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12-10-2007, 03:08 PM
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I'm sure they do, that's not the question... but,
Since 9th grade we have been reading Plays in english classes. I'm now in 12 and yet again this year, it's another play by Shakespeare. What's up with that ? Are other plays that bad ? Does Shakespeare really deserve that much credit ?
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12-10-2007, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by crispygoat  [..]Does Shakespeare really deserve that much credit ? | Yes.
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12-10-2007, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | I found The Taming of The Shrew and A Midsummer Nights Dream to both be incredibly mind numbingly words-can't-exlainingly boring. Macbeth was great though.
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12-10-2007, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JMX Yes. | And a +1 to that.
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12-10-2007, 03:12 PM
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12-10-2007, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | Really? You didnt like The Taming of The Shrew?
granted I have never read it, only seen it performed. But I loved it.
I also enjoyed MacBeth and Hamlet. Just started King Lear, and it seems to be very good.
But yes, Shakespeare immense ammounts of credit. |
12-10-2007, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ROON I found The Taming of The Shrew and A Midsummer Nights Dream to both be incredibly mind numbingly words-can't-exlainingly boring. Macbeth was great though. | Yes old Will is all that.
Most plays are tough to read because they require readers to use their imaginations to a much greater extent than novels do. It's not enough to just read the words you have to visualize the scenes.
I saw "Taming of the Shrew" outdoors last summer. It's a comedy, and I honestly laughed my a$$ off, though the wine
and the pretty girl I was with may have had something to do with that....... |
12-10-2007, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by funkalicious101 Really? You didnt like The Taming of The Shrew?
granted I have never read it, only seen it performed. But I loved it.
I also enjoyed MacBeth and Hamlet. Just started King Lear, and it seems to be very good.
But yes, Shakespeare immense ammounts of credit. | I've actually seen A Midsummer Nights Dream performed and that was great. But I studied The Taming of The Shrew at school for what seemed like an eternity, with a rather unpleasant teacher. I think that's what made it no fun.  I really enjoyed studying Macbeth though, the movie and text is so good.
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12-10-2007, 03:18 PM
| | | | Reading them in a classroom = booooring & rather incomprehensible.
Seeing them performed well on stage or screen brings them to life & makes them much easier to understand. |
12-10-2007, 03:20 PM
|  | Working on his world citizenship... | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Colonies | | There's many, MANY more. The Bard was great (although, in my opinion, he missed just as often as he hit). Go here for a list of a few more... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...nd_playwrights |
12-10-2007, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas | | | Shakespeare's a lot funnier if you have footnotes to explain the Middle English slang and all the ensuing dirty jokes. |
12-10-2007, 03:47 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Yes, but Hamlet is still the greatest play ever written. Fantastic stuff! |
12-10-2007, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Yes, but Hamlet is still the greatest play ever written. Fantastic stuff! | Agreed. I live about 35 minutes from Stratford Ontario, which hosts the largest Shakespeare festival in the world. I try to get out to at least one each year. They are much better live. He was one, if not the, best writers of all time. Hamlet is the perfect example of that, the puns that exist in it are unbelievable.
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12-10-2007, 04:15 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Kenneth Brannagh was fantastic in the movie adaptation on Hamlet. I'd love to see Hamlet live on stage. |
12-10-2007, 04:16 PM
| | ...cultural explorer | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hinsdale, IL - outside Chicago | | I think they are good but often reading them for a class under duress ruins them.
...and +1 to the dirty joke footnotes 
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12-10-2007, 04:17 PM
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12-10-2007, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Alex ...and +1 to the dirty joke footnotes | If you think Shakespeare is dirty try reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...the Miller's Tale is a story about old skool butt licking (and I do not mean the sycophantic type...!) |
12-10-2007, 04:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Shakespeare was never meant to be read - it was written to be seen on a stage. The now-archaic language doesn't help, as current students need voluminous footnotes just to understand the words and references.
But once you have a clue as to the meaning of key words, it's the greatest stuff around. |
12-10-2007, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Kenneth Brannagh was fantastic in the movie adaptation on Hamlet. I'd love to see Hamlet live on stage. | I have not seen Hamlet live, I would love to and I missed it two years ago when it was running. School work got in the road. I had free front row tickets. I was so mad. It will be a few years before they run it again.
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12-10-2007, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Kenneth Brannagh was fantastic in the movie adaptation on Hamlet. I'd love to see Hamlet live on stage. | theres a couple scenes where he just has his way with the scenery though, somewhat over-indulgent. But if anyone deserves to over-indulge when it comes to Shakespeare, it is indeed Kenneth Brannagh.
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