"All of Shakespeare's stuff is very depressing..." RUBBISH! All of his TRAGEDIES are very depressing 'cause they're, you know, TRAGIC. His COMEDIES, on the other hand, are HILARIOUS. Like MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, which I think is my favourite Shakespeare. :D And his SONNETS are beautiful. In fact, that's the real point of Shakespeare; its sheer beauty. Perhaps you don't get it but... didn't "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like some rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear Beauty to rich for use, for earth too dear.." move you? I love those lines. And then think about Shakespeare's amazing influence on the English language. A dove trouping with crows, that which we call a rose, it's all Greek to me and SO SO SO many more- all those phrases we use in day to day language. And some of the most amazing speeches, like Shylock's "to bait fish, withal" speech from Merchant of Venice: “I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
And there's more.
I guess what I'm saying is, I approve of the flowery words; I think they're beautiful and expressive. Maybe you need to actually watch the plays instead of studying them. :D
And as for funny- "I shall cut off their heads!" "Their heads, or their maidenheads?" "Both!" >.< I had to explain that pun to my class when I was thriteen. I wouldn't mind now, but it's morfitying for a thirteen-year-old... :o
"Do you bite your thumb at me?" "I do not bite my thumb at you, sir- but I do bite my thumb, sir!"
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Date: 2004-09-24 03:56 am (UTC)"All of Shakespeare's stuff is very depressing..."
RUBBISH! All of his TRAGEDIES are very depressing 'cause they're, you know, TRAGIC. His COMEDIES, on the other hand, are HILARIOUS. Like MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, which I think is my favourite Shakespeare. :D And his SONNETS are beautiful. In fact, that's the real point of Shakespeare; its sheer beauty. Perhaps you don't get it but... didn't "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
like some rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
Beauty to rich for use, for earth too dear.."
move you? I love those lines. And then think about Shakespeare's amazing influence on the English language. A dove trouping with crows, that which we call a rose, it's all Greek to me and SO SO SO many more- all those phrases we use in day to day language. And some of the most amazing speeches, like Shylock's "to bait fish, withal" speech from Merchant of Venice:
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
And there's more.
I guess what I'm saying is, I approve of the flowery words; I think they're beautiful and expressive. Maybe you need to actually watch the plays instead of studying them. :D
And as for funny-
"I shall cut off their heads!"
"Their heads, or their maidenheads?"
"Both!"
>.< I had to explain that pun to my class when I was thriteen. I wouldn't mind now, but it's morfitying for a thirteen-year-old... :o
"Do you bite your thumb at me?"
"I do not bite my thumb at you, sir- but I do bite my thumb, sir!"