Shakespeare anyone?

[RayReiLee]

Does anyone here like Shakespeare? He's a great writer, I think. My english class is reading Romeo and Juliet and I have to say it's really interesting. I guess it depends on who your teacher is to enjoy it.

[ShoelessProphet]

Used to love Shakespeare, until we did his works to death in class and at university. I'm just thankful we haven't got a module on him this year.

Othello is still my favourite Shakespeare play of all time. I could write a thesis proving that the character of Iago is in fact gay. Seriously. I proved it to one of our specialist professors. It confused the hell out of her. I think I also proved that the external factor that lead to Othello and Desdemona's downfall was in fact the clown. Because he's evil. And most likely from Bulgaria.

[fink f santiago]

Love the guy. Favorate Shakespeare play has gotta be Titus Andronicus. Great story and great charecters.

[Hopeless]

I cant say i love his works because i only read one. And that was hamlet, it was good. But im not a big reader so it was boring from time to time.

[Chud Monster]

I personally don't like Shakespeare's works too much. I think it's just because I was expecting too much when I read them.

Hamlet is my favorite.

[Kuja_sama]

Does anyone here like Shakespeare? He's a great writer, I think. My english class is reading Romeo and Juliet and I have to say it's really interesting. I guess it depends on who your teacher is to enjoy it.
Yea, I love Shaepsear. I hated reading it in English class tho. I know this sounds really arrogant of me but Christ!! You would think the kids in class had never ehard of Shaespear!! It took us a weak to get through the fuking prolauge. just to be sure they understood it! Aagh!!

[Alucart]

Used to love Shakespeare, until we did his works to death in class and at university. I'm just thankful we haven't got a module on him this year.

Othello is still my favourite Shakespeare play of all time. I could write a thesis proving that the character of Iago is in fact gay. Seriously. I proved it to one of our specialist professors. It confused the hell out of her. I think I also proved that the external factor that lead to Othello and Desdemona's downfall was in fact the clown. Because he's evil. And most likely from Bulgaria.

Too bad it would be soo Ez to discredit the fact that he wasn't actually gay..
also the clown that was good haha

but enough of that I love ROMEO and JULIET
othello was good
King LEar
but you gotta give props to hamlet as well

[Infinity]

Ever since 9th grade with Romeo and Juliet I have loved it. I have a book with many of the plays he has written, and smetimes I spend hours reading it before I audition for a school play. I really enjoyed Twelfth Night and Macbeth and I got a perfect grade on both tests. The 70s version of Macbeth (Scotland, PA) was a very good dark comedy.

[RayReiLee]

We watched two versions of Romeo and Juliet today (the Zepheralli one and the one with Leonardo di Caprio). Both of them are really good. I've gotten hooked into Shakespeare.

[DLD369]

I prefer his sonnets more than anything else he has written. For instance, sonnet 116:

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.
Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark•
That looks on tempest 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 briefs 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.

Mark: seamark; a prominent object on shore that serves as a guide to sailors.

Bark: boat.

Worth's: values.

Height be taken: altitude measure to determine a ship's position.

Compass: range; reach.

Bears it out: survives.

Doom: The Last Judgment; the final judgment and the end of the world.
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And sonnet 130:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red than her lips' red.
If snow be white, why then her breast are dun,•
If hair be wires, black wires grow from her head.
I have seen roses demasked,• red and white,
But no such rose see I in her cheeks.
And 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.•

Dun: brown.

Demasked: streaked.

Reeks: is exhaled.

Go: walk.

Belied: misrepresented.

Compare: comparison.

About Sonnet 130. :

This sonnet ridicules the fashionable, exaggerated metaphores some of Shakespeare's fellow poets were using to discribe the women they loved: Your eyes are suns that set me on fire, your cheeks are roses, your breasts are snowballs. Such metaphores, known as conceits, are traceable or laughable. Also, note that mistress in these days meant "girlfriend", unlike it's definition today.

[Kuja_sama]

The sonnets are awesome too. We did one in Drama class a few years back. I dont remember the name of it, I just know that the entire sonnet was a double meaning.About how both the man and in woman were cheating on each other and both knew it but pretended not to.
All I remember clearly is the line..
'So I lie with her and she with me'

'Lie' obviously having two meanings.

[Maxter220]

He is a great author and I like what he's written. The only thing I haven't liked about Shakespeare is the work in English I used to have to do on his plays, sonnets, and so on. There have been way too many essays to properly enjoy his work.

[Nym Moonshadow]

"All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely actors."

Beautiful stuff

[KaitlinRainey]

I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare...but I did enjoy Macbeth.

[vash_stampede]

i like shakpere, i think hes gay... caus ein my englush class i was reeading a bunch of analasises of him, and form the evidence provided i nthose books im sayin hes gay

[RayReiLee]

We finished Romeo and Juliet... It's really sad how everyone dies...well mostly everyone. Now we're watching Leonardo Di Caprio in the movie Romeo and Juliet. FUN!!!

[bishoujo_yume03]

he's good. i'm not a huge fan of his works, but i did like As you Like it. i didn't read it, but i saw it in play-form, and i liked it.