Theatre
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured in a series of deeply disturbing scenes, before she hurls herself into a river.
She survives, comes back, and inflicts a graphic and brutal revenge on the men who so viciously attacked her.
I can’t remember why I picked up the DVD - although I love horror and was possibly overcome with swaggering bravado after seeing the ‘watch it if you dare’ sticker.
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My name’s Lucy and I’m a Stratfordian. Okay, not really. That’s just a fancy way of saying that I think William Shakespeare was real.
That even though he was born to a middle class family, went to the local school and never set foot in a university - that he wrote every single one of his approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems, with an unrivalled creativity, a wicked sense of humour and a serious passion for documenting the world around him.
It means that I think Shakespeare’s humble beginnings did not define him. That his quick wit drove his talent and his natural curiosity made him a star.
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stephen says:
Lots of commoners are very clever, and that some query Shakespeare’s credentials, is not to, as a snob might, imply that only an educated man - officially, that is - can have written S’s Opus. The question is not one that a Sociologist might ponder, or even a theorist. Rather,… Read more »
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Steve Putnam says:
Shakespeare is the most read, most acted, most quoted, most translated and most taught in schools writer of them all. Not reading him does make you less cultured in the same way as not having heard Mozart’s music or not having seen Rembrandt’s painting does. I would say the same… Read more »
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