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paydepst

Anyone else in here a fan of the Bard? I love the Tragedies and the Histories and just recently read the tri-parter Henry VI (lots of action, intrigue, and bloodshed) and Titus Andronicus (lots of action, intrigue, and over the top violence and bloodshed!). I'm not so keen on the Sonnets and the Comedies but I've read several of the plays in my preferred genres multiple times with my favourite being far and away Macbeth or "the Scottish play" as it is referred to sotto voce in theatrical circles!

Just curious if there were any B&B'ers that curl up with a good Shakespeare play now and again--or for that matter with those of any of his contemporaries like Marlowe or Jonson?
 
DE7

DE7

I like seeing Shakespeare performed, and I try to catch a Shakespeare play as often as I can. I prefer the tragedies over the comedies. However, I can't say I enjoy reading Shakespeare.

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Mr Peat

Mr Peat

I've studied Shakespeare so much that my eye balls bleed with the knowledge I have about them. I study English Literature when I am in college. I've even been to the Shakespeare Globe in London. They rebuilt it to the exact specs which includes wooden pegs for nails. The play I saw there wasn't a Shakespeare one unfortunately.

They was playing "The Golden ***" at the time I went and it was good. I had already read and studied it at some point so it was interesting to see a modern take on that play.

So yeah, I'm a fan. Seeing the Tower of London was pretty cool as well. I enjoy most of his works and I haven't done one play. That was "Romeo and Juliet." I was lucky that I didn't have to do it in High School due to moving. Old school was about to do it and the new school in a different state had finished it already. And no English Professor I've had over the years have taught it. But the rest, I've read and wrote papers on.
 
profsaffel

profsaffel

I luvs me some 'speare!

King Lear, Macbeth, R+J, Julius Caesar are my favorites. It's fun to teach the teenagers how dirty their schoolwork can be. It takes some of them a while to 'get it'. :biggrin:
 
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paydepst

profsaffel said:
I luvs me some 'speare!

King Lear, Macbeth, R+J, Julius Caesar are my favorites. It's fun to teach the teenagers how dirty their schoolwork can be. It takes some of them a while to 'get it'. :biggrin:
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Indeed Shakespeare can get pretty NC-17 sometimes! :ohmy:
 
KarthVader

KarthVader

I'm a fan of Twelfth Night and Othello. R+J has become really cliche for some reason. I don't know about you all, but I really liked the opening scene of Baz Luhrmann's version of R+J;
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Robxcarlson

Robxcarlson

I'm starting a graduate level Shakespeare course in a couple of weeks - I'm not dreading it, but I can't honestly say that I'm looking forward to it either.
 
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paydepst

I've really taken a liking to the New Folgers Editions. When I first read Shakespeare back in the sixth grade it was in editions that didn't have any of the helpful annotations and footnotes that serve to expand upon and afford additional insight into the text of the play. In the Folger editions the annotations and footnotes are on the left hand page and the play on the right. There is also helpful material in the introductory and follow-up sections that lend added depth to the literary experience. I think they would be or should be the "go-to" editions in a literature class.

Probably going to read King John, Henry VIII, and the apocryphal Edward III next. :smile:
 
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Roman414

Falstaff is one of my favorite literary characters. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare, he really was as good as he is claimed to be. It helps immensely to have a good guide to Elizabethan vocabulary. When I dscovered that when Macbeth told his mother, "Get thee to a nunnery" he was calling her a whore, it added dimension to the scene.
 
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SRock

Indeed! He is a legend for a reason. I too tend to prefer the tragedies over the comedies but both are fantastic in their own rights.
 
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