I dislike Dickens a lot.
I'm a fan of Shakespear though.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:30, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Dickens was born not far from where I live
FACT
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:30, Reply)

i'm gonna call you a dick again right here, then i'll click ignore
and see if you were fast enough to see it and reply
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:31, Reply)

Dickens is fucking dreadful.
But Shakespeare's comedies in particular are dreadful.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:31, Reply)

I saw a comedy of errors at the globe.
I enjoyed it, you can buy beer and drink it while standing up!
(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:33, Reply)

I'd really like to go to the Globe, but not to see a play as I dislike plays intensely.
Fucking overblown hammy tosser ac-torrrs.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:34, Reply)

I just had a look, I'm down in london on saturday, might go see Henry V

(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:35, Reply)

V who?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:36, Reply)

Mohammed

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:36, Reply)

People who act shakespeare seem very 'Oh look at me, I'm doing Shakespeare, aren't I highbrow'
whereas if you read the plays (which I did when I was in my twenties, during lunchbreaks at work) they are actually quite funny. Well, the comedies are, anyway. I'm not so keen on the tragedies.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:38, Reply)

Twelfth Night is dross.
1. The plot is pathetic
2. The characters are shallow and shit
3. It's filled with gags which haven't been funny for hundreds of years: 'relevant today' my cock-end

Just shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:42, Reply)

They were essentially the Carry On films of their age
Quite funny the first time you read/see them, but can you see school kids in four hundred years trying to analyse 'Ooh Matron'?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:44, Reply)

I have had a half-baked idea for a thesis
on 'the Carry On films as a social barometer' in my head for a good 20 years now. How you can see the shift in values etc in the 60s into the 70s by those films, and how by the time they ended they'd become redundant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:46, Reply)

I had a great idea for a thesis after I finished my degree
but it wasn't really feasible to research, and no-one except Endemol would fund it.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:48, Reply)

I enjoyed it when I saw it.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:48, Reply)

Did you see the BBC version with Felicity Kendall in it?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:52, Reply)

No, I saw it in Stratford, at the theatre.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)

twelfth night is indeed shit.
but a midsummer night's dream is genius.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)

This^
For plays see musicals
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:45, Reply)