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100 Bookish Things 23

Jan 23, 2016 22:08

In a desperate attempt to get me posting here regularly again I have resurrected an old, incomplete meme. It seems I was going to make 100 bookish posts but didn't get very far, so I'm going to pick it up ( Read more... )

100 things, teaching shakespeare

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archaeologist_d January 23 2016, 23:09:59 UTC

The character, Hamlet, drives me crazy. He's just so emo that I want to throttle him. The play has got beautiful language, though. Shakespeare loved to play with words and I loved him for it.

Do you think if they used the original accents that it would be more or less interesting to an audience?

My family once visited the castle that they said Elsinore was supposedly based upon. Kronberg.

clara_posts January 31 2016, 22:25:13 UTC

I think that Original Pronounciation can make the plays more interesting - it's a much faster pace and it can change the way that characters move and speak. ben Crystal told me that Hamlet felt a much less passive character when he played him in OP.

archaeologist_d February 3 2016, 14:09:58 UTC

I'm going to have to try and see one in OP and see if I can understand anything they are saying. I have a hard enough time with accents (and hearing these days). But it sounds like it would be fun!

natsuko1978 January 25 2016, 09:44:23 UTC

Hamlet was one of the two Shakespeare plays I studied at A Level (the other was King Lear). Our exam board (can't remember which witout raking out my certificates!) allowed us to study Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Edward Bond's Lear as companion texts, which was v. interesting! (And also meant we got to watch the Gary Oldman and Tim Roth film of R&G in class ( ... )

clara_posts January 31 2016, 22:28:46 UTC

I loved Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - I did a speech from it for one of my drama school auditions (maybe why I didn't get in!)

I had to dop Othello too and it's probably one of my least favourite plays - Iago is a great character but Othello is such a bloody idiot!!

David Tennant was a bit too twitchy for me as Hamlet, drove me mad. I haven't seen a really good Hamlet since about 1985 when I saw Roger rees play him. Oddly, it's not as often performed as some of the other tragedies, probably because it's so long!

There's lots of Globe DVDs and also a Globe Player where you can pay to watch the productions. Very good they are too!

biggelois January 27 2016, 07:34:48 UTC

I have to agree with Archaeologist; Hamlet is the ultimate emo character.
Years and years ago I watched the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet.That was like having a snack. Then I saw the Branagh version, talk about 8 course dinner.

I've been to Kronborg Castle, it was full of guards stopping people from nicking the flintstones which covered the ground.

clara_posts January 31 2016, 22:29:42 UTC

I loved Hamlet because I was emo too... before emo even existed! That explains my current music taste!!

I would like to go to Elsinore. One day.