Shakespeare nerds!

Superlightbulb — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:44:51 +0000

I'm a total nerd and just LOVE Shakespeare!!! :) I love reading it, watching it, and most of all ACTING it! Who else here loves Shakespeare?? It's so great!

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smbffpink — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:49:43 +0000

Yepppers! :D I'm doing Shakespeare competition at my school this year!

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KythingToWrite — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:57:48 +0000

*Gets triple-size tent, snacks, and tea and pitches herself in the middle of the forum* I love this forum! We're studying Shakespeare in school, and at the moment I'm the only one making any effort in the class. People, even if you don't like Shakespeare HE STILL CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR MARKS. But no. People can't seem to understand that. And yes, as a reward for finishing NaNoWriMo my Mum has agreed to take me to the first Shakespeare play that will be on show in December OR a showing of A Christmas Carol. I can't wait! Enough about me... How are the rest of your NaNos going, fellow Shakespeare nerds?

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toothpicK82 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:06:39 +0000

I think I count as a Shakespeare nerd since I memorized the whole To Be or Not to Be speech and since I own 4 of the books which I got from a library book sale for 50 cents.

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BriLexen — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:18:44 +0000

Shakespeare = LOVE!!! Guys, my name is Kathryn (don't ask about the whole "BriLexen" thing), and I was named after Katherine from Taming of the Shrew! I plan on naming a daughter Beatrice for the heroine of Much Ado About Nothing (because Much Ado About Nothing is happiness ^_^) I have performed as Queen Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Duchess of York in the "wailing women" scene from Richard III, and both Lady Macduff and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. I'd say Lady Macbeth is probably my favorite roll I've ever played, though Queen Titania was a lot of fun. Dream rolls are: Katherine (obviously, I can't believe I've never played her!), Beatrice (also kind of obvious), and Maria from Twelfth Night. Oh, and I would LOVE to play Witch 2 in Macbeth. What about you guys?

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Artaxiad Prescott — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:10:08 +0000

Like to nominate my dad for this one :V As such I got dragged along for a lot of Shakespeare stuff. I'm not an actor at all, but my brother is, and he did a lot of Shakespeare for a while until he got into high school and became too busy. I think my claim to Shakespeare nerdfame here is that I've seen Romeo and Juliet. At the Globe. In London. Yes, you can touch me, no, it doesn't rub off.

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moonlight_girl13 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:22:21 +0000

**clings to you^^** I looooooove Romeo and Juliet- we just finished it in class and its just perfection! I would love to see it performed and at the globe is just asdkjhakfjhsdf I've seen quite a few plays performed (thank you papa), my favourite was seeing David Tennant in Hamlet in Stratford. He was just mindblowingly amazing :D

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almostalice — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:41:47 +0000

Omg you guys! I adore shakespeare! And I'm actually heading to a production of Julius Caesar AS I TYPE. I was Titania just a few weeks ago in midsummer for school, and I'm Cassius in caesar. Yes, I'm a girl playing Cassius.

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luvinpadfoot — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:35:42 +0000

I love most of Shakespeare's plays! I'm not really an actress, but I memorized Benedick's monologue from Much Ado About Nothing, the "I do much wonder" one. And yes, I embarrassed I love Much Ado so much since it's essentially a chick flick, but I'm a sucker for a happy ending. I also love the way Caesar dies. Everyone I know forgets his last line, which kills me because I love it so much. Everyone knows "Et tu, Brute?" but they forget the "then fall Caesar". I just love that so much! And I've seen Othello, Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, A Comedy of Errors, King Henry V, and The Tempest at the Blackfriar's Theatre in Staunton, VA. They perform the plays the way Shakespeare would have, with the lights on in the audience. There are even seats on stage you can sit on! And I totally have. I get to see them perform again in December and once more in January. I'm so so excited! Although I am bummed that I'm missing Hamlet. That's one of the plays that's much better to see performed than read.

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Spaghetti7 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:46:06 +0000

Never been in a Shakespeare play, but I love them. My goal is to finish reading all of them before June :) I've got his complete works in one marvelous book and I go to a Shakespeare festival in my city every summer. I've seen them do Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Comedy of Errors. This year they're doing Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew. The former is my favourite and I can't stop thinking about it even though it's quite a long time from now. I'm also planning on going to school in the UK for a year and I'm determined to go to the Globe while I'm there and get as much of a Shakespeare fix as I can :)

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Spaghetti7 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:49:00 +0000

I'm speechless with jealousy right now. Despite my amazing devotion to Shakespeare, I think I might have an even deeper obsession with Doctor Who. I'll agree wholeheartedly that David Tennant's Hamlet is absolutely amazing but it have seen it live, in person... I think my head would've exploded from pure amazement.

