love on the brain

wickedrum

Tyftnt

love on the brain

Your welcome, Rita

Misty Blue

great idea for a thread!

I was not much into Shakepeare at highschool. I think that highschool turned me off his work and I've only recently in the last few years come back to it on my own and found to my suprise that I really enjoy it.

It's great that highschools exspose youngsters to Shakespeare but I think there's something in the way it's taught that makes it intimidating and hard slog.

Also, I was reading the, now dead, Coriolanus thread. There's a downloadable version of Coriolanus?
I would love to see it again.
Any chance of a link?

wickedrum

oh some teachers completely waste Shakespeare for kids before he even has a chance!

love on the brain

I can send you a link, Misty!

jolein

I always remember what one of my british friends once told me about Shakespeare:
You should never take Shakespeare too seriously and enjoy the little hidden gems he has written in both the naughty and the funny things.
There is always more then one layer to his plays and most of them aren`t as innocent as they seem at first read.

Misty Blue

Thanks! That would be great.

I heard it was a very big file... how big exactly?

Misty Blue

I've been suprised by how saucy his work is. Maybe schools try to drain this out of it a bit? (Thus making it boring they tone all the good stuff down!)

And yeah, Shakepeare's really very funny. I'm sure 40% or more it goes over my head.
I usually read his plays from a series that has lots of footnotes. Can't think of what the series is called but they're great. There's so many words whose meanings have changed over the last 4 hundred years and there's so many references that you don't get unless you know what he's actually refering to.
There's also heaps of little historical gems that enrich the text and it's facinating to see how Shakespeare's taken something real and woven it into poetry.

love on the brain

I sent you a private message with a link. I remember the video files being pretty huge

jolein

I think it is also because it is old english,so the words have a completly different meaning in today`s language or don`t even get used anymore.

One of the in my eyes greatest dutch actors is translating all of Shakespeares work into dutch but he says it is really tough to do because of the different layers of the works and the different language.
The only thing that fits is old dutch which like old english is completly different but he first translates it to that and then he translates it to current dutch.
I`m planning to read some of his translation to see if it does grip me in the way the originals do.

wickedrum

love on the brain

Love!

wickedrum

we said with Asena that the wife's role was the best!

love on the brain

It was! she got to kiss him :thud;