Zacks, Martin As with many people, I have a great academic interest and no academic publishing. My name is Martin Zacks. I am the law librarian for a law firm in Los Angeles. My undergraduate degree was from UCLA and my law degree from the University of Puget Sound. My interest and love for Shakespeare goes back many years. It can be summed up by the fact I met my wife at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and we have been sharing (and arguing) Shakespeare since. We go every year to the Shakespeare symposium put on at UCLA by their Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We hope to go to Ashland again this year, and we occasionally catch a production in Los Angeles or San Diego. Other than actors who have played in the plays, or academics who teach Shakespeare, I can modestly say that very few people know the plays as well as I do, particularly the problem comedies. I have an extensive Shakespearean library, the most beloved part of which is the Norton facsimile of the First Folio and a page from the Fourth Folio (Henry IV, pt.2) that I picked up last year. I could go on, but I'm sure you get my point. I would be very interested in all news or articles on the plays, criticisms, reviews of productions, etc. =============================================================================== *Zane, Ed I learned several interesting things about SHAKSPER from the letter which I was recently sent. The most important of these is the fact that I am not a typical (or maybe even satisfactory) applicant for membership. I have never been published. Far from it...I am currently a freshman at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While I am not even majoring in English, it is still the area in which I am most interested. There are several reasons for the fact that although I am most interested in literature I am still majoring in business. The first is the matter of practicality. The second (and infinitely more important) reason is rather personal. Although it may not translate well in written word, here goes...I am not at all content with the state of business today or the way it is perceived by the general public (a perception that is all too true). There seems to be a profound lack of ethics. More than this, even when businesses operate in a completely ethical manner, the individuals on top (the business leaders) tend, for the most part, to be cold and almost unfeeling with regards to other people. FORTUNE magazine recently contained a story about the seven toughest bosses in the United States. All of these seven people are leaders in their respective areas of business, all were portrayed as extremely difficult to work for, and those who were interviewed seemed to almost relish this perception of cruelty. This just reinforces what I want to do with my life professionally. However, I will always relish literature (and Shakespeare in particular) and would greatly appreciate the learning experience which being a subscriber to SHAKSPER would bring. =============================================================================== *Zauhar, Frances Mruphy My name is Frances Murphy Zauhar. I am an Associate Professor of English and currently Acting Chair of the English Department at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe Pennsylvania. Saint VIncent is a small, Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college. Like everyone in our department, I teach freshman writing and a variety of introductory/intermediate courses in literature. In addition, I also teach several women's studies courses, upper-level courses in the English Renaissance, and the Shakespeare courses. My principal research areas are in early women writers and women's studies: I have presented a number of papers on women writers and on women and writing at regional and national meetings of the MLA over the past eightyears, and a book I co-edited and to which I contributed an essay, _The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism_ (Duke University Press, 1993) was cited by the American Studies/American Culture Association as best edited book of 1993. Before coming to Saint Vincent, I taught for five years as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. Before that, I was in graduate school, at Louisiana State University inBaton ROuge, where I took both of my graduate degrees. My doctoral Dissertation was on narrative process and imagery in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Before working on that process, I spent about a year working on a dissertation on 17th century poetry, and I originally took and passed my major field exams in the literature of the English Renaissance, with an external minor in Tudor and Stuart History. (Why I chose to switch at the time from the English Renaissance to the American Renaissance is a longer story; if you feel you need that explanation, I will send it under separate cover, but it is perhaps not appropriate to this text.) One of the reasons why I want to subscribe to SHAKSPER is precisely because I haven't been doing primary work in the Renaissaance for some time, even though my asigned upper-level teaaching