Re: A bit of a problem.
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:10:53 +1000
> As for your opinion of Shakespeare, try giving old Billy a chance also.
He's written stacks and stacks of
> plays, so your evaluation of his work is pretty narrow if you've only
tried one. Read Hamlet. Read Othello.
Sometimes I'm of the mind that Shakespeare just shouldn't be taught in
schools. I had Othello ruined for me by an extra lousy teacher (I'm sure
I'm the only student in history who slipped a copy of `Romeo and Juliet'
into the covers of `Othello' (: I still don't think it's one of his better
plays ) The best thing to do would be to go see a production and then read
the play - a *good* production I must stress, because there are many awful
productions around - because ultimately he was meant to be seen, not read.
I sure hope you've seen the movie `Romeo + Juliet' because that's a perfect
illustration of what I'm talking about - Shakespeare that *doesn't*
alienate; because it shouldn't - he was a populist, in fact, as I've said
before, he was basically a Renaissance Steven Spielberg! There's a lot of
good Shakespeare movies out there too - the recent Richard III, Kenneth
Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing or Henry V ... you might'nt be too crash
hot on the old Olivier ones though (I'm of much the same opinion as Holden
on them)
Camille
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