In many ways he was pop culture for his time. In context, being a groundling at a theatre was cheap entertainment. Most people couldn't read, and TV didn't exist, so it was church or theatre.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
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NoiseDesign - Jul 29, 2008 10:48:35 am PDT #9132 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Scrappy - Jul 29, 2008 10:49:11 am PDT #9133 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Plus, Shakes is so damn GOOD.
Strix - Jul 29, 2008 10:51:52 am PDT #9134 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am constantly wishing there was more time to teach more lit.
This. And learn more lit...I MISS lit classes! I read a metric fuckload by myself, and sure, I can discuss it on the internet, but frankly, sometimes writing about it gets tedious. I like talking better.
When you get into a class, you are in a mindset to go to the class and discuss something with (ostensibly) someone who has studied the works in questions. You may not always agree with them, but almost always they provide some information and perspectives you otherwise wouldn't have had.
Toddson - Jul 29, 2008 10:52:33 am PDT #9135 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
so ... Shakespeare was the basic cable of his time?
Pix - Jul 29, 2008 10:52:53 am PDT #9136 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Erin, that's why I wish I had the time and money to get a second Masters in lit.
Pix - Jul 29, 2008 10:53:45 am PDT #9137 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Shakespeare was the network channels of his time.
NoiseDesign - Jul 29, 2008 10:53:49 am PDT #9138 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I know he's amazing, but when, in many schools he gets taught every year while playwrights like Caryl Churchill go completely unrecognized I think there's an imbalance.
Calli - Jul 29, 2008 10:54:08 am PDT #9139 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In many ways he was pop culture for his time. In context, being a groundling at a theatre was cheap entertainment. Most people couldn't read, and TV didn't exist, so it was church or theatre.
You could probably say the same for Aristophanes. I think the pop culture/high culture divide is a fairly modern invention, and anything that survives a century or two in our culture gets shoved into the former, no matter what the original audience and intent might have been.
Strix - Jul 29, 2008 10:54:55 am PDT #9140 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
In many ways he was pop culture for his time. In context, being a groundling at a theatre was cheap entertainment
Oh, completely! He did comedy, farce, Lawe and Ye Olde Order, emodrama...
In many ways he was pop culture for his time. In context, being a groundling at a theatre was cheap entertainment. Most people couldn't read, and TV didn't exist, so it was church or theatre.
Heh. Elizabethan church often was theatre, depending on the priest.
NoiseDesign - Jul 29, 2008 10:57:53 am PDT #9141 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Heh. Elizabethan church often was theatre, depending on the priest.
Actually it didn't even depend on the priest, it was entrenched into the structure of the church at the time. Morality plays came out of this structure. Services were in Latin which most people did not speak, so there were dramatic presentations to teach people. It was the whole idea of "teach and please" that went on. Make it fun to watch and people will learn from it.