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DW
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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject: William Shakespeare |
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No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong!  |
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Hunter S Thompson
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First Andy Williams then Herbert Lom and now Shakespeare 
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old pauline
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: William Shakespeare |
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| DW wrote: | No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong! |
Maybe we should model our new stadium on it .....
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DW
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: William Shakespeare |
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| old pauline wrote: | | DW wrote: | No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong! |
Maybe we should model our new stadium on it ..... |
I was thinking that myself, would be bloody imposing to say the least but you would have trouble seeing the touchlines |
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Well done DW. I used to feel the same about WS. I remember being bored silly in the 70's when my old history teacher hired Oliviers Richard III for us all to watch. That all changed in the 80's when I saw the RSC's Plantagenets at the Barbican with my wife and daughter. I hadn't realised how important WS was to our English identity. Have never visited the Globe but intend to soon. All credit to Sam Wanamaker for making it possible.
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deepseahoop
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: William Shakespeare |
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| DW wrote: | No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong! |
You should try Regents Park theatre great place to watch a bit of light hearted Shakespeare during the Summer months
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DW
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: William Shakespeare |
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| deepseahoop wrote: | | DW wrote: | No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong! |
You should try Regents Park theatre great place to watch a bit of light hearted Shakespeare during the Summer months |
DSH, thanks for the tip, I will look out for that. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: William Shakespeare |
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| DW wrote: | | deepseahoop wrote: | | DW wrote: | No, nothing to do with a potential new signing of the same name as the Bard himself, but all to do with the scourge of most schoolboys learning English, and I was no different as a kid, in my instance sitting at the back of the class on a Thursday morning reading the latest NME than Henry V. But tonight I went to the Globe on the south bank to watch my first Shakespeare play (well voluntarily anyway), The Taming of the Shrew being the literary masterpiece in question and I will say that anybody who has never been to the Globe, go, it is a supreme experience, with a mixture of seating stacked on three semi-circular tiers and standing (for a fiver) in the courtyard in front of the stage. I have had a most magnificent evening and the play was a real delight, if you didn't know it is a comedy, and at times I was crying with laughter.
Shakespeare happened to have two things in common with me, firstly he shared the same birthday and secondly and not a lot of people realise this, he was also a QPR supporter and was to be the first to realise the signing of our new keeper by writing a play about him, Julius Ceasar, he just happened to get the spelling wrong! |
You should try Regents Park theatre great place to watch a bit of light hearted Shakespeare during the Summer months |
DSH, thanks for the tip, I will look out for that. |
Or if you'd rather just listen to tunes with a bit of a story there's always the Holland Park Opera (which is, after all, almost "local").
FYI Animals (guide dogs excepted) are not allowed which does seem slightly odd and even a bit unfair  |
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