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RougeUnderoos · 07-30-2009, 11:00 PM

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That's Bill Shakespeare. Or at least a drawring of him. He was to be in 1564 and became not to be in 1616.

I hated the son of a bitch in high school until a teacher showed us a film adaptation of one of the plays -- The Taming of The Shrew -- and that turned me all around on the subject.

Before I watched the movie I couldn't really visualize what was going on in the book, which made it really boring. Watching it changed all that. Before I saw it on the television I would skip over the scene descriptions in the book and basically "speed read", which was pointless.

Although I did get some of it when I was just racing through it -- I remember reading some lines and thinking "this guy is telling dirty jokes in this play". But I didn't believe he was telling dirty jokes because it all read so fancy-like, what with the "art thou's" and "he hath's" and so forth. But he was really telling dirty jokes.

I can't remember the exact titles of the plays, but I know the ones with the name "Henry" in the title had plenty of gags about screwing, farting, drunken debauchery and general lecherousness.

So on top of it all being "grand narratives" and "stories that have been ripped off for 400 years" and "hard-to-understand old-timey-time language", there are a lot of laughs in there.

I used to buy every Shakespeare "book" I'd run across at any book sale, garage sale, flea market or library castoff bin, so I have a lot of them. Not one of them has been cracked in 10 years but it makes me feel like a big man to have them sitting in that box under my slide projector.

If you would like to learn more about William Shakespeare, visit your Pubic Library.

07-30-2009, 11:00 PM	#93
RougeUnderoos Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Clinching Party Exp:	Writer That's Bill Shakespeare. Or at least a drawring of him. He was to be in 1564 and became not to be in 1616. I hated the son of a bitch in high school until a teacher showed us a film adaptation of one of the plays -- The Taming of The Shrew -- and that turned me all around on the subject. Before I watched the movie I couldn't really visualize what was going on in the book, which made it really boring. Watching it changed all that. Before I saw it on the television I would skip over the scene descriptions in the book and basically "speed read", which was pointless. Although I did get some of it when I was just racing through it -- I remember reading some lines and thinking "this guy is telling dirty jokes in this play". But I didn't believe he was telling dirty jokes because it all read so fancy-like, what with the "art thou's" and "he hath's" and so forth. But he was really telling dirty jokes. I can't remember the exact titles of the plays, but I know the ones with the name "Henry" in the title had plenty of gags about screwing, farting, drunken debauchery and general lecherousness. So on top of it all being "grand narratives" and "stories that have been ripped off for 400 years" and "hard-to-understand old-timey-time language", there are a lot of laughs in there. I used to buy every Shakespeare "book" I'd run across at any book sale, garage sale, flea market or library castoff bin, so I have a lot of them. Not one of them has been cracked in 10 years but it makes me feel like a big man to have them sitting in that box under my slide projector. If you would like to learn more about William Shakespeare, visit your Pubic Library. __________________ Last edited by RougeUnderoos; 07-30-2009 at 11:02 PM.