12-06-2016, 10:35 AM
Monoglots, hah, fantastic choice of word, mentally saving that one.
Yeah- I do get this point- but as a tardy person who only speaks one language, I always feel I don't grasp or appreciate the full value of translated work, let alone feeling apt to compare it to works originally written in another language.
Going back to your original post, the tortured rhyme example is spot on w/ the sonnets, throughout my studies I had many painful arguments with other students and professors about the base rubbishness of 95% of them! As I see it, as good an example as you picked, there are so many average parts of those sonnets that you could have also used, hah.
Massively disagree with your initial comment- that Othello is the only play that makes the cut dramatically (you then praise Troilus so assume you have seen a good production of that, and also surely in terms of dramatic critique the acting and direction can more or less make or break any adequate script?). As I mentioned in my lengthier reply, I could discuss this all year- but I feel that surely the fact that so many of his plays have remained successful over 400 years (in terms of number of performances and tickets sold, audiences still enjoying them, and in the recent modern age films of them produced ) suggests that saying only Othello makes the cut is a little ludicrous! When I read Hamlet, bar Ophelia's delicate madness, I thought it was shite. But the Brannagh production was watchable.
It's actually been a good few years since I read or watched live or caught a film or a Shakey play- definitely going to catch a few on cartoon hd and watch with a harsher, more critical eye!
RBJ
Yeah- I do get this point- but as a tardy person who only speaks one language, I always feel I don't grasp or appreciate the full value of translated work, let alone feeling apt to compare it to works originally written in another language.
Going back to your original post, the tortured rhyme example is spot on w/ the sonnets, throughout my studies I had many painful arguments with other students and professors about the base rubbishness of 95% of them! As I see it, as good an example as you picked, there are so many average parts of those sonnets that you could have also used, hah.
Massively disagree with your initial comment- that Othello is the only play that makes the cut dramatically (you then praise Troilus so assume you have seen a good production of that, and also surely in terms of dramatic critique the acting and direction can more or less make or break any adequate script?). As I mentioned in my lengthier reply, I could discuss this all year- but I feel that surely the fact that so many of his plays have remained successful over 400 years (in terms of number of performances and tickets sold, audiences still enjoying them, and in the recent modern age films of them produced ) suggests that saying only Othello makes the cut is a little ludicrous! When I read Hamlet, bar Ophelia's delicate madness, I thought it was shite. But the Brannagh production was watchable.
It's actually been a good few years since I read or watched live or caught a film or a Shakey play- definitely going to catch a few on cartoon hd and watch with a harsher, more critical eye!
RBJ