at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Newfoundland on Johnson's edition of _Henry V_ and modern editorial practice. I will be attending the SAA conference in Atlanta this spring and will be participating in the _Shakespeare and Popular Culture_ session. I am originally from Atlanta, Georgia. I did my BA at Florida State University in English and in Music (cello), and my MA is from Toronto. =============================================================================== *West, Kristie My name is Kristie West, and I am 23 years old. I am a first year education student at the university of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. I am currently studying to be an English Lit. and Modern History High School teacher. I have had an interest in Shakespeare for many years now, and enjoy reading and seeing performances of his work whenever possible. One of my ambitions as a secondary school teacher is to teach Shakespeare to junior high school students, and to help remove the general stigma relating to the study and appreciation of Shakespeare. I am also interested in the works of the Romantics, especially Austen and the Bronte sisters, as well as contemporary writers, especially the Australian writers Tim Winton and David Malouf. ============================================================= *West, Mason My name is Mason West and I would like to subscribe to your Shakespeare list, probably as a reader rather than a writer of posts. I am not a scholar or educator, though I do have an avid interest in literature and an appreciation of Shakespeare -- especially the Bollingbrooke plays -- and the Elizabethans, Marlowe in particular. I also enjoy Shakespeare in the movies -- not only the productions by Zefferelli, Olivier, Branagh, and Welles, but also less literal adaptations of plays like The Tempest, for example, such as Forbidden Planet (a sci-fi version), Paul Mazursky's Tempest, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. I also enjoy Akira Kurosawa Samurai adaptations of Shakespeare such as Ran (King Lear) and Throne of Blood (MacBeth). I also write. I've yet to publish any creative work, though I have published articles about Texas history and many reviews of books, music, movies, &c. I am currently working on chapters of a book about the World Wide Web. I operate a small, private list for readers and writers called Prufrock-L. =============================================================================== *West, Melissa Katherine I am by no means any kind of expert on the subject. I am a college freshman. ============================================================= *Westbrook, Peggy I am currently English Department Chairman at Spencer High School in Columbus, Georgia. I have been teaching English Literature, at one level or another, for over 15 years. Currently, the majority of my time is centered on Advanced Placement English. Of course, Shakespeare receives a significant portion of our time. My interest in this list, however, is mainly personal as I never seem to tire of Shakespeare, especially his ability to delve into the human psyche. =============================================================================== *Westelaken. Jackie My name is Jackie Westelaken and I would love to get permission to join SHAKSPER. I am a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada and I had the privilege of being taught by Dr. Paul Werstine a few years ago. While I have enjoyed reading Shakespeare's plays since high school, Dr. Werstine was an incredible teacher and gave all of his students new insight and a greater appreciation for the artist. I am now enrolled in a post-graduate course in public relations and although I am enjoying the program material I miss my English courses, the discussions, hearing different views and ideas etc. about literature and especially Shakespeare and his works. Access to SHAKESPER would let me "go back" to those years at university - to learn from so many talented people who dedicate their lives to research, teaching, and appreciating great literature. ============================================================= *Westfall, Suzanne Dr. Suzanne R. Westfall, Associate Professor of English and Theatre at Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18301 Office Phone: (215) 250-5249 Home Phone: (717) 421-4297 Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. MA from same. BA from U. Mass, Dartmouth Publications: "Patrons and Performance: Early Tudor Household Revels", OUP, 1991 Articles on Renaissance Drama in ELR, TS; Articles on contemporary drama (Sam Shepard, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong) in JDTC, "Modern American Drama: The Female Canon" (ed June Schlueter, Fairleigh Dickinson), and "Reading American Literatures" (ed. Amy Ling, Temple University Press). I also work in the theatre as an actor, stage manager, and director. During my Toronto years I was very active with the PLS in its stagings of the Cycle Dramas and Castle; since then I have continued directing here at Lafayette, producing Shakespeare, Genet, Moliere, Chaucer, Shepard, and many others. At present I am completing a study of contemporary performance artist Ping Chong, entitled "Making Theatre," and beginning work on "From Congregation to Audience: Time and Space on the Early Modern Stage." The latter will focus on audience reception and response to various genres from ritual to the public theatre. =========================================================================== *Weston, Michael Graduated from The City University of New York Majored in Human Communications. Interests include opera and playing the trumpet. I am currently planning a project that deals with Shakespeare's dramas. I will be persuing a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences next year. =============================================================================== *Weyhrauch, Richard Mail Address: IBUKI, PO BOX 1627, Los Altos, CA 94022 Phone: (415) 961-4996 Fax: (415) 961-8016 Biography: I am a business man who is interested in electronic text. I have a PhD in mathematics (logical foundations) from Stanford University and worked and taught at Stanford as part of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in the computer science department for over 15 years. I have published over 40 articles whose on subjects as diverse as technical results in recursion theory, building intelligent computer systems, and the way the ideas of traditional philosophy influence the design of artificial individuals. I am currently a visiting scholar at Stanford and employed at IBUKI, a company that has recently started publishing full-text hyperlinked electronic versions of primary texts and collateral reference material for scholars, students, university libraries and people interested in their world. I am currently acting as coordinator/editor for the complete works of both John Milton and Andrew Marvell (among others), where we have projects to publish definitive editions with extensive commentaries and background. =============================================================================== *Whales, Whit Whit Wales: I have been teaching theatre and guiding the performing arts at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachussets. (Co-ed Boarding School 9-12) for nine years. Before that I was an artist-in-residence in Louisville, Kentucky, and founded a summer theatre there for young people called Shakespeare in the Fields. During that time I was also a resident company member of Stage One: Louisville Children's Theatre. I have worked in the literary offices for Actor's Theatre, the O'Neill Theatre Center and Circle Rep. In 1992, I received a summer grant from the NEH to study with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA. I am committed to directing and producing Shakespeare at the high school level. I believe that there is no greater opportunity for me, as well as the young people I teach, to explore and realize large and complex ideas and passions than through acting and studying these works. I relish the opportunity to hear from others who are also engaged in this study. I am particularly interested in utilising technology to generate interactive texts, ones which are essentially edited by students as they work on a particular play. I also wish to create a Bulletin Board which will allow students from across the country, who are simultaneously working on the same play,to be able to communicate with one another their approaches to their respective roles and productions. But, mostly, being somewhat isolated in this woodsy area of Central Mass., I look forward to hearing other people's voices. These are the pieces that I have directed during the fall in the last seven years: A Midsummer's Night Dream Hamlet The Merchant of Venice King Lear As You Like It Measure for Measure The Tempest =============================================================================== *Whall, Helen M. A.B. Emmanuel College, Boston, 1971 Ph.D. Yale University, 1976 Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1976-1982 Associate Professor, 1982-present I studied Renaissance Literature at Yale with R.S. Sylvester and worked for him on the Yale Thomas More Project. My dissertation on Tudor Drama was (finally) published last year by Garland (To Instruct and Delight: Didactic Method in Five Tudor Dramas). I switch hit between Shakespearean and modern drama and, in addition to an essay on As You Like It, "The Play of Analogy" (Huntington Library Quarterly, Winter, 1984) have a number of essays on Brecht, including one on "Brecht's Use of Shakespeare" (Toronto Quarterly, 1981-82). I edited the "Theatre In Review" section of Theatre Journal from 1986-1988. I have just finished a lengthy essay on the relation of Hamlet to the English miniature and Italian mannerist art and am beginning work of a similar nature with King Lear. I am also active in a library lecture series that keeps me honest as I discuss various plays with an enthusiastic audience of general readers. ======================================================================== *Wharton, T. Fred Yes, I'm still interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER, and therefore what follows is a bried autobiogra[phical sketch, as requested. I publish under "T.F. Wharton." I'm a full prof. in the Department of Languages, Literature, & Communications at Augusta College, Augusta , Georgia, 30904-2200. My office phone numbers are 706-737-1500 (the general office) or 706-731-7989 (my direct line). I've been at Augusta for the last 12 years, before which I taught at Glasgow University in Scotland for 16 years. I have written two books directly on Shakespeare plays: one on HENRY IV for Macmillan's "Text and Performance" series; the other on MEASURE FOR MEASURE for Macmillan's Critics Debate series. Another book, MORAL EXPERIMENT IN JACOBEAN DRAMA has a long chapter on Shakespeare, and my most recent book, THE CRITICAL FALL AND RISE OF JOHN MARSTON alludes to Shakespeare throughout. I also have a book on Samuel Johnson, but that's by the by. Current projects? I'm finishing an article on Johnson right now, but I'm also putting together a volume of essays on Marston to coincide with the quatercentenary of his debut as a dramatist. I've done a bit of amateur acting in Shakespeare, the peak of my "career" being King Henry IV. Oh yes, and I chaired the department here in Augusta for a number of years. =============================================================================== *Wheatcroft, Ambrose Ambrose Wheatcroft: I am currently approaching the end of my general education, which has included much study of languages, including Latin and Classical Greek. I plan to study Latin, French and English Literature for A Level (a British certificate of further education) and wish to study English at university. I have a general interest in language and a growing love for English Literature, which forms a great part of the study of English in this country. Production of Shakespeare is a major part of dramatic art in the UK and I have been lucky enough both to have studied and seen several plays. I have enjoyed debate and discussion of literature in general, and have been delighted by the new forum of Shakespearean discussion offered by the internet, giving a vast range of views (in the past my instructors tend to have taken a somewhat one-sided view on many issues.) I have become very interested in the forms of poetry used by Shakespeare especially since my introduction to the scanning of verses of classical poets, eg Catullus, V(i/e)rgil and Euripides. I have a love for the plays, poems and other works of Oscar Wilde as well as a developing interest for the drama of George Bernard Shaw and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. As far as the non-literary side of my life goes, I am a great fan of cinema (especially European, Asian, South American and African, that is, nothing from the US), of religions of all kinds and of scarves. =============================================================================== *Wheeler, Edward Edward Wheeler (user154@aol.com) My enthusiasm for Shakespeare's work derives from a love of language. I like the notion that language, and, in particular, spoken words, exercise unique power within and over 'mind' because words, more than visual shapes, colors or purely musical sounds, weave themselves into the structural bases of our minds from infancy and become as the machinery of consciousness itself. English, as Shakespeare used it, resounds within that consciousness and communicates our shared experiences in their depth and detail. His impressive and sometimes astounding appeals to ear and mind, and at what can appear as multiple, simultaneous levels of awareness, have carried his work to a special niche in human culture. His creative skills in crafting drama and line can mesmerize and even intoxicate, I confess. The historical person having such gifts generates great interest as well, although biographical data seem scarce. The ideas, opinions and scholarship of others who have made the historical