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I'd reccommend the 2000 version of A Midsummer Nights Dream starring Nina Hartley. For some reason they renamed it "A Midsummer Night's Cream" and it was a little different from what I remember being read in the classroom. Still it helped me out a lot in my English Literature A level exam.

Saw this and thought of you....





Most enjoyable

Cheers

BB

Taming of the Shrew.

Classic!

Hey Ace!!

Good to see ya!!

Taming of the Shrew is a wonderfull piece of work indeed. Managed to see the RSC do it a few years ago. Breath taking!!

Have you ever seen "10 things I hate about you" ? A really good modern re-working. Certainly worth a look if you have not had the pleasure.

Hope your well chap!! And all the very best!!

BB

Yep, have that as afters for a bit of light relief. Main course: Othello- the
plot has been palely imitated by every soap-opera ever written, and for a
Bard beginner it's not overly laden with abstruse language or
philosophising.
Work up through the comedies [especially the Falstaffian ones], avoid
most of the histories [H V and R III being the obvious exceptions], try a
Roman or two [A&C is fairly easy going but do not attempt Titus Andronicus
alone or on a full stomach], step up a bit then to Macb. and leave the
towering Ham. and Lear till last [BTW poll: who was the most
pale-and-interesting Cordelia ever?].
The kids' BBC2 puppet-versions are a nice intro for the complete tyro and
if you can bear it an annotated 'complete' is worth having for obscure
language and references [Penguin Classics, I think, still have them in
nicely laid-out single paperbacks for tedious commutes].