What Shakespeare play did George read FIRST? (he he he)

[tocqueville]

supposing he actually did, what is your guess ?

"I was in Crawford and I said I was looking for a book to read and Laura said you ought to try Camus," he said. "I also read three Shakespeares."

sorry multiple choices too difficult to do in this poll... but in the motivation of "other" it's possible

[Jacobin]

1. I'll take "none of the above" for $100 Alex

[NYCGirl]

2. NO ONE reads Timon of Athens.

:evilgrin:

[tocqueville]

5. naah... but the quote was good nt

[peekaloo]

3. Othello

for the haves and have Moors. :silly:

[Z_I_Peevey]

6. Good one.

[dipsydoodle]

26. Doncha just love

really clever plays on words. Excellent - well done.:rofl:

[MaineDem]

4. King Lear for its family values

:D

[Phredicles]

7. Other: Bush thinks Shakespeare wrote "My Pet Goat"

My guess, anyway.

[liberal N proud]

9. .

:rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

8. Highly unlikely to have been

All's Well That Ends Well unless it had the alternative title of Serious Fuck Ups I have Made.

[EFerrari]

10. Henry 5 -- For the fake war started on the excuse of the Salic Law.

Not to mention, media manipulation by the Chorus and forced learning of English.

Oh, and don't forget, leeks. :silly:

[dipsydoodle]

24. we few, we happy few, we band of brothers

and sisters - on DU. :toast:

[WinkyDink]

11. "Macbeth", because I hope his mind is full of scorpions.

"I am so far steeped in blood...."

[soup]

12. Well, he did recently visit a hamlet in Germany for a pig roast.

Does that count?

[sevenleagueboots]

13. Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,

And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.

Sonnets: CXIV.

My wife filed devorce next day after I chalked this beauty up!

[radfringe]

14. Julius Caesar because bush thought it had a fart joke in it...

Et TOOT? brutus?

[madinmaryland]

15. The only thing he may have read were the "Cliff Notes" versions

of any of those.

[EFerrari]

16. I don't think he could manage them. Maybe the Lambs' "Stories

from Shakespeare" where the plays are written as kids' stories?

[Individualist]

17. When moron said he read three Shakespeares

It was taken for granted that he meant William Shakespeare. Moron probably read something about people shaking spears. Even more likely, someone read the books about people shaking spears to him. As for Camus, his reader probably read him a book about Shamu, and coke brain didn't know how to pronounce Shamu.

[Z_I_Peevey]

35. If he read 'three Shakespeares,'

then what would he say if he read more than one book by Camus?

"I read me three Ka-Mooses?"
Ka-meese?

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. !

:rofl: :evilgrin:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

18. Macbeth.

"I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er".

[soothsayer]

19. I doubt he was even paddling in Laura's neck with his damned

fingers...much less reading Hamlet!

(reference to naughty play betwixt Hammie's mom and nuncle)

[RedStateShame]

20. None, but Pickles rented "Shakespeare in Love" one weekend....

....and George watched it while nursing a wicked hangover.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Other possibilities:

Coriolanus minus the personal bravery - a patrician who despises the plebians, is encouraged to run for consul by his mother, wins popular support at first because of an apparently successful war. But he's really against the plebs having any power - he is rejected, and his true morals are shown when he ends up fighting for Rome's enemies.

Titus Andronicus "Titus Andronicus is certainly Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy; some measure of its matter can be gleaned from a single stage-direction: "Enter the empress' sons with Lavinia, her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravished." (Act II, scene IV). The play is frequently dismissed for its violence, and some Shakespeare lovers consider it childish, juvenile, or believe that it is low-brow trash written only to make money."

King JohnThe story of a tyrannical, yet incompetent king, it is notable for completely ignoring the Magna Carta.

[EFerrari]

50. I thought of Titus as well. It would be interesting to stage it

in a national security state . . .

[Saphire]

22. Shakespeare for kids??? I found this ...maybe Pickles bought the

whole set for Georgieboy

romeo and juliet for kids
The Shakespeare for Kids series is aimed at 8 to 11 year olds, and designed as a resource that can be read by children, or read to them by parents who wish to introduce them to Shakespeare at an early age.

Below is a sample extract from the NoSweatShakespeare Romeo and Juliet for Kids ebook, available to download now.



