Shakespeare?

partyatmygaff

Its pretty much guaranteed anyone who did Higher level english has done some type of shakespearean play. So,
With thineselfs own capabilites, art thou emblesséd with skill and facility so refined that thou can read english of many moons past?

If you didn't get that question, I'll just take no for the answer.
:pac:

So in em modern english, can you understand shakespeare without needing to ask what every sentence means?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I'm learning modern day German - it's pretty much the same thing.

"Can I, a beer have, fair barkeep?"

admiralofthefleet

huh?

partyatmygaff

Nay

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

huh?

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TouchingVirus

I usually get the general thing he's trying to convey, but the subtleties are lost on me. Sometimes I'm completely baffled.

So I don't read shakespeare and haven't since the LC

Spore

Get thee to a nunnery

SoWatchaWant

Yup.

Example:

"William Shakespeare"

becomes:

"William filthy euphemism".

TouchingVirus

partyatmygaff wrote: »

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Fill in the *'s :P

Kiera

Nay

Can understand it no problem as i did a few Shakespeare plays in school. But that doesnt stop me thinking its a load of ****.

phasers

Yay verily

TouchingVirus

I would vote, but there is no Atari Jaguar option

davyjose

King Lear was awesome. A masterpiece. Hamlet was a let-down tbh.

wudangclan

Nay

Kiera wrote: »

Can understand it no problem as i did a few Shakespeare plays in school. But that doesnt stop me thinking its a load of ****.

phasers wrote: »

Yay verily

Go way,ya pair of philistines.

partyatmygaff

Nay

davyjose wrote: »

King Lear was awesome. A masterpiece. Hamlet was a let-down tbh.

Hamlet is pretty damn good. Never read king lear though.

partyatmygaff

Nay

wudangclan wrote: »

Go way,ya pair of philistines.

Gentlemen, A knave is he.



:pac:

DenMan

Just finished King Lear and am currently studying The Tempest. I love Shakespeare.

Wazdakka

Nay

<_<

>_>

MACBETH

phasers

DenMan wrote: »

Just finished King Lear and am currently studying The Tempest. I love Shakespeare.

Congratulations

Latchy

I can quote Shakespeare '' alas dear Yoric I knew his ma well '' but like the general masses , I aint very Shakespearean ..no

Dudess

Haven't read Shakespeare since school - presume I'd need to have much of it translated for me.

jumpguy

Nay

I've got to learn off quotes for his plays constantly for two years nows, and have the prospect of a year more. He's not right at all, he can't spell anything properly! And don't get me started on his grammar...

markok84

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Columbia

I'm doing a PhD, half of which is to do with Shakespeare. Yes, I can understand him...mostly

I'd say Hamlet is my favourite, but The Winters Tale is well up there too.

davyjose

markok84 wrote: »

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Yeah well, I once tried reading Darwin ... ended up fcuking a monkey.

jumpguy

Nay

markok84 wrote: »

Darwin

He must know what he's talking about.

Yeah thank God evolution has brought us modern English.

partyatmygaff

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

I've got to learn off quotes for his plays constantly for two years nows, and have the prospect of a year more. He's not right at all, he can't spell anything properly! And don't get me started on his grammar...

Tut tut. Someone has obviously been affected by lolcats.

/Heh its spelling/grammar nazism but then again this is a thread about english >_>

jumpguy

Nay

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Tut tut. Someone has obviously been affected by lolcats.

/Heh its spelling/grammar nazism but then again this is a thread about english >_>

What's wrong with "spell" and "grammar"?

Mardy Bum

Try Chaucer, Shakespeare is primary school english compared with this man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales

brummytom

Nay

Course I can.

My main gripe with Shakespearian plays is that he was from the Midderlunnns.. he most likely had a Brummy accent instead of the toff the pillocks now speak with. Talk normally! Use his words but don't say it like you've got a plum up your arse.

Anyway, yeah, easy to understand

partyatmygaff

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

What's wrong with "spell" and "grammar"?

nows


Thats verging on lolspk. :pac:

Intothesea

Nay

Shakespeare? Haile to the Kinge, babay :pac:

brummytom

Nay

I find Shakespeare's plays to be tedious drivel, yet I can recite Sonnet 18 from memory even though we've never learned it... hrmm.

