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Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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I am actually very forgiving when it comes to the implausible daft bits as long as they're lively, as they almost always are, but the ending of Verona really annoyed me for some reason. I'll let him off though cos it's one of his first plays.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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They loved a bit of the old ultraviolence the Elizabethans didn't they? Still, this is about as extreme as it gets. Not sure how you'd get away with staging something this gory.
Great language though. There's no way in the world Shakespeare wrote that workmanlike opening act.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Might watch it when I finish reading the play.

In that article Harold Bloom says there isn't a single memorable line in the play, but that's bollocks. It is pretty hard to know how to take it though, it's so OTT.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Bannon, a working-class kid from Norfolk, Virginia, won an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. On the side, he nurtured a passion for the classics. “He loved Plato,” Jones said, and anything about the Peloponnesian Wars. “His computer password was Sparta.”

:ROFLMAO:
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Finished Titus Andronicus now. It's impressive how it manages to keep getting more and more fucked up as it goes on. Elizabethan equivalent of a grindhouse film, more or less.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Read much ado about nothing and troilus and cressida.

Didn't like much ado as much as some of the other big comedies like Midsummer Nights Dream and As you like It, but I LOVED Beatrice's sassiness, worth reading just for that character. Some of the jokes and puns went over my head.

Troilus and cressida is a weird one - quite a lot of powerful speeches and poetry, and the foul-mouthed Thersites is a great character, but the ending is pretty unsatisfactory. Everyone comes out of it badly, so there's hardly anyone to really get behind and root for apart from this total misanthrope Thersites.
Some say it's a satire of Chapman, but tbh I enjoyed Chapman's Iliad a lot more than this play. One to come back to maybe.

@jenks always value your opinion
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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Saw Much Ado a couple of years back with that woman from the IT Crowd. My favourite bit was when we sneaked into the cast party afterwards - it was press night, my friend worked in wardrobe or something - and I got so wankered I slept in an alleyway on the way back home using some boxes of lego I'd bought for my nieces as a pillow.

When I revived myself and staggered to East London I found Liza had befriended a family of foxes by lying completely still as they got closer and closer.
 
luka

luka

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its the time of year where huge school groups visit the globe. they line up along my fence and often stand right in front of me so i have to tell the teacher to move them
 
luka

luka

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there was a group from romford this year and it was very noticeable how much more confident and funnier they were than the london children
 
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