SIDDOWN! SHADUP! SHADUP SHUTTIN' UP!!
My very first encounter with Shakespear was in high school. As par of either a speech class or an English class one of the tortures was to read aloud a Shakespeare play in class. As you may imagine, the reading was deadly dull delivered in at worst a monotone and at best clear diction but much hesitation over the unusual word usage and the convoluted sentence structure. It sure wasn't as much fun as "Little Women". As fortune would have it, we were not expected to produce any of the play. Eesh.
My next encounter, one of many, was attending Shakespear In The Park with my very good friend, Barbara Whelan. One very memorable occasion was "Twelfth Night". It was the fashion in the 80's to stage the play in different genre's, such as the 20's and the tennis set. There was also a tart wench and of course, we wished to partake.
I took mom to see "Troilis and Cressida" which is a play all about Helen of Troy, and Athens and Troy. Trojans were dressed as rock stars and the Athenians were dressed as Bikers. Or the other way around. There was even partial nudity. There is a scene where Helen is being admired by one or another of the group. Helen was wearing a leather mini skirt with a front zipper. One of the guys knelt in front of her and pulled down the zipper with his teeth, snatched the skirt and stood up. Helen turned away and revealed that she was wearing a thong. I wished I had a bottom that nice.
Yesterday morning I was listening to NPR. The narrator was reporting that in 1667 all of his plays were published posthumously. That collection is known as the First Folio.
The play Hamlet was being discussed in particular the death of Hamlet is considered the most beautiful death scene of all. (I must digress for a moment. I and Barbara attended a celebration of Shakespear In The Park held at BSU. There was a compilation of all the death scenes from all of the plays and there lot of them. Each actor would come out to give the last line and fall to the floor. This went of for quite a while until there were about 30 bodies piled up onstage. We found it hilarious.
Which brings me to this point; Hamlet's last line in his death scene which "All is silence". The folio actually has and additional line: "O, O, O, O." There is argument that this is not spoken because "all is silence". Then thev actor played it perfectly flat.
O (heh!) C'mon!!! Give it a little interpretation. Such as:
First O "uh oh"
Second O "Oh no!"
Third O "uh uh"
Fourth O "oooh"
Mo bettah.
My very first encounter with Shakespear was in high school. As par of either a speech class or an English class one of the tortures was to read aloud a Shakespeare play in class. As you may imagine, the reading was deadly dull delivered in at worst a monotone and at best clear diction but much hesitation over the unusual word usage and the convoluted sentence structure. It sure wasn't as much fun as "Little Women". As fortune would have it, we were not expected to produce any of the play. Eesh.
My next encounter, one of many, was attending Shakespear In The Park with my very good friend, Barbara Whelan. One very memorable occasion was "Twelfth Night". It was the fashion in the 80's to stage the play in different genre's, such as the 20's and the tennis set. There was also a tart wench and of course, we wished to partake.
I took mom to see "Troilis and Cressida" which is a play all about Helen of Troy, and Athens and Troy. Trojans were dressed as rock stars and the Athenians were dressed as Bikers. Or the other way around. There was even partial nudity. There is a scene where Helen is being admired by one or another of the group. Helen was wearing a leather mini skirt with a front zipper. One of the guys knelt in front of her and pulled down the zipper with his teeth, snatched the skirt and stood up. Helen turned away and revealed that she was wearing a thong. I wished I had a bottom that nice.
Yesterday morning I was listening to NPR. The narrator was reporting that in 1667 all of his plays were published posthumously. That collection is known as the First Folio.
The play Hamlet was being discussed in particular the death of Hamlet is considered the most beautiful death scene of all. (I must digress for a moment. I and Barbara attended a celebration of Shakespear In The Park held at BSU. There was a compilation of all the death scenes from all of the plays and there lot of them. Each actor would come out to give the last line and fall to the floor. This went of for quite a while until there were about 30 bodies piled up onstage. We found it hilarious.
Which brings me to this point; Hamlet's last line in his death scene which "All is silence". The folio actually has and additional line: "O, O, O, O." There is argument that this is not spoken because "all is silence". Then thev actor played it perfectly flat.
O (heh!) C'mon!!! Give it a little interpretation. Such as:
First O "uh oh"
Second O "Oh no!"
Third O "uh uh"
Fourth O "oooh"
Mo bettah.
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