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== How about two synopses, one short and one long? == |
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Full disclosure: I wrote the long synopsis. |
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What I've found on other Shakespeare-play pages is that the synopsis is often short enough to be useless (Henry V page, I'm looking at you!). |
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Why not use a "short synopsis" section, and a "full synopsis" section? |
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Why should this synopsis be edited down, rather than adding a separate section with a very brief one? |
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Popularity
Is this really one of Shakespeare's most unpopular plays? What about Titus Andronicus? What about Henry VI? What about Pericles? What do y'all think?
I have a little concern about the listing of Shakespeare's plays... Although Romeo and Juliet does have the word "tragedy" in the title, and it is often thought of as a tragedy, I think it is actually considered a comedy by the strictest definition of terms... What do you think? :Simon 18:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't think anybody knows much about the popularity of many of Shakespeare's plays during his own lifetime. The records on performances are often scanty or non-existent. But I'd lump this one in along with Measure for Measure and The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Shakespeare's morally problematic comedies. We today rebel against the resolutions, such as they are, presented in these plays. The playgoers of Shakespeare's day probably did as well, but maybe not always for the same reasons.
As for other plays, such as Pericles or Cymbeline or The Comedy of Errors, among others, the debate on their quality is endless. Certain of Shakespeare's plays are frequently criticized as tedious and dull. (I believe it was John Dryden who excoriated Pericles as a "moldy old tale.") But everybody has their own idea, of course, of which plays should be in the list. D nuttle 15:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC) BS
Problem play, not necessarily unpopular
I think this play, correctly catagorized as a "problem play," should not be looked at as an unpopular one. The reason, I feel, that this one hasn't gotten the amount of stage time as "Much Ado About Nothing" or "Hamlet" is that it's confusing to those who want something more straightforward and easy. Thanks to the producers of the Shakespeare Canon, we get what we get becuase it will make money. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.191.217.163 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 20 May 2007
Link
I don't know how to edit wikipedia very well or I would add this myself, but there is a post-hardcore band named Chiodos who has an album with the same title. I was just thinking that there should be one of those "For the Chiodos album see *insert link*" things at the top. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.7.200.151 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 3 June 2007
"Believed" with past participle
My grammar is getting a little rusty but does this edit need a verb, rather than a past participle used adverbially? The intent of the change is for the better. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:38, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
- Auxiliary verbs added.--Old Moonraker (talk) 07:41, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Performance History
"the earliest occurred in 1741 ... while the actor playing the King of France subsequently died" - the rest of the cast are presumably still alive? This vague and woolly paragraph confuses more than it explains about the play. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heenan73 (talk • contribs) 14:40, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
- Expanded, to give the circumstances. --Old Moonraker (talk) 15:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
How about two synopses, one short and one long?
Full disclosure: I wrote the long synopsis.
What I've found on other Shakespeare-play pages is that the synopsis is often short enough to be useless (Henry V page, I'm looking at you!). Why not use a "short synopsis" section, and a "full synopsis" section?
Why should this synopsis be edited down, rather than adding a separate section with a very brief one?