8. "believe or not, my desire to read his material sorta spawned from--" In response to Reply # 4
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.
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5. "RE: if ya don't mind me asking..." In response to Reply # 3 Fri May-01-15 03:32 PM by Somnus
>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.
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The ULTIMATE negation of everything.
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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.
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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10. "RE: if I may jump in" In response to Reply # 7
>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.
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The ULTIMATE negation of everything.
The space between despair and orgasm is hard to fill ~ Maron
17. ""Titus Andronicus" "Coriolanus" " In response to Reply # 0
Titus was some real hardcore revenge shit and that's all I'm gonna say..lol _____________________________________________________ "You can win with certainty with the spirit of "one cut". "Musashi Miyamoto
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