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
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> 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
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>
--
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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