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 Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: Shakesphere! |
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| Can someone plase help with understanding the play of romeo and juliet. I am totally bambusled! (is that a word?) |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| What are you trying to understand, exactly? |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Tybalt rocks. That is all you need to know.  Seriously, though, how can I help? I'm not exactly an expert but I do have a deep and abiding love for the Bard. |
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I too went through shakesphere hell in 8th grade. what i did was read a paragraph, and then translate on a separate sheet of paper. read, translate, read, translate. That should help you.
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read it outloud to yourself (with voice changes)
or...
if that doesn't work and all else fails, go read your play, and then go to (god forbid I say it) SparkNotes and decifer it all. |
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| Our class just finished Romeo and Juliet a few months ago and I understood it pretty well. What's confuzzling you? |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, Romeo and Juliet.
All you have to remember is that Romeo is a wuss and Mercutio was awesome. A plague on both your houses, I say!
But what do you mean, you don't understand it?
*checks date on post*
Never mind. But still, I did this play last year, did Merchant of Venice this year, I do Othello next year, and then I do Hamlet and Macbeth, I think. Maybe it's just one or the other. But still. I like Shakespeare. He's funny, once you get past the language. Don't listen to people saying that he was famous for the beauty of his language -although it was pretty cool. He was famous for the quality of his bawdy jokes.  Seriously, though. Theatre was in the lowest -and funnest- forms of entertainment, that's why the Globe was built on the brothel and bear baiting side of the Thames. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I second what Squishy said. Get a copy with annotations at the bottom (or in the margins if that's what you're into) and just be dedicated to reading and understanding it. I recommend learning about Elizabethan England if you want to understand all of the references, but that's just me.
The first couple of pages are always hard. Stick with it; he was a genius. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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I second what everyone above said. Also, read it aloud; the best is to get a few friends or family members to read it aloud with you. Shakespeare after all was meant to be heard.
There is a useful study guide for the play here: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/love-in-the-arts/romeo.html
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