Until this very day, my mother can recite the verse from Shakespeare's Macbeth she was assigned to Hamlet, one of his most famous soliloquies. But what else do you remember? For me "Out, Out Damned Spot" (Macbeth) and "Romeo Romeo wherefore art Thou Romeo?" (Romeo & Juliet) remain prevalent in my memory as well. Every year in high school, the English department required us to tackle Shakespeare beginning with the "star-crossed lovers" Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth sophomore year, Hamlet in junior year and I think Julius Caesar, the Tempest or Othello senior year. They were for me at the time very difficult to get through, not because I didn't enjoy them, but because we were required to decipher what Shakespeare meant when he wrote these plays. Our task was to find the hidden meaning behind his soliloquies, dissecting his plays (which kind of took the fun out of reading them) and memorize in front of her high school English class. I'm embarrassed to say I cannot remember mine. Yes, we all remember "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question."
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
What Was He Thinking?
By Misty Harris
Until this very day, my mother can recite the verse from Shakespeare's Macbeth she was assigned to Hamlet, one of his most famous soliloquies. But what else do you remember? For me "Out, Out Damned Spot" (Macbeth) and "Romeo Romeo wherefore art Thou Romeo?" (Romeo & Juliet) remain prevalent in my memory as well. Every year in high school, the English department required us to tackle Shakespeare beginning with the "star-crossed lovers" Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth sophomore year, Hamlet in junior year and I think Julius Caesar, the Tempest or Othello senior year. They were for me at the time very difficult to get through, not because I didn't enjoy them, but because we were required to decipher what Shakespeare meant when he wrote these plays. Our task was to find the hidden meaning behind his soliloquies, dissecting his plays (which kind of took the fun out of reading them) and memorize in front of her high school English class. I'm embarrassed to say I cannot remember mine. Yes, we all remember "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question."
Until this very day, my mother can recite the verse from Shakespeare's Macbeth she was assigned to Hamlet, one of his most famous soliloquies. But what else do you remember? For me "Out, Out Damned Spot" (Macbeth) and "Romeo Romeo wherefore art Thou Romeo?" (Romeo & Juliet) remain prevalent in my memory as well. Every year in high school, the English department required us to tackle Shakespeare beginning with the "star-crossed lovers" Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth sophomore year, Hamlet in junior year and I think Julius Caesar, the Tempest or Othello senior year. They were for me at the time very difficult to get through, not because I didn't enjoy them, but because we were required to decipher what Shakespeare meant when he wrote these plays. Our task was to find the hidden meaning behind his soliloquies, dissecting his plays (which kind of took the fun out of reading them) and memorize in front of her high school English class. I'm embarrassed to say I cannot remember mine. Yes, we all remember "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question."
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