Go  |
New |
Find |
Notify |
|
Reply |
|
Admin |
New PM! |
Registered: July 23, 2003
Posts: 326
|
Now I really love Shakespearean plays... I read Romeo and Juliet last year and thoroughly loved it. Now I'm reading Twelfth Night which I think is so genious; I suggest that everyone go read it sometime! But then I was thinking... when people talk about playwrights, it's usually Shakespeare... I was just wondering if anyone knew about any other good playwrights and could suggest some of their works to me. I'm really getting into this type of literature and wonder where to turn when I eventually finish w/ Shakespeare's works. Thanks 
>>Windows open and close, that's just how it goes
|
Registered: June 09, 2003
Posts: 5084
|
Sophocles!!! Really, though, I hate greek tragedies. Inscest, suicide, inscest, suicide.....
None of us can ever be free while others are still in chains. -Leslie Feinberg
|
Registered: May 18, 2002
Posts: 1111
|
Been reading Webster: 'The Duchess of Malfi'. A little later than Shakespeare, very dark, very poetic, incredibly gory. Great imagery in it, even some macabre comedy. Similar language to Shakespeare, but a very different feel to the whole thing… Less romantic, I suppose. Bex
Watch out for the Baobabs!
|
Registered: August 13, 2004
Posts: 91
|
My advice, just go to the drama selection and pick up a play or two, if you hate it, stop reading it. I've discovered some great thigns that way, though at the moment playwright names are not coming to me.
"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."
|
Registered: July 23, 2003
Posts: 326
|
Thanks dudes and dudettes.
>>Windows open and close, that's just how it goes
|
Registered: December 13, 2002
Posts: 3964
|
quote:
I went to see A Doll's House once, and instead of doing the original, "controversial" ending, they did the other one. It ****ing pissed me off, as the original ending is the best part of the entire play.
Quite true. When I was a camp counselor at a Norwegian camp, we did the original ending, and that was for small children.
Move tiger, pick up your paws, and let's dance.
|
Registered: October 06, 2004
Posts: 3372
|
Not to be a nerd, but have any of you ever seen a rendition of a greek drama? They're very different than other plays, and very beautiful.
O of where dost thou hail, Celephanil, Celephanil? Why dost thou wander in Tengelwar great, why on the sea do you sail?
|
Registered: March 02, 2003
Posts: 2224
|
quote:
I love almost anything by Ibsen, especially A Doll's House.
I went to see A Doll's House once, and instead of doing the original, "controversial" ending, they did the other one. It ****ing pissed me off, as the original ending is the best part of the entire play.
When the president talks to god are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women's rights and send more farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike when the president talks to god?
|
Registered: April 15, 2003
Posts: 1396
|
Arthur Miller is well worth checking out.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglass
|
Registered: December 13, 2002
Posts: 3964
|
I love almost anything by Ibsen, especially A Doll's House.
Move tiger, pick up your paws, and let's dance.
|
Registered: December 11, 2003
Posts: 9501
|
Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya and Dominic Champagne's Playing Bare are my favorites.
"Regardless, I have always, and will always, succeed."
|
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|