responsibilities are in that area. I am currently engaged in other research projects that I don't wantto abandon, but I want the opportunity to listen (and perhaps to contribute) to a larger conversations about Shakespeare and his milieu. =============================================================================== *Zeev, Noam Ben At your request, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Noam Ben Zeev, an Israeli, living in Tel Aviv. I currently hold two positions: a music critic and journalist for Haaretz Daily, one of the three daily newspapers in Israel; and a history of music teacher at an art & science high school ("Alon High School") in Tel Aviv. My connection with Shakespeare is not academic-yet; it is based on great love for his works, with which I sense immediate identification and, so I believe, deep understanding - notwithstanding my limited knowledge of English. Now, as I plan to maybe start my thesis (after having obtained B.A. in musicology from Tel Aviv University), I thought of combining the two subjects that are closest to me, Music and Shakespeare. I subscribed to the list to gain more acquaintance with the subject I am less familiar with, and I hope you grant my wish to join. ============================================================= *Zeiger, Emory James B.A. in theatre from Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City, 1965 M.A. in theatre from Univ. of Colorado, 1993 PhD. in theatre from Univ. of Colorado, (in progress) Masters Thesis: An Historical Analysis of Jed Harris's 1926 Production of _Broadway_ by Philip Dunning and George Abbott. co-editor of THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL, the first all-electronic theatre journal Part-time instructor at Univ. of Colorado teaching Performance of Literature and Intermediate Acting (since 1989). Actor/Director participating in over 100 productions since 1961. Artistic Director of The American Theatre Company of Brussels, Belgium (1983) Member of Actors' Equity since 1973. =============================================================================== *Zeria, Elizabeth Y. My name is Elizabeth Youngs Zeria, and I am, at the age of 37 (heaven help me), and after many years exploring many other fields, enrolled in the M.A. program in Literature at Virginia Commonwealth University. I had originally looked forward to a Ph.D. with a concentration in Shakespeare. Given my age and the current job market for Ph.D.'s, however, I am now considering high school teaching, an M.F.A., and independent scholarship. But my interest in Shakespeare remains a constant and is really (given the nascent nature of her studies at this point) my sole qualification for inclusion in the SHAKSPER ranks. I will begin an independent study on Shakespeare (concentrating on the tragedies) this fall and look forward to sharing ideas with the list, as well as to picking the collective SHAKSPER e-mind! =============================================================================== *Zhao, Lee I am a graduate student in Ph.D. program in mathematics at Rutgers University. My current research interest is number theory. However, Shakespeare has always been a major interest of mine. I like his deep insights on human nature and society and his sometimes jocular relentlessness on human folly. Perhaps many people would believe that Shakespeare isn't too important as far as mathematics is concerned. However, I believe, after reading much of his work, that it gives, at least me, a deeper insight on life itself and helps me to be a better man and hopeful, I will, in turn, somewhere, someday, become a better mathematician. For I believe, as John Milton calls Galileo "the Tuscan Artist", mathematics is also a form of art, and what artist can I be if I don't have a deep insight on life. ============================================================= *Ziegler, David David Ziegler Graduate Student Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara 93106 BA 1988 University of Texas at Austin MA 1992 University of California, Santa Barbara Currently working on dissertation. Subject: Milton and the Imagination of Reform. (Subtopics will include Utopian Literature, Universal Language Schemes.) Conference Paper: 1989 UCSB Women in the Renaissance Conference. "The Braying _Shrew_ Swaying" (a report on a local performance of _Taming of the Shrew_). Further interests: Shakespeare in Performance, 16-17th Century Continental Philosophy, Modern European Drama, and Gender Studies (esp. contemporary gay studies). =============================================================================== *Zietoon, Ra'eda Mrs. Ra'eda Zietoon The University of Akron Bierce Library/Reference Department Akron, Ohio 44325-1709 (216) 972-7046;7236 r1rmz@akronvax.bitnet My name is Ra'eda Mohammad Zietoon. I am married and have a 21 month old son. I am a Reference Librarian at The University of Akron's Bierce Library, in Akron, Ohio. I am also a part-time lecturer in the English Department at Akron University. I started teaching freshmen English Composition courses in the Fall of 1985 when I was awarded a teaching assistanship at the English Department. I