Day #30: Your Favorite Single LineLast day! Tune in tomorrow as I begin the 30 Days of TV meme! (Because posting every day is actually good for me ( Read more... )

Day #29: Your Favorite SonnetY'know, I was composing a whole long post about how I like 18 ("Shall I compare thee...") and 23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage...") and 14 ("Not from the stars...") and 38 ("How can my Muse want...") and the language and all, before coming around to my actual favourite, 121. And then a combination of the Edo ( Read more... )

Day #28: Your Favorite Joke
I confess, I have spent all day thinking about this prompt and I am coming up resolutely blank. It's not that I don't find Shakespeare funny, or witty, it's just... I don't think of him writing jokes as such. Ergo, I have decided on a Shakespeare anecdote which is a particular favourite of mine ( Read more... )

Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Honestly, my favourite couplet is from the end of Sonnet 121.
Unless this general evil they maintain
All men are bad and in their badness reign

I have no excuse.

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Picking up where I left off before my epic weekend of Shakespeare...
Day #26: Your Favorite Couple
This one's a gimme. Beatrice and Benedick, one of the rare Shakespeare couples I actually feel have a chance in hell. Also, they're smart and snarky and don't put up with each other's bull.

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Continuing on!

( Saturday Night )

Divided into two parts so as not to overload, here is the tale of how dramaturgca and lornelover went to Southern Oregon, survived despite the heat, and had a generally fabulous time.

( Thursday )

I am returned from Ashland. Several hundred dollars poorer, with a dozen and a half new books and a fabulous satin skirt and six flavours of Moose Munch. I am exhausted. I will (probably) recap the weekend tomorrow, whenever I drag my sorry butt out of bed. Meantime, I am making sure I have all the tv I missed, drinking cider, and preparing to pass ( Read more... )

Day #24: An Actor or Actress You Would Love to See in a Particular Role
Okay, I was actually discussing this with ladybretagne. I want to see (here read: WORK ON) Hamlet with Jamie Bamber as Hamlet and Douglas Sills as Claudius/Ghost of Hamlet Sr. It would be the most awesome thing ever and I would curl up in my Shakespeare happy place forever and ever. I ( Read more... )

Day #23: A Role You've Never Played But Would Love to Play
There are three big ones. Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing (which is never gonna happen, because fat girls don't get Shakespeare leads), Paulina - Winter's Tale (could happen. The snarky wise woman is sometimes an option), and the Chorus - Henry V. I would be ecstatic to play the Chorus. ( Read more... )