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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

alas poor yorick.

 me, practicing my shakespeare

 
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9 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Nice . . . shoes!

stray said...

"...and tell her, let her paint an inch thick..."

Unknown said...

yeah those ARE some nice kicks

stray, that whole speech is kind of odd, no?

stray said...

in what sense?

Unknown said...

death and decay and graves and clowns and jesters and skulls? tis odd indeed

stray said...

Well, figure he's on a revenge jag dictated by a ghost (who may or may not be the Devil, or completely imaginary, or both), plus he's just had a couple of his former friends done in. So you could say he's in an odd space.

But note all the references in the play to "seeming" and play-acting and deliberate alteration of appearance. Ultimately it's a play about masks, and the skull is what's left when all the masks come off.

Unknown said...

i'm not going to pretend to understand most of his works. i'm more a fan of takes offs of his works. like the movie scotland, pa and mazursky's tempest.

stray said...

Yeah, I have a friend I go to plays with who finds them a challenge. What she's discovered is that the tragedies are easier than the comedies, and the later plays are easier than earlier ones.

Unknown said...

i do like a midsummer nights dream