I get out plenty, Patrick. And sing.
As for the reading, sorry, but still waiting for the lobotomy myself, if
only I could go private.
2009/9/30 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> David reading all this boring old Shakespeare ruff stuff guff go out and
> get
> a life! dance sing laugh fly!smell roses etc
> Cheers P your friendly concerned caring adviser
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 30 September 2009 00:10
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Seriously, now...Macbeth
>
> I haven't seen any Shakespeare live in theatre this year (the Curve in
> Leicester is beyond my pocket) but I've re-read King Lear (do so annually),
> Hamlet (surprisingly, I realised, for the first time in a decade), As You
> Like It (the musicality hit me too), Julius Caesar, The Tempest (having
> re-acquired the edition I first read it in), King John and The Taming of
> the
> Shrew (both of those read for only the second time). I've seen a tv version
> of Midsummer Night's Dream (with Mendelsohn's music), the already mentioned
> Macbeth DVD (a and have also re-read the Scottish play) plus the
> Renaissance
> Theatre film of Twelfth Night and heard on the radio a beautifully rendered
> performance of King Henry VIII.
> And The Sonnets for the umpteenth and Venus and Adonis for again only the
> second time.
> That's sort of par for recent years (I do recall a period when I went off
> WS) as I find increasingly Shakespeare and the 'classic' English poets are
> necessary to keep one's ear in, owing to the present's abounding deserts of
> rhythmically dead language.
> 2009/9/29 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Or Laurence Harvey in Romeo and Juliet, despite the somewhat truncated
> > version. The party scene, where the lovers court in sonnets, is pure
> magic.
> >
> > Or Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.
> >
> > Several years ago on a trip to Tucson, of all places, I saw a traveling
> > production of As You Like It. I don't remember who was in the cast, but
> the
> > Rosalind was wonderful. The poetry was so beautiful that tears rolled
> down
> > my beard, not for the sentiments, but for the sheer shock of the music.
> >
> >
> > At 05:40 PM 9/29/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >> I've never dared to re-watch it, since I saw it when I was 14 and was
> >> enraptured and thus converted to Shakespeare. I rather fear that
> >> Polanski's film mightn't survive the 70s, although I remember lots of
> >> moody medieaval Scottish landscapes and naked witches, and I seriously
> >> doubt it will horrify you. It might even make you laugh. But you never
> >> know. It would be interesting to hear.
> >>
> >> You might be better off getting Ian McKellan's Richard III, which is
> >> fantastic. Or hunting down Brook's Lear, with Paul Scofield. Or even
> >> the RSC Macbeth, which you can get on DVD, with a young McKellan and
> >> my favourite unknown genius Bob Peck as a heartbreaking MacDuff, which
> >> is very good and very bleak.
> >>
> >> xA
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Funny about Shakespeare, how he appeareth.
> >> >
> >> > I just acquired a copy of the Polanski's *Macbeth*. I have never seen
> >> it. I
> >> > have seen *Throne of Blood*. I have seen Welles' dreadful
> >> whatever-it-was.
> >> > People have warned me away from the Polanski version. An old friend
> said
> >> > "Never watch it by yourself." Even my older son, who had to watch it
> in
> >> high
> >> > school(!), said it was nightmarish. Apparently, the worst sequence is
> >> the
> >> > slaughter of the Macduff household, which replicates a bit too closely
> >> the
> >> > butchery in Polanski's own home when the Manson brain-slaves killed
> >> Sharon
> >> > Tate, her baby, and the others present. It was suggested to me that
> >> Polanski
> >> > was trying to work out his guilt over not having been there, making
> him
> >> > sound rather like Macduff himself. I gather too that the onscreen
> death
> >> of
> >> > John Stride as Macbeth is fairly repellent. And yes, I know Francesca
> >> Annis
> >> > sleepwalks in her own skin and nothing more.
> >> >
> >> > So what am I in for?
> >> >
> >> > ken
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > ----------------------------
> >> > Ken Wolman
> >> >
> >> > http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com
> >> > http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman
> >> > http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >>
> >
>
>
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