tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post114933705714780146..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: On Matters LiteraryTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149808226129580092006-06-09T09:10:00.000+10:002006-06-09T09:10:00.000+10:00You might appreciate Richard Curtis's "Skinhead Ha...You might appreciate Richard Curtis's "Skinhead Hamlet" at <BR/>http://sub-zero.mit.edu/bakunin/hamlet.htmlMercurius Aulicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130901970855873480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149645822761053892006-06-07T12:03:00.000+10:002006-06-07T12:03:00.000+10:00Anonymous, congratulations on catching me out in m...Anonymous, congratulations on catching me out in my lame attempt to make my post just a tiny bit more interesting. I talked up the other three letters too, you will have noticed. As you say, the letter itself is a piece of very minor snark and not really worth discussing. I sincerely hope it was worth the effort of a trip to the stacks.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149594846600730442006-06-06T21:54:00.000+10:002006-06-06T21:54:00.000+10:00I went into the library on the weekend and looked ...I went into the library on the weekend and looked up the 'joke' myself. It's not a joke, in fact. It's a short letter in which one scholar says to another: okay, if that's your theory, then explain how blah-blah-blah fits in with it, eh?<BR/>In the following issue of the TLS, Professor A comes back with a long reply of how the objection doesn't negate his theory about the play-within-a-play in <I>Hamlet</I>. For further details, look it up yourself; it's not interesting enough to talk about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149570368730991872006-06-06T15:06:00.000+10:002006-06-06T15:06:00.000+10:00Clive James did a good essay about Rosencrantz and...Clive James did a good essay about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern which I read, though I can't say when I saw the play I understood it. Like a lot of modern works, the idea seems to be more interesting than the actual work. Or maybe I was just more interested in Clive James writing about Tom Stoppard than in Tom Stoppard ... <BR/><BR/>Anyway, <A HREF="http://willtypeforfood.blogspot.com/2006/05/mrs-socrates.html" REL="nofollow">as I said here</A>, I'm fascinated in the 'side' characters in great historical dramas, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149567732659250512006-06-06T14:22:00.000+10:002006-06-06T14:22:00.000+10:00Hee. Thanks for the link. Rosencrantz and Guilde...Hee. Thanks for the link. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead contains some fairly amusing Hamlet jokes. Your sketch reminded me a bit of Waiting for Godot, too, so it's all good.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149483310505885342006-06-05T14:55:00.000+10:002006-06-05T14:55:00.000+10:00Totally agree. Several composers have written musi...Totally agree. Several composers have written music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, including a <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001GM6/104-7235812-3435959?v=glance&n=5174" REL="nofollow">suite</A> by Felix Mendellsohn and <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream_(opera)" REL="nofollow">an opera</A> by Benjamin Britten. I saw a version of the opera in Sydney a few years ago with some rellies, it was directed by Baz Luhrmann and set in India at the time of the Raj. It was great! <BR/><BR/>Britten and his partner Peter Pears (who, I think, helped in writing the libretto) tended to exaggerate the queer elements of the plot, giving Puck some mesmerising music.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149419609629070132006-06-04T21:13:00.000+10:002006-06-04T21:13:00.000+10:00Hrmm, I found Othello more tragic than Hamlet, and...Hrmm, I found Othello more tragic than Hamlet, and Macbeth was indeed the better written play....<BR/><BR/>but we all seem to miss a midsummernights dream...honestly it doesnt get more kinky than that (even the lolita-esque romeo and juliet) A woman falling for a donkey, a foursome ,fairies playing in a forest.<BR/><BR/>Some much action...i wonder whether he wrote that after hamlet...a play with so much inaction.rashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03832784046609098216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149414022867503502006-06-04T19:40:00.000+10:002006-06-04T19:40:00.000+10:00Very young love. Juliet is barely in her teens whe...<I>Very</I> young love. Juliet is barely in her teens when she meets Romeo. And interestingly, she's much more sensible than him, even at that age!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149397380344938782006-06-04T15:03:00.000+10:002006-06-04T15:03:00.000+10:00Well, you can't go past a good story with witches ...Well, you can't go past a good story with witches in it, can you?<BR/><BR/>The whole Romeo & Juliet thing was nicely handled; I always thought. Aaah, young lurve and all that.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149375656122754262006-06-04T09:00:00.000+10:002006-06-04T09:00:00.000+10:00Macbeth is so much better, what with that surreal ...Macbeth is so much better, what with that surreal bit about the 'woods being on the move', and Lady Macbeth's freaky dreams, and so much else. But Hamlet was the nicer character. Macbeth did all his killing for himself, but Hamlet - well, everybody kept on dying <I>for</I> him, he was that nice. There was Yorick - how did he die again? And Ophelia, who topped herself (evidently driven batty by Hamlet's speeches). And how could I forget poor old Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? <BR/><BR/>At least they had a play written about them.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1149356703443875652006-06-04T03:45:00.000+10:002006-06-04T03:45:00.000+10:00Hahaha! I never much liked Hamlet either, though i...Hahaha! I never much liked Hamlet either, though it was supposed to be the best of the bunch. I was always partial to Macbeth, personally. There was some adaptation by Kurasawa where the Macbeth character with a Japanese name gets shot so full of arrows it becomes a bit comical. I also liked Lear. He has soliloquies too, but not so long, and more important, not so boring.marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09691207583232829217noreply@blogger.com