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Brazil tribute online
Barb Flues announced today that a memorial tribute to authorship researcher Robert Brazil has been posted to the Brazil/Flues Internet site Elizabethan Authors. Robert Brazil, born in 1955, died on July 11, 2010. Flues said:
The Elizabethan Authors website now features a brief tribute to Robert Brazil, with comments taken from messages that were sent, or forwarded to me.
Flues thanked Marty Hyatt for assisting her in posting the Brazil memorial to the Elizabethan Authors site at:
http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/memorial.htm
Thanks to Linda Theil of the Oberon Blog for this item.
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Professor David Bevington shares his thoughts on Shakespearean biography with Matt Kubus in The Shakespeare Bookshop.
To see this short video, put out by the Shakespeare Trust, go to
http://vimeo.com/12767835
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2009 Oberon yearbook available from Blurb
The 2009 Oberon Shakespeare Study Group 92-page yearbook is now available from Blurb. The yearbook is a compendium of blog posts and color photos from the Oberon blog during the calendar year 2009. The cost of a paperback copy is $30 plus shipping. The book is available for the public to order at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1491543
You can see a 29-page preview of the book by clicking on this URL: http://www.blurb.com/books/1491543 or by clicking on the words BOOK PREVIEW in the yearbook "badge" in the sidebar on the right of this page. When viewing the preview, if you click on the FULL SCREEN option in the upper right corner of the preview screen you will see the book in a bigger picture on your screen.
Originally posted by Linda Theil of the Oberon Shakespeare Study Group at
http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/
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Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
By Charles Beauclerk
Grove Press, 2010
We must not be abrupt; we must not be rash. We must not let our collective impatience prompt us to intellectual arrogance or the petty tyrannies of certainty. We must remind ourselves, when our tempers are fraying and we’re feeling trapped in a repeating loop, that there are no autograph copies, no letters, no video sequences. No matter how much we might wish it to be otherwise, we must remember: there is room for doubt.
So we brace ourselves and take on Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom by Charles Beauclerk, a book whose subtitle, The True History of [b][/b]Shakespeare and Elizabeth, artfully evokes that third name you just know is coming, the third name that destroys any possibility this book might be about, say, the portrayal of kingship rights in Shakespeare’s early works, or the politics of royal arts patronage under Elizabeth.
To see the rest of this review by Garrett Handley, please visit
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/the-ass-made-proud/
(Many thanks to Linda Theil of Oberon for alerting me to this review)
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After Destroying the World, Roland Emmerich Blows up Shakespeare’s Myth
by Susan Michals July 22, 2010, 10:37 AM
Vanity Fair
You wouldn’t expect Roland Emmerich—the man behind such cataclysmic spectacles as The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Independence Day—to direct a film about William Shakespeare. He’s more about annihilating the White House—and the box office. With his next film, Anonymous, which asks whether Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him, Emmerich has created a very different kind of entertainment, one of grand literary proportions. Some scholars suggest it was in fact the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, who wrote the actual works. (Other suspected ghost-Bards include Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon.) The film may mark a departure from the typical Emmerich plot, but don’t dismay: he hasn’t abandoned his panoramic sense of scale. “He opens up Elizabethan England and takes it out of the confined, claustrophobic sets we're used to seeing,” says frequent Emmerich producer, Aaron Boyd. “I think he’s going to redefine the way we see period pieces.” So was William Shakespeare the Milli Vanilli of the Elizabethan era? Roland Emmerich weighs in.
Susan Michals: I’ve seen Anonymous listed as a “political thriller.” Would that make Edward De Vere the Jason Bourne of the 16th century?
Roland Emmerich: No. Jason Bourne had amnesia. He had to recover his past. Edward De Vere knew exactly where he came from. This film is very rich in its themes and characters. We have been working on this script for four or five years, constantly improving, and I am totally happy with the way it’s turned out. It’s not just about the fact that Edward De Vere might have written all these great works; it’s about the Essex Rebellion, and the woman who is one of the most powerful monarchs in British history [Queen Elizabeth I]. In my film, they all become one story...
