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What Earthly Us Is It Forcing Kids To Study Shakespeare?
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At a guess, what percentage of the population actually read Shakespeare for pleasure, or attend one of his plays?
It's not something one ever hears discussed with affection or enthusiasm.
It's not something one ever hears discussed with affection or enthusiasm.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Went to a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream a few years ago - was rolling in the aisles with laughter. Funniest thing for years.
The rather po-faced Americans in the adjacent seats were taking it much more seriously.. Coz it's Shakespeare, right . Has to be serious and intellectual...
Your mileage may vary.
The rather po-faced Americans in the adjacent seats were taking it much more seriously.. Coz it's Shakespeare, right . Has to be serious and intellectual...
Your mileage may vary.
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Rather apt at the moment.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Rather apt at the moment.
I did Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet at school. Went with the school to Stratford to see Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet on stage. Both plays had very well known actors performing including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Harvey, & Paul Robeson. Wonderful.
Wasn't the least bit interested in Shakespeare until I was in 4th year. I then met a wonderful English teacher called Jim Campbell from Glasgow. He brought Hamlet and Macbeth alive for me and I loved them. Also watched a comedy show called Betty and Bobby's Macbeth years later which was just so funny. Don't think I would have understood all the references if I hadn't studied the play at school.
Does this one work backwards, Woof? It's one of my favourites.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
Like Maggie I was introduced to Shakespeare by a wonderful teacher....but I guess a poor teacher could put a pupil off Shakespeare for life....
I love The Minack, Webbo but have never seen Shakespeare performed there, though I have at Stamford open air during a storm and it was fantastic...
I never miss a National Theatre Live performance and have seen so many wonderful plays.....give NTL a try next time they're showing a Shakespeare.....you won't be disappointed....x
I love The Minack, Webbo but have never seen Shakespeare performed there, though I have at Stamford open air during a storm and it was fantastic...
I never miss a National Theatre Live performance and have seen so many wonderful plays.....give NTL a try next time they're showing a Shakespeare.....you won't be disappointed....x
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