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Posted: 1/16/08, 12:04 AM EST Section: Bindings
Best Shakespearean Play
William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Blood. Backstabbing. Witches. C-sections. Yep, this Shakespeare play has it all. Just as long as you can get past the Old English style (just be glad you're not reading one of his comedies), Macbeth is one of Bill's best. Famed movie director Akira Kurosawa even turned the tale into one of his best movie's "Throne of Blood."
Best Play (Non-Shakespeare edition)
Oleanna's "David Mamet" (ETS 152)
Mamet's play starts with a conversation about grades between a male professor and his female student and turns into a frightening confrontation. Once a sexual harassment accusation arises, it turns into an interesting case study on morality.
The Great Gatsby is apparently a popular book
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (ETS 181, ETS 153, ETS 420)
Three English professors at least have Fitzgerald's classic on their required reading list for the spring semester. Are there really people that haven't read this book sometime in their formative years? If you read it in high school, you get to read it again! Or just pretend.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Or Not)
Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" (ETS 242)
Yep, another version. Romeo and Juliet redux. Told through flashbacks and a pretty boring writing style, the love of Catherine and Heathcliff is thwarted by those snobby English aristocrats. Don't worry though; Heathcliff will get some sweet, sweet revenge. Also, there are ghosts.
William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Blood. Backstabbing. Witches. C-sections. Yep, this Shakespeare play has it all. Just as long as you can get past the Old English style (just be glad you're not reading one of his comedies), Macbeth is one of Bill's best. Famed movie director Akira Kurosawa even turned the tale into one of his best movie's "Throne of Blood."
Best Play (Non-Shakespeare edition)
Oleanna's "David Mamet" (ETS 152)
Mamet's play starts with a conversation about grades between a male professor and his female student and turns into a frightening confrontation. Once a sexual harassment accusation arises, it turns into an interesting case study on morality.
The Great Gatsby is apparently a popular book
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (ETS 181, ETS 153, ETS 420)
Three English professors at least have Fitzgerald's classic on their required reading list for the spring semester. Are there really people that haven't read this book sometime in their formative years? If you read it in high school, you get to read it again! Or just pretend.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Or Not)
Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" (ETS 242)
Yep, another version. Romeo and Juliet redux. Told through flashbacks and a pretty boring writing style, the love of Catherine and Heathcliff is thwarted by those snobby English aristocrats. Don't worry though; Heathcliff will get some sweet, sweet revenge. Also, there are ghosts.
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Catherine Burke-Plumadore
posted 1/16/08 @ 12:24 PM EST
I'm sorry to be picky - but as someone who studies Old English, I have to.
Shakespeare writes in Modern English. It is not Old English (see "Beowulf") or even Middle English (see "Piers Plowman"). (Continued…)
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