I should warn you, it is a bloody play without a real hero, or rather with an anti-hero.
I'm not sure what it says about either me or my family that I was so entranced by it... or that I've passed it along to my kids. In all other respects they are very sheltered kids - no TV, no video games, no toy guns (even the Playmobils have to hand over their rifles and pistols when they enter the house), we screen the books they read and the (very few) movies they see with great care...
but we have almost unlimited exposure to Shakespeare.... (well, not Othello, and certainly not Titus A., but we went to Pericles last month... all the really heavy stuff went over everyone's heads, but my eldest knew enough to know she was missing things... which led to our first discussion of the concepts of rape and prostitution. Since she is 14.5, that is evidence of the success of our sheltering.)
Let me know what you think after reading Richard. I wish you could have see our local Shakespeare company's production the other year - it brought Richard to life.
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Re: part 1 - fantasy and semi-fantasy
I'm not sure what it says about either me or my family that I was so entranced by it... or that I've passed it along to my kids. In all other respects they are very sheltered kids - no TV, no video games, no toy guns (even the Playmobils have to hand over their rifles and pistols when they enter the house), we screen the books they read and the (very few) movies they see with great care...
but we have almost unlimited exposure to Shakespeare.... (well, not Othello, and certainly not Titus A., but we went to Pericles last month... all the really heavy stuff went over everyone's heads, but my eldest knew enough to know she was missing things... which led to our first discussion of the concepts of rape and prostitution. Since she is 14.5, that is evidence of the success of our sheltering.)
Let me know what you think after reading Richard. I wish you could have see our local Shakespeare company's production the other year - it brought Richard to life.
Eliana