Shakespeare plays wot I hav seen

[dreamer_easy]

ComedYs
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure (Yesterday, the Bell Shakespeare Company - triffic!)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

HistorYs
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III

TragedYs
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear (Well, Ran, anyway)
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

Hmm, that's not as bad as I thought!

Comments

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

Did they try and give Measure for Measure a happy ending, or is it the (more correct) general "WTF???" ending? (Me: "Um, isn't this the same woman who complained that her order of nuns wasn't strict enough, and now she's getting married off and doesn't say a word for the rest of the play?" Dr. Cohen: "Now you see why it's one of the three 'problem plays'.")

I've never seen Richard III or read/studied it. What did you think of it?

Wow, love the new LiveJournal look!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Check out Jon's review!

I suddenly realised I needed to switch to S2 so my tags would work, so viola!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Re Richard III - a high school friend paid for me to see the RSC production, with Tony Sher. I was knocked flat by it. He was so yucky, but you could understand everything he felt, thought, or did. (Tlotoxl really is rather like him, but not motivated by insults.)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Crossed out ones are ones you've seen, yes?

If so, I thoroughly recommend Winter's Tale. The strength that William gave his women characters in this play is truly mind-boggling, considering that he wrote it in an era when a married woman was, for all legal purposes, her husband's slave.

To whit:

LEONTES: I'll ha' thee burnt.

PAULINA I care not:
It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;
But this most cruel usage of your queen,
Not able to produce more accusation
Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours
Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,
Yea, scandalous to the world.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I should borrow the Beeb's version from the library. (Or perhaps not, given the IMDB review. :-)

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, with Robert Stevens as Polixenes, steer well clear.

The Animated Tales version of Winter's Tale is very good if you can get hold of the series. OK, they're all only half an hour long, but worth it anyway.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Oh how I detest The Winter's Tale. Half of it's just gut-wrenching, depressing tragedy, until everyone decides to have a barn dance.

Coriolanus is deeply underrated, however!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

It definitely seems to be one of those love-it-or-hate-it plays. I suspect that's at least partly to do with how you first encounter it, and your frame of mind at the time.

Half of it's just gut-wrenching, depressing tragedy, until everyone decides to have a barn dance.

And how is this different from real life? ;-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I first saw it live, as part of a high school English class field trip, and it had haunted me in a wonderful way ever since (especially the depiction of the 6-and-half year old prince -- anyone who suspects that Will was a cold and detatched father hasn't seen this play). Then, wanting to revisit it, I got an audio of the play on CD from my local library (The Arkangel edition (http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/audio/0141802251.ram)).

Unfortunately, the actor playing the young prince sounded like a bored and awkward teenager (perhaps child labor laws prevented them from getting a child of more appropriate age) and the volume levels of the sound effects were annoying. But the actress playing Paulina took my breath away, and the long pastoral scene of the shepards' feast was raucous and joyful.

So there are good versions out there. It's one of the more underrated plays, if you ask me (and Romeo and Juliet are overrated -- I would be happy to see more of the one, and less of the other).

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

... Forbidden Planet.

*cough* Prospero's Books.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I've even seen the BBC Tempest, with David Dixon in tiny gold undies.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

...and as M4M is so fresh in your mind, you might get a kick out of this (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=peeeeeeet&keyword=NaDecWriMo&filter=all)...

[bex77]

We're staging "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in November.
You could pop round to see it...fly to Boston...stay with
us...;)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I wish!

My Christ, your new LJ design is cool!

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

Memory tells me you're informed on the subject of Egyptian religion. An online contact desires:

'Inscription from Sahure's mortuary (Funerary?) temple

Can anyone help with the following? I'm looking for an online image of
an inscribed block from the mortuary temple of the 5th-Dynasty ruler
Sahure, which features a winged disc above his names and titles and the
phrase 'Horus of Behdet' written beside it.

Thanks in advance.'

Re: My Christ, your new LJ design is cool!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Is this the one?

Re: My Christ, your new LJ design is cool!

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Tricky thing is that it doesn't appear to have the winged disc, which is what (I'm told) I'm after. Thanks anyway.

Re: My Christ, your new LJ design is cool!

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

And my manners are where?

I forgot to say thanks. Thanks.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I believe I've only seen a production of the Tempest (woe, I am so uncultured), though I've read a couple more. Macbeth (high school), Merchant of Venice and Midsummer Night's Dream.

[pedanther]

When I was in high school, the teachers always made a point of making us watch the play as well as read it, even if it was only on video (which, come to think of it, it always was - Shakespeare is not done often in these parts).

The teacher I had for TEE Eng. Lit. also made sure we'd read it by having us read it out loud in class, assigning each part to a different person. I got to be Hamlet that way - to my disappointment, because I wanted to be Horatio!

I have seen nine of the plays, five of them live. (If Kate's allowed to count Ran and Throne of Blood, can I count Verdi's opera version of The Merry Wives of Windsor? If so, ten and five. I shall not attempt to sneak Forbidden Planet into the total.)

[ikonsbykate.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare is not done often in these parts

The secret parts of fortune!