Hands Off Shakespeare

[Loulit01]

Hands Off Shakespeare

Don’t bar the bard.

www.theatlantic.com

Shakespeare is of enduring value to us all. He reminds us of the extraordinary beauty and flexibility of the English language, and of rhetoric’s potential to inspire and to deceive. His characters—and he is all about character—are never as simple as they seem, and neither are the real human beings we encounter. The terrors and the joys of life mirror the ones that all of us, to a lesser or greater degree, experience. He takes some effort, but what good thing does not? He can only subvert those whose mind, having been firmly closed from without or within, has a gnawing doubt that something beyond a grovel to orthodoxy of any kind may be out there.
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Shakespeare rocks!

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Well, there is no harm for Righties to want Shakespeare books banned because they cain't read em anyways - the language is too complex for their feeble minds.

 

[Grand Mal]

Hands Off Shakespeare

Don’t bar the bard.

www.theatlantic.com

Shakespeare is of enduring value to us all. He reminds us of the extraordinary beauty and flexibility of the English language, and of rhetoric’s potential to inspire and to deceive. His characters—and he is all about character—are never as simple as they seem, and neither are the real human beings we encounter. The terrors and the joys of life mirror the ones that all of us, to a lesser or greater degree, experience. He takes some effort, but what good thing does not? He can only subvert those whose mind, having been firmly closed from without or within, has a gnawing doubt that something beyond a grovel to orthodoxy of any kind may be out there.
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Shakespeare rocks!

I'm starting to approve of the low-functioning right expressing their philistinism toward education. Don't give them access to anything uncomfortable and/or thought-provoking. Allow them to be as ignorant as they're determined to be. Their children who have intellectual curiousity will find their way and the dumbasses with their new-found voices and their triumphant majority affirmations will settle back into irrelevance.

 

[EdwinWillers]

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.” - Much Ado About Nothing

and,

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.”

Awesome

 

[Rumpel]

Hands Off Shakespeare

Don’t bar the bard.

www.theatlantic.com

Shakespeare is of enduring value to us all. He reminds us of the extraordinary beauty and flexibility of the English language, and of rhetoric’s potential to inspire and to deceive. His characters—and he is all about character—are never as simple as they seem, and neither are the real human beings we encounter. The terrors and the joys of life mirror the ones that all of us, to a lesser or greater degree, experience. He takes some effort, but what good thing does not? He can only subvert those whose mind, having been firmly closed from without or within, has a gnawing doubt that something beyond a grovel to orthodoxy of any kind may be out there.
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Shakespeare rocks!

i agree!

 

[Roadvirus]

Well, there is no harm for Righties to want Shakespeare books banned because they cain't read em anyways - the language is too complex for their feeble minds.

It must be nice to be able to easily throw out an ignorant, broadbrushing insult.

Especially when YOU misspelled a word in your post.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

It must be nice to be able to easily throw out an ignorant, broadbrushing insult.

Especially when YOU misspelled a word in your post.

I spelled it in a way Righties will easily understand. Sorry if you missed the sarcasm in my using the word. I know things go over some heads a bit too easily, but JAYSUS man, I would have thought fursure, YOU would "get" it.

 

[Roadvirus]

I spelled it in a way Righties will easily understand. Sorry if you missed the sarcasm in my using the word. I know things go over some heads a bit too easily, but JAYSUS man, I would have thought fursure, YOU would "get" it.

Touché.

But your insult is still awash with ignorant broadbrushing.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Touché.

But your insult is still awash with ignorant broadbrushing.

How so? I said I thought fursure YOU would "get" my reason for deliberate misspelling a word.
And you consider THAT an insult? Don't tell me you are turning into a SNOWFLAKE?

 

[Josie]

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.” - Much Ado About Nothing

and,

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.”

Awesome

I love all of his comedies. They are better onstage with great actors. I saw a high school --- high school --- do A Midsummer Night's Dream and it was just as good as any professional production. The audience was laying an egg the entire time.

The Taming of the Shrew (Kiss Me Petruchio) with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia is *mwha!* chef's kiss. Also -- The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is hilarious.

 

[Josie]

Also - the sexual situations in Shakespeare's works are very PG compared to what is being written today. None of Shakespeare's plays or sonnets should be removed from schools.

 

[EdwinWillers]

I love all of his comedies. They are better onstage with great actors. I saw a high school --- high school --- do A Midsummer Night's Dream and it was just as good as any professional production. The audience was laying an egg the entire time.

The Taming of the Shrew (Kiss Me Petruchio) with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia is *mwha!* chef's kiss. Also -- The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is hilarious.

Kenneth Branagh's production of Much Ado About Nothing was, imho, absolutely perfect. That song and music was great. Was a little worried Denzel would be somewhat out of place, but it was a good cast and he did a tremendous job. Michael Keaton was a hoot; and I've been "in love" with Kate Beckinsale ever since that, her entry into film. I've seen other renditions of the play - several times at a local Shakespeare Festival they hold annually nearby and all are enjoyable, as you note - but Branagh and Thompson's rapport and interaction truly did Shakespeare the highest credit.

 

[Josie]

Kenneth Branagh's production of Much Ado About Nothing was, imho, absolutely perfect. That song and music was great. Was a little worried Denzel would be somewhat out of place, but it was a good cast and he did a tremendous job. Michael Keaton was a hoot; and I've been "in love" with Kate Beckinsale ever since that, her entry into film. I've seen other renditions of the play - several times at a local Shakespeare Festival they hold annually nearby and all are enjoyable, as you note - but Branagh and Thompson's rapport and interaction truly did Shakespeare the highest credit.

Yep, I've seen that too.

I would love to go to a Shakespeare Festival.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Yep, I've seen that too.

I would love to go to a Shakespeare Festival.

If you're ever in Boulder CO, try the Colorado Shakespeare Festival they hold annually at CU. The outdoor setting is wonderful.

 

[Loulit01]

Complete guide to Shakespeare in the Park in 2023

All you need to know about the Public's beloved free series

www.timeout.com

 

[ralfy]

Interesting points, e.g, referring to supermax prisoners reading Shakespeare followed by an anti-Trump example (e.g., comparing him to Cloten). The first reminds me of Malcolm X reading in prison and Eagleton's reference to Nazis in concentration camps reading Goethe and listening to classical music. The second reminds me of Clinton meeting Greenblatt and this article, ironically from the same outlet:

The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as 'Psychopaths'

The characteristics that define clinical psychopathy are many of the same that make effective leaders.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Rumpel]

did marlowe write shakespeare.s plays?

what do you think?

 

[Rumpel]

did marlowe write shakespeare.s plays?
what do you think?

does nonody think so?