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I have this insane obsession with Shakespeare, and want to know if anyone else does. Here you can post your favorite plays, characters, and other random stuff like that.
My favorite play is 'Much Ado About Nothing', and my favorite characters in it are Benadick and Beatrice.
submitted by Sir Doctor of TARDIS, age 12, Gallifrey
(January 28, 2014 - 7:39 pm)
(January 28, 2014 - 7:39 pm)
I love Shakespeare, too. I mean, his writing is so...well...dated, but the stories are infinitely timeless. With the exception, of course, of Romeo and Juliet, which has been overdone until it's so threadbare you can see right through it.
Favorite tragedy: Hamlet. Because Laurence Olivier played it well and he's my favorite Shakespearean actor. I wish Benedict Cumberbatch was not going to play it in the upcoming version. I find it ridiculous. How can a fellow that looks like a fish play Hamlet?! Obviously, I wish Tom Hiddleston could play it.
Favorite comedy: Twelfth Night. I always liked how Violet is a very strong, believable heroine.
My favorite history is Henry V, but only because Tom Hiddleston was in it.
(January 28, 2014 - 8:12 pm)
I liked the one starring Kenneth Branagh. (Hamlet)
(February 19, 2014 - 10:54 am)
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(January 29, 2014 - 6:52 pm)
SHAKESPEARE!
I'm in an acting group that only does Shakespeare. It's awesome. When I'm at school I always feel like a bit of a geek talking about it. Sometimes I feel that Shakespeare oozes out of my ears.
My favourite character that I've played is probably Moth from Love's Labour's Lost, which was really fun because there was so much physical comedy involving folding chairs in our production it's become a running joke. We also did a scene from Twelfth Night where I was Viola, and I really liked that in a super awkward way.
I've ranted about Romeo and Juliet on BaB. That shouldn't be repeated.
(January 31, 2014 - 3:53 pm)
I would LOVE to do acting at school. The problem is, I REALLY love band and REALLy love Latin and I would have to take one of those away to do acting. :(
I do go to acting camp every summer, though, and am going to a Shakespeare camp this summer. YAY!!!!!!!!
I've recently been slightly obsesivly reading through the large collection of Shakespeare that I found on the shelf at home. I've moved on to reading my way through the large amount of Agatha Christies that I got out of the library, but will probably be back to reading the magic book of happiness (the afore metioned collection of Shakespeare) when I'm done! :)
(January 31, 2014 - 5:58 pm)
If you'll indulge me in some Eleanor and Park quotes regarding Romeo and Juliet...
"It wasn't love at first sight, it was 'Oh, he's cute!' at first sight."
"So Ophelia was nuts and Juliet was what, a sixth grader?"
"It's like Shakespeare is making fun of them."
Those might not have been exact, but you get the picture.
(February 1, 2014 - 1:14 pm)
Hilarious, Gollum!
Especially since Juliet was fourteen. How serious could she have been about Romeo at fourteen?! Even I'm not sentimental enough to think that some random person could be the love of my life at fourteen (which I am now).
Regarding Ophelia being nuts, I'm surprised everyone in that play didn't lose it at one point. The only think I dislike about Hamlet as a character is that he didn't seem to care two pennies about how Ophelia felt about anything at all.
(February 1, 2014 - 2:19 pm)
I've noticed that about Hamlet. He just seems to go around abusing Ophelia all the time.
I'm reading Hamlet right now. It's good!
(February 1, 2014 - 3:04 pm)
I think Juliet was thirteen, which makes it even worse!
One class we just did scenes from Romeo and Juliet, and in one scene an eight-year old girl played Juliet! It was Act 1 Scene 3, though, so nothing too weird. In that scene a boy was also Lady Capulet, so go figure. Some strange casting goes on over there.
(February 2, 2014 - 9:11 am)
Yeah, I think she was. And Romeo's what, 17? YIKES!
What did the boy think of that casting? I honestly don't mind playing male parts, but a lot of people feel weird playing the opposite gender.
(February 2, 2014 - 3:35 pm)
Romeo's 17? The way he acted around his friends makes him seem a lot older, which is weird.
He'd played a girl before (the Nurse in a different Romeo and Juliet scene), and he didn't really care. The thing is, he actually looked really good in the costume he had for Lady Capulet. (It was just a feminine shirt, not a huge skirt or anything.)
I've played guys lots of times (I've even acted as getting married to one of my friends, which was weird), and I don't really have a problem with it. I used to like playing guys a lot more, but now I'm more partial toward female roles. Although I've just been cast as three guys and one unknown, so go figure.
And because of said casting, I now get to read Hamlet and Macbeth in approximately two weeks. Yay!
(February 2, 2014 - 5:56 pm)
I think I read something saying that somewhere... so I don't know.
That's really funny!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Yay Hamlet!!!! I just finished reading it and it ROCKS!!! Though why everyone except the Norway people had to die, I don't know. Macbeth is also FUN!
(February 4, 2014 - 7:39 pm)
I've seen Hamlet done once, and it was literally perfect. A really good actress played Hamlet, and she was awesome.
Hamlet has been filling my head with Young Adult novel ideas... also just awesomeness in general.
(February 5, 2014 - 11:16 am)
At my freind's old school, the 8th graders put on a Shakespeare play every year, and last year it was Hamlet!! I have never actually seen it on stage, so I slightly envy the people at her school. I kind of went completly bonkers from sheer overexcitement over this piece of information.
Also, the guy who sits next to me in English asked if he could read one of my Shakespeares (I'm reading The Tempest and have 12th Night for reading next), so I lent him one, and he liked it!! :D
(February 5, 2014 - 7:26 pm)
Oh! What is tempests like!
I've heard quotes in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensability,
but I really don't exactly know what it's like.
(February 19, 2014 - 11:03 am)