Shakespeare - Page 3 - Writers Forum

Jolly McJollyson · 12-01-2006, 08:01 PM

I'm fond of Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus, myself.

CandieK · 12-01-2006, 11:33 PM

"Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
What thou hast said to me." --Hamlet

There is so much I love about his plays. On my 'list' of things to do in my life, I want to appreciate Shakespeare and his works. But that number will go unchecked, because it will take my whole life.

Carrie · 12-02-2006, 10:02 AM

"...and since I am dead,
I can take off my head!
to recite Shakespearian quotations!"

Sorry...all this talk about Shakespeare reminded me of a random verse from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
*^_^*

mvr_moorthy · 12-03-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Fakespeare

I can officially call my self a Shakespeare fan (hence the nickname). I've read at least 10 plays, been in one (love's labours lost), and I own (and never take off) a bracelet with sonnet 116 on it.

The bard is a genius. His comedy, his plots, his wonderful dialogue.... *sighs in wonder*

Anyone who disrespects the bard deserves an Elizabethan punishment, if you ask me. Until you have a full and complete understanding of something, don't judge it negatively. Unless it's cauliflower. In that case, judge away.

Yes! Sonnet116 is great-- I used to like it . But what about this one?
Since you love to analyse language --- just look at the following lines from sonnet 30: "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,unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night...."
Yes- this is the line that overwhelmed me with its profoundness.

Fakespeare · 12-04-2006, 12:10 PM

Ooh! That's beautiful!Man. Isn't he frighteningly brilliant? I wonder if he ever had writers block.

Fakespeare · 12-04-2006, 12:10 PM

Ooh! That's beautiful!Man. Isn't he frighteningly brilliant? I wonder if he ever had writers block.

Jolly McJollyson · 12-04-2006, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Fakespeare

Ooh! That's beautiful!Man. Isn't he frighteningly brilliant? I wonder if he ever had writers block.

He did once. It's called Sonnet 46.

Mine eye and heart are at mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight.
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart, mine eye the freedom of that right.

My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes;
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him they fair appearance lies.

To 'cide this title is empanelled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part,

As thus: mine eye's due is thy outward part,
And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.

Oooooohhhh I wish that I had JESSIE'S GIRRRRL!

Where can I FIND a woman like THAT?
Like Jessie's GIIIIRL!

Just cheesy.

mvr_moorthy · 12-06-2006, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Fakespeare

Ooh! That's beautiful!Man. Isn't he frighteningly brilliant? I wonder if he ever had writers block.

Thanks. Now writer's block is not a bad idea. I started searching for poems that have a similar lilt,and a flighty start and the same slender sadness too deep and dear for tears.Well you may read a few of the following sonnets and check whether they have that magical block!! I am giving the first lines of the sonnets....
18. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?......
30. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought......
55. Not marble , nor the gilded monuments.....
65. Since brass, nor stone,nor earth, nor boundless sea........
73. That time of the year thou mayst in me behold.....
91. Some glory in thy birth....
106. When in the chronicles of wasted time...
116. Let me not to the marriage of true minds......
130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.......
132. Thine eyes I love, and they,as pitying me ......
138. When my love swears that she is made of truth.....
144.Two loves I have of comfort and despair.....
Look for the three dimensions I have mentioned in these poems.

heatherlouise · 12-18-2006, 11:24 AM

i have only read one Shakespear play (The Tempest) and we are doing it in school now for our exams. but it is so boring. when i first read it i thought it was really good, but then when i actually started to understand it, it seemed so much less fun. i really would like to read a couple more and enjoy them more, because the guy was so amazing and i feel cheeky not liking his work, but the Tempest is boring, lol.
heather

knglerxt · 12-26-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MrTamborineMan

Exactly! I doubt Shakespeare really wrote with the depth that people suggest.

I've thought this myself. I mean you go to any library or bookstore and there are tons of books on dissecting his works. Even books that contain his plays are over half full of analyses. It just seems like too much depth to me.

knglerxt · 12-26-2006, 07:48 PM

This is my favorite quote. It's in a book by Anthony Robbins (a famous motivational speaker) called Unlimited Power.

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare

coral · 01-31-2007, 03:05 AM

I did a whole year of Shakespeare when I was in Uni. I think I read pretty much every play he wrote. He is amazing

What is cool about Shakespeare is that there are still so many phrases, metaphors and the like that we even use today, that he first introduced in his sommets and plays. (Please don't ask me to name a few, I can't remember of hand - but if I have time I will look it up)

Shawn · 01-31-2007, 07:03 AM

In the old reference books for English we have in our Library, there's one section for common phrases, one section for Shakespeare, and one section for the rest.

I'm really interested in Iambic Pentameter, though. It's really cool how some famous lines are in pentameter. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" From the Declaration of Independence is in pentameter, and it is a brilliant sentence.

Arin · 02-20-2007, 10:01 PM

I'm a Shakespeare nut as well.

I think my favorites would have to be Macbeth, Henry V, and Much Ado about Nothing. And Twelfth Night. It's hard to choose.

I'm in a Shakespeare company for kids (not school affiliated) so I've been in (or helped out with) around ten productions. I've seen quite a few on stage, as well as read them in school. But the great thing about the director of my company is that she allows us to analyze the text ourselves while teaching it to us, as well as directing. We may not hit on everything a school teacher would, but we gain a profound understanding of the plays through that analysis. I think the method of breaking down Shakespeare's works is what makes it or breaks it. Yes, by analyzing you can reduce it to bland, mechanical writing techniques or you can uncover the intricacies of his work and therefore the magnitude of his genius.

G. Palmer · 02-27-2007, 01:52 AM

Shakespeare is a love hate relationship for me, I like it but I dislike the incredible workload that comes with it - I wrote about three pages doing little more than analysis of a single soliquary the other day - and that was only half of the exercise.