30-05-2016, 06:39 PM
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What's not to like?!I did Romeo and Juliet (amongst others)
And once you understand the words it's a beautiful story full of characters we recognise in modern day scenarios
Better to see live plays though...
A good actor will play all the asides and extra cheeky humour that Elizabethan audiences would have revelled in
There was no telly in them days?!
30-05-2016, 06:40 PM
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I've always been a reader and got to know Shakespeare in primary school, when I played Titania. I had no problem learning my lines and those of Oberon too, which was helpful, since the girl playing the part forgot them and I was able to prompt her. The boys loved playing the artisans and we all had a great time when we came to the performance. We didn't do the whole play, just the forest scenes.I think that's the best way to teach Shakespeare, by acting it out, so you understand the language and know what it's all about, rather than trying to read and comprehend it at first sight.
Over the years I've seen many of the plays performed live, as well as the films and now just watch the comedies, or any worth while adaptation. There is still much to be learned from them and watching the Kings and tragedies reveals so much about politics and how it's still all about greed and power and vanity. Just as it has always been.
It's a great pity that he doesn't seem to be taught in that simple and obvious way today, because he was the greatest writer we have ever produced and a little concentration on writing skill, development of language and the unchanging essence of the human spirit can only be of benefit to children.
30-05-2016, 07:05 PM
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moreover's exposition is admirably correct, as Rhian has already said.Purwell, I was trying to point out simply that it must be a good measure of the bard's influence that so much of his writings have passed into the common speech of the populace.
And............if he couldn't find a word that suitable he just invented one.
examples,
accommodation
aerial
amazement
apostrophe
assassination
auspicious
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
clangor
control (noun)
so there!
30-05-2016, 09:06 PM
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I'm ashamed to say I've never read anything by Shakespeare. We didn't cover him at school.I only know this: 'To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler'....and that's all I know
Hey, I'm on a roll here is this Shakespeare too:
'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse'
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