Tarnop posted:

I went to see Withnail and I at Uncle Monty's cottage a few months ago. Had a little cry at Withnail's Hamlet. I was on a particularly emotional combo of boozes at the time, but it usually gets me.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I know poo poo all about theatre, but I really hate it when people go all overblown and melodramatic with Shakespeare. As a complete novice you can go and see any performance of his stuff, and you can instantly feel how much better it all sounds when delivered casually and nonchalantly. Yeah, it can be complicated words, but it's not complicated to the characters, it should just drop off the tongue. Which actually improves the complication!

Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2 posted:

Enter HAMLET and PLAYERS

HAMLET

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.

First Player

I warrant your honour.

HAMLET

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion
be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the
word to the action; with this special o'erstep not
the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is
from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,
or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the
censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.

Marmaduke! posted:

I see the papers are giving Boris Johnson all the credit for new Brazilian action against forest fires, and also for planning to tell Trump the NHS isn't for sale. Is there any goodness in this world that isn't his doing?

kingturnip posted:

The Mel Gibson one

OwlFancier posted:

Oh you wouldn't like yorkshire then

Thee/thou/thy is actually weird in that grammatically it's more precise than the you/your which replaced it. There are occasions where you might want to use it because modern english doesn't let you be that precise.

Also why "y'alls" should be a part of standard english because there is presently no actual standard equivalent.

Paul.Power posted:

I will always love Macbeth, mostly because of the Humphrey Carpenter version in Shakespeare Without The Boring Bits where he turns him into a hard-boiled private eye.

Niric posted:

You know more poo poo about theatre than you think. Hamlet/Shakespeare totes agrees with you:

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/AndrewBooton/status/1164991422191276032

Jose posted:

Not only did I not know that netflix were making a dark crystal series but its even getting rave reviews

Trin Tragula posted:

Y'all should go to the Globe

Bobby Deluxe posted:

HauntedRobot posted:

I love a meal that represents the rainbow of colours from beige, buff, Manila, ecru all the way to sepia. A feast for the eyes

Reveilled posted:

The other bit that stood out was the bit in Henry IV (can't remember which part) where Hal puts a table up on a chair in the pub and sits in it to impersonate his dad, which leads to Tom Hiddleton doing a perfect caricature of Jeremy Irons, which was just hilarious. Of course, this caused me to laugh at a Shakespeare play, which I think means I teach English now.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Funnily enough i watched that film for the first time last week, never saw it as a kid

That puppetry was drat impressive

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/AndrewBooton/status/1164991422191276032

Jose posted:

lol the first crime has been done in space https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html#click=https://t.co/YzlZE1JwcB

Ratjaculation posted:

Nah, Buzz, Amrstrong and the other one were performing a train on the lunar approach a few years before it was decriminalised.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/Hezbolsonaro/status/1165139474029826049?s=20

Jose posted:

lol the first crime has been done in space https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html#click=https://t.co/YzlZE1JwcB

Ratjaculation posted:

"Ethical cleansing is good, and heres why..."
- Twitter user, 2019.

Barry Foster posted:

Ethical cleansing sounds pretty good tbh

Jose posted:

lol the first crime has been done in space https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html#click=https://t.co/YzlZE1JwcB

Jose posted:

the only ethical cleansing is of white people

Qwertycoatl posted:

If you asked me to guess what the first space crime would be, I wouldn't have said identity theft

OwlFancier posted:

When my grandmother was alive I found her hard to talk to because she was obsessed with me, largely because she was obsessed with my father as well before he died, but I still occasionally wish I could tell her about things, or ask her thoughts on something.

That's sort of how life works, people are hard to talk to, there's always something that gets in the way, then when they die nothing is in the way any more but they aren't there either.

Your university should have some measures in place for extenuating circumstances re: your studies, though whether they are harsher at PhD level I don't know. Either way it might be worth speaking with your academic advisor or equivalent to consider at least a break, perhaps, if you think it would help you put your head straight.

Niric posted:

You know more poo poo about theatre than you think. Hamlet/Shakespeare totes agrees with you:

Guavanaut posted:

V2 didn't count?

Guavanaut posted:

V2 didn't count?

Guavanaut posted:

V2 didn't count?