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Originally Posted by kennyc
Oh My a knock-down drag-out about Shakespeare.  Maybe better move this to the Politics and Religion section.  |
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
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My only reservation about having a class watch Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet and saying they have now studied the play is still that they are watching a highly edited version and will retain little but the major plot points. Then again what does an old fool like me know about what's best for today's students?
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Fool: If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
for being old before thy time.
KING LEAR: How's that?
Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
been wise.
KING LEAR: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven
Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!
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