Shakespeare Fan Club

[Resurrexi]

From hence in prose in this thread we shan't speak
In poetry alone we will respond
To posts which to us other members type.
The type of verse we shall in this thread use
Will be the same that Mr. Shakespeare used,
That is to say five iambs in each line.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1845026' date='Apr 23 2009, 05:50 PM']From hence in prose in this thread we shan't speak
In poetry alone we will respond
To posts which to us other members type.
The type of verse we shall in this thread use
Will be the same that Mr. Shakespeare used,
That is to say five iambs in each line.[/quote]
You goin fruity on us?

[MIKolbe]

no.. he's just a rad-trad.

[Saint Therese]

I prefer to call him Billy.

[pat22]

hi

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='MIkolbe' post='1845045' date='Apr 23 2009, 06:57 PM']no.. he's just a rad-trad.[/quote]

A radical I do not claim to be
Though "trad" may be a true description here.

[kafka]

some have speculated Will was a Catholic. Has anyone read up on that?

[Resurrexi]

Yeah he was probably born to Catholic parents but probably wasn't practicing for most of his life.

[kafka]

from the little I've read and heard there seems to be some tacit evidence that he was indeed a Catholic yet no conclusive evidence to stand on its own.

Who can say perhaps he was a closet Catholic.

[kafka]

anywho has anyone read 'The Tempest'

that is the one work of his I want to still read. I've heard it is his under-rated best.

[Brigid]

I kind of read it last year in world lit. I liked it. but it's the only shakespeare I've read besides romeo and juliet, so I'm not really the best judge.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1844281' date='Apr 23 2009, 02:15 PM']Now how's THAT for a pep talk?[/quote]
I love that soliloquy!

[quote name='kafka' post='1845705' date='Apr 24 2009, 06:56 AM']anywho has anyone read 'The Tempest'

that is the one work of his I want to still read. I've heard it is his under-rated best.[/quote]
I've read it. Pretty good. My fave comedy is still Merchant of Venice, though. [quote]To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.[/quote]

[Archaeology cat]

I had to memorise this bit from Julius Caesar my freshman year of high school [quote]It must be by his death: and for my part,
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general. He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;--
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will he may do danger with.
The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections sway'd
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel
Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities:
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.[/quote]

Edited April 24, 2009 by Archaeology cat

[Archaeology cat]

Anyone read Titus Andronicus?

And what are your favourite film versions of Shakespearean plays? I like Kenneth Branagh's [i]Hamlet[/i]. And his [i]Othello[/i]. Not so keen on his Much Ado; Keanu Reeves is just a bit much. The version of [i]Richard III [/i]with Ian McKellen in it is really great, IMHO.

[Resurrexi]

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