The summer between 9th grade and 10th grade, I read all of Shakespeare's work. Oh yes, all of it - 154 sonnets, 38 plays, and Pilgrim's Progress (which is iffy and attributed to someone else, but as a completionist I had to do it.) Of these, two clear favorites emerged: A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest. Ask me sometime for one of Puck's soliloquies, I'll show you. But for now...
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep -
Helen Mirren as Prospero? Brilliant. I can't wait.
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solipsistnation
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep -
Helen Mirren as Prospero? Brilliant. I can't wait.
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Date: 2010-10-07 01:28 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 01:45 am (UTC)From:My dad got a copy of the Complete Works (Illustrated)--big, thick, leather-bound, illustrated panels, very nice--but I don't think he ever read from it.
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Date: 2010-10-07 01:50 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 02:05 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 01:53 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 02:18 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 06:50 am (UTC)From:What I do have a problem with is that, based on this preview, I do not find Helen Mirren very convincing as Prospero. I also hope to God they've just cast a woman as a male character, rather than making Prospero a woman & Miranda's mother.
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Date: 2010-10-08 03:01 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 06:39 am (UTC)From:Aargh. I'll wait for the torrent and people's reviews before I brave this I think. Ty for heads-up.
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Date: 2010-10-08 08:26 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 09:12 am (UTC)From:My point is that it will take more than some cinematic eyecandy to overcome some of the potential narrative problems that I see this change introducing.
I think I'll collect my thoughts and post something on my own journal.
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Date: 2010-10-07 09:55 pm (UTC)From:I fail at favourites, but The Tempest is easily in the top three.
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Date: 2010-10-08 03:01 am (UTC)From: