Well, I guess Titus Andronicus was more complex than The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew but lacked the depth and thorough purposeful plotting of the Henry VI series. I'd even go so far as to say it's entertaining if one is into mindless violence but I can't see it working as any...
I meant to write up a short note about the Henry VIs (parts 1, 2, and 3) after finishing the plays last week, but then RL - travel and becoming a citizen - interfered at short notice. I originally meant to only explore Henry VI, Part 1, but I enjoyed it so much that I just kept reading the other...
I thought I'd celebrate Shakespeare's birthday by getting into another one of his plays. Unfortunately, I picked The Taming of the Shrew. I read the play while listening to the Arkangel production audiobook, which features Roger Allam as Petruccio and Frances Barber as Katherine - both of whom wer...
PROTEUS Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be a while away. SPEED You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then, and I a sheep? PROTEUS I do. Yeah, but Proteus is an idiot. For the entirety of the play, I could not shake the image of the characters as the characters fro...
It was fitting to end with Shakespeare's Epitaph on Himself, right? I feel kinda weird; I started on my 18th Birthday but only made a serious push to get the job done much more recently. It's occupied the last couple of years, roughly, to make a concerted push to finish. And now I'm done. Weird.
Timon of Athens Allegedly Shakespeare's least popular play, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton who wrote at least the whole of Act 3. Timon is astonishingly one-dimensional both as a play and a character who falling from power through naive and extreme generosity, turns into an extreme...
Henry V Yeah, yeah, I'm supposed to be reading King Lear, but the BBC broadcast Brannagh's Henry V film and I thought I'd catch it on iPlayer before it disappears.Now generally speaking I'm not in favour of invading your neighbour because everything's a bit fraught at home and you need to create a...
19/10 - I've just started a course on Shakespeare through FutureLearn and the first play that we are studying is The Merry Wives of Windsor, which is one I know absolutely nothing about. So far, I've read about three pages, or to the end of scene one and what I understand is that while I can barely ...
I'll be having a class this fall devoted to Shakespeare so my study partner and I decided to get started this summer with MacBeth. She is Chinese and hasn't read much Shakespeare so she didn't know the plot line at all. I was very interested to see what she thought and was glad that she really enj...
Shakespeare does have some detractors--I suppose someone so highly lauded makes a big target--but he is a genuine favorite of mine. If your introduction to him in school put you off, I'd recommend you try renting one of the many fine films made of his famous plays. The text of a play is after all ju...
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