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William Shakespear, who wrote some plays, died 400 years ago today (ignoring the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar that didn't happen in the UK until the 18th century.)
April 23rd is also St George's Day, patron saint of England, Georgia, Portugal, Malta and Romania.
Funny cause one of the peer papers I recently reviewed was about Shakesies, among other things. Fun little paper about magic and culture in the late middle/early modern period.
I do like the conspiracy theories surrounding the Bard i.e that somebody else actually wrote his plays. Very interesting to read
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"You have not truly experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.".
I used to own four different copies of Hamlet, one of which was the Klingon version.
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One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
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Currently reading through Macbeth, it's one of the few Shakespeare plays I have read, but getting into Hamlet is a tempting prospect.
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Macbeth is definitely my favourite of the Tragedies, though Hamlet and Othello are close (all all are worth reading, or better, seeing). Of the comedies, I do enjoy Much Ado About Nothing a lot, same for Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night.
I haven't read a lot of Shakespeare, unfortunately, and even more unfortunately the ones I did read were not in the original Klingon. Oh well...
I've read the following: Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and part of Hamlet. Twelfth Night was pretty funny, although the style of humor was very different to that of today.
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
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2BlackJack1 wrote: Currently reading through Macbeth, it's one of the few Shakespeare plays I have read, but getting into Hamlet is a tempting prospect.
See, I'm opposite. I can't recommend Hamlet enough - I do love it, and each time I see it, I see new interpretations.
Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a couple of the sonnets. Do love me a bit of Midsummer Night's Dream.
And yeah - seeing is better than reading, in my experience. Especially when the actors don't dwell on the lines too much and speak it naturally.
To be fair, Shakespeare himself spelled his name in more than one way. There's a number of surviving signitures known to be his and they range from Shakespeare to Shakp. Abbreviating a name when signing something was not uncommon at the time, as was mispelling a name! Grammar and spelling were much less consistent prior to the rise of modern education which stressed standardization to students. EDIT: It also doesn't help that Shakesies had really sloppy hand writing. If Darth Lopez ever jumps in here, I'm sure he'll rant at ends about how much he hates English Teachers for "ruining language." In common use, Shakespear and Shakespeare are both used fairly commonly.
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Hated reading his plays in school (or rather, the same 3 plots over and over again with different characters ), but can appreciate them when I see them performed live now.
LordofHats wrote: To be fair, Shakespeare himself spelled his name in more than one way. There's a number of surviving signitures known to be his and they range from Shakespeare to Shakp. Abbreviating a name when signing something was not uncommon at the time, as was mispelling a name! Grammar and spelling were much less consistent prior to the rise of modern education which stressed standardization to students. EDIT: It also doesn't help that Shakesies had really sloppy hand writing. If Darth Lopez ever jumps in here, I'm sure he'll rant at ends about how much he hates English Teachers for "ruining language." In common use, Shakespear and Shakespeare are both used fairly commonly.
Quite right my good sir, English teachers, in english speaking nations, serve little real purpose except to perpetuate some variety of imposed order for the sake of aesthetics on our language rather than actually instruct speakers as to how their grammar is naturally rule bound. Rather than make them concious of the unconcious and complex linguistic systems at play in speach or writing they'd rather them simply be stimied by memorizing "aethetically pleasing" forms and archaic rules that were prescribed to make english less like english and more like latin, like "Don't split your infinitives", or "Never end a sentence with a preposition", or "some blither blather about i before e" LIES ALL OF IT LIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
But seriously unless an English teacher is actually teaching a foreigner English, They should be called literacy teachers and they shouldn't pretend to teach "grammar" prescriptivist dogs. Shakespeare would've said "feth Dem Grammer Poliz" In modern times.
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My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
~15000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: 
~1900 | Imperial Knights: 
~2000 | Sisters of Battle: 
~3500 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1200 | Tyranids: 
~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: 
) and Sakespeare wrote some of the best.
