Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios

Unlike Maurice Charney--and I am criticizing no one here---but, unlike many of you, I was never blessed to be able to study the bard, until I was much older, when I took a make up course at Universidade de Letras in Lisbon one summer--two week's to read and absorb Hamlet...and I loved it! 

Being a Portuguese born and bred, the only exposure I received to Shakespeare, in 12 years of high-school education as I grew up, was one viewing of "Romeo and Juliet" in, I think, 1986, with a mob of other students, in a crowded cinema, with absolutely no introduction...they put us on the buses, we queued up and paid for our tickets, sat in the cinema seats, and then we had to sit through several minutes of hearing the loud giggles and twitters of oversexed teens (or was that undersexed), as the opening shots were of close-ups of the men's codpieces. We were bused home at the end, and the next day given a book called "Romeo and Juliet" to read. The end. 

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