To be honest, this play was pretty decent. However, the thing that probably bothered me the most was how Jaques' name is pronounced. OKAY PEOPLE, can you please do you and your child a favor and name them something normal and easy to pronounce?? They are in France. He should pronounce it jahck, not ja-queese.
His name reminds me of more.... ahem.... ghetto names these days. It seems like names are just getting more and more ridiculous. Here are some examples.
Orangejello (oh-rahn-gel-lo): it is in fact not pronounced like "Orange Jell-O."
La-a (la-dash-ah): the punctuation is now being called by name, not pronounced phonetically. But stay tuned! There's another interesting one coming up.
Yohiness/ Yomajesty (yo-high-ness and yo-maj-es-tee): These are legit twin names that have been put on birth certificates.
L' (lah-po-strofe): I swear this was my dad's co-worker's daughter's name. Just L-apostrophe.
Well, I hope you enjoyed laughing at these ridiculous and unnecessary names.
Showing posts with label As You Like It. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Do You Like Cheese? - Drama Blog 2 (As You Like It)
"I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me."
~ Rosalind, As You Like It
I was re-reading this scene and I immediately thought of the movie She's the Man. The movie is actually based off of another Shakespeare comedy The Twelfth Night, but the scene matches well. Like the play, in the movie, Viola Hastings dresses up like a man (there is a lot of cross-dressing in Shakespeare plays. Why??) because she wants to play for the boys soccer team. While she's there, she meets Duke Orsino and tells him how to talk to women, all the while pretending to be one (although she actually is). It mirrors the scene from As You Like It because Rosalind dresses up like a man when she is around Orlando; she tells him how to deal with his love and woo her, then she (he) pretends to be a woman, just like Viola is to Duke. But seriously, I'm legitimately confused why there is so much cross-dressing.
Sorry that the video is so short, but this was the best one I could find
~ Rosalind, As You Like It
I was re-reading this scene and I immediately thought of the movie She's the Man. The movie is actually based off of another Shakespeare comedy The Twelfth Night, but the scene matches well. Like the play, in the movie, Viola Hastings dresses up like a man (there is a lot of cross-dressing in Shakespeare plays. Why??) because she wants to play for the boys soccer team. While she's there, she meets Duke Orsino and tells him how to talk to women, all the while pretending to be one (although she actually is). It mirrors the scene from As You Like It because Rosalind dresses up like a man when she is around Orlando; she tells him how to deal with his love and woo her, then she (he) pretends to be a woman, just like Viola is to Duke. But seriously, I'm legitimately confused why there is so much cross-dressing.
Sorry that the video is so short, but this was the best one I could find
All You Need Is Love - Drama Blog 1 (As You Like It)
"The worst fault you have is to be in love."
"'T is a fault I will not change for your best virtue."
~ Jaques, Orlando, As You Like It
The biggest thematic element in As You Like It is love. Love in this play is positively connoted; often you will see modern stories and movies portraying love, but also incorporating a much more realistic perspective of it. In the play, love magically fixes everything. It turns evil people into positive, happy people (Oliver falls in love with Celia and suddenly stops his scheming). Love makes some others ridiculously optimistic and frankly, a little annoying (Orlando turns into a poet). As You Like It is very unrealistic and shallow, but not in a negative sense - it just doesn't have a whole lot to it. We discussed in class today that if Shakespeare's writings were essays that you wrote for class, As You Like It would be the religion essay: an overused theme composed of mostly BS with maybe an insightful thought or two.
Two songs today that could be related to the play and a more modern novel are "Poison and Wine" by the Civil Wars and "Love Story" by Taylor Swift. "Poison and Wine" would be more realistic because it examines poignancies in relationships, conflict of emotion for another person. "Love Story" would relate to the play because it describes a fairy tale-like situation in which everything magically turns out well in the end.
"'T is a fault I will not change for your best virtue."
~ Jaques, Orlando, As You Like It
The biggest thematic element in As You Like It is love. Love in this play is positively connoted; often you will see modern stories and movies portraying love, but also incorporating a much more realistic perspective of it. In the play, love magically fixes everything. It turns evil people into positive, happy people (Oliver falls in love with Celia and suddenly stops his scheming). Love makes some others ridiculously optimistic and frankly, a little annoying (Orlando turns into a poet). As You Like It is very unrealistic and shallow, but not in a negative sense - it just doesn't have a whole lot to it. We discussed in class today that if Shakespeare's writings were essays that you wrote for class, As You Like It would be the religion essay: an overused theme composed of mostly BS with maybe an insightful thought or two.
Two songs today that could be related to the play and a more modern novel are "Poison and Wine" by the Civil Wars and "Love Story" by Taylor Swift. "Poison and Wine" would be more realistic because it examines poignancies in relationships, conflict of emotion for another person. "Love Story" would relate to the play because it describes a fairy tale-like situation in which everything magically turns out well in the end.
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