Thanks for the review. Other folks have also recommended that I watch this movie. It reminds me a bit of Shakespeare In Love[1].
your twelfth grade English teacher's zeal in making you read a work of literature so densely profound and tragic at too-ripe an age--of course, if you haven't, then you should read it, eventually
I actually did read Hamlet; and in the fall of 12th grade, too! My English teacher, Ms Hammond, had returned after chemotherapy and it somehow felt wrong to cheat on homework, if teaching us was important enough for her.
She had us recite the entire Immortal Soliloquy each day, claiming that any students who actually did recite rather than just listen, would have it memorized for their entire lives. It's been almost two decades since then, including years when I wasn't consciously remembering it; these days, I still test myself occasionally. I often fumble "slings and arrows" for "whips and scorns", or that long list of complaints in the middle, although the parts are all there.
generally similar "historical fiction", although not based on a book. It's about the writing and production of "Romeo and Juliet", and although it doesn't have a fairytale ending, it is definitely not a tragedy. ↩
Thanks for the review. Other folks have also recommended that I watch this movie. It reminds me a bit of Shakespeare In Love[1].
I actually did read Hamlet; and in the fall of 12th grade, too! My English teacher, Ms Hammond, had returned after chemotherapy and it somehow felt wrong to cheat on homework, if teaching us was important enough for her.
She had us recite the entire Immortal Soliloquy each day, claiming that any students who actually did recite rather than just listen, would have it memorized for their entire lives. It's been almost two decades since then, including years when I wasn't consciously remembering it; these days, I still test myself occasionally. I often fumble "slings and arrows" for "whips and scorns", or that long list of complaints in the middle, although the parts are all there.
generally similar "historical fiction", although not based on a book. It's about the writing and production of "Romeo and Juliet", and although it doesn't have a fairytale ending, it is definitely not a tragedy. ↩