late pass like a muhphucker.

Rip Van Winkle status even.

and yes, I'm familiar with your Othellos and Romeo & Juliets.

The "Scottish Play"? Not so much.

Enlightened me.

as does Hamlet.

don't miss those.

where you start doesn't matter, i think. but i'm no scholar.

the list goes on.. even his lighter fair like twelfth night is fun....

I used to read tons of his stuff.... haven't in years and now you got me thinking of picking another one up for gits and shiggles.

a kinda-'well, fuck! wtf is this shit all about then?'-type convo I had with fam recently and I found myself regurgitatin the "all the world's a stage..." qoute. Had a V8 moment and was like 'hole-lee-shit...I need to read more Shakespeare!' lol.

he had a direct line to the human condition and his linguistic expression of such was on point.

i kinda prefer actual stageplay rather then just reading it straight


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
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>i kinda prefer actual stageplay rather then just reading it
>straight

why?

I mean 'cause my cursory knowledge of Shakespeare's works goes only as far as motion picture productions and an obscure passage sited by my HS English lit. teacher, so I really don't gotta clue. But I've taken to reading some of his more esoteric excerpts and its just like 'wow, this guy was speaking on some timeless shit'.

pardon my neophyte-like be wonderment, but it really is amazing that you can seemingly pull up a Shakespearian quote for ANY kind of human emotion...

and it'll speak to the very heart of the matter, I might add.

Shakespeare wrote his plays to be performed. As much as you can get out of reading them, you get that much more if you see them staged. It's often a good idea to know the synopsis going in, if you're not familiar with the play itself, because it might take you a scene or two or three before the language clicks in your mind and the words become meaningful.

Don't forget that Shakespeare wrote for the groundlings as much as he did the people in the expensive seats, so there's always going to be something for everyone in every play.

I'm excited because I've never seen King Lear on stage and I'll be seeing it this year as part of my Cal Shakes subscription.

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>Shakespeare wrote his plays to be performed. As much as you
>can get out of reading them, you get that much more if you see
>them staged. It's often a good idea to know the synopsis
>going in, if you're not familiar with the play itself, because
>it might take you a scene or two or three before the language
>clicks in your mind and the words become meaningful.
>
>Don't forget that Shakespeare wrote for the groundlings as
>much as he did the people in the expensive seats, so there's
>always going to be something for everyone in every play.

Ah, gotcha. I think I'll make that a summer to-do thing and see if they have some free.99 performances somewhere in this city. I distinctly remember hearing about Shakespare in the park or something like that some ways back when.

>I'm excited because I've never seen King Lear on stage and
>I'll be seeing it this year as part of my Cal Shakes
>subscription.

sounds like an awesome outting. I'm sure you'll be thoroughly entertained, Janey.

i too think it's probably better to experience Shakespeare plays as theatrical productions (including motion pictures, too) instead of written text.

i have never read Hamlet - i've only seen a stage production and 2 motion pictures. and it's one of my favorites.

i've also never read Comedy of Errors but i worked on a stage production and that's also one of my favorites.

especially A Midsummer Night's Dream

My favorites are Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet.

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The Merchant of Venice
Twelf Night
Othello
King Henry the IV, Part 1

Those are my favorite of the non Macbeth/Hamlet/R&J

Go ahead and watch the Leo and Clair Danes R & J

And after reading, catch a play from the local college or something to bring it all together.

>Go ahead and watch the Leo and Clair Danes R & J

wasn't a big fan of the modern take but I'll give it another spin being as I never even read/ seen the source material.

>And after reading, catch a play from the local college or
>something to bring it all together.

oh definitely, that's a bet.

Titus was some real hardcore revenge shit and that's all I'm gonna say..lol
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since Detroit needs water, good schools and roads etc but
this has been really nice to watch.



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