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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 4, 2011 13:45:22 GMT -5
While I'm not necessarily a fan of things like this I can't deny that it looks interesting. It's kind of annoying to hear Shakespearian English infused with phrases like "He's such an emo" and "OMG", but then again I'm not the target audience.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 5, 2011 0:42:08 GMT -5
While I'm not necessarily a fan of things like this I can't deny that it looks interesting. It's kind of annoying to hear Shakespearian English infused with phrases like "He's such an emo" and "OMG", but then again I'm not the target audience. Sad. It forgets the point: language, not plot. Shakespeare's plots are simple. You can summarize them in seconds. Reading the plays is about learning how to read poetry, complicated phrasing, expression, and the ways that words can convey emotion and ideas. This reduces it all to a summary. Real Cliff's Notes, if you read them all the way through, at least give you pieces of that. This, though, is essentially nothing but a skeleton of the plot, which I could give in a class in half a minute.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Oct 6, 2011 2:32:34 GMT -5
As a fan of Shakespeare parodies (and having written two myself), I enjoyed the humor, but as an aspiring teacher, while I might use this as an introduction (the animation and the humor), I would never let it replace discussion and lecture.
Then again, this is coming from the girl who is bound and determined to somehow include MST3K's Hamlet in her hypothetical future curriculum.
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Post by Louis Toth on Oct 8, 2011 0:02:30 GMT -5
I read that blog of romeo and juliet, you are right, the Shakespearian English made easy things so confusing and difficult. But huge people fan of his English, but my personal view is it's difficult to understand.
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