Read the rest of this interview at
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/...eares-myth.html
(Thanks to Dan Wright for passing this on.)
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All of the following are reported by Linda Theil at the Oberon Shakespeare Study Group:
Duha eliminated as MSF managing director
Michigan Shakespeare Festival Managing Director Robert B. Duha told Oberon members at our July 21, 2010 meeting that he will no longer serve as managing director of the festival as of August 8, after two seasons in this position. Duha said he tendered his resignation after being informed that he would be laid-off at the end of the current MSF season...
MSF High School Monologue Contest at 11 a.m. July 31, 2010
One aspect of MSF's educational outreach, the annual High School Monologue Contest, will culminate at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 31 in the Michael Baughman Theater at the Potter Center on Jackson Community College campus at 211 Eamons Road, Jackson MI. Regional winners will compete by reading a two-minute monologue from a Shakespeare play. Judges are Jan Blixt, Terry Pow, and Betsy Davis.
Richard Joyrich presents Comedy of Errors talk at 6:30 p.m. July 31, 2010
Oberon members plan to attend the monologue contest finals and will stay for the Romeo & Juliet matinee at 2 p.m. and evening performance of Comedy of Errors at 7:30 p.m...
For more details, go to
http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/
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Palin invents word 'refudiate,' compares herself to Shakespeare
By Matt DeLong, Washington Post
The Twittersphere erupted Sunday when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate" the mosque being built in New York City near where the Twin Towers once stood. Palin found herself the butt of many tweets, as refudiate, of course, is not a word in the English language...
More at
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/palin-invents-word-compares-he.html?hpid=topnews
Thanks to Linda Theil at the Oberon Blog for the lead to this article.
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in battalions."
Robert Brazil has died.
Gary Goldstein, the editor of Brief Chronicles, has written the following:
"I often met Robert at Oxfordian conferences over the years--in North Carolina in 1995, in New York City in 2003... He was this bearded wonder of energy, talk, and drama. He was ambitious to do things--to get not just the research out into circulation but to provide everyone with the literary context of the entire era so that redundancy of effort could be avoided for Oxfordian scholars.
"We conferred on publication ideas, on fruitful areas of research and on strategy. He thought in large terms and acted on them, and so became a model for others to emulate. His work with Barbara Flues is just one example. He also served as editor of the SOS newsletter in the early 2000's and was a presenter at SOS conferences of his research.
"Another gifted, dear man has left us way too early. RIP, Robert."
And from Mark Anderson:"My heartfelt condolences to Robert's family in this time of loss for them. Robert was the shepherd of an online community of researchers that, to me, was one of the treasures of Oxfordian work and writings today. There was always something good or interesting or curious or wonderful-in-a-never-even-thought-of-that-before sort of way. One was forever playing catch-up with elizaforum. But a surfeit of knowledge is far better than the alternative.
"As it happens, getting the news on the phone today about Robert's death, I was on my way to pick up a book of poetry by W.S. Merwin at the local library. Tonight, reading Merwin's ode "To the Words" made
me think of Robert Sean Brazil and the larger literary and historical quest that he -- and many of us -- have devoted many of our years to.
"May you come to know peace, Robert. And may your words and your great work live on."
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Derran Charlton reports sad news from England:
It is with the deepest regret that I notify readers of the Oberon Shakespeare Study Group of the passing through nature to eternity of Verily Anderson Paget, aged 95.
For the rest of this obituary, please visit
The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group at
http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/
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The Ashland Authorship Conference
September 16–19, 2010
Ashland Springs Hotel
The program for sixth annual joint conference of the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society in Ashland, Oregon features over 30 scholarly presentations and dramatic performances. This season is the 75th anniversary of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the conference will be addressed by both Artistic Director, Bill Rauch, and Executive Director, Paul Nicholson. The education program features presentations directed toward the plays in production including panel discussions with actors from OSF.
