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"... What's a good book? Harry Potter? Shakespear? What's good music? Beethoven? T-Pain? ..." Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lov
by bootload 18y ago
"... What's a good book? Harry Potter? Shakespear? What's good music? Beethoven? T-Pain? ..."
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
The Sonnets, 18.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wssnt10.txt
Shakespeare not "Shakespear".
- jimbokun 18y agoI thought that spelling was not standardized in his day, so that any one of a number of variations would have been acceptable? http://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html http://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoin his day, probably.
- maxklein 18y agoShakespeare can hardly be classified as entertainment anymore. The english is just too old and too difficult for most people to read to be anymore than a chore. Harry Potter is REAL present-day entertainment, and anyone who wants to get into the industry has to understand that.
- bootload 18y ago"... The english is just too old and too difficult for most people to read to be anymore than a chore ..." Good point. Now if we are talking say "The A-Team" I'd agree. Bodie, Doyle, Tiger and jewelry man, Mr-T. I can see how some might spell Mr. Tee, Mr T or even Mr. Tea if you're a Brit. But meddling with the spelling of the greatest, most recognised writer in the history of English literature? "... Harry Potter is REAL present-day entertainment, and anyone who wants to get into the industry has to understand that ..." I agree J.K. Rawlings, is a modern master of story telling. But I can name plenty of classic literature novels that have gone straight to mass visual media bypassing their literary cousins. Behind each great bit of entertainment is a great script. A lot of these scripts are based on classic lit.