Re: Who wrote Holden Caulfield
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:35:01 -0800 (PST)
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> Go back to Shakepeare - that is, the bare bones, the text. Then
imagine the
> middle of the day in a stinking Elizabethan theatre with idiots
throwing
> chestnuts at each other, gettting drunk in the aisles and trying to
chat up
> people. Then think of the bear baiting next door and all the noise and
> other things that you as an actor/playwright have to compete with to
keep
> the audience's attention; to keep bums on seats as they say. Then
think of
> the plays - all the weird juxtapositions of high camp comedy
slapstick with
> extreme tragedy, a song in the middle of nowhere that has little to
do with
> the narrative - and most of all, a young (and obviously male) actor
doing
> his best as Juliet to perform a tragic death.
>
> Shakespeare was simply his generation's Steven Speilberg. There's no
better
> analogy for it. In the end, he didn't even believe he was creating
high
> art. He was just making a living.
>
> P.S. `From their mouths naught doth flow/But Juliet and Romeo'
> - Quote in early 17th century made by a townsperson sick and
tired of
> hearing how cool Shakespeare's `Romeo and Juliet' is (true!)
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
Before someone mentioned the movie I was talking to one of my
co-workers and we were discussing how the new R&J was pretty trashy..
The explosions, guns, transvestites, tatoos, and Prince made me
cringe. None of it felt like Shakespeare to me. Also, I read the play
and I know that R&J's death scene was different in that silly movie.
-Liz Friedman
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