Hello.

Hi.

Greetings.

Is that Shakespeare-Art?

"Oh, foul dribblings upon the canvas, methinks the most distinct zephyr hath more resolve that I, lo..."

Not the shadow again! Wow! Paddy made a shakespearian board! Is that something to do with tomorrow?

And thank goodness this place is back up, or else I would have staved away . . .

Shakespeare! Woo-hoo! does a happy dance

So what shall we talk about first?

Your choice, my friend.

The Klingons didn't write Hamlet, the ripped it off from Fox in Socks, Prince of Denmark.

Klingon Plagiarists! Well, they stole in from The Lion King, itself merely a cheap imitation of Kimba the white Lion.

So, to sum up, Kimba the White Lion is the cornerstone of the Western Canon. The horror, the horror... ;-)

So what did you think of Twelfth Night, Padawan?

It was a good performance, it had a great cast but Antonio the sea captain kept on forgetting his lines! There was an intermission in about the middle, just after the letter scene.

You know, when I was involved in that youth production of TN our Antonio kept forgetting his lines... weird. :-)

BTW -- I don't think I've gone on about this here yet, but next week the Royal Shakespeare Company starts their residency in Ann Arbor! They'll be performing the three Henry VI plays and Richard III -- the first time they've done all four as a sequence, and it premieres right here. I'm completely euphoric about the whole thing, naturally... :-)

(And by the time I see the plays -- a week and a half -- my thesis will be DONE! Oh, joy unbounded...)

So how about that new theory that Shakespear was a drug user?
Preparing to duck behind the furniture

Sherlock Holmes was, and we still read his adventures. It just didn't have the stigma back then that it does now...

"Watson, have you seen my cocaine?"

"Yes, Holmes. He was in 'Zulu' and 'The Ipcress File' wasn't he?"

(sorry ... sorry)

Say... has anyone seen that film of A Midsummer Night's Dream? What did you think?

I saw it not too long after it came out -- it wasn't bad at all! Kevin Kline was awesome as Bottom, and Stanley Tucci was lots of fun as Puck. Both Michelle Pfieffer and Callista Flockhard were much better than I expected. I do think, though, that the movie doesn't do a good job establishing an otherworldly atmosphere for the fairies -- the mortals have all this gorgeous Tuscan scenery to play with, but the fairies are running around on a very stagey-looking set. And I HATED the way they did the "Over hill, over dale" speech; the actress delivering it sounded like she'd been hauling heavy appliances around all day. Now, it's good to be different, but not at the expense of the text!

On the whole, though, a very enjoyable movie. I also liked the use of opera and of Mendelssohn's MSND score, which I've always loved. :-)

(Side note on MSND, mostly for Padawan's sake: did you know that there's a musical called "Dream" which reimagines the play as a Gilbert and Sullivan-style operetta? :-) )

Yes, I heard about that, I wish I could hear it, though. BTW, I had a fair idea before I heard about it how the various charcaters would fit the mould, more or less.

And I HATED the way they did the "Over hill, over dale" speech; the actress delivering it sounded like she'd been hauling heavy appliances around all day. Now, it's good to be different, but not at the expense of the text!

I suppose it just shows she is tired and annoyed with Puck, but it does seem like one of those "modernist interpretations" type of things.

I might point out that the film also implies that without the new "notably discharged" scene the performers were to be executed. I'm sure this isn't the case.

Hey, what the heck happened to this board??

To post, or not to post.
That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous nits,
or to take arms against a sea of trolls,
and by opposing, end them.

The tv movie "The Tempest" set during the civil war was the worst thing in the history of film. Stay clear of it. "A Midsummer Night's Dream", on the other hand, was very well done. Amazing how one Shakespeare play works so well when shifted in time, but another is destroyed by it. One last comment on "The Tempest." Its set in a swamp and they turned Caliban into Gator-man. AAARRRGGGHHH!

I think you mean "and by IGNORING, end them." Eh, Scott? :-)

This board is a tale twice told by an idi0t, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Of course, if Billy Shakes was around today he'd do beer commercials.