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EvilpixieA — You need to Reread Shakespeare
Published: 2011-05-23 03:20:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 629; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 9
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Shakespeare was a dirty old man. That is unquestionable. All you have to do is read through some of his work and it becomes obvious. Honestly, I don't think I have ever picked up a single play he wrote that didn't include some, quite poetic, dirty talk.Of course most people skip over it, confused as to why the characters seem to be talking about horns and fruits all of a sudden, but I analyse the written word far too much to let such things slip through my fingers. It was the same back in the day when his plays were preformed. Peasants holding rotten vegetables ready for pelting attacks stood watching as the meaning of these cleverly used words swept over their heads and up in the royal box where the delighted Queen Elizabeth I grinned shamelessly, surrounded by blushing dukes.
Many people I know despise Shakespeare and honestly with the way most teachers teach it, I don't blame them. But, I implore you to review this literary master if this is your current opinion. Not because he is deemed a classic, not because of his massive vocabulary and not because he blatantly borrowed storylines. Read for his fabulously classy potty mouth.
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Fabulously classic potty mouth. Haha, good ending.
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Of course Shakespeare was a dirty old man. Sex and violence sells, even back thenXD.
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Now isn't that the truth! But hey, I would be worried at anyone who looks at sex and violence and yawns.
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I read something an actor said about performing Shakespeare once. "If you don't know what it means, say it as if it's slightly dirty". I may be guilty of paraphrasing, and I can't remember who said it, but it appears to be true.
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Oh it is.
Thanks for the fave by the way.
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hahahahahahahahahah Totally agreed. 
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Another awesome teacher! Maybe I was less lucky than I thought in my line up.
Thanks! I'm glad (no, thrilled!) that you liked it, and cheers to you for the fave.
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hahahaha No prob! And yes, he is awesome. ^^
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Oh yes, shakespeare was a very dirty old man.
We're midway through Romeo and Juliet and oh boy, romeo really just wants some, and Mercutio is quite the pervert. Any dirty jokes we didn't get, my language art teacher explained.
I read "A Midsummer's Night Dream" and "Hamlet," a few years back, and didn't catch any then, but I'm planning on re-reading.
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Hahaha, you got it!
I live it when you're lucky enough to get teachers that explain things like that. They make it so much easier to enjoy work written in an old style of English.
I'm surprised you didn't pick up anything in 'A Midsummer's Night Dream'. I found that one had quite a bit in it. Not as much as Romeo and Juliet mind you! And Hamlet is a darker theme but I think I recall Ophelia sprouting some interesting phrases during her mad streak.
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'A Midsummer's Night's Dream' was my first shakespeare, and I was a very innocent thirteen year old.
Hamlet was a lot darker, but I remember some dirty/angry/funny things Hamlet said to his mother regarding her and his uncle.
Well, they were more of disturbing.
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Yes, Hamlet is not my favorite play in the bunch. Not close. He whines too much personally for my taste. And I think you're right, he did have a bit where he was holding his mother and effectively calling her a whore. Not the nicest of sons.
Oh, if you read Midsummer's Night's Dream again I'm sure you'll see the references and jokes. That whole thing is just... random fun on a stick.
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Lol, this is awesome! I might have to take this in and show it to my lit teacher. She teaches it awesomely AND she tells us all about the dirty jokes. Teehee... 
And I, for one, LOVE Shakespeare. Even with all the dirty jokes, I love acting in the plays.
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That is fantastic news!
a) that you are another Shakespeare fan
b) that you have been lucky enough to score a fantastic lit teacher and
c) that you know about the dirty jokes.
I am not skilled enough in preforming to be able to enjoy them that way, but I'm sure it would be fantastic.
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Yup! Only one other person in my grade has read the plays, though... It sucks, all of today's teen being such illiterate idiots.
YES! She's the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life!
Oh yeah. *giggle*
It's so much fun. I've been acting since I was about four, and doing Shakespeare specifically since fifth grade.
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That sounds awesome. I had a quite brilliant teacher recently who I could discuss Shakespeare among other classic authors and have a laugh or two. And it is a shame that so many teens are not reading, or reading things with little to no literary merit. But, to each his own I guess.
You sound like you could make it big time with that sort of commitment to acting! That would be awesome!
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She's the bestest. Actually, since I recently finished the second draft of my manuscript, the one I want to get published, she was one of the four people I asked to edit for me. And she agreed!
Awesomest. Teacher. EVER!
I don't know; maybe. 
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Coolness! I hope the publishing deal goes down well for you. It's a long and rough road, let me tell you and I haven't even made it to the end yet myself. Great luck to you! I'm sure you will make it!
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Yeah, I hope so too. It's been my dream to be published since 3rd grade.
Based on what people are saying about my stories here, though, I'm thinking I'll do all right... (Hoping) And these aren't even my best work, so fingers crossed.
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You have similar story to me then! It is my dream to become an author, and more than just one book on the shelf. I've been writing, ever since I could.
Well, I guess best of luck to both of us. I reckon we both have the skill. We just need to put in the work.
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Wannabe writer's unite!
I've always been making up stories, but I didn't honestly start anything until 3rd grade. Before that I didn't like reading. (All hail Harry Potter!)
Yeah, good luck to us both! Although it will definitely be hard, if we play our card right, the rewards can be even greater.
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haha, that's my plan.
And ditto to the making up stories since forever! Recently I found an old journal or something I had lying around when I was six and was shocked to discover the obvious beginnings of a plot in written/picture format. I didn't know I was doing it that far back. Lol.
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I had(/embarrassingly still have) a bazillion stuffed animals. I made up some ridiculous stories about them and a little girl named Samantha who escaped from an evil orphanage and lived in this network of tree houses in the forest with no adults and she was queen of the animals.
Lol.
Mind you, I had orphaned kids in nasty places when I was about five... Too much Peter Pan!
Haha, I was a weird little girl. All my favorite Disney movies were NOT the princess ones. I liked the actually scary ones.
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Yay! I think you are awesomeness on a stick! I love Peter Pan (more the original play than the Disney version but that works too). And yes, Princesses were never my thing either.
When I was younger it was Dragons, exotic people with green skin, Kings and Knights etc.
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OMG, I LOVED THE PLAY! I saw it in first grade, with Cathy Rigby, when she was my hero. Afterward, we went to get her autograph. I specifically remember she was hugging me for the picture and the camera was malfunctioning, so she hugged me for extra long! 
I was also in extreme love with Robin Hood (Yeah, the Disney one with animals. Although my favorite movie now is The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Erroll Flynn. (Talk about crushing on a dead guy... What? Who me?)) and The Great Mouse Detective. (Hehe, there's another dead guy crush. Basil Rathbone, OHMYGOD! Lol, he was in the same Robin Hood movie as Flynn.)
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Yay! You're my kind of girl! I saw the Peter Pan play as well when I was young but I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN! That's awesome that you got to see it with Cathy Rigby. I love it when you get the chance to meet heroes like that. 
I adore Robin Hood, the story, the hero etc. And as a child I loved the talking animals as well!
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Haha, yay!
Talking animals RULE!
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