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Over in the UK we have been commemorating - or celebrating - 400 years since Shakespeare's death this weekend (if you see what I mean ...)
Leaving aside just now many debates about whether or not he was the greatest writer of all time (what about 'undiscovered Miltons', to cite Gray), nor the eurocentric, patriarchal connotations either, or whether he actually wrote the stuff (to which has to be replied, well somebody did)
So to the matter, last night BBC television devoted an evening to celebration of this event; and here is a You Tube extract that I hope might be of interest ... for many reasons ('if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I wouldst not give thee a reason upon compulsion' - Falstaff, Henry IV [part 1 I think ... but reasons has to be pronounced in the Warwickshire dialect as 'raisins' to make the joke ...]
Anyways up ... how many ways can one interpret the simple phrase from Hamlet:
"To be or not to be, that is the question" ? ... well here are some atttempts ...[ hope you can pick this up overseas]
ps, for anyone not familiar with Hamlet, in the play at the point of the soliloquoy the audience are led to believe him to be contemplating suicide, death, murder ... or all three
Night night
Paul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs8rK5Cqt8
Edited by Paul Joseph 4/24/2016 3:15 PM
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| Well, pfft. It says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country. "
I was looking forward to it.
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Location: United Kingdom | drat ... that must be the BBC ... you could try Googling
to be or not to be bbc2 homage to shakespeare
that is how I found it on You tube ... do you have BBC America?
Nice such a quick reply ... ['quick and dead' is from Shakespeare I think .. meaning, alive]
this one would be good too, if you could get it, though not as funny as the above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z2fPAOr8g
Edited by Paul Joseph 4/24/2016 3:21 PM
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Location: United Kingdom | My contribution to the celebrations:
Come, gentle night, Come, loving, black-brow’d night,
Give me my Romeo. And, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of Heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Translation into German.
In my view even more beautiful than the original: Komm, milde, liebevolle Nacht!
Komm, gib mir meinen Romeo!
Und stirbt er einst,
Nimm ihn, zerteil in kleine Sterne ihn.
Er wird des Himmels Antlitz so verschönen,
Dass alle Welt sich in die Nacht verliebt
Und niemand mehr der eitlen Sonne huldigt.
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep.
The more I give to thee,
The more I have,
For both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare * * * |
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Location: United Kingdom | Did this sketch ever materialize over in the USA? I might ry to find it somewhere else if not ..
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Location: NE Ohio | Oh geez.... it was blocked on my end too. While I have never been a fan of Shakespeare, only because i was always into Electronics, Ghost hunting and Seances while everyone else learned and did normal stuff. So i am behind on that portion of knowledge. I am sure there is a very large amount of time period i have missed out on. I do hope it is very enjoyable~
Many Blessings~ |
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Location: United Kingdom | Hamlet and Macbeth both feature ghosts as central plot points ... Macbeth also has witches and premonitions... I will see if I can another link ...
The etymology of poetry is interesting, the word 'poem' comes from, 'to make' ... so it is about creation 
No sorry, I nearly found a link on Vanity Fair.com, but it said BBC Worldwide has the copyright and has blocked it ...
basically, it consisted of several very well know actors trying to upstage each other, each appearing one by one and trying (in jest) to outdo the previous one, until they are all on stage together, by claiming that each had a better place for the emphasis in the one line of:
To be or not to be, that is the question
It revealed how option to interpretation is a phrase of just 10 words ... very cleverly done, if it ever comes your way ...
Night night
PJ
Edited by Paul Joseph 4/27/2016 1:52 PM
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