Shakespeare Appreciation Thread

[Chairman Meow]

[setreal]

Macbeth is ace aye.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYzsDVyFRU

 

I read 5 or 6 of his plays I think, some others in parts. Also used to love his sonnets.

[El Rojo]

He's got a brand new car
Looks like a jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player

But I don't wanna talk about it anymore

I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna save it
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore

We'll start over again
Grow ourselves new skin
Get a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon

[magicrat]

Seen a couple of things at the Globe and they have both been brilliant.

Midsummer's Night Dream and Titus Andronicus. The latter I knew very little about and whilst its not one of his greatest it was still worth while especially given the surroundings and all the audience participation you get there. Recommend going to the Globe if you get the chance. I was reluctant to be honest but really got into it.

[Total Longo]

None of it gets anywhere near  "touch my bum - this is life" for cultural significance.

[Paulie Dangerously]

i did get a new life

thee wouldst hardly recognizeth me i'm so fain

how couldst a p'rson liketh me careth f'r thee

wherefore doth i both'r

at which hour thou art not the one f'r me

oooo, is enow, enow

 

i did see the signeth and t hath opened up mine own eyes i did see the signeth

life is demanding without und'rstanding

i did see the signeth and t hath opened up mine own eyes i did see the signeth

nay one's gonna drageth thee up to receiveth into the lighteth wh're thee belongeth

but wh're doth thee belongeth

[Paulie Dangerously]

When I learnt what blank verse was and that Shakespeare wrote entire plays in it, it blew my mind. Then I really understood why he's routinely referred to as a genius.

 

He really was. He died 500 years ago and his work is still relevant today.  It will still be studied and adored in another 500 years time by our lizard overlords

[Jenson]

You wouldn't remember the production would you?

 

I went to see it at the Manchester Exchange in 1988.

 

Frances Barber and David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher) were the leads.  It was absolutely brilliant.  But on the coach home the less couth members of our party just went on about Barber getting them out.

 

Yes it was! I couldn't remember the actresses name but now you've said it, that's right. Don't remember David Threlfall being Macbeth but 1988 was a long time ago.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Bit of bored detective work leads to an actress Frances Barber

 

https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/macbeth-1988-royal-exchange-theatre-manchester

 

 

 

 

ARE THESE THE NORKS?

[Jenson]

Bit of bored detective work leads to an actress Frances Barber

 

https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/macbeth-1988-royal-exchange-theatre-manchester

 

 

 

 

ARE THESE THE NORKS?

 

Yep, that was them. Displayed in all their magnificent glory.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, 
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come; 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Some insults.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/15-great-william-shakespeare-insults-which-are-better-than-swear/

[thegreatelephant]

 

5.12 - interesting

[razor]

Yes it was! I couldn't remember the actresses name but now you've said it, that's right. Don't remember David Threlfall being Macbeth but 1988 was a long time ago.

 

It started off as a kind of play in a concentration camp. 

 

Threlfall was magnificent.

 

One of the best things I've ever seen.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 16/05/2016 at 23:29, Stu Monty said:

Hamlet's pretty decent like. 

 

Some good soliloquy action and that. 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 17/05/2016 at 10:22, Jairzinho said:

 

We did the Tempest in year 7 and it essentially ensured that most students learned to detest Shakespeare.

Should have watched the film. A young Toyah Willcox gets her baps out.