Week 12 English Lit. Shakespeare.

[john_mahoney]

Ok, in my last post I said I felt like my Live Journal had suffered, well now it's time to make up for it.

The performances this week were great. I really enjoyed seeing A Midsummer Nights Dream and the Tempest. Henry IV was pretty good, though I'll admit I was a tad distracted at the time. I brought my wife along (you may or may not have noticed)

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I'll miss reading your entries!

[elisriture]

So the semester is over, nice note to finish on!

The whole time I was reading this I couldn't help thinking "Have you read 'Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' by Tom Stoppard???"

Because it has a bit of Shakespeare in it, and a bit of existentialist musing, and a bit of hilarity! It's such a clever play, a transformation of Hamlet. There are little bits of Shakespearean script throughout, and then most of it is in modern language. It really explores this whole "What's the point of life if it just ends in perpetual nothingness?" issue which you have touched on here.

I really like your short piece, especially your suggestion that life might just be "oddities". I often feel like that, disconnected and confused about the way things are rolling along, only for me to one day fall into a ditch and be still, silent and forgotten.

Well played, have a good holiday!

[michaelgriffith]

That you have finally "come to appreciate Shakespeare" is just one huge fabulous outcome! So pleased to hear this fact. And indeed it was very evident in you emBODIment of one of his hugest, most well known characters... overall your LJ has been excellent throughout. Well done
MG