12-23-2016, 01:40 PM
I tend to agree with you - the comedies, Roman plays, and some problem plays are the nonpareil insofar as language, poetry, and grace are concerned, then the tragedies, and then the rest. His sonnets and other poems are terrible. Interestingly, the songs in his plays are wonderful - It was a lover and his lass, eg.
And a number of his highly regarded plays fail as plays - King Lear and Measure for Measure come to mind. I mean, the plot in MfM is a bad melodrama.
But reading As You Like It on a sunny day lying down on the grass under a tree with a cockatoo croaking and dogs running after tennis balls is perfection.
And a number of his highly regarded plays fail as plays - King Lear and Measure for Measure come to mind. I mean, the plot in MfM is a bad melodrama.
But reading As You Like It on a sunny day lying down on the grass under a tree with a cockatoo croaking and dogs running after tennis balls is perfection.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe