No, this is not a homework question. :) Just being a curious Dalek this fine Saturday.......
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14390530&ps=bb1
2007-09-15 02:50:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
p.s: Some of you long-term Dr. Who fans may recognize the actor playing Lear's Fool friend in the accompanying NPR link......
2007-09-15 02:50:54 · update #1
*cautiously looks both ways for any wayward R&S people*
When people try to insist that I have to subscribe to one prophet or another… I tell them if they MUST label me in such a fashion, call me a Shakespeare-ist.
“Do unto others…” is all fine and good, but I believe:
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
And I think a great many of life’s BIG questions are answered with:
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
And I’m also quite sure:
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven.”
And lest we forget matters of deepest significance… it is imperative before embarking on any journey to ask yourself:
“To pee or not to pee…?”
2007-09-16 00:19:47 · answer #1 · answered by sueflower 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, there's the language. Poetic, some of it arcane, some of it as modern as today, romantic, vulgar but witty, and deep.
Then there's the stories. The most mundane passages are wrought with a mysterious thread that runs through the most trite passages. The profundity of it all is amazing. He is not only a master of understatement but I marvel at the way he unravels the story lines so organically while maintaining the tensions and mysteries inherent to the plot. In short, the scope is majestic. What better philosophy can we know than this?
2007-09-15 04:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
(1) Added several great movies to my DVD collection, including Romeo & Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968), and its derivative West Side Story (1961); The Taming of the Shrew (Taylor & Burton, 1967), and its derivative McLintock! (John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara, 1963); and Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino, 2004).
(2) Gave me lots of cliche lines I can use when I want something everyone will recognize.
(3) Got me an A in English in high school.
2007-09-15 15:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daily mantra is Shakespeare: Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. The words make good sense and have gotten me through a lot over the years. Perhaps a tattoo is in order? To be honest, not a day goes by without some bit of Shakespeare for me and those unfortunate enough to be around me have to put up with it too. Did not get much from high school as I am a drop out.
Shakespeare speaks to every man of every time. Besides, Dalek....you know my sonnet! He wrote it just for me! Shall I remind you?
Let me not to the marriage of two minds admit impediments....
2007-09-15 10:38:21 · answer #4 · answered by Mustardseed 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Everybody who seriously gets involved with English as a foreign
( second ) language like me will eventually run into Shakespeare. .........It's hard to avoid the bard.
Most (mis)quoted writer ever probably, often without people even being
aware of it.
He influenced everybody, and is sometimes shamelessly plagiarized.
Shakespeare: " To be or not to be "
Frank Sinatra: " Do be do be do be "
Fred Flintstone " Ya ba da ba do "
No more need to elaborate, case closed.
2007-09-17 11:59:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Verily the bard lifts my spirits. In moments when I have heard some celebrity airhead saying "like, that was so...like...coooool", I open my complete works and marvel at metaphors, assonance, symbolism, and plot construction, and remind myself of the beauty of the English lnaguage. I love Shakespeare. But then I am a boring old curmudgeon.
2007-09-16 08:26:09 · answer #6 · answered by Shona L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Parts of my life were much ado about nothing.
There was a tempest during my midsummer nights dream.
My Mother called for the taming of the shrew (me) when I wouldn't stop saying "out damn spot".
My Romeo ran off with Othello...
oh, and I love roses
2007-09-15 17:24:55 · answer #7 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'There are more things in Heaven and Earth..than are dreamt of in your philosophy..'
Not only do those words apply to literature itself, for the Bard gave me the understanding that even the classics were, in some cases, well written..but that an entire world lay out there..a world just waiting to be explored.
2007-09-15 03:23:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Julius Caesar taught me you can't trust elected officials with your life...
The Merchant of Venice taught me to becareful what you ask for.
Hamlet taught me that your relatives might not always have your best interests at heart
2007-09-15 05:45:49 · answer #9 · answered by Chicken Dude..Vinster 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dalek, Dalek, wherefore art thou Dalek ?
A true tragedy of faith and honor .
So goes life !!
2007-09-15 04:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by iambettyboop 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