Great books, these `Madame Bovary' and `1984'. I read Flaubert in Russian translation, but American and English books I prefer to read in English. Have to admit that, for example, Orwell, Herbert George Wells, Mark Twain are easy to read, but I can't read Shakespeare or Dickens. Very complicated! You know, my English is not so good.
. . . I can't read Shakespeare or Dickens. Very complicated! You know, my English is not so good.
I have never been able to make sense of Shakespeare because I have always had to constantly check the footnotes to figure out what is being said, or what is happening. It was distracting.
I read somewhere that Paul was approached to play Romeo but that he was too busy to accept. Now that would have made the movie infinitely more interesting to me.
Try it again, Kathleen, and this time forget the footnotes and concentrate on the iambic pentameter.
You're better than I am, Kelley; I've never cared for Shakespeare, not even Romeo and Juliet (sacrilege, I know!). I don't think I ever even finished MacBeth in high school; I just fudged my way through my paper. My girls are currently struggling through Hamlet, which I detested, because I had to rewrite my first paper, so I did, but on the same topic, and my teacher told me to do it again on a different topic -- so I ended up doing three Hamlet papers; boo!
A great player.
One of the best.http://youtu.be/wmthl1hAdFA