| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:00 - Feb 20 with 900 views | Illinoisblue |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:38 - Feb 20 by blueasfook |
Romeo and John. |
Good midfield pair, that |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:05 - Feb 20 with 862 views | PhilTWTD |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 10:52 - Feb 20 by blueasfook |
Wasn't a fan of his sister either. (90s joke there). |
I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible. |  | | |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:07 - Feb 20 with 846 views | itfcjoe |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:47 - Feb 20 by clive_baker |
Have an uppy. Your last point is pertinent. To the nay sayers I would ask when was the last time you thought 'I know what I'll do this afternoon, I'll pick up a bit of Shakespeare and give it a read'?. The answer is you haven't, and the reason is because it's a crock of sh1te. |
He's no Jeffrey Archer who really knows how to spin a yarn |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:11 - Feb 20 with 808 views | monkeymagic |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:21 - Feb 20 by Churchman |
Agree with this. I did it at school for O and A level and it was not the done thing to say ‘this is cr@p’ - but it was. The histories were a curious, inaccurate version of history, the comedies about as funny as root canal dentistry and the tragedies boring beyond belief. Ever read a Midsummer Nights Dream? If not, don’t. Coriolanus? Awful. Richard 2nd - dreadful.
I could reel through the tedium (I was forced into reading a lot of them, but by no means all, thank god) but won’t. Henry 4th Pt 1 wasn’t so bad - at least there was the battle of Shrewsbury at the end to liven it up. Bad luck Harry Hotspur n all that.
Obviously, I’ve not read a word of it since leaving school and avoided stage/tv productions like the plague. Yep, Will Shakey’s stuff can all go in the doggy do bin for me. [Post edited 20 Feb 2023 11:22]
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Couldn’t agree more! I once offended my Grandad by stating that “Shakespeare was crap” when he asked how I was getting on with my English Lit.
While not a thoughtful or eloquent reply, I stand by the sentiment. |  | | |
| Julia Caesar (n/t) on 12:14 - Feb 20 with 805 views | Bloots |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:38 - Feb 20 by blueasfook |
Romeo and John. |
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| The Merry Significant Others of Windsor. (n/t) on 12:15 - Feb 20 with 802 views | Bloots |
| Julia Caesar (n/t) on 12:14 - Feb 20 by Bloots |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:19 - Feb 20 with 788 views | chicoazul |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:47 - Feb 20 by clive_baker |
Have an uppy. Your last point is pertinent. To the nay sayers I would ask when was the last time you thought 'I know what I'll do this afternoon, I'll pick up a bit of Shakespeare and give it a read'?. The answer is you haven't, and the reason is because it's a crock of sh1te. |
Amazing scenes from the ignorant and poorly educated here. |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:21 - Feb 20 with 786 views | chicoazul |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:11 - Feb 20 by monkeymagic |
Couldn’t agree more! I once offended my Grandad by stating that “Shakespeare was crap” when he asked how I was getting on with my English Lit.
While not a thoughtful or eloquent reply, I stand by the sentiment. |
This is like that time half of male TWTD confessed they shave their balls. | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:27 - Feb 20 with 771 views | leitrimblue |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:47 - Feb 20 by clive_baker |
Have an uppy. Your last point is pertinent. To the nay sayers I would ask when was the last time you thought 'I know what I'll do this afternoon, I'll pick up a bit of Shakespeare and give it a read'?. The answer is you haven't, and the reason is because it's a crock of sh1te. |
Lovely post Clive. Dare I say almost poetic. I feel that even Shakespeare would have approved of the crock of sh1te line at the end |  | | |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:28 - Feb 20 with 772 views | clive_baker |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:19 - Feb 20 by chicoazul |
Amazing scenes from the ignorant and poorly educated here. |
I couldn't give a Puck mate.
