Confessions of a guilty English major

[mariness]

So in a conversation with athenakt yesterday I realized that I had to make a confession, a hard and difficult one for a self-described intellectual and not-really-recovered English major:

I haven't actually read much Shakespeare

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[meandering]

But have you seen The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)?

Also, I was mocked with the nickname "Shakespeare" when I was in Elementary School. Apparently "geek" and "nerd" wasn't enough. They stopped after a kind teacher let me research the man and I stopped being upset by their taunts.

[suibhne_geilt]

I have seen it, and it's an absolute effin' riot.

[mariness]

Yes. Brilliant.

[cardinalximinez]

I'm thinking the second one...

[bayushi]

I took a course on Shakespeare in my second round of arguing with math class/going to college, and in it, the teacher re-confirmed what all my English teachers have said since middle school.

Shakespeare isn't MEANT to be read. He was a playwright, and plays are meant to be seen.

Stick with that. He needs to be intepreted through voice and sound and sight. If you /must/ read him, do it out loud.

BTW, I thought I dragged you to Titus, for the same reason? Either way, just the thought of "No, I have done your mother," makes me giggle uncontrollably, as does the thought of Clem's version of jerky after that movie.

[mariness]

I forget who dragged who, but I do remember looking at meat afterwards and gagging. Fun though the line was about "I have done your mother...."

And on the subject of Clem and the jerky, AUUUGH, I lost his Myspace account again. Can you forward it to me and evilstoryteller at some point?

[bayushi]

He has a Myspace account?

[wyldemusick]

My audio production of A Midsummer Night's Dream has hardly any cuts at all -- I left a verse out of the fairy song, and there was a line missing in Act IV because the actor forgot to get it in (it'll be back in the CD version), but everything else is there, including the Mechanical's Play. The Tempest will follow suit.

[mariness]

Hmm. Sounds like something I should check out.

[fbhjr]

I was conditioned against Shakespeare.
Back in high school in and attempt to improve both my handwriting and my
culturing, my mother made me copy over his works. (In all honesty I only
had to do a couple of plays because she realized it wasn’t working after
that.)
She had thought I’d learn the plays and get better penmanship. Instead I
have memories of a lot of (now) unusual words and names, a vague “I’ve
heard that before” feeling whenever the plots are told to me, and still
abysmally bad writing.

[mariness]

Thank god that solution wasn't passed on to the rest of the family. Geesh.