Or would translating into "modern language" remove much of the magic of Shakespeare, much like translating Catholic mass from latin to english or moving the Hebrew prayers into english. Seems to make it too accessible, too plain. Maybe too transparent.[snip]
Isn't the problem with semantically decoding Shakespeare's sentences to some extent the spelling? Isn't it easier to understand when one actually watches the play?
Of course for students to watch the play removes most of the pedagogical purpose of testing the ability of the students to do pointless drudgery, so that watching the play is not an answer but rather a cop-out.
I find most of Shapespeare's plays pretty pointless. Henry the fourth part one, Henry the fourth part 2, Henry the fifth.... Then there are the comedies, in which I find it exhausting to have to try to keep track of which fairy is which flitting around where -- I've never had the opportunity to flit around for real, so why bother?
My two exceptions are: King Lear and Timon of Athens, which deal with issues I can relate to, and which have less "noise", i.e., fewer characters in Brownian motion.
TImon of Athens is the one Shakespeare play I had no trouble with, and, indeed, found "refreshing" (no fairies flitting about, etc.).
Do people really like watching fairies flit around in Brownian motion?
Epilog: Survivor ----------------
If yes, then, as I previously proposed, America may yet both save and redeem itself, if we get back to out authentic roots and learn once again, in the midst of universal holocaust, to
Sing in the rain
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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