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From: paul@harper.net
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:39:27 -0400, shawn
wrote:
>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.
Not in this country. Some of the BBC's best and most loved productions
over the last several decades have been Shakespere productions.
Paul.
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