Notes

[James Forsythe]

Denis:  Its not Coles, but how about Shakespeare in a Nutshell by Colin
Baker.  My copy is by Key Book Publishing.  I have had it since highschool
but I think I saw a new edition at the bookstore in the Festival Theatre at
Stratford.

At 04:34 PM 2/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>Does anyone know the origin of Cole's notes?  Current editions
>make it seem as though the series originated in Canada.
>Was there a Mr Cole? Cole's bookstores are bewildered by questions.
>
>In the U.S., I believe that they don't have Cole's but rather
>Cliff's Notes.  I can't get Cole's notes and Cliff's notes
>for the same book, for comparative purposes.
>
>I can't get Cliff's Notes, so far, in Canada. Any suggestions?
>
>I am only interested in Cliff and Cole when they are reductive versions
>of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's plays.
>
>Does anyone know if Shakespeare's plays were turned into
>Classic Comics?  The comics stores here have been singularly
>unhelpful. If they are still being produced, is Shakespeare in
>the series?
>
>Doubtless there is a university research library that has rare
>Classic Comics of Shakespeare in its Rare Books division.
>
>
>**************
>
>I thank the many people who helped me with the letter that I
>sent to *University Affairs* and that I circulated on CanDrama.
>It should appear in the March or April edition, or might get
>pushed into May.  I think March or April would be more
>strategic.
>
>BTW, they cut very little and, as cuts often do, they made for a
>stronger letter.  It was simply too long. It will be at their
>maximum of 700 words.
>
>
>I think that this January issue of *University Affairs* calls
>for several other letters:
>
>1) The suggestion that the Arts (as in Liberal Arts) are not
>as expensive to run as other disciplines is silly. As a colleague
>said this morning, the library/libraries are one of the indis-
>pensable and expensive "Labs" for the Liberal Arts.
>
>2) The descriptions provided of the next generation of scholars who will
>be "highly professionalised" make me queasy.  Some definitions are pro-
>vided for what "professional" means; many other important definitions
>are overlooked, and the "word" becomes (deliberately?) mystified.
>I begin to think of social and genetic engineering.
>
>
>3) The key issue, known since at least the beginning of the
>postwar period, is that universities are not predominantly
>preoccupied with the discovery and/or creation of knowledge
>and its dissemination. The key issue is that they are corporations
>with administrative structures that, in some areas, correspond
>to corporate ones. University administrations, particularly in
>ones that are governed by the top-down model, are in the business
>of creating and marketing information. (Information and Knowledge
>are different entities.) There is one reductive, easy, but I
>think valid way to test this proposition: in the 50s to the
>early 80s, students were called students; in the mid 80s to
>the mid 90s they were called clients; and now they are called
>consumers (of information).
>
>4) Though the ideologically-charged vocabulary of Accountability
>Criteria, Performance Indicators and the like remains out of
>sight, it won't remain there for long.  I think we should think
>ahead of time about what we would accept and what we wouldn't.
>The information [sic] from some levels of governments and/or
>from university administrations should be made available to us
>soon, for the debate is going to be long and, I fear,
>fractious. I would be interested in knowing how other versions
>of these surveillance expectations and techniques have affected
>the production of information in other cultures.  I gather that
>British Professors have worked with some sort of model for several years
>and universities' budgets have in whole or in part been determined by
>point-rating. I do know that procedures of this type are used
>at the University of Malta.
>
>
>Denis Salter.
>
>"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
>It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
>Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon."
>--John Logie Baird (1925)
>
>Denis Salter
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>
James Forsythe
Associate Professor and Head
Drama Program, Brandon University
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, R7A 6A9
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