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.
Sunday, October 20, 2002
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