Thursday, 11 June 2009

Much Ado about Nothing

Was told today that my class will be studying ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ by Shakespeare. We’ve been issued with copies of the play and on nearly all the pages there’s some definitions of the words used in the play. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t dictionaries work in this way too? To be fair though, it is quite a good play if you get the translation business out of the way.

Shakespeare was a busy fella. I think he wrote something like 40 plays and 154 sonnets, give or take. Clearly he loved abit of drama. Shame he’s not still around, isn’t it? We’ve got Coronation Street, Eastenders, Emmerdale. All that stuff. If I were given the opportunity to raise him from the dead and tasked with keeping him occupied for the day, I’d probably just sit him down and make him watch the Eastenders omnibus. We’d stay away from lunch-time television though. I can’t see him liking the Loose Women lunchtime show. I can't stand it either.

No comments: