View Poll Results: Please vote for the play you would like to read by June 15th!

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  • Taming of the Shrew

    0 0%
  • Comedy of Errors

    2 4.76%
  • Love's Labour's Lost

    0 0%
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona

    0 0%
  • Midsummer Night's Dream

    1 2.38%
  • Merchant of Venice

    2 4.76%
  • Much Ado About Nothing

    0 0%
  • As You Like It

    3 7.14%
  • Merry Wives of Windsor

    0 0%
  • Twelfth Night

    0 0%
  • All's Well That Ends Well

    0 0%
  • Measure for Measure

    0 0%
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    0 0%
  • Tempest

    1 2.38%
  • Winter's Tale

    13 30.95%
  • Titus Andronicus

    0 0%
  • Romeo and Juliet

    1 2.38%
  • Hamlet

    1 2.38%
  • Julius Caesar

    1 2.38%
  • Troilus and Cressida

    0 0%
  • Othello

    0 0%
  • King Lear

    0 0%
  • Antony and Cleopatra

    1 2.38%
  • Coriolanus

    0 0%
  • Timon of Athens

    0 0%
  • Cymbeline

    0 0%
  • Macbeth

    11 26.19%
  • The life and death of King John

    1 2.38%
  • The life and death of King Richard the Second

    0 0%
  • The First Part of Henry the Fourth

    2 4.76%
  • The Second Part of Henry the Fourth

    0 0%
  • The Life of Henry the Fift

    0 0%
  • The first Part of Henry the Sixt

    0 0%
  • The second Part of Henry the Sixt

    0 0%
  • The third Part of Henry the Sixt

    0 0%
  • The Tragedie of Richard the Third

    2 4.76%
  • The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight

    0 0%
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Thread: Shakespearean Summer '08

  1. #46
    Ditsy Pixie Niamh's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    Does this mean I owe you a vote now Niamh?


    WInters tale, thats Perdita and the bear isnt it....
    exit followed by a bear! yes it is.
    And you owe me a vote. only voted richard so you wouldnt feel alone!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    So we're reading Winter's Tale? Is there a start date or an end date for the reading?
    Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest. - R L Stevenson

    Currently Reading: Dead Souls - Gogol

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    The poll does not close till June 15th so we do not know for certain yet. And we will have till mid August to read the play.
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    Ah, great, got it. Voted for Macbeth. I love that play
    Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest. - R L Stevenson

    Currently Reading: Dead Souls - Gogol

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    Quote Originally Posted by DapperDrake View Post
    Ah, great, got it. Voted for Macbeth. I love that play
    Thanks for the tie, Drake!
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    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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    Ah, a tie! Curse you Sir Smile!
    I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...

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    Can I have my vote back ? I wasted it.

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    in angulo cum libro Petrarch's Love's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles Darnay View Post
    What grade did you teach it to?

    I've always wanted to teach WT to a grade 12 class in a larger context of the tragicomedy.
    I teach college and I really shouldn't complain about my excellent group of students. They completely made up for their lackluster reception of W.T. with a fantastic final discussion on the Tempest today.

    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    Nice to see you back Petrarch. I hope you can participate in this. You add so much.
    Thanks Virg. I'll really try to make the time. The summer months should, at least hypothetically be less busy than the last quarter has been.

    "In rime sparse il suono/ di quei sospiri ond' io nudriva 'l core/ in sul mio primo giovenile errore"~ Francesco Petrarca
    "Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."~ Jane Austen

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    No more tie now - I voted for my favourite, Macbeth.
    O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
    wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
    sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
    und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.


    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor

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    come come, how can we pass over the great Autolycus who even the clown will "swear to
    the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
    that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no
    tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
    drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst
    be a tall fellow of thy hands." - great line...
    I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...

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    Oh, Up to now it is Macbeth, I doubt if vote for Maccbeth or Winter's Tale?!!
    Art is a lie that leads to the truth.
    --Picasso

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    I am glad to see this is started back up. I have been in school again for the past year and haven't had much time for reading. I purchased the complete works a couple weeks ago and was uncertain where to start. I have read Romeo and Juliet and about half of A Midsummer Night's Dream so far so it will be fun to join you all. Not really sure what to vote for though.
    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

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    Oh how many times have people read Macbeth. Let's try something different. Winter's Tale!!
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

    My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/

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    I'm with you in principle Virgil but I haven't read Macbeth since school and its such a great play, I was going to read it again this year anyway - I re-read Romeo and Juliet back in Feb. I was surprised to find Juliet was only 13, I think modern media would make a different tale - Deranged paedophile Romeo causes death of young girl in suicide pact- or a headline not to dissimilar.
    Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest. - R L Stevenson

    Currently Reading: Dead Souls - Gogol

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    Yeah but Romeo was prtetty young himself. I don't ecall the age but I would guess no more than 16.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

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