🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 3, 5:30 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 4:03 pm, Emungo <pyti...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
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> > On 3 Mar, 19:53, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 3, 2:50 pm, Melanie Sands <Melanie_Sa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > ReadingShakespearealoud is the nicest thing you can do for your
> > > > lungs and voice, by the way, especially if you have asthma like I do.
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> > > This is a neat illustration of cultism and entirely comparable with
> > > the Hindutva suggestion that learning or reading Sanskrit is good for
> > > your health. I refuse to take this cult superstition seriously.
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> > > > Maybe you should try it, Panu - that way you couldactuallyget to
> > > >READsome ofShakespeare'splays...woah, wouldn't that be something,
> > > > you might end upactuallyknowing what you're talking about.
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> > > I havereadhis sonnets both in the original and (a couple of them) in
> > > Irish translations. I havereadHamlet in Stanislaw Baranczak's Polish
> > > translation, and Macbeth in Irish. I have alsoreadJan Kott's
> > > "Szekspir wspólczesny", and wereadextensive fragments of "Julius
> > > Caesar" at school. I staunchly refuse to lose any more of my precious
> > > time toShakespeare. Learning Georgian and Albanian is much more
> > > interesting.
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> > > > Melanie
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> > You seem unaware that bardolatry (in Britain, at any rate) has always
> > been shadowed by a healthy strain of misobardia - just as Rome knew
> > more than one Virgiliomastix. So you're not the amazing iconoclast you
> > seem to think you are.
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> > Furthermore I just don't see how you can pronounce 'Shakespeareis
> > rubbish' in a group whose name begins with 'sci', as if it were an
> > assertion capable of proof or disproof.
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> Nevermind all that -- did you notice that in the above, he admits
> that he hasneverreadanything byShakespearebeyond some excerpts
> from Julius Caesar?
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> (He doesn't say whether he's ever seen any on stage or screen, which
> is the way to properly appreciate it.)-

According to Simon Keenleyside, playing the title role in the
Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of Ambroise Thomas's *Hamlet*, in a
(brief) live interview during the intermission, Shakespeare's *Hamlet*
is "one of the greatest works of Western European literature."

That's taking it down a peg or three!