For me it was very early in life. I remember in grade school my
brother got the Complete Works of Shakespeare from my grandfather but
never was a big reader. I was quite a shy and solitary kid and so
would spend hours alone in my bedroom acting out scenes from the plays
by myself. I remember most vividly Romeo and Juliet...loved those
scenes...of course I was a little girl with much romance in my heart.
Ever since I have studied him, acted him and loved him (well, his
writings to be more precise).

Why, just the other day I told my new boss about studying him in
college and he proceeded to recite the sonnet "Let me not to the
marriage of true minds admit impediment..." and at the end I had goose
bumps. He never gets old!

Jen

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, andy<[address removed]> wrote:
> Myself, I do not have much experience with reading Shakespeare, and nothing
> to speak of in regards to acting out his works.
>
> My passion comes from wanting to get involved in acting of all manners, and
> I get a real charge out of doing things impromptu style - which is one of
> the aspects of this group that really appeals to me.? I love the energy and
> passion that everyone feeds off of from one another, in groups such as
> these!
>
> My take on Shakespeare is that his work does seem difficult to read.? I like
> that because it poses a challenge - and where there's a challenge, there's
> an opportunity for growth and to explore new horizons.? I look forward to
> trying to find within myself, the wealth and range of emotions needed to
> really do a Shakespeare reading justice.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> ____________________­____________
> From: Dugan <[address removed]>
> To: [address removed]
> Sent: Thursday, August 27,[masked]:48:51 PM
> Subject: [shakespeare-50] What's so great about Shakespeare anyway?
>
> Since there's a bunch of new people in the group, and there's hardly been
> any action on this list for a while, I thought I'd throw out a question:
>
> What first got you into Shakespeare and what do you like about it?
>
> I'm really curious to know what other people get out of it. Myself, I never
> really paid much attention, because whenever I tried to read the plays I
> found it so hard to follow what was going on - until a couple of years ago
> when I randomly heard a recording of King Lear with Alec Guinness, and
> something clicked. Then I heard Kenneth Branagh doing Hamlet, and it was all
> over. Instant obsession. Hearing the actors gave me the missing dimension -
> what's meant to be funny, sad, angry, how the characters relate, what
> interactions are really going on, etc. And after a few hundred hours
> listening to this in bed I even started understanding the language without a
> dictionary, which also helps.
>
> King Lear and Hamlet - man. I love tragedies in general. I love it when
> someone takes the bleak miserable horror of the human condition and makes
> something great with it - it's a wonderful melancholic feeling. Sort of
> like: wow, there goes another attempt to make sense of things - doomed to
> fail of course, but damn, what a good effort it was. Goosebumps. My
> girlfriend thinks I'm a glum bastard, but I'm not, honestly - just a pathos
> junkie :-)
>
> Then there's a great little book someone gave me called The Shakespeare
> Wars, which made the case that Shakespeare is the only "bottomless" writer -
> there's always another level to discover, nobody has ever plumbed the
> depths. So that was exciting. A long-term project :-)
>
> Well, I could ramble on, but I won't. Anyone else?
>
> Dugan
>
>
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