Oh okay, let's write verse screenplays (or for showing on YouTube).
Some may be able to, but not all (I count myself out).
Do agree with Alison et al, & not with Roger et al, that Shakespeare
can be wonderful, if kept away from 'the dead hands'....
And, well, what one has seen & read does creep in to what one writes,
neh? I can even say with what wonder I 'read' the various Shakespeare
moments in Sandman.
Doug
On 30-Sep-08, at 6:19 AM, Judy Prince wrote:
> Contrary to Roger Day's continuing notion that Shaks isn't worth
> keeping
> resurrected for each person and in each generation, I feel that the
> rebirth
> of Shaks' works on stage has not yet begun, and that it will be the
> Flower
> of Renaissance in this century. This is news of more import than
> the USA's
> 'bail-out' Congressional vote and all its ilk. It will be an
> unprecedented
> poetic renaissance through which our own works will ignite, grow and
> thrive.
> It will engender a spirit of free poetic--and other---expressions,
> and it
> will re-orient us to our spirituality and humanity.
Douglas Barbour
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