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Phantom30127 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:40:59 +0000

I was Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, I teched Twelfth Night, I've read countless plays, and I have the full "To Be or Not To Be" monologue memorized and I recite it surprisingly often. Am I a Shakespeare nerd? You tell me.

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almostalice — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:34:56 +0000

Yay for more Shakespeare nerds!

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stormkatz — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:30:03 +0000

*name snap* I'm a huge shaklespear nerd - I have memorised most of romeo and julit, and some parts of mcbeth. I love sheakepsear's plays <33

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Kara Kran — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:55:22 +0000

Eeep!! I had a goal of reading all of his plays in one year, but since I've started college, that dream has gone down the drain. I got half way before I had to stop though. I'm no actor, but I simply love reading and seeing his plays. I've seen: Hamlet, Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (which I'm probably going to see again this weekend.) Aaannnddd, I just watched the Anthony Hopkins version of Titus last night. :D Amazing.

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Roulouken331 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:09:46 +0000

WOOO! Shakespeare! My Nano is all about a girl who loves drama and they even get to do a few scenes from Twelfth Night! I've been pouring over my script like crazy, simplifying verses. :)

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ADMalouf — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:17:58 +0000

The flash-drive that I store my novel on is called Yorick.

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Her Grace of Serenity — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:15:49 +0000

I'm writing sci-fi and I named half my planets after Shakespearean characters. I've performed in Winter's Tale, As You Like It, Midsummer Night's Dream (twice), Twelfth Night, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. I've seen Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV (both parts), Othello, Love's Labors Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard III, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet. I've read King John, Titus Andronicus, Taming of the Shrew, Richard II, and Henry V. Twenty-four down, twelve to go.

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luvinpadfoot — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:58:19 +0000

I get to memorize another monologue for my drama class! It shouldn't excite me that much, but it does. I really want to perform the seven stages of men (Jaques, As You Like It), but I don't know if my drama teacher will let me perform one as well known as that. Which is sad because my other favorites are "To be or not to be" and "Friends, Romans, Countrymen". Most kids at my school hate Shakespeare, but I don't understand it. Best class I ever took.

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KythingToWrite — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:18:17 +0000

OH MY GOODNESS. I would love to reply to everyone in long details, but I'd take way too long. It's so great to have more Shakespeare nerds here! @luvinpadfoot: We just started Shakespeare in school this year. I didn't expect it, because the students are mostly of the we-hate-English type (I live in Africa) so I was absolutely delighted. Turns out I'm one of few who actually makes an effort :| @Phantom30127: I think you are :P @Spaghetti7: DAVID TENNANT AND SHAKESPEARE. I think the two extremes of wonderfulness just collided. I WANT TO SEE THAT. And @moonlight_girl13 and @Artaxiad Prescott: You have no IDEA how jealous I am right now.

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IFangirlLunaLovegood — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:37:48 +0000

I don't know if I've replied to this thread earlier, but I'm a huuuuuuge fan of Shakespeare, and his works are great for wordpadding :) So far I've quoted Sonnet 18, and lots of random insults in my NaNo! Stay strong, and happy writing Luna

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Skyuni123 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:32:29 +0000

I LOVE Shakespeare. I own all the plays, and I've acted in two of them, and done two other scenes for Drama class at school. I did a Juliet part for Drama class last year. (It was the scene when Juliet is with the Friar and threatens to kill herself). I also did a pair assessment for Drama this year, with one of my friends. She was Petruchio and I was Kate. (It was really great. Taming of the Shrew is one of my favourite plays. :) ) I also had a couple of parts in The Taming of the Shrew last year, and a couple of parts in A Midsummer Night's Dream this year. It was awesome. I'm going to see a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream tonight actually! I'm finding it rather ironic that I found this thread today...

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Alina the Duck — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:54:49 +0000

I adore Shakespeare. I bought a copy of his entire collected works for 2 GBP at a second hand book store. I've played Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (yeah, I'm a girl. It was weird. :D) and I'm currently playing Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream. Our school love having Shakespeare in the curriculum. In Year 10 we have to do an assessment comparing the parent/child relationships between Juliet and Capulet and Frankenstein and the Creature.

