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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 14, 2008 21:08:46 GMT -5
Did anyone hear this line this week? And if so, are you going to lock yourself inside all day tomorrow? What do you remember about Shakespeare from high school? I know there is a minority that go back and read his writings later on in life, but for the most part, we all read him in high school. What sticks with you? I always think of Caesar this time of year, and that line actually is ingrained into my brain far deeper than anything from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is usually the dialogue people remember (blah blah blah, and Juliet is the sun!). So, Shakespeare. Talk about him. Memories. All that.
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Post by Janitor From Mars on Mar 14, 2008 21:16:19 GMT -5
For it was the Ides of March in which Julius Caesar bore witness to the true intentions of his friends and allies.
et tu brute?
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Post by erisi236 on Mar 14, 2008 21:16:59 GMT -5
I'm a bit obsessed with Othello myself. Iago is the best villain ever.
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Post by big nasty on Mar 14, 2008 21:17:41 GMT -5
i read them again a few years after high school, i need to read em again. julius caesar and macbeth are my favorites, though i've only read a handful. im really not crazy about romeo and juliet, at all.
what really sticks in my mind, however, is once people got over the "ugh shakespeare" mindset, some of the last people you'd think really got into the stories.
"fill my cup till it runs over, i cannot drink too much of brutus' love" or something like that. great line
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Post by Janitor From Mars on Mar 14, 2008 21:25:23 GMT -5
I'm still a big Shakespeare mark.
Seriously, Julius Caesar ranks up there as one of the greatest plays I've ever read.
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Post by MCMGM on Mar 14, 2008 21:36:44 GMT -5
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Post by dorf on Mar 14, 2008 21:37:36 GMT -5
I am running in a 7.4 mile race....hmm, I shall keep that beware and raise it up to anxiety.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Mar 14, 2008 21:49:14 GMT -5
No...
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 14, 2008 21:53:52 GMT -5
Macbeth is my favorite personally.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Mar 14, 2008 21:58:08 GMT -5
My 3 favorite plays EVER are written by Shakespeare:
1) Hamlet 2) Macbeth 3) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Funny that Shakespeare's longest and shortest plays are my #1 and #2.
I also had to analyze them for my senior English class. Hamlet was a requirement. Macbeth was by my own choosing.
I put Hamlet above Macbeth because I had to remember all of Hamlet's lines and he really grew on me as a character.
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Post by MysteryPartner on Mar 15, 2008 0:08:14 GMT -5
I thought this was about the national protest tomorrow.. which I will be participating in
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2008 0:22:38 GMT -5
No... I was about to do that...
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Mar 15, 2008 0:22:53 GMT -5
No... Beat me to it, ya bastard.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 15, 2008 1:22:27 GMT -5
Hamlet is greatness as well... I will have to agree.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 15, 2008 1:29:58 GMT -5
Gotta go with Titus Andronicus myself. His other stuff is so tame compared to that one.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 15, 2008 1:33:24 GMT -5
I just looked Titus Andronicus up on Google... and I am wondering how I never read that before.
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Post by tankmcquade on Mar 15, 2008 1:33:25 GMT -5
"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore I am no beast."--Richard III
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 15, 2008 1:36:51 GMT -5
I just looked Titus Andronicus up on Google... and I am wondering how I never read that before. Oh, it's awesome. In college, I took a Shakespeare class and discovered it there. It amazed me that everyone else in the class was still doing stuff regarding Julius, R&J...the same ones we'd been reading since junior high. In a class of some 40-50 people, I was the only one to do a final thesis on that one.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 15, 2008 1:42:37 GMT -5
I just looked Titus Andronicus up on Google... and I am wondering how I never read that before. Oh, it's awesome. In college, I took a Shakespeare class and discovered it there. It amazed me that everyone else in the class was still doing stuff regarding Julius, R&J...the same ones we'd been reading since junior high. In a class of some 40-50 people, I was the only one to do a final thesis on that one. shakespeare.mit.edu/I have some reading to do. I am intrigued by the premise. Thank you for mentioning this work of his.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Mar 15, 2008 1:44:17 GMT -5
I just looked Titus Andronicus up on Google... and I am wondering how I never read that before. Oh, it's awesome. In college, I took a Shakespeare class and discovered it there. It amazed me that everyone else in the class was still doing stuff regarding Julius, R&J...the same ones we'd been reading since junior high. In a class of some 40-50 people, I was the only one to do a final thesis on that one. Wow.....I've already read, memorized, and fell in love with the 4 Shakespeare I read for high school: Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. I probably would've read Shakespeare all 4 years if it wasn't for Junior English being American Literature. That was cool and all, but there was no Shakespeare! So I had to read the three next best things: - The Great Gatsby - The Crucible - In Cold Blood Now that I think about it, those three sort of were modern day Shakespeare works.....
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