Monday, February 8, 2010
After reading Act 1 of Twelfth Night...
I can't stop thinking about how the language used by Shakespeare is so confusing. I feel like I should understand it better, but still find myself looking to the notes to help me along with it. The characters themselves and the plot could be a modern soap opera or a reality show in the making. I feel that it has been a rough start and I am hoping that from all the jumping around and difficult language it gets clearer and more interesting. I am also wondering about how the title will fit into the play, what is the going to happen on the Twelfth Night? I am sure that one of the characters may meet with a most certain and untimely death as in most of Shakespeare's writing, I am thinking could it be the fool? Ah the fool, why do we not have fools of our own, walking around with us during the course of a day, making merriment and tom foolery, that would be really funny.
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Nancy I could not agree more with you about the play. As of this morning I felt extremely confused as to what was going on but class this morning definitely cleared up most things for me. This is kind of typical for me when it comes to reading Shakespeare. It takes me a couple of days and class discussions to be totally sure about what is going on, simply because I cannot understand Shakespeare the first time I read it.
ReplyDeletehm... a Modern (more than the movie we saw) version of this... like the Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juliette? Interesting. See I jsut think of Shakespeare as Shakespeare. He drew from ancient Greece and Rome, and everyone afterwards drew from Shakespeare. His was his own writer--it's hard to imagine someone...twisting (? for lack of a better word) his play into something modern with texting and blogging and all this crap we do now. haha
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