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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? 09:38 - Feb 20 with 4537 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticis

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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:00 - Feb 20 with 943 viewsIllinoisblue

How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:38 - Feb 20 by blueasfook

Romeo and John.


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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:05 - Feb 20 with 905 viewsPhilTWTD

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.
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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:07 - Feb 20 with 889 viewsitfcjoe

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.


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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:11 - Feb 20 with 851 viewsmonkeymagic

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.
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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.
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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:38 - Feb 20 by blueasfook

Romeo and John.



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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:19 - Feb 20 with 831 viewschicoazul

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 829 viewschicoazul

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 814 viewsleitrimblue

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
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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:28 - Feb 20 with 815 viewsclive_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 771 viewsGlasgowBlue

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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:49 - Feb 20 with 741 viewsChurchman

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.
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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 12:55 - Feb 20 with 728 viewsSwansea_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.


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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:00 - Feb 20 with 702 viewsEwan_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 697 viewsSwansea_Blue

How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:00 - Feb 20 by Ewan_Oozami

And Cyril Fletcher of course!


And John Cooper Clarke.

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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:15 - Feb 20 with 669 viewsblueasfook

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 665 viewsfactual_blue

How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 11:30 - Feb 20 by Keno

Two Non-Binaries From Gerona


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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:26 - Feb 20 with 657 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 09:40 - Feb 20 by BlueBadger

Been done.

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/18th-century-shakespear


Chaucer?

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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 13:27 - Feb 20 with 655 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

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 646 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

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 641 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

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 635 viewsgiant_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 635 viewsfactual_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 621 viewsChurchman

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.
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How long til Shakespeare gets updated? on 14:00 - Feb 20 with 611 viewsChurchman

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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