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Has anyone seen WotL compared to Shakespeare's Scripts?

Started by Mental_Gear, October 27, 2009, 09:22:42 pm

Mental_Gear

October 27, 2009, 09:22:42 pm Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Mental_Gear
Had to use SMS abreviations to fit it all in.

I personally haven't, but I would laugh if someone did. WotL's script is a cakewalk compared to the better-known Shakespearean works. If they had trouble with WotL, they wouldn't last scene 1 of Hamlet.

Which is actually quite good.

LastingDawn

October 27, 2009, 09:32:40 pm #1 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by LastingDawn
It uses basically an Alexander Smithonian way of speaking (basically a combination of old and new but is a bit more complicated then that) a term coined for his work on Vagrant Story.
"Moment's anger can revert to joy,
sadness can be turned to delight.
A nation destroyed cannot be restored,
the dead brought back to life."

Art of War

Beta & Gretchen Forever!!!!

Mental_Gear

October 27, 2009, 09:36:58 pm #2 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Mental_Gear
Well, I knew it was, to put it crudely, a 'halfway house' but I can easily imagine an ignorant halfwit saying it's Shakespeare.

Wasabi

October 27, 2009, 10:17:04 pm #3 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Wasabi
Indeed. I've taken to study some Shakespeare, Marlowe and Chaucer, and the WotL script is pretty much modern english in my eyes. :?

Augestein

October 28, 2009, 01:22:04 pm #4 Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 pm by Augestein
I always thought people called it "Shakespeare" in a way as to scoff at the script (perhaps a knock at Shakespeare's writing style in general). I'm probably wrong though.

I think they thought the script in WoTL was needlessly wordy.