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What are your thoughts on Macbeth? Also, are there any Shakespeare plays you consider skippable or are they all worth reading?
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Great thread so far! I just started on Julius Caesar, do you have anything I should be looking for or thinking about in particular while reading it? I have already seen it performed so I don't have to worry about spoilers. One thing that has already confused me is why the other plotters want Brutus on their side so much, the plan to kill Caesar doesn't seem that complicated and Brutus manages to screw it up by not killing Antony, so why include him in the first place?
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Jun 13, 2009 03:24
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In your opinion are there any texts that academia holds to be classics that don't deserve it? I honestly can't remember if that has been asked or not, so feel free to ignore it if it has. I'd love to hear what you think about Catch-22. I could never tell whether Yossarian was really sane or not. Sometimes he seemed like the only sane one around, but he did some strange things when he was in the hospital.
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Jun 30, 2009 03:57
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I was reading the introduction to Asimov's book about Shakespeare's plays and he suggests that Shakespeare put a brake on the English language. He says that up until Shakespeare's time English was changing so rapidly that writing could become unintelligible within just a couple of centuries, but we are able to read Shakespeare without too much trouble four hundred years later. Is there any truth to this? If it is true, are Shakespeare's plays really a factor in slowing down change?
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Jul 19, 2009 06:00
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Thanks for putting so much into this thread, it has been a good read. I am having trouble figuring out what part of this passage from Antony and Cleopatra means: quote:Stay for me: Specifically the "Dido and her Aeaneas shall want troops" part. My best guess is that he is using "want" to mean "lack" and that all the ghosts will hang around himself and Cleopatra instead of Dido and Aeneas, but I wasn't quite sure.
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