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Statistically speaking, one billion of the atoms that compose my body probably belonged at one point to William Shakespeare. This is not an extraordinary percentage, by any means. We are speaking in terms of atoms, after all. But one billion is a very large number, and I find this exciting.
I decided recently to write a defense on the way I use verse in performing Shakespeare's text. That is to say, that the methods taught by Louis Scheeder, Tim Carroll, John Barton perhaps, are correct insofar as this is the way that Shakespeare intended his verse to be used. I decided this because people teach it this way and it works remarkably well, but the majority of people that teach verse disagree on many points. In the research and the thinking that I have done thus far, it seems to me that the way that Louis teaches is right and that there is a wealth of evidence in support of this. Teachers do not generally talk about this evidence. Perhaps that is because they think most people would not be interested. I would like to write a paper detailing this evidence and perhaps try to win more people over to my side. Because without evidence, people can discount anyone's thinking on the matter as pure opinion. On one level, perhaps it is opinion. On another level, I think that Shakespeare was such a genius that he had definite intentions on the way his verse should be used. Since I cannot use a time machine to go back and prove this point, I will have to prove it by other means. I feel very compelled to do so at the moment, and I think I owe it to each of the one billion Shakespeare atoms that I carry around with me.
I decided recently to write a defense on the way I use verse in performing Shakespeare's text. That is to say, that the methods taught by Louis Scheeder, Tim Carroll, John Barton perhaps, are correct insofar as this is the way that Shakespeare intended his verse to be used. I decided this because people teach it this way and it works remarkably well, but the majority of people that teach verse disagree on many points. In the research and the thinking that I have done thus far, it seems to me that the way that Louis teaches is right and that there is a wealth of evidence in support of this. Teachers do not generally talk about this evidence. Perhaps that is because they think most people would not be interested. I would like to write a paper detailing this evidence and perhaps try to win more people over to my side. Because without evidence, people can discount anyone's thinking on the matter as pure opinion. On one level, perhaps it is opinion. On another level, I think that Shakespeare was such a genius that he had definite intentions on the way his verse should be used. Since I cannot use a time machine to go back and prove this point, I will have to prove it by other means. I feel very compelled to do so at the moment, and I think I owe it to each of the one billion Shakespeare atoms that I carry around with me.