Originally Posted by
Macintosh
Well, regarding throwing things at the screen (stage) you need to come to one of those cult showings of Rocky Horror. And yes, they're still doing that.
Of course there's authenticity and slavish adherence to Elizabethan theater convention, as you know.
I suppose that I tend to get on a high horse and become irritated if a particular version of something isn't up to what I consider correct, and I'm often wrong, as usual. For example I get miffed if we're shown Arthur's Excalibur as the "sword in the stone" when in "fact" it came from the Lady of the Lake.
And yes, I freely admit to having a serious grudge at Olivier for leading so many Shakespeare fans down the garden path with his smarmy Hamlet. That's just my opinion and regardless, I find it fun to debate these things. I'm likely to go off on a tangent about other things, such as how badly Josef II is misrepresented in the film Amadeus, how much Stephen Hawking is admired without strong questions regarding his statements, and other scattered concepts here and there. Oh, well...