Saturday, February 9, 2013

A man named Will and his writings

So this week I read William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and found a new love for Shakespeare and his writing. I hadn't read Shakespeare since high school and, to be completely honest, it was not made exciting then. So I was lead to think that Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth were the only Shakespeare plays that I would ever read and was not too excited by the prospect. But when I read The Taming of the Shrew, I fell in love with the smart wit and the flamboyant characters that appeared within the writing. And when I went and watched parts of The Taming of the Shrew starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton to compare that writing to, I fell in love with the play even more. For any of those Shakespeare lovers out there or other members of my Shakespeare class, I found this video on YouTube where the person edited different scenes from the movie together with a Doris Day song. The result is a comical version of the story and a creatively different way to look at the relationship between Katherine and Petruccio. You can find the video here. I recommend that, if you know anything about The Taming of the Shrew, or just really love Elizabeth Taylor or Richard Burton, you take a look at it. You won't regret it. :)

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