...The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
...that we are underlings.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sue - Sep 03, 2010 3:24:29 am PDT #12285 of 28333
hip deep in pie
Volans - Sep 03, 2010 3:55:55 am PDT #12286 of 28333
move out and draw fire
There's a local troupe called "The Lean and Hungry Theater Company."
Back when I taught Shakespeare, the other teacher maintained that JC was the most-quoted Shakespeare. I argued, and still think, that Hamlet is.
I mean, look at all the politicians who use Polonius' advice as sincere quotage.
Jessica - Sep 03, 2010 4:04:09 am PDT #12287 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
One of my worst Shakespeare-in-the-theatre experiences was seeing Hamlet and having the couple behind me exclaim at every fucking famous line in the play which is almost all of them, "OH! This is where that's from?"
Fred Pete - Sep 03, 2010 4:24:30 am PDT #12288 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
My introduction to Hamlet was the musical version from Gilligan's Island. Actually, not a bad way to introduce a six-year-old to Shakespeare.
Aims - Sep 03, 2010 4:37:36 am PDT #12289 of 28333
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I got a library book for Em last summer that was some of the plays turned into a picture stories. It had The Tempest, R&J, Ado, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen ... I can't remember what other ones - maybe just those. But it was awesome.
I'm trying to get Em into Shakespeare - or at the very least, have a working knowledge of it so that it doesn't intimidate her to the point of disliking it intensely, like I went through. There's a whole Shakespeare for kids series that I think she's going to get for Christmas.
Ginger - Sep 03, 2010 5:28:40 am PDT #12290 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sigh. Kirsten Miller was supposed to be in the my area of the book festival talking about her new book, The Eternal Ones, and then talking about Kiki Strike on the teen stage, but now she's only going to do the teen stage, so I won't be able to see her.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2010 6:27:57 am PDT #12291 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, I'm dying for a new Kiki Strike book.
DawnK - Sep 03, 2010 6:48:49 am PDT #12292 of 28333
giraffe mode
Man, I'm dying for a new Kiki Strike book.
Oh man, me too! Oh Steph I got an email from my brother today saying that the new Skullduggery book was winging it's way to me. Now that the kids are in school I have a better chance of getting my hands on it first yay!
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2010 6:52:00 am PDT #12293 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I got an email from my brother today saying that the new Skullduggery book was winging it's way to me.
I ordered it from Amazon UK, and it's on its way, but the e-mail said the estimated delivery date is Sept. 21. I'm DYING here! IIRC, when I ordered book 4, the estimated delivery date was 3 weeks but it got here in more like 10-14 days. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Kathy A - Sep 03, 2010 6:52:57 am PDT #12294 of 28333
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For me, the thing that got me into really liking Shakespeare was actually performing it. I was the Apothecary (and a roving vendor in the opening scene) in R&J in high school, and fell in love with the language and plotline. In college, my freshman lit prof made it a point to have us read the plays out loud when we got to WS, assigning us our parts for the day (when we read Lear, all the girls were fighting for Regan and Goneril!).