The Cat Chap: Does Jo Think We're Dumb?

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
>  
> CMC
>  
> "If neither boy was 'pre-ordained' before Voldemort's attack to
> become his possible vanquisher, then the prophecy (like the one the
> witches make to Macbeth, if anyone has read the play of the same
> name)"
>  
> "If anyone has read it"?  
> 
> K
> 
> (since she has said she doesn't aim the books at any particular 
group
> this is a debateable point I guess) are hardly likely to read 
Shakespeare
> without being forced too - 

Again, I am replying before having read if anyone else has (usually 
by which time I've forgotten what I wanted to say) anyway - isn't the 
best way to appreciate and enjoy Shakespeare to watch a play?  I was 
forced to read Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night at school 
at various points in my grammar school education, but it was only 
when I went (at my parent's suggestion and expense) to see an open 
air version of Macbeth that I really understood and appreciated it. 
It's an awesome tale of power and betrayal, love and remorse (maybe) 
that unless you've got a good imagination (not a strong point of 
mine) is lost in the written words and dialogue.  Visually there is 
so much going on, which means so much more than stage directions.  
That was the way they were originally intended to be seen, not read 
in a book.
We then followed that by an outing to the local theatre to watch 
Hamlet (and a row of 15 yr old schoolgirls all fell in love with a 
black silk clad, diamond stud wearing Hamlet ...)

Sarah xx