Sunday, October 20, 2002

Love's Labour's Lost
I went to go see a Shakespeare play tonight. Love's Labour's Lost. After seeing it, it brought back all my memories of why I hate English. I was never good at English, I men I can speak it alright, but I was never good at studying the language, let alone the Old English of Shakepearean times.

So as I was sitting there, this is a comedy by the way, I wondered if I would ever understand one of the jokes. I was having a hard time understanding the dialogue, and while everyone else was laughing around me, I was sitting there trying to make some darn sense into what they were saying. So then I thought to myself, maybe if I just relax a little, and not try so hard, just let the words come to me, 'll start understanding.

So I just sat there, not trying to translate every sentence into modern english, and just absorbing what I understood. And it worked. Well for some parts. I actually started laughing, but not really hysterically, just a chuckle here, a chuckle there. I guess I was just not amused enough like some others. All in all, a good night in seeing it.

This play was performed by The Trinity College Dramatic Society (TCDS) an was playing at trinity of course. However with any play at night, I will at times almost fall asleep. It was not like totally boring, but when your only understanding half of the dialogue, you get bored a little. so the play lasted 1.5 hours, and was an interesting night, not something I do every night.

Basically the story is about four educated men, who vowed to each other to devote three years to studying. However the story gets a little more interesting when the Princess of France coems with her three ladies, and the story is about men trying to woo women without losing their respect.

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