Wednesday, November 19, 2008

ehhhh...

I don't like it. The pictures, the text, everything seems to be making fun of Shakespeare's creation. I think William Shakespeare wrote beautiful plays that we're meant to be challenging to understand and funny to the audience. When Gaiman's text says
"Now, fait Hippolyta our nuptial hour draws on apace; FOUR happy days bring in another moon: but OHH, methinks how SLOW the old moon wanes!"
The language in Shakespeare is hard to understand but the wait Gaiman says "methinks" destroys the language presented in Shakespeare's plays. I dislike the introduction of some alien type people. It seems like they are there to kind of explain whats going on in the panels to come but they used an audience of aliens to do it. That completely degrades Shakespeares work! Gaiman might be trying to be funny to the readers but I find it quite obnoxious. Once again the word "methinks" was put into a phrase said by the alien, it's irritating. After the alien is done talking the story line comes right back into play picking up where Helena and Hermia are having a conversation about Demetrius. A lot of content was skipped over due to the annoying aliens, and I feel that content is needed to understand why Helena is so persistent on having Demetrious. I do not enjoy the way the play is set up. I get very confused with the random alien creatures and the story lines keep jumbling together. Part of the play seems to be a play put on for people and creatures and the other half is actually happening...it's just confusing and awkward.

1 comment:

Neil Gaiman said...

What fun! So did you think I put the word "methinks" in, or are you upset that Shakespeare put it in and I left it there?