AckwelFoley

didnt make me erect

Columbia

brummytom wrote: »

My main gripe with Shakespearian plays is that he was from the Midderlunnns.. he most likely had a Brummy accent instead of the toff the pillocks now speak with. Talk normally! Use his words but don't say it like you've got a plum up your arse.

Nobody really knows what English sounded like in Shakespeare's time, though. There is reason to think that a modern day American accent is closer to the 'English' accent of Shakespeare, British accents having changed over time due to the influence of continental Europe. Many Shakespearian passages sound far more natural in American accents than modern British ones.

jumpguy

Nay

partyatmygaff wrote: »

nows


Thats verging on lolspk. :pac:

Yeah I know nows is wrong, I hit it unbeknownst to myself, but tell me, what's wrong with "spell" and "grammar". I want to know damnit! :mad:

partyatmygaff

Nay

snyper wrote: »

didnt make me erect

It is 400 years old after all.

RonMexico

Nay

Hamlet is a masterpiece.

partyatmygaff

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

Yeah I know nows is wrong, I hit it unbeknownst to myself, but tell me, what's wrong with "spell" and "grammar". I want to know damnit! :mad:

No problems whatsoever with those two words. Just highlighting how you were commenting on Shakespeare's spelling and grammar.

jumpguy

Nay

partyatmygaff wrote: »

No problems whatsoever with those two words. Just highlighting how you were commenting on shakespeare's spelling and grammar.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Shakespeare has a capital S btw.

Spore

pfft Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe is where it's at. Dead at 29 in a knife fight. Left behind a bunch of plays as big and as clever as Shakespeare, written at a younger age, including The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus. Legend

partyatmygaff

Nay

jumpguy wrote: »

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Shakespeare has a capital S btw.

Yep, it sure does.

Novella

"How sharper than a serpents tooth it is, to have a thankless child"!

Did King Lear for the JC, got an A in English



My teacher was a ride!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Nay

I did Hamlet and really enjoyed it, can still remember the first few lines of the soliloquays

Used to wreck the teachers head when every day it was someones turn to ask 'But did they really speak like that back then Miss?'

davyjose

partyatmygaff wrote: »

No problems whatsoever with those two words. Just highlighting how you were commenting on Shakespeare's spelling and grammar.

Grammar-nazism is a bit of a buzz killer dude. Gotta be honest.

Midnight_EG

Nay

Thy poll is false!

First answereth should'th be yay

Sea Sharp

Nay

Macbeth was the shiznitz.
The whole story is told from the point of view of the villain, brilliant.

davyjose

Columbia wrote: »

Nobody really knows what English sounded like in Shakespeare's time, though. There is reason to think that a modern day American accent is closer to the 'English' accent of Shakespeare, British accents having changed over time due to the influence of continental Europe. Many Shakespearian passages sound far more natural in American accents than modern British ones.

I aks mahself that every day, fo shizzle, beeatch. Apparently it's not even yorrick, it's Yo, Rick!!!

Seren_

Nay

Shakespeare was a dirty b0llox sooo many double meanings in the stuff he wrote!

partyatmygaff

Nay

Your Text Here wrote: »

Shakespeare was a dirty b0llox sooo many double meanings in the stuff he wrote!

You could say the same for JK Rowling

Midnight_EG

Nay

Your Text Here wrote: »

Shakespeare was a dirty b0llox sooo many double meanings in the stuff he wrote!

Taken from Skins:
Naomi: Hamlet's basically a teenage boy. He's got all these desires and he doesn't have the bottom to reach out for them. So, he goes mad, **** off about Ophelia, and as it's so boring, somebody has to kill him.
Josie: I'm not sure that's right. Th-there's no **** in Hamlet.
Naomi: Mmhh yeah, there is. Loads. Only, they call it 'Soliloquy'.

Little Acorn

Nay

I've read Romeo and Juliet,Macbeth,and Hamlet.
Loved Macbeth.
Enjoyed Romeo and Juliet
Didn't really like Hamlet.