Shakespeare day
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Writing School by David Gibbons
Top Row (Left to Right)
Agatha Christie
Salman Rushdie
Scott Fitzgerald
Middle Row (Left to Right)
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
Ian Fleming
Bottom Row (Left to Right)
J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Stephen King
I got them all but Fitzgerald and Christie. Even with the initials on Christie's paper, ha.
I should have connected Orwell with the pignose but i was a bit slow. Fitzgerald i'm still not connecting the clues. Fleming i ought to have thought of but i was slow again. The Rest Neese and i got between us. Thanks, Spidey!
"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."
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."
Apparently an infinite number of monkey skeletons were found under his old home
I know, it's an old joke
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
...I'm not looking to be a downer, but I find this quote quite apt.....given the blackness that consumes the world on a regular basis.....
It's a foregone conclusion that some people don't like Shakespeare. For goodness' sake, they'll say, he sets their teeth on edge. In their heart of hearts, he's the literary devil incarnate. It is a brave new world of literary work that overwhelms all our yesterdays. And they refuse to budge an inch.
But as luck would have it, they're in a pickle. The point comes around full circle, their criticism is a wild goose chase, and their reasoning is dead as a doornail. This "laughing stock" of a writer invented every underlined word and phrase in this posting. In one fell swoop, their position, bag and baggage, is sent packing. And good riddance.
But as luck would have it, they're in a pickle. The point comes around full circle, their criticism is a wild goose chase, and their reasoning is dead as a doornail. This "laughing stock" of a writer invented every underlined word and phrase in this posting. In one fell swoop, their position, bag and baggage, is sent packing. And good riddance.
There is a method to your madness, Grandpa.
Though it be "madness, yet there is method in't" -Hamlet
I think one reason some people do not like Shakespeare is because it was "required" reading. Many teachers made it so dull and dry. It was like nails on a chalkboard. There were some teachers who made Shakespeare a joy-- I was lucky to have such a teacher in HS.
Those readers, who in adult hood, go back and read Shakespeare for pleasure often have a different reaction.
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
-W. Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
-W. Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
Those and a thousand other 'common sayings' that weren't at all common until the West's most powerful wordslinger of all made them up
Shakespeare's works weren't really written to be read, but watched. That's probably got a lot to do with it.
That and these works were plays, meant to be performed to get the full richness of the stories and the language. Prose that can be dry as dust when read only in the head, without proper inflection, or confusing because of unfamiliar words/phrasing spring to life when performed or read aloud, at the very least. Shakespeare wrote for the common man, for heaven's sake, and we (corporately, as a people) venerate his plays like they were holy scripture and we're the unwashed and unworthy
Watch a play or movie, or read the plays aloud, and they're very accessible. Like I told Doc Creed a while back, you haven't lived until you listen to your kids laugh at 400 year old dirty jokes--lol.Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is a fabulous filmed version of the play! Modern clothing and settings, but Shakespeare's language. Nathan Fillion does the best Dogberry I've ever seen--he really should have gotten an Oscar nom. He gave dignity to a slight secondary character that is often played purely for farcical laughs (Keaton did him that way in the Kenneth Branagh version).