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beccadg

Shakespeare MEME and a Sonnet

Apr 24, 2016 18:40

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The MEME is more or less gacked from lost_spook. I've added my favorite sonnet after the MEME because the MEME is all about his plays, and the man wrote things besides plays.

1) What was the first Shakespeare play you saw/read?
I think the first Shakespeare play I was exposed to was a text version of A Midsummer Night's Dream for young readers ( Read more... )

henry v, much ado about nothing, hamlet, tom hiddleston, william shakespeare, poem

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liadtbunny April 25 2016, 15:14:20 UTC

I can't say I felt anything for Romeo and Juliet either. We did R&J, Macbeth and Julius Caesar at school and I liked Macbeth best and R&J least. With Julius Caesar we went over and over Marc Anthony's speech so I had no concept as it as a whole play at school. I also resent R&J being the play being the one teenagers should like because the lead characters are teenagers.

beccadg May 1 2016, 21:47:13 UTC

We did R&J, Macbeth and Julius Caesar at school and I liked Macbeth best and R&J least.

We did Macbeth in 6th grade, and I remember really enjoying Banquo's ghost. Somehow it lead to my being the one to read more than one of Shakespeare's ghosts. I read Hamlet's father, and Julius Caesar before and after he becomes a ghost when we read the plays out loud in class.

With Julius Caesar we went over and over Marc Anthony's speech so I had no concept as it as a whole play at school.

That's too bad. The way we approached the plays in grade school was to read the plays from beginning to end, and have some of the students volunteer to read the parts out loud. I always liked reading the characters. I tended to wind up reading more than one role. In Julius Caesar I read the title character, and Brutus' wife Portia (or those are the ones I volunteered for anyway). I don't remember who I read in Macbeth besides Banquo, but I'm sure he wasn't the only part I read in the whole play.

I also resent R&J being the play being the one ( ... )

liadtbunny May 2 2016, 15:06:05 UTC

We didn't do any Shakespeare until I was about 13/4 because we had to do it for GCSE exams. 'Julius Caesar' was the last play of the three we did, which is why we didn't look at it much and that scene was an exam question. So the focus was on learning that bit and nothing else. With 'Romeo and Juliet' we got to watch the film, so we must have read it first. I also thought R&J were daft at the end poisoning themselves!