On-site registration check-in will begin at 9:00 AM on September 16, and the education program will begin at 10:00 AM. The conference registration includes an opening reception with appetizers on the 16th, buffet lunches on day two and three, and the annual awards banquet at the conclusion of the conference on the afternoon of the 19th. For a limited time, group tickets to three OSF productions, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and 1Henry IV, are still available and may still be purchased with conference registration until August 20, when the group order will close.
Saturday afternoon will be dedicated to performances with music provided by the lute duet Mignarda, Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart, creators of My Lord of Oxenford’s Maske. OSF all-star Robin Goodrin-Nordli will present her original show, Bard Babes, and Keir Cutler will give an encore performance of his adaptation of Mark Twain’s satire, Is Shakespeare Dead? The afternoon will conclude with a signing ceremony for the ‘Declaration of Reasonable Doubt’.
For further information or to register, consult the websites of the Shakespeare Fellowship or Shakespeare Oxford Society, or write to the local coordinator at earlees@charter.net
Daily Schedule
Thursday: September 16
Music by Mignarda with Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart
Prof Tom Gage: The Bone in the Elephant's Heart
Dr. Tom Hunter: The Invention of the Human in Shylock
Dr. Earl Showerman: Shakespeare’s Shylock and the Strange Case of Gaspar Ribeiro
Cheryl Eagan-Donovan: Shakespeare’s Ideal: Sexuality and Gender Identity in The Merchant of Venice
Dr. Marty Hyatt: Teaching Heavy Ignorance Aloft to Fly
Conference Opening Reception - Ashland Springs Hotel Conservatory & Garden
Merchant of Venice at OSF Elizabethan Theatre
Friday: September 17
Shakespeare Fellowship Annual Meeting
Richard Whalen: ‘Goats and Monkeys!’ Othello’s Outburst Recalls a Fresco in Bassano, Italy
Dr. Frank Davis: The “Unlearned” versus the “Learned” Shakespeare
Prof Jack Shuttleworth: Hamlet and Its Mysteries: An Oxfordian Editor’s View
Merchant of Venice Panel: Tom Hunter, Tom Regnier & OSF Actors
Bill Rauch: Artistic Director of OSF and Director of Hamlet and Merchant of Venice
Prof Roger Stritmatter: The “Little Eyases” and the “Innovation” of 1589
Katherine Chiljan: Twelve "Too Early" Allusions to Shakespeare's Hamlet
Tom Regnier: Hamlet’s Law
Prof Sam Saunders: The Odds on Hamlet’s Odds
Prof Helen Gordon: The Symbols in Hamlet: An Oxfordian Interpretation
Hamlet at OSF Bowmer Theatre
Saturday: September 18
Shakespeare-Oxford Society Annual Meeting
Hank Whittemore: The Birth and Growth of Prince Hal: Why did Oxford write The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth?
Marie Merkel – "In the Fit of Miming": A brief history of Sir John Falstaffe and the "whole school of tongues" in his belly
Lynne Kositsky: The Young Adult Novel Minerva's Voyage and its Relationship to True Reportory and Minerva Britanna
Hamlet panel: Prof Ren Draya, Jack Shuttleworth & OSF Actors
Music by Mignarda
Robin Goodrin Nordli: Bard Babes
Keir Cutler: Is Shakespeare Dead?
“Declaration of Reasonable Doubt” Signing Ceremony with John Shahan, Paul Nicholson, Executive Director at OSF, and other signatories
1Henry IV at OSF Elizabethan Theatre
Sunday: September 19
William Ray: Proofs of Oxfordian Authorship in the Shakespearean Apocrypha
Bonner Cutting: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
John Hamill – Bisexuality, Bastardy, Avisa and Antonio Perez Revisited
Michael Cecil: Revisiting the 1st Baron Burghley’s Precepts for the Well Ordering and Carriage of a Man’s Life
Henry IV Panel: Felicia Londré & OSF Actors
2010 Annual Joint Conference Awards Banquet
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