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Reading shakespeare canbe rewarding, as you go at your own pace and make your own discoveries.

Try and read aloud where possible (not on a crowded bus) as the language and rhythms become more...

I've never heard of that but here is a good link to analysis of the Sonnet 75

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/75detail.html

I'm blogging at the moment on reading shakespeare. I thought about doing them all in a year as I've seen other blogs do but I decided to take a bit more time (probably a month per play) Basically I...

The fact that his friends and fellow actors got together and published the folio after Shakespeare had died and put his name on the cover is a big clue.
But as said above, it doesn't matter who...

Many years ago I remember listening to the Radio broadcast of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. All Hamlet's now compare to his. Even David Tennant who I saw at Stratford.

Julius Caesar

I think it a ploy to MAKE Brutus take the lead as he is the most respected Roman. Cassius is clever enough to hand over control to him

I have found "The Arden Shakespeare" series to be the best. You can get individual plays of one volume. The individual plays give lots of background and exhaustive notes to the text and historical...

I get the feeling that Bolingbroke has great respect for Richard as a king if not as a person.
Shakespeare never once has Bolingbroke say a bad thing about him even when he is banished he takes it...

That whole scene made me cry.

Also from King John

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought"

I've watched a few of them and they are indeed a mixed bag.

I thought Titus Andronicus was very good even on a low budget but I thought The Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese as Petruchio was...

Baby Knows - Prince

sneezy.

cold bugs are going around my house, but being a man this is 'flu

True.

:leaving:

I've just finished Joy in the Morning by P G wodehouse. Every line in it makes you smile and quite a few make you laugh out loud or nudge the person next to you and read out quotes.

A quote from...

Little Red Corvette - Prince

Working. <hides>

it's an excuse to NOT go shopping!

Why is the sun hot?

Frankenstein - Shelley.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde :thumbs_up
Lost Light - Michael Connelly :thumbs_up
Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie :thumbs_up
Sovereign - C J Samson :thumbs_up:thumbs_up:thumbs_up...

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

Somewhere over the Rainbow - Judy Garland

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

The bird is chased by my cats. and the feathers bought into my house as a present. :rage:

Why is it dark in here?

When U were mine - Prince

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Murder in Mesopatamia - Agatha christie
Carry On, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

Started - Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde