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Mostly Hamlet
Nov. 8th, 2016 07:40 pmReading Shakespeare for the stageoffools fest was terrific fun - of course I'd read most of the plays before, one way or another, but reading for a story exchange gave a different perspective.
For starters, there was reading to decide which plays I'd ask (or offer) stories for. For both, I felt I had to stick to plays I knew fairly well - though I was very tempted by The Merry Wives of Windsor (one of those I hadn't read before) and may yet return to it one day. And the fest rules precluded the history plays and the Roman plays, so in the end it came down to Macbeth, Hamlet, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream - I think that's all I offered And then I had to read those even more intensively, to be ready for whatever might be asked - and my, but I found Hamlet an interesting read! full of new (to me) directions and possibilities.
( Read more, if you like! :) )
For starters, there was reading to decide which plays I'd ask (or offer) stories for. For both, I felt I had to stick to plays I knew fairly well - though I was very tempted by The Merry Wives of Windsor (one of those I hadn't read before) and may yet return to it one day. And the fest rules precluded the history plays and the Roman plays, so in the end it came down to Macbeth, Hamlet, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream - I think that's all I offered And then I had to read those even more intensively, to be ready for whatever might be asked - and my, but I found Hamlet an interesting read! full of new (to me) directions and possibilities.
( Read more, if you like! :) )
