Shakespeare Meme
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charliesmumHow can I not do this Shakespeare meme? Not sure how compelling this will be, or if I'll even keep up, but here it goes:
Day #1: Your favorite play
I suppose I'd have to say A Midsummer Night's Dream simply because it is the play that introduced me to Shakespeare. I was, oh, 10 or so, I suppose, and in an acting class, and my teacher decided our group was ready to try a scene from Shakespeare. We did the bit where the Mechanicals are in the Wood getting ready to rehearse the play, and Puck comes along and turns Bottom into an Ass. I was Puck.
This was when I discovered Shakespeare wasn't boring and tedious, but funny, and I never looked back.
However, I did go through a Romeo and Juliet phase not long after that. I'd gotten a copy of the play in a used book store - the kind thathad definitions and information on one side. In addition the previous owner had written notes, which really helped me learn to understand Shakespeare. I looked upon that mysterious person as a friend and teacher. I had that silly play down by heart, practically.
But...could I really call either of those my 'favourite' now? Probably not. I think Richard III is up there at this point - the characters are compelling, the language is amazing, and the story is, well, wrong, but fantastic.
Actually, the more I think about this the harder it is to pin down. I pick one, then I think, 'oh, but Macbeth. Macbeth is great! oh, and what about King Lear!' King Lear is amazing. And Much Ado About Nothing!
I really just love his works. Don't really think I can narrow it down.
Question 11 might actually be easier.
Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
An aside to Sarah Palin: Just shut up. Shakespeare coined new words. He didn't screw up an existing word and then pretend it is a new one. Or, you know what? Even if he did he did, it better than you ever would, because he UNDERSTOOD the language. You? Not so much.
Day #1: Your favorite play
I suppose I'd have to say A Midsummer Night's Dream simply because it is the play that introduced me to Shakespeare. I was, oh, 10 or so, I suppose, and in an acting class, and my teacher decided our group was ready to try a scene from Shakespeare. We did the bit where the Mechanicals are in the Wood getting ready to rehearse the play, and Puck comes along and turns Bottom into an Ass. I was Puck.
This was when I discovered Shakespeare wasn't boring and tedious, but funny, and I never looked back.
However, I did go through a Romeo and Juliet phase not long after that. I'd gotten a copy of the play in a used book store - the kind thathad definitions and information on one side. In addition the previous owner had written notes, which really helped me learn to understand Shakespeare. I looked upon that mysterious person as a friend and teacher. I had that silly play down by heart, practically.
But...could I really call either of those my 'favourite' now? Probably not. I think Richard III is up there at this point - the characters are compelling, the language is amazing, and the story is, well, wrong, but fantastic.
Actually, the more I think about this the harder it is to pin down. I pick one, then I think, 'oh, but Macbeth. Macbeth is great! oh, and what about King Lear!' King Lear is amazing. And Much Ado About Nothing!
I really just love his works. Don't really think I can narrow it down.
Question 11 might actually be easier.
Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
An aside to Sarah Palin: Just shut up. Shakespeare coined new words. He didn't screw up an existing word and then pretend it is a new one. Or, you know what? Even if he did he did, it better than you ever would, because he UNDERSTOOD the language. You? Not so much.