Montagues and Capulets

ebook sample
A long time ago something happened between the two leading families of Verona that led their members to kill each other whenever they met. That went on for many years, and eventually no-one could remember what had caused the feud. The killing stopped in time but fights continued to break out for no reason at all. Every child born into the Montague and Capulet families grew up with the feud: they were taught to hate the members of the other family. Marriage between the young men and women of the two families was out of the question; they did no business with each other, and they never mixed. Even the servants joined in the hatred. The atmosphere in Verona was always tense and Verona's ruler had come to the end of his tether. He had made it clear that he would not tolerate any acts of violence between the two families.

[TahitiNut]

23. "Midsummer Night's Dream" - about an ass and drugs.

:shrug:

[AngryAmish]

25. My Pet Goat

[Beelzebud]

34. Seconded.

[Taxloss]

27. Hamlet - "They harmed my daddy! I'm going to kill them!"

Condi will be face-down in the Potomac before the end of the year, I tell you.

[tocqueville]

31. it's about the Oedipus complex

he'll whack Poppy Bush and keep on being a real motherfucker

[EFerrari]

48. No, it's about the rude mechanicals.

:rofl:

[ginnyinWI]

28. He IS Julius Caesar.

Complete with the same sort of spin. I wonder who his Mark Anthony would be?

[Alcibiades]

45. Wrong Caesar

He's Caligula. Caesar was pretty democratic compared to his compatriots in the Roman elite, which is why they stabbed him to death in public.

[EFerrari]

56. Julius Caesar wasn't a deserter but a skillful general.

At least his hubris was grounded in SOMETHING.

Junior is more like The Fop in any of these plays. Trying to think of one. Like Osrick in Hamlet. He does his job, it's murderous but hey, it's comfortable and he looks good doing it.

[mikeytherat]

29. Richard II, 'cuz he heard there was this "Bushy" guy in it

mikey_the_rat

[Jack Rabbit]

33. Bolingbroke had Bushy beheded

So maybe not Richard II.

[mikeytherat]

37. Shhh! Don't spoil it for the Boy President!

It's much more fun if he finds that out himself.

mikey_the_rat

[ChickMagic]

30. Other for me

I think he read the closed captions on Veggie Tales - the Shakesbroccolispear edition.

[Tesha]

32. "Ten Things I Hate about You" (NT)

[Jed Dilligan]

38. Henry IV

Boy boozer becomes war hero king... Bush doesn't realize he is actually Falstaff.

[EFerrari]

59. Wouldn't that make KKKarl Falstaff? Falstaff was smart

and gluttonous. And, Daddy didn't like him. :)

[Lars39]

39. He read three *spines* with the word "Shakespeare".

[johnlal]

40. Hamlet!

I think he watched the Gilligan's Island episode when they staged a musical version of Hamlet. (Does that count?)

[EFerrari]

41. Close enough!

:)

[seemslikeadream]

42. One of Shakespeare's lesser known works

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2004486&mesg_id=2004486

[Swamp Rat]

43. Bushler cannot understand Shakespearean English

When they claimed he read Shakespeare, that was a dead giveaway that he didn't read all those books.

[Lochloosa]

44. Had to be Richard III. Come on, it's about a horse.

And we all know * feelings toward horses.

[Alcibiades]

46. Macbeth

but he didn't read it himself. He had Rove read it, and Rove gave him a copy of the cliff notes to read, and when that proved too much for him, a copy of the comic book.

Condi is Lady Macbeth.

I do also like the suggestion of Coriolanus.

[johnlal]

47. Heh Heh Heh

"Coriolanus"

You said Anus!

[EFerrari]

49. Why? Coriolanus was a warrior, not a chickenhawk.

Although, I definitely can see Barbara Bush playing the mother. lol

[Alcibiades]

54. See post #21

The poster makes a good case there. Plus, there's the bit with the scars Coriolanus refuses to show the plebian mob, just as Bush refuses to show his Air National Guard records (yes I know it's a stretch).

[EFerrari]

55. Not a stretch but a nice piece of interpretation. The thing is, Junior

is a dancing man and Coriolanus was a warrior. I don't think you can just step around that.

Isn't there an idiot prince in Coriolanus? The nameless queen's son? Man, it's time to brush up my SH.

:)

[Ravy]

51. King Fear! (n/t)

[noonwitch]

52. Richard III-it's about a man who will do anything to be king

He should be able to relate to that.

[LostInAnomie]

53. If that dumb mother fucker can barely read his monosyllabic speeches...

... what do you think the chances are that he could read, let alone understand, Shakespeare?

[mtnester]

57. I am sure it was a Cliff notes edition

of whichever it might have been

[EFerrari]

58. Nah. Cliff notes are written for students. They would be as

undecipherable to Junior as the orignal tests.

Maybe that poster was right about the Shakespeare Beer thing. :)