Thread: What books did you have to study at school?
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Old 11-02-2018, 09:45 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Nabeel View Post
Inevitably, Shakespeare. I now think of this as a form of innoculation against the Bard. It was damn effective. 45 years later, I still hate Shakespeare. My school did a great job there!

One of the last books we studied was Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist. This was kind of interesting. Hated it at first, but with each class and each re-reading, it got more and more fascinating. I'm now happy to say that 'Ulysses' is the greatest novel ever (IMHO).
I had the great fortune to have an English professor at GT (Bud Foote) who marched to a different drummer. He also happened to be one of the foremost experts in Blues music. His comparison of the of the rhythm of Shakespeare and various Blues songs was really interesting.

Shakespeare is best appreciated by watching top notch theater performances rather than reading it. It was, after all, theater. I personally like Kenneth Branagh's versions. His Henry V was great. Of course, the Laurence Olivier version of Hamlet is considered the gold standard. Since both Branagh and Olivier did a number of the Bards more famous plays, it's can be interesting to compare the two takes.
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