Somehow, I think Shakespeare might be the last thing on our minds... IJS.
I should tell you that I find iambic pentameter very, very sexy. *ahem*
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jen - Jun 17, 2004 9:46:54 am PDT #3449 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
deborah grabien - Jun 17, 2004 9:47:20 am PDT #3450 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
can't remember who Burgandy is in the play, though
Burgundy and France are both suitors for Cordelia at the beginning of the play. When Lear revokes her dowry, Burgundy says, no thanks. France loves Cordelia for herself.
deborah grabien - Jun 17, 2004 9:48:16 am PDT #3451 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Also, I'm unreasonably fond of Polanski's version of the Scottish play
Gods, yes. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis. I adore that version, unlike the largely unwatchable Orson Welles version.
Lilty Cash - Jun 17, 2004 9:49:50 am PDT #3452 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I'd love a new shiny movie version of the Scottish play. That's always been my favorite.
Pix - Jun 17, 2004 9:55:06 am PDT #3453 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
I saw it in April in Stratford-Upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it was amazing! Squee!
Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2004 9:56:18 am PDT #3454 of 10002
brillig
Martha Grimes' The Dirty Duck
It's a pity Martha Grimes has started repeating herself. I'm very tired of her always having some orphan or something lurking about. Richard Jury needs to just damned well grow up.
I've completely blanked on the author--I'm really horrible at that--but there's a mystery series with Shakespeare in the early days and an actor buddy of his falling into situations and having to figure them out. You get to see Will cribbing lines from people and stealing their names and their lives for later works.
Maysa - Jun 17, 2004 9:56:26 am PDT #3455 of 10002
See, that's precisely how I've always seen him: a teenager with a really severe Oedipal thing going on, sulky, self-absorbed, not remotely heroic, and extremely physical because he's uncomfortable in his body.
I've always seen him as a post-grad, mid-twenties guy. Someone who really likes being an intellectual, hanging out with actors, discussing the meanings of things. I think that's the problem with Hamlet. When you read the play his voice is so strong that everybody has his/her own idea about him. I've never seen a Hamlet to equal the guy in my head. (Although I've never seen the Olivier version, it's next on my Netflix queue. Yay! I've joined Netflix!) I hate the Mel Gibson movie though, because I think the Oedipal stuff should never be that overt (it's there without the blatant allusions). Also, Glen Close is like 7 years older than Mel.
juliana - Jun 17, 2004 9:58:03 am PDT #3456 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I'd love a new shiny version of the Scottish play.
How 'bout a Fringe show, picking up the tale of the Three, MacBeth, and MacDuff 900 years later? (That's what provoked my comment about historical liberties last night.)
I should tell you that I find iambic pentameter very, very sexy.
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other....
Lilty Cash - Jun 17, 2004 9:58:19 am PDT #3457 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I've always seen him as a post-grad, mid-twenties guy. Someone who really likes being an intellectual, hanging out with actors, discussing the meanings of things.
Definitly the Ethan Hawke version, then.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2004 10:00:41 am PDT #3458 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also, I'm unreasonably fond of Polanski's version of the Scottish play, despite some significant liberties with the text (although more in terms of the action than the speech).
Isn't that the one where Lady Macbeth is like sixteen? It's so dark and dreary. And the floating dagger is kind of laughable. But it has a nice beheading. We saw this is as well in The Class.