30 Days of Shakespeare - Day 6-8

[bardic_lady]

So... yeah. I sort of missed a couple days in the throes of misery. But I'm back and getting back on track!

Day #6: Your favorite villainess
I... can't think of any women I would really really categorize as female villains in Shakespeare. I mean, there's an argument to be made for Margaret in the Henry VI into Richard III arc. Offering your enemy a hankie dipped in the blood of his dead son is sort of not the act of a kind woman. But really, there was some provocation there.

Day #7: Your favorite clown
Dogberry in Much Ado. Absolutely. Okay, Bottom is good, too. But really, Dogberry is SO MUCH FUN. His total lack of grasp of English is ridiculous, and yet, he manages to discharge his duties.

Day #8: Your favorite comedy
It's still a tie between Midsummer and Much Ado. It's probably going to remain a tie for... y'know, ever.


Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line

Comments

Thank you!!

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Hello ~ sorry to randomly comment on your journal, I'm afraid I don't really know much about messaging through LJ, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the delightful posts you made over at "no_takebacks" for the last two weeks!! You've done a really amazing job, and we all enjoyed it very much. I know that attendance these days is sporadic (I think that's only natural at this point), but there are still a lot of fans out here ready to share the joy and you really made it a fun, thought-provoking couple of weeks. It's a tradition for the previous DPP host to thank the person who's kept the train going after them, and you deserve double thanks for your leadership. Huzzah!!

From what little you've mentioned, I gather that real life is stressful at the moment ~ I just hope all will soon be well, and I send all best wishes.

Sincerely,

Rachel

PS ~ this is the first time I've visited your journal, but I'm enjoying hearing about your Shakespearean favorites! I once wrote a fanfic story in the Harry Potter universe in which Snape spoke entirely in rearranged excerpts from the Bard. It took *forever* to put together, but I enjoyed myself immensely and I found some marvellous quotations through the online Shakespeare text search engine. One that reminded me of Kara and Lee was the lovely: "Now I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also." (from Henry IV Part One). That little passage fits really well for the mood in "Scar," I think. And in the sonnets, the one that reminds me most of pilots is from Sonnet 31: "Thou art the grave where buried love doth live, / Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone, / Who all their parts of me to thee did give; / That due of many now is thine alone..." I don't know, that speaks to me of Zak and the end of the worlds and the way they are finding in each other everything worth living for in the post-apocalyptic nightmare. And Sonnet 40 is a great one for them, too: "Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all. / What hast thou, then, more than thou hadst before? /.... / Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows / Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes." It's very "Unfinished Business." OK, I'm really done rambling, now! Thanks so much for sharing so many lovely thoughts with all of us!!

Re: Thank you!!

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's good to know people enjoyed it. I'll be back in August for another week, I already have my ideas, some thinky, others a little more random wacky related.

I find one of my biggest problems in BSG fic writing is that I technically can't use Shakespeare quotes as things the characters would know. I'm an inveterate quoter, so it makes it hard, especially as I think a lot of what happens to them is well suited to Shakespeare. A while back, I did a banner for Kara using a bit of Hamlet:



Of course, I also wrote the BSGlycrumb Tinies. My literary pursuits are skewed at best. I look forward to hearing more of your awesome ideas over at no_takebacks!