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Published: 2012-10-07 06:53:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 290; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 1
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We wait at windows listening for doors we greased ourselves to creak.Things once heard on bended knee or straight legged looking down
have missed the point entirely--a fencer through and through.
But not en garde to guard against repose,
There are much greater lesser battles to be lost without the struggle 'gainst the face-chain protection cage.
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I don't get it! D:! My mom was the fencer, not me... *sobs*
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It was actually inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. If you're familiar with the foiling of Kate and Bianca (the sisters) in that play, it ought to make more sense.
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*cries summore*
I've never seen it!! I want to so badly, but I'm unimaginably poor, so I can't! There's also a ballet in town based on it, but I can't see it, either! I'M SO PATHETIC! *runs away, still bawling*
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Or you could just read it. Lol I've never actually seen it performed. I took an early Shakespeare class a couple quarters ago and it was one of the plays we read. I'd read it in middle school too, but I really fell in love with it this time, and the poem just sort of fell out of that.
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Read, shmead. I don't read plays. It loses its magic to me.
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I agree that seeing it performed is the preferred way to take in a play. That being said, there's so much that a live performance biases you with: the way different actors portray characters, how stage directions are handled (especially in Shakespeare, whose plays are notoriously lacking in discrete stage directions), timing and tone of lines and so forth. But when you read a play, you can read it differently every time. I always find new things when I reread good plays. Things I didn't notice before, things that make me look at characters and scenes and whole plot lines differently for having reread them. And to me, that's where the magic in a play is: in the in-between of the playwright's mind and the director's that can only be filled by someone willing to get intimate with the material like reading allows me to.
/end play rant/
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Hmm... Good play rant... I guess I might buy a copy when I'm no longer poor and read it then. Maybe I'll find the beauty of reading a play, eh?
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I hope so. If you go on Amazon, I usually find Shakespeare on there for around 3 bucks. You'll pay more in shipping (like 4 bucks) but still. Usually doesn't get over 10.
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We can only hope... *holds fist to heart and looks meaningfully towards the setting sun*
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Lol melodrama bomb! /LSP/
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Oh mah glob, seriously!?
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OH MAH GLOB!
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Wait a minute, I'm calling Tiffany...
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Angela! Stop cheating on Tony with me!
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Oh mah glob, you guys! I'm just trying to help out a friend!
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You made me sandwiches under false pretenses, didn't you?
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Oh my glob! I can't believe you'd do that, mom and dad!
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But, honey, if you'd just move back in, you'd get all the sandwiches you want!
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Hmm... Good play rant... I guess I might buy a copy when I'm no longer poor and read it then. Maybe I'll find the beauty of reading a play, eh?
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