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Post by gobbleykins on Jul 6, 2009 10:54:08 GMT -8
What are your favourite plays by him, what are your least favourite plays by him, discuss his weird little sonnets and if you think it's believable that he wrote 154 sonnets to tell a love story.
I know everyone hated Shakespeare in school, but if you watch his plays in action, you can't help but admire the influence he's had on dramatic performance over the years.
Personally, I think his writing of Taming of the Shrew totally undermines his brilliant work with the tragedies (Shrew is really generic crap, the medieval version of a shitty sitcom).
Discuss.
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Post by LedZeppelin on Jul 6, 2009 11:55:15 GMT -8
We read Hamlet this past year in AP Literature and I enjoyed it, i had to memorize a soliloquy from it, and can still recite the whole thing:
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
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Post by ferrousmoon on Jul 6, 2009 20:48:30 GMT -8
nay
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Post by gobbleykins on Jul 6, 2009 21:09:40 GMT -8
I really enjoyed studying Hamlet, I too took lit in grade 12, definitely one of the highlights of the class for me.
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Post by LostPeon™ on Jul 6, 2009 22:10:45 GMT -8
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Post by soulofthewoods on Jul 7, 2009 5:02:55 GMT -8
We read Othello in my class which was good but I think Hamlet would have been better. I haven't read many of his comedies but I think in general his tragedies are better. Except for Romeo and Juliet which was garbage.
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