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Why is this too solid flesh not melting? ([info]apoplexia) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-22 15:34:00


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A little amuse bouche before dinner.
Over on Indiana Auditions, someone asks the seemingly harmless question:

How do you recite Shakespeare?

Various people weigh in with their experiences and helpful suggestions, and all goes well until... the vexed question of meter comes up:

Mr Antrobus suggests throwing out the meter to start with.

emily counters that "most of it is written in iambic pentameter for a reason".

Daniel begs to differ, "Au contraire, Emily."

emily's not about to take this lying down, since, "i spent 6 months studying with the rsc in stratford. i know what i'm talking about." (Yes, but do you know what the shift key is for, dear.)

tcrick's there to back her up, gently suggesting that, "whenever I see a passage that is prefaced by a trite romance language phrase I am immediately skeptical of any ensuing discourse as pretentious, patronizing pontification by an ill-informed or ignorant writer." (Love the alliteration!)

The OP tries to bring balance to the force peace,
pleading, "Please don't fight. It's just theatre, fer cripes!" (Stop spoiling our fun!)

And Daniel retreats faster than a Frenchman.

I realise that this doesn't have as much TMI as your usual otf post, so let me mention in passing this odd pain I've had in my side for the last week and a half. I think it might be pancreatitis.


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[info]oar
2007-05-22 06:12 pm UTC (link)
A pause after each line???

Oh, now I'm having flashbacks to the worst moments of my high school Englsih classes. Trigger words! Trigger words! Safe space! *flails and hides*

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[info]oar
2007-05-22 06:13 pm UTC (link)
*English

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-05-22 07:13 pm UTC (link)
I thought that was how you were supposed to recite Shakespeare: slowly, and with great effort. High school English has betrayed me yet again.

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[info]dez_chan
2007-05-22 07:19 pm UTC (link)
*hands you a paper bag and starts hyperventilating with you* Why, why is this so hard? And don't these people have directors?

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[info]oar
2007-05-22 09:34 pm UTC (link)
Screw directors, don't these people have ears? Or do they think that Shakespeare is supposed to sound like this:

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And by opposing end them to die to sleep. No more and by a sleep to say we end.

No wonder so many people in my class had trouble understanding Shakespeare, because when you inflect it that way it's nigh-on incomprehensible. Damn you high school English! *shakes fist*

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[info]fionnabhair
2007-05-23 07:30 pm UTC (link)
That hurt even to read. Ow!

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