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JnnyThndrs posted:I saw an excellent production of Julius Caesar at Ashland about 30 years ago where the characters were all wearing third-world-type military garb and carrying assault rifles. People used to love setting Hamlet in a Baltic kelptocracy
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May 16, 2016 11:34
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Hey Ariel, make a shirt.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:57
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Polonius is long-winded, but part of the reason that thing you quoted is hard to parse is because it's like... a tenth of a thought. It's not even a sentence. You quoted line 40 of the scene, the train of thought starts on the 5th and ends on the 65th, with Polonius himself forgetting midway what he's saying. The precis of the whole exchange is Pol saying "say bad things about my son, not too bad, god no, just bad enough to see if they're true". An approximation of what you quoted is "You, in mildly insulting my son, like they slightly hosed-up making him..." Try not to get bogged down in wringing the sense out of every line because it's a miserable reading experience and robs you of any sense of what's going on in the wider scene. e: I can't think of any resource that's not gated but I really recommend seeing a production or film of it to get a basic sense of what's what and who's who.
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Jul 9, 2016 12:01
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That's the one where he says "My kingdom for a horse" before falling off a girder into an explosion, right?
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Sep 10, 2016 11:03
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There's definitely a lot to say about it, just not a lot that's complimentary.
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Sep 10, 2016 17:56
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I hate how they filleted all the quotes people know and dropped them disconnected from anything into action scenes so silly even Schwarzenegger would blush. Also I've never really dug McKellen.
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Sep 10, 2016 19:20
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Another fun adaptation is Prospero's Books which is just John Gielgud reading the tempest as extras go full mental around him.
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Sep 11, 2016 11:11
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