became a part-time lecturer in 1987 after graduating with an MA in English. I also received my BA in English from the University of Akron (1985). I have been working in Bierce Library since December of 1989. I work in the Reference Department where we provide reference service at four desks (Information, First Floor Reference, Government Documents, and Microforms). My main responsibility is to overesee the Microforms Department. I supervise 10-12 student assistants year round, do minor maintenance repairs on the microforms machines, keep statistics and inventory, and provide reference service. I thoroughly enjoy both of my jobs. I love to teach both writing and literature, and I enjoy helping people find sources in the library that will provide them with the information they need. My love and interest in Shakespeare started in Junior High School when we had to read ROMEO AND JULIET. I fell in love with Shakespeare's writing style, word usage, and themes. I love to read about the time period he lived in, to read and live his characters' lives, especially his women. My master's thesis is entitled A SURVEY OF CONVENTIONAL AND FEMINIST CRITICISM OF SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN (1987; Ra'eda Salem [maiden name]). Just recently (Fall 1991), I had an article published on Thomas Wolfe. It is entitled "Thomas Wolfe and the Escape Motif," (THE THOMAS WOLFE REVIEW 15:2 (Fall 1991): 28-31). The idea for the paper came out of a graduate course I was taking on Thomas Wolfe. I am a member of Phi Sigma Alpha, the Scholastic Honorary for the College of Arts and Sciences. I was also a member of the Forensic Union/Debate Team (Communications Department) in 1983. I want to join Shakesper to renew my interests and love for Shakespeare and to keep up with current Shakespearean criticism. My hopes are to write an article or two on some interesting topic dealing with Shakespeare. Some ideas I have in mind include comparing Shakespeare's female characters with Middle Eastern women; how to make Shakespeare's works accessible to high school and college students; and general feminist criticism of Shakespeare. ============================================================================= *Zigler, Robert Robert V. Zigler: I began as a teacher of computer programming but most of my professional life has been spent as a programmer/analyst in the telecommunications industry. My current interests are Elizabethan Literature and the Shakspere/Oxford/Derby/Bacon/etc. controversy. =============================================================================== *Zimmer, Rick E. My name is Rick Zimmer. I teach theatre arts at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon. We have quite an ambitious theatre program which includes a Shakespeare for the Stage acting class. Over the past five years we have produced THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, ROMEO AND JULIET, and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Each year we have sent a theatre student to participate in the "Shakespeare Acting Competition" sponsored by the English Speaking Union of the United States. We have done this for five years and have had two state winners and one second place winner. Our theatre department has a very active professional alliance with the professional theatres in the Portland area. Our students are no strangers to professional productions of William Shakespeare's works. Each fall, two actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival come to work with our students. I have attended a three-week Shakespeare seminar in Ashland, Oregon, sponsored by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I am proud of the students in our department who take up the challenge of mastering the master. A number of them continue to pursue theatre in their post-high school plans. And, those who choose other paths continue to come back to tell me how much they appreciated the opportunity to be a part of plays that have been produced by companies all over the world, by actors of all levels of experience, and attended by audiences for centuries and many more centuries to come. =============================================================================== I am not a part of a university, nor is my knowledge of Shakespeare great. I wish to learn by reading the words of those who know more. I do not intend to post. =============================================================================== My name is Maria Sendzik from New Jersey. I have a BA in English from Georgian Court College, New Jersey, and a MA in Contemporary British and American Literature from St. John's University in New York, where I was awarded a graduate assistantship to fund my studies. Currently, I am an English IV Honors and SAT English Review teacher at Brick Memorial High School in Brick, New Jersey. The curriculum in the English class includes a chronological survey of world and British literature beginning with the ancients in Greece, such as Sophocles and Euripides, and culminating with the moderns such as Shaw, Joyce and Lawrence. Of course, the highlight of the year for me is Shakespeare's Hamlet. I