Shakespeare either their occupation or a preoccupation more than inform and interest me, though I might expect to contribute little more than this enthusiasm, if called upon to speak. I find relevant discussions of the artist and his work provocative and fascinating. =============================================================================== *Wheeler, Harvey Harvey Wheeler: My main 17th century field is Bacon and my most recent publication was in W.A. Sessions, (ed) Francis Bacon's Legacy of Texts; "The Art of Discovery Grows with Discovery." AMS Press, N.Y., 1990. My article is "Francis Bacon's New Atlantis: The 'Mould' of a Lawfinding Commonwealth." My next will be a narrative bibliography of my Bacon publications to be in Sessions' new book on Bacon scholarship and scholars. My most recent academic position was Martha Boaz Distinguished Research Professor (Academic Information Systems) Univ of Southern Calif. Was Program Director and Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins & Washington & Lee. PhD Harvard; MA, BA, Indiana Univ. Co-author with Eugene Burdick, Fail Safe; co-author with E.M. Nathanson, The Rise of the Elders (now with agents); author of Democracy in a Revolutionary Era; (Ency Brit) Politics of Revolution; ed. Beyond the Punitive Society; Goethe & the Sciences; Co-founder & editor, Journal of Social and Biological Structures; author - many academic articles on Bacon, constitutionalism, computers & society. Now marketing Educare; Computer-Mediated Online & Distant Education in the Information Age - (low cost hitech virtual school/pedagogy) =============================================================================== *Wheeler, Jeff I was formerly a member of this list as a graduate student at USC. I have since finished my PhD--my dissertation was "Palpable Fictions: Religious Relics, Popular Rhetoric and the English Reformation"--and changed email accounts. I am currently a member of the Humanities Division at Pepperdine University. I am continuing my research on the "rhetoric of general interest" as I attempt to define how it is that ideas of general interest were defined in the English Renaissance. =============================================================================== *Wheeler, Jeffrey Matthew I am currently finishing my dissertation on popular rhetoric in and around the iconoclastic controversy of sixteenth-century England. I am especially intrigued by the incessant tudor interest in religious relics. =============================================================================== *Wheeler, Ray or Ray Wheeler is a Professor of English and resident playwright at Dickinson State University (Dickinson, ND 58601). He holds a BA and MA in English from Pittsburg State University (Kansas) and a PhD in contemporary American literature from the University of North Dakota. His teaching responsibilities at Dickinson State include Creative Writing, Contemporary Drama, Advanced Composition, and Composition by Computer. Aside from teaching, his central interest is in making plays. ========================================================= *Whidden, Mary Bess For 31 years I've taught the works of Shakespeare at the University of New Mexico, and I maintain the proper memberships. My books are *Provincial Matters* and *Staging Howells.* If you need more information, please let me know. Just reaching this address will reward me for a long time. =============================================================================== *Whigham, Frank Frank Whigham Professor of English Department of English University of Texas Austin TX 78712-1164 512-471-8794 ffw@uts.cc.utexas.edu publications: Ambition and Privilege: The Social Tropes of Elizabethan Courtesy Theory (California 1984) Seizures of the Will in English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge UP 1995) essays in RenD (1979), PMLA (1981, 1985), NLH (1983), TSLL (1985), ELH (1988), elsewhere memberships: MLA SAA current research: Jacobean drama early modern life-writing "documentary" texts anthropology and history =============================================================================== *White, Andrew Walker Although raised in a musical family -- my parents are classical musicians -- I found I simply didn't have the discipline to learn an instrument properly. Still, ever since my early teens, I have had a passion for acting. My college career, while something of a sidetrack from the stage , prepared me to take the text and historical context of plays very seriously -- I went to St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, known for its "Great Books" program, where theatre is strictly extracurricular. While acting in many productions over 10 years in Washington, D.C., covering a wide range of genres, I became a dramaturg for the fledgling Washington Shakespeare Company, assisting in research for a ground-breaking production of Julius Caesar and choreographing the Funeral scene as the First Plebeian. An essay, privately distributed among Company members, formed the basis for my approach to the play which attempted to show the contemporary risks our own society faces when we, like Brutus, ignore the real needs of working people. More recently as an MA/Ph.D. student, I have directed and starred in an experimental production of Hamlet, which sought to translate and transpose selected passages of the original text into a modern idiom. Ironically, I was led to do this in part by the Preface of Harley-Granville Barker; for while he is a chief advocate for performing the original text, he also has a somewhat contradictory wish that attention to Elizabethan detail shouldn't get in the way of the audience's appreciation. To which I reply, if archaic language is our chief barrier to understanding and appreciation, why not make selective efforts at translation? My arguments, and findings, may be found in an essay which accompanies the revised playscript, "Hamlet, Thou Art Translated!". Rather than presume to re-write what has already been well and poetically expressed, I have found that a middle ground exists in which Shakespeare's plays can be subjected to partial transposition. The bulk of the original language can remain untouched, with only those words and passages replaced which clearly mislead modern audiences -- 'false friends', anachronisms, latinate sentence structure which on occasion can obfuscate rather than reveal, etc. Other current projects include a paper on the Motley design team and their work with John Gielgud during the season at the Queen's Theatre in 1937-1938, with Dr. Michael Mullin as my advisor; the role of Hortensio in "Taming of the Shrew"; and a projected murder mystery event (with Dr. Mullin) at a local mansion involving a fractured version of "Hamlet" -- see Thurber's take on "Macbeth", and you'll get an idea of what that will be like. In addition to many years as an actor, I was also among the first to certify as an International Actor/Combatant, having attended the first international workshop in London last Spring. =============================================================================== *White, Allen Allen S. White: I teach graduate seminars in literature, including Renaissance & Shakespeare, theory & criticism, etc. and serve as Graduate Coordinator. =============================================================================== *White, Doris I am eager to join Shakespeare discussion as a life long devotee of the drama and poetry of The Bard. Having left the teaching profession for many years for a career in industrial metal (single parent to three children who are now adults), I was fortunate to return to high school teaching at Leonia High School in Leonia, New Jersey eight years ago. Since then, my love and admiration for Shakespeare has deepened, and I have been teaching his work as never before to both Honors and below average students. Most join my enthusiastic response to the glorious language we discover, a language which speaks to our ears and to our hearts. I feel my students will also benefit from my participation in a Shakespeare discussion group. Please inform if I need to submit any other information. By the way, I see retirement on my horizon and will then have increased time to read, reread and savor. =============================================================================== *White, Laurie I am a lecturer in English at UNCG who teaches much freshman comp. and who loves Shakespeare with an amateur's love. My only "real" Shakespeare credential is that I write drama reviews for a local paper's Shakespeare Festival (High Point, NC)-and that I teach a play whenever I can work it into a course, including freshman comp.. --Laurie White, University of North Carolina at Greensboro e-mail: WHITEL@steffi.uncg.edu =============================================================================== *White, Robert A. Robert A. White, Professor and Head Department of English The Citadel Charleston, SC 29409 (USA) (803) 792-5068 A.B., Davidson College, 1965 M.A., University of Georgia, 1969 Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1975 My most direct involvement in Shakespeare studies was over a decade ago. I wrote my master's thesis on _The Taming of the Shrew_, attended the Institute of Renaissance Studies at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1978, and participated in an NEH Summer Seminar on "Shakespeare and Human Experience" with Arthur Kirsch (University of Virginia) in the summer of 1981. During that period, and since, I also taught graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education courses in Shakespeare, and read a couple of papers on Shakespearean comedy. My primary scholarly interests in the field are in psychological approaches and in performance. However, even though I retain my love for and interest in Shakespeare, and even though I am still subscriber to _Shakespeare Newsletter_, I have been away from direct research for so long that I cannot now call myself a bona fide Shakespearean scholar. Most of my recent work has been in Milton, and in more general renaissance studies, as co-director of the triennial Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature and as co-editor of the collections of essays which grew out of the conferences. I am a member of The Spenser Society, the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, SAMLA, MLA, and CCCC. ============================================================================== *Whitehead, Drew My name is Drew Whitehead and I live in Brisbane, Australia and I have recently completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland. My degree consisted of a double English major, specifically dealing in Medieval and Renaissance literature. In 1998 I will be undertaking an honours degree, with my honours dissertation exploring the Elizabethan/Jacobean notion of the paterfamilias and its relationship with the domestic policies of James I, specifically examining the reflections of this form of patriarchal power as it appears within certain of the plays of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Middleton. My special interest has always been in Early Modern English drama. I am thirty-five years old and married with three children. ============================================================= *Whitenack, Aimee H. My name is Aimee Whitenack and I am a student at Dartmouth College interested in subscribing to SHAKSPER. I am a Creative Writing major in the class of '98 and am currently taking my first term of Shakespeare in college. My professor for the course is Peter Saccio. =============================================================================== *Whitney, Charles Charles C. Whitney, Assoc. Prof. of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5001 (702)895-3533 fax: (702)895-4801. Oct. 20. 1994 I'm on sabbatical 1994-5 and working on a book, Common Understanders, on playgoer responses. The book explores the possible diversity of different social groups' responses to early performances of specific dramatic scenes, emphasizing responses of lower social orders and women. Some purposes of this project are to consider how "groundlings" and other special groups in specific cases may have had deeper and more interesting responses than others, to emphasize that plurality and depth of meaning can often usefully be seen as a function of diverse response rather than of a master critic's interpretive power, and to explore the possibilities of situating dramatic experience in the lives of individuals of the period. Evidence of response is scanty but Andrew Gurr's discussion of "mental composition" in Playgoing in Shakespeare's London has begun to suggest its unexplored potential, and to debunk the concept of a normative response. The method is to focus on dramatic scenes depicting topical issues or social conflicts towards which different groups could be expected to respond divergently. Diaries, pamphlets, and letters are also used to imagine an individual's possible theatrical experience. I hope to consider the relatively allusion-rich Falstaff and Hamlet, and also Cleopatra's court circle, gypsies, loud laughing, food riots, a group of plays appealing to the middling sort, and the most thoughtful writings on audiences, by Nashe, Beaumont, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Fitzgeoffrey, Gayton, etc. A preliminary article, "Festivity and Topicality in Falstaff's Coventry Scene (1Henry IV 4.2)," is in the current, special Shakespeare issue of ELR (24:2 [Spring 1994] 410-48). "Charmian's Laughter: Women, Gypsies, and Festive Ambivalence in Antony and Cleopatra," is forthcoming in The Upstart Crow. My publications other than the above have centered on Francis Bacon, including an article in JHI on the philology and politics of instauration ("Bacon's Instauratio," 50:3 [July-Sept. 1989] 371-90); Francis Bacon and Modernity (Yale, 1986), a Choice selection which also appeared in a German paper edition (Fischer, 1989); and other articles. "The Naming of America as the Meaning of America: Vespucci, Publicity, Festivity, Modernity" (Clio 22:3 [1993] 195-219) offers a