King of Words: Shakespeare
Hi there,
Before reading Macbeth I have no sympathy towards Shakespeare's works. I knew some of the most famous ones like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet etc. and little bit about their genres. Also I thought that his language is so confusing to read and even if his works is so successful, I have always hesitate to read Shakespeare, and even translations of Turkish. Reading Macbeth was as a duty for me to get good grade from this course, then it became a pleasure for me. Because his words, interpretations phrases, setting the mood of scene made my biases towards Shakespeare to be broken. After a little surf on internet about Shakespeare I found that even today In Oxford dictionary he has lots of words and phrases. As Christopher Gaze mentioned in his speech ,called Shakespeare is everywhere, in our everyday life we are "quoting Shakespeare". Shakespeare in History of English is another video that you can understand his contribution to English literature.
You should check out two videos that I linked as they are interesting and enjoying also, especially Tedx speech of Christopher Gaze, who made mashup from Shakespeare quotes and reading them in very excited mood.
First things first, the TEDx talk of Christopher Gaze that you have linked is hair-rising.
ReplyDeleteI would like to listen the poets and the plays of Shakespeare rather than just reading it.
Before I had taking the course, I was just like you. I have never ever wanted to read
Shakespeare because of his language despite of his fame. Then I count this course
as a chance ones in a lifetime and started to learn from it.
After studying Shakespeare I like analysing and discussing the situations and the human
psychology that he describes. They are not so extraordinary that it seems, they are from
the essence of life. So by examining the moods that characters are in, we can understand
human bevaiours and perception of justice which can lead us better human and "ruler"
First things first, the TEDx talk of Christopher Gaze that you have linked is hair-rising.
DeleteI would like to listen the poets and the plays of Shakespeare rather than just reading it.
Before I had taken the course, I was just like you. I have never ever wanted to read Shakespeare because of his language despite of his fame. Then I count this course as a chance ones in a lifetime and started to learn from it.
After studying Shakespeare I like analysing and discussing the situations and the human psychology that he describes. They are not so extraordinary that it seems, they are from the essence of life. So by examining the moods that characters are in, we can understand human bevaiours and perception of justice which can lead us a better human and a "ruler".
NOTE: corrected re-post version
Thanks for these great videos. It's amazing how one person could contribute so much to a language. One of the reasons as you can imagine is not just because of Shakespeare's inventive genius, but because he has been incredibly popular from his own time to the present. There has never been a time when Shakespeare was out of fashion -- at least yet! I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying reading him, in any case.
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