Suzi, Macbeth is the shortest Shakespeare play, and probably one of the most accessable. And all Shakespeare benefits from reading aloud. Somehow, it's a bit easier to figure out what people are saying when you hear it.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Sean K - Mar 18, 2009 2:31:47 pm PDT #3968 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
SuziQ - Mar 18, 2009 2:39:26 pm PDT #3969 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I bought tickets for the three of us to go when K-Bug is visiting. I had CJ read a summary of the play and he is excited about all the betrayal and murder.
When a kid of mine asks to go see a Shakespeare play, how can I say no?
javachik - Mar 18, 2009 2:52:31 pm PDT #3970 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
When a kid of mine asks to go see a Shakespeare play, how can I say no?
You simply can't.
Scrappy - Mar 18, 2009 2:54:34 pm PDT #3971 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That's great! Talk it through first and maybe read through some of the big speeches with him before you go. It will make it more fun for him.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 2:56:46 pm PDT #3972 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That does sound great.
So far, Elsie's eccentric aunt hasn't revealed many eccentricities other than dressing in unstylish clothes. And her name is Miss Wealthy Stanhope.
Cashmere - Mar 18, 2009 2:58:51 pm PDT #3973 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
You simply can't.
Hell no! I'm dreaming my kids do the same.
Our school system's English teachers typically started kids out in 7th or 8th grade with Julius Ceasar because it has less sex. I think it turned a lot of kids off of Shakespeare which is tragic.
My 7th grade English teacher started us with Taming of the Shrew.
I eventually got the coolest English teacher in my high school to revive an actual Shakespeare class by rounding up the 13 other students needed to teach it. That semester rocked. I saw my first live performace of any Shakespeare (a professionally acted production of Twelfth Night which was BRILLIANT) at Notre Dame University.
Fay - Mar 18, 2009 3:00:54 pm PDT #3974 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
1) I remember studying Macbeth when I was 16 and getting my 7 year old sister to read it with me, so we were kinda doing a playreading. She turned out okay.
2)
"Handsome man, saved me from the Papists."
laughs and laughs and laughs.
3)
her name is Miss Wealthy Stanhope.
You are fucking KIDDING me? Wow. What's the betting she dies and leaves all her money to Elsie? (Do you think she had sisters named Beautiful and Clever and Virtuous and suchlike? Or Penniless and Moderately Affluent?
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2009 3:03:53 pm PDT #3975 of 30000
brillig
More likely Pious and Worthy and Pleasing-To-The-Lord.
t still not over finding Puritan ancestors with hyphenated first names praising the Lord.
Sean K - Mar 18, 2009 3:05:16 pm PDT #3976 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Goody Badwyfe!
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 3:06:32 pm PDT #3977 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
You are fucking KIDDING me? Wow. What's the betting she dies and leaves all her money to Elsie? (Do you think she had sisters named Beautiful and Clever and Virtuous and suchlike? Or Penniless and Moderately Affluent?
snerk. So far, it's been mentioned several times that her home is plain and simple compared to Elsie's house, with most of her stuff old and worn, but perfectly neat and clean. And she has a pet poodle and a cat.