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I have tried and tried again to enjoy or even be able to sit through an entire Shakespeare play.

Today, no exception. I bailed out at about the half way.

The Hollow Crown series from the BBC: Richard II with Ben Wishaw.

Pretty and wordy. My gods how wordy.

All that drama is too much for me to take.

So once again, I tried to scale the mighty mountain and fell back.

I would not have even written about it but there it is. A pretty production, a good bit of business around the main talking. But all that Elizabethan talking. Too much for me.

I yawn, I fidget, I begin to zone out.

So. I retreat. Alas.

Labels: films, television