Plays

[Anonymouse]

Waiting for Godot, by samuel Beckett.

A lovely play dealing with existential philosophy.

[SagGal]

Originally posted by Darorinag .........I've read half of Romeo and Juliet. *yawwwwwn*..

I'm also gonna be reading Othello (again for one of my courses)...

You didn't like Romeo and Juliet? Probably because you knew what was going to happen at the end. Shakespeare's plays are too predictable. Othello was good though. Didn't see the play, but I read it, saw the movie and the ballet of it. I didn't like the ballet of it though......probably because I don't relaly like ballet. You should read it...pretty good.

Originally posted by Anonymouse Waiting for Godot, by samuel Beckett.

A lovely play dealing with existential philosophy.

do you think that play was religious? I don't really see it religious although a lot of people comment on it being so and if we need Beckett's explanation about the play to enjoy it.

[Darorinag]

You didn't like Romeo and Juliet? Probably because you knew what was going to happen at the end. Shakespeare's plays are too predictable.

Nawwwwwww, not that I knew the ending or whatever... it was too boring.. I've read books that I knew the ending of before, but this one is just super boring... unless you got a good version of the book with great footnotes, it's hard to follow. Especially for an ADHD person.

[SagGal]

Originally posted by Darorinag ......unless you got a good version of the book with great footnotes, it's hard to follow. Especially for an ADHD person.

oooooooooooh. It was hard to understand Shakespeare? Well, it helps to read footnotes on the first act and then to read the play for the same act and so on. You'll catch on Shakespeare's language. lol. Call me a dork but I like Shakespeares poems...not to mention John Donne's also. Just so you know.....if you had trouble reading Romeo and Juliet and you found it boring......good luck reading Othello. Maybe you just don't like reading love stories, but keep those footnotes near by for Othello, because Othello is really good.

[Darorinag]

actually, no, i don't find Shakespeare hard at all. i read Love's Labour's Lost and it was great. just that i think R&J sucks, and it's overrated like no other play is...

Shakespeare's poems are good. I like them. they're way too easy. I know some of them by heart even lol.. too much reading... shall I compare thee to a summer's day.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. lol

John Donne was too morbid lol

i've found that with shakespeare, it all depends on the version of the book, and i've found that footnotes do help a lot, unless ur reading at face value and don't want to pay attention to the puns. cos no matter what, meanings of english words then and now aren't the same.

and yeaaaaaa, i'm a very slowwwwwwwwww reader. lo. have you read any of Edmund Spenser's poetry??!?! that's like wow!! i took an Elizabethan and jacobean drama course in my first year, and oh my!! it ROCKED!! we had to read John Lily's Euphues: the anatomy of wit. that was very good too. not plays but still very good. anyway. lol

are u majoring in English Literature or something?

[SagGal]

John Donne was too morbid lol

yea right w/e, I love his poems.

have you read any of Edmund Spenser's poetry??!?! that's like wow!!

Actually I haven't, but I definitely will.

are u majoring in English Literature or something?

lol. no i'm not majoring in anything........i'm still in high school. I just enjoy literature very much

[Darorinag]

lol, well, he WAS morbid!! come now!! read his poems and u'll see what i mean lol.. not that it's bad or anything.

Yea, Spenser's Astrophil and Stella is good.

Aha, don't ever think about majoring in English Literature. It's the dumbest major in the entire world (sorry all English Literature majors - i myself am an english lit. major....). you will come out as you came in lol... u won't learn anything. it will just give u the opportunity to read more books and spend more time thinking about them, that's all lol. do u really wanna pay that much money for that? anyway, just a few thoughts on that one lol.

[dstyle]

i saw soghomon when it played at the greek ampitheatre or whatever its called.

[SagGal]

Originally posted by Darorinag lol, well, he WAS morbid!! come now!! read his poems and u'll see what i mean lol.. not that it's bad or anything. .....

I have read his poems...they are morbid, but in a good way. Just that at first you made it sound like a bad thing.

Yea, Spenser's Astrophil and Stella is good.

ooh, I know that one. I just didn't know his name.
As for Majoring in English Literature.....never even thought about that and frankly I don't even want to. That just goes off topic.

i saw soghomon when it played at the greek ampitheatre or whatever its called.

and how was it?

[loseyourname]

Salome - Oscar Wilde
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard

See those - they are absolutely hilarious.

As for Waiting for Godot - it need not be religious. They are two men waiting for something to give their life meaning, an answer that will never come. Some people wait for God, others wait for something else.