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Author: Paganizer
Date: 04-13-10 18:03
As per Shakespeare discussion,
what do people from here identify as their favorite Shakespeare work?
Choose 2 from this list of 20 most popular
and we'll see what trouserians think is great shakes
(I moved this poll off its previous threadbuster position)
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Author: nosepail
Date: 04-13-10 21:01
I generally prefere the histories, especially Richard III and Henry VI. As You Like It is the most whimsical and magical of the comedies in my opinion. The Tempest is flawless. I'm with TS Eliot; Hamlet is tedious.
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Author: blasmo
Date: 04-14-10 08:40
I don't think it gets much better than King Lear. That said, I love the pacing and the pure wonderful evil of Richard III.
I was watching some killer shrews the other night -- the MST3K version -- and then had to listen to the awesome Killer Shrews CD. Amazing stuff.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 04-14-10 08:57
What?!? No Coriolanus? Harumph!
I gotta bootleg copy of Cardenio that freakin' rocks.
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But seriously ... although it's terribly M.O.R. to say Romeo & Juliet, it'd be one of my two picks. After that, I quite like Macbeth. But trying to play favorites here is an odious task, at best.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 04-14-10 08:59
How come there are about a dozen Shakes plays not included in the poll? It looks like Lear is going to win.
No love for The Merchant of Venice?
On a side note, if I never see another production of Midsummer Night Dream it will be too soon.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 04-14-10 09:44
I adore Merchant. Maybe the finest black comedy in history.
But I agree with Kay about the odiousness of the task.
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 04-14-10 10:16
I went with ol' Henry V. I could've just as easily selected Richard III or either of the Henry IV plays, but Henry V is culminates everything so well, in addition to being a damn fine piece of stand-alone work.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 04-14-10 10:34
We're either all quite well read, or all pretensious bullshit artists....or both!
How many English majors do we have on the board? I was an English major but did my graduate work in Math after realizing that writing essays was about 3 times more difficult for me than for the true academic-types.
One thing that always stuck with me was my high school English teacher countered grumblings about reading Shakespeare by pulling out Chaucer and Beowulf and telling us the difference between Old, Middle, and Modern English.
Post Edited (04-14-10 10:44)
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Author: STEVE
Date: 04-14-10 10:49
yeah i'm with the hollowed one, i chose macbeth as well.
hi ya brad,
i've been here and all is well but these DIY home improvements i've been attempting to tackle lately come with more than just monetary costs. it seems that i do a great deal of unimproving first. most recently, i cut my internet line, and messed up the power supply to my system. had to send it out to get fixed. other than that, just watching Godzilla movies w/ my 4 yr old grandson Dustin. who is completely obsessed with Ishiro Hondas best work. i am continuing to soundproof as well, with the three ankle biters growing fast, we should be able to start a racket soon.
thanks for asking my friend.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 04-14-10 10:52
I have a BA in English. Not sure how I ended up in TV. I didn't even own a TV when I first started working in the medium.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 04-14-10 11:02
About 10 years or so ago, the Austin Shakespeare Festival did a production of Midsummer's that set it in the psychedelic 60s. Oberon and Puck dressed as Batman & Robin (complete with a mini-Batmobile). Lots of 60 music a la the Kinks and the Move during set changes and dances. It worked beautifully.
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Author: blasmo
Date: 04-14-10 11:41
I have an MA in English, and a couple of others, which of course means that I am Warehouse Manager/Purchasing Manager for a locally owned business.
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Author: Heff
Date: 04-14-10 12:14
I somehow managed to study Macbeth three years in row during the last two years in High School and Freshman year in college. That will always my favorite - "You Egg! Young fry of treachery!"
I don't like to write but I do like to read so I just got an English minor.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 04-14-10 13:14
Yep - double major in English and Philosophy here. I was angling for the big bucks from freshman orientation on....
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Author: breno
Date: 04-14-10 13:33
Quote:
That will always my favorite - "You Egg! Young fry of treachery!"
Ha! I earned extra credit in College Prep English for memorizing that line and its follow-up "They have killed me, mother!"
My teacher in that class was a doddering old thing who'd already been ancient when she taught my parents 30 years earlier. So it was no surprise that she would give out extra credit for such things, nor that she retired shortly thereafter.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 04-14-10 13:34
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Oberon and Puck dressed as Batman & Robin
"Holy parcel of the fairest dames, Batman!"
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Since everybody is posting their curriculum vitae, I'll have to hang my head in shame and just quote Robyn Hitchcock:
"Kimberly's the only one in the band with a degree ... the rest of us have just got temperatures."
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 04-14-10 15:11
Guilty as charged. Not only do I have a BA in English, my mother has a BA in English, my brother has a BA and an MA in English – as well as an MBA – and my father was an English professor (who rec'd his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop).
My sister is the black sheep of the family. She has a double BA in German studies and philosophy, as well as a Magister (the German equivalent of an MA) degree in interdisciplinary European Languages (or something similarly vague) from the Free University of Berlin.
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Author: Aitch
Date: 04-14-10 20:49
I was in such a lowly English class (2 Unit A or 'Vege English' as the smart guys called it) that we didn't even get to do a Shakespeare play (despite getting one the previous 2 years). Instead we got to do David Williamson's The Club. (You may know him from Madonna starring in Up For Grabs on the West End)
I've been on a reading jag post-high school but never during.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 04-14-10 22:00
I'm so proud of my fellow TP peeps for keeping King Lear (my fave) ahead of that tribute to a pseudo-intellectual sociopath, Hamlet.
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