Does anyone know of a good and active Shakespeare message board?

[inndaskKy]

To find one or not to find one, that is the question.

I tried googling it but to my surprise there don't seem to be any active message boards a la this one dedicated to Shakespeare. I'm talking like at least a few hundred active members and daily posting.

If no one can find one: How does The Coli feel about Shakespeare? Any favorite plays/sonnets? Or maybe a particular passage?

I just started reading some of them again for the f*ck of it. Love the range of emotions in them, it's like browsing The Coli's smilies list.

It'll start with everything being to the but soon envy will have people like and it soon turns to :fight: and until everyone is like all .

Reading it will have you like

 

[Bud Bundy]

Romeo and Juilet

and of course Titus Andronicus

 

[inndaskKy]

and of course Titus Andronicus

Yeah that one is crazy. A lot of going on in there.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Yeah that one is crazy. A lot of going on in there.

the cannibalism sent it over the top for me. And the rape of that poor chick. They took her hands and tongue.

 

[zerozero]

Let's discuss

I'm afraid I haven't read a lot. Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth.. that's about it? Merchant of Venice & Othello too

will post more later

 

[inndaskKy]

Aaron is straight evil. And in the end, he didn't even feel sorry about what he did. You'd expect a tale of redemption or something but ultimately, when he's faced with what he's done, he's just like

 

[inndaskKy]

Let's discuss

I'm afraid I haven't read a lot. Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth.. that's about it? Merchant of Venice & Othello too

will post more later

Have you read Hamlet? I'm currently rereading that and it definitely deserves the great reputation it has imo. It's the goat story when it comes to quotables.

 

[zerozero]

Have you read Hamlet? I'm currently rereading that and it definitely deserves the great reputation it has imo. It's the goat story when it comes to quotables.

no I'm embarrassed to admit this cause we were assigned it in high school and many people see it as his greatest work but I haven't yet

 

[zerozero]

I like this satirical sonnet (with a sweet twist in the end)

Sonnet 130 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

 

[The Real]

As a user of the English language, pretty much untouchable. As far as construction of plays, narrative elements, etc, overrated, in the sense that there are at least a dozen contemporaries who held it down just as much. As you can probably guess from this opinion, I think the sonnets are his best works.

 

[zerozero]

And the kiss passage from Romeo & Juliet

Rom. [To Juliet.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this:
For saints have hands that pilgrims' kiss.

Rom. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray'r.

Rom. O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do,
They pray-grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Jul. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Rom. The move not while my prayer's effect I take.

(there's a couple more fun lines after this .. o trespass sweetly urged etc.)

other good parts in R&J: Juliet's interactions with the nurse; the Queen Mab passage: http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/shakespeare_067.html

 

[Mowgli]

Never liked his simptacular plays.

 

[zerozero]

& I love Macbeth!!! this passage is really famous anyway but what the hell I like it personally too:

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

 

[Broke Wave]

I fukk with Shakespere, this is Higher Learning, but you got to be gay.