After watching several Shakespeare adaptations in the last couple of days, I decided to pick up the real thing. I'd forgotten how adept Shakespeare is in communicating the ups and downs of love in his comedies. Speaking of, I think that one of the failures of my South Georgian education was that most of the Shakespeare I was required to read were tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, ect.). In fact I can't think of one of his comedies that I actually read in conjunction with a class. There's just so much murder, betrayal, and suicide one can take before you develop this picture of Shakespeare as some depressing sadist intent in destroying the lives of all his characters. [smile] So I'm re-reading Much Ado About Nothing and reading Taming of the Shrew for the first time in hopes of remembering the storytelling skills of one of England's most famous playwrights. Its quite relevant reading actually as "The Bard's" 445 birthday is just a few days away, plus I'm hoping to journey to Stratford upon Avon sometime this summer.
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This is so true! In all of my lit classes we focused on the tragedies. And the comedies often hold some of the more important truths about life.
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