Good thing Jen's in the house. And Juliana and Fay. This could be a battle royale.
Word.
Anyone got popcorn?
::sits back to watch::
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
[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.
Barb - Sep 06, 2008 9:59:20 am PDT #4691 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Jen - Sep 06, 2008 10:04:24 am PDT #4692 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I save my Shakespearean throwdowns for the Sonnets. I claim no expertise of Hamlet, or any of the plays, though my amateur opinion of this particular scene sides with Teppy.
Laga - Sep 06, 2008 10:04:43 am PDT #4693 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I once heard a docent at the Art Institute of Chicago explain to a bunch of tourists that the women in Seurat's Afternoon at the Isle of La Grande Jatte were all in fact prostitutes so perhapes the whore is in the eye of the beholder.
Hil R. - Sep 06, 2008 10:05:43 am PDT #4694 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think I agree with Teppy in this one, too.
Sean K - Sep 06, 2008 10:06:36 am PDT #4695 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I save my Shakespearean throwdowns for the Sonnets.
Nobody kicks Sonnet ass like you. I still laugh when I hear someone use the Sonnets as a profession of undying love, thanks to you.
Sean K - Sep 06, 2008 10:08:11 am PDT #4696 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Huh. For some reason the entendre just doesn't seem to work for me, but it's taken me a while in the past to wrap my head around some of Shakespeare's jokes and entendres.
DavidS - Sep 06, 2008 10:10:40 am PDT #4697 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but it's taken me a while in the past to wrap my head around some of Shakespeare's jokes and entendres.
Well, he does tend to build jokes and metaphors around things like...the commonly held knowledge that rubies are in the foreheads of toads.
juliana - Sep 06, 2008 10:12:24 am PDT #4698 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
SHAKESPEAREAN TEXTUAL THROWDOWN!
comes rushing in for the hurly-burly
DUDE! Okay, before we get into the battle royale, I have a question about Gertrude. See, most performances paint her as not knowing about the murder of old Hamlet - however power-hungry she is, she didn't know about that. But - what if she did? What if she put Claudius up to it? How does that change the portrayal of the closet scene and the rest of the play?
(Yes, Sons Of Anarchy brought some of this up.)
And my position is Tep's. It can be interpreted and played the other way, but Hamlet is not happy with the womens throughout the entire damn play, and poor Ophelia is an easy target (and, as far as H knows, a spy for her father).
DavidS - Sep 06, 2008 10:28:03 am PDT #4699 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How cool is Los Angeles? You can watch movies projected onto Valetino's mausoleum.
Pix - Sep 06, 2008 10:35:45 am PDT #4700 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Good thing Jen's in the house. And Juliana and Fay. This could be a battle royale.
And me! Pick me!
Here's my take. Sure, on one level Hamlet is saying, go to a nunnery because then she will not become a "breeder of sinners." However, I think he is also saying go to a whorehouse because clearly you want to be a breeder of sinners. It's one of my favorite examples of double entendre, because it all depends on how the actor links those two lines. Is it "Get thee to a nunnery" because then you will not be "a breeder of sinners," or is it "Get thee to a nunnery," because clearly you are determined to become a "breeder of sinners"?
And LA is pretty damned cool.