/lit/ - Literature

Getting your harem to act out the plays for you

>>17710256
I've been told to read it out loud. Act it all out yourself.

Definitely not Sunscreen Lurhmann. Fuck is that guy a hack.
The best way is actually through local theatre. Or if you can afford it, professional theatre. Local is great though, very dynamic.

>>17710298
Luhrman is a goofball and so his pieces are kinda hit or miss but it's just the same with Shakespear

>>17710298
Eh, stylistically its really well made and it makes for an enjoyable watch. Definitely would recommend

>>17710256
going on a date

>>17710363
>>17710486
I’m reserving my right to call both of you faggots. Shakespeare is a genius and Sunscreen is a hack. All attempts to refute this post are prerefuted in earnest notwithstanding my own butthurt.

>>17710256
Here’s what I like to do:
>watch or listen to the plays acted out first (you can get the complete works on audible and some good stuff on YouTube)
>read through the play
>listen to lectures on the play (there are some good ones here (https://youtube.com/user/ShakespeareFCG)) - I like to read them in the order of a lecture series so you can more easily make connections between them
>read some secondary literature on the play (Shakespeare After All is good, but there’s tons out there)
>either reread the play, write a short essay, or move onto the next one

If anyone has any more good lecture series let me know.

>>17710298
>try to see Shakespeare in theater
>Hamlet prince of Denmark is now a Somali
>Caesar and his accent are some shade of Bangladesh brown
>Macbeth is played by a woman
Horribly off putting, 100 years ago maybe live drama was an option but certainly not now. Thank god theater is dying is all I can say.

>>17710653
>Macbeth is played by a woman
You realise men played all female parts in Shakespeare’s day?

>>17710256
based film, unironically amazing

>>17710669
Yes, and? That's precisely my point.

>>17710256
We watched this movie in school

>>17710736
that setting ruins everything unless you have a crush in your class

>>17710260
great ideea

>>17710256
I don't know if there's an optimal.

I just read his plays and occasionally watched a film of a play if it appealed to me.

I'd recommend watching the hollow crown series as it helped me understand his history plays. They do a phenomenal job with Richard II and Henry IV.

From then on the language becomes more familiar which makes rereading more enjoyable. I've read Hamlet 7 times and every time I learn something new.

>>17710256
You get a big fuckoff complete works of Shakespeare, then you read it

>>17710256
that movie is the best adaptation