the Globe is a tourist trap, little more, little less.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:01 PM, David Bircumshaw
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Globe isn't government subsidized you know.
>
> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Indeed. But would that make Hamlet as good as the Mousetrap? At least
>> the Mousetrap didn't have to be subsidized to be shown.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David Bircumshaw
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> The Mousetrap ran for years.
>>>
>>> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>> Very little Shakespeare is played out on the professional west-end
>>>> stage these days. Most of it is in the Shakespearean churches.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> Roger: This is silly. Shakespeare is performed on the profesional stage in
>>>>> the US all the time. Two years ago I saw a wonderful production of As You
>>>>> Like It in Tucson. There are sold out summer Shakespeare festivals in
>>>>> Oregon, New York, and Connecticut that I'm aware of. When I was a teenager a
>>>>> complete cycle of the history plays was done at a major downtown theater in
>>>>> NY. Lear was done on Broadway last year.
>>>>>
>>>>> The ways of the censor tend to be unpredictable, perhaps because
>>>>> unpredictability is such a potent weapon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At 05:40 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> one swallow a summer does not make.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Right now the hottest ticket on Broadway is MacBeth, with Patrick
>>>>>> > Stewart in
>>>>>> > the title role. The run is sold out--even the scalpers are at a loss.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Mark
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > At 12:47 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Those were the days - the Lord Chamberlain (member of the Royal
>>>>>> >> Household) and his malign influence on the British Theatre. In another
>>>>>> >> email list, a long time ago, I mooted the theory that shakespeare's
>>>>>> >> continuing popularity down the ages was due in part to the Bard's
>>>>>> >> acceptability before the LC. My logic, fwiw, ran thus: you want to put
>>>>>> >> on a play and in those days, the least likeliest plays to get banned
>>>>>> >> were Shakespeares. So, you play safe, put on the Bard. Until the 60s,
>>>>>> >> when the LC threw away his blue pencil. Nowadays, S hardly appears on
>>>>>> >> the commercial stage.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> American bannings are two a penny: their school libraries have
>>>>>> >> committees which are battle-grounds for the inclusion/exclusion of
>>>>>> >> books. Harry Potter is a notorious example of this - the poor, deluded
>>>>>> >> fundies trying to stave off the influence of the heathen (WTF?). There
>>>>>> >> are lists on line of books that have been banned in the US. Are there
>>>>>> >> any for the UK?
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Roger
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
>>>>>> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>> >> > Lear was banned from performance between 1788-1820 when George III
>>>>>> >> > was considered insane, and the link between stage and royalty would
>>>>>> >> > be
>>>>>> >> > too close for official comfort. Contemporaneously with this Tom Paine
>>>>>> >> > was also banned in England and, famously, Coleridge and Wordsworth
>>>>>> >> > were watched for talking about Spinoza (Spy-noza)
>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>> >> > While 'Silas Marner' was banned in Anaheim CA in 1978 (?!) and '1984'
>>>>>> >> > in Florida in 1981 because it was considered 'pro-communist' (?)
>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>> >> > --
>>>>>> >> > David Bircumshaw
>>>>>> >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>>>>> >> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>>>>> >> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>>>>> >> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
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>>>>>> >> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>>>> >> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>>>> >> The Go-Betweens
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>>>> The Go-Betweens
>>>>>
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>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>>> The Go-Betweens
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>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>
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>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>> The Go-Betweens
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> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
"She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
The Go-Betweens
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