multicultural perspective on the historical controversies surrounding the naming of America. I attended St. John's College in Annapolis and graduated from San Francisco State College and the CUNY Graduate School (1977). Normally each year I teach one lower-division survey of global lit. through the Renaissance, three upper-division courses in the Renaissance including at least one on Shakespeare, and one graduate course. Occasionally I teach a graduate course in critical theory but intend to continue working on a sequence of courses each of which covers 6-8 years of English Renaissance literary history. Current memberships: MLA, SAA, AAUP, Renaissance Society of Southern California. =============================================================================== *Whittaker, Kimberly My name is Kimberly J. Whittaker. I was born October 8, 1972 in Centralia, Washington. I am the oldest of five siblings. My father is an elementary school teacher and my mother, among other things, decorates wedding cakes, advises the school yearbook and takes care of all of the rest of us. She's my hero. True to form, I have followed my father's footsteps and am now just short of a teacher's certificate and BA in English through Seattle Pacific University. I will earn both in June of 1995. After that I hope to teach at the middle or high school level for five to ten years before pursuing my masters, and subsequently, my doctorate in English Literature. Like many of you, I'm an aspiring writer and hope to one day be known for my critical and creative work. As of yet, however, I have only been published in my school yearbook --- and that was not really me, considering that my editors sucked all the originality and personality out of my writing before it hit the presses. My current intrests are, literarily speaking, Shakespeare's comedies and Victorian fiction. My non-literary intrests at this time are learning to play the guitar, the new Star Trek movie and series, getting to June without taking out $5,000 in new loans to add to what I already owe and Adventure-Based Education. My days are busy between working 30-40 hours per week, taking 17 credits, activities through my church (Living Way Foursquare) and my social life(virtually non-existant)---not to mention sleep. However, I love to get mail---especially E-mail. So feel free to contact me. My university address is MAILSTOP 1554, Seattle, WA 98119-1997 My E-mail address is kwhittak@paul.spu.edu =============================================================================== *Whitted, Brent I am a fourth-year (American) doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. Under the supervision of Paul Yachnin and Paul Stanwood, I am writing my dissertation on law and literature in the early modern Inns of Court from a Bourdieuian perspective; basically, I am examining how the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu can illuminate studies of literary and artistic production in Renaissance London. I am also assisting Paul Yachnin with a book project on literary spin-offs of Shakespeare-this is why I am interested in joining the SHAKSPER list. I wish to discuss literary (and non-literary) spin-offs (in English and other languages) of Shakespeare's plays with an international audience. ============================================================= *Whittington, Cassandra Cassandra Whittington is a Teaching Fellow in the English department of Kent State University. She holds a B.A. in English from the College of Wooster and is a member of the MLA. Currently, her interests lie with New Historicist views of Shakespeare's works. engxw878@ksuvxa.kent.edu or cq217@cleveland.freenet.edu P.O. box 423, Kent, OH 44240 (216)-673-3061 =============================================================================== *Widmann, R L Professor R L Widmann English Department--Box 226 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder CO 80309-0226 tel office: (303) 492-8946 fax: 303-492-7090 Attn: Prof R L Widmann I am an Associate Professor of English and a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO 8030 9-0226. I have published articles on computers and editing Shakespeare in *Computers and the Humanities*, in *Bulletin of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing*, *Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior,* and in a collection edited by Roy Wisbey, *The computer in literary and linguistic research* Cambridge UP, 1971. I have also published an article, *Compositors and Editors of Shakespeare Editions* in *PBSA* 1973. I have also published many reviews of books on computer applications, Shakespeare, Renaissance, women writers, feminist theory, and 20th century literature. I am a member of SAA, the Bibliographic Society of Virginia, the International Shakespeare Association, and I am a Life Member of the Modern Language Association and of the Renaissance English Text Society (RETS). My major projects at present, while I am on sabbatical in 1993, include work on a critical book on Shakespeare, a study of Mary Sidney's psalms which looks at her translations in comparison w/the translations of 3 men who translated the Davidian psalms after she did, and two short pieces, the first on Wroth's *Urania* (1621) and the second on Queer Theory and Marlowe's Gaveston in *Edward the Second*. My earned degrees include: B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1963, M.A. University of Illinois, Urbana, 1964, and Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967. I have been teaching Shakespeare since 1967. Since I went to the University of Colorado in 1975, I have won 11 teaching awards from the College of Arts and Sciences, CU--Boulder, one award (1989) from the Boulder campus Faculty Assembly , and two awards (1981, 1992) from the Boulder campus student group SOAR (Student Organization for Alumni Relations). =============================================================================== *Wieland, John <5g85wielandj@vmsb.csd.mu.edu> I am interested in subscribing to the SHAKSPER listserv. I am a Ph.D. candidate in English Renaissance Literature at Marquette University. I received the M.A. at Marquette and the B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. I've taught expository writing at Marquette for six years. However, during the 1996-97 academic year I was the coordinator of the Preparing Future Faculty Program at Marequette. Preparing Future Faculty is a national initiative to develop new programs to better prepare graduate students who are interested in pursuing academic careers. My dissertation examines the ways the major writers of the English Renaissance treated the topic of self-presentation through role-playing. I plan to complete the project late next year. ============================================================= *Wiener, Tikvah My name is Tikvah Wiener, and I'm an English literature M.A. graduate student at Queens College in New York. As I have a 17-month-old son and I also teach full-time, I'm only able to take one course per semester. I've taken Romantic poetry: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats; Milton; and am now enrolled in Graduate Methodology. My areas of particular interest are Shakespeare, Victorian literature, and Keats. As I mentioned, I also currently teach. I've been teaching high school for two years and have taught 10th-12th grade English as well as a creative writing course. ============================================================ *Wikander,Matthew Name: Matthew H. Wikander Title: Professor of English and Director, Master of Liberal Studies Program, University of Toledo, Toledo OH 43606. Books: THE PLAY OF TRUTH AND STATE: HISTORICAL DRAMA FROM SHAKESPEARE TO BRECHT (Johns Hopkins Univ ersity Press, 1986); PRINCES TO ACT: ROYAL AUDIENCE AND ROYAL PERFORMANCE, 1578-1792 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); articles in SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, SHAKESPEARE SURVEY, COMPARATIVE DRAMA, MODERN DRAMA, JEGP, GENRE, etc.; reviews in SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN, SHAKESPEARE STUDIES, THEATRE JOURNAL, etc. Member SAA, MLA, Phi Beta Kappa, and AGLSP (Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs). Most recent SAA paper published in COMPARATIVE DRAMA, 1992-93 "The Protean Prince Hal." =============================================================================== *Wilcox, Matt I am indeed interested in the SHAKSPER Global Electronic Conference. I did think that it was a more closed conference when an autobiographical note was requested. I am a new graduate student at James Madison University where I am studying for on a master's in literature. I am unpublished at this time. I simply have an interest in current academic research in this field. Matt wilcox mewilcox@vax1.acs.jmu.edu =============================================================================== *Wild, Alec My name is Alec Wild, and I live in Chicago. I received my BFA in Acting from the Goodman School of Drama, although my intention from the time I was fourteen has been to direct Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I started my own company, The Folio Theatre Company, after a fruitless search to find someone in the theatre community who would let me direct a Shakespeare play. I have directed more than ten productions for Folio, among them the Jeff Citation winning Henry IV, part one, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. I am now in the process of finding and applying to graduate schools for admittance to a Ph.D. program in Theatre, with a specialization in Shakespeare. Any suggestions will be warmly accepted. =============================================================================== Broome, Lisa I am currently working on my master's degree in English (Renaissance studies) at the University of Alabama (expected date of completion May 1996). My primary interests are Renaissance epics, long romantic narrative poems, and, increasingly, masques. This fall I will be taking a course led by Gary Taylor comparing 10-15 of Shakespeare's plays with plays by contemporary playwrights; I think this discussion list will be exceptionally helpful and interesting during the course as well as before and after it. =============================================================================== Stanga, Lenard I am an actor, currently based out of Calgary, Alberta, with an interest in Shakespeare. I am currently finishing a BFA Drama at the University of Calgary (I am in a 16th C. Lit class right now). I would like to use SHAKESPER as a resource and simply because I find it interesting. Hope to share ideas with you and your members soon. =============================================================================== *Wilderotter, James A., II or I would like to join this list. My name is Dawn Wilhite, I am a student acquiring my masters in English from the University of New Hampshire. I havenot published anything, however I am a self-employed florist. My main interest in joining this is simply that I am a tremendous fan of Shakespeare; he is my all-time favorite author. ============================================================================ *Willett, Perry I'm the librarian for English and American Lit at Indiana University, and also the review editor of WWW resources for Early Modern Literary Studies. I hope to keep up with the latest developments on SHAKSPER in electronic Shakespeare editions, as well as other topics. =============================================================================== *Willett, Perry I'm the librarian for English and American Lit at Indiana University. I'm not a Shakespeare specialist by any means, but I am asked (more frequently, it seems) to recommend electronic discussion groups to students with various interests. I would like to just get an idea of the kinds of discussions that occur on your list, just to pass along to interested students and faculty here at IU. =============================================================================== *Williams, Bob I am 66, retired from work in insurance. I live in a small Iowa town with my wife, a dog, a cat and around 5,000 books. I read my first Shakespeare play when I was 10 (Comedy of Errors) but I didn't become a fanatic until my first year of high school when a gifted teacher took the class through Julius Caesar. This year I began writing poetry in great amounts and short fiction of various sorts, some of them admittedly eccentric and influenced by my other fanaticism, James Joyce. Although I have not yet published anything, I had 4 poems that I thought well enough of to submit to 'Poetry.' "Poetry,' alas, has not thought highly enough of them to reply although I submitted the work way back in July. Doesn't look good. =============================================================================== *Williams, Edwin 'Owen' Curriculum Vitae Edwin Owen Williams 2516 South Harvard Court, #7B Tulsa, OK 74114 918-744-1687 (Home) 918-631-3417 (Work) e-mail address: weo28419@vax1.utulsa.edu EDUCATION: %1993-1995: M.A. (expected in June), English Literature, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Current GPA 3.89 Fields of concentration: Tudor and Stuart literature and drama; Chaucer; the New Historicism; Canon theory and formation %1988-1992: A.B., Classics, Greek, with honors, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Honors Thesis: "The Barbarian Redefined: Euripides' Critique of Greek Society Through Tragedy": an examination of Euripides' dramatic construction of the most marginalized group in the Greek world, the female barbarian. PUBLICATIONS: %"The Martlet Re-examined," under submission toNotes and Queries CONFERENCE PAPERS: %"'Eliza, Queen of Cuckolds': Frustrated Male Ambition and Female Agency in Sidney's and Spenser's Cuckold Scenes," South Central Modern Language Association (November 1994) =============================================================================== *Williams, Harley I was born in Cleveland 48 years ago, attended Yale as an undergraduate, and Michigan Law School. I am an environmental lawyer for the state of New Jersey, have