I have always had a fondness for Shakespeare, and every so often I go back and try to consume more interpretations of his work. I got into a converstaion about this with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hermionesviolin recently, a tangent off of how Good Omens fandom embraces its nerdery for all sorts of things including Shakespeare.
The thing I love most about Shakespeare is how much people love Shakespeare. They pour so much love and weirdness and passion into their interpretations of his work that it's hard not to fall a little in love with his words, too.
Anyway, there was a meme going around about which Shakespeare you'd seen, and I thought it was a good way to organize my thoughts. Mostly to talk about my feelings rather than the productions themselves. I feel a great deal of imposter syndrome sometimes about how little I've seen, but now I'm realizing that I've seen more than I think and that who cares? This is about loving a thing. Things can be loved in many different ways.
( The Big Ones )
( The Comedies )
( Histories )
( Tragedies )
Bonus Round:
Slings and Arrows - I enjoy all of the show, but those moments where we get to see the productions are just pure magic. I feel cheated every time that we don't get to see the full thing.
I noticed that this list is 90% filmed versions and free outdoor productions of Shakespeare. I think I subscribe tostultiloquentia's philosophy of: lovingly made amateur Shakespeare of dubious quality or really really high quality Shakespeare or GTFO. Mediocre Shakespeare is the worst.
ETA: One of my fav conspiracy theories to see debunked is the idea that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare. It has some ugly implications wrt classicism, but it's overall relatively harmless and funny to see Shakespeare scholars flip their shit over.
hermionesviolin recently, a tangent off of how Good Omens fandom embraces its nerdery for all sorts of things including Shakespeare.The thing I love most about Shakespeare is how much people love Shakespeare. They pour so much love and weirdness and passion into their interpretations of his work that it's hard not to fall a little in love with his words, too.
Anyway, there was a meme going around about which Shakespeare you'd seen, and I thought it was a good way to organize my thoughts. Mostly to talk about my feelings rather than the productions themselves. I feel a great deal of imposter syndrome sometimes about how little I've seen, but now I'm realizing that I've seen more than I think and that who cares? This is about loving a thing. Things can be loved in many different ways.
( The Big Ones )
( The Comedies )
( Histories )
( Tragedies )
Bonus Round:
Slings and Arrows - I enjoy all of the show, but those moments where we get to see the productions are just pure magic. I feel cheated every time that we don't get to see the full thing.
I noticed that this list is 90% filmed versions and free outdoor productions of Shakespeare. I think I subscribe to
stultiloquentia's philosophy of: lovingly made amateur Shakespeare of dubious quality or really really high quality Shakespeare or GTFO. Mediocre Shakespeare is the worst.ETA: One of my fav conspiracy theories to see debunked is the idea that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare. It has some ugly implications wrt classicism, but it's overall relatively harmless and funny to see Shakespeare scholars flip their shit over.