Post 6043 by Pepsi@radical.town
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(DIR) Post #6042 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2018-09-13T19:24:51Z
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From best to worst, minus the plays of dubious authorship.The Winter's TaleHamletMerchant of VeniceMacbethOthelloKing LearRichard IIMidsummer Night's DreamTwelfth NightRichard IIIHenry IV 2All's WellHenry IV 1Troilus and CressidaMuch AdoAntony and CleopatraLove's Labour's LostAs You Like ItCoriolanusJulius CaesarTempestComedy of ErrorsMerry WivesHenry VCymbelineMeasure for Measure2 Gentlemen of VeronaKing JohnRomeo and JulietTaming of the Shrew
(DIR) Post #6043 by Pepsi@radical.town
2018-09-13T19:26:23Z
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@garfiald we get it you've read books
(DIR) Post #6047 by citrustwee@bofa.lol
2018-09-13T19:26:52Z
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@garfiald oh but you're definitely not posh. definitely. UH HUH
(DIR) Post #6075 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2018-09-13T19:28:41Z
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@Pepsi just because my followers are cognoscenti and yours are unwashed rubes doesnt mean you have to take it out on me. you shouldnt feel embarrassed
(DIR) Post #6147 by Pepsi@radical.town
2018-09-13T19:31:13Z
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@garfiald I dont, fucking nerd. I'm volilliterate
(DIR) Post #6150 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2018-09-13T19:31:15Z
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@citrustwee if my expensive ass education cant get me mastodon clout, what is it good for?
(DIR) Post #9iVXV5S5WaTzVKk6kK by LuigiEsq@mastodon.social
2018-09-13T19:28:23Z
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@garfiald ah, I see you hate comedy
(DIR) Post #9iVXV5gceY6oEPXiOu by garfiald@mastodon.social
2018-09-13T19:32:02Z
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@LuigiEsq no I just think a lot of Shakespeare's comedies are bad. Because they are. sorry
(DIR) Post #9iVXV5yLaeHr7Nps1o by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T17:56:20Z
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@garfiald @LuigiEsq merry wives of windsor is good.
(DIR) Post #9iVXXZgy41tBs4tAJs by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T17:56:48Z
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@a_breakin_glass @LuigiEsq no
(DIR) Post #9iVXfJ5ffjGMhP89pI by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T17:58:10Z
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@garfiald @LuigiEsq comedy of errors?
(DIR) Post #9iVXk3hmImR0QjDk2a by CornishRepublicanArmy@knzk.me
2018-10-28T21:13:40Z
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@garfiald I want to like Macbeth but I have acted in it twice and analyse the text so many fucking times I hate the thing thanks to Anglo education thinking the guy had like 3 works we need to study fucking over and over for 15 years. Othello is good though, I really like that the black protagonist is actually portrayed in a good, for a tragedy, light. like sure, he kills his wife, but only because some asshole racist who he trusted tried to fuck with his mind
(DIR) Post #9iVXk43kz411WtVIIa by garfiald@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T21:19:44Z
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@CornishRepublicanArmy oh yeah Othello's a great play and it has a really cool performance history. The level of overrepresentation of Shakespeare in british education and culture is so many layers of fucked. It's one of my pet peeves of mine like past the top 5 they're just not worth teaching in schools and he's definitely not worth being taught every fucking year. It's the direct cause of a severe impoverishment of the culture
(DIR) Post #9iVXk4SZUnrglr76ye by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T17:59:02Z
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@garfiald @CornishRepublicanArmy fucking bardolatry
(DIR) Post #9iVY3LblxkGzSRbpj6 by alcade@freespeechextremist.com
2019-05-05T18:02:34.682386Z
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@CornishRepublicanArmy @garfiald nice virtue signaling
(DIR) Post #9iVYCa4xWvUYwbfDdI by sousaphone@radical.town
2019-05-05T17:59:07Z
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@garfiald I am fully aware that I have close to no clue what I'm talking about but Romeo & Juliet being the second worst... just no
(DIR) Post #9iVYCaLcWyormHSWbR by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T17:59:58Z
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@sousaphone hmm, i might have to cancel you for this opinion. R & J sux
(DIR) Post #9iVYCaczUOiKe9aOg4 by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:04:12Z
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@garfiald @sousaphone why though? because it relies on some of the characters making huge mistakes?
