sj, yes, yes you should. /peer pressure
And "wherefore" means "why", not "where"
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Pix - Oct 23, 2006 5:42:42 pm PDT #8473 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Gris - Oct 23, 2006 5:44:09 pm PDT #8474 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Well, to be fair, just because it's said by a fool doesn't make it a line that's being mocked.
Polonius, on the other hand, well...
sj - Oct 23, 2006 5:45:38 pm PDT #8475 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Well, to be fair, just because it's said by a fool doesn't make it a line that's being mocked.
This is true, but those quotes often aren't meant to be the deep wisdom that people use them for.
DebetEsse - Oct 23, 2006 5:51:51 pm PDT #8476 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Shakespeare did often write wise fools.
Gris, you left out a bit. I'm pretty sure that between "perchance to dream" and "for in that sleep of death", there "Aye, there's the rub", which makes it much more interesting.
That and it's supposed to be a mixed metaphor. Taking up arms against a sea is that futile.
I never studied Hamlet, and, really, I'm kind of glad for it. My teachers in HS had a habit of wrecking things I'd otherwise like.
R&J are annoying, though. And Hamlet needs to not be played by anyone over, say, 28.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2006 6:06:20 pm PDT #8477 of 10000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My high school English teacher didn't believe in teaching the classics. Not Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, none of 'em. We read Upton Sinclair. And a lot of Dickens. She liked Dickens.
SuziQ - Oct 23, 2006 6:06:42 pm PDT #8478 of 10000
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Too much homework. Not enough brains. Oh, and I had forgotten a paper that is also due today. NOT COOL.
Cashmere - Oct 23, 2006 6:09:06 pm PDT #8479 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
One of our English teachers in my freshman high (I didn't have him for any classes) used to dress up as Shakespeare and stay in character on Shakespeare's birthday.
I got him to come to an Elizabethan dinner party I threw as a project in my Shakespeare class when I was a junior. I got an A.
Pix - Oct 23, 2006 6:13:53 pm PDT #8480 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
In May we have a Shakespeare day with actors and swordfights and the entire English department in garb! I'm already excited.
WindSparrow - Oct 23, 2006 6:18:43 pm PDT #8481 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I had no use for teen angst movies when I was a teenager, and I have no use for them now. Fancy antique verbiage notwithstanding, I have no use for Romeo and Juliet. The last time I found that storyline interesting was when I was young enough to be watching The Flintstones, and they had that Hatfields/McCoys R&J knockoff with Pebbles. Seriously, hadn't reached double-digits in age yet.
I've always yearned to be a male person with acting talent for the express purpose of playing Hamlet. Hamlet's got angst I can deal with. Howsomever, I have yet to forgive my tenth grade English teacher for making me read the part of that simp Ophelia in our read-through. I got stuck with Lady MacB too in her turn. I guess that's what comes of years of Sunday School out of the King James - one sounds a bit less foolish with the thees and thous than most urban public high school students.
Blinks.
Sorry, didn't mean to let my brain leak.
sj - Oct 23, 2006 6:40:05 pm PDT #8482 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Too much homework. Not enough brains. Oh, and I had forgotten a paper that is also due today. NOT COOL.
Me too. I'm writing it now. Luckily it is only 2 pages.