I have read the Shakespeare play 'The Merchant of Venice'. Although I have never seen a Shakespeare play I got the basic idea of it from reading and analizing The Merchant of Venice. I have read some of Shakespeare's sonnets but I did not really enjoy them, I did enjoy certain parts of The Merchant of Venice but some parts became confusing when he used metaphors to describe other metaphors.
I have seen parts of the movie 10 things I hate about you but I was unable to figure out the connection between the movie and the works of Shakespeare. I wouldn’t really be interested in participating in Mr. S's play only because I have never really been much of an actor/singer/dancer so I don’t believe I would be of much use. The only thing I really know about Shakespeare's work is that it was heavily influenced by his religious views, this shows in The Merchant of Venice, they consider the Jewish people 'devil worshippers' and the Christians as harmless angels not capable of any misdoings.
It is bad luck to say the word Macbeth during the play because it brings the actors and basically the whole productions the only way to prevent this is to exit the theatre and do one of the following-
1. Cleanse the air with a quote from Hamlet.
2. Spin around three times while saying profanity and then ask for permission to enter.
Or 3. Repeat the incantation "Thrice around the circle bound, Evil sink into the ground".
It is just easier to refer to Macbeth as 'the Scottish play' as this will prevent you from having to perform one of these actions.
1 comment:
Well done on this week's entry, it is of high class, just as we expect from you. It was well written and interesting, but I would have to say i hinted a bit of plagerism in the last paragraph when you were writing about the bad luck to mention Mabeth. Although, i could be wrong, as your writings always sound very prefessional!
I would recomend putting in things like humour into your entries to make it more interesting for the reader.
Other than that, good job!
From Mumf
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