(DIR) Post #9iVYG7YdVuMBe4EVnM by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:04:51Z
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@garfiald @sousaphone also Troilus and Cresida should be higher
(DIR) Post #9iVYOrFDXEs1enJem8 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T18:06:23Z
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@a_breakin_glass @sousaphone because it's poorly written (exhibits some of the worst excesses of young Shakes's lazy, inflated verse), the characters are all unsympathetic and boring (except Mercutio), and it's gross
(DIR) Post #9iVYdLruTLOegqKEl6 by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:09:03Z
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@garfiald @sousaphoneyou: "most of the comedies are bad"me: "pretty much all of the history plays are bad"
(DIR) Post #9iVZ6TxhSb7cBmvMWG by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:14:18Z
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@garfiald why do people like the history plays
(DIR) Post #9iVZCRHILt37bPvinA by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:15:23Z
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@garfiald the only interesting bit about the history plays is the weirdness around the writing of Henry VI
(DIR) Post #9iVbZZq6t11yiyNKVc by sousaphone@radical.town
2019-05-05T18:21:02Z
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@garfiald I almost forgot this given your ridiculous slander of R&J but how in the hell is Winter's Tale your No1? Like, it's an okay play, I guess but.... what? Genuinely interested here, because I read it and I saw it live and while I didn't exactly dislike it, I don't exactly get why some people seem to love it so muchAlso, while I'm already entering a fight that I'm vastly underequipped for, Merchant of Venice can fuck off forever
(DIR) Post #9iVbZa5LyLDxUFVVGi by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T18:21:36Z
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@sousaphone damn you love thos hot shakespeare takes
(DIR) Post #9iVbZaFHNRADz29Qjw by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T18:23:57Z
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@sousaphone to answer you're question, The Winter's Tale should be everybody's favourite shakespeare play it has the finest verse of his late style and everything Cymbeline disastrously fails to do it blows out of the water. Cymbeline and TWT are really worth reading side by side because the reaction when reading Cymbeline is usually "what was he thinking" and TWT is the answer to that. It's an absolute triumph and possibly Will's most ambitious piece of writing
(DIR) Post #9iVbZaUAU54cjD7Jwm by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T18:27:16Z
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@sousaphone Broadly speaking, TWT is about how it's really cool to go see a play. And the way that it does that is by hyper-self-consciously showing us its own making on stage. What's more, it reaches a climax when it concentrates the audience's leap of faith when accepting what's on the stage as real into a singular moment with its final scene. But this scene is not a clean celebration of theatre, rather, it also showcases theatre as a potentially dangerous medium.
(DIR) Post #9iVbZahdfzqhOzQ4wa by sousaphone@radical.town
2019-05-05T18:32:13Z
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@garfiald And here we get to the central difference in our approach to Shakespeare. You're the academic who actually understands what he's doing while I tend to approach him in a very basic and very emotional sense. Sure, R&J might not have his finest verse (I have no idea, I fully trust you on this) but the emotional beats kick so fucking hard that I wanna direct it just to make an entire room of people cry their fucking eyes out and at the end of the day, that's basically all I want out of theater
(DIR) Post #9iVbZauktELC3fYYO8 by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
2019-05-05T18:41:59Z
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@sousaphone @garfiald othello's emotional beats are much better than romeo and juliet's :^)
(DIR) Post #9iVbkjAYXSxwqUFuoS by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-05T18:44:00Z
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@a_breakin_glass @sousaphone that is true
(DIR) Post #9iVbzt5lvbfdxrFMrQ by sousaphone@radical.town
2019-05-05T18:46:44Z
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@a_breakin_glass @garfiald I'll get back to you on this when I finally read the damn thing.What I love about Romeo & Juliet is that it sets up this intense romance before the actual tragedy really kicks in. I'm currently thinking of doing it with a student theater group and R&J just takes place in a blissfully adolescent and hyperemotional mindset that makes it so effective for me. First, tell the story of the two people who loved each other the mostest that any people ever loved each other and then show the story how they die in the most tragicest way ever because THEY ARE TEENAGERS AND THEIR PARENTS DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM!!!I love it so much. It's completely immature in a way, it's basically the ultimate teenage narrative but it's entirely sincere and that makes it really work for me