Shakespeare!

**Arrianna** · Apr 27, 2005 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Pyro Mike

Was Shakespeare a good writer? I'd definitly say so. Is he blown way out of proportion? Definitly. His writing, although good, is not the greatest thing since sliced bread. I mean, in some schools, it is now mandatory to read a piece of Shakespearian literature each year. I've read Romeo & Juliet 3 times within my lifetime. Its overrated. I could go to the library, and find a book with more plot & keeps you intrested on just one shelf alone.

lol, can I just say that Shakespeare is not meant to be read but watched. It's a completely different medium. That would be like critiqeing a movie by reading the script.

Incidently, I hate Romeo and Juliet. If I want to watch a couple of infatuated 13-14 year olds make idiots of themselves I can just walk down to the local middle school, but it was brilliently done. The man understood the teenage mentality enough that it gives me nightmares of my pre-high school days. Who of us didn't/don't know teenagers exactly like them.

**dark_glaive** · Apr 27, 2005 12:34 PM

I was down at the bookstore the other day looking at the "Summer Reading" table for the high school kids. They now sell versions of Shakespeare's plays that have on one page the original text and on the other "translated" text that is in modern dialog. Heresy I say! Heresy!

I've probably read about 10-12 of Shakespeare's plays and I will agree that most good books will give you better character development by far (I said this last year after taking a Shakespeare class). However, the man's language and dialog is beatiful to listen to. Too bad not enough people have the testicular fortitude to perform it.

**KnightofNi** · Apr 27, 2005 01:22 PM

Sorry, but I my experience with him was very negative, our teacher did not explain him well to us and I just cannot understand his poetry. I have had bad experiences with him, plus it would suck to be in one of his plays during that time, talk about dirty. One of the worst jobs is the apprentices who played the characters, boys in their early teens would dress as women in coresets and get soaked with real blood when the play called for it, also if the audience didn't like you they could throw shit at you. It was a very bad time to be in one of his plays.

**Pyro Mike** · Apr 27, 2005 01:33 PM

Plus he writes poems to men telling them how beautiful they are.

**Arrianna** · Apr 28, 2005 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Pyro Mike

Plus he writes poems to men telling them how beautiful they are.

???
I assume you mean in the plays since I have read the sonnets and they are considered some of the best ever written.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

William Shakespeare

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