Funnily enough, I was recently chatting with anteros_lmc about a 'Live Hamlet universe' with Hamlet and Horatio ("I will wear thee in my heart of hearts") as a couple.
BTW Have you seen the RSC's version of Nicholas Nickleby, which features a play within a play of R&J with a happy ending?
Yep. The very same. It's a filmed version fo the mammoth stage production (done over two nights). we saw it at Stratford with Michael Siberry in the lead but the TV version is great, too. Lead actor is gay, BTW.
Nope, it's a tragedy!I think I'm right in saying that it was based on 'The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet' written by - um - someone else. (No such thing as plagiarism in those days!) It's one of those plays where you keep wanting to scream at the characters 'Wait! Don't be so stupid!'
A while back I wrote an entire journal entry bemoaning the fact that so many readers become so angry with writers who don't serve them the requisite HEA. I specifically called out one small press (who shall remain nameless, here) because, in the submissions section of their website, they condescendingly intimate that it's only losers and/or fools who would even think of writing anything other than a happily-ever-after. In my rebuttal I invoked the names of several such assholes - Shakespeare, of course, being chief among them.
Oh and both of those actors look piteously long in the tooth to be potraying two young puppets caught up in their parents' feud. You'd think, at the ripe old age of 42, Romeo might be allowed to make his own decisions, eh?
Yeah, I've seen some of those arguments from die-hard Romance fans who go so far as to accuse a publisher of fraud if they dare to market a book as a Romance without a happy ending.
It makes as much sense as the original ending. I mean, honestly, Julie had been dead how long and she's still fresh as a daisy -- no maggots, no sunken eyes, no general decrepitude... and Romey didn't bother finding Friar L and asking WTF before barging into the crypt? The tragedy wasn't that they died, it was that Romeo was so stupid and precipitate.
Those two actors look more like the parents of Romeo & Juliet. Mr. Montague, meet Mrs Capulet.
I KNOW! That's what I mean -- you can't "simulate" being dead for a week. Romeo had seen dead people before. If she had any body temp, if she was close enough to consciousness to wake up ten minutes after her hubby offed himself, she should have had a pulse.
Sorry, I do medical research when I nearly kill somebody.... this play has irritated me since I was about twelve. They weren't romantic, they were idiots.
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Funnily enough, I was recently chatting with anteros_lmc about a 'Live Hamlet universe' with Hamlet and Horatio ("I will wear thee in my heart of hearts") as a couple.
BTW Have you seen the RSC's version of Nicholas Nickleby, which features a play within a play of R&J with a happy ending?
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I've not seen that. I'll have to watch for it on TV.
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A while back I wrote an entire journal entry bemoaning the fact that so many readers become so angry with writers who don't serve them the requisite HEA. I specifically called out one small press (who shall remain nameless, here) because, in the submissions section of their website, they condescendingly intimate that it's only losers and/or fools who would even think of writing anything other than a happily-ever-after. In my rebuttal I invoked the names of several such assholes - Shakespeare, of course, being chief among them.
Oh and both of those actors look piteously long in the tooth to be potraying two young puppets caught up in their parents' feud. You'd think, at the ripe old age of 42, Romeo might be allowed to make his own decisions, eh?
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Those two actors look more like the parents of Romeo & Juliet. Mr. Montague, meet Mrs Capulet.
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Sorry, I do medical research when I nearly kill somebody.... this play has irritated me since I was about twelve. They weren't romantic, they were idiots.
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