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

[inndaskKy]

As you can probably guess from this opinion, I think the sonnets are his best works.

Really? I feel the exact opposite way. I agree that his contemporaries don't get enough props compared to Shakespeare himself, but I find his sonnets a bit boring to be honest. As someone mentioned, they reveal somewhat of a simpish side to Shakespeare that I don't care for too much. I love the plays though.

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

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

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.

um i dont get it

 

[Food Mane]

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.

Marlowe's the only one I can imagine you making a semi-reasonable argument for.

Anyways, my favorite play is probably Henry IV part 1. I'd recommend reading that, Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra one after another. Hal, Hamlet, and Octavian all react to the same problems in very different ways. Interesting stuff.

 

[Fillerguy]

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

I thought The Comedy of Errors was funny despite being a billion years old

 

[tru_m.a.c]

real innovative thread

good job breh

a lil on the feminine book club tip....lol but still a good read for me

+rep

 

[zerozero]

um i dont get it

he compares his love with all the things sonnet writers compare their loves with; the sun, angels, music, flowers and says like, to be honest, they're all better than she is.. then in the last couplet says but she's still as precious as any of these things he'd lie to compare her to

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

thats wack

 

[zerozero]

thats wack

 

[Gallo]

My favorite Shakespeare play

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Lancelot Gobbo and Prince of Morrocco

 

[Gallo]

Does anyone agree with me that Othello was suffering from PTSD and Iago merely took advantage of that fact?

 

[colicolicoli]

Sonnet #27 is my favorite:

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear respose for limbs with travel tired,
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired.
For then my thoughts (from far where I abide)
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see.
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which like a jewel (hung in ghastly night)
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for my self, no quiet find.

The longing he expresses...the racing mind thinking of your lover...man it's so beautiful. I feel like everyone has had that night where they're tired as fukk but they can't sleep b/c all they can do is think about the one they love.

I took a Brit Lit class at a CC my senior year in HS and while I didn't care too much before about Shakespeare when we got to reading all of the sonnets I fell in love. I guess they're "simpish" but whatever..I'm a girl

 

[The Real]

A clip from the Open University on the original accent Shakespeare's works were performed in and how it changes and adds things to them that are lost when you do them in modern British english.

 

[concise]

I only like MacBeth.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Anyone have any info about how Shakespeare might have been a pen-name and not a real person?

Also, a Shakespearean alias would be if done correctly

 

[daze23]

try reddit:

William Shakespeare

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