Macbeth

[changeling67]

I am travelling with some freshers tomorrow to the Mothership (Plymouth Uni) and one of the lectuers is on Macbeth (which isn't on my syllabus, not on Truro Colleges for either this or next academic year).  However, it is going to be on Lit Crit, so I had better brush up my Shakespeare and blag both a film and sparknotes for now. I think this will be more about the Crit than Lit (either that, or I will have to keep my gob firmly shut for a change).

Really I would have preferred reading the new Terry Pratchet A Slip of the Keyboard or Stephen Fry's More Fool Me - hot off the shelf, picked up by me and something I would infinately prefer to read than being bogged down by the Bard.  That and Homer's The Odyssey which right now, I draw a blank on.  In anycase - I will be comatosed by the time I get home tomorrow.

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[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

BUT - to really enjoy any SHakespeare... try reading it OUT LOUD to yourself.. and take all the parts. By golly it's a real eye opener... you get the feel for each character (except the crowd scenes where I become a sort of mass of Ringwraiths all going oooooh oooohoooooh)...

I'm really understanding poor muddled Othello and you should hear my Juliet..(I get the giggles as she's such a soppy halfwit).

What does he say about Macbeth????? being as how Bean is doing Enemy of Man sometime ... like sometime.....

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

'Othello' was exceptionally good - I did stuff on him last academic year, plus I also saw one on Youtube with Lawrence Fishbourne as the main character. A great performance. I did 'Romeo & Juliet' the year before - cataclysmic events that led to big egos spilling bad blood on the hot streets of Verona.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

my cd/dvd player is on the blink so I've been running my VHS stuff and checking on what there is - its so LONG since I did any.... and I found Hiddleston in Henry V! that was a sheer pleasure/treasure find. Relabelled the file!

Also I've got Heath Ledgers Casanova. which is total pretty fun! I'm looking for Michael Caine's Quills... which was brilliant with Ewan McGregor in... and it's somewhere I HOPE!

My first film venture (apart from bloody Olivier spouting Henner v..) was Antonini's Romeo and Juliet... I've no IDEA who was in it... it was so looooong ago..but it was a beautifully made film, every frame was like a dutch interior painting.... and the two young ones were just utterly right... It was the first time I think I REALLY understood 'young love'..... gorgeous.

Enjoy what ever you've got to do.. tis all mind broadening and sometimes one gets such super surprises!!!! Happy hunting!!!! XXXX