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i agree with faldage that seeing shakespeare plays is better than reading them. if anybody likes adaptations i can recommend two from vishal bharadwaj, maqbool from macbeth and omkara from othello.
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There's a film from the mid-'60s called Shakespeare Wallah by Satyajit Ray. It's about some British actors putting on Shakespeare in post-colonial India.
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There's a film from the mid-'60s called Shakespeare Wallah by Satyajit Ray. It's about some British actors putting on Shakespeare in post-colonial India. It's not a Ray film, it's by James Ivory and is the story of the Kendals, one of whom became quite famous in England while her sister married into Bollywood royalty, the Kapoors. I haven't seen the movie yet myself though I do want to. If it were from the Bangla master Ray, it would likely have been more like shakepseare with everybody dead after 3 hours of existential agony.
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It's not a Ray film, it's by James Ivory and is the story of the KendalsMy mistake. I saw it with a bunch of Ray films, and got confused. Though, in looking at its entry on IMDB ( link), I see that Satyajit Ray composed the music for it.
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That shouldn't stop you from going to see one. I did; we have Shakespeare in Central Park in the summers. It was the one with the witches doing 'boil, boil, toil and trouble'; it was okay. Plus, my beloved Maverick explained me a bit about the one with the king trying to decide what to leave his 3(?) daughters, and recited some for me in his outdoor theatre in Wales; now THAT was something!
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The school system took us to see a professional production of A Comedy of Errors in grade 2 - broad slapstick and dirty jokes that shocked my 6 year old self. I fell in love with live theatre, and Shakespearean comedies on the spot. I will be seeing All's Well That Ends Well next week and Comedy of Errors later this summer. One of my favourites was Taming of the Shrew set in the wild west with every western movie cliche tucked in somewhere although sometimes quite subtly.
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That shouldn't stop you from going to see one. Plus, my beloved Maverick explained me a bit about the one with the king trying to decide what to leave his 3(?) daughters, and recited some for me in his outdoor theatre in Wales; now THAT was something! now that would be King Lear -- I'm right now reading Fool, by Christopher Moore, a somewhat similar tale as narrated by The Fool. It's great fun!
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King Lear...It's great fun!
2 mutually exclusive phrases I would have thought were not capable of existing in the same paragraph. Although there is again a Hindi filmi connection
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Not to mention Akira Kurosawa's Ran.
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2 mutually exclusive phrases I would have thought were not capable of existing in the same paragraph. I'm right now reading Fool, by Christopher Moore As soon as the main library gets it to my local branch, I'm going to start Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. Anybody got any advice (or warnings)?
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