Beware...
It's the Ides of March, AND Brutus Day. I think it was LAST Ides of March that I wore the blood spatter bow and the scissors. <pauses to look> No, it was in May, LOL.
The bow came from Nekollars, and the earrings came from EyesOnYouHandmade.
Shakespeare is kinda ubiquitous in high school English class, and when I was in high school we got both Romeo and Juliet and Julius Cesar. My teacher, who was a freakin' rockstar at teaching, informed us at the beginning of Julius Cesar that "This one is more of a guy's play. Romeo and Juliet is more for girls." I guess I think like a male, because I liked Julius Cesar better! I couldn't help feeling sorry for poor dumb Brutus, who thought his cause was a noble one.
On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet was the source of some comedy among my classmates. The booklets we were using had the original Shakespearian text on the left, and then on the opposite page the corresponding modern English translation. We kids had updated books, while our teacher had an older one. We'd gotten to the part where Mercutio was being an a-hole to Juliet's nurse, and...I think this was the passage:
NURSE (to Romeo): If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you. (She meant "conference," but got the word wrong)
BENVOLIO (taking the nurse's Freudian slip and running with it): She will indite him to some supper!
MERCUTIO: A bawd! A bawd! A bawd! So ho!
Shakespeare is kinda ubiquitous in high school English class, and when I was in high school we got both Romeo and Juliet and Julius Cesar. My teacher, who was a freakin' rockstar at teaching, informed us at the beginning of Julius Cesar that "This one is more of a guy's play. Romeo and Juliet is more for girls." I guess I think like a male, because I liked Julius Cesar better! I couldn't help feeling sorry for poor dumb Brutus, who thought his cause was a noble one.
On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet was the source of some comedy among my classmates. The booklets we were using had the original Shakespearian text on the left, and then on the opposite page the corresponding modern English translation. We kids had updated books, while our teacher had an older one. We'd gotten to the part where Mercutio was being an a-hole to Juliet's nurse, and...I think this was the passage:
NURSE (to Romeo): If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you. (She meant "conference," but got the word wrong)
BENVOLIO (taking the nurse's Freudian slip and running with it): She will indite him to some supper!
MERCUTIO: A bawd! A bawd! A bawd! So ho!
However, when we got to that part, one of my friends (who had been given the part of Mercutio) read "She's a whore, a whore, a whore!" Said friend had a reputation as a prankster, and my teacher freaked out, only to be promptly shown that that was what our book said. Teacher's book was sanitized somewhat, but when I asked what Mercutio was truly saying, Teacher confirmed that he was indeed calling the nurse a whore. The conversation can be found here, beginning at line 127.
Ugh, I never have been a huge Shakespeare fan anyway. Give me Longfellow's poetry any day; "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" was a favorite of mine. I was also happy when I found one of Ray Bradbury's short stories in our reader. "There Will Come Soft Rains" was my favorite of those, though there was an incredible undercurrent of sadness in it. Stories about nuclear war tend to be that way.
Love,
RagingMoon1987
Ugh, I never have been a huge Shakespeare fan anyway. Give me Longfellow's poetry any day; "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" was a favorite of mine. I was also happy when I found one of Ray Bradbury's short stories in our reader. "There Will Come Soft Rains" was my favorite of those, though there was an incredible undercurrent of sadness in it. Stories about nuclear war tend to be that way.
Love,
RagingMoon1987
Comments
Post a Comment