I really enjoy Shakespeare. I was introduced to his work in high school and now that I'm out I still read it for fun. Yeah I know it's geeky but I don't care. I think his plays are really funny and/or entertaining. It's really easy to understand if you listen to the expression/tone of the lines being read on a recorded tape, or you have a side-by-side translation in a book, then you look back on the original text, and you're like "oh yeah that makes sense now."
2006-09-14 19:01:38 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yeah well kind of...Shakespeare is early Modern English, but people really didn't talk in verse, rhyme, etc. they still just talked in prose like we do today.
2006-09-14 19:14:19 · update #1
I absolutely adore Shakespeare's works. They're so beautiful and playful.
I read his, and Wilde's, plays all the time.
There is such beauty and subtley, that modern books/movies/plays just don't seem to get.
2006-09-14 23:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i began out quite detached and that i'm now a fan. they're performs. they're meant to be considered on a point; the words are meant to be spoken. it ought to look unusual, however the words unquestionably make greater experience while they're spoken. i think of it is partly via fact actors' skills, which incorporate staging and props positioned across fairly some nonverbal advice that facilitates you interpret the words, and partly via fact whilst listening that is much less demanding to confirm what's significant and what's okay to clear out. Do understand that leisure takes a splash of attempt. The language does require a splash greater interest than greater modern-day performs. anticipate to have challenge expertise various the phraseology. that is high quality not be sure what he ability by ability of this line or that. not in hassle-free terms is Shakespeare's English 500 years previous, he's likewise plenty greater playful with the language than we are used to with our journalistic post-Hemingway aesthetic. yet be sparkling: Shakespeare's language isn't "previous English." that is Early cutting-edge English, and that is plenty closer than you will possibly think of. a splash attempt will pay off immensely, exceedingly in case you get excitement from notice video games. i might commence with those performs that have dissimilar action picture modifications. Hamlet has been filmed dissimilar circumstances: watch as many as you could and spot no rely if it grows on you. in my view, i think of Hamlet is in hassle-free terms a splash puffed up and seems to deliver out various the worst in people who produce it, yet nevertheless that is one in all Shakespeare's maximum many times quoted performs and time spent with that is not wasted. If the Hamlet movies look to ponderous, try lighter ones: 12th night is exciting, as is Midsummer night's Dream. From there circulate directly to different performs -- and help community productions whenever you could.
2016-10-15 00:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing geeky about Shakespeare - good for you! Since you love it, start memorizing his more famous scenes and wow your friends (or just yourself). Most of our "sayings" come from Shakespeare as you have already found out. Have fun, best wishes!
2006-09-14 19:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enjoy watching it a lot more than I do reading it, especially the greats like Sir Lawrence Olivier and Richard Burton. Reading it is too much work.
2006-09-14 19:11:15 · answer #4 · answered by eggman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, people speak in phrases, not full prose most of the time. People don't speak in strictly declarative sentences most of the time.
Shakespeare is probably the best English writer ever. I would say he definitely is.
2006-09-15 12:48:39 · answer #5 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it takes about 5 minutes for your ear and brain to "tune in" to the language, but after that, it's perfectly understandable in performance.
Anyone who has trouble should start with the Kenneth Brannagh version of "Much Ado About Nothing" which is funny, charming, touching and sexy.
2006-09-14 21:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by UKJess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enjoy Shakespeare too.
2006-09-15 03:16:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its not that I'm bored by it. I just have to devote such a large portion of brain power to decoding that its hard to enjoy it. Did people really talk like that?
2006-09-14 19:05:08 · answer #8 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do, but many don't understand the plays and poems.
I like the old spelling.
My favourite is the poem:The phoenix and the turtle.
2006-09-14 20:08:55 · answer #9 · answered by Chantal D. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ya kidin me.when ya play shakespere yal never get to sit unless you're the king.
2006-09-14 19:04:15 · answer #10 · answered by haanofonua 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