Science and Shakespeare

I found a website that has lines from plays that show a connection with science.
http://www.todayinsci.com/S/Shakespeare_William/ShakespeareWilliam-Quotations.htm
My favorite listed:
And teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night …

Then I found a website that takes Shakespeare plays and places them in a science-fictional landscape...i.e. The Lost Planet
http://io9.com/#!5706810/coolest-shakespeare-riffs-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy

Myth-ing the Text

What is important?

It’s a generalization or perhaps a rhetorical question with no definite answer. It is a person’s own opinion what is important to them and how they find it to be important. In class we were discussing “myth”-ing the text. Why is Shakespeare or the bible considered so important more so then all else and what we ourselves have myth-ed…

Let me tell share with you:

My first myth is the Moonlight Sonata sheet music. I forever wanted to learn how to play this piece and I did I learned how to play the piece and performed it at a recital. On the sheet of paper this music is printed on, my love is seen through the rips, holes, scribbles, tape, etc…I play this piece as much as I can but I don’t feel it is enough. Now one may argue that this is not a secular script, but I feel music tells its own story. When Beethoven composed this song what was he saying, feeling? Music is beautiful as is the written word just is something different.

My second myth of the secular scripture is *drum roll* the Harry Potter series. I love the Harry Potter series perhaps it is the lesser of the secular script but it is a world that I lose myself in, a world that is elsewhere. I love the hidden fantasy world or maybe I really like the idea of running around with a wand casting about spells. It is the fight of good and evil, but death wins. If you don’t know the meaning of that last statement maybe it is as good as time as ever to read the series.

For the Harry Potter Lovers if there are any non-literary snobs in the class enjoy watching these two videos: A Very Potter Musical Act 1 Scene 1 and Literal Trailer Parody.

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Edited March 20, 2011

Shakespeare, Who Dat???

My dealings or what I know of the Bard is superficial, general information. High school was the first encounter of Shakespeare. The reading of Romeo and Juliet was my very first, but none of my high school English teachers installed a passion for him or his works. Most of my English teachers used technology to "teach" Shakespeare. I watched various movies and read out load in class of the works, but it was never explored. This is the first semester that I have delved in to Shakespeare's work and hopefully I survive. On the plus side I was told drowning was a peaceful way to die. So if I do drown in the literary works that is Shakespeare at least I will be at peace knowing the passion that encompasses Him.
So as a preview listed below are work/ movies of Shakespeare that I am familiar with before this class started:
Romeo and Juliet: read, seen two movies
Julius Caesar: read, seen movie
Macbeth: read, seen movie
Taming of the Shrew: seen movie and "based off" version
Twelfth Night: read, seen "based off" version
Othello: read, seen movie and "based off" version
Hamlet: read
Much to About Nothing: seen movie

On another note that relates to dealing with Shakespeare:

When my folks and me were cleaning out my grandma's house I came across a complete anthology of Shakespeare. She brought it from England when she moved to the states. It is four red, leather, bound volumes that have the musty smell of oldness. Or just the smell it received from sitting in a cardboard box an X amount of years in a basement.
It was a great find. I plan on keeping it safe, so safe its in a seal proof, plastic box. I am so afraid to break, rip it that I don't want to really touch it; however, after being in this class for about three months. I'm going to bring it out and look at my found treasure. My X really does mark the spot.

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Rewritten on March 20, 2011