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Tony Danza Claus posted:Best villain speech ever. Aaron the Moor, from Titus Andronicus, as he is about to be hung for multiple counts of rape, murder, and treason: Hanged, you illiterate savage.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:05 |
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Seriously, he wasn't a tapestry.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:20 |
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IRQ posted:Hanged, you illiterate savage. gently caress off, Stannis.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:33 |
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King Stannis. Call him what he is.
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:02 |
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mind the walrus posted:King Stannis. Call him what he is. He is Vigo!
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:12 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Those get translated into modern english, though, making them far more accessable to the layman. Shakespeare is just on the cusp of being total gibberish to the modern anglophone, so it's left alone and quite a lot of people get really, really upset (because they are sperglords) if you try to translate it into something readily understandable.
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:12 |
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SpaceMost posted:Part of the pleasure of Shakespeare is the language, and the games he plays with language. A lot of the cleverness is lost if you translate to modern English. Admittedly, that requires some level of familiarity with the work, and some comfort with Elizabethan English (which doesn't take as much effort as you might think) -- but it's no more spergy than saying flag football has no place in the NFL. But... flag football has no place in the NFL. GRRM agrees, I read it on his blog. Hey guys lets talk about Pride and Prejudice next, Darcy is such a cad
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:54 |
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Daaaaariocy?
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:55 |
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I for my part think Darcy is quite the jolly good chap.
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:56 |
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bigmcgaffney posted:Hey guys lets talk about Pride and Prejudice next, Darcy is such a cad
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# ? May 4, 2012 21:49 |
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I'm told I am a misogynist if I don't like Austen, what say you, thread of ladyshits?
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# ? May 4, 2012 22:26 |
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nuncle jimbo posted:I'm told I am a misogynist if I don't like Austen, what say you, thread of ladyshits? I thought the BBC miniseries with Colin Firth and the lady who originally was to play Catelyn Stark was entertaining, just the book was kind of dull. The one I hate is Jane Eyre, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles is uncomfortable and almost as rapey as GRRM. I like Oscar Wilde though, he is like a reverse Dolorous Edd but just as hardgay.
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# ? May 4, 2012 22:33 |
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nuncle jimbo posted:I'm told I am a misogynist if I don't like Austen, what say you, thread of ladyshits? It's SA in 2012, everyone is a misogynist. Brings me back to the days when we used to discuss the books, and how we all got told to never have kids because we hate Sansa and therefore all women/children ever.
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:10 |
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nuncle jimbo posted:I'm told I am a misogynist if I don't like Austen, what say you, thread of ladyshits?
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:16 |
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Say three Hail Mary Shelley's and repent.
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:20 |
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Dude you're really showing your own rear end more than you're succeeding at convincing people that Shakespeare's not worth performing/studying. Because I ever said that in anyway at all. But please, tell me more about your catastrophic level of retardation.
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:22 |
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Tony Danza Claus posted:Say three Hail Mary Shelley's and repent.
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:26 |
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The problem with Shakespeare is that he didn't include enough sexposition scenes in his plays. How could the audience possibly know what was going on?
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:34 |
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IRQ posted:The problem with Shakespeare is that he didn't include enough sexposition scenes in his plays. How could the audience possibly know what was going on? Shakespeare: no sexposition, lots of fools HBO: no fools, lots of sexposition
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:38 |
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I get all my information over two writhing prostitutes going to town on each other. Anything else just seems wrong somehow.
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:38 |
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IRQ posted:The problem with Shakespeare is that he didn't include enough sexposition scenes in his plays. How could the audience possibly know what was going on? There's plenty of rear end in Midsummer Night's Dream
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:39 |
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IRQ posted:The problem with Shakespeare is that he didn't include enough sexposition scenes in his plays. How could the audience possibly know what was going on?
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# ? May 4, 2012 23:45 |
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All monologues must henceforth be delivered while someone has a finger in someone else's butthole.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:02 |
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Factor_VIII posted:Time for HBO to adapt Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet have all the characters loving whores in every scene? Shakespeare should be made accessible to the public after all. They should just adapt Orson Scott Card's Hamlet and just have the mad king Is David Simon available this is solid gold
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:30 |
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bigmcgaffney posted:I thought the BBC miniseries with Colin Firth and the lady who originally was to play Catelyn Stark was entertaining, just the book was kind of dull. The one I hate is Jane Eyre, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles is uncomfortable and almost as rapey as GRRM. But Jane Eyre was Bronte and Tess was Hardy
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:30 |
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I don't know about you guys but I felt as if Hodor was taken RIGHT OUT of Shakespeare.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:33 |
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Hodor is our generation's Falstaff. It is known.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:41 |
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I frequently confuse Hodor and Iago.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:46 |
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"Come not between the dragon and his wrath." "Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry! Take the fool with thee." "Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:48 |
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mind the walrus posted:Hodor is our generation's Falstaff. It is known. GRRM is our generation's Falstaff.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:50 |
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Martin Van Buren posted:GRRM is our generation's Falstaff.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:53 |
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Every time I see Henry IV, I imagine Falstaff's voice as GRRM's.
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# ? May 5, 2012 00:55 |
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nuncle jimbo posted:I'm told I am a misogynist if I don't like Austen, what say you, thread of ladyshits? You're not a misogynist; you just have no business reading books Tony Danza Claus posted:All monologues must henceforth be delivered while someone has a finger in someone else's butthole. Welp, that removes all Aaron Sorkin's monologues, because that's just him with his own thumb up his rear end. e: from the spoiler thread, but a good bit of newb brilliance: VivaNova posted:Welcome. I'm glad someone posted that- very interesting essay. Theon's my favorite character is aCoK. I never thought about things like the fact that he went from being the youngest kid to suddenly being the oldest, or about how he's similar to Sansa. whowhatwhere fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 5, 2012 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Because I ever said that in anyway at all. Uh ok I didn't mean to set you off; sorry if I misunderstood what you were trying to get at. Feel free to clarify. edit: Why was I so surprised about a sudden rage-out in the GRRM thread?
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# ? May 5, 2012 01:32 |
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I want to built a giant laser cannon controlled by a powerful computer that will precisely bounce a tight beam off the moon to etch "Romeo and Juliet is not a love story" on everyone's forehead. No one will be spared, not even the children. It will subsequently etch "these books will never end" on George R. R. Martin's car. Does he have a car? I think he has a great big fat person car, like a Monte Carlo, but not a cool one. IRQ posted:Hanged, you illiterate savage. Aaron, they said you was hung! And they was right.
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# ? May 5, 2012 01:51 |
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:But Jane Eyre was Bronte and Tess was Hardy I realize that, they are on my bookshelf this very moment. They just struck me as similar in time period and as such it seemed applicable to tell the Bad Thread that they are terrible. I know because I post in a thread about terrible books.
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# ? May 5, 2012 02:01 |
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To be honest, Theon SURFING TO WINTERFELL would be hella cool.
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# ? May 5, 2012 03:44 |
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I really hope actual krakens show up in TWOW, that would be neat.
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# ? May 5, 2012 03:46 |
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Urdnot Fire posted:I really hope actual krakens show up in TWOW, that would be neat. Did you see the wall-o-text in the mediocre thread about merlings and sea monsters? It was something.
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# ? May 5, 2012 03:58 |
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Tony Danza Claus posted:Did you see the wall-o-text in the mediocre thread about merlings and sea monsters? Indeed it was. Varys the merling would be quite a thing.
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