During the Christmas holidays, we will be reading Twelfth Night by Shakespeare:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelfth-Nigh...e=UTF8&s=booksOne of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays.
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I'm going to attempt to join in, can't say I'll fully succeed...but it is worth a try.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
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Oh my, I must have missed this winning. I will pick it up this evening.
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well its christmas eve and IM bored so I started reading and then rembered a fantastic adaptation I read 5 years ago but I cant rember what it was called
anyway heres more info about it if anyone recognises it?http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=21127
I also think it might have been musical....
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Holy Patootie, I think this is one of Shakespeare's greatest plays!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
Just voted myself, ill be happy to join in! Hopefully ill have some time..
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Read the first act last night, I did enjoy suprisingly, I guess I just couldnt appreciate the lambs tale version although excuse me shes only known him 3 days how can she possibly want to marry him already. But my fav line from
and one more thing does eunuch mean what I think it means, what the dictionary says that is or is shakespeare using it differantly?Originally Posted by actI scene ii lines 60-61
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bump??
anyway still enjoying this
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I tried to read it, but failed. I can't get myself into Shakespeare's writing style. It is not really my cup of tea.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I thought it was the 12th day christmas you know 5th january ( oh thats todaySIR TOBY BELCH
[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'--) aka topsy-turvy day.
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This ones really an acquired taste for me. I was very anxious about reading it the first time, but was delighted when my students took to it. It has a certain charm which is indescribable.
Now I ve learned to appreciate it more it has inspired me to look at other Comedies...
Finally done But I chose just good intead of strongly recoomend because frankly, the ending comes up short for me, when so shakespearean endings are so fantastic.
It was intresting top find out that the 'be not afraid of greatness, sme are born great, some achive greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them' quote comes from shakespeare.
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