02-21-2023, 10:50 AM
RN,
I'm too far behind the curves to understand many of your points, but it was a delight to read your comments.
I love Shakespeare's language which I read (and have read over the years) in fits and starts, just the big titles, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, maybe Richard the Third, The Tempest, Henry V, King Lear ( ....hey that's I longer list than I would anticipated).
But the only plays I can bear to watch are modernized film versions (Ethan Hawke in Hamlet, Ian McKellan in Richard the III, Baz Luhrman's Romeo+Juliet, and a few others) which are not the plays, but movies. I can't help it, I'm a TV baby. And I skipped Shakespeare for the modernists in college.*
The parts about Marlowe/Shakespeare and "his peers of the time" was very interesting....well it was all interesting, but these were places where I went "o yeah".
TqB
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*well, I did do Beowulf in OE, and Chaucer.....not sure why I skipped S. Probably he was out of fashion during my college years. No one ever hit me on the head with it. Never heard about the professors....
So anyanyway, it's the language thing for me. To hear English in all its forms is a gas.
I'm too far behind the curves to understand many of your points, but it was a delight to read your comments.
I love Shakespeare's language which I read (and have read over the years) in fits and starts, just the big titles, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, maybe Richard the Third, The Tempest, Henry V, King Lear ( ....hey that's I longer list than I would anticipated).
But the only plays I can bear to watch are modernized film versions (Ethan Hawke in Hamlet, Ian McKellan in Richard the III, Baz Luhrman's Romeo+Juliet, and a few others) which are not the plays, but movies. I can't help it, I'm a TV baby. And I skipped Shakespeare for the modernists in college.*
The parts about Marlowe/Shakespeare and "his peers of the time" was very interesting....well it was all interesting, but these were places where I went "o yeah".
TqB
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*well, I did do Beowulf in OE, and Chaucer.....not sure why I skipped S. Probably he was out of fashion during my college years. No one ever hit me on the head with it. Never heard about the professors....
So anyanyway, it's the language thing for me. To hear English in all its forms is a gas.