Shakespeare, Love and Service

Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets

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So we at Shakespeare in the Ruff decided to offer you a little help. Our resident lover, hopeless romantic he was playing Valentine in the picture above after all and might we add single, Jesse Griffiths, has compiled his Top Ten List of romantic lines from Shakespeare. If you are in a pinch for an incredible romantic gesture, take a minute to memorize one of the lines below and wow your lover or bestie , with your diction and line endings. This will include free admission, reserved seats and a round of drinks on us! My grandparents were married in Scotland on February 25, , years ago this month!

They came to Canada just before WWI started. One half of me is yours, the other half yours— Mine own, I would say.

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But if mine, then yours, And so all yours. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Press enter to begin your search. Sonny caused some trouble, he was involved in a hunger strike, I think, if I am correct, and this book was confiscated.

And one day, as he tells the story, they were summoned to go to the church service, and he had a brilliant idea. And Sonny then had some Diwali cards and he pasted these Diwali cards on the outside of the book and he pretended that it was his Hindu Bible. What were some of the passages next to which people put their own names? There is a wonderful theatrical practitioner in England called Matthew Hahn, and Matthew has, in fact, written a play based on the Robben Island Shakespeare.

And Matthew has interviewed a number of the prisoners. But, in fact, if you look at the number of passages that were chosen, a large number were from the comedies, and, in fact, a large number from the sonnets. Out of the 34 signatures, five have chosen the sonnets. The most interesting choice for me, as far as this is concerned, is the fact that Govan Mbeki, who was a real Stalinist firebrand So, what would you expect Govan Mbeki, the Stalinist, to have chosen? So, you know, you see this choice and a whole lot of prejudices or expectations about what people will choose, or what their values will be, or what will be most important to them under these circumstances, is challenged.

I think this is one of the things the book does, is it challenges our conceptions of value, and it also challenges our conceptions of what Shakespeare might mean to particular people, at a particular point in time, and in the world as a whole.

Then the other choice, with regard to the comedies, which I find absolutely fascinating, is that three people chose passages from As You Like It. And the most striking passage is the very, very opening of the play, in which Orlando complains to Adam about the way in which his brother has treated him.

And there begins my sadness.

And what he complains about is the fact that his brother has dispossessed him and is treating him poorly. Now that is a reading of that particular comedy, which is extremely prescient. It sees in the comedy a struggle over inheritance and possession and relationships amongst brothers, which are deeply, deeply political. SHEIR: Now, do we know, whether they had the time to sit there and read at the plays, then make their decisions? Whether they actually did that or not, is another matter.

Shakespeare, Love and Service

And I find it really, really, a fascinating reflection on the nature of human identity. So, for example, many of the people who chose passages from the Robben Island Bible have written memoirs about their experience on Robben Island. Now the problem with the memoirs that come after Robben Island is that they tend to tell a communal story, which fits in with a particular kind of political grand narrative. And I think what the Robben Island Shakespeare does, is it allows us to see a different story emerging in the unconscious, which, of course, has been forgotten or repressed or whatever, for whatever reason.

Where did that title come from? I was. And then, that is connected to his sense of Denmark being a prison.

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And so, I thought that I would explore the affinities and differences between that sense in Hamlet, of being imprisoned in an extremely repressive political system, and the signatures in the Robben Island Shakespeare by actual prisoners. The trickery of the pages has enabled him to become a boy, but perhaps the gender and class-inflected training of the grammar schools promises a more attractive adulthood. He demonstrates the knowledge of classical literature expected of the grammar school boy as he adopts the position of scholar and teacher in advising Armado on the examples he might use in his love letter.

He displays his command of grammar and his ability to utilize logic in his exercise on the use of prepositions to express love. While Moth continues to mock Holofernes, who can only offer nonsensical answers, the schoolmaster attempts to reduce this page to a lesser status. It is this apt or quick wit that is his dominant characteristic and is representative of his boyhood. Unlike the school text books which imagine the display of wit as part of the construction of manhood, this play assesses most of the characters in terms of their wit: it is appropriate to the eloquence of the courtly ladies, it defines the men of the court, and the rustic characters are marked by their lack of it.

Different forms of wit are also associated with particular aged and gendered states in What You Will. It is the witty and subversive deployment of learning from his position of service that characterises Moth as the child, boy or juvenal. This representation of gender in relation to age has a clear ideological purpose as it offers a concept of manhood that is idealistic, achievable and stable.

However, as the representations of these educational processes in the theatre demonstrate, the intersections between age and gender result in more complex understandings of gender identity in the period. Early modern masculinity cannot just be seen in terms of manhood, or of boyhood versus manhood; instead childhood, youth, manhood and old age are categories on a continuum of aged masculinity. Moreover, the learning intended to facilitate the progression of these young male characters to manhood in fact equips these characters with the material to produce their boyhoods.

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They draw out their knowledge to assert their identities as boys. Of course, this definition of boyhood means that while it is associated with a particular age category, it is not restricted to characters of a particular age. Moth is the herald for the disguised courtiers. Moth is presented through this theatrical terminology as a player, and within the fiction of the play he appears inexperienced in this respect.

In performing this play, he is offered the opportunity to test a range of smaller parts, the herald and Hercules, in addition to demonstrating his talents in the substantial part of the pageboy.

Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets

This particular boy actor, it seems, has little experience in the theatre. In act two scene two, for example, Simplicius instructs him in his posture 2. The comic roles of schoolboy and page that they successfully perform in these plays, suggests that these young players, at the very least, have already learned how to be boys in the early modern theatre. Further references are given in the text. Woodhead, Nottingham, Nottingham Drama Texts, , 2. Further references are in the text. Stephen Greenblatt et alii, New York, W.

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