Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?

   

“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his."-  George Bernard Shaw

             Reading or listening to Shakespeare can be like learning a foreign language. And then some people have trouble finding the "real" or "true" emotion or feeling in the words. It takes time, and everyone is in such a hurry. Well, not everyone. People liked the movie "Shakespeare in Love", but then the language was changed when the "real" characters were talking with each other while not reciting their lines. The main issue may be intellectual accessibility. They are nauseatingly boring to read. And all I learned was that Early Modern English hurt my brain. The most bizarre and probably the coolest of all was Muammar al-Gaddafi on Willy, who was, Sheikh Zubayr bin William. Gaddafi came up with this champion in 1989 when Radio Tehran announced that Libya's “Great One” had declared that an Arab sheikh named Zubayr bin William, who had been born in the sixteenth century, was Shakespeare.

          My most liked play would probably be Hamlet. Because everyone died. Can you believe it that this play had more deaths than the last Harry Potter book?

           Shakespeare was criticized that he mixed comedy and tragedy, and that there was no fine line between the two poles. I am proving those critics wrong, HE DID NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY. I mean Romeo and Juliet is the biggest blunder I've seen till now since Hamlet and As You Like It. Romeo isn't exactly "bright" and his penis controls him. There's no logical thought or realistic action with that kid, because it's a story about a 13 year old and a 17 year old who’s "love" lasted 3 days and resulted in 6 deaths. Romeo and Juliet should pretty much get an Oscar nomination for their acting in that last scene, which did in fact slay everyone. Literally.

              The Taming of the Shrew did nothing but irritate my budding feminist identity. But look on the bright side, Heath Ledger would have started his Hollywood career a little slower than expected.

             Then there’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which a man’s head mysteriously turns into that of a donkey due to the mere usage of the words “JACK***”! This totally makes sense you know.

              In closing, Will.I.Am and I just don’t get each other in any and every way possible. I just want to say his wife and kids completely deserved a Noble Prize for keeping up with him the same way we keep up with the Kardashians!

- Rtr Eera Bhatt

Rotaract Club of NM College