Notices

The editors of the Encyclopedia thank everyone for their interest. Entries have now been assigned.

"Shakespeare's Morals, The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance"

Ben R. Schneider, Jr announces that "Shakespeare's Morals, The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance" now makes available all the ethical authorities originally promised in April 1999. But equally worthy of note is that all his indexes to these books have been automated: if you want to know what Montaigne says that may help explain Hamlet in a book of his Essays, simply point to "Hamlet" in the index and click. The relevant passage or passages will instantly pop up. To find out what book indexes refer to "Hamlet" go to the BOOK page and use your borrower's FIND utility to search the indexes for that word. Beside tagging pertinent passages with the names of characters in Shakespeare, he has marked Stoic buzz words like "posterity " and "fortune" in the texts for indexing. There are about 2000 index-to-text links.

The site now presents Cicero's De Officiis, the six volumes of Seneca's moral works, three volumes of North's translation of Plutarch's Lives, a fourth volume in Dryden translation, Elyot's Governour, three books of Florio's translation of Montaigne's Essays, Books I, II, and VI of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I of Sidney's New Arcadia (index only), James I's Basilikon Doron, and Hall's Characters of the Virtues and Vices. Erasmus's Institution Of a Christian Prince will appear soon.

Ben R. Schneider, Jr
Emeritus. Lawrence University

David Siar edits a new e-journal entitled Early Modern Culture, which is available through the English Server (at Carnegie Mellon University): http://eserver.org/emc.

EMC features in-progress essays and responses, and the first issue contains work by a number of well-known critics, including Peter Stallybrass, Valerie Wayne, Graham Holderness, Jean Howard, and Phyllis Rackin.

The Arden Shakespeare

The Arden Shakespeare is delighted to announce the launch of a pioneering and unprecedented community space on the Internet for Shakespeare studies: ArdenNet.

Visit this new website at: http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/ardennet/

Entirely free, ArdenNet is a peer-reviewed, time-saving, interactive website which provides Shakespeare researchers and educators with:

• Regularly updated resources, including:
  • a review of Shakespeare sites on the Internet
  • listings of Shakespeare organisations and conferences;
  • listings of upcoming international performances;
  • listings of currently available Shakespeare videos.
  
  

• The opportunity to share and comment on:
  • Short articles and 'work in progress' from the world-wide academic Shakespeare community (this includes an essay by MIT Professor Peter S. Donaldson and an interview with RSC actor Philip Voss);
  • 'My favourite Shakespeare book' and 'My favourite Shakespeare performance' areas, currently including contributions from Olwen Terris of the BFI and Martin Banham, Professor of Theatre Studies and Director of Workshop Theatre at the University of Leeds;
  • Reviews of Shakespeare productions.
  
  

• The ability to read about and discuss the issues surrounding the teaching of Shakespeare in the late twentieth century.
  Articles available in this section currently include essays from Rebecca Bushnell and David Scott Kastan.

• Dr. Susan Brock, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Professor Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor Peter Holland, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Professor Lynette Hunter, University of Leeds
• Professor David Scott Kastan, Columbia University, New York
• Professor Ann Thompson, Roehampton Institute, London

For more information please contact:
Nicholas Kind,
Electronic Development Manager,
The Arden Shakespeare

Email: nick.kind@nelson.co.uk
Direct telephone: +44 (0)1932 262205