Why???
Sun, 6 Aug 2000, 02:14 pmClare12 posts in thread
Why???
Sun, 6 Aug 2000, 02:14 pmIm very curious about something.....
Why is everyone connected with Theatre in any way obsessed with Shakespere?
Personally I think his plays are dull and boring and totally overdone. I also think that most people just like his work because its 'Cool' and 'Popular' and 'Everyone else likes it' Im not really sure if anyone REALLY even understands it!
And yes, i have studied Shakespere, so I do kind-of know what im on about.
Why is everyone connected with Theatre in any way obsessed with Shakespere?
Personally I think his plays are dull and boring and totally overdone. I also think that most people just like his work because its 'Cool' and 'Popular' and 'Everyone else likes it' Im not really sure if anyone REALLY even understands it!
And yes, i have studied Shakespere, so I do kind-of know what im on about.
RE: Why???
Mon, 7 Aug 2000, 08:10 pmWalter Plinge
clare,
Everybody goes to watch shakespeare not because he actually is any good, but because it makes them comfortable. In going to see a shakespeare you are not really challenged in any way, the true pollitics of shakespeare has been dead for centuries, but the issues involved are universal so they rehash it over and over because all it does is provide an evening of theatre and "high culture" which makes people feel as though they are part of a cultural mcrowd when really that crowd died along with the plague.
that and that it has an important cultural link to our theatrical past.
Everybody goes to watch shakespeare not because he actually is any good, but because it makes them comfortable. In going to see a shakespeare you are not really challenged in any way, the true pollitics of shakespeare has been dead for centuries, but the issues involved are universal so they rehash it over and over because all it does is provide an evening of theatre and "high culture" which makes people feel as though they are part of a cultural mcrowd when really that crowd died along with the plague.
that and that it has an important cultural link to our theatrical past.