what are you reading now?

[luka]

Now nightwood is reading like Wyndham Lewis.

 

[craner]

Now nightwood is reading like Wyndham Lewis.

Top material.

 

[Corpsey]

I'm not reading Shakespeare atm but I've been getting this feeling like I should. Like I'm stuck in a stuffy wanky room and reading Twelfth Night would be like letting the fresh summer air in.

 

[luka]

wouldnt iot be easier to just go to the park? or do you mean your mind is a stuffy wanky room?

 

[craner]

I'm not reading Shakespeare atm but I've been getting this feeling like I should. Like I'm stuck in a stuffy wanky room and reading Twelfth Night would be like letting the fresh summer air in.

Are there any you haven't read?

 

[Corpsey]

I meant a metaphorical stuffy wanky room of the mind, although I'm obviously also literally stuck in one.

Craner: I've read

Hamlet
Othello
Henry IV pt 1
Macbeth
King Lear
Antony and Cleopatra
Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Julius Ceasar

I read about half of 'The Merchant of Venice' and didn't like it much.

 

[Corpsey]

I wonder where those lists where you/luka rated the plays are

 

[craner]

Do Winter's Tale then.

 

[luka]

ive read winters tale twice.

 

[jenks]

Winters Tale is one of my favourites- I like the way he uses the two different modes of theatre. I think it’s audacious in all the right ways.

 

[luka]

Jenks has read it three times, the swot

 

[jenks]

Jenks has read it three times, the swot

I’ve taught it to various A level classes - so yes I’ve read it quite a number of times.

 

[Corpsey]

Me and my family went to see an open air performance of Winter's Tale in (I think) Wales.

No idea how good the peformance was — all I remember is one of the main actors had exactly the same voice as William Hague, and me and my Dad couldn't stop hysterically laughing in a fairly mortifying way.

 

[Corpsey]

I notice that (unless my memory has failed me) I've read exactly 10 Shakespeare plays (I might have read Much Ado?), so I really should rank them arbitrarily. I can't though. Henry IV is my fave.

 

[craner]

Me and my family went to see an open air performance of Winter's Tale in (I think) Wales.

No idea how good the peformance was — all I remember is one of the main actors had exactly the same voice as William Hague, and me and my Dad couldn't stop hysterically laughing in a fairly mortifying way.

Where in Wales?

 

[craner]

I notice that (unless my memory has failed me) I've read exactly 10 Shakespeare plays (I might have read Much Ado?), so I really should rank them arbitrarily. I can't though. Henry IV is my fave.

Part I or II?

 

[Corpsey]

1 - never read 2

 

[luka]

1 - never read 2

im like that with The Matrix.

 

[craner]

1 - never read 2

Where in Wales?

 

[Corpsey]

The Matrix 2 is shite, though. HIV2 (bloody hell!) is supposed to be good.

Dunno where in Wales Craner I'll ask my mum later.