three children, and a wife who is also a lawyer. My children are in high school and are reading some of the same English and American classics I read in school. In addition, we have a girl from Kazakhstan staying with us this year as an exchange student in the high school. She is taking an intensive English writing course and, under my overly-analytical tutelage, doing well in it. As a lawyer, I haver written all my life, and have lived in a world of ideas and challenges to ideas. Coke and Blackstone have been important to me, but so have Shakespeare, the Bible, Homer, the Greek dramatists, poetry, and a handful of English and American novelists - Dickens, Faulkner (wonderful combination, especially read in tandem - great compare and contrast topic for a sadistic English prof), Conrad, and recently Austen, have entranced and enchanted and sometimes horrified me all my life. =============================================================================== *Williams, Jim I am currently a second year Ph.D. in Theatre at Bowling Green State Univ. in OH. =============================================================================== *Williams, Mark My interest in Shakespeare is derived not from an academic position, but simply from a love of his plays. I am employed as a biochemist with CRA Advanced Technical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and so am unable to supply many of the details you request for the autobiographical sketch. Nonetheless, I have a genuine interest in Shakespeare, being a supporter of the only theatre company in Australia devoted solely to Shakespeare (Bell Shakespeare Company), as well as an avid reader of the plays and the Shakespeare Newsletter. And so, despite my lack of formal academic qualifications in this area, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity of joining the mailing list and gaining access to the various papers presented. Thanks for considering my application. =============================================================================== *Williams, Roberta This is to introduce myself. I am Roberta Williams, a learning specialist in the Writing Center at Broome Community College in Binghamton, NY. I hold a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Although I have not published anything about Shakespeare, I do have an avid interest; I always include a Shakespeare play in my Introduction to Lit. course; in grad school I was a T.A. for a Shakespeare class. =============================================================================== *Williams, William Proctor Department of English Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 USA I received my BA, MA, and PhD (1967) from Kansas State University. I am now a full Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. I have published nine books or monographs on such topics as Jeremy Taylor, English Renaissance Drama, and other bibliographical and renaissance subjects. My two most recent books are the second edition of the BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS OF ROBERT GRAVES and the second edition of AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL STUDIES (MLA). I am the editor of the journal ANALYTICAL & ENUMERATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. I have published many articles, notes, and reviews on English Renaissance subjects, bibliography, and the teaching bibliographical and textual subjects. I am one of the General Editors of the New Variorum TITUS ANDRONICUS. Obviously my interests are Shakespeare, Textual Studies, Descriptive Bibliography, and other related subjects. However, I have a growing interest in performance criticism and in the treatment of Shakespeare in the 18th C. ======================================================================== *Williamson, C. Jenise My primary interest is fiction and over the past few years, I have worked at building the concentration in creative writing at BSU. I encourage all of my writing students to write about their major interests so they must incorporate research. My own research interests include biographies of literary figures of early modern England. =============================================================================== *Williamson, Nicole My name is Nicole M. Williamson. I am currently a college student in Nebraska, with hopes of transferring to the South. I have always been interested in Literature, especially Shakespeare. I have been involved with theatre and creative writing throughout high school and college. I am upset that Classic works such as Hamlet, The Odyssey, and The Catcher in the Rye are being phased out of college and high school classrooms. I hope that with a degree in English Literature Education I can help change that trend. =============================================================================== *Willis, Lisa I hold an Threatre Degree, BA, from Pembroke University (N.C.). I obtained my degree in May of 1994. I had attended the University of Greensboro (N.C.) for one and a half years prior to moving back home and attending Pembroke. I also received a Liberal Arts degree, AA, from Peace College (N.C.) in 1990. I am also a member of Alpha Psi Omega, the honorary Theatre Faturnity. I currently reside in Charlotte, North Carolina. I currently have my reseme in with the local theatres and am awaiting an oppurtunity to begin a carrer in Stage Management. My interest in Shakpeare has been long standing. I enjoyed reading the plays in High School and felt others would also, if the subject matter was taught correctly. I enjoyed attending several Shaksperian productions throughout College and was able to take several courses which dealt with Shakspeare or was dedicated only to that subject matter. I am not a published writter. I simply love the material and hope one day to work with a Shakspearian company. While his works are written they are plays. This is often overlooked. I enjoy talking with people who understand that and do not kill the plays by looking at them like a novel. I personally believe this to be the reason a vast majority of the population do not like his work. I would like to join this group for those reasons. I feel I can find people to communicate with that agree with me and learn other ways the plays have been approached. I also hope to be able to gain knowledge and perhaps oppurtunities which will assist me in my carrer goals. =============================================================================== *Willis, Ronald A. Ronald A. Willis, Professor of Theatre and Film, 317 Murphy Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Education: BS Rutgers University, MFA Ohio University, PhD University of Iowa. Current membership in Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Mid- America Theatre Conference, Kansas Theatre Association, American Society for Theatre Research; Past National Chair and National Playwriting Chair of American College Theatre Festival. Principal scholarly/artistic activity emphasizes directing. Approximately 40 productions directed including _Antony and Cleopatra_, _Troilus and Cressida_, _Twelfth Night_, _Hamlet_, and _Macbeth_. Beyond that I have but a modest and diversified publication record. Did a short stint as reviewer for _Shakespeare Quarterly_ in the 60s. I am active as a performance adjudicator/respondent. I am returning to full time teaching status after 13 years as department chair, reviving interests in theatre history, and extending interests in nature of theatrical performance and spectatorship. While Shakespeare studies are not my primary focus, I have considerable interest in matters of history, interpretation, and stage viability--both historical and modern. ======================================================================== *Willits, Ross D. I am a doctoral student and dramaturg at the University of Minnesota. =============================================================================== *Wilmoth, Wendy My name is Wendy S. Wilmoth and I am seeking admission to the SHAKSPER list. I am a graduate student in theatre at Georgia State University, where I am employed as an assistant department head in the library. I hold a BA in Theatre from GSU and hope to receive my MA in June. This fall, I am enrolled in my final course before I begin my thesis research. This course, titled "Acting Shakespeare," is taught by Dr. Ray Miller. I am interested in joining SHAKSPER as a way of enhancing what I am learning in this course, and as my special project for the quarter, I would like to lead an instructional session for my classmates on how to do research on the works of William Shakespeare. My interest in Shakespeare, however, goes beyond the limits of this class, I attend plays both in Atlanta at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern and in Montgomery at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival frequently, and consider myself a real "fan." I would like to use my membership in this list to hear what the true scholars in the field are saying,and tap their wisdom to increase my knowledge. I would like to conclude by saying that I would be most grateful to be included in the SHAKSPER list. =============================================================================== *Wilson, Alexander I am Alexander Wilson, a Senior at Ashland University (in Ohio, U.S.A.). I expect to receive a B.A. in Winter 1999 with majors in English/Journalism and Creative Writing and minors in Theatre and Sociology. I have studied Shakespeare in both literary and theatrical settings, as an actor and as a reader/writer both inside and outside of the classroom. As a writer, I publish a weekly humor column in A.U.'s campus newspaper, and have had a few poems, essays, and short stories in the University's literary magazine. I have worked with almost all forms (drama, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and academic), but have yet to produce the time and nerve to submit anything for publication off campus. As an actor, I have performed over fifteen roles in Ashland alone. In the Fall of 1997, I held the lead in the North American premiere of Richard Taylor's Whistle Down the Wind. Although I have only performed one Shakespearean role (Petruchio in a cutting from The Taming of the Shrew), I hope to receive my second opportunity this February when A.U.'s Theatre Department presents Twelfth Night. While I am less a scholar as I am a fan, I have taken numerous classes with at least partial focus on Shakespeare through both English and Theatre academic departments. I am currently working on a paper (for a Theatre History class) focusing on gender roles in Shakespeare's acting company (namely, the lack of female actors) and their effect on the actual writing or performance (working on it, I said) of certain plays. ============================================================= *Wilson, Cathy I am a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. My Renaissance Lit professor would like for me to look into resources on the internet that deal with Renaissance literature and literary criticism. I would like to subscribe to this list as part of that assignment. Cathy Winston =============================================================================== Far removed from speakers of standard modern English, let alone Shakesperian English, my home is Hartford, Kentucky, a rural farming community of 2000 people. As a child, I loved books and horses better than most people, and I suppose it was my love of books that led me to a bachelor's degree in English, with a concentration in writing and a minor in literature. I've spent the last year teaching English in Korea, but have, most gratefully, made my way back to Kentucky, where I am teaching Introduction to Freshman English and working on my master's degree at Western Kentucky University. I hope this discussion group can aid my studies in two classes, Shakespeare and Rhetoric and Pedagogy. I am currently working on a pilot program for implementing a computer-based Freshman English course here at WKU and would like to compare my progress in two literature courses, one in which I will utilize Internet technology (Shakespeare) and one in which I will make use only of traditional resources (Chaucer). I also write some fiction and poetry, live happily without owning an automobile, and spend as much time outdoors as possible. Oh, I still like books and horses better than most people. =============================================================================== *Wilson, Geoffrey T. Geoffrey T. Wilson Department of English 107 Fourteenth Street 306 Clemens Hall Upper Apartment State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New York 14213 Buffalo, New York 14260 (716) 884-2213 (716) 636-2570 E-Mail: V428HA6E@UBVMS.BITNET V428HA6E@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU EDUCATION Ph.D. program in English SUNY at Buffalo 1990 to present Degree expected 1995 Dissertation: "Machiavellism in the English Renaissance and the Subject of Psychoanalysis," directed by Barbara Bono. Orals Fields: Shakespeare, directed by David Willbern. Renaissance Literature, directed by Barbara Bono. Psychoanalytic Theory, directed by Joan Copjec. B.A. in English Bard College 1986 to 1990 Thesis: "Figurations of the Self in Shakespeare's Classical World," directed by Nancy Leonard. HONORS Teaching Assistantship, awarded by SUNY at Buffalo, 1993-1995. Presidential Fellowship, awarded by SUNY at Buffalo, 1990-1993. Excellence at Equal Cost Scholarship, awarded by Bard College, 1986-1990. PAPERS PRESENTED "Repetition and the Objectification of the Subject in Hitchcock's Rear Window," Narrative: An International Conference, Albany, New York, April 1-4, 1993. