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Wordmariah, give this a look.. fwiw. http://snipurl.com/5ewl
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I'll give the bare bones plot summary and set Zefferelli upon them.
Don't give too much of the plot away, Wordwind. When the recent-ish version with Claire Daines and Leonardo DiCaprio was in cinemas here in Indonesia, I went to see it with Candi, who only knew that this was supposed to be one of the great love stories of all time. He was absolutely devastated when Juliet didn't wake up in time to forestall Romeo's suicide. He still thinks it would have been better if she had.
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Faldage, your suggestion about "Shakespeare in Love" was terrific.
Think that was TEdRem, Wordwind.
"Er, perhaps you should SEE "Shakespeare in Love" before screening it for a bunch of ninth-graders."
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He still thinks it would have been better if she had.
Mebbe he'd prefer the opera version (cain't have no final duet with no dead soprano).
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Wordmariah --seeing this gave me a shock: our dog's name is Mariah. And she does speak (though not in words). He still thinks it would have been better if she had. And I still agree with him.
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He still thinks it would have been better if she had. And I still agree with him.
But then it wouldn't have been a tragedy, but a romantic comedy or some such. I wonder if Dryden rewrote R&J to have a happy ending. He made Lear into a musical with a happy ending. He could do just about anything.
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a romantic comedy or some such
As I am sure it was originally intended to be. I mean, Romeo and Ethel, the Sea Pirate's Daughter?
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GASP! You mean that people over there procreate without clothes on? How unBabtist!
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Indeed! How unMormon, even!
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