belong to the American Association of University Women which has a monthly book discussion group. I frequently prepare seminars for the group on a variety of literary topics that have included Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Zimmerman, Rodney Rodney D. Zimmerman, M.Sc., P.Eng. Member, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, (1974). Member, International Association of Hydrogeologists. Bachelor of Science (Honours), Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1971 Master of Science, Water Resources Development, University of Manitoba, 1975 Recreational interests include sailing, skiing, and high alpine rambling. I'm definitely in your interested by-stander category. The thought I had was: "it may be nice to have a bit of the bard cross my desk somedays". I've got enough letters, etc. to write here and it's entertainment I was seeking. =============================================================================== *Zinn, Jeff <0006382926@mcimail.com> I enclose my bio for your review. As you can see, it includes no plays by Shakespeare although that is a strong interest of mine (obviously, or I wouldn't want to join.) In addition to the directing program at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University I received my MA in Theatre Education from NYU. Jeff Zinn is Co-Artistic Director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater in Wellfleet Massachusetts, where he directed A Lie Of The Mind, Goose & Tomtom, Buried Child, Road to Nirvana, The Mystery Of Irma Vep, The Speed of Darkness, The Artificial Jungle, The Kathy & Mo Show, The Baby Dance and The Baltimore Waltz. He has both directed and acted in productions at the Academy Playhouse in Orleans; Death Of A Salesman (a WHAT co-production and winner of five ACTE awards) and The Threepenny Opera. A fifteen year stint in New York City included acting roles on and off Broadway including David Mamet's Sexual Perversity In Chicago and The Suicide starring Derek Jacobi. He also directed projects at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theater for the New City, and as a member of the Circle Repertory Company Directors Lab. In 1988 he entered the Harvard/ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, where he served as assistant director to Andre Serban, Livui Ciulei and Eric Bogosian and directed a number of his own projects. Having completed the program in the Spring of 1990, he moved to Wellfleet, Massachusetts where he currently resides. He recently directed The Sirens, by Darrah Cloud at Circle Rep Lab and A Ditch Called City, by Ron Burch at the West Bank Cafe in New York. =============================================================================== *Zionic, Brent Brent Anton Zionic Assistant Engish Teacher, Kobe City Schools International Awareness Committee (Elementary Schools Division) * Born in Baltimore, MD, USA, 1970 * Boarding School and extensive International exposure at the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat Springs, CO * BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992 Focus of studies was on Shakespeare under Prof. R L Widmann, and the Early Romantics, with Prof. Charles Proudfit and Jeffrey Robinson * Moved to Japan in Spring of 1992 with the Japan Education and Teaching (JET) Program: employed as an assistant English Teacher in public schools. Use this opportunity to study the language and culture in earnest, including 4 years of aikido and a license in Shiatsu Therapy. * I am now preparing to apply for Graduate Schools in Japan and in England, hoping to enter a program where I an work on research involving images of Shakespeare in Japan (both in English and in Japanese). I have joined the Japanese Shakespeare Society, the country's largest literary society in a foreign language. In particular, I am interested in topics dealing with the understanding of Western Culture through the medium of the Shakesperian canon as it pertains to 'the question of servitude,' and 'seeming versus being' in comparison to Japanese sensibilities of honne (true feelings) and tatemae (shown feelings). Although I have not yet been accepted to a university, nor have I applied, I hope to be a student again in a Master's Program by next Fall ('97) at one of the following schools: Konan University, Kobe University, the University of Leeds, the University of Cambridge. I am not published yet, except for a small book of Japanese 'Castle' poems in translation to English. =============================================================================== *Zoll, Corrie Corrie Zoll: I am an actor, director and playwright working in the Minneapolis area. I hold a recent BA in Theatre from Grinnell College where I had the pleasure of studying Shakespeare extensively with Edward Moore. I also attended the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. My most recent project has been writing a play based on Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled A Night in Queen's Clothing. I produced and directed the play at the 1995 Minnesota Fringe Festival, and it will be produced again by Actor's Asylum in Los Angeles in January of 