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Buffalo, September 1990 to present. Designed and taught sections of English 101 and 201 in the University's composition sequence. =============================================================================== *Wilson, Gloria GLORIA R. WILSON EMAIL Addresses: gwilson@ahs.aberdeen.k12.ms.us grw2@ra.msstate.edu BUSINESS: Aberdeen High School Voice: 601-369-8933 1 Bulldog Boulevard Fax: 601-369-6004 P. O. Drawer 607 Internet Project Coordinator Aberdeen, MS 39730 Teacher of English/Communication =============================================================================== *Wilson, Julie My name is Julie Wilson and I am a student at Medicine Hat College, in Alberta Canada. I take many English courses, but among these classes I enjoy Shakespeare the most, and know that I could be an active member in "Shaksper." =============================================================================== *Wilson, Kate Lecturer in Voice Theatre Department University of Southern Queensland (AUSTRALIA) BA (NE); MLitt (NE); PhD candidate UHawaii PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP MEEAA (Media Entertainment Arts Alliance) NADIE (National Association for Drama in Education) ADSA (Australasian Drama Studies Association) Professional actor, director and teacher. I use Shakesperian text (plays, poetry, sonnets) in voice and acting classes. PRODUCTIONS (as actor): HAMLET (Gertrude); THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Nerissa); KING LEAR (Regan) PRODUCTIONS (as director): THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, TWELFTH NIGHT, THE TEMPEST SEASONS OF LOVE: a full-length programme combining scenes, sonnets and live period music. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Actor-training; Voice in Theatre; East-West Fusion Theatre. =============================================================================== *Wilson, Luke A I'm asst prof of English at Ohio State U, Columbus OH. I teach Shakespeare as well as other literature of the Renaissance. I have a PhD from Berkeley (1992), and a BA from Haverford (79). I've published in Representations, ELH, Renaissance Drama, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and Cordozo Studies in law and literature. I am working on a book entitled Agency and the Dramatic Artifact, which is about legal and dramatic ways of thinking about and representing purposive action. I'm organizing the 1997 Ohio Shakespeare Conference (and would like to post a call for papers on SHAKSPER). =============================================================================== *Wilson, Melody I am interested in participating in the Shakespeare discussion you are spearheading. By way of biography, I am a graduate student, completing my M.A. in English LIterature at Portland State University this year. I have major fields in Medieval and Romantic literature with an emphasis on Rhetoric. Poetry is my genre of choice and I find Shakespeare an underpinning for all of it--hence my interest in your conversation. Much of my work has been in classical literature and the two papers I have had published (in a regional journal--*Anthos*) both dealt with that realm. I am presently writing my M.A. thesis on PB Shelley's *Julian and Maddalo* and find myself interested in (among other things) relating that poem to *The Tempest.* =============================================================================== *Wilson, Nicholas My name is Nicholas Wilson and I am currently studying at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. I am nineteen and in the first year of a Bachelor of Arts degree starting my double major in English and Geography. I had started a conjoint Commerce and Arts degree in the first semester but found it too dry and very uninspiring. So taking positive, self-affirming action I decided to return to the fold of my English brethren and embrace my true being. This semester I am taking two English papers: Twentieth Century Literature and Introduction to Chaucer and Shakespeare. We are currently studying Romeo and Juliet and I Henry IV. I am already a member of the Chaucer and American Literature discussion groups so I know the benefit of forums such as these. Having studied many of Shakespeare's plays in the past I can safely say I am a true lover of his works and hope to contribute much to this group. =============================================================================== *Wilson, Pete A good friend has forwarded me a couple of posts to the list, including especially today's good discussion of Cordelia. I'm very interested to join the list, if you will accept me. I was an English major at University of Rhode Island (1962) with (hmmm, let's see) a "strong interest" in Sh. After I left school, though, I got into the production end of book publishing in New York and Cambridge, and from there into computers. I'm now the world's oldest free-lance computer-software engineer. The last play I read (before R&J, which reintroduced me to Sh a few weeks ago) was Hamlet; that I read in college. For the past 15 years, since reaching the age of reason, I've been each day embarking on a journey to understand myself and my place in the world. Some of the boats I've been on have the names "psychotherapy," "AA," "church," "cancer," and others. I boarded the "shakespeare" boat in a committed way just a few months ago. I believe that much (maybe everything) that I need to know to find my way on this lifelong voyage is in the plays and sonnets. I know nothing of the long poems. I am not a scholar; far from it. I am instead a listener to stories and a pilgrim. And I have a few stories of my own to offer. I'm also interested in Don Marquis, a Sh scholar I admire. But that's for another time. ============================================================= *Wilson, Warren My name is Warren Wilson. There are a lot of things about Shakespeare, especially the plays, which attract me to knowing more about him and his work. I am not a formal Shakespeare scholar, but as a psychologist I am more than a little impressed with his comprehension of human personality. I have read some Shakespeare criticism, most recently a paper by Stephen Greenblatt entitled "Shakespeare and the exorcists." in a book edited by Harold Bloom. I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to actively audit a graduate level class in the University of Washington covering Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. Very moving and even exciting stuff, especially the realization that the "meaning" of any one of these tragedies is inexaustable. Before that I had the opportunity of studying King Lear in great detail in a class in St. John's College's master's program. That class included a study of some of the sonnets. The richness of his use of the English language is a constant fascination and even a goad for me to perhaps become just a little more articulate in my use of the language. It seems to me that how I relate to at least my native tongue has a good deal to do with who I am, or to put it a little more specifically, with my self understanding and self definition. Shakespeare is more than pleasurable. As a master of the language he probably went farther than either Eliot or Mallarme to "purify the dialect of the tribe." And I still don't comprehend how anyone can speak Lear's last lines without being almost as collapsed as Lear himself. I have retired from the active practice of therapeutic psychology and live on Baibridge Island, across Puget Sound from Seattle. I have a BA from Williams College (1955) where I majored in history, and a PhD from the Univ. of Southern California in Counseling. =============================================================================== *Winchester, Mark D. I am a Ph.D. student in theatre at The Ohio State University. My personal interests include a) Popular Culture studies in the theatre (by the way, does Lawrence Levine @ UCBerkeley belong to this group? Do you have his e-mail address?) b) communications studies, c) classical studies, d) adaptations of comic strips to the American theatre between the years 1890 and 1930, e) the plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, d) production dramaturgy (member of LMDA--Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas), and e) anything else that falls between the cracks of these other areas. I might not have much to contribute to the discourse over the next few months as I am now preparing for my general exams (sometime in May or June), but I do look forward to enjoying what you have to offer in the months to come. ============================================================================ *Windle, Stephen Please subscribe me to your SHAKSPER list. I a small business owner who thrives on Shakespeare as stress relief & relaxing mind exercise. Unfortunately, my local library is limited & I find it difficult to find people to converse about him with. ============================================================= *Winkler, Derek My own interest in Shakespeare is purely amateur; I haven't seriously studied his works since my undergrad days. Of all the literature which I crammed down during those days, however, Shakespeare has most firmly stayed in my heart. Given the extremely qualified academics which I believe contribute to this list, I don't think I would have much to contribute to the discussion. I would love to lurk here, but that would hardly be fair to the regular posters. =============================================================================== *Winship, Nunn I am Nunn Winship, recently graduated BAE from Eastern Washington Univ., at Cheney, WA. My days are spent substitute teaching and doing homework for my evening courses, which includes an advanced Shakespeare coures. In the last few years I have published in THE WASHINGTON ENGLISH JOURNAL, JOURNEYS OF THE MUSE and local and campus newspapers. While I majored in English, my interests are wide, varied and incapable of being pigeon-holed into any one catagory. I am currently (2/16/95) working on a paper looking at Shakespeare's uses of rhetoric in TGV as a means of educating his audience. I especially would like some help finding references to the Elizabethan views on rhetoric, as well as some further insights into the characteristics of his audiences. =============================================================================== *Winstanley, Nicola My name is Nicola Winstanley. I am at the University of Toronto, in my second year of a Phd, under the supervision of Jill Levenson. My thesis is and tentatively titled: "Narrativity and Authority in Shakespeare's History Plays." While my thesis will be greatly concerned with narratological theory, this is intended to intersect with dramatic theory, particularly theatre semiotics. I am also interested in performance,and cultural materialist readings of Shakespeare. I am at Toronto on a scholarship; I am originally from Auckland University in New Zealand, where I received my undergraduate and Masters degree. =============================================================================== *Wintersteen, David I am David Wintersteen, and I'm a full time graduate student at the University of Oregon. This Fall I begin my second year of class work in the Ph. D. program, and I expect to graduate Spring of '96. I am currently teaching a theatre course at Marist High School here in Eugene, and I will teach the Modern/Contemporary section of theatre history at the University in the Spring. At last year's Northwest Drama Conference I delivered two papers, one on pimp characters in Plautine comedies, and one on Charles Marowitz's adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. This Winter I will direct Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet at the University, and Romeo and Juliet at the High School in the Spring. While I am a year away from declaring my dissertation topic, I am looking seriously at adaptations of Shakespeare, and I am particularly interested in parodies. I received a BA in Theatre from Luther College in 1986, and an MFA in Directing from Mankato State University, Minnesota, in 1991. My surface mail address is 795 W. 5th Ave #5 Eugene, OR 97402 (503) 345-5657 =============================================================================== *Witt, Gavin H. Gavin H Witt Ph. D. candidate in English Lang. and Lit., University of Chicago e-mail: ghwitt@midway.uchicago.edu snailmail: 5306 S. Hyde Park #2F Chicago, IL 60615 B.A. Yale in Renaissance Studies (with one term at Oxford University) M.A. Chicago in English (Master's thesis on _Hamlet_ and _Farewell My Lovely_ I am currently working on my dissertation, concerning sexual violence in English Renaissance drama, law, and society. Focusing on Shakespeare, Middleton, and Fletcher, I am exploring the theatrical treatment (and possible reception) of sexual violence and female victims as related to legal realities and the sociological changes behind these as they develop from 1595-1627. I am also interested in issues of realism and "documentation" in drama and popular literature, with a combined perspective of New Historicism and social history (early modern popular culture). In addition to my Ph.D. work, I am the acting Arts in Education Director at Court Theatre, the profession theater of the University of Chicago. As such, I coordinate high school outreach programs and serve as literary manager/dramaturg. I have written articles on and researched shows from Medieval mystery cycles to original one-woman shows. Court produces a classically based repertory, so the research ties in well with literary and dramatic studies of Renaissance Drama. I have also co-taught Shakespeare's Tragedies with David Bevington, and will rejoin him to teach again this winter. As a working actor on top of everything else, I bring to the study of these texts an understanding of the realities of production and performance my students have found rewarding and valuable. =============================================================================== *Wittevrongel, April My name is April Wittevrongel and I am a second year student at the Medicine Hat College. I am currently enrolled in a Shakespeare class and it was recommended that we be introduced to SHAKSPER. I look forward to learning more from this resource and hope that it will be an enlightening experience. =============================================================================== *Wittwer, Christian I am a set designer and lighting designer, also Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Rhode