And Titania waked and straight-way loved an ass!

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO FORGOT, Paige was Puck in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream this year. Well, the lead Puck; there was also a freshman playing Puck alongside her.

I got to see the play tonight and IT WAS AAAAWESOOOOOOME Paige was amazing and so was everyone else omggg I will put up a photo or two later of Puck!Paige.


RANT TIME NOW

I find myself growing progressively more and more tired of people who don't understand ANY of the jokes in Shakespeare. Or rather, people who declare his "tragedies" boring and only like the "comedies" and argue with me on whether or not all of his plays were comedies when they freely admit they haven't tried to understand the plays.

I don't know. I mean, I know Shakespeare is easier for me to understand than it is for many people, but...surely it can't be that hard. Surely. When the actors help you by making obscene gestures at the jokes, HOW IS NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE AT LEAST GIGGLING. The physical humor the kids add is genius, but it makes me sad that if they didn't go so extreme with it people might not realize they were watching a comedy. Also, they put a synopsis of the play in the program now and mom still asked Paige when we got home what, exactly, the plot was...

SHAKESPEARE ISN'T BORING. GO APPRECIATE SOME SHAKESPEARE. YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST TEN SEX JOKES IN HAMLET.

Comments

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I could never seem to like Hamlet. I spent most of the play wanting to smack him for being a whiny bitch and hoping he would grow a pair.

Macbeth is my favorite play.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Macbeth is one of my favorites as well. Although TBH I like all of Shakespeare's plays, pretty much, except for maybe Romeo and Juliet.

I have to admit one of the reasons I like Hamlet so much is because I also like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I realize many people haven't read or even been made aware of, and I might be kind of strange for enjoying absurdist plays rather than trying to figure out what they mean. (The two are mutually exclusive for me, I have trouble following the plot of just about anything, understanding absurdism is out of the question)

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

I have such a passion for the Historical Shakespeare plays I can't even tell you. Richard III is probably my favourite.

I don't get on great with the comedies tbh because I tend to find them too slapstick for my liking. And overly-romantic things like R & J annoy me but I think partly that may be because it's just so overused. For example, Othello is also a romantic tragedy, and I love that. But omg the comedy in Othello! So so good. One of my favourite parts is Othello standing there doing his, "Rude am I in my speech..." moment then totally PWNING them with just how fucking good he actually is with words.

And god, the 'evil' characters. Iago is of course a classic example, and Richard III and omg I ADORE Lady McBeth. The scene where she calls on the help of... was it spirits? It gives me such shivers.

GAH I love Shakespeare so much :-)