You've watched I'm a Celebrity more recently than you've read Shakespeare. I know, you know it, we all know it. |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:38 - Feb 20 with 728 views | GlasgowBlue |
Have they censored Dhal’s antisemitism yet? |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:49 - Feb 20 with 698 views | Churchman |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:19 - Feb 20 by chicoazul |
Amazing scenes from the ignorant and poorly educated here. |
You may accuse me of ignorance, stupidity, narrow etc etc. But I was not poorly educated.
Shakespeare: in the bin. Chaucer can join him. The Canterbury Tales. Woeful. They can make room for poets too. Ode to a Grecian Urn? Ode to the dustbin more like. Wordsworth? No worth. |  | | |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:55 - Feb 20 with 685 views | Swansea_Blue |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:49 - Feb 20 by Churchman |
You may accuse me of ignorance, stupidity, narrow etc etc. But I was not poorly educated.
Shakespeare: in the bin. Chaucer can join him. The Canterbury Tales. Woeful. They can make room for poets too. Ode to a Grecian Urn? Ode to the dustbin more like. Wordsworth? No worth. |
Pam Ayres is ok though, right? |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:00 - Feb 20 with 659 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:55 - Feb 20 by Swansea_Blue |
Pam Ayres is ok though, right? |
And Cyril Fletcher of course! |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:03 - Feb 20 with 654 views | Swansea_Blue |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:00 - Feb 20 by Ewan_Oozami |
And Cyril Fletcher of course! |
And John Cooper Clarke.
"Like a recently disinfected sh*thouse, you're clean round the bend". Quality! | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:15 - Feb 20 with 626 views | blueasfook |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:05 - Feb 20 by PhilTWTD |
I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible. |
No mamma, let me go! |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:25 - Feb 20 with 622 views | factual_blue |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:30 - Feb 20 by Keno |
Two Non-Binaries From Gerona |
Titus Androgynous |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:26 - Feb 20 with 614 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Chaucer? |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:27 - Feb 20 with 612 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:38 - Feb 20 by blueasfook |
Romeo and John. |
As long as John is a bit needy. | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:32 - Feb 20 with 603 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:19 - Feb 20 by chicoazul |
Amazing scenes from the ignorant and poorly educated here. |
I still can't understand not getting a better A level English grade after arguing that Jane Austen's Emma was just a fancy Jackie magazine for the middle classes. | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:35 - Feb 20 with 598 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:03 - Feb 20 by Swansea_Blue |
And John Cooper Clarke.
"Like a recently disinfected sh*thouse, you're clean round the bend". Quality! |
Now he really must need sanitising. | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:39 - Feb 20 with 592 views | giant_stow |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:21 - Feb 20 by chicoazul |
This is like that time half of male TWTD confessed they shave their balls. |
Add me to the list - I'm sure that'll come as no surprise - never understood the old English, so its impenetrable for me. |  |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:40 - Feb 20 with 592 views | factual_blue |
The meerkat of Venice.
I'm not sure I've got that right. | |
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| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:52 - Feb 20 with 578 views | Churchman |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:55 - Feb 20 by Swansea_Blue |
Pam Ayres is ok though, right? |
Nope. She’d be boiled in oil in a just world. My dad’s mad aunt lived next door to the bloke who did bird impressions Percy Edwards. He could go in the pot too if he was still with us. | | | |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 14:00 - Feb 20 with 568 views | Churchman |
| How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:49 - Feb 20 by Churchman |
You may accuse me of ignorance, stupidity, narrow etc etc. But I was not poorly educated.
Shakespeare: in the bin. Chaucer can join him. The Canterbury Tales. Woeful. They can make room for poets too. Ode to a Grecian Urn? Ode to the dustbin more like. Wordsworth? No worth. |
I suppose Kipling’s If isn’t too bad. But there are four verses. Instead of all that, could he not just have said ‘grow a pair and you’ll be a proper bloke’? Preferably in a McCarthy Yorkshire accent. | | | |
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