Why then, 'tis good to post: ye Shakespeare threade

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TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

cheerfullydrab posted:

From last page, but what I love the most about the Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet is that it's silly but also the most faithful adaptation out there when it comes to lines and line readings.

"Most faithful" is pushing it quite a bit. It's not awful but if you're following along with the play in your hands there are plenty of times you're going to be like "hold up..."

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TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

cheerfullydrab posted:

Of the available adaptations.

The BBC one is more faithful, at least.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 05:37

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

I'm a fan of that speech that starts "To be, or not to be..." I think it might be in Macbeth but I can't remember anyways that one's pretty cool, does anyone else like it?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 03:55

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

CestMoi posted:

Please do not mock people for liking quotes from Shakespeare, no matter how baby's first Shakespeare quotes they might be

Yeah, stop making fun of me for not knowing that was from Troilus and Criseyde! I thought this was the Shakespeare thread, not the Chaucer thread!

# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 05:38

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

s7indicate3 posted:

I'd dig it more if all the characters who were born on the island (Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban) were naked but the king and his men weren't. I feel like that'd emphasize colonial subtext a bit more, and explain away how, in most productions, Miranda has women's clothes that fit her even though this should be impossible. Ntm, the two world dichotomy between divinity/myth and humanity would be more pronounced.

But all the characters?? That's just trying to be edgy for the sake of it imho.

Prospero and Miranda weren't born on the island, and it's not clear if Ariel was born there either.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 05:13

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End Of Worlds posted:

prospero is a sorcerer capable of calling upon the primal forces of the elements and scattering an entire fleet in a storm of his own conjuring

he can magic up a blouse dude

Ariel's the one who scatters the fleet in the storm. Prospero just says "hey Ariel, do a thing."

# ¿ Jun 27, 2016 14:47

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Behemuff posted:

I always think I ought to try some Proust but never get round to it :/ Do you know a good place to start?

I think he wrote a long book that is well regarded, you might try reading that.

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Behemuff posted:

Well I was hoping for a pointer towards something a little less monolithic, or some primer. But thanks for being a patronising oval office

Sorry I recommended the book you should read!

Behemuff posted:

I'd like to get into some Pynchon....

Well if you don't just read Gravity's Rainbow in a single sitting and then publish a critical thinkpiece in the Paris Review then you might as well just kill yourself tbqh.

Oh, or I could maybe read the shorter but still representative Crying of Lot 49 first etc. etc. etc.

I read Gravity's Rainbow first and I liked it just fine. Pynchon became one of my favorite authors. CoL49 is one of the few things he's written that I'm not a huge fan of (along with Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge) and if I had started there I might not've gotten into him. Besides, that's a lovely analogy, because Proust doesn't have a Crying of Lot 49 equivalent.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 05:33

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