latimes.com: Loving Shakespeare with a love so immoderate it would take a Shakespeare to describe it, I was pretty well pre-sold on "Shakespeare Uncovered," a six-part analytical-historical gambol through several of his plays, beginning Friday on PBS. By the same token, I am liable to be more critical of the product; but as it turns out, it's a treat.
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The quote at the bottom of the article, "....the energies they continue both to generate and to enlist..." about Shakespeare's plays struck me as most appropriate. During my junior and senior years of high school I had a theatre teacher who was quite obsessed with Shakespeare's works, and we not only did a main stage production of Shakespeare every year, but a good portion of our in-class work was devoted to doing pieces of his and analyzing them. Upon coming here to college, I've had to read Shakespeare's works again (especially the Scottish Play, for some reason). There has certainly been plenty of opportunity to grow to hate Shakespeare, but instead, I still find the plays and concepts fascinating. It's certainly a shame that as a college student I don't have a TV to watch this mini-series, because I would definitely watch it. I'll most likely end up looking up snippets of the show online. Besides the overall topic of the show, I think the concept of having famous people who acted in the shows as a leads, talk about their experiences with the show in terms of what the show means to them and the history and analyzation is really intriguing. Yet again, really I shame I can't easily watch this.
I love the idea of being walked through some of Shakespeare's works not by Shakespearean experts but instead by people who have had experience with them. It gives off the feeling that these plays are meant for everyone and that it is okay to come up with your own meaning with in works. Much like Kelly I had several teachers that loved Shakespeare, however we did not perform them as frequently. Their love of the bard has influenced me greatly and I love to watch and listen to his plays as well. (Helena Bonham Carter reciting Twelfth Night is beautiful and if you have not heard it look it up!) I would also like to find the time to watch this program because I think it would give some really great views on how other view and study Shakespeare.
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