Love Zhaoying Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 57 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: I'm starting a series based on women in Shakespeare for an exhibition in September, and I've begun with Cordelia and (below) Lady Macbeth. ..but the original actors who played the women were men, correct? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khadijah Starchild Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 I closed a deal with space aliens to build the largest human brain powered AI in SL. Finishing up the laboratory. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: ..but the original actors who played the women were men, correct? They were mostly boys, but yes. That's something I'll be playing with in some of my pics -- as Shakespeare occasionally did, most notably maybe in Twelfth Night. ETA: I'm sort of playing with that here too. My theme for Lady Macbeth is her "unwomaning"; she goads her husband on to action by suggesting that she is more like a real "man" than he is, and she deliberately repudiates her femininity, rejecting her traditional role here as a mother. She is the one who lays out the daggers for Macbeth to murder Duncan, and it is she who uses them to smear the drugged guards with his blood. Edited May 3, 2023 by Scylla Rhiadra 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Love Zhaoying Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: They were mostly boys, but yes. That's something I'll be playing with in some of my pics -- as Shakespeare occasionally did, most notably maybe in Twelfth Night. I'm sure you will make a fine, um.."boy". 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Khadijah Starchild Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 8 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said: I'm sure you will make a fine, um.."boy". My favorite Shakespeare debate is "was Shakespeare an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his home village and had his name used by a group of writers who feared persecution, or was Shakespear an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his villiage and somehow magically had a vocabulary of 30,000 words and detailed information about Rome." 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Love Zhaoying Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 4 hours ago, Khadijah Starchild said: My favorite Shakespeare debate is "was Shakespeare an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his home village and had his name used by a group of writers who feared persecution, or was Shakespear an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his villiage and somehow magically had a vocabulary of 30,000 words and detailed information about Rome." Debatable! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Luv Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Star Wars Day! The Fourth is with you, young Forumites, but you are not in July yet. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nalates Urriah Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 5/2/2023 at 1:37 PM, Khadijah Starchild said: I got my doctor RP set up, if anyone needs a checkup hit me up. So... you are aking someone to come play doctor with you? 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 18 minutes ago, Nalates Urriah said: So... you are aking someone to come play doctor with you? Or "Medical Examiner"! That patient looks quite..expired. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khadijah Starchild Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 4 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said: So... you are aking someone to come play doctor with you? Sure stop by. I need straps for the bed. The creator is my neighbor i will ask him about it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scylla Rhiadra Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 On 5/3/2023 at 10:25 PM, Khadijah Starchild said: My favorite Shakespeare debate is "was Shakespeare an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his home village and had his name used by a group of writers who feared persecution, or was Shakespear an uneducated pig farmer who never travelled outside his villiage and somehow magically had a vocabulary of 30,000 words and detailed information about Rome." I'm guessing you're not very serious about this, but . . . Shakespeare's father was an alderman and successful businessman in Stratford, which entitled him to send his son to the local grammar school free of charge. (His father was later awarded a coat of arms.) William would have begun his education at about 6 years of age, and been mostly taught in Latin (the language of learning and education in that age), and would certainly have been exposed to a great deal of Roman literature, especially histories. His father's financial problems likely meant that he had to withdraw from school as he was entering adolescence, but he'd have had a reasonably good background in both English and Latin by that time. We're not entirely sure when he arrived in London, but he was a well-established actor there by 1592 at the latest, and he spent most of his time in the city until at least 1613, when he bought a house at Blackfriars in the city. So, while it's highly unlikely that he travelled at all outside of England, he certainly knew London (and probably other parts of England from his time as an itinerant player). As for the stuff he knew . . . well, he read books. In most cases, we can identify which particular books he got his information from based on the details included in his plays. The "who wrote Shakespeare's plays" thing is sort of a fun game, but I don't know of any really serious Shakespeare scholars -- by which I mean people who've devoted their lives to the study of him -- who believe that Shakespeare was a "front" for another writer. That said, he did collaborate with others on some plays, and there is a lot of serious scholarship about identifying which "parts" of these plays Shakespeare might have written. Yeah, sorry. I'll shut up now. 😏 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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