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Post by gilmoreren on Jan 31, 2007 15:41:45 GMT -5
Much Ado About Nothing
King Lear (truly staggering especially if you ever see it at the RSC)
A Doll's House
The Importance of Being Earnest
Waiting for Godot
(total English Lit student choices, but hey they're classics for a reason)
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Post by Isa on Feb 2, 2007 2:13:49 GMT -5
Do you know if Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French or in English first? I'd like to read it in it's original version, heard nothing but good things about it!
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 2, 2007 17:24:27 GMT -5
Do you know if Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French or in English first? I'd like to read it in it's original version, heard nothing but good things about it! I had a funny feeling it was French so I wikipedia'd it: "Waiting for Godot (French: En attendant Godot), subtitled A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952. Beckett originally wrote the play in French, his second language, and translated it into English in 1954." That probably adds to the strange separateness of the language - when something is translated and translated back it often sounds detached but with a restricted and lexically economical play it would sound even more strange. Interesting. Hark at me and my lit crit (ignore, former lit geek here) |
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Post by Isa on Feb 3, 2007 10:44:47 GMT -5
lol, thanks for that, it might actually be interesting to read it both in French and English then...
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Post by swissmiss on Feb 3, 2007 10:49:31 GMT -5
I haven't read too many plays before, but my two favorites would have to be The Crucible and A Dolls House.
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Post by sagedautumn on Feb 3, 2007 11:52:35 GMT -5
For my AP Lit class we're reading A Doll's House
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Post by Hanna on Feb 4, 2007 10:45:26 GMT -5
I think my favorites would have to be:
Sizwe Bansi is dead
Pygmailion
The Spanish Flie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Doll's House
In high school we had to read and analyse A Doll's House in so many ways, but it was interesting, and with that play Ibsen created a new area in theater didn't he?
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Post by Nathalie on Feb 4, 2007 11:15:03 GMT -5
I loved Nathan the wise and The Crucible...
I'm not a Shakespeare Fan, and I didn't enjoy Macbeth at at all, which we had to read for English Class.
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 4, 2007 12:35:02 GMT -5
I loved Nathan the wise and The Crucible... I'm not a Shakespeare Fan, and I didn't enjoy Macbeth at at all, which we had to read for English Class. I'm not the greatest fan of Macbeth. King Lear however, is amazing. If you don't fancy reading it, try to find a DVD version - RSC or BBC are the best ones |
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Post by bookishgirl on Mar 10, 2009 20:28:27 GMT -5
Romeo and Juliet
Titus Andronicus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oliver Twist (musical or play)
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Post by Halie on Mar 11, 2009 21:33:32 GMT -5
The History Boys.
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