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   From: nanoflower@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:02:19 +0100, "Alison Hopkins"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Wayland"  wrote in message   
   >news:ic9kc2ldtj6qd19hvmuu6ofgem0tnomo3u@4ax.com...   
   >> On 28 Jul 2006 04:48:00 -0700, Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>Paul Harper wrote:   
   >>>> dialogue is some of the shittiest exposition I have every had to listen   
   >>>> to. When his characters were *supposed* to be making speeches, then   
   >>>> fine, but even when they weren't, they were *still* making speeches.   
   >>>   
   >>>.   
   >>>   
   >>>Sounds like Shakespeare.  He did alright (or so I'm told).   
   >>   
   >> Shakespeare was a master of both monolog and dialog.  His characters   
   >> play on words back and forth with each other throughout his plays.  He   
   >> switches the meter of the lines to give the dialog greater depth,   
   >> sometimes having one character talk in prose and the other in verse to   
   >> emphasize points.   
   >>   
   >> JMS is no Shakespeare, not by a long shot.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I've seen several Shakespeare plays at the Globe. They are stripped bare; no   
   >sets, no folderol, nada. They are an utter joy.   
      
   And would utterly fail as a product of television. The problem is that   
   while Shakespeare was a tremendous talent his audience was a very   
   different one from the mass audience you find viewing television   
   today. That kind of prose would turn viewers away in droves.   
      
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