February 15 8:45pm
Last night i listened and followed along to two Shakespeare plays {Othello & Much Ado About Nothing}, and tonight will listen to two more thanks to having naps during the day.
The Marlowe Dramatic Society recording is being used now for A Midsummer Night's Dream, more traditional than the Arkangel, hence more minimal and dry. In this recording i've seen reviews where they said it mixes some scenes the wrong way.
Had watched the beginning of a James Earl Jones live performance of Lear, how interesting, whenever i have a play initially gone through the visual representations should prove highly entertaining and illuminating, plus there's some Blu-rays and DVD's i may be getting some time, i like the live theatre versions as opposed to filmic kinds.
And it's so much fun to also fit in small helpings of his contemporaries, to see the difference in quality.
Gradually the picture of those times of the late 1500's and early 1600's will be more and more clear, expanding outwards forth and back in time to include at first the English Romantic Poets like Dryden, Spenser, Pope, Milton, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Shelley, and back to the Greek and Roman poets and dramatists. Then further expansion including novelists, and playwrights onwards from around the world, slowly acquiring better editions of them with footnotes and introductions, theatrical stage plays is definitely the thing for me, as the more i get familiar with each play i can see if there's any performances online to deepen my appreciation, and then who knows i might actually see some plays in person before i kick the bucket, in the city i live near by, they do a Shakespeare in the Park even every summer.
The Marlowe Dramatic Society recording is being used now for A Midsummer Night's Dream, more traditional than the Arkangel, hence more minimal and dry. In this recording i've seen reviews where they said it mixes some scenes the wrong way.
Had watched the beginning of a James Earl Jones live performance of Lear, how interesting, whenever i have a play initially gone through the visual representations should prove highly entertaining and illuminating, plus there's some Blu-rays and DVD's i may be getting some time, i like the live theatre versions as opposed to filmic kinds.
And it's so much fun to also fit in small helpings of his contemporaries, to see the difference in quality.
Gradually the picture of those times of the late 1500's and early 1600's will be more and more clear, expanding outwards forth and back in time to include at first the English Romantic Poets like Dryden, Spenser, Pope, Milton, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Shelley, and back to the Greek and Roman poets and dramatists. Then further expansion including novelists, and playwrights onwards from around the world, slowly acquiring better editions of them with footnotes and introductions, theatrical stage plays is definitely the thing for me, as the more i get familiar with each play i can see if there's any performances online to deepen my appreciation, and then who knows i might actually see some plays in person before i kick the bucket, in the city i live near by, they do a Shakespeare in the Park even every summer.