Island. My publication usually takes the form of design work, though I have a review of Orville Larson's "Scene Design in the American Theatre from 1915 to 1960" to appear in Theatre Research International shortly. I hold an MFA from the University of Georgia with post graduate years at Carnegie-Mellon and Warwick University (UK). I have an interest in non- Shakespearean plays of the Jacobean period. I am interested in Elizabethan staging and the Rose and Globe discoveries. =============================================================================== *Wohlers, Richard Full name: Rev. Richard Leonard Wohlers Title: Asst. Librarian/reference librarian Department: Library Institution: Concordia University Wisconsin 12800 North Lake Shore Drive Mequon, WI 53097 phone # (414)-243-4379 (work) (414)-377-7853 (home) Degrees earned: 1) Master of Divinity (1968) Concordia Seminary St. Louis, MO 2) Master of Arts in Library Science (1991) University of Missouri -Columbia, MO Surface Mail Address: Rev. Richard L. Wohlers 449 Green Bay Road Cedarburg, WI 53012 Brief Bio: Born: 9-5-41 Memberships: Wisconsin Ass. Academic Librarians Lake City, MN Some civic and religious groups Projects: Gathering info on cd-rom publishing with the personal goal of developing CD-ROM products with Lutheran theological and historical information burnt on disk. I am new to the INTERNET. I would most likely monitor your group to be informed of the latest developments in Shakespearean studies. I intend to encourage our English professor most deeply involved with Shakespearean studies to join your group when our institution becomes fully connected to the INTERNET some time this year. My background and interests may not be highly congruent with the focus of your group and it's rather unlikely any Shakespearean studies would appear before your group from me. I am adventurous and found the idea of being part of your group appealing and interesting. If you have reciprocal feelings about me, good for me. Thanks for your time and kind consideration! =============================================================================== *Woland, Manuela My name is Manuela, I am 24 years old and I am Italian. I live in Sardinia but I study at the University of Rome, Faculty of Foreign Languages. My major is English Literature/ Shakespearian Philology and right now I'm working on my final thesis about Shakespeare's plays in Giorgio Streheler's theater. One of my teachers was Agostino Lombardo, one of the most important Italian scholars and translators of Shakespeare's works, who has transmitted his love for the Bard to me since my first university years. My main concern about Shakespeare is dealing with the problems of translating his plays (I am a member of an amateur theatrical company which often stages S.'s works and we must always use translations), but I am also very interested in the textual study of them: studying S.'s works for 5 years, I came to have some opinions about them which differ from the "book" ones, and now I would like to confront myself and my ideas with other people. ============================================================= *Wolf, Janet S. I received my B.A. and M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. at Syracuse University. My Ph.D. is in Restoration and eighteenth century literature. I have taught at Syracuse University, Le Moyne College, St. Lawrence University, and the College of William and Mary. I am an Assistant Professor at SUNY College at Cortland. I taught Shakespeare at Le Moyne College, which requires all students, even non-English majors, to take a semester of Shakespeare before graduating. At SUNY Cortland, I teach Shakespeare, Restoration and eighteenth century, general literature courses, and freshman writing. I have written two articles on Shakespeare. "Like an Old Tale Still": Paulina, Triple Hecate, and the Persephone Myth in The Winter's Tale" will appear in Images of Persephone in Literature, edited by Elizabeth T. Hayes, University of Florida Press, 1994. An article on a 1705 Italian opera version of the Hamlet sory has been presented at the New York College English Association and will be presented again at the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March. My research interests, in addition to Shakespeare, are the plays of John Gay, baroque opera, anti-Walpole satire, drinking and alcoholism in literature, and Restoration and eighteenth century women playwrights. =============================================================================== *Wolfe, Cora Lee I am a retired English teacher who acquired over the 35 years of teaching a profound respect for the bard. I produced as a senior class play several of the plays over the years (I took the liberty to edit them quite liberally, I'm afraid) and found that students really like reciting Shakespeare.I will miss discussing him with my students and so would like to participate in your forum. ============================================================= *Wolfe, Jenn My name is Jenn Wolfe. I am currently in my first semester of student teaching through California State University, Northridge. Presently I am teaching two periods of seventh grade English for this, the Spring Semester of 1995, at Sutter Middle School in Los Angeles Unified School District. Before completing my teaching credential, I will be teaching three periods of English at the high school level next semester, Fall of 1995. During my undergraduate work at California State University, Northridge, I majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. I am a member of Golden Key National Honor Society; Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society; and the National Council for Teacher's of English. =============================================================================== *Wolter, Daniel Daniel Wolter: As a high school teacher since 1965, I've been interested in teaching literature as well as composition. I've taught a Shakespeare course for 12th grade students for several years. I've been teaching an English Literature and Composition AP course for about 20 years, and have been a reader for the English AP Literature Examination for the past six years. I was invited to participate in the Bay Area Writing Project Invitational in 1978 and have been a teacher consultant for B.A.W.P. since then. My professional interests also include writing assessment and I have scored numerous writing examinations for ETS. I was a leader in the California Learning Assessment System writing and reading examinations (CLAS), and am participating in the leading and scoring of the new California Golden State Examination in English. I teach Shakespeare to ninth grade students as well as my seniors. My interest in SHAKSPER resides in my lifelong love of Shakespeare in performance and in text. =============================================================================== *Womack, Mark I am Mark Womack, a graduate student at the University of Texas. I noticed a reference to SHAKSPER in the summer 1995 edition of The Shakespeare Newsletter. =============================================================================== *Wong, Raphael Raphael Seng Chi Wong is a graduate student in English at New York University. He is a paper away from his Masters, but has already been re-admitted to the Ph.D. program. NYU might seem a peculiar place to pursue the study of Shakespeare since there has been no resident Shakespearean for several years-- Dr. Arthur Kinney of U. of Mass. Amherst has been teaching at NYU recently but only as a visiting professor. Mr. Wong had actually started out at NYU with an interest in contemporary American literature (hence NYU), but soon decided that there was no love like his first and so returned to Renaissance studies. While love of Shakespeare as an undergraduate at UCLA bordered on the unreflective and religious, the intervening years has since tempered and thus heightened his appreciation for the Bard. He is ever obliged to Gary Taylor's REINVENTING SHAKESPEARE. Quotidian particulars as follows: Born in London, U.K. Raised in Canada and Hawaii. UCLA. NYU. Interested in writing on personhood, persona, and personality in the Renaissance. Interested in SHAKSPER for the resources, the collegiality, and the scholarly (and not so scholarly) gossip. =============================================================================== *Wood, Derek I read for my undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oxford, and stayed out of prison for two years so I could collect my M.A. there also. My B.Litt. thesis was on Carew's translation of Tasso, and my interest in translation, its theory and the Italian poets, esp. Tasso, Ariosto, Petrarch and Dante, continues. So do my interest in Elizabethan poetic language, sonnets and lyrics, Spenser, Shakespeare and Sidney. I have articles on these in_Neophilologus_,_ELN_, _Cahiers Elisabethains_ and _The Spenser Encyclopedia_. In the early eighties, I became obsessed with _Samson Agonistes_ which I believed (and now am dangerously certain!) was seriously misread. This resulted, it seemed to me, in a misreading of Milton's thought in his last years. I have just completed a book on this, anticipated by articles in _Milton Studies_, _MQ_, _UTQ_, _ESC_ and, in Germany, in _Renaissance Poetik_ and _Intertextuality_. As a scholar, I am an aging "close reader" and "contextualist" with a few new tricks: I am greatly interested in intertextual theory and its descriptive techniques (Riffaterre, Jenny, Eco), and greatly assisted by post-colonial and feminist scholarship. With the book on Milton completed, I can turn now to my other obsession: Shakespeare's sonnets. I have little sympathy for autobiographical readings of the sonnets and it looks as if the focus of the book will be something like "Imitation, Intertextuality and the Sonnets." I hope some work on Italian and French sonnets will be relevant and useful. I teach two two-semester courses on Shakespeare: a senior course and an Advanced Seminar. There is a fair amount of Theory in the seminar: mostly neo-historicist, feminist and structuralist, but there is also a fair amount of work on sources: Ovid, Seneca, Terence, Plutarch, Holinshed, Kyd, and quite a bit of bibliography and textual criticism. My bilingual boyhood in India (much missed) may help explain a lasting interest in languages: Italian (my Venetian wife's second language), German (one good legacy of the Air Force), French (to earn my Canadian papers), Spanish (Errol Flynn films and pirate galleons)...so I didn't burn my gown at Oxford when I had to read Latin and Old English. =============================================================================== *Wood, Dinah I have just begun a Ph.d at Bristol University titled 'Conspicuous Absence and Imaginative Excess in Shakespearean Drama' - having completed an M.A: 'Shakespeare and Literary Relations: creativity, text and influence' - also at Bristol University. My initital research will concentrate on the late plays which explicitly advertise loss (mulitiple feigned deaths, temporal gaps/ interruptions etc). I hope to include a study of those works - both creative and critical (if the distinction may be made) - which have addressed such absences, investigating the current hostility towards the imaginative 'filing-in' conducted by, for example, AC Bradley and Freud. Also responses such as Auden's 'The Sea and the Mirror', Browning's 'Caliban upon Setebos' etc, as well as readings by past and present actors - eg Helen Faucit - "How could this be...Shakespeare gives no hint. One is thus driven to work out the problem for one's self". I hope to explore the dramatic interest, ambiguities and questions which the drama's deliberate cultivation of these occlusions invites. Such analysis will (I hope) have a bearing upon the nature of Shakespeare's creativity - his ability to generate a world in ecess of its dramatic representation - and the ways in which we both perform and read his works today. =============================================================================== *Wood, Lynette Lynette P. Wood: Editor, The Palm Journal. I am a student of Shakespeare, not presently affiliated with an institution Current interests: Performance choices in Shakespeare films; comedies ("problem" and otherwise); later works Major project: A study of performance and directorial choices in Shakespeare's filmed works, choices informed by changing societal perceptions of morality and ethics, and whether Shakespeare really is "accessible" to most present-day audiences =============================================================================== *Wood, Martin Martin J. Wood: In 1984, while at Michigan State University, I completed a doctoral program specializing in English Renaissance Drama and Eighteenth Century Literature. My dissertation, an examination of the role of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ in the emergence of Shakespeare scholarship, was directed by Arthur Sherbo. I continue to be most interested in the way that the eighteenth century influenced the transmission and reception of Shakespeare's texts. As a teacher at a smaller state university, I find my instructional duties covering a little bit of everything. Consequently I also have teaching and research interests in cultural studies, popular culture, and composition. =============================================================================== *Woodard, Andrea Lynn My name is Andrea Lynn Woodard. I am a student with an interest in Theater and Shakespeare. I have been in several plays during my high school years and a few here in college. ============================================================================ *Woodbridge, Linda Linda Woodbridge Professor Department of English University of Alberta Linda Woodbridge is professor of English at the University of Alberta, where she has taught since 1970; in Fall, 1994 she will be moving to Penn State. She is author of Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540-1620 (1984) and of The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking (forthcoming, 1994); compiler of Shakespeare: A Selective Bibliography of Modern Criticism (1988); and co-editor of True Rites and Maimed Rites: Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Shakespeare and His Age (1992). She has published numerous articles and reviews on Shakespeare. She is past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Current research interests include pastoralism and the interface between orality and literacy in England's first century of print culture. =============================================================================== *Woodcock, Matthew I spent 3 years at the University of Exeter studying for a BA in English Literature and Medieval Studies and did my final year honours thesis on Spenser and Nazism, parts of which I hope to publish in some format in the near future. I graduated from Exeter in 1995 and soon after started at Oxford on a one year Masters degree prior to beginning doctoral research. My main focus in the first half of the course was on the mid-Tudors, people like Crowley and Ascham, but the area of research in which I am now engaged for the PhD, is dealing largely with Spenser at present, in particular, elements of topography in The Faerie Queene. My work traditionally has a strong historical grounding and tends to engage with a wide number of related fields (Shakspear should prove useful in this regard). I am hoping to get an article on Ascham published by the end of 1996, and at present teach philology and lexicology, as well as the literature of the Arthurian tradition. =============================================================================== *Woodward, Susan I wish to subscribe to join your international Shakespeare community. My name is Susan R. Woodward and I am a graduate student at the State University College at Buffalo, New York, USA majoring in Literature. I have recently received my Baccalaureate Degree in English Education and am currently seeking employment as a high school Engligh teacher. In 1993, I won the College Consortium for International Studies Scholarship which allowed me to study theatre at Thames Valley University in England for a summer semester. While living with a family in Ealing, I took the opportunity to visit Stratford-Upon-Avon. While there, I saw two productions by the RSC-- "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear". I have always loved seeing productions of Shakespeare, and these were two of the finest I have ever seen. I am also a wife and mother to five children. I spend special time with my two eldest daughters as a Girl Scout Leader. Last summer, my troop worked on their "The Play's the Thing" badge (that's the real name of the badge!). We started out by attending Shakespeare in Delaware Park where the were putting on a production of "Hamlet". We went two hours early and spent the time learning about the play before actually seeing it. While I was doing so, several of the members of the cast heard me talking to the girls. I didn't know they were standing behind me, but one of them stoped me when I had finished to say how impressed he was that I was teaching Shakespeare to 12-year-olds. He also happened to be the man in charge of the apprentice program for the theatre group and asked for a copy of my "lesson plan" to use in the future. I also plan to audition to become a member of this troupe in May. =============================================================================== *Woofter, Martha Martha Woofter University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus Department of Theatre Arts and Dance Currently hold a B.A. in Theatre Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, 1988. Will complete M.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota in fall 1994 Thesis on The Flora of A Midsummer Night's Dream will be published in the fall. The first section discusses the beliefs of the sixteenth-century pertaining to practical usage of the plants; specifically, their function as food, medicine, usefulness to certain business practices and practical descriptions. The second section explores what the plants have come to symbolize through the ages. The last section outlines an actual production utilizing floral metaphor, particularly delving into the psychological aspects derived from the symbology and colors. An addendum has been included, in the form of a guide documenting specific references to each plant, where in the script it occurs, who is speaking and to whom the character is speaking. I plan to continue research on the remaining Shakespeare canon for my PhD. Have been performing professionally for many years throughout the U.S. In the past couple of years I have started directing as well. I have also produced and directed a number of workshops experimenting with the music I am composing to underscore A Midsummer Night's Dream. Designed and planted a Shakespeare garden for the artist cooperative where I live. The coop is in a renovated warehouse completed in November 1992. =============================================================================== *Woolway, Joanne Joanne Woolway: Graduate student, English Faculty, Oxford University (Oriel College) working on a DPhil on Spenser, supervised by Richard McCabe. Other projects include editing a trio of Cavalier poets (Lovelace, Suckling, Herrick) for Penguin. I've published reviews in Notes and Queries. I am also Associate Editor of Early Modern Literary Studies, a refereed electronic journal published on the Web (http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html) =============================================================================== *Wooster, Jack As a matter of fact, it did give me pause. But, if undergraduates are allowed to lurk on this list, I'm interested. I'm a junior at UC Berkeley, studying English and planning to teach lower division, intro and survey courses. My interest in Shakespeare primarily tends to his poetry (although I'm also very interested in the way that he injects poetic form into the neccesities of playwriting. I love the tragedies, which have yet to be matched. =============================================================================== *Worley, Paul I am an English teacher at a secondary school in Savannah, Ga. USA =============================================================================== *Worley, Paul I teach Western World Lit from Homer to Toni Morrison and American Lit survey. I am also interested in the uses of technology for teaching and will share my syllabi with links with any interested parties. ============================================================= *Worster, Dave Born and raised in Maine, I attended Colby College, where I earned a B.A. in English in 1982. After that, I lived in Boston for nine years, where I earned an M.A. in English in 1990 (UMASS/Boston). I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of NC, Chapel Hill. I am writing my dissertation on Shakespeare under the direction of Alan C. Dessen, and my current research interests are Shakespeare in performance and the "new" new bibliography (as presented by Warren, Urkowitz, etc.). =============================================================================== *Worth, Jennifer C I am a PhD. Candidate at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), specializing in (of course) Renaissance drama. I have just begun my coursework here. Last November, I received my M.A. from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. (The Institute is affiliated with the University of Birmingham, England, some 20 miles away.) While there, I had the opportunity to study with Institute Director Stanley Wells, co-editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and author of various critical and reference works on the subject, and Institute Fellows Martin Wiggins, author of _Journeymen in Murder_, and Russell Jackson, textual advisor for Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Films. I have not published anything, but scholarly work I have done includes my Master's Thesis, "A Literary History of Agincourt: 1485-1625," as well as essays about _Henry V_, cultural materialist criticism, and the films of Akira Kurosawa. Upcoming work will include essays on Shakespeare interpreted for children (including the Lambs) and the Shakespeare apocrypha. =============================================================================== *Worthen, W. B. W. B. Worthen is the author of *The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance* (Princeton UP, 1984), *Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater* (U of California P, 1992), and of *Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance* (forthcoming 1997, Cambridge UP); he has written widely on modern drama, performance theory, and on Shakespeare. He is also the editor of *The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama* and of *Modern Drama: Plays/Theory/Criticism*, and is a former editor of *Theatre Journal*. He is currently Professor of English and Dramatic Art at the University of California-Davis, and directs the Ph.D. program in Performance and Culture in the Department of Dramatic Art. =============================================================================== *Worthen, W. B. W. B. Worthen, Professor of English and Theatre, Northwestern University, is the author of _The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance_, _Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater_, and of articles on Shakespearean performance, performance theory, and modern drama. Current project: _Shakespeare, Authority, and Performance_. Address: Department of English, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208. Phone: (708) 491-2590. =============================================================================== *Worthy, Doreen L. My name is Doreen L. Worthy. Currently, I'm pursuing Master of Arts degree in English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. At the same time I work full-time for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as a technical writer, to help support myself and my pursuit of learning. In 1987 I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology/Archaeology, with a minor in English from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. As a fifth grader in a program for accelerated students, _Macbeth_ was first introduced to me. Since that time my love and admiration for Shakespeare's gift has grown geometrically. His drama and poetry are one of my greatest sources of pleasure and entertainment, rather than academic pursuits. At this point in time, the research that captures my attention most falls into two very separate categories. The prose and poetry of the Old and Middle English period have captivated me, and I have begun the research for a paper on ``Caedmon's Hymn''. Recently though, my thoughts have turned closer to home. As a native Floridian, I am slowly discovering the joys of home-grown literature. Underlying this passion for literature, is the inexpressible appreciation to ``Master William'' for expanding the language as he re-engineered English, thus encouraging us intellectual peasants to do the same. Doreen L. Worthy Dept. of English Florida Atlantic University doreen@cse.fau.edu 407/367-3855 (work) 407/495-8036 (home) =============================================================================== *Woytasik, Wendy Name: Wendy Woytasik Institutional Affiliation: University of Windsor Programme: Master's candidate, history and archives As part of my undergraduate studies, I did a minor in English Literature, with courses primarily in early English drama, up to the beginning of the Restoration, with specific focus on the works of Shakespeare. Although my course load does not currently reflect this interest, I am anxious to keep abreast of the studies done in this field. As a historian, I have used some of Shakespeare's text to illustrate some of the customs, dress, and language of the Elizabethan era. ============================================================================ *Wright, A .J. A. J. Wright: Just an interested layman! =============================================================================== *Wright, A.J. or Clinical Librarian, Department of Anesthesiology Library University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 19th Street South Birmingham AL 35233-6810 205/934-6500 (voice) 205/975-5033 (fax) Yesterday I received the intro mailing for this list. I am not a Shakespeare scholar and am just seeking to renew my interest in him and thought this list might be a good place to start. I have published a great deal of poetry and non-fiction over the last 25 years; most of the latter has been related to either Alabama or southern history or the history of anesthesia. I guess I wouldn't have much to offer this list, except perhaps an occasional "layman's" perspective ============================================================================= *Wright, Brian I have two undergraduate degrees (one in English and one in Theology) and am currently planning to do work toward a Masters in English at the Univeristy of the Pacific, where I currently work. It would be a great pleasure to be added to the SHAKSPER Listserv, for I not only enjoy the works of Shakespeare but am quite interested in studying his works as well. =============================================================================== *Wright, Daniel My name is Daniel Wright; I am a 41-year old Professor of English at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, where, for several years, I have taught Shakespeare, The Gothic Novel, two survey courses in British Literature, British Detective Fiction, The Films of James Bond, and a few other courses such as Asian Literature, World Drama, and The European Novel. Prior to coming to Concordia University, I taught at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and, prior to that, I taught as an adjunct lecturer in English on the Indiana University campuses at Kokomo and Richmond while completing my Ph.D in English at Ball State University. I also hold B.A., M.A., and M.Div. degrees. I have authored