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ArgoXavier

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I'm a huge Shakespeare fan. I just finish Othello this morning and loved it...i have read many other of his sonnets and plays and i just wanted to know if anybody else read his work and what they think of it...

I plan to read King Lear and Corilanus over break...

(also please don't give spoils about any plays)
 
My favorite Shakespeare play was The Tempest. At least, I think that's what it was called. I really do enjoy shakespeare, but you have to think so much about his stuff, it's hard to read a lot of his work and enjoy it. Once you read too much it just becomes a chore. :lol

I've only read a handful of his plays and sonnets though. I haven't read Othello or King Lear, and I would like to read both of those. I've read all the stuff they made me in school, like Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, etc., and I enjoyed it, but only after analyzing it. Sometimes it's hard for me to figure out what I'm supposed to notice about the characters and what they say, because at first it all seems abnormal in some way. That's why I can't really enjoy his plays until I start thinking about it scene by scene and such.
 
I just finished reading through Julius Caesar, for school. After reading it, I realized his plays were supposed to be seen, not read. His writing can be so horribly boring, when reading it, but (we also watched a play version of it) seeing it, with good acting, was actual pretty entertaining. Shakespeare wrote his plays, as something to be performed, not read, and I'm convinced just reading them makes them lose much of their effect.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
I just finished reading through Julius Caesar, for school. After reading it, I realized his plays were supposed to be seen, not read. His writing can be so horribly boring, when reading it, but (we also watched a play version of it) seeing it, with good acting, was actual pretty entertaining. Shakespeare wrote his plays, as something to be performed, not read, and I'm convinced just reading them makes them lose much of their effect.
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Very good point. Seeing his plays makes much more sense to me than reading them. Once I know how the lines are supposed to be spoken and emphasized, the pieces fall into place a lot quicker.
 
Ive read and watched Romeo and Juliet (60's version) and I agree with Cherry.
 
In highschool, I took this law-related English class. And we took Macbeth and put him on trial for Murder. I was on the defense team, and got a hung jury. We would have got an acquittal , but one of the jurors had read the play and lied during selection. We had the city prosecutor, and an Arizona Supreme court justice watch our trial. Seven hours long, it was the coolest thing I did in high school. And has fueled my admiration of Shakespeare.
 
That's awesome. It reminds me of the time I got to debate whether or not the moon landing was a hoax. I said it was real, and trounced the opposition. No judges came to watch it though...
 
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