Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/08/2012 02:43 AM Report

Well done. Great ending:

http://youtu.be/OxoUUbMii7Q

Shows "The Three Little Pigs" as if done by Shakespeare with an American ending.

However, incorrectly stated--Shakespeare did NOT have not a working vocabulary of 54,000 words--perhaps half of that.

"Anti-Stratfordians also question how Shakespeare, with no record of the education and cultured background displayed in the works bearing his name, could have acquired the extensive vocabulary found in the plays and poems. The author's vocabulary is calculated to be between 17,500 and 29,000 words.[43]"

The low figure of 17,500 is that of Manfred Scheler. The upper figure 29,000, from Marvin Spevack, is true only if all word forms (cat and cats counted as two different words, for example), compound words, emendations, variants, proper names, foreign words, onomatopoeic words, and deliberate malapropisms are included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question#Education_and_literacy

Charlie, you probably would have found the Bard too talkative if he was trying to use all those words.

finalfantasytown  04/25/2012 05:09 PM Report

revised

For Shakespeare

In my mind, pleasure is an emotion when the strong think about a thing, which both the strong and the weak possess, but the distinction of whose functions makes them stand in their positions of hierarchy.

During these recent 20 years, all Chinese suffer the pain and become nervous caused by pursuing the pleasure, which is a hallucination reflecting from the expression of wrong combination of some DNAs who must be eliminated. Greed and hatred have grown in their mind rooting in the hallucination of pleasure. Happiness force, which all Chinese are looking for today, is not accurate. I hate the force because it accelerates that growth. What about comfortableness? Very fit to the position ahead.

finalfantasytown  04/25/2012 03:25 AM Report

For Shakespeare

In my mind, pleasure is an emotion when the strong think about a thing, which both the strong and the weak possess, but the distinction of whose functions makes them stand in their positions of hierarchy.

During these recent 20 years, all Chinese suffer the pain and become nervous in order to pursue the pleasure, which is a hallucination reflected from wrong combination of some DNA which must be eliminated. Greed and hatred have grown in their mind from the hallucination of pleasure. Happiness force, which all Chinese are looking for today, is not accurate. I hate the force because it accelerate that growth. What about comfortableness? Very fit to the position ahead.

AAR  04/24/2012 06:28 PM Report

I AGREE.

My view is that the Plays are largely Political commentaries on Shakespeare's times,that he could write with impunity because the Authorities never suspected that he was smart enough to be a political critic.

Which supports the theory that the final versions of these Plays were edited and revised by a sophisticated well educated Aristocrat using Will's first rough drafts. This person hid behind the Shakespeare name.

My issue with the Productions of the Plays is that the local accents which are or were almost akin to foreign languages within England are ignored. Its these local inflections and accents that give colour to the script. Olivier et al recited the words with marbles in their mouths- as if they are reciting poetry.

REMant  04/24/2012 12:05 PM Report

I'm fairly well convinced Shakespeare ought to be retired like Senator McCain. No one understands him, even if they see the "Machiavellian" elements, or how to do him, even how to pronounce the words. And from this I'd say Mr Kahn is no exception. The plays were never designed to appeal to common folk anyway. They are, most of them, high-brow satire of one sort or another, chock-full of inside jokes.

But, no less than the rest, the history plays were undertaken in order to support the monarchy generally, which after Good Queen Bess was again on increasingly shaky ground due to war spending, the opposition coming to it largely from the City's Protestant tradesppl. Henry V, tho, represents an instance of relevance, for whatever was won at Aginourt was lost in the bankruptcy it caused.

Plays are not plays anymore, either. That is to say they lack the poetic underpinning, and thus don't require any "acting." Nowadays we just typecast ppl into "reality" situations, which have no point, and foster idolatry.

Kahn is also IMHO overly sanguine about psychology. I am quite sure Will knew more about most all of that, at least in the abstract, than the average professor today.