01-27-2026, 08:33 PM
Thanks for the detailed answer
I envy your life, at least in this area.
I must clarify that I’ve been reading Shakespeare a long time, though I haven’t read the entire canon
I didn’t think that his early plays were crap. I found The Winter’s Tale awful, while I liked Love’s Labour’s Lost. I also enjoyed Two Gentlemen, particularly its famous Sylvia Passage, well before Gwyneth Paltrow made it film-popular. I didn’t care much for Hamlet and never understood the appeal of King Lear, with its over the top melodrama. Macbeth was brilliant, and Othello was the summit, followed by Troilus. I adored JC and Antony and C. And loved the great comedies, not including Midsummers Night in that. I found The Tempest underwhelming and Cymbeline unreadable. I was ambivalent on MfM and haven’t read All’s Well. Nor the Falstaff plays. Nor the histories. And so on.
But that’s just my preferences. Not saying I’m an expert on the matter
Do you feel that your education is automatically Eurocentric as a result of your choices? Or is there a plan to broaden your horizons at some point? Does your Filipino background make it any easier to understand the Egyptians, for instance?
I envy your life, at least in this area.
I must clarify that I’ve been reading Shakespeare a long time, though I haven’t read the entire canon
I didn’t think that his early plays were crap. I found The Winter’s Tale awful, while I liked Love’s Labour’s Lost. I also enjoyed Two Gentlemen, particularly its famous Sylvia Passage, well before Gwyneth Paltrow made it film-popular. I didn’t care much for Hamlet and never understood the appeal of King Lear, with its over the top melodrama. Macbeth was brilliant, and Othello was the summit, followed by Troilus. I adored JC and Antony and C. And loved the great comedies, not including Midsummers Night in that. I found The Tempest underwhelming and Cymbeline unreadable. I was ambivalent on MfM and haven’t read All’s Well. Nor the Falstaff plays. Nor the histories. And so on.
But that’s just my preferences. Not saying I’m an expert on the matter
Do you feel that your education is automatically Eurocentric as a result of your choices? Or is there a plan to broaden your horizons at some point? Does your Filipino background make it any easier to understand the Egyptians, for instance?