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 Post subject: mmm...Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:45 pm 
I love Shakespeare, and it's hard to imagine someone who loves literature to NOT love Shakespeare. He's not perfect or anything, but it's quality stuff. However, I'm not always in the mood to read the dense old english, but I wouldn't change it or anything. _________________ -clint www.clintgunter.blogspot.com He sat in the dust with his eyes opened and realized the sun was rising behind him and wondered what this meant. It meant he'd been facing in the wrong direction all along. - from Underworld by Don DeLillo |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:41 am
Nightmare wrote: I really like Hamlet. It's amazing. i was supposed to see hamlet this summer with my friends on boston common. the second we got there, they were like "let's leave." so i saw the first two minutes and nothing more. i wish i could've stayed. _________________ http://thegirlinthebearhat.tumblr.com/ |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:18 am
At the Chicago Shakespeare theater, I saw The Merry Wives of Windsor (which was hillarious in my opinion,) and The Merchant of Venice. Amazing stuff. _________________ -Gerard Have a wonderful evening everyone. www.xanga.com/yesterdaydream (omgz a xangaz!) www.myspace.com/yesterdaydreammusic (the band i'm in.) www.myspace.com/gerardmanalo (My, Myspace. Befriend me!) Feel free to add me. Adding is cool! |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:57 pm
i saw the merry wives of windsor by the poor players and it was friggen fabulous. _________________ But I cannot discover any advantage except in honor, in glory, and in right action. Therefore I consider these goals to be primary and supreme over all others. Cicero |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:58 pm
I worked on the Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, Texas, one summer. It was quite an experience. Shakespeare rocks. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:44 pm
Has anyone ever been to Shakespeare in the Park? I went one time way back when I was in high school (Dallas area). It was the best free production of Shakespeare I have ever seen by far, and it was cool sitting on the side of a hill on blankets. A great date idea, if they have something like that in your area...  _________________ -clint www.clintgunter.blogspot.com He sat in the dust with his eyes opened and realized the sun was rising behind him and wondered what this meant. It meant he'd been facing in the wrong direction all along. - from Underworld by Don DeLillo |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:50 pm
cag556 wrote: Has anyone ever been to Shakespeare in the Park? I went one time way back when I was in high school (Dallas area). It was the best free production of Shakespeare I have ever seen by far, and it was cool sitting on the side of a hill on blankets.
A great date idea, if they have something like that in your area... i wish i had something like that. the best i got is whatever the Poor Players put on, and that is twenty a ticket. _________________ But I cannot discover any advantage except in honor, in glory, and in right action. Therefore I consider these goals to be primary and supreme over all others. Cicero |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:18 pm
cynlovescandy wrote: amidthestars wrote: they had powers of description that poets nowadays can only dream about. (in reference to older English poets) I agree, to an extent. The difference is that today's poets try to convey emotion and feelings and experience, without using the typical "setting descriptions" and overly used metaphors. They focus on free flowing thought and realism, not romanticism and ideals. Like Shakespeare would say "Her lips were a rose, blooming and beckoning me" or something like that. Today's poets would say, "when she talks, she makes me want to fall into her face" or something. I don't know if that makes sense, but I wrote a paper on it a few years ago, the difference between todays poetry and yesterdays poets. I'm definitely not mocking Shakespeare The writing is ingenious, and for his time Revolutionary in the way it changed theater. And I love to read it. And his description is immaculate I just think that poets today are equally good. Think "The Decemberists" quality. I'm really tired. i wasn't saying there are NO poets today, i was referring more to many bands that write trite lyrics,and the people they influence who then go on to write trite, banal "poetry". differing styles is one thing, but pedantic, overused metaphors are very prevalent, and i think a lot of people could stand to read some of the old great stuff and see what it was like to REALLY write. _________________ Saellys wrote: Thank God for Arielle  all your kind, they're coming clean they shut their eyes their mess, their scene |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:59 pm
amidthestars wrote: cynlovescandy wrote: amidthestars wrote: they had powers of description that poets nowadays can only dream about. (in reference to older English poets) I agree, to an extent. The difference is that today's poets try to convey emotion and feelings and experience, without using the typical "setting descriptions" and overly used metaphors. They focus on free flowing thought and realism, not romanticism and ideals. Like Shakespeare would say "Her lips were a rose, blooming and beckoning me" or something like that. Today's poets would say, "when she talks, she makes me want to fall into her face" or something. I don't know if that makes sense, but I wrote a paper on it a few years ago, the difference between todays poetry and yesterdays poets. I'm definitely not mocking Shakespeare The writing is ingenious, and for his time Revolutionary in the way it changed theater. And I love to read it. And his description is immaculate I just think that poets today are equally good. Think "The Decemberists" quality. I'm really tired. i wasn't saying there are NO poets today, i was referring more to many bands that write trite lyrics,and the people they influence who then go on to write trite, banal "poetry". differing styles is one thing, but pedantic, overused metaphors are very prevalent, and i think a lot of people could stand to read some of the old great stuff and see what it was like to REALLY write. I couldn't agree more. _________________ Power is only pain It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?" -memo from 1952 Project ARTICHOKE 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:22 am
Nightmare wrote: I really like Hamlet. It's amazing. i just finished it for the third time an i love it more than ever. _________________ But I cannot discover any advantage except in honor, in glory, and in right action. Therefore I consider these goals to be primary and supreme over all others. Cicero |
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