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People in my life look at me weird when I say I enjoy Shakespeare. I haven’t read a lot of his plays, but what I have read, I’ve enjoyed. But to most people in my life, that is just Peak Geek and Too Much for them.<\/p>\n
I embrace the geekiness.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I will admit, I have not read a lot of adaptations. Loose ones, sure. Seen a few screen adaptations as well. And I have some favourites that I will always watch, and will definitely pick up to at the very least flip through.<\/p>\n
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Don’t be surprised if there are a few webseries recommendations in here. There have been some really well-done ones recently. (I’ve watched more webseries than read books, I will admit it now.)<\/p>\n
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Of course, as with all re-tellings, it can swing either way, even when I love the original story. Perhaps especially when I love the original story.<\/p>\n
But I am willing to check out adaptations, because they almost always bring something new to the table and I can go back to the original having a new perspective on things.<\/p>\n
The Literature geek in me loves it so much.<\/p>\n
What are some of your favourite adaptations, whether print or otherwise?<\/p>\n
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People in my life look at me weird when I say I enjoy Shakespeare. I haven’t read a lot of his plays, but what I have read, I’ve enjoyed. But to most people in my life, that is just Peak Geek and Too Much for them. I embrace the geekiness. Unfortunately, I will admit, I have not read a lot of adaptations. Loose ones, sure. Seen a few screen adaptations as well. And I have some favourites that I will always watch, and will definitely pick up to at the very least flip through. Don’t be surprised if there are a few webseries recommendations in here. There have been some really well-done ones recently. (I’ve watched more webseries than read books, I will admit it now.) Romeo and Juliet may have been done to the death, almost (pun intended), but there is still something about the classic star-crossed lovers trope that, when done well, can be amazing. I haven’t read Still Star-Crossed by Melinda Taub, but I have seen some of the episodes of the TV show based on it, and loved the take. Jules & Monty, a webseries on YouTube I stumbled across when it was airing, is the reason I even started enjoying these retellings! There is, of course, Much Ado About Nothing. I haven’t read the original play. Yet. But I’ve seen a couple of them put up, and I enjoy the whole bickering aspect of Benedick and Beatrice’s relationship. There is a GREAT webseries called Nothing Much To Do that was put up by a bunch of New Zealanders that is still somewhere up there for me with adaptations. I’m still looking for a good adaptation where we get the story in Hero’s point of view though. Again, another play I haven’t read, but The Taming Of The Shrew is interesting to see tackled in adaptations. It’s got the strong characters, a plot that can be subverted in many ways – and I do so love Ten Things I Hate About You, so this had to be on here. A Midsummer Night’s Dream might be a little bit difficult to transplant into a modern setting, but let’s be real, it’d be fun. There are a few webseries on YouTube that have adapted it, but I am most fond of the recent BBC First version of the play. I almost forgot to add Twelfth Night on here. She’s The Man was a really good on-screen adaptation of this, but I would also love more versions that explore Viola as a genderqueer character, and Olivia and Viola’s relationship more in-depthly. Of course, as with all re-tellings, it can swing either way, even when I love the original story. Perhaps especially when I love the original story. But I am willing to check out adaptations, because they almost always bring something new to the table and I can go back to the original having a new perspective on things. The Literature geek in me loves it so much. What are some of your favourite adaptations, whether print or otherwise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[248,395,396,59],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instant-to-read","tag-instant-to-read","tag-instant-to-read-the-shakespeare-edition","tag-the-shakespeare-edition","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}