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04-10-2006, 04:45 PM
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The Tempest / Shakespeare
We just started reading The Tempest in my AP English class, and Im really enjoying it. I got to read Prospero, and being the actor that I am I loved it. We're about half-way through Act 1, Scene 2.
Any fans of The Tempest? How about the ol' Bard himself? Personally, I love his sonnets. This is the first play Ive read, but Ive read quite a few of his sonnets. My favourite is probably also his most famous: Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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04-11-2006, 04:13 PM
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Read my fair share of Shakespeare over the years but never The Tempest.
Love Hamlet and King Lear above the rest, unfortunately the comedies dont translate very well for modern society but Im sure they were rolling in the aisles to A Midsummer Nights Dream when it premiered way back when.
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04-15-2006, 05:03 PM
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Hmmm Return I read that last year. I usually can't stand shakespeare's work.
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04-26-2006, 03:18 PM
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Im really liking Sebastian and Antonio...nobody in my class seems to get the humor, but I find these guys hilarious:D
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05-04-2006, 12:53 PM
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From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him By inch-meal a disease!" (II, ii, 1-3) That right there is one heck of an insult.
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05-26-2006, 03:30 PM
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Well, we finished this recently and I must say that I quite enjoyed it. Caliban was a great character, as were his companions Trinculo and Stephano:D
Im going to have to read some more of the Bard's work...
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