10-09-2004, 10:05 PM
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Shakespeare. A surprisingly controvertial topic. Is her perhaps overrated by modern society? A bad play by Shakespeare is still a bad play, it just happens to be by Shakespeare? Is he held too high up as the pinnacle of great writing? Does holding anyone up as the pinnacle of great writing somehow limit the medium? Is he elitist? Out of touch (distance parry)? Why are we still so fixated on him?
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10-09-2004, 10:38 PM
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| It is rather intriguing. I happen to enjoy most of Shakespeare's work, but people overlook so many other good plays. Perhaps it's that a lot of his work is fun to perform? I know that I enjoyed performing in his plays... but it is very interesting.
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10-10-2004, 12:17 AM
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| I think part of it is no one seems to fully understand him. He's a rather confusing person,. Kind of the crazy genius type. I like him.
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10-10-2004, 12:19 AM
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| What's not to understand.
My true pet peeve is persons who claim such things as "Hamlet had an Oedipus complex" and such crap. | |
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10-10-2004, 12:47 AM
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| He has lesser plays, certainly, and uneven ones. Not sure I'd call any of them "bad". Or if they are, most other playwrights' works are REALLY horrid... | |
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10-10-2004, 01:19 AM
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| My problem with Shakespeare is that he is soooooo long winded... I find that he reads much better than he watches, at least for me. (Dare I say it? Hamlet is Bo-o-o-ring!) But I'm sure that's just me. I don't care for Mahler, either...
The thing with Will is that he's not always on, but when he is on there is no better example of what writing should be...
I wonder...if Hemmingway had written plays, how would they have been received? (Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: To die. In the rain.)
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10-10-2004, 01:26 AM
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| I love reading Shakespeare, but I've only watched him once and performed him twice... so I don't have that much experience with him.
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10-10-2004, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru My true pet peeve is persons who claim such things as "Hamlet had an Oedipus complex" and such crap. | Unless you're Freud. Then everybody had an Oedipus complex. | |
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10-10-2004, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Soldier Unless you're Freud. Then everybody had an Oedipus complex. | Yeah, but then sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
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10-10-2004, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by lochinvar Yeah, but then sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... |
Unless your Bill Clinton, then it is an impromptu phallic symbol.
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