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Anonymous Mon Dec 27 00:57:19 2021 No.19637505 [Reply] [Original]

Did I make the right choice?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 00:59:44 2021 No.19637512 >reading plays

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 01:05:05 2021 No.19637527 >>19637505 Yea, they're pretty comfy to read and the notes are good and quite helpful. You did pretty good. >>19637512 Most modern Shakespeare productions niggerize half the cast. There's no point.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 01:48:55 2021 No.19637644 >>19637505 I'd have gone with Arden, personally.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 01:50:35 2021 No.19637654 >>19637644 Covers aren't as good

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 02:41:03 2021 No.19637794 >>19637505 >Oxfords Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 02:42:46 2021 No.19637801 File: 82 KB, 680x768, efrs454f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What if they're the wrong Shakespeares, what then?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 02:48:13 2021 No.19637825 File: 74 KB, 960x720, slide_7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19637801 >tfw i accidentally got the ones written by willim shakspere, the small business owner from stratford

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 02:54:33 2021 No.19637844 >>19637505 Did you buy them used? Or did you pay full price for dead writers works?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 02:58:55 2021 No.19637852 >>19637505 The Oxford translations are some of the worst to be honest. They don't really capture the bard's spirit. But I guess it could be worse. At least it's not Penguin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:00:33 2021 No.19637854 >>19637505 Couldn't you have bought a critical collection of his plays for way less money?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:03:30 2021 No.19637860 File: 18 KB, 400x309, (JPEG Image, 400 × 309 pixels).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19637852 >translations From English to English?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:05:15 2021 No.19637864 >>19637852 >At least it's not Penguin. This. What the fuck where they thinking? Who the fuck even translated it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:05:51 2021 No.19637866 >>19637852 >translations ??

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:09:40 2021 No.19637879 >>19637852 What is the best translation then? Aren't Oxford translations usually pretty good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:15:18 2021 No.19637897 >>19637866 It's a joke, right? Surely it's a joke.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:24:38 2021 No.19637923 >>19637852 Wordsworth use a public domain translation by some old English guy, quite archaic at times.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:32:10 2021 No.19637948 >>19637879 Wordsworth , as this anon >>19637923 said. Ugly covers though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 27 03:47:40 2021 No.19637998 File: 31 KB, 474x474, downloadfile-9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To Pepe, or not to Pepe: that is the question