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thomlina — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:12:09 +0000

I'm going to see Romeo and Juliet this summer in Startford so excited! I love Shakespere so very much. I own quite a few of his plays and have personally picked apart a few of them. I have discovered that he really did have an interesting sense of humor!

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S.L.H.Murphy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:25:31 +0000

I'm a total nerd for Shakespeare -- the sonnets, the plays, all of it! My specialty's really in his tragedies, and my favorite is Julius Caesar. Antony has the best lines, and sometimes it makes me sad that I'm female -- all of the really good lines tend to go to the male parts. Especially in Caesar and Richard III (the exception for Richard being Queen Margaret -- she has some of the most awesome lines ever). My favorite Shakespeare character, though, is without doubt Richard Gloucester. I love his opening soliloquoy. I acted in Midsummer just recently, though I was the Narrator -- a part I recieved so that non-speakers of Shakespearean English could understand the plot -- and it was wonderful. Puck and Oberon have awesome roles, as does Hermia. Also, in tenth grade, my first quarter English project was to memorize fifty lines of Shakespeare and perform at my school's Safe Halloween event. The other groups eventually got frustrated with the attention spans of the small children and stopped performing, and I was like, "Hey, *****es, I got this," and proceeded to keep those kids occupied for forty-five minutes with Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an improved version of his death scene. The kids were wonderful -- probably because I took a page out of the Zeferelli film and was leaping and jumping around. So yeah, that's my Shakespeare nerd cred.

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Chestergirl28 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:42:55 +0000

I have only ever done one Shakespeare play, and it was fun! I had an audition for Juliet at a nearby boys school, and I love the language!!!! I spent al Thanksgiving break watching the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, with Olivia Hussey as Juliet and Leonardo Whitely as Romeo. It's amazing how the words are put together and they just roll off your tongue perfectly- they aren't choppy at all. They're so much fun to read and say, because its a challenge to actors to understand the character and then express that through the words and the movements. Wish me luck on getting the role!

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Bubbles — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:26:47 +0000

LONG LIVE THE BARD!!!!!! I am obsessed. Plays I've either read or seen: The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night Macbeth Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra LOVE!!!!!

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PhantomDream — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:05:27 +0000

Shakespeare nerd here. I've read lots of his plays, and I have read (and own a copy of) all of the sonnets. In a book on my shelf, actually. I've never been in a full Shakespeare play, but when I was a little younger I performed in a selection of scenes called William's Window. I was Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Baptista (for two lines and with the world's worst costume) in Taming of the Shrew, and then Celia from As You Like It (with a much better costume, that required the world's quickest change, and a good deal more lines).

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Chestergirl28 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:46:41 +0000

EEEEEEP! I'm Juliet!!!!!!! Sorry- had to share that in case you read my previous post and wanted to know. I am so in love with the words- I love reading the lines even more than I like my costar- Clark (Romeo). I can't wait.

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PhantomDream — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:44:04 +0000

Congratulations! :-)

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Drillbit_the_knitter — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:46:06 +0000

I am most assuredly a Shakespeare nerd. All my NaNoWriMo characters are named after Shakespearean characters, and there are some relationships that are oddly similar to Shakespearean relationships (particularly Midsummer Night's Dream). And my FMC quotes him. A lot.

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Angryman — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:40:57 +0000

I study Hamlet and MacBeth back in high school, but never really got into Shakespeare. At least, not until last week when my sister took me to see The 12th Night, performed by a local group of thespians. Now, if we had studied the comedies, I might have been more of a Shakespearean nerd. But I still managed to catch most of the references in Gnomeo and Juliet.

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Chestergirl28 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:08:09 +0000

Thanks!!!

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BroadwayKhaos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:04:36 +0000

This just made my week :) i've read virtually all shakespeares plays (dicounting coriolanus and the major histories) and love him to death. My school doesn't perform a lot of shakepeare but i'm hoping to start a club for performing the bard by the end of the month XD Seen; Much ado about nothing the tempest othello romeo and juliet and i'm desperate to perform in the schools upcoming production of a midsummer's night dream

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ADMalouf — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:54 +0000

Juliet is smarter than Romeo. I mean, Romeo just lets his hormones control his actions. One moment he's trying to make friends with Tybalt and then next, he kills him.

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Chestergirl28 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:47:27 +0000

YES. She's also more brave than he is. He drinks the vial of poison, she stabs herself. Juliet is much more thoughtful. I think she's much more careful, and innocent. I've alway wanted a happy ending to Romeo and Juliet.

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ADMalouf — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:40:45 +0000

Yep, and Hamlet...he's just plain weird...