Comments | tempestsarekind: "Are you her husband, boy?"; or, Shakespeare fail

tempestsarekind

"Are you her husband, boy?"; or, Shakespeare fail

Oct 30, 2009 15:24

FAIL, I say.

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/twelfthnight/page_220.html

Today I had my tutorial on Twelfth Night (we wound up having to move it back a day, which did not actually help on the ridiculousness front). At one point, I lapsed into Orsino Defense Mode (I'd ( Read more... )

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litlover12 October 30 2009, 20:27:34 UTC

Same reason I prefer the New King James Bible to The Message. I don't go whole-hog King James -- can do without the "thees" and "thous" -- but seriously, what's wrong with preserving a little beautiful and profound language? :-)

tempestsarekind October 31 2009, 20:40:43 UTC

Exactly! And it's a question of "delivery" versus "content," too: the way something is said matters; language shouldn't be there just to be looked past to get to the "point." But then, I would say that.

litlover12 October 31 2009, 20:45:32 UTC

As would I. :-)

tempestsarekind October 31 2009, 21:01:25 UTC

deleilan October 30 2009, 20:35:43 UTC

Ouch, SparkNotes manages to take all the "spark" out of poor Shakespeare...

tempestsarekind October 31 2009, 20:40:57 UTC

Hee. This is so true.

starhud5 October 31 2009, 15:16:43 UTC

Hurrah, a fellow Orsino lover! I just saw the play this week at Stratford for about the third time and always find myself on the side of his character.

tempestsarekind October 31 2009, 20:42:57 UTC

Yay--we can be a club of two. :) I think Orsino has a tendency to be played in a certain drippy, super-lugubrious way, but I don't think all of that is necessarily in the text--even if he *is* "poetical."