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Post by aurora on Jun 6, 2002 17:17:58 GMT -5
I, personally, love Shakespeare! But, *tear* there's nothing about it on this board! Pity since it's all so good! So, well, took matters into my own hands *dusts off hands* And here it is! A place to discuss his plays (I'm not to familliar with his Sonnets, though I've got a few of 'em memorized) And for the sake of my own curosity, does any one else read his plays too? Like I know lots of people who will go to see the plays, but don't actually read them from the text as I do.
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Post by pottergirl on Jun 6, 2002 20:48:16 GMT -5
I do! I love Shakespeare, though I currently have about twenty-ish books lined up to read before reading any more Shakespeare... <sigh>
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Post by Elfmage0 on Jun 7, 2002 14:28:58 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,300]I muchly enjoy reading Shakespeare! Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and A Midsummernight's Dream are all I've read so far, though. *sigh* [/glow]
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Post by aurora on Jun 7, 2002 19:33:57 GMT -5
I love a midsummers night dream! By far my favourite shakespeare play! Like, I love how there's 3 different plot lines all going on at once, and it's got this balance between fantasy/magic and everything else! I like the Comedies more than the Historys though. I've either read or seen these: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet
I saw an awesome production of "The Merchant of Venice" last year with my school @ Stratford On. (there's a great theater company there) and I had a story that was leading somewhere but I've forgotten now but I will finish it when I remember! *laughs at herself*
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Post by HPFan_is_back on Jun 8, 2002 20:13:42 GMT -5
I read Hamlet once when I was 8, but of course it ewasnt the complete version and I was cleaning out my room the other day and founf it and decided I'm getting a complete edition soon
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Post by pottergirl on Jun 8, 2002 23:55:31 GMT -5
I've only read Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream (that's my favourite of his plays, too!), Julius Caesar, Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice. I've seen movie versions of (in addition to some of the ones I've read) Titus Adronicus and Twelfth Night. I also love his sonnets. So, let's see, that's only 31 left to read! Yay! No, one of my life goals is to read all of his plays. The comedies are my favourites.
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Post by gabi on Jun 9, 2002 16:10:57 GMT -5
Bwahahahahaha! Shakespeare! I was having a conversation with my summer school teacher about that stuff just Friday.
But I love Shakespeare. Maybe because I had so much fun with it in 8th grade. I had this awesome teacher, and friends in the class, so of course I had a lot of fun. We read Romeo & Juliet, and for my final project I worked with my friends Derek and Micheal. Derek was Romeo, I was Juliet, and Micheal was the cameraman/other small parts. We taped ourselves acting out scenes from the play: the party scene, the death scene, and a few others I can't remember. Anyway, what was assigned to the class was to fill in the sentance in a creative way: "Romeo & Juliet would have been a very different play if_________." We filled in "Romeo had a stutter." Oh my John Cleese it was funny. Derek was amazing. If I ever find the tape I'll tell you more about it.
Sorry for that off-topic schpeal. It's The Hives, I tell you! That CD always puts me in a funny mood.
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Post by Me on Jun 9, 2002 22:56:12 GMT -5
Much Ado About Nothing is the best.
I'm reading The Merchant of Venice right now, and am gonna read A Midnight's Summer Dream after that.
Lol at gabs.
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Post by En on Jun 11, 2002 7:29:28 GMT -5
*grins* My first novel is based loosely on Macbeth. And guess what I found yesterday when I was playing genealogist! *makes the DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNN scary music noise* I'm RELATED TO HIM! That's right, I'm related to the actual King Macbeth who ruled in Scotland during the eleventh century! Whooo, talk about skeletons in the family closet!
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Post by pottergirl on Jun 11, 2002 19:34:31 GMT -5
Rock! That is so awesome, En! I think I'm just related to a bunch of stubborn Southerners... ;D
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Post by potterknowitall on Jun 11, 2002 20:16:56 GMT -5
*attempts to cover up name, sig and quotes and puts on a sour look* I hate shakespeare
lol, actually, I'm quite very obsessed and I'm like a Polish/German Countess... can't remember which!
Actually, being related to Macbeth is cooler... but I'm kinda scared of you now...
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Post by HPFan_is_back on Jun 13, 2002 13:36:23 GMT -5
Ah Lime! A countess! lol... that'd be funny, you a countess... I'm somehow and distantly related to European people in the way I look, exceot for my size... Europeans are Bigger... No, really, I dont think I'm related to anyone interesting... However, my relatives are realted to soemone very interesting... i.e. me
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Post by fico the fur on Jun 14, 2002 1:43:03 GMT -5
*blushes* Okay, so I've really only read a little of Shakespeare. I've read Twelfth Night and a bunch of sonnets, but I forget which ones.
I do have interesting input on names though. If I were to go to Hungary, I would be, like, a duchesse or something. Yeah, normally my last name is spelled with an "i" on the end, but the king couldn't rule the whole country. He needed people to rule all the other people, like lords and such in England. My family was one of the families chosen to rule a little part of eastern Hungary, and they changed the "i" to a "y" in order to set the name apart. Oh, and my name means "Russian Tower-Fortress", how cool is that?
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Post by En on Jun 14, 2002 16:25:00 GMT -5
Just curious, which plays HAVE you all read? Twelfth Night is absolutely my favourite comedy; I also really like The Tempest but it's much more obscure than the other plays. More about the nature of art than about a story, more philosophical, kind of a Shakespeare Self-Portrait.
I like Richard III best out of the histories, I think, though I need to reread them now that I've figured out that yes, in point of fact, I'M RELATED TO THEM TOO! I have a whole bunch of Plantagenets back there, wouldn't you know? Ugh, and Hugh de Lacy. But I also found some Portuguese cousins, Mina! and Samuel Morse and William Clark, USA history fans!
A Winter's Tale freaked me out -- the characters were so, I don't know, ugly somehow. Anyone read that? It's not widely performed, I gather.
How about films? What did y'all think of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Zefferelli's stuff?
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Post by HPFan_is_back on Jun 14, 2002 16:31:07 GMT -5
En, dont want to seem stupid or spoil your fun or anything, but how do you know you're related to this people? Mom made a family tree once, but it only got to people in the eraly 20th century.
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