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it turns out i had misread earlier emails: professor teskey doesn't want to be blind gloucester. he wants to perform the scene where the blinding of gloucester takes place. (g.t.: "the blinding of gloucester is the only explicit sex scene in shakespeare.") there is slight but prevalent student dismay and some muttering in background - the general feeling, i think, is that it is not exactly in line with what the committee had in mind, and that it's overkill (given a recent greenblatt reading of same scene) on a particularly gruesome episode - hence delicate attempts to steer him to another choice, but no go. it's going on, and the committee will have to at least cast three others to go in the scene, and whoever lands up playing gloucester surely will not enjoy it. latest has it that dan donoghue and james simpson have also agreed to to be in it, whereas two of the big name renaissance faculty aren't available, so it seems the medievalists are going to overrun 'em.