Hope everyone is OK after the earthquake.
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 29, 2008 10:09:15 am PDT #9117 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
EpicTangent - Jul 29, 2008 10:09:22 am PDT #9118 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
That was a scary quake, though thankfully it was short.
From San Diego it was just a kinda fun quake, but I thought it felt pretty long. Anyway, congrats on your official initiation!
NoiseDesign - Jul 29, 2008 10:09:26 am PDT #9119 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Call me a heathen, especially since I work in theatre, but I think Shakespeare is overtaught. There are so many other valuable works of drama that are left out of curriculum to put in more Shakespeare. I know I'll be in a minority with this though.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 29, 2008 10:11:18 am PDT #9120 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Call me a heathen,
with pleasure. You are a heathen.
There are so many other valuable works of drama that are left out of curriculum to put in more Shakespeare. I know I'll be in a minority with this though.
I totally understand where you are coming from with this. And, to a degree, I agree with you.
Tom Scola - Jul 29, 2008 10:13:47 am PDT #9121 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Nobody ever got fired for buying Shakespeare.
Vortex - Jul 29, 2008 10:15:37 am PDT #9122 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex - speaking as someone who is a hardcore procrastinator, hit 'em where they live. Otherwise they'll end up like me.
email has been sent to boss.
Call me a heathen, especially since I work in theatre, but I think Shakespeare is overtaught.
no, I don't think that you're wrong. but it's so beautiful!
amych - Jul 29, 2008 10:17:04 am PDT #9123 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think all other drama is undertaught.
Fred Pete - Jul 29, 2008 10:19:31 am PDT #9124 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I won't quarrel with you, ND -- especially on the "so much left out" point. Shakespeare also presents the hurdle of Elizabethan slang -- and that a lot of school districts would likely not approve of a lot of Shakespeare's unbowdlerized lines.
Appreciation of Shakespeare at that age also depends a lot on the teacher's style. My freshman English teacher had a "Bow before the greatness of Shakespeare!" attitude that ruined MoV for me -- it wasn't until I took a Shakespeare class in college that I realized it was a comedy.
Strix - Jul 29, 2008 10:31:35 am PDT #9125 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I don't have a quarrel with your POV; in my specific case, I'd have to point at my undergrad training. I got LOADS of Shakes -- two specifically Shakespeare classes, plus Sh. plays in Intro to Lit, 17th c. Lit in undergrad, then I was a GA for an undergrad Shakes. class in grad school. It's the drama I am most familiar with.
Hell, I think the only other plays I've had to read for my degrees were a couple of O'Neill plays. I've never even read an Ibsen play!
(Feel under-read right now. But I was focusing on medieval and Rennaisance lit. Wait, wait -- I've read Goethe and Marlowe!)
Vortex - Jul 29, 2008 10:33:45 am PDT #9126 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was a theatre major, so of course, I read a shitload of plays. I forget that most people don't get that exposure.