1996. My study of the sonnets and their scolarship began at the National Theatre Institute in 1991. My play developed from biographical studies of Shakespeare and various other Elizabethan literary and political figures including Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Emilia Bassano, Henry Wriothesly and his mother the Countess of Southampton. The play takes place during the London plague epidemic of 1592-1594, beginning with Greene's death in the Fall of 1592 and ending with Marlowe's murder in the Spring of 1593. =============================================================================== *Zucker, Adam As a wee lad in a New York private school, I was assigned Romeo and Juliet. I hated it. At the age of fourteen, Julius Caesar was on my class reading list. With the exception of one line (you can guess which one), I misunderstood the entire play. The next year, Macbeth was the focal point of my Drama class. Can one year make a difference in the aesthetic sensibilities of a teen-ager? Of course. I loved the play, loved writing about the play, and Shakespeare has been a part of my life ever since. I went on to study Renaissance Drama with Karen Newman and Coppelia Kahn at Brown University (I received my B.A. in English Literature in May '94), capping off four years of study with an Honors Thesis entitled "Categorical Instability: The Image of the Moor in Elizabethan England". Although I am taking a break from the academic world right now (I'm working at The Voyager Company producing CD-ROMs), I intend to return to school within the next two years and pursue my chosen course of study. =============================================================================== *Zunin, Hilary I'm a California high school teacher who's fortunate enough to teach a Shakespeare elective to juniors and seniors each semester. I also offer workshops to teachers on Shakespeare in performance and recently reviewed new materials on teaching Shakespeare for English Journal. =============================================================================== *Zurko, Mary Ellen I'm a computer software engineer and researcher, specializing in security and WWW. I'm currently working for Iris, which produces Lotus Notes, and is part of IBM (oh the world of buyouts and mergers). My interest in Shakespeare comes from being a member of the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble when I was an undergraduate. I go to Stratford, Ontario every year (with other ex-MIT folks and friends) to get my annual fix of decent Shakespeare performance. I occasionally read Shakespearean and feminist criticism, but performance is really my big interest. I love reading the SHAKSPER postings of people whose books I buy, though I've found some of them profit from an editor or the need to sell books. (this is a resubscription). I go by my TLA (three letter acronym), Mez. ============================================================= *Zysset, Sylvia I was born in Switzerland in 1969, the daughter of a Swiss father and British mother. Last January I completed my studies at Basel University, with degrees in English (language and literature), art history and German literature. My current Ph.D. project at Basel University is the preparation of an English/German edition of Shakespeare's early comedy "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". This edition will be published as part of the series "English-Deutsche Studienausgaben der Dramen Shakespeares" (English-German study editions of Shakespeare's plays), which was developed under the patronage of the "Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft" (German Shakespeare Society). A number of plays are already available in this bilingual series, many others are being prepared at the moment. My work consists of editing the English text, translating it into German (with footnotes, the aim being a scientific translation that should communicate the English original to the German reader as exactly as possible), writing an introduction to the play and a scene by scene commentary to follow the play text. This is fascinating work, as it allows one (and requires one) to become familiar with all the different aspects of the text. My research interests in this context are therefore very broad. However, I am particularly interested in performance aspects of Shakespeare's texts - probably partly due to my own active participation in theatre productions at Basel University. During my studies I wrote a number of extensive papers on the subjects of role-playing and metatheatrical elements in the Elizabethan and Jacobian theatre. I want to explore these areas, as well as aspects of the actor-audience relationship, in more detail in the future. In this context I am following the discussion surrounding the New Globe Theatre in London with great interest. Among many other literary research interests I could also mention the subject of female voice and female patronage in the Middle Ages and the possibility of tracing female influences from early oral culture over the Middle Ages to early Renaissance texts. ============================================================= *