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Cloud · 03-07-2007, 05:17 PM

Shakespeare is universal enough to be re-imagined and performed in many different ways.

If you are arguing for some kind of "purity" in performing Shakespeare, you are defeated from the beginning, because there was never any attempt in his own day to portray the times where plays were set accurately.

This is part of the 6-month Shakespeare in Washington festival. I almost went to see King Lear there in my trip, but unfortunately I got snowed in. That performance was by the Harlem Classical Theatre and was set in ancient Mesopotamia (as opposed to ancient Britain as Shakespeare wrote it). So what? Did you know that for 150 years King Lear was performed with a happy ending?

See first statement.

03-07-2007, 05:17 PM	#6
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Shakespeare is universal enough to be re-imagined and performed in many different ways. If you are arguing for some kind of "purity" in performing Shakespeare, you are defeated from the beginning, because there was never any attempt in his own day to portray the times where plays were set accurately. This is part of the 6-month Shakespeare in Washington festival. I almost went to see King Lear there in my trip, but unfortunately I got snowed in. That performance was by the Harlem Classical Theatre and was set in ancient Mesopotamia (as opposed to ancient Britain as Shakespeare wrote it). So what? Did you know that for 150 years King Lear was performed with a happy ending? See first statement. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"