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So i was in the grocery store with my little brother and my neice isabella. we were trying to decide which muffin mix to buy. I wanted Pillsbury, but my bro wanted Jiffy.
"Its a southern tradition" he said.
" Its also a southern tradition to lynch black people" i said,jokingly.
And isabella, in all her 3month old evilness, burst into laughter. -_- she's gonna be so evil.

She's gonna be evil and sarcastic. I'll have to upload pictures of her playing with my brother's air rifle.

I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but I've been paying a lot more attention to old Bill recently and have found that it's not the stories that make him an amazing author but the writing style and subtext. He managed to not only tell the actor everything they ever needed to know about the character and how to play him or her, but also made huge philosophical arguments that still take hold to this day. Most of Shakespeare's stories were well known before he'd written them. He copied nearly everything, but it's the style in which he'd written everything.
He set everything in either a different time or place than his own era or location. He was historically inaccurate, and did so on purpose. He didn't want his stories to stick to one place. He wanted them to be flexible and have the ability to be interpreted differently. He knew that people in that time often dropped pieces of the play or added bits, so he intentionally wrote the plays longer than he expected them to play. Hamlet, if done in its entirety at a fast pace can't be any shorter than 4 hours long, and that's with scarce stagecraft. This provides the play with versatility and the ability to be interpreted again. You can pick his play apart and show certain aspects of it and it will always survive because he understood how to tell the story. There is not a single scene in any of his plays that is entirely neccessary to make an amazing story, but they still do it in any configuration.
As Peter Brook, master director of our time, would say, "Shakespeare's plays shift between the Holy and the rough theatres." Shakespeare has done what no other author has ever done before or been able to do since and that is to perfectly shift between two different types of theatre smoothly and without flaw. In other words, he can make amazing speeches that make you think, and tell dirty jokes immediately after without it feeling awkward. Holy theatre is the type of theatre that has always been known to entertain nobility or those who believe themselves better. It is the theatre of tradition. Rough theatre is the rude, crude theatre of the masses. Only Shakespeare has been able to combine the two flawlessly entertain everyone.

I have more to say but I need to stop, because these arguments could be better made by those who know more about it than myself. domokun

Interesting.

It's technically still sunday THERE... you got time to do it all 3nodding

Wal Mart is evil.

Hahaha. I don't remember that from my training at Wal Mart. Then again- I just tried to block out as much of it as I could.

Wal Mart is indeed ev... Masq, wtf... you look delightfully evil

If you've ever been to a thrift store ... exactly the same thing. Just the only one vastly incorporated.