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We are all saddened by the death of Tom Hunter today. Our hearts go out to his family and friends, from his world-wide extended Shakespeare family.
One of Tom's close friends, Richard Joyrich, sent us this news notice:
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The Shakespeare Oxford Spring Dinner
When: Friday, May 6, 2011
Cocktails at 6:30; Dinner at 7:30
Where: The Elephant Walk, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Why: Much to talk about in 2011!
In the spring of 2009 and 2010, we enjoyed a day-long seminar at the Watertown Free Public Library. This year we thought it would be good to relaunch the evening dinner of years past. There is so much news in the Oxfordian community this year, with the upcoming premiere of Roland Emmerich's blockbuster film Anonymous, the expected completion of two documentaries, Cheryl Eagan-Donovan's Nothing Truer Than Truth and Laura and Lisa Wilson's Last Will and Testament (working title), as well as the long-awaited publication of Richard Roe's The Shakespeare Guide to Italy. Please join us for an evening of good food and good company, in a private room that's ours till 10 p.m.
Dinner will be $40 per person. This includes dinner, taxes and gratuities and appetizers for the cocktail hour. The three-course dinner includes a choice of appetizer, choice of entree and choice of dessert from the "Tasting Menu," a delightful way to experience The Elephant Walk's Cambodian and French cuisine. There will be a cash bar for cocktails or other beverages.
Directions: The Elephant Walk (617-492-6900) is just west of Porter Square, a short walk from the Red Line Porter Square Station, and on the 77 bus line. The restaurant is located in the red brick building across from Walden Street. There is free parking in a lot behind the restaurant.
We will meet downstairs in the restaurant's private party room. Wheelchair accessible through elevator.
RSVP by May 5, 2011. Please include your full name and number attending to: Alex@amcneil.com.
Payment may be made at the restaurant on the day of the event by cash or check only; NO CREDIT CARDS PLEASE! Sorry, but the restaurant cannot accommodate separate cards with a large group.If you'd prefer to prepay, please make your check payable to Alex McNeil and send it to 301 Islington Road, Auburndale MA 02466.
We hope to see you there!
Bill Boyle
Alex McNeil
Marie Merkel
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Boca Raton, FL, and Baltimore, MD November 21, 2010… The second issue of Brief Chronicles has been published online at www.briefchronicles.com with ten papers and five book reviews from contributors in the US, Canada, England and Germany.
“That the inaugural issue was exceptional for its research,” said Roger Stritmatter, general editor, “is shown by Gale Publishing’s selection of Earl Showerman’s paper on the Greek origins of Much Ado About Nothing for inclusion in its reference text, Shakespearean Criticism, due out in spring 2011.”
“Highlights of the second issue include a paper that proposes a new authorship candidate for The Arte of English Poesie while a second defends the traditional authorship of A Hundreth Sundry Flowers, two Elizabethan books which have mesmerized literary historians for centuries.” stated Stritmatter. There is also a detailed response to Columbia University Professor James Shapiro’s book, Contested Will, the first academic examination of the Shakespeare Authorship controversy since alternate candidates to the traditional Bard were originally proposed in the 1850s.
“In addition,” said Gary Goldstein, managing editor of Brief Chronicles, “we are publishing new research that provides a more accurate dating of King Lear’s composition using the play’s topical allusions to eclipses of the sun and moon. Of equal import,” he added, “is a proposed resolution of a long-standing myth regarding the office of Lord Great Chamberlain during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, which contains new archival discoveries.”
Another paper investigates the peculiarities of Shakespeare’s frontispiece engraving in the First Folio, the author, John Rollett, finding, “What is usually taken to be a poorly drawn portrait of the playwright turns out to be a skillfully executed depiction of a carefully designed enigma.”
The second issue includes book reviews of Shakespeare and Garrick by Vanessa Cunningham; Othello, a new critical edition by Ren Draya, The Lame Storyteller by Peter Moore, and Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom by Charles Beauclerk.
Indexed by the MLA International Bibliography and the World Shakespeare Bibliography, Brief Chronicles is an annual peer reviewed journal of Shakespeare research, authorship studies and the Tudor and Jacobean periods, with an inter-disciplinary Board of scholars with terminal degrees in Economics, English, History, Law, Psychoanalysis, and Theater. The journal is published online by the Shakespeare Fellowship each autumn at www.briefchronicles.com free of charge. Submissions of papers, notes and reviews of books, theatrical productions and movies are welcome.
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