ranking every piece of classic literature I read in 2023! 👀 

No worries. We can read together.

Hahahaha. Same :))

If I knew you, I’d read classics with you Annakin Skywanker

Same.

@@Moriahg on insta or where should we make reading plans?

me too 😭🥹

ikr? her voice is immaculate

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She's so nice & articulate & has such good views in life. She's super sophisticated too ❤

Dude loveeee Dracula

Ah yes I’d love to!

what? lol

War and peace is also Russian lol

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​@@agustinamei6691ikr i got confused by this comment too😂

Congratulations! Hope you have such a well deserved rest💙

@@emmiereadsthank you :)

Yeah, too often they ask you in school not to rent the play but actually read it, which makes sense for some classes but for people who like reading, people who like drama, people who like the theater it's a good idea to see the plays. And indeed some of them work better on the stage than they do while reading them, like 12th Night, where you neither hear all the music nor see all the physical comedy. The Tempest, too, works very well in production, as does Coriolanus and Comedy of Errors. Of course many of them work on stage but some work on stage to your surprise and possibly chagrin.

Absolom, Absolom. This is the Faulkner masterpiece. Sound and Fury feels like a sequel (a master sequel) because Thomas Sutpen is so real. Sutpen is Ahab. Absolom, Absolom reads just like Moby Dick (Melville) or Swann's Way (Proust). I only read Hemingway so that I can fully appreciate Faulkner.

@@LanceRulau after my first read of the sound and the fury I immediately started to reread it and I love it so much more. I plan on reading a lot more of him, including Absalom Absalom, his earlier work and short stories. I'm hooked:)

I think she would love As I Lay Dying

@@saqweq oh yeah...definitely

yeah, when it comes to powerful endings FtA has got to be way up high on the list

Yes, one of my all time favourites

Yes, everyone should read Madame Bovary. Now it's established that on this channel we're not afraid of classics it would be a good choice. As for the Shakespeare, I've been discovering that when you let them people still have new and refreshing things to say. The reflex reaction is to explain the plays and well that sort of turns them off. So, it's not surprising in the current political climate new readers are afraid to say that they liked Merchant of Venice. Similarly, it's actually dangerous to suggest that Taming of the Shrew is a great play bc of the perceived misogyny. It's really not worth the arguments so I just let it go. As for 12th Night, it's a good test for a budding editors/producers. If they can understand why the play works so well on the stage then they may have what it takes to be a professional.

Good for you - glad you've found something you really like. It's not my favorite tho possibly because the main character sort of regresses rather than grows, which is more common for a drama. I find it very difficult to be sympathetic to R II while in other plays I find myself almost rooting for monstrous characters because I've watched them become that way between Acts one and five. It's a good play of course, but quite frankly I prefer reading it to seeing it, especially that long speech John of GAunt delivers from his deathbed.

There are so many very good ones. tbh I think that the Mel Gibson version is as good a place to start as any. He captures better than anyone else the dynamism of Prince Hamlet in the 5th Act, which has been hidden until then. Kevin Kline is very good too bc he hams it up a bit and that's very much in the spirit of Shakespeare in general and Hamlet in particular. Then of course there's Patrick Stewart, Derek Jacobi, Lawrence Olivier: all chef's kiss, five star productions. Richard Burton demonstrates why in the theater Hamlet works well when most of the lines are shouted so everyone in the theater can hear, and last but not least loved is the brilliant 4 hour film from Kenneth Branagh. There really are so many. If you enjoy the theater then yes certainly you should see a Hamlet adaptation soon, though perhaps not one of the lesser-known versions, idk.