The “worst” of Shakespeare still outdoes Rowling on everyday of the week. Romeo and Juliet is definitely not considered Shakespeare’s best however those denouncers and apologists for this particular work would have to agree that there is more genius in the work than the majority of so called literary work today
Shakespeare was an amazing playwright, but Romeo and Juliet was beyond mediocre!Truly outrageous that this man was against Harry Potter but accepts this play as an inconic work!
I do remember an apothecary,- And hereabouts he dwells,- which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said ' An if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him. '
@@ancienttribes5310 definitely not mediocre lines. Funny, I’m teaching this play and was rereading act v last night as I planned the lesson and I have to say I had never payed much notice to those lines. But they struck me last night in their poignancy as near the end of his life Romeo shows he had much more depth to his personality than we imagined.
The “worst” of Shakespeare still outdoes Rowling on everyday of the week. Romeo and Juliet is definitely not considered Shakespeare’s best however those denouncers and apologists for this particular work would have to agree that there is more genius in the work than the majority of so called literary work today
Very good, thank you.
There are some exemplary lines in this play.
Do you have access to any of the other talks on Macbeth/Hamlet/Julius Caesar etc?
Romeo and Juliet was the only one I could listen to for free, but you can find the other lectures on Audible: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QBNVAC/
Love is right.
Shakespeare was an amazing playwright, but Romeo and Juliet was beyond mediocre!Truly outrageous that this man was against Harry Potter but accepts this play as an inconic work!
remeo and juliet is mediocre
and so is the spelling of your comment
I do remember an apothecary,- And hereabouts he dwells,- which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said ' An if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him. '
@@ancienttribes5310 definitely not mediocre lines. Funny, I’m teaching this play and was rereading act v last night as I planned the lesson and I have to say I had never payed much notice to those lines. But they struck me last night in their poignancy as near the end of his life Romeo shows he had much more depth to his personality than we imagined.
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