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0824Y00F05prime08Y00C5Y00J1NWHY DOSTOYEVSKY COULD KICK THOMAS HARDYS' ARSE ANY DAY IF HE FELT LIKE IT
1619Y00F05roman16Y00C4Nor
0819Y00F05prime08Y00C5NPUT YOUR HANDS UP IF YOU HATE SHAKESPEARE
2321Y00F07garmann23Y00C6NBy Mmrr of No Fixed Abode
0819Y00F05pearl08Y00C3N
0811Y00J0Y00C1NI'm new here, so none of those horrible initiation rituals of you please.
0801NLet's just behave like mature young adults and get on with the topic in
0801Ndiscussion.
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1619Y00F05roman16Y00J1NIS LITERATURE A LOAD OF ANALISTIC WANKSHAFT?
0829Y00F05pearl08Y00C1Y00C3Y00J0N
0801NWell, yes and no. (Great answer that one, guaranteed to offend no-one
0801Nexcept people who hate these kind of articles, and they've probably
0801Ngone by now anyway.)
0801N
0801NIn my opinion, most people don't read enough books, mostly because they
0801Nhave it shoved down their fucking throats in English at school, when neither
0801Nthe pupils nor the teacher want to be there. All that rubbish about
0801NShakespeare being the greatest English writer ever is not only patronising
0801Nbut it also writes off every up and coming writer, not to mention thousands
0801Nof others since.
0801N
0801NMore modern works may not possess the grace of the fucking iambic pentameter
0811Y01C7Y15C3N(fucking hell! Oh isn't it marvellous how the author can write in rhyming
0801Ncouplets! What a load of pretentious crap), but they mean a damn sight more
0801Nto people these days, and exhibit a greater subtlety and beauty than any so
0801Ncalled classic could ever do.
0801N
0801NAnother argument made by the traditionalists is that Shakespeare was the
0801Nfirst comic writer. Excuse me if my sides don't split. Men dressing up as
0801Nwomen. Women falling in love with animals. While these things may amuse
0811Y21C2Y51C3Nsome sick individials (your editor to name but one), these themes belong in
0801Na pantomime. If you want real comedy, you only have to look at Russian
0801Nliterature. Old women get killed with blunt axes for a few coppers. Young
0801Nmen people succumb to alcoholism, while the girls turn to prostitution to
0801Nsupport themselves. Far more fucking entertaining than a fat man in a dress.
0801N
0801NYou probably all think I'm being a bit too preachy, and if I'm annoying you,
0801Nfair enough, you know where the exits are located.
0801N
0801NIn my opinion, it is down to Shakespeare that a lot of the young people in
0801Nthe country (and we all know people like this) haven't touched a book since
0801Nthey left school, and are virtually iliterate. It's a bad situation when
0801Npeople would rather read a copy of the Daily Star than a good book. (Again,
0801NI'm sure that our editor will disagree with me there).
0801N
0801NI know it isn't the teachers fault entirely. It's the entire school of
0801Nthought, and ultimately the government who say 'THIS is what should be
0801Nstudied'. Bollocks to that.
0801N
0801NI suppose it's easy for people to laud Shakespeare et al. By doing it, they
0801Nare saying that 'Yes, British is best', which is such a very trendy to do.
0801NFor, if classic literature is not where it's at, what have we got? The most
0801Nsatisfying books I have read recently were certainly not homegrown. And
0801Neven taking the whole of the 20th century, the best authors have been for
0821Y23C4Y38C3Y39C5Y56C3Nthe most part American, John Steinbeck, John Slachinger (The Catcher In the
0801NRye) to name but a few.
0801N
0801NShakespeare should be consigned to the dustbin, or at least a small portion
0801Nof Hampshire where Kenneth Branagh and the fucking RSC can gad about with
0801Ntheir thee's and thou's to their hearts content. Just as long as they leave
0801Nthe rest of us sane individuals alone, cos we'd like to read in peace.
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