several articles on the subject of Shakespeare (among a host of other topics, not all of which are confined to the exploration of Shakespearean or even Renaissance English works) and delivered several papers at a number of regional conferences. I am the author of The Anglican Shakespeare: Elizabethan Orthodoxy in the Great Histories (1993), a book that was nominated for the Roland Bainton Prize in Early Modern Studies. I currently am working on a monograph in nineteenth-century British Gothic fiction and on articles ranging from a study of homoeroticism in nineteenth-century British adventure fiction to rhetorical analyses of Shakespearan and Marlovian drama (with special emphases on Shakespeare's Richard the Second and Marlowe's Edward the Second). I am rather interested in the continuing dialogue and research related to the Shakespeare Authorship Question, although, at this point, I am but a reader of the arguments, not a contributor to them; I find that I am much persuaded, however, by the Oxfordian school and am inclined to lend the their arguments the greater credence and authority at this time; the Stratfordian, Baconian and other theories have (as yet anyway) to convince me that their foundations with respect to this question are more sound; as on all things, however, my mind is open to new discoveries and new lines of argumentation, and I await more contributions to this and other questions. =============================================================================== *Wright, Iain I am the Professor of English and Head of the English Department at the Australian National University, and a Life Fellow (formerly, for some 20 years, Director of Studies in English, Lecturer and Keeper of the Old Library) at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. While at Cambridge, I researched the remarkable demountable stage that Queens' owned in the 16th and early 17th centuries (see, for instance, my piece - with Alan Nelson of Berkeley - in *Renaissance Drama*, 1991). I'm currently preparing for publication a piece called 'Three weird sisters and *Tres Sibyllae* [ie Matthew Gwinne's playlet at the 1605 royal progess to Oxford]: performing *Macbeth* for James I', given a couple of weeks ago to the biennial conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association in Sydney. It's part of a larger project on 'the Jacobean Shakespeare' which, inter alia, is a critique of New Historicism. =============================================================================== *Wright, Laurence Name: Laurence Wright Title: Professor Institution: Director Institute for the Study of English in Afric Rhodes University Grahamstown South Africa 6140 President, Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa Editor, Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Address as above) Also: Editor, SSOSA Newsletter ; and of Occasional Papers and Reviews Publications on Shakespeare: see Year's Work in English Studies Current Research: Pre- Islamic Image of North Africa. Degrees: BA(Hons) Rhodes, MA(Warwick), DPhil(Oxon) =============================================================================== *Wright, Nancy Wright I am Associate Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Literature at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, located about forty-five minutes northwest of Nashville. Both Nashville and Clarksville award the Bard a special place in our culture. My university is opening its season this year with Macbeth, in conjunction with a gala dinner to boost interest in the AP Playhouse. Why Macbeth rather than a more typical "crowd pleaser"? We're in love with Will amid the country music ambiance! Shakespeare has always been the only author required for study by all of our English majors. One section per semester no longer accommodates the influx from other departments as well as our own. Shakespeare is, indeed, thriving in the South-and I revel in being a part of making it happen. Perhaps the fervor of my attraction for the Bard is a result of its being a midlife love affair. Graduating during the Kennedy years, I married and raised two lovely daughters. During this time, I chose to be a stay-at-home mother, teaching piano during the day and postponing the pursuit of graduate studies. I have never regretted this decision, for I have had the best of several worlds. Returning to school after almost two decades is like having a second chance at what one missed the first time-in my case, Shakespeare. I tell my students that the acid test of one's education is whether it keeps on going. I delight in finding out how much I still want to learn! My dissertation is on a specialized pattern of Shakespeare's imagery that intrigues me: feeding or appetite imagery. I'm still making new discoveries about how Shakespeare uses the concept of appetite to analyze the human condition. In the last few years, I have been noticing how the verbal imagery of appetite is conveyed through visual imagery on screen. I don't pretend to have fully formed all of my ideas yet, but each conference paper brings me a bit closer to the statement I want to make. My recent SAA paper (DC, 1997) is "Designing Desdemona: Oliver Parker's Saintly Sinner." I have appreciated the lively comments of colleagues, and I am clarifying some of my ideas based on discussions in DC and following. My love of teaching has opened a second major area to me. In addition to being the senior Shakespearean on the faculty, I also have responsibility for Adolescent Literature and the "methods" course for our majors who are going into secondary English teaching. Increasingly, these interests are merging. I regularly present workshops for area English teachers on Shakespeare in the Classroom. At this time, I am working on a piece suggesting ways to teach Romeo and Juliet as adolescent lit. In addition to Desdemona, R & J, and Lady Macbeth, other focal points in my present work are the endings of some of the new Shakespeare films (possibly my paper topic for the next SAA). These endings-all differing in particular ways from Shakespeare's originals-seem to be making a cumulative statement about our changing ideology. This idea is still in embryonic form, but it's working steadily in my mind while I sort through the clutter that accumulated on my desk last semester. Suggestions are welcome (on the endings, not the clutter). ============================================================= *Wright, Stephen Department of English, Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064 EDUCATION: B.A. (English and German), Texas Christian University, 1972 B.Phil. (Mediaeval Studies), University of York, 1977 M.A. (Comparative Literature), Indiana University, 1978 Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), Indiana University, 1984 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: MLA; Phi Beta Kappa; AAUP; Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medieval and renaissance drama (English and Continental); drama and iconography; manuscript studies; general social and cultural history. BIOGRAPHICAL: I am an Associate Professor of English at Catholic University, where I have taught since 1982. Most of my teaching responsibilities are in Middle English literature, comparative literature; and various courses in history of drama. My chief area of research is medieval and renaissance drama. I am the author of *The Vengeance of Our Lord: Medieval Dramatizations of the Destruction of Jerusalem* (1989) and numerous articles on early English, French, German, Latin, and Swedish drama. At present I am also serving as General Editor of a new series of translations of Continental drama sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. ========================================================= *Wrigley, Julie I have been a full time English teacher since 1980 teaching senior students (16-18 year olds) in Catholic High Schools. Currently I am teaching English at St. Columba's High School, a co-educational Catholic high school in Springwood, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. I am keenly interested in all aspects of Shakespeare study, particularly the tragedies. I was Assistant Director when our school performed MACBETH, and HAMLET. I am also interested in films of Shakespeare's plays, and live productions, as well as the developments with the reconstruction of The Globe Theatre in London. I visited the Globe in January 1997, when the theatre was still being built. ============================================================= *Wunder, Shaune G. My name is Shaune Wunder. I am a student at the University of Minnisota Morris. I am a Theatre Arts major and am currently studying Theatre History. My professor Beth Cherne thought you might be able to help me find some interesting and current scholarship on feminist theory regarding Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. =============================================================================== *Wurtz, Edward J. Edward J. Wurtz: As Tribal Prosecutor I prosecute criminal cases in Tribal Court and juvenile dependency cases in Tribal and State courts. Prior to becoming a lawyer, I was a high school history/humanities instructor. I received my BA in Sociology from Western Washington University in 1980. While teaching high school, I earned a MA in History from the same university in 1984. In 1994, I completed law schoo at Willamette University College of Law. My interest in Shakespeare's work was heightened by a recent reading of Daniel J. Kornstein's "Kill all the Lawyers: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal." I would like to pursue further research on Shakespeare and the law. =============================================================================== *Wussow, Stasia Stasia Wussow became interested in Shakespeare in high school. That interest deepened under the instruction of Dr. Dean Barclay while attending Elmhurst College as an English/Philosophy major. Wussow also attended Marquette University, majoring in Communications. She has worked as a veterinary assistant, a legal secretary, a marketing director, and a freelance writer. She currently is a housewife and mother of two dogs, two cats, and three house rabbits. She continues to write magazine articles and marketing materials upon request. "Wussow and her husband, Jeff, were married, in hiking clothes, at Parowan, Utah; the following evening, they attended "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. "Wussow's interests include the pets, nature, hiking, music, movies, gardening, and reading. Her favorite authors are E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Brontes, and L.M. Montgomery. She is an avid knitter and also enjoys pine needle basketry and hand-spinning yarn. She has a number of international snail-mail pen friends, as well as e-mail correspondents, and welcomes mail from those with similar interests. "Her current interest in Shakespeare-related subjects is comparing the Kenneth Branagh and Mel Gibson film versions of "Hamlet" with her complete Pelican text and "Asimov's Guide To Shakespeare." She particularly enjoys the portrayals of Shakespeare's other works on film by Branagh." ============================================================= *Wyatt, Eliza Eliza Wyatt: I am an itinerant immigrant, philosophy major (B.U.) M.F.A. in playwrighting from Brandeis. Plays produced in L.A. New York City, London and Boston, currently working on a sit-com for Access Cable, filmed versions of my work available on SVHS, PAL and 3/4" , co-founder of Playwrights Platform Workshop, Boston and often an instigator of festivals and other theatrical follies. Recently wrote my LEER. =============================================================================== *Wyatt, Robert Robert Wyatt: Although I am a professor of journalism by trade and am now a social scientist by training, in a previous incarnation, I received a Ph.D. in English (1973) from Northwestern University, with a dissertation titled "Shakespeare and the Providential Problem" (committee Douglas Cole, Elizabeth Dipple, Alan Dessen, director). Though I've maintained my interest in Shakespeare and theology, I'm, of course, rather out-of-date in the scholarship--though I do hit the library every few years to read the critical reviews. My current research concerns support for free expression and expression inhibition from a cross-cultural perspective. I've surveyed samples in Israel, Hong Kong, the U.S., and Russia on their support for various individual and media freedoms and the importance of various reason in restraining their own speech. This research has been well funded and widely recognized, but I'm now wishing to turn my attention once again to theological issues examined qualitatively. =============================================================================== *Wylie, Jessica I'm Jessica Wylie (Jayel), and I received my M.A. degree in English literature from Winthrop University in 1995 based on a thesis entitled, "Heliotropes: Gender and Archetype in the Novels of A.S. Byatt." If I ever do write a dissertation, I hope it will be on the epistemological use of artifacts in the contemporary/Postmodern historical novel. But my first and best literary love is still Shakespeare, particularly his plays; these are the narratives to which I return for reassurance whenever literary theory begins to sap my will to read or simply gives me a headache. My undergraduate minor was theater, and I have the (very likely dubious) distinction of being the first human to direct a community theater production of a Shakespeare play in my hometown of Chester, South Carolina, population 32,000. (_A Midsummer Night's Dream_--we even turned a profit . . . barely.) I teach English and speech at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and have just signed a contract for my first novel with Berkeley Publishing. I'm also submitting my most recent Shakespeare article, "'Fairies and Gods': A Socio-Religious Context for _King Lear_," under a separate cover. This article is as yet unpublished. ============================================================= *