name the play

[Goofy Dad]

Without looking at the answers of others:

1) Macbeth
2) Romeo & Juliet
3) Hamlet


Now submit reply and look to see...

 

[Goofy Dad]

Originally posted by kbeverina
My son is 9 and my daughter 6. We started listening to the CD in the car this past winter when we were driving in an area where we couldn't pick up anything on the radio--my husband and I have been to see it several times. To our surprise the kids loved it and began asking for it all the time and now know all the music and words.

Have you got the Anniversary Video which they do show on PBS quite often. Wonderful. I watch it over and over again.

I would probably not take my son (7) to see it, but not because I was worried about the content, just sitting still, and musicals are not his thing. Each child is different though.

 

[lisaost]

Have you got the Anniversary Video which they do show on PBS quite often. Wonderful. I watch it over and over again.

My husband is addicted to that special (OK, I love it too )!! If he is flipping channels and sees it's on TV, all stops in the house and we have to watch it! Anything that can stop my DH from changing the channel has GOT to be good!

As for the prostitution scene...it's so early in the play, and so many other major things happen after it, it won't be such a big deal by the end.

 

[lisaost]

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players"

Consider it sad if you wish, but this actually got me singing a really good RUSH song. LOL!

 

[Goofy Dad]

Originally posted by lisaost
My husband is addicted to that special (OK, I love it too )!! If he is flipping channels and sees it's on TV, all stops in the house and we have to watch it

We solved this "problem" when Costco had the tape, we scarfed it up....

I love the music, but something about the video is special, I like it far better than the CD, even when I'm not actually watching. I'm not sure what the difference is.

 

[Reflection]

The play: Macbeth

Author: William Shakesepeare

or so I believe

 

[Reflection]

The second and third plays are, respectively,

Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet

As a side note, one of my favorite readings of one Hamlet's speeches (courtesy of Dickens in Nicholas Nickleby):

To be or not.? To be that is the question.

[edited to add, answers were posted before looking at other replies]

 

[Reflection]

Originally posted by The Hunt
The first one is the Scottish Play. People in the theater never refer to it by that other name because it's bad luck.

"Life's but a poor player, who struts and frets its hour upon the stage
It is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Theatre folk only refer to it as the "Scottish Play," when in the theatre or rehearsal. When I was in drama school, if you made the faux pas of actually saying the 'M' word in the rehearsal room, you had go outside, turn around three times, and spit before you could come back to rehearsal.

Since we're quoting from the Bard, anyone care to take a stab at this one:

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!

 

[Douglas Dubh]

This thread needs some controversy. Which of these is from Shakespeare's best History?

This royal throne of kings; this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea.

or

I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be the more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.

 

[ripleysmom]

Blech!! I hated Les Mis, also hated Lion King too.

 

[Douglas Dubh]

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world

Piece of cake. The Tempest. Miranda upon meeting Alonso and Sebastian.

 

[Reflection]

Originally posted by Douglas Dubh
This thread needs some controversy. Which of these is from Shakespeare's best History?

This royal throne of kings; this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea.

No controversy from me, I firmly believe that Richard II is Shakespeare's best history play.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

my choice would be:

Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this sun of York...


an early example of "spin" if ever I saw it.


everyone knows Henry Tudor killed those poor boys in the Tower and blamed it on our good King richard, third of that name.

 

[Douglas Dubh]

Now is the winter of our discontent

I know this line. Richard Dreyfuss, the Goodbye Girl.

 

[Reflection]

Originally posted by Briar Rose 7457

an early example of "spin" if ever I saw it.[/B]

"A hit! A hit! A very palpable hit!

That early example of spin also counts for the gross physical mischaracterization of Dicky III as well.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Originally posted by Douglas Dubh

I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be the more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

---- The First part of King Henry the Fourth

 

[Douglas Dubh]

A hit! A hit! A very palpable hit!

I thought we already did Hamlet.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Originally posted by Reflection
"A hit! A hit! A very palpable hit!

That early example of spin also counts for the gross physical mischaracterization of Dicky III as well.

someone who actually knows what I'm talking about! how wonderful!

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Originally posted by Douglas Dubh
I know this line. Richard Dreyfuss, the Goodbye Girl.

doug -- only in that movie, Richard didn't exactly play it straight, did he?

 

[Douglas Dubh]

only in that movie, Richard didn't exactly play it straight, did he?

Are you contending that he didn't talk with a lisp?