Notes

[Alan Filewod]

I don't know about the Coles notes, but Shakespeare's plays (some at
least) were published in comic book form by Classics Illustrated in the
1950s and 60s. I have a Classic's version of Hamlet, and I remember a
Macbeth, possibly an R&J....


Alan Filewod
Professor
School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
Canada N1G 